Abu Taymiyyah – EMOTIONAL – The Pain Of The Prophets & Overcoming Your Struggles & Pains

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The importance of knowing who Allah subhanizes and not letting pain drive them away from their point of view is discussed in various segments of the transcript. The speaker emphasizes the importance of inspiration and leaving emotions behind in helping people to overcome hardships and struggles, including struggles with drugs and their religion. The segment also touches on the loss of political power and the use of Islam as a means of political gain, including struggles with loss of family members and struggles with their religion.

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			As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh, my
		
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			beloved brothers and sisters, as
		
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			-salamu alaykum
		
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			wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh, my beloved brothers and
		
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			sisters, as-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh,
		
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			my beloved brothers and sisters, as-salamu alaykum
		
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			wa rahmatullahi wa
		
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			barakatuh, my beloved brothers and sisters, as-salamu
		
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			alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh, my beloved brothers
		
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			and sisters, as-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa
		
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			barakatuh, my beloved brothers
		
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			and sisters, as-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa
		
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			barakatuh, my beloved brothers and sisters, as-salamu
		
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			alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh, my beloved brothers
		
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			and sisters, as-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa
		
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			barakatuh, my beloved brothers and sisters, as-salamu
		
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			alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh, my beloved brothers
		
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			and sisters, as-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa
		
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			barakatuh, my beloved brothers and sisters, as-salamu
		
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			alaykum wa rahmatullahi my beloved brothers and sisters,
		
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			as-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh, my
		
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			beloved brothers and sisters, as-salamu alaykum wa
		
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			rahmatullahi wa barakatuh, my beloved brothers and sisters,
		
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			the reason why your fortunes shift in unimaginable
		
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			ways to truly hold onto that hope, we
		
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			must first know who Allah subhan Hu wa
		
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			ta'ala is, because my brothers and my
		
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			sisters, you can't love something that you don't
		
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			know, think about it for a moment, that
		
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			sister that you so desperately want, that bushra,
		
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			you chose it from amongst everybody and likewise
		
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			my sister, equal rights.
		
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			You chose him from the midst of all
		
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			the brothers that you could have accepted.
		
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			The reason why you chose him or the
		
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			reason why you chose her, my brothers and
		
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			my sisters, is because of what you came
		
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			to know about them.
		
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			Tomorrow you find out that Bushra prays at
		
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			night, fast in the day, and you're thinking
		
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			to yourself, I've hit the jackpot.
		
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			Allahu Akbar and your love and your desire
		
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			for this lady goes skyrocketing.
		
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			You want her so badly even more now,
		
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			right?
		
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			The point of the matter is, my brothers
		
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			and my sisters, that I want every single
		
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			one of you guys to walk away with.
		
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			You can't love something that you don't know.
		
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			If we don't know Allah SWT, how do
		
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			you expect to love him?
		
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			How do you expect to do things for
		
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			Allah SWT, fulfilling his commandments in a loving
		
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			way?
		
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			When life, my brothers and my sisters, overwhelms
		
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			us, it's tempting to turn our backs on
		
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			him, to let our pain drive us away
		
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			from the one who understands our feelings, who
		
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			understands every little detail about us.
		
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			We've all faced moments like this, where the
		
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			storm seemed endless.
		
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			We felt like there was no light at
		
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			the end of the tunnel, where problems piled
		
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			up, leaving us broken and exhausted.
		
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			With all that which is going on, my
		
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			brothers and my sisters, it's so easy to
		
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			turn our backs on Allah SWT.
		
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			We have all been there, my brothers and
		
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			my sisters.
		
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			We've all experienced hardships and difficulties.
		
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			We've had trials and tribulations.
		
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			My brothers and my sisters, Allah SWT tells
		
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			us countless stories in the Quran.
		
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			Tell them about the stories in the Quran,
		
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			so that they may contemplate, so that they
		
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			may reflect.
		
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			The stories in the Quran are not there
		
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			for entertainment.
		
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			They're not there, my brothers and my sisters,
		
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			for bedtime stories, or whatever it might be.
		
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			It is there to inspire you the same
		
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			way.
		
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			It would inspire the Messenger ﷺ at the
		
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			most difficult times, right?
		
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			Do you not think that he needed inspiration
		
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			as well?
		
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			With everything that was happening to him, all
		
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			the trouble, all the hardships, all the difficulties
		
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			that would come his way.
		
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			And Allah tells us, O Messenger of Allah,
		
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			we know that which they keep saying about
		
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			you is causing you a lot of pain.
		
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			So Allah SWT would send down stories, after
		
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			stories, after stories.
		
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			Sometimes from Yaqub, some from Ibrahim, and the
		
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			rest of the Prophets, in order to make
		
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			the Messenger ﷺ feel so much better.
		
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			For him to continue, for him, my brothers
		
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			and my sisters, right?
		
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			To cover that pain that he was experiencing
		
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			at a time.
		
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			Allah SWT gave us countless examples, and here
		
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			are some of them.
		
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			Ibrahim ﷺ, just to show you my brothers
		
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			and my sisters, when they had good thought
		
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			of Allah SWT, that good opinion of Allah
		
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			SWT, and this is the core of the
		
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			lecture that I want to deliver to every
		
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			single one of you.
		
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			In times like this, when we feel as
		
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			if, why is Allah SWT allowing this to
		
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			take place?
		
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			Every single thing that happens, my brothers and
		
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			my sisters, it happens for a reason.
		
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			Whether you see the wisdom in it or
		
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			not.
		
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			Ibrahim ﷺ, my brothers and my sisters, Imam
		
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			al-Tawheed, the father of al-Tawheed, my
		
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			brothers and my sisters, of monotheism.
		
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			He went through a lot with his parents,
		
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			his father, right?
		
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			Who drove him out of his home, simply
		
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			because he was holding on to the essence
		
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			of al-Tawheed as a young man.
		
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			Called to Allah SWT, warned against the worst
		
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			of sins, and that is idol worship, associating
		
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			partners of Allah SWT.
		
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			Later on, my brothers and my sisters, after
		
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			the many trials he had already experienced, Allah
		
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			SWT tests him even more.
		
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			He instructs Ibrahim ﷺ to leave his wife
		
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			Hajar and his beloved son in the middle
		
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			of nowhere.
		
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			Leave your child and your beloved wife in
		
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			the middle of nowhere.
		
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			No ifs, no buts, and he begins to
		
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			walk away, not looking back.
		
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			His wife comes running, Hajar ﷺ, and she
		
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			says, did Allah SWT command you with this?
		
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			He would say yes.
		
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			You know what her response was?
		
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			You know what her response was, my brothers
		
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			and my sisters?
		
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			Look at her good thought and her good
		
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			opinion of Allah SWT.
		
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			If that is the case, then Allah SWT
		
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			will never abandon me.
		
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			Allah will never abandon me.
		
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			Now put yourself in that shoes.
		
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			Imagine you were in this kind of scenario,
		
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			what your reaction would be?
		
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			What your thought of Allah SWT would be?
		
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			Right?
		
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			And look, because of this good thought, this
		
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			good opinion, Allah SWT brought out from beneath
		
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			her the zamzam that came out.
		
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			When we go to Mecca, when we go
		
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			to Medina, that zamzam that we drink from,
		
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			right?
		
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			Her good thought of Allah that he would
		
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			not abandon her despite her being left in
		
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			the middle of nowhere.
		
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			From the Sulala, from the offspring of Ibrahim
		
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			came Prophet Muhammad ﷺ.
		
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			Every time we go and do Sa'i,
		
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			after we finish the compilating the Kaaba, Safa
		
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			and Marwa, we remember Hajar.
		
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			All of this, my brothers and my sisters,
		
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			because of her Tawheed, because of her monotheism,
		
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			because of her good thought of Allah SWT.
		
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			Ibrahim ﷺ was thrown into a fire.
		
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			He turns to Allah.
		
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			He has that thought in him, that trust
		
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			that Allah SWT will not abandon him.
		
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			Ya'qub ﷺ, my brothers and my sisters,
		
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			in one's darkest moments, Ya'qub's reliance on
		
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			Allah, Ya'qub's reliance on Allah SWT's plan
		
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			serves as a timeless reminder for every single
		
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			one of us.
		
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			He endured the pain of not just losing
		
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			one beloved child, but two of his most
		
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			beloved children, right?
		
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			Both Yusuf and Benyamin.
		
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			Despite all of that, he remained so steadfast,
		
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			placing his trust entirely in Allah SWT.
		
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			In the depth of his sorrow, he poured
		
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			his grief.
		
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			He cried out to Allah SWT, the only
		
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			one that could understand him.
		
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			Allah SWT, we are told in the Quran,
		
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			Ya'qub ﷺ being quoted, Ya Allah, I
		
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			only complain my suffering and my sorrow to
		
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			you, O Allah.
		
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			Despite the overwhelming heartache, his heart remained filled
		
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			with hope and a firm belief in Allah,
		
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			that he will be reunited with his beloved
		
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			children.
		
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			Do you know, my brothers and my sisters,
		
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			what the scholars say?
		
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			From the moment Surah Yusuf started, the chapter
		
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			of Yusuf, Yusuf sees a dream all the
		
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			way up until they were reunited.
		
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			Yusuf ﷺ was abandoned, was thrown into the
		
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			well by his own brothers.
		
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			It was approximately 80 years, 80 years of
		
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			pain, 80 years of hardship that the father
		
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			had to enjoy.
		
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			And despite all of that, he remained steadfast,
		
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			he remained patient, he remained having good thoughts
		
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			in Allah SWT, that he would be reunited
		
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			with them.
		
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			Right?
		
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			He said, perhaps Allah SWT is going to
		
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			bring them all back to me.
		
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			Musa ﷺ, I want you all to imagine
		
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			this scene, my brothers and my sisters.
		
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			He, Musa and his people, standing before an
		
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			endless ocean, its waves stretching as far as
		
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			the eyes can see.
		
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			Behind him, the sound of Pharaoh's army grows
		
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			louder and louder, the thunderous pounding of hooves,
		
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			the clashing of weapons, and the shouts of
		
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			warriors.
		
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			Right?
		
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			All of this is behind them, my brothers
		
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			and my sisters.
		
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			Dust rises in the distance, signaling that they
		
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			are not far away, that they are now
		
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			drawing closer with every single heartbeat.
		
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			The people glance back in terror, their eyes
		
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			filled with despair.
		
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			An unstoppable force bears down upon them, and
		
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			ahead lies an immovable barrier.
		
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			They are trapped, sandwiched between a raging sea
		
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			and the might of Pharaoh's army.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Allah tells us in the Qur'an when
		
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			this happened, some of the companions of Musa
		
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			ﷺ, they said, khalas, they are going to
		
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			catch us.
		
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			Musa ﷺ, he responds back and he says,
		
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			khala, never.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, my Rabb, he
		
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			is with me, he is the one that
		
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			is going to guide me.
		
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			Good thoughts of Allah azza wa jal, good
		
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			opinion, right?
		
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			In the midst of all the hardships and
		
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			the difficulties that we see maybe even ourselves
		
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			going through, or the Ummah of Islam, seeing
		
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			our brothers and sisters in Palestine, this is
		
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			how you might end up feeling, but my
		
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			brothers and my sisters, look at Musa ﷺ,
		
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			my Lord is with me and he is
		
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			the one that is going to guide me,
		
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			he is the one that's going to assist
		
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			me, he is the one that's going to
		
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			give me victory, right?
		
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			The Prophet ﷺ, my brothers and my sisters,
		
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			despite the trials, pain, and relentless battles he
		
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			faced from every single direction, the Messenger ﷺ
		
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			remained unwavering in his confidence that this religion
		
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			would reach every corner of the world, right?
		
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			la yablughanna hadhal amr, ma balaghal laylu wal
		
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			nahar, the Messenger ﷺ he says, despite all
		
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			of the hardships and difficulties, right?
		
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			The bullying tactics of Quraysh, this religion is
		
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			going to reach every place that the night
		
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			and the day has reached, can you imagine
		
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			that my brothers and my sisters?
		
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			It's only you and a couple of weak
		
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			companions, right?
		
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			Targeted from every direction and then this is
		
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			what he utters, this is what the Messenger
		
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			ﷺ said, he goes to Ta'if and
		
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			then he's stoned, his feet were bleeding, the
		
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			angel of the mountains comes to the Messenger
		
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			ﷺ and says, if you wish O Muhammad
		
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			ﷺ, we can get these two mountains and
		
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			we can slam it on top of them,
		
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			he refuses and he says, wa inni la
		
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			arju an yukhrijallahu min aslabihim man ya'budullaha
		
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			azzawajal wala yushrikubihi shay'a, I hope that
		
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			one day Allah will bring out from these
		
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			individuals who have just stoned him, who have
		
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			made his feet bleed, individuals, people that would
		
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			worship Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala and would stay
		
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			away from shirk, this is my brothers and
		
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			my sisters, the good thoughts of the Messenger
		
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			ﷺ, it doesn't end there, even in the
		
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			darkest and most suffocating moments, the Prophet ﷺ,
		
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			he never budged, he never wavered in his
		
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			hope and good opinion of Allah subhanahu wa'ta
		
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			'ala, they are migrating from Mecca to Al
		
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			Medina and they are now hiding in the
		
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			Ghar, as Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala tells us,
		
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			idh huma fil ghar, they are in the
		
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			cave, Prophet Muhammad ﷺ says to his companion
		
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			Abu Bakr, la tahzan, do not be sad,
		
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			do not be sad O Abu Bakr, inna
		
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			Allaha ma'ana, Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala is
		
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			with us, right, Abu Bakr radhiAllahu ta'ala
		
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			anhu, he said, law anna ahadahum nazara tahta
		
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			qadamaihi la absarana, if those who were following
		
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			the Messenger ﷺ, wanting to annihilate him, wipe
		
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			him off the face of this earth, if
		
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			only they look down, they would have sawed
		
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			them in the cave, but the Messenger ﷺ
		
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			is continuing, keeping his friends so patient, giving
		
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			him hope, right, that Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala
		
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			is with them, in another incident, my brothers
		
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			and my sisters, an Arab, a Bedouin comes
		
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			to the Messenger ﷺ and he takes out
		
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			his sword and he says, man yamnauka minni,
		
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			who is going to stop me from chopping
		
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			your head off, this is what he says
		
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			to the Messenger ﷺ, the Messenger ﷺ responds
		
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			back and he says, Allah, Allah, and he
		
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			says this is the third time, Allah, his
		
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			hand began to shake and he dropped his
		
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			sword and then went and sat down, look
		
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			at the good thought, look at the good
		
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			opinion of Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala, he went
		
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			and he sat down and the Messenger ﷺ
		
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			didn't seek revenge and he let him go,
		
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			Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, despite all of the troubles,
		
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			despite all of the hardships, my brothers and
		
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			my sisters, he still has good thought of
		
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			Allah, for those who don't know and if
		
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			you think that you are going through a
		
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			really bad time, then remember the Messenger ﷺ,
		
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			he lost six, he lost six out of
		
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			his seven children, six out of his seven
		
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			children, my brothers and my sisters, he lost
		
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			in his lifetime, the only one that remained
		
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			was Fatima radhiAllahu ta'ala anha and then
		
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			she passed away six months after the Messenger
		
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			ﷺ had departed from this world, the examples
		
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			are many, my brothers and my sisters, I'll
		
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			finish with this one example of Umar ibn
		
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			al-Khattab radhiAllahu ta'ala anhu and his
		
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			companion Abu Bakr radhiAllahu anhu, one day the
		
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			Messenger ﷺ instructed his companions to go and
		
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			give in charity, Umar ibn al-Khattab he
		
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			said today I'm going to beat my companion
		
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			Abu Bakr, so he had some wealth and
		
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			decided to go and give this, right, he
		
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			decided to go and give a portion of
		
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			this to the Messenger ﷺ, thinking now khalas,
		
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			he's going to beat Abu Bakr radhiAllahu ta
		
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			'ala anhu, Abu Bakr radhiAllahu ta'ala anhu
		
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			comes along and he gives all of his
		
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			wealth for charity, right, he gives everything, the
		
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			Messenger ﷺ he says to him what have
		
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			you left for your family, what have you
		
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			left for your family, Abu Bakr radhiAllahu ta
		
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			'ala anhu he says I have left them
		
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			for Allah and his Messenger ﷺ, his good
		
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			thought, his good opinion of Allah subhanahu wa'ta
		
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			'ala that he will never be forsaken, my
		
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			beloved brothers and sisters, when you are struck
		
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			with a problem and you begin to think
		
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			that there is no way out, you feel
		
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			that there is no light at the end
		
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			of the tunnel, then remember Yunus ﷺ who
		
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			was stuck in the stomach of the whale,
		
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			three darknesses, the darkness of the night, the
		
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			darkness of the sea and the darkness of
		
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			the stomach of the whale, but he called
		
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			out to Allah azza wa jal, la ilaha
		
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			illa ant, subhanak inni kuntu minal zalimeen, called
		
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			out to Allah with certainty that Allah is
		
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			going to save him from this situation that
		
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			he's in, fastajabna lahu, Allah azza wa jal
		
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			responded back to him right away, when you
		
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			find that your family is the biggest obstacle
		
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			in your growth and you improving in your
		
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			religion, then remember my brothers and my sisters,
		
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			Ibrahim ﷺ who was driven out of his
		
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			home by his own father, when your body
		
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			cries with pain, remember Ayub ﷺ who had
		
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			more pain than we can ever imagine, when
		
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			you are practicing your religion and those around
		
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			you and everybody else thinks that you're illogical,
		
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			thinks that you are backward, thinks that you
		
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			are disconnected from reality, then my brothers and
		
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			my sisters, remember Nuh ﷺ who began to
		
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			build an ark in the midst of a
		
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			village, they laughed and they mocked and they
		
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			ridiculed Nuh ﷺ and Allah tells us, وَكُلَّمَا
		
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			مَرَّ عَلَيْهِ مَلَأٌ مِّن قَوْمِهِ سَخِرُوا مِنْهِ every
		
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			time they walked past him, they mocked him,
		
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			they ridiculed him, قَالَ إِن تَسْخَرُوا مِنَّا فَإِنَّا
		
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			نَسْخَرُوا مِنكُمْ كَمَا تَسْخَرُونَ فَسَوْفَ تَعْلَمُونَ فَسَوْفَ تَعْلَمُونَ
		
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			you're mocking us today, you're making fun of
		
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			me, there will come a time, there will
		
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			come a time when we will have the
		
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			last laugh, I know it happens, social pressures,
		
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			we start practicing and they're telling you, oh
		
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			Mr. Righteous, you want to now tell me
		
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			what is right and what is wrong and
		
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			yesterday you was a drug dealer and yesterday
		
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			you were walking around with no hijab, now
		
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			you want to tell me what is right
		
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			and what is wrong, I feel what happens
		
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			my brothers and my sisters, they mock and
		
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			they ridicule but hold on to it, this
		
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			life is extremely short, when you begin to
		
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			feel my brothers and my sisters, bankrupt, nothing
		
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			in your fridge, you feel like life is
		
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			about to get extremely hard and difficult, then
		
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			remember Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, who would
		
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			tell at times, enter into the kitchen, enter
		
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			into his home, he would ask his wives,
		
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			is there anything at home, the response would
		
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			be, no oh messenger of Allah, he would
		
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			respond back by saying, if that's the case
		
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			I'm going to go and fast, this is
		
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			the messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, when you are
		
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			hurt by people who shared the same blood,
		
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			who shared the same blood as you, your
		
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			own blood brothers, then remember what happened to
		
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			Yusuf Alayhi Salatu Wasalam, who was thrown into
		
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			the well and then he was sold into
		
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			the slave trade, yet in the end he
		
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			became a king, when you think my brothers
		
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			and my sisters of the massacre that is
		
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			taking place in Palestine, then remember what Pharaoh,
		
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			the man who butchered, the man who massacred,
		
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			the one who killed thousands of children, so
		
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			that Musa Alayhi Salatu Wasalam would not arrive
		
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			and in the end not only did he
		
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			arrive, but he was raised in the house
		
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			of the one who sought to kill him,
		
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			he was raised in the one, in the
		
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			house of the one who sought to kill
		
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			him, right, this is what's happening to our
		
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			brothers and sisters, but yet we think that
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala may have forsaken them,
		
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			as I was preparing this lecture my brothers
		
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			and my sisters, the whole Syrian thing happened,
		
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			right, and I thanked Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala
		
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			greatly, you know why, because sometimes we go
		
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			through hardships and we tell people to be
		
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			patient, but sometimes they want something a little
		
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			bit more, look at everything that the Syrians
		
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			went through until Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala had
		
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			freed them from the tyrannical ruler at that
		
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			time, Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala after such a
		
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			long time, he saved them and I thought
		
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			to myself how timely is this, imagine how
		
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			the Palestinians were feeling, right, imagine perhaps they
		
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			felt that there is no light to the
		
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			end of the tunnel, they felt when is
		
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			the help of Allah Azza wa Jal going
		
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			to come, but then they see their neighbors
		
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			who were saved by Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala,
		
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			right, remember my brothers and my sisters, the
		
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			will of Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala is above
		
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			the will of all, and Allah Azza wa
		
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			Jal has full power and control over his
		
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			affairs, but most of them know not, my
		
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			brothers and my sisters, Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala
		
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			will give victory in the end for the
		
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			Muslims after everything they go through, and remember
		
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			and I'm going to finish with this, that
		
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			there was once upon a time, you used
		
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			to make dua to Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala
		
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			for something that you so badly wanted, and
		
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			today you are living that dua that you
		
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			used to make,