Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – The Heart of the Quran – An Enlightening Commentary Tafsir of Surah Yasin Part 1

Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera
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The Surah Yaseen book provides blessings and a heart for every believer, and is a recitation of Yaseen every day. The book is a message that is not the final place for everyone, and the main themes of the book include belief, belief, belief, and belief. The speaker discusses various topics related to Islam, including the importance of the Bible's teachings and the holy grail, and provides advice on warning of consequences of actions and taking advantage of opportunities to take on a study.

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			InshaAllah for the next,
		
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			6 sessions we'll be doing Surah Yaseen.
		
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			So we hope to complete it within 6,
		
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			InshaAllah these 6 sessions, these
		
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			6 days.
		
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			InshaAllah.
		
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			The reason why we're doing Surah The Asin
		
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			is that
		
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			it's a Surah that's beloved to,
		
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			Muslims
		
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			because the prophet
		
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			has encouraged it a great deal.
		
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			Just the one narration, if we look at
		
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			just the one narration,
		
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			the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam in a hadithulated
		
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			by Mambazar
		
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			says,
		
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			everything has a heart.
		
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			Everything has a nucleus,
		
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			a heart
		
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			And the heart of the Quran is Yaseen.
		
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			And I
		
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			would love that
		
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			it should be in the
		
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			I would love that it would be in
		
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			the heart of every believer,
		
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			every Muslim
		
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			from my Ummah.
		
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			Ibn Ajeebah in his tafsir, he's related that
		
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			Yaseen is the heart of the Quran.
		
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			And then
		
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			which many, many of us know because it's
		
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			quite famous, it's narrated in a hadith.
		
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			But then if you were to look at
		
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			the whole of the surah of Surat Yaseen,
		
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			which is the Ayah in Surat Yaseen that
		
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			is the heart of Surat Yaseen?
		
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			Anybody know? So the Ibn 'Ajibah, he relates
		
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			that it's Salamun
		
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			Khawlan
		
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			Mirabir Rahim.
		
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			Salamun Khawlan Mirabir Rahim.
		
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			Salam
		
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			peace,
		
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			which is a form
		
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			of a welcome
		
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			from the Lord that is merciful.
		
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			So InshaAllah we'll be covering that verse as
		
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			well.
		
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			Salaamun Qalamirubirrahim.
		
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			Firstly, let's just have a overview of the
		
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			Surah.
		
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			The virtues,
		
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			as I mentioned, are quite
		
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			popular, quite famous. And that's why we've taken
		
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			this that it's something which many people read
		
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			every day. There's a hadith which is slightly
		
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			weak,
		
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			which is weak but
		
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			it's been tried and tested.
		
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			Whoever recites Yaseen at the beginning of the
		
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			day, the
		
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			day's needs are fulfilled.
		
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			That gives us an understanding that this surah
		
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			provides a lot of barakah,
		
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			a lot of blessing
		
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			by reading it in the day.
		
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			InshaAllah, the day's needs will be fulfilled.
		
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			That means our time would be expanded.
		
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			Whatever we're doing
		
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			for that day,
		
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			Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala will have it completed.
		
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			And
		
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			completeness,
		
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			completion
		
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			doesn't mean just physically complete something.
		
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			But when we're saying physically we also mean
		
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			spiritually completed.
		
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			So InshaAllah it will be a blessed act.
		
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			That's the barakah of reciting Yaseen every day.
		
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			It's the words of Allah to start with.
		
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			It's considered the heart of the Quran. Now
		
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			just reading that, just even logically thinking about
		
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			it from that perspective.
		
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			Just reading it every day should have that
		
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			benefit.
		
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			So if everybody, if people are reading it
		
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			every day or trying to read it every
		
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			day and trying to memorize it.
		
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			And we read it for years years years
		
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			and we don't understand what it means.
		
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			But we know the virtue of it and
		
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			that's why we read it.
		
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			So
		
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			we should know what it means. We should
		
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			try to learn what it means. At least
		
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			get a general idea of the different themes,
		
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			the different stories,
		
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			the different messages
		
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			that are provided in this surah. So that
		
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			when we read it, inshaAllah will read it
		
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			with more understanding.
		
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			That's one of the main reasons.
		
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			So you don't have to take a course
		
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			in Arabic for it.
		
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			The whole purpose of this is so that
		
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			we become more enlightened about the surah.
		
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			So a few things
		
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			about this surah, that speaks about the importance
		
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			of it. In terms of other virtues about
		
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			it, there are many.
		
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			And
		
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			many of these are from experience as well
		
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			as from some narrations.
		
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			Some of the things that I mentioned is
		
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			that if somebody's hungry, doesn't have any food,
		
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			Yaseen is such a Mubarak
		
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			and blessed surah that reciting it InshaAllah
		
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			will get you some sustenance.
		
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			If you're lost and you recite Surat Yaseen,
		
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			that is of great benefit and InshaAllah you'll
		
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			find your way.
		
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			Of course you have to have the conviction
		
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			in Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala you're using the
		
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			Yaseen because it's part of the Quran, it's
		
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			the words of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala and
		
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			one of the most blessed.
		
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			It's a very powerful surah.
		
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			It's encouraging as,
		
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			Allamaqurtubi
		
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			mentions that when you go into the graveyard,
		
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			he relates a hadith where he recites Surah
		
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			Yaseen and it benefits
		
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			all of those who are in that graveyard.
		
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			All of the Muslimen who are in that
		
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			graveyard. Yaseen has many, many, many benefits.
		
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			We're going to insha Allah focus on the
		
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			meaning,
		
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			today.
		
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			We're going to cover insha Allah the first
		
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			several verses. Firstly,
		
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			Surah Yaseen
		
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			is a Maqki Surah.
		
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			That's why you won't find many
		
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			juristic rulings in there.
		
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			There won't be many commands in there of
		
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			pray this way or that way or do
		
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			this or do that. It's mostly trying to
		
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			establish
		
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			the oneness of Allah
		
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			It's trying to make people think.
		
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			It's trying to tell them to reflect over
		
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			some of the
		
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			accounts of the past.
		
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			How very similarly
		
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			people did what people are doing today.
		
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			And this was their outcome. So please realize,
		
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			wake up,
		
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			take heed,
		
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			take notice
		
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			that this is normally the end of such
		
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			a, such an action, such a practice.
		
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			So it has messages.
		
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			It has stories. It has reflections.
		
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			And that's a Maqki surah because there the
		
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			Maqk Many of the Maqkan surahs, the whole
		
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			purpose of them was to establish Islam.
		
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			The understanding
		
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			of Iman. Take people away from the worship
		
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			of other objects and deities
		
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			to focus on Allah
		
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			That's
		
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			one of the main purposes of this surah.
		
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			Firstly, it deals, if you are to look
		
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			at the whole surah together
		
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			and you look, you are to find the
		
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			main, main themes, the absolute primary themes within
		
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			the surah. You'll find that there's 3 things.
		
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			Firstly, it speaks about iman.
		
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			Especially iman
		
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			upon resurrection
		
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			and the last day, which means that this
		
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			world is not the last.
		
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			This world is not the final place for
		
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			us. It's to establish this
		
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			and that that is what makes Islam distinct
		
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			from many other religions.
		
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			Some other religions also,
		
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			also share in this ideology
		
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			and in this belief.
		
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			But
		
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			when Allah
		
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			was establishing
		
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			Islam in this world,
		
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			the kuffar of Makkah, they were idol worshipers.
		
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			Though they believed in Allah,
		
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			at some level they did not believe in
		
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			resurrection.
		
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			So you'll see that one of the biggest
		
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			things is to not only establish
		
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			the hereafter.
		
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			Today, when you look among the Jews and
		
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			the Christians,
		
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			you'll find that they don't all have such
		
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			a strong belief in the hereafter.
		
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			Both ideologically speaking
		
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			and in practice. One is that there's
		
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			a belief of the system that you follow,
		
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			the Deen, the religion that you follow.
		
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			It's a belief within it.
		
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			But then there's another one where some sectarians
		
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			will say that's not really important to this
		
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			world is the only place you'll you'll live.
		
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			So you've got that within Christianity
		
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			and within some
		
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			aspects of Judaism where the hereafter isn't spoken
		
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			about.
		
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			Where I was quite surprised because they
		
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			are supposedly the people of the book
		
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			and one of the core messages of any
		
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			book of Allah is resurrection.
		
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			So we were at a program
		
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			for
		
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			this
		
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			hospice service that provides
		
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			end of life care.
		
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			And we would have to go from our
		
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			different faith backgrounds and go and give a
		
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			presentation about what it means to die in
		
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			Islam.
		
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			And somebody else would come from the Jewish
		
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			faith and
		
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			you have somebody from the Buddhists
		
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			speaking about the book of the dead
		
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			and and so on and so forth. So
		
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			I was quite surprised to learn from some
		
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			some,
		
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			some Jewish
		
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			sects that
		
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			they don't have as strong belief in the
		
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			hereafter. That they're not really concerned about it,
		
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			about whether they're really going to come back
		
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			alive or not.
		
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			So what the Quran does not only establishes
		
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			as a belief,
		
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			as a core belief, but also makes it
		
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			very evident, makes it very clear
		
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			that look, this is something very important for
		
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			you. That's why the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam in numerous places said, mankana yuminu billahi
		
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			wa laiwumil akhir.
		
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			In short to prove what a believer is.
		
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			Whoever believes in Allah and the last day
		
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			believes in Allah and the last day. What
		
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			about everything in between? That's all included. If
		
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			you believe in Allah and the last day,
		
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			you will believe in the prophets and everything
		
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			else. That's the first and that's the last.
		
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			So that's a major theme. Number 2 is,
		
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			there's a very specific story that's mentioned.
		
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			That is the people of the vicinity of
		
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			the area,
		
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			specifically
		
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			the people of a particular area. And that
		
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			area according to pretty much all the Mufassirim
		
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			was a place called Antakya in Arabic,
		
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			Antioch
		
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			in English, which is in southern Turkey right
		
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			now
		
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			towards the Syrian border,
		
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			Antioch.
		
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			And this is where this took place
		
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			after Isa
		
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			time. So this was before Islam.
		
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			But according to most Mufassiline,
		
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			this is after Isa
		
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			time.
		
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			So there's a story told about this area
		
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			and how they did not,
		
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			they did not believe.
		
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			Despite the fact that messengers were sent to
		
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			them.
		
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			And SubhanAllah, it's
		
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			a real,
		
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			it's a real
		
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			story of,
		
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			Iman
		
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			and success with Iman. So especially focused on
		
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			the success of the hereafter. So InshaAllah we'll
		
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			be looking at that.
		
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			And number 3, it
		
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			speaks about some of the proofs to establish
		
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			the oneness of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. So
		
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			the first thing it speaks about, one of
		
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			the main themes is the resurrection.
		
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			Number 2 is a specific story. And number
		
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			3
		
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			is the proofs of the oneness of Allah
		
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			Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			Because as I mentioned before, the Quran focuses
		
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			more on establishing the oneness of Allah
		
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			as opposed to establishing the existence of Allah.
		
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			Because even the kuffar of Makkah believed that
		
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			Allah existed. If you ask them who created
		
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			the world, they believed in Allah that he
		
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			creates it.
		
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			They will certainly respond by saying Allah.
		
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			But then they had these other
		
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			corrupted beliefs beyond that.
		
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			The surah begins just to have a quick
		
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			overview. The surah begins with a Qasam,
		
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			with an oath.
		
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			And in that we'll InshaAllah look at the
		
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			way Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala uses oaths in
		
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			the Quran.
		
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			In,
		
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			a very eloquent way. You'll see that.
		
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			So he takes an oath with the Quran.
		
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			Yaasin walquranil
		
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			Hakim
		
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			And the whole purpose of taking this oath,
		
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			you take an oath to prove something, to
		
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			establish something.
		
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			So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is taking an
		
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			oath by the Quran
		
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			to prove and establish
		
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			that Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wasalam is Allah's Messenger.
		
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			Muhammad salallahu alaihi wasalam is Allah's Messenger.
		
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			Now you might think to yourself, it's Ajib.
		
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			This Muhammad salallahu alaihi wasalam
		
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			who
		
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			is being established as the messenger sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam by Allah.
		
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			Allah is swearing by the Quran that this
		
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			messenger brought.
		
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			So
		
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			what kind of an evidence is that? So
		
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			InshaAllah we'll explain that because you're swearing by
		
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			something
		
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			which to establish
		
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			something.
		
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			And the thing you're swearing by is brought
		
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			by the one who's established, who you're trying
		
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			to establish in the first place. So what
		
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			kind of reasoning is that?
		
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			But that's where I'm saying. That's where the
		
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			eloquence
		
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			come in. It's so beautiful, which we'll explain
		
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			insha'Allah.
		
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			Then
		
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			it speaks about the kuffar of Quresh. You
		
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			see, Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam had come down
		
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			among these people And the prophet is now
		
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			being told
		
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			that in general, this is what you're going
		
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			to notice.
		
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			This is what you're going to see. You're
		
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			going to see that many of these people
		
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			will not believe, but some of them will
		
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			believe.
		
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			He's not necessarily told exactly, wallahu a'alam, exactly
		
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			who's believing and who's not. So he's going
		
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			to try his best and you'll see how
		
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			much the sacrifice, how how much were the
		
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			sacrifices that Rasulullah sallallahu a'alam went through to
		
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			try to get the faith to as many
		
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			people as possible. Then it brings the story.
		
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			So that's the first part. After the oath,
		
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			it's,
		
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			it's about talking about the Quraysh.
		
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			Giving a general understanding of their state.
		
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			Then it begins to speak about this area
		
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			of Antioch
		
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			and how they disbelieved in their messenger.
		
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			And what then happened and then lessons that
		
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			are drawn from there.
		
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			And then at the end of that,
		
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			one of the people of Antioch whose name
		
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			was Habib and Najjar.
		
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			Habib the,
		
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			what's a najar?
		
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			Carpenter.
		
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			So it speaks about him and how he
		
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			plays a role at the end of this.
		
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			And a lot of nasi and councils are
		
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			given through that.
		
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			Then after that Allah
		
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			begins to speak about
		
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			the proofs in this world of Allah
		
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			power and his oneness.
		
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			And
		
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			the way this he's created this world.
		
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			Speaks about the day and night.
		
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			Speaks about the darkness of the night. How
		
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			the how the
		
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			the sun comes through
		
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			and the moon,
		
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			the stars.
		
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			And
		
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			we'll we'll look at that insha'Allah in detail.
		
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			Then Allah
		
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			begins to speak about the hereafter,
		
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			the qiyama
		
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			and the states of people on the day
		
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			of judgment.
		
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			Which means when the trumpet will be blasted
		
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			and how people will resurrect from their graves
		
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			And then people go to paradise and hellfire.
		
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			And the difference that will be made, the
		
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			distinguish,
		
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			the the distinction that will be made between
		
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			the believers and the disbelievers.
		
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			And then
		
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			it will come back
		
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			at the end to discuss
		
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			resurrection and reward,
		
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			which was one of the main themes of
		
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			this surah.
		
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			Why is it called Yaseen?
		
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			Because
		
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			the surah begins with it.
		
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			And most of the surahs that begin with
		
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			these letters,
		
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			they are named normally with that.
		
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			Not all of them. Noon wal Qalam is
		
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			not named Noon, but Qaf is,
		
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			Yaseen
		
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			is. Another thing that's very important to understand
		
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			is that although people use the name Yaseen
		
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			for people,
		
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			hence making it a noun.
		
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			If you use something as
		
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			a name for someone it becomes a noun,
		
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			an ism in Arabic.
		
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			Noun.
		
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			And the prophet said that Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala has
		
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			called me or addressed me with 7 names
		
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			in the Quran.
		
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			What are they?
		
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			Muhammad and Ahmad,
		
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			Right. There's a whole surah of Muhammad.
		
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			Maqana Muhammadun Aba Ahadin. Then there's Ahmed.
		
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			Right.
		
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			Badis Muhu Ahmed.
		
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			Talking about a prophet after Isa
		
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			who will, his name will be Ahmed.
		
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			You got Mudathir
		
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			and Musamil,
		
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			the cloaked one, the covered one. Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala addressed them, You Iyul Mudathir, You
		
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			Iyul Musamil. Another one is Abdullah.
		
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			Abdullah,
		
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			the servant of Allah.
		
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			And then you have
		
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			Yaseen and Taha.
		
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			So the prophet said
		
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			those are his names. So Yaseen and Taha
		
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			are the names of Rasulullah salallahu alayhi wasalam.
		
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			But
		
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			the
		
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			Mufasireen,
		
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			the tafsir is what we're doing. Tafsir
		
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			exegesis of the Quran, explanation of the Quran,
		
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			a commentary of the Quran.
		
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			And this tafsir that we're doing is going
		
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			to be based on classical works on tafsir.
		
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			Who have taken it from the Sahaba and
		
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			the Taabein and from the hadith of Rasulullah
		
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			So we're not going to be
		
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			providing tafsir from
		
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			our minds
		
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			as such. Because that's not the way you
		
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			deal with the Quran. The Quran is a
		
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			sacred text. So that's called Tafsir,
		
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			Qur'anic exegesis.
		
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			Mufasir
		
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			is the one who,
		
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			is known, is qualified to explain the Quran
		
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			based on these resources
		
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			and Mufasireen is a plural of that. So
		
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			the Mufasireen
		
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			they say
		
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			that when we use Yaseen
		
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			in the Quran, according to the majority,
		
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			we're not going to take that as a
		
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			noun.
		
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			It's very important we understand this.
		
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			So when Allah
		
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			said, Taha and Yaseen
		
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			according to the majority, he's not referring necessarily
		
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			to the prophet
		
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			with that.
		
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			You know, we have in the Quran, Aliflamim,
		
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			Aliflamim,
		
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			Ra'tasin,
		
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			Yaseen, Hamim
		
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			and Qaaf, noon. You've got many of these
		
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			letters.
		
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			So this is not a noun.
		
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			These are two letters.
		
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			When it's coming in the Quran, it says
		
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			2 letters. And the reason why you want
		
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			to maintain it like that is is because
		
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			once it becomes a noun then you know
		
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			what the meaning is.
		
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			And the
		
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			strongest opinion here is that nobody knows the
		
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			meaning of Yaseen.
		
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			Yes, it's a name of Rasulullah. But what
		
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			does it mean in the way it is
		
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			in the Quran? What does Taha mean? What
		
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			does Noon mean?
		
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			So the strongest opinion is that these are
		
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			muqatta'a.
		
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			These are just harruff muqatta'a.
		
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			Meaning separated
		
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			letters,
		
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			individual letters from the haruva tahajee.
		
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			The letters of the Arabic alphabet.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is saying,
		
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			Noon, Qaf,
		
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			Yaseen.
		
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			Tell me what it means.
		
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			Nobody knows.
		
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			Because remember the Quran is a miracle.
		
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			Just like
		
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			magic
		
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			and doing something extraordinary
		
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			that goes against the norms of things. During
		
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			Musa alaihis salam's time was kind of the
		
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			vogue.
		
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			Everybody, you know, they had magicians that there
		
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			was a big time for magicians.
		
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			That's why the miracles he was given was
		
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			appropriate for that.
		
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			Isa 's time, it was about medicine and
		
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			curing people. And thus Isa
		
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			miracles
		
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			were in accordance to that. He could cure
		
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			the leper, cure the blind, even raise the
		
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			dead.
		
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			So that was his miracle. In the time
		
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			of the prophet
		
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			the one thing that the Arabs stood out
		
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			for, which they call themselves Arabs for, was
		
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			that they could articulate themselves.
		
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			They could speak,
		
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			you know, they could move mountains through their
		
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			speech in a in a metaphorical sense because
		
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			they were very powerful in in the language
		
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			was very powerful.
		
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			Ajib that it was just such a uncivilized
		
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			people,
		
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			that the Romans and the Persians would look
		
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			down upon them as some violent beasts.
		
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			That is group of people you've got
		
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			centered in Arabia, in the Arabian Peninsula.
		
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			They're just fighting all the time.
		
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			And yet these people had such a beautiful
		
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			language,
		
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			that they they thought
		
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			and they call themselves Arab and the rest
		
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			Ajam.
		
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			So Persians and Romans with their language
		
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			were dumb people,
		
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			who could not articulate themselves.
		
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			Can you imagine how great that language must
		
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			be for that naming to be Arab and
		
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			Ajam?
		
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			You know that that just in itself shows
		
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			it because you can't be bold enough to
		
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			say something like this unless you've got something.
		
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			And thus the response, the the miracle of
		
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			the Quran
		
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			is
		
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			this powerful language which went
		
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			beyond
		
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			any of the best of the speakers of
		
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			that language,
		
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			the best of their wordsmiths
		
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			and
		
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			their composers,
		
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			their their poets.
		
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			So Yaseen, what does it mean? Nobody could
		
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			tell the meaning. On the day of judgment
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will bring it up
		
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			and that is a challenge. It's a Marjiza.
		
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			Marjiza means a challenge.
		
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			So that's why we will leave it as
		
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			letters,
		
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			Yeah and Seen. And that's why you can't
		
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			change the way it sounds as well. You
		
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			can't say, You Seen Un,
		
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			You Seen,
		
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			It's just You Seen, wakf,
		
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			with a pause at the end. That's it.
		
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			With an abrupt stop. That's the way it
		
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			has to be read.
		
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			Has to be read that way because they
		
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			just let us.
		
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			There are other opinions though.
		
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			Because
		
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			there's another verse in Surat Al Imran,
		
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			for that
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has revealed 2 types
		
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			of verses. 1 which are very firm and
		
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			clear and the others which are ambiguous.
		
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			And then it says,
		
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			as far as those
		
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			who have deviance in their heart,
		
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			They go and try to
		
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			interpret
		
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			and find a meaning for the verses which
		
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			are ambiguous,
		
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			which are not clear. They're intentionally left like
		
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			that.
		
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			Right. Allah is saying that within the same
		
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			book
		
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			that we've intentionally left some verses like that
		
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			for wisdom that we know.
		
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			But there are people with deviance in their
		
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			heart who try to go and try to
		
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			find the meaning of these verses.
		
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			What does he has seen mean and so
		
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			on.
		
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			Looking for mischief,
		
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			looking for its interpretation.
		
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			Now what Allah says,
		
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			Nobody
		
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			knows its meaning except Allah.
		
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			Right? So far so good.
		
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			Then it says,
		
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			Now there's 2 ways of reading this.
		
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			One way you could read it is,
		
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			nobody knows its meaning except Allah.
		
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			Those who are firmly grounded in knowledge, they
		
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			say
		
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			we believe in it.
		
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			That we're not going to follow and try
		
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			Sorry, we're not going to try to pursue
		
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			the meaning. We just say we believe in
		
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			it as it's come from Allah Subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala.
		
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			It's all from Allah
		
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			There's a wisdom in why it's left like
		
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			that.
		
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			But there's another way to read it, which
		
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			is a valid reading according to some Mufassreen
		
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			and Quranic scholars.
		
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			Nobody knows its meaning except Allah and those
		
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			who are firmly grounded in knowledge.
		
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			Makes sense.
		
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			It's not the majority understanding, but it makes
		
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			sense.
		
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			Hence, you have opinions about what it means.
		
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			Now let me tell you what these opinions
		
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			are.
		
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			Ibn Abbas actually
		
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			thought he knew the meaning.
		
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			Right. So Ibn Abbas Sadiq Khan claimed that
		
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			he knew the meaning and he it's related
		
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			from him. Yaseen means You Insan.
		
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			According to the lugha of the Tawhid tribe,
		
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			the tribe called Tawhid.
		
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			Right.
		
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			For them the word Yaseen meant, O Insan,
		
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			O person.
		
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			Hey, you know,
		
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			when you address somebody, Yaseen.
		
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			And it's also been said
		
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			that it's a name of the prophet sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam. So there there's one opinion
		
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			that, oh, this is a name. Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala is addressing the prophet sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam by name. And this is not
		
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			the huroof muqatta'at
		
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			because, and then they have something in support.
		
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			That
		
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			after swearing the oof Allah says, Innaqah,
		
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			verily you are
		
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			from those who have been sent as messengers.
		
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			So Yaseen is his name and then he's
		
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			being told you are the messenger. So that's
		
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			their support for that.
		
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			So these are the different opinions
		
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			and another
		
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			according to Abu Bakr al Warraq,
		
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			he As related by Imam Khour to be
		
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			from him, he says that it means,
		
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			You Sayyid Al Bashr,
		
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			O Master of Mankind,
		
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			O leader of mankind.
		
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			But as I mentioned, the safest approach in
		
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			this is what the majority follow, which is
		
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			that only Allah knows this meaning and these
		
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			are just letters of the alphabet. It's like
		
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			saying
		
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			CD,
		
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			Right. Not compact disc.
		
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			Why did I say CD? Right.
		
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			You know,
		
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			it's just every possible,
		
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			acronym here,
		
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			is probably, you know, refers to something and
		
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			I have to come up with something really
		
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			strange because when you say AB,
		
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			I mean, it's just can you imagine? It's
		
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			just like CA.
		
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			It's California.
		
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			It's Swahalla.
		
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			It's just Or Canada. Right?
		
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			If you come up with with that, who
		
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			knows what it means?
		
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			Right. Someone say, no, we're, this refers to
		
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			this, this refers to it. But Allah It's
		
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			just, it's literally,
		
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			you know, You
		
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			and Seen
		
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			and that's it.
		
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			And Allah knows best.
		
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			So, Yaseen
		
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			wal Quranal Hakim inaqalamin al Musaleen. So once
		
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			we've passed Yaseen, we're talking about, wal Quranal
		
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			Hakim inaqalamin al Musaleen.
		
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			Let
		
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			me translate the first portion so that it
		
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			puts us in the picture.
		
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			You seen by the Quran that is full
		
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			of wisdom.
		
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			You are truly one of the messengers of
		
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			Allah
		
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			and you are on a straight path.
		
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			That is Allah Sirati Mustaqim
		
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			Tanzilal Azizir Raheem.
		
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			This Quran being a revelation from the Almighty,
		
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			the Very Merciful.
		
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			And that means, so that you may warn
		
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			a people
		
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			whose fathers were not warned.
		
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			And hence they are unaware.
		
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			No prophets came to them because for many
		
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			generations about 600 years, no prophet came.
		
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			500 and something years, no prophet came from
		
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			after Isa alaihis salaam.
		
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			So generations
		
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			went past when no prophet came to them.
		
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			That's why he's saying, Litunthuraqoma
		
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			ma'unthuraaba'uhumfa'umfa'umfa'um
		
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			kafilun neither you, neither your forefathers
		
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			were warned.
		
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			Meaning the warning did not come to them.
		
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			So because of that, they're heedless.
		
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			They're heedless.
		
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			They are unaware.
		
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			And then,
		
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			in,
		
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			laqadhaqqalqooduwaalaaqtharihim,
		
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			The word has indeed come true about most
		
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			of them that they will never believe.
		
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			And then, Inna jalnafi a'anaqihim
		
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			aglalan fahhiil athkani fahum mukbahhun
		
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			Which means we have placed iron collars on
		
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			their necks. So they are reaching up to
		
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			their chins and their heads are forced to
		
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			remain upwards
		
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			because of the large collar. The face stays
		
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			upwards. They can't even look down properly.
		
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			Wajalalamin
		
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			Bayni Aidihim Suddhan,
		
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			Furthermore,
		
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			we have placed a barrier in front of
		
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			them
		
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			and a barrier behind them and thus they
		
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			are encircled by us,
		
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			is surrounded
		
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			so that they do not see.
		
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			And then,
		
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			It is all equal for them whether you
		
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			warn them or do not warn them, they
		
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			will not believe.
		
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			Which means
		
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			you can usually warn
		
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			only the one who follows the advice
		
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			and fears the
		
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			Rahman, the merciful one, without seeing him.
		
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			So give him the good news of forgiveness
		
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			and a noble
		
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			reward.
		
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			That's the first part.
		
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			It's
		
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			giving him an assessment.
		
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			When we say assessment,
		
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			it's an assessment
		
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			from a human perspective.
		
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			Allah knows anyway.
		
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			But Allah is only divulging to now look,
		
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			most of them are not going to believe.
		
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			He's telling him about the people of Makkah.
		
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			This is where you've been sent to. You
		
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			are definitely a messenger,
		
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			but this is what
		
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			their state is.
		
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			Firstly, wal Quranil Hakim.
		
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			What is Allah swearing by? He's swearing by
		
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			the Quran.
		
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			He calls it Quranal Majeed,
		
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			calls it different names. But here Quranal Hakim,
		
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			wal Quranal Hakim.
		
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			Hakim could mean 2 different things.
		
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			The word Hakim could mean 2 different things.
		
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			What do you think it can mean?
		
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			What are these two meanings?
		
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			Right.
		
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			One meaning you get is from Hikmah, which
		
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			is wisdom.
		
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			Another one is to make something mohakam.
		
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			Ekam
		
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			means to solidify and make something firm.
		
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			Right. So Quran Al Hakim. So we've got
		
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			both of these possibilities here.
		
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			So firstly,
		
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			hakeem refers to muhakam, firm,
		
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			unchangeable.
		
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			This, these words cannot be altered.
		
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			They're written so perfectly
		
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			with such perfect knowledge that they cannot be
		
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			changed. Wal Quranal Hakim
		
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			So this is
		
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			the
		
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			Quran
		
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			whose meaning is firm and absolute.
		
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			You will never find a discrepancy in there.
		
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			You will never find that
		
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			something prophesied in there is not going to
		
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			be, is not gonna happen, you know, you're
		
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			never going to find any kind of discrepancy
		
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			like that.
		
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			Also, Allama Qurtubi says, it's not just firm
		
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			in its meaning and the message, but it's
		
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			also firm in the way it's written.
		
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			So in its language it's also firm
		
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			and you'll not find a mistake in there.
		
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			It's just perfect.
		
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			That's what Imam Shafi'i,
		
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			he says when he was writing his book
		
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			the Kitab ul
		
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			he changed it so many times. He kept
		
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			editing it. He kept going through it and
		
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			revising it.
		
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			And eventually
		
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			he gave up. He said that the only
		
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			book that can be perfect is the book
		
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			of Allah.
		
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			We'll never be able to gain perfection.
		
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			And that's why in the publishing industry there's
		
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			a
		
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			statement,
		
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			a saying which goes,
		
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			when your book is 100% accurate
		
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			and 95%
		
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			completed,
		
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			then publish it.
		
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			Accuracy of information is very important.
		
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			But if you try to reach a 100%
		
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			level of,
		
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			you know, error free
		
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			perfect work, there is no, you know, that's
		
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			impossible. So as long as it's accurate
		
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			there's no errors in there, clear errors in
		
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			meaning, then publish it once it's 95% done.
		
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			And Muslims, Muslims should stand up to that.
		
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			Unfortunately, many of our books are, you know,
		
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			in the 50% done they, they put out
		
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			there.
		
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			And that that's a sad fact, especially many
		
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			of them coming out of India and Pakistan,
		
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			which they've done a great work for us
		
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			by really doing a lot of these books
		
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			and putting them out in cheap prices.
		
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			But standards needs need standards really need to,
		
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			really need to improve.
		
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			Right. Abu Sirud, another Mufasir, he says, no
		
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			the Hakim here, Quran Al Hakim refers
		
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			to hikma.
		
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			A book that speaks about wisdom, full of
		
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			wisdoms.
		
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			And
		
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			also
		
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			the way it's written and everything just speaks
		
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			of complete wisdom that the one who wrote
		
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			this was very wise.
		
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			So in summary,
		
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			the Quran, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is swearing
		
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			an oath by the Quran. What do you
		
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			normally swear oaths with? If you want to
		
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			swear by something, what do you swear by?
		
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			You swear by something that
		
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			has a place
		
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			in the eyes of people,
		
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			that people respect and honor.
		
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			The thing is that here he's trying to
		
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			establish this for the disbelievers.
		
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			They don't believe in the Quran,
		
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			do they?
		
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			They don't believe in the prophet sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam.
		
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			And the reason why the oath is sworn,
		
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			wallahi, I did not do this.
		
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			By Allah,
		
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			I did not go there. You know, that's
		
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			a state an oath statement.
		
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			Here
		
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			by the Quran,
		
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			which is firm and full of wisdom,
		
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			you are certainly the messenger.
		
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			The Quran and the messenger related.
		
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			You established the the messenger. The Quran came
		
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			through the messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			But what this shows
		
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			is that if Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala can
		
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			use the Quran, though they did not believe
		
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			it,
		
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			deep down in their hearts they would agree
		
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			with it. Number 1. Number 2, it's a
		
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			bold way of doing this.
		
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			I'll swear by the Quran because it's something
		
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			that you should believe in.
		
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			So in that way, it's even more eloquent.
		
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			It's even more effective that I'm swearing by
		
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			something that I'm proving to you.
		
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			That is something you should believe in,
		
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			and I've got everything to back back my
		
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			claim with.
		
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			Did you understand what I'm what I've just
		
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			said?
		
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			You normally swear by something that the other
		
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			people also agree with to prove something to
		
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			them.
		
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			But he, Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala, is swearing
		
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			by the Quran, which the others do not
		
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			disagree, which the others disagree with.
		
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			But then
		
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			the whole way it's done is to show
		
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			that I'm using the Quran which you reject,
		
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			but you should be believing because it's mighty
		
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			enough for me to swear an oath from,
		
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			swear an oath by.
		
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			That creates an impact in their mind itself
		
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			because it's everything. It's not just the oath.
		
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			It's everything that then they're going to mention,
		
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			which eventually will put their, you know, will,
		
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			will,
		
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			come into their hearts.
		
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			In Nakala Min al Musaleen.
		
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			Because the whole idea of the Quran is
		
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			that it's the language,
		
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			the meaning,
		
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			the beauty,
		
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			the phonetics,
		
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			the sound and everything
		
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			which they could appreciate even though
		
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			we we believe in. But we can't really
		
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			appreciate unless you know the language properly.
		
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			But they could appreciate. They would love to
		
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			listen to the Quran, though they hated what
		
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			it said.
		
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			They would be mesmerized.
		
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			They'd be silenced. Their face will change. It
		
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			will have an effect on them, but then
		
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			not long enough because they would go and
		
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			then
		
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			they'll be told, Sabot,
		
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			you you've left your deen. What's going on?
		
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			How come your face has changed?
		
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			So then
		
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			they'll force themselves intellectually,
		
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			intellectually force themselves to,
		
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			to shed off that effect
		
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			and to go and start believing in whatever
		
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			they continue believing in whatever they believed in
		
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			before. But it's,
		
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			it's touched their heart.
		
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			So
		
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			which
		
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			means verily you are the messenger or from
		
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			the messengers.
		
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			Mursal. Mursal means somebody who sent.
		
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			You're those who have been sent from Allah
		
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			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. That is what the oath
		
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			has been taken to prove that he's the
		
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			messenger. That's how this surah starts.
		
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			To establish that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam is the messenger of Allah sallallahu Allah
		
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			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			You see the Quraysh had said, ibn Abbas
		
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			radiAllahu relates to the Quraysh had said,
		
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			probably on numerous occasions,
		
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			As Allah says in the Quran,
		
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			You're not a messenger.
		
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			As though they knew what a messenger looked
		
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			like,
		
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			right. Lest the mursalah.
		
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			Allah did not send you to us.
		
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			So Allah
		
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			is swearing by an oath.
		
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			Is swearing an oath
		
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			to prove this point that Muhammad sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam is from the messengers.
		
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			And not just that you're a messenger
		
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			because
		
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			some of them might think he's a messenger
		
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			but he's not on the right way, he's
		
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			not for us.
		
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			Because there were probably some among them who
		
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			half kind of believed that okay, maybe Allah
		
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			did send a messenger. Remember the response the
		
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			3 people gave, the 3 leaders of Taif
		
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			gave, when the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
		
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			went to give dawu to them.
		
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			Some really weird answers.
		
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			One is that look, if you are a
		
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			messenger, then look just go from here because
		
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			if you are a messenger and I don't
		
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			then believe you, then I'll be punished. So
		
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			I just don't even want to listen to
		
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			you.
		
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			And if you are
		
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			not a messenger, then I want to speak
		
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			to a liar.
		
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			These were the kind of responses that they
		
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			weren't sure they could not
		
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			say for sure. These were not total disbelievers
		
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			in Allah. They had some belief in Allah,
		
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			but it was corrupted belief with all of
		
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			the idol worship.
		
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			So Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala is proving,
		
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			Alasirati
		
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			Mustaqeem
		
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			That
		
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			you are on the straight path as well.
		
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			So not only are you a messenger but
		
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			you're also on the straight path.
		
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			And then
		
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			after speaking about the messenger sallallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam,
		
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			goes back to talking about the Quran because
		
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			that was going to be the main thing
		
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			that he was going to use
		
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			to convince them. That was the message.
		
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			Tanzil means
		
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			a revelation,
		
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			something revealed, something sent down
		
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			from
		
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			the Aziz and the Raheem.
		
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			Now you know Allah
		
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			says, Aziz and
		
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			Raheem,
		
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			Alakulishain
		
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			Qadeer.
		
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			He says, Raheem wadud,
		
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			He uses all of these verses. You know
		
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			what some of these orientalists say?
		
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			They say that these are just these extra
		
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			flourishes
		
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			which are used just haphazardly, you know. Okay.
		
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			Put this one here. Put this one here.
		
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			Put this one here. These are just to
		
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			beautify it.
		
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			Where if you look at every every eye
		
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			of the Quran,
		
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			where
		
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			what has been used, what
		
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			attribute has been used,
		
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			you'll notice that it's totally
		
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			appropriate and perfect for that.
		
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			I'll give you an example later
		
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			about a Bedouin
		
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			who somebody
		
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			read
		
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			wrong,
		
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			read the wrong one. The wrong, instead of
		
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			reading Aziz and Hakim, he must have read
		
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			something else.
		
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			That doesn't sound right.
		
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			Anyway, went back and checked and he had
		
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			read the wrong one because there's no way.
		
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			And here it's speaking about, Tanzilul
		
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			Aziz I Rahim.
		
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			Aziz the mighty one from Azza,
		
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			to be mighty and majestic,
		
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			powerful.
		
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			Right.
		
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			And Raheem means the merciful one.
		
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			So this has been revealed. This is a
		
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			revelation
		
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			from the Aziz and the Raheem. From the
		
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			mighty one and the merciful one.
		
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			The mercy one,
		
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			merciful one who's mighty.
		
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			The mighty one who's merciful.
		
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			To show that's
		
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			what Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala wanted to portray
		
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			himself as at that point to them.
		
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			So Al assirati Mustaqim means a way that
		
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			is straight. That doesn't have any crookedness in
		
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			it. If you follow it, it will lead
		
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			you to eternal success.
		
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			It doesn't have any crookedness in it. And
		
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			then revelation
		
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			from
		
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			the mighty and majestic one and the merciful
		
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			one.
		
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			Meaning this Quran
		
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			is number 1,
		
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			the illuminating guide.
		
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			It's the illuminating
		
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			guide that has been revealed from the Lord
		
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			of might
		
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			and the Lord of mercy.
		
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			He's mighty
		
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			because
		
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			he is the sovereign of the universe.
		
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			That's how he's mighty.
		
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			The whole universe belongs to Allah Subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala. That's why he's the Aziz.
		
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			How is Ibrahim then?
		
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			He could have created this universe
		
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			of
		
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			of inanimate bodies,
		
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			of just objects, silent dumb objects
		
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			if he wanted.
		
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			But he created a human being in there.
		
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			He created the insan and the jinn,
		
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			and he created all of these things for
		
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			the disposal, to the disposal of man. And
		
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			he said to man, look, I want to
		
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			send you to paradise
		
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			Because that's where I want, I want, I
		
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			want to
		
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			manifest
		
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			the attribute of my
		
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			mercy.
		
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			I want to send you to paradise. So
		
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			do good. Stay away from bad. Don't be
		
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			mischievous
		
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			and we'll send you to paradise.
		
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			So if he hadn't done that, we would
		
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			never have this possibility of entering paradise.
		
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			He is merciful on his creation that he
		
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			created them. He sustained them, brings them up
		
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			from stage to stage, does their tarbia,
		
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			rears them, brings them up, sustains them,
		
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			and then sends them to paradise if they've
		
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			done well. Otherwise punishes them because he's worn
		
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			them.
		
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			That's He's merciful
		
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			and he's mighty and majestic because it's all
		
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			within his sovereignty as well.
		
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			This is to show the people of the
		
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			Makkah when they hear this that, oh, he's
		
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			mighty. Everything is to remind them because they
		
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			believed Allah created everything. He must be mighty,
		
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			but he's mighty and normally you understand from
		
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			might tyranny,
		
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			anger, violence.
		
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			He's not like that. He's the merciful one.
		
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			So he'll forgive.
		
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			He will forgive.
		
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			And you don't have power these days. You
		
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			still won't forgive.
		
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			You think that people are gonna forgive.
		
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			I mean that that's a, that's a, I
		
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			mean You think people are gonna forgive Husni
		
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			Mubarak?
		
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			You'll have to have a very big heart
		
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			to do that.
		
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			Right.
		
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			And then
		
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			so many others.
		
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			Right. Litunthiraqawmamma
		
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			unthiraaba'uhum.
		
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			Allah is giving the reason and, SubhanAllah, this
		
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			is a big lesson for us.
		
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			You stay away from the masjid.
		
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			You stay away from reading the Quran.
		
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			You stay away from reading anything that gives
		
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			us exhortation,
		
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			gives us some naseeha.
		
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			You will become ghafi.
		
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			That's the nature of the world.
		
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			The whole purpose of this repetition of the
		
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			Quran in salat and our 5 times daily
		
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			salat.
		
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			Reading the Quran and
		
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			everything else and the whole concept of wadhan
		
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			nasihah,
		
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			counseling and exhortation,
		
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			khutba and so on,
		
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			is so that we can balance
		
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			the effects of the dunya.
		
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			Cause look at what the prophet salallahu alayhi
		
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			wa sallam
		
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			is saying, who's the knower of everything. He
		
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			says,
		
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			this is the Quran which is revealed from
		
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			the almighty and the very merciful one. So
		
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			that you may warn a people whose fathers
		
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			were not warned
		
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			And thus
		
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			they became unaware, heedless and negligent.
		
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			Their fathers weren't warned, these people were born
		
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			in that kind of an environment.
		
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			So now some of them are too far
		
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			gone.
		
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			But there's others that you will be able
		
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			to convince.
		
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			So we don't want to just look at
		
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			this in a historical sense that this is
		
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			what the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam, this is
		
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			what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said to the
		
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			people of Makkah.
		
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			It gives us a lesson and
		
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			you you will agree with me. I've got
		
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			I have a brother who was a shafi,
		
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			meaning I know a friend who was a
		
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			shafi.
		
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			And
		
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			he tells me one day that, you know
		
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			because the Hanafis cannot do jama' bayna salat
		
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			in. This is not to diminish any madhab.
		
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			This is just a point.
		
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			He's just saying giving a personal opinion. Because
		
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			even within the shafi'i is, it's superior to
		
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			pray salat within its own time.
		
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			It's not superior to join them. It's permissible
		
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			to join them, if you're traveling.
		
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			Within a shafi'i school, it's permissible to join
		
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			the salat. Dhuhr and Asr together or Maghrib
		
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			and Isha together.
		
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			But it's superior even according to them to
		
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			read them in their own time because that's
		
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			the Asr that is the default state. So
		
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			this brother tells me that, you know, I
		
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			like what the Hanafis do because I've noticed
		
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			that when I'm traveling and I've had to
		
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			join my prayers, it has a spiritual impact
		
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			on
		
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			me. SubhanAllah. I mean, so it's such a
		
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			sensitive
		
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			From a spiritual perspective we're so sensitive and
		
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			subhanAllah if Allah could make us all that
		
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			sensitive.
		
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			Because you know we can miss fajrs
		
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			and not feel any loss. In fact be
		
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			happy, subhanAllah, that we've had an extra hour
		
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			of sleep and our sleep wasn't disturbed.
		
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			Because you know, we have to get up
		
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			for fajr especially if it's wind, summertime
		
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			and you split your, you know, your night
		
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			in half and you've set up late to
		
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			start with because you know, you've been wasting
		
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			time at night.
		
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			And then we get up in the morning
		
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			and you know, even the pious among us
		
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			so called,
		
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			we've missed the salat
		
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			by accident.
		
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			Too tired, couldn't hear the alarm clock and
		
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			somehow you have half feel elated that I
		
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			got a good sleep though.
		
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			The nadamah that should be felt.
		
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			We don't feel that nadamah, we're not sensitive
		
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			at all when it's spiritually. We're dead.
		
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			That's a sad fact. Wallahi we should weep
		
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			about that.
		
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			That is a sad fact.
		
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			When they say that you should probably if
		
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			you had missed the flight and now you're
		
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			gonna have to pay £400
		
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			to get a new ticket.
		
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			How bad would you feel? Only in the
		
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			hereafter we'll know that how much we'd have
		
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			to pay for that salah to be missed.
		
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			Here we have to pay £400, we've missed
		
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			an appointment, we've missed. It's just all, you
		
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			know, it's just all upside down now.
		
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			There we feel it but subhanAllah.
		
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			May Allah give us real understanding of this.
		
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			So for us when we look at this
		
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			verse it's,
		
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			It shows us as a direct result of
		
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			the fact that they had not been told.
		
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			He's not considering their forefathers to be blameworthy.
		
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			He's just setting a scene for these people
		
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			because now they have a message.
		
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			This is not an absolute statement as well
		
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			because
		
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			obviously
		
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			it's not known who of them were so
		
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			far gone and who are not.
		
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			So that the prophetess who would not listen
		
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			to the prophetess salallahu alayhi wasalam.
		
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			And what does inhar mean? What does so
		
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			that you can warn them. What does it
		
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			mean?
		
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			Inhar.
		
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			There's 2 things. 1 is inhar, which means
		
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			to warn.
		
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			Warn them of the punishment.
		
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			Warn them of the hellfire.
		
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			Warn them of the wrath of Allah.
		
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			You know, you've got people today.
		
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			I remember I was giving a talk in
		
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			Canary Wharf,
		
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			primarily a probably a business kind of oriented
		
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			corporate kind of audience.
		
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			But there's a non Muslim guy who comes
		
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			around
		
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			and,
		
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			attends,
		
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			talks in different places. And he's got one
		
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			mission which I found out later.
		
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			So after the talk and everything,
		
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			his whole point and this is probably to
		
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			influence the others sitting there. He says, your
		
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			Quran has all of these beautiful verses about
		
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			mercy and rahma
		
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			and love and everything.
		
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			Why is it that you even quote the
		
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			other things?
		
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			To kind of isolate the other verses. Just
		
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			speak about the merciful aspects. Our deen is
		
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			between the 2. The ulama mentioned that the
		
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			deen of a believer is like a bird
		
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			with 2 wings. One wing is that of
		
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			hope.
		
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			One wing is of
		
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			fear.
		
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			If you have too much hope and that
		
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			wing is big and the other one has
		
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			been clipped, that bird will not be able
		
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			to fly smoothly.
		
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			That's the way our deen is.
		
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			And here the prophet is saying that this
		
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			punish, this warning of punishment really helps.
		
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			It should not be all pa all warning,
		
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			warning, warning. Clearly there has to be some
		
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			hope
		
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			which is very important. Otherwise a person becomes
		
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			despond, depressed.
		
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			But here, Fahum Ghafilun,
		
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			so because of that
		
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			they have absolutely no idea. They are heedless
		
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			of guidance of iman.
		
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			They're just running around,
		
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			stumbling around in their darkness of shirk and,
		
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			idol worship to such an extent that the
		
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			majority of them are worshiping idols. Even though
		
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			you've got some very sensible people among them.
		
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			Even though you've got people among them who
		
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			are decent,
		
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			who who are very good akhlaq characters,
		
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			generosity, helping
		
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			others, but because of their heedlessness nobody has
		
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			worn them. And that's why you've got this,
		
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			you've
		
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			got this state that they they are just
		
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			stumbling around in their kufr.
		
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			It's
		
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			led to the fact that they've all believed
		
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			in idols.
		
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			Now think about it.
		
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			Imagine if in this country, just like in
		
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			Brazil,
		
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			just like even next door to us in
		
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			France
		
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			and Chile and Argentina and all of these
		
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			countries where people have been and they've said
		
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			that the generation, 75% to 80% of the
		
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			generation is gone.
		
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			Of the Muslims that came from countries like
		
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			Syria,
		
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			Palestine
		
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			and all of these countries. I've seen people
		
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			like that myself.
		
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			In Indiana there was a group of Syrians
		
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			that had come over a 100 years ago
		
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			and they,
		
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			2 members of that family were still Muslim,
		
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			not anybody else.
		
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			And I knew the 2.
		
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			1 was an older, older auntie, an old
		
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			woman and the other one was a nephew
		
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			whose name was Ali.
		
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			They were the only 2 Muslims in that
		
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			entire,
		
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			entire family.
		
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			Because when they came there was no masjid,
		
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			there was no iindar,
		
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			there was no warning, there was no fear,
		
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			there was nothing.
		
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			It is so far you should, you should
		
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			feel yourself, we should feel ourselves extremely fortunate
		
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			that there is something going on. And somebody's
		
00:51:00 --> 00:51:03
			warning us, somebody's revealing, reading these verses of
		
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			the Quran, these ahadith to
		
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			us. You take it for granted
		
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			because you've seen it all your life and
		
00:51:10 --> 00:51:12
			you haven't seen anything beyond that. And some
		
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			of us, you know, some of us never
		
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			attend
		
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			because we feel it's there when we need
		
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			it. It gets to us somehow, somebody talks
		
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			about it to us.
		
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			But the power of this is the barakah,
		
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			the power. It's a word of Allah at
		
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			the end of the day. It's the word
		
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			of Allah at the end of the day.
		
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			We must thank Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that
		
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			we have it so good and may Allah
		
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			maintain it and increase it.
		
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			Because if we don't make that dua and
		
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			we don't do shukr, we take it for
		
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			granted.
		
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			And you think, you know, you think that
		
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			it's all it's all good.
		
00:51:43 --> 00:51:46
			Some of the I'm sorry, the first publishing
		
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			house,
		
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			the 2 first publishing,
		
00:51:50 --> 00:51:52
			printing printing companies of the Muslims
		
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			were
		
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			1 was in Russia,
		
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			in Kazan, in Tataristan,
		
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			which is a capital of Tataristan today, part
		
00:52:02 --> 00:52:03
			of Russia,
		
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			right.
		
00:52:06 --> 00:52:07
			And the scholars in the area,
		
00:52:09 --> 00:52:10
			huge amount of scholars,
		
00:52:10 --> 00:52:11
			our scholarship
		
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			comes from that area.
		
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			But in the last 100 years,
		
00:52:18 --> 00:52:19
			you couldn't say Allah there
		
00:52:19 --> 00:52:21
			until of recent.
		
00:52:22 --> 00:52:25
			And would you think 200 years ago, 300
		
00:52:25 --> 00:52:28
			years ago, anybody there would think
		
00:52:28 --> 00:52:30
			that it would be any different?
		
00:52:31 --> 00:52:32
			Another one is Spain,
		
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			Southern Spain Andalusia.
		
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			Again you got some big names from there.
		
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			Allama Kurtubi, who we're going to be quoting.
		
00:52:40 --> 00:52:43
			A tafsir in you know 20 volumes.
		
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			Ibn Khaldun,
		
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			Ibn al-'arabi,
		
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			Ibn Rushd.
		
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			These are big, big names.
		
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			You think they would have ever thought that
		
00:52:52 --> 00:52:54
			one day on this land
		
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			there will come a time when there's no
		
00:52:58 --> 00:53:00
			Nobody to say Allah.
		
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			I remember the first time I went to
		
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			I believe we've been there once, to Spain
		
00:53:04 --> 00:53:06
			when we first got there. We drove 9
		
00:53:06 --> 00:53:07
			hours from Portugal,
		
00:53:08 --> 00:53:10
			and we got there. And we stopped somewhere.
		
00:53:10 --> 00:53:11
			It was the first time we stopped,
		
00:53:12 --> 00:53:13
			and I just couldn't help it. I had
		
00:53:13 --> 00:53:15
			to give adhan outside. It was like this
		
00:53:15 --> 00:53:17
			side, we just kind of stopped somewhere inside
		
00:53:17 --> 00:53:20
			and said, SubhanAllah, no. If Allah subhanahu wa
		
00:53:20 --> 00:53:22
			ta'ala's name has been taken here before, let's
		
00:53:22 --> 00:53:24
			do it. Alhamdulillah, now there's Muslims and so
		
00:53:24 --> 00:53:24
			on there.
		
00:53:25 --> 00:53:27
			But do not take it for granted. Doesn't
		
00:53:27 --> 00:53:29
			matter how established you are. It doesn't matter
		
00:53:29 --> 00:53:31
			what palaces you've built.
		
00:53:31 --> 00:53:33
			And when you go into that masjid in
		
00:53:33 --> 00:53:33
			Qurtuba.
		
00:53:34 --> 00:53:35
			When you go in that masjid in Qurtuba,
		
00:53:37 --> 00:53:39
			you're not allowed to put a hat on.
		
00:53:39 --> 00:53:42
			Initially they used to let you. They used
		
00:53:42 --> 00:53:43
			to explain to you that you can't, so
		
00:53:43 --> 00:53:44
			you should take it off.
		
00:53:45 --> 00:53:47
			Now they they walk around with you. You're
		
00:53:47 --> 00:53:48
			not allowed to pray in there
		
00:53:49 --> 00:53:50
			because it's now a cathedral.
		
00:53:52 --> 00:53:54
			It's a cathedral now.
		
00:53:55 --> 00:53:57
			And you've got these big, big statues and
		
00:53:57 --> 00:53:59
			altar and everything right in the middle. It's
		
00:53:59 --> 00:54:01
			Allahu Akbar You. I don't know how you
		
00:54:01 --> 00:54:03
			you know, I don't know how to explain
		
00:54:03 --> 00:54:03
			the feeling.
		
00:54:05 --> 00:54:07
			That's the Masjid in Kirtuba.
		
00:54:08 --> 00:54:09
			I don't know if any of you have
		
00:54:09 --> 00:54:09
			been,
		
00:54:10 --> 00:54:12
			but it is seriously a sight.
		
00:54:14 --> 00:54:16
			And still on the walls, La Ghali ba
		
00:54:16 --> 00:54:16
			illallah,
		
00:54:17 --> 00:54:20
			there are all these inscriptions. Even in hamdulillah
		
00:54:21 --> 00:54:23
			that the the Alhambra Palace, the Qasul Hamra,
		
00:54:23 --> 00:54:24
			that's still around
		
00:54:25 --> 00:54:27
			and has all of these titles, but do
		
00:54:27 --> 00:54:28
			not take it for granted. Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
00:54:28 --> 00:54:30
			Ta'ala doesn't need any of us.
		
00:54:31 --> 00:54:33
			It doesn't matter what you've built.
		
00:54:33 --> 00:54:35
			It's all about iman at the end of
		
00:54:35 --> 00:54:36
			the day.
		
00:54:37 --> 00:54:39
			So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is now explaining
		
00:54:39 --> 00:54:41
			the nature of these people
		
00:54:41 --> 00:54:43
			to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
		
00:54:44 --> 00:54:45
			and he's saying
		
00:54:46 --> 00:54:46
			that
		
00:54:47 --> 00:54:50
			they they have, they're heedless because even their
		
00:54:50 --> 00:54:51
			fathers were not,
		
00:54:51 --> 00:54:53
			were not warned.
		
00:54:55 --> 00:54:56
			So,
		
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			That means
		
00:55:00 --> 00:55:02
			that the adab of Allah,
		
00:55:03 --> 00:55:04
			the decree has been given.
		
00:55:05 --> 00:55:07
			The decree has been made
		
00:55:08 --> 00:55:09
			that on the majority of them
		
00:55:10 --> 00:55:11
			that they will not believe.
		
00:55:12 --> 00:55:13
			Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala knows that.
		
00:55:14 --> 00:55:16
			He's not necessarily telling him who exactly, Allah
		
00:55:16 --> 00:55:18
			knows best if he knew or not exactly
		
00:55:18 --> 00:55:19
			who.
		
00:55:19 --> 00:55:21
			But Allah is saying,
		
00:55:24 --> 00:55:25
			The word of Allah,
		
00:55:26 --> 00:55:28
			the decree of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala is
		
00:55:29 --> 00:55:30
			has been issued
		
00:55:31 --> 00:55:32
			on their majority,
		
00:55:33 --> 00:55:33
			aqtharihim.
		
00:55:34 --> 00:55:36
			Fahumla yukminun, so they will not believe.
		
00:55:39 --> 00:55:40
			Why?
		
00:55:40 --> 00:55:41
			Because of their persistence
		
00:55:42 --> 00:55:42
			in sin,
		
00:55:43 --> 00:55:45
			persistence on kufr. It's been for so long
		
00:55:45 --> 00:55:47
			they can't change now. This tells us another
		
00:55:47 --> 00:55:48
			thing,
		
00:55:49 --> 00:55:51
			the longer we stay on the wrong path
		
00:55:51 --> 00:55:53
			the more difficult it becomes to change.
		
00:55:55 --> 00:55:57
			The longer you smoke the more difficult it
		
00:55:57 --> 00:55:58
			will become to it'll be to get rid
		
00:55:58 --> 00:56:00
			of it. If you use a simple example,
		
00:56:01 --> 00:56:03
			the longer we are habituated to something, if
		
00:56:03 --> 00:56:05
			you take an example of a tree,
		
00:56:05 --> 00:56:07
			that when you have a tree
		
00:56:08 --> 00:56:10
			you can uproot it a lot easier in
		
00:56:10 --> 00:56:12
			its 2nd year as opposed to its 5th
		
00:56:12 --> 00:56:14
			year. Because the roots will get deeper and
		
00:56:14 --> 00:56:16
			deeper and it will become more entrenched and
		
00:56:16 --> 00:56:19
			anchored in the ground. Then try to uproot
		
00:56:19 --> 00:56:20
			it, you have to do a lot more.
		
00:56:22 --> 00:56:24
			So what this is telling us here
		
00:56:24 --> 00:56:25
			is that
		
00:56:26 --> 00:56:27
			the reason
		
00:56:27 --> 00:56:29
			is because they've been on Kufr for too
		
00:56:29 --> 00:56:30
			long
		
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			and on rejection.
		
00:56:32 --> 00:56:34
			It's become, like, so normal for them.
		
00:56:35 --> 00:56:38
			You take a blackboard of the olden times
		
00:56:38 --> 00:56:40
			and an old blackboard that there's marks on
		
00:56:40 --> 00:56:42
			there which, you know, you can hardly get
		
00:56:42 --> 00:56:43
			rid of.
		
00:56:44 --> 00:56:45
			So the older a person is, you're not
		
00:56:45 --> 00:56:47
			gonna change them. That's why where do these
		
00:56:47 --> 00:56:50
			new ideologies and new movements go? They go
		
00:56:50 --> 00:56:50
			to universities,
		
00:56:51 --> 00:56:52
			to the younger crowd.
		
00:56:52 --> 00:56:54
			They're still malleable. They're still changeable.
		
00:56:55 --> 00:56:56
			They're the people who
		
00:56:56 --> 00:56:57
			lead revolutions.
		
00:56:58 --> 00:56:59
			The young Turks
		
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			and the young this and the young that.
		
00:57:04 --> 00:57:05
			And then furthermore,
		
00:57:06 --> 00:57:08
			this doesn't mean that the prophet can't tell
		
00:57:08 --> 00:57:10
			them that, oh, you just have to give
		
00:57:10 --> 00:57:10
			up.
		
00:57:12 --> 00:57:13
			Because they are still responsible.
		
00:57:14 --> 00:57:16
			But the reason why they're not going to
		
00:57:16 --> 00:57:18
			believe is not because Allah said, now you
		
00:57:18 --> 00:57:20
			cannot believe. Meaning Allah never would allow them
		
00:57:20 --> 00:57:22
			to believe. It's just the fact that they
		
00:57:22 --> 00:57:24
			did, they stayed on this kufr for so
		
00:57:24 --> 00:57:26
			long, changed the deen and everything. And now
		
00:57:26 --> 00:57:28
			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has made it that
		
00:57:28 --> 00:57:30
			you see because there are certain actions that
		
00:57:30 --> 00:57:31
			humans do that
		
00:57:31 --> 00:57:33
			make the heart, their heart sealed.
		
00:57:35 --> 00:57:36
			There are certain actions that if we do
		
00:57:36 --> 00:57:39
			them, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala detests them so
		
00:57:39 --> 00:57:40
			much that, taba Allahu'alaqurubim.
		
00:57:41 --> 00:57:43
			He puts a cover on their hearts.
		
00:57:44 --> 00:57:46
			So then it becomes a lot more difficult
		
00:57:46 --> 00:57:47
			to get out of it.
		
00:57:48 --> 00:57:50
			These are some serious actions Allah Subhanahu wa
		
00:57:50 --> 00:57:51
			ta'ala protect us from.
		
00:57:56 --> 00:57:58
			That we have put on their necks.
		
00:57:58 --> 00:57:59
			These,
		
00:58:00 --> 00:58:02
			as he translates here, we have placed iron
		
00:58:02 --> 00:58:04
			collars on their necks. So they are reaching
		
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			up to their chins.
		
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			You,
		
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			you, you shackle somebody.
		
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			Right.
		
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			You put iron bracelets on them.
		
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			And normally they're tied to the iron collar
		
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			around their neck.
		
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			So this is to show that their hands
		
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			are all tied together at their necks
		
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			and it's very big.
		
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			So
		
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			the face has to always be put high
		
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			up.
		
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			So it's a very uncomfortable position.
		
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			Now, is this saying that we have physically
		
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			done this to them
		
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			or is it metaphorical?
		
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			There are many possibilities here. Because one is
		
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			that this will be their state in the
		
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			hellfire.
		
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			That's a reality,
		
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			right? In the hellfire though. That this is
		
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			the way their state is going to be.
		
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			Another one is that it's metaphorical.
		
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			That
		
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			this is their state when it comes to,
		
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			when you've got a prisoner like this,
		
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			he can't move.
		
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			I think somebody tied like that, what's he
		
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			gonna do to get out of it? How
		
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			are you gonna use your feet to do
		
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			anything except run away? But if you're tied
		
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			like that, faces up, you can't even see
		
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			properly.
		
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			Right. So this is, when you got somebody
		
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			like that, so think of someone in that
		
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			kind of a state
		
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			in terms of their shirk.
		
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			They can't move anywhere out of their shirk.
		
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			They've bound themselves so much in their shirk
		
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			that they cannot get out of this state.
		
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			They're stuck in this state of shirk.
		
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			Just like somebody who's stuck and imprisoned this
		
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			way, that they cannot escape or move.
		
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			So
		
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			their held is held, their
		
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			head is high. They will never succumb to
		
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			the truth of iman. They cannot bow down.
		
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			Another meaning of this is that just like
		
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			when you got somebody totally,
		
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			tied up in this way.
		
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			Then
		
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			their shakaawah,
		
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			means their wretchedness,
		
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			being totally,
		
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			prevented from the mercy of Allah Subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala, is in that similar state.
		
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			That they're totally stuck, they will not get
		
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			the mercy of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. And
		
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			then beyond that we've put in front of
		
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			them and behind them another barrier.
		
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			Saddhan means a barrier.
		
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			A dam is called a sad because
		
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			it's a big barrier.
		
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			This is just a,
		
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			this is just to complete their
		
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			totally being entrenched in this kufr and not
		
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			being able to change.
		
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			That one is this is their state. The
		
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			number 1, they've got a wall before them
		
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			and wall behind them. So they're not going
		
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			to be able to change.
		
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			For Al Shaynahum,
		
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			for whom la yubseroon.
		
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			And that means
		
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			they are encircled. They're totally,
		
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			they're totally
		
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			encircled
		
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			by us.
		
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			For whom
		
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			they cannot even see.
		
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			As I said, we don't want to read
		
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			this
		
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			and
		
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			that it's about somebody else.
		
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			But I think to finish on this point,
		
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			that if that is their state because of
		
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			their kufr,
		
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			clearly our sins
		
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			and anything we do
		
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			is going to lead us to this kind
		
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			of a state in a proportionate way.
		
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			But may Allah protect us and forgive us.
		
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			May Allah forgive us. As long as we
		
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			keep the iman in our hearts, we're gonna
		
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			look at the We're looking at it from
		
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			a very,
		
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			fear,
		
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			a perspective of fear. But let's look at
		
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			it from hope,
		
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			that Allah
		
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			knows our weakness.
		
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			He already told the prophet
		
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			that you people
		
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			of your generation,
		
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			the prophet
		
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			said, that if you were to just miss
		
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			1 tenth of what you had been commanded
		
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			to do, then you're destroyed.
		
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			These are for the Sahaba. Because everything was
		
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			just so evident. There was wahi coming down.
		
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			There's no way that they could have gone
		
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			against that.
		
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			So if you miss it,
		
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			all the factors were increasing your imaan were
		
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			there.
		
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			But then he said that there will come
		
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			a time, and this is eventually, that if
		
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			you just do 1 tenth of what you
		
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			have been commanded, you'd be successful.
		
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			So clearly there is that, that's
		
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			a hadith of hope.
		
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			We're not there yet with 10%. So don't
		
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			don't just do don't do 10%. I don't
		
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			think we're there at all.
		
01:02:32 --> 01:02:34
			I think we could do a lot more.
		
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			You know, at least the outward form of
		
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			worship we can do.
		
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			You know, to make sure that we've got
		
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			the sincerity and focus and everything. That's where
		
01:02:42 --> 01:02:43
			it becomes a bit difficult.
		
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			But I think we're still about 70%. I
		
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			think I don't know what you guys would
		
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			put it at.
		
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			But other thing is definitely not 10%. I
		
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			don't think we can get away with 10%.
		
01:02:51 --> 01:02:53
			Right. There's still a lot more, a lot
		
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			more to come and may Allah,
		
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			not let us see that. May Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala protect us and our progeny.
		
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			So inshallah, we'll we'll, we'll carry on from
		
01:03:02 --> 01:03:05
			here. We'll move into inshallah the story. But,
		
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			may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala give us steadfastness.
		
01:03:08 --> 01:03:10
			May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allow us to
		
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			open up our hearts to understand
		
01:03:12 --> 01:03:14
			the warnings when we hear them, the exhortations
		
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			when we hear them. And may Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala keep us
		
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			among
		
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			in an environment where this takes place.
		
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			May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala reward our our,
		
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			Mufasiddeen
		
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			and our scholars who've
		
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			allowed this deen to come down to us
		
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			because
		
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			now we we've noticed,
		
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			we've seen how it is when somebody doesn't
		
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			have exhortation.
		
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			Allah give us the value of them and
		
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			of such people
		
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			who've
		
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			preached to us and who've conveyed this message
		
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			to us starting from Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
		
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			Allahummafilna
		
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			Allahummafilna
		
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			the point of a lecture
		
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			is to encourage people to act, to get
		
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			further,
		
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			an inspiration,
		
01:05:07 --> 01:05:07
			an encouragement,
		
01:05:08 --> 01:05:09
			persuasion.
		
01:05:09 --> 01:05:12
			The next step is to actually start learning
		
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			seriously.
		
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			To read books, to take on a subject
		
01:05:15 --> 01:05:17
			of Islam, and to understand all the subjects
		
01:05:17 --> 01:05:19
			of Islam, at least at their basic level.
		
01:05:19 --> 01:05:21
			So that we can become more aware of
		
01:05:21 --> 01:05:23
			what our deen wants from us. And that's
		
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			why we started, Rayyan courses
		
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			so that, you can actually take organized
		
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			lectures,
		
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			on demand whenever you have free time. Especially
		
01:05:32 --> 01:05:33
			for example, the Islamic
		
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			Essentials
		
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			course that we have on there. The Islamic
		
01:05:36 --> 01:05:40
			Essential Certificate, which you take 20 short modules.
		
01:05:41 --> 01:05:43
			And at the end of that Insha'Allah, you
		
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			will have gotten the the basics of,
		
01:05:46 --> 01:05:48
			most of the most important topics in Islam.
		
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			And you'll feel a lot more confident. You
		
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			don't have to leave lectures behind. You can
		
01:05:51 --> 01:05:53
			continue to leave, you know, to listen to
		
01:05:53 --> 01:05:55
			lectures. But you need to have this more
		
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			sustained study as well.