Abu Taymiyyah – ‘From Dammaj to Madinah Seeking Knowledge’ w Jeylaani

Abu Taymiyyah
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The importance of learning the Arabic language and memorizing the Quran is emphasized, as it is a source of knowledge and a way to find the right person to ask for. Personal experiences and blessings, including former students with struggles, are also discussed. The importance of setting standards with the best, being humble and sincere, and being a strong member of the royal family is emphasized, along with other examples of people who have successfully established standards. The speaker advises the audience to benefit from these brothers and use their knowledge to help others, and to use their knowledge to help themselves.

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			Before I start,
		
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			I just want to mention a, very important
		
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			point.
		
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			And me and Sajid have been sitting here
		
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			for the last, 25 minutes going back and
		
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			forth in how to go about, you know,
		
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			recording this video. The initial plan was, and
		
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			it still is, but
		
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			I think mentioning these 10 bihat is very,
		
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			very important
		
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			to kind of, like, talk about how I
		
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			started seeking knowledge and
		
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			where I am currently now. My brothers and
		
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			sisters need to be aware of, very important
		
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			thing, and that which is something that really,
		
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			really touched me,
		
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			that was mentioned by the great scholar that's
		
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			currently living,
		
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			the teacher of Sheikh Salih al al Usayni,
		
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			Sheikh Abdul Karim Al Khudayr.
		
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			Who is a
		
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			an encyclopedia of knowledge. For those who know
		
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			him,
		
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			will bear witness to this.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			He mentioned a very, very important point about
		
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			some other scholars that we all know about.
		
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			We know the famous Mandoma,
		
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			Mandoma tulbayhuni.
		
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			The author of this Mandoma, this poem, the
		
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			ulama, they differed in regards to his name.
		
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			And in some scholars, they mentioned his name
		
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			was Taha. Some scholars, they mentioned his name
		
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			was Muhammad.
		
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			Even Sahibullah Jirumia,
		
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			the naho that we all study when we
		
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			start, you know, seeking knowledge and start learning
		
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			the Arabic language.
		
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			Likewise, their Tarajum wasn't known.
		
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			Their,
		
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			lives, their biographies wasn't known. The let alone,
		
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			you know,
		
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			the ins and the outs of their of
		
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			their lives.
		
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			Okay. And Sheikh Abdul Karim Khudair,
		
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			he mentions
		
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			that
		
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			They used to exaggerate and try to hide
		
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			themselves just so they're not known by the
		
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			people. And this is an example of being
		
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			very extreme when it comes to Ikhlas.
		
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			Extreme in Ikhlas,
		
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			sincerity, trying to hide yourself as much as
		
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			possible. And this was the way of the
		
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			scholars. And he also mentions the hadith of
		
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			the prophet
		
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			The best prayer
		
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			of an individual is that which he prays
		
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			inside his home,
		
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			except the obligatory prayers which, you know, you
		
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			know needs to be,
		
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			established and carried out inside the Masjid.
		
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			And why did the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
		
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			mention this? Because it is better for the
		
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			Khlas of a person. He becomes more sincere.
		
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			It's just only him and his room that
		
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			he's currently in. Okay. Making that prayer to
		
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			try and maybe establish that, you know, Ibadah
		
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			in the most sincere way.
		
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			Okay. I remember also when Sheikh Salih al
		
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			Fawzan
		
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			was asked to speak about his life,
		
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			he started speaking in 3rd person,
		
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			You know, and the and the problem that
		
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			we have today is because there's so many
		
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			speakers
		
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			out there on social media,
		
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			on YouTube.
		
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			Okay, it's very hard to differentiate
		
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			between who we should take knowledge from and
		
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			who we shouldn't.
		
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			And this is the point that our brother
		
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			Sajid was trying to make me understand that
		
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			today, because there's so much confusion, people will
		
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			actually make it into a bigger issue of
		
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			not taking from you because simply
		
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			you are not necessarily known.
		
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			And making the people aware
		
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			of where you studied
		
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			is actually vital because it makes a person
		
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			comfortable in taking knowledge from that person.
		
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			Okay. So,
		
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			Insha'Allah, I just want to, you know, upon
		
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			the request of our brother to speak about
		
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			some things maybe we went through in the
		
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			past.
		
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			Hopefully, it can be as an inspiration for
		
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			you all.
		
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			Okay. And,
		
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			brothers and sisters, also another point is that,
		
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			you know, the the kasth, the purpose is
		
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			not to
		
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			advise you of who we are
		
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			or trying to connect yourselves to our students
		
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			of knowledge because that's not the
		
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			main goal. Okay. For those brothers who know
		
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			me, every time the Moshayah came to where
		
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			we were, I would cancel my lessons in
		
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			order to connect them to the scholars. And
		
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			this is our main objective.
		
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			We should be trying to be like the
		
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			scholars
		
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			who try to live their lives like the
		
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			people of the Salaf, the Quran and Mufalda
		
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			Allah. As the prophet mentioned,
		
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			Okay. The best of the people
		
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			is my generation. And those who came after
		
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			them, the Tabi'in. And then those who came
		
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			after them, the Tabi'in.
		
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			Okay. So,
		
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			we should try and be like them, try
		
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			to seek knowledge like them, try and go
		
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			out to seek knowledge how the Salaf,
		
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			used to, do, you know, the sahaba, the
		
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			tabi'ayn, the tabi'ayn,
		
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			and this is our main purpose. And we
		
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			are just here trying to show you that
		
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			way of how the scholars sought knowledge,
		
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			and, also how the Salafi used to go
		
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			about seeking knowledge. Like for example, Imam Bukhara
		
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			he has a chapter in Asahi,
		
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			You know, exiting to go out,
		
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			to seek knowledge.
		
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			And he used as an example
		
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			when Jabir ibn Abdillah radiAllahu ta'ala,
		
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			month's distance,
		
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			to go and seek 1 hadith from Abdulai
		
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			ibn Onis. Now I've got another video on
		
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			this on my channel if you check it
		
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			out. It's called he drunk his urine 5
		
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			times.
		
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			You know, if you go to that video,
		
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			I mentioned many many examples of how some
		
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			of the Salaf, the scholars of the past,
		
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			the struggles, the difficulties they went through when
		
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			it came to seek a knowledge, you know,
		
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			and hopefully that should be an inspiration to
		
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			us and not necessarily
		
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			being connected directly to the Tullab al Amd.
		
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			They just hear as Tayam mum. You know,
		
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			when you don't have water, you do something
		
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			called Tayamom.
		
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			Okay. Where you clean yourself with turab,
		
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			with sand or dirt
		
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			as a cover for the wudu that you
		
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			don't have. Naam is something that, is known
		
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			in the religion
		
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			by necessity.
		
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			Once we don't have the scholars, you know,
		
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			the
		
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			people seek knowledge from the but when the
		
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			scholars come,
		
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			The
		
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			is no longer there as a replacement for
		
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			the Duh. The scholars should be taken from.
		
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			You know, we have many scholars here that
		
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			the people can benefit from, hence why the
		
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			brothers
		
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			in Britain have tried so hard to bring
		
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			the scholars
		
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			many many
		
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			times. You can go into my channel, you'll
		
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			find many, you know, the conferences that have
		
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			taken place with the scholars, the likes of
		
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			Shahsad Hsaimi,
		
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			Sheikh Bara Ismail.
		
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			Also you have Sheikh Ibrahim Raheli,
		
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			you know, and many other scholars that have
		
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			previously come down. Sheikh Waseela Abbas,
		
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			the great Indian scholar that is currently
		
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			a teacher in the pro in the in
		
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			the in the haram of Al Makki.
		
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			So,
		
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			going back to the first question,
		
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			my name is Mohammed,
		
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			known as Abutaimia.
		
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			I was born in Holland,
		
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			and I resided most of my life in
		
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			Britain.
		
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			And,
		
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			for a very long time, I was trying
		
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			to
		
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			memorize the Quran in Britain.
		
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			You know, I I really thank my father
		
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			who used to
		
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			always
		
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			push me to trying to memorize the Quran.
		
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			You know, wherever he went, a lot of
		
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			concern
		
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			that he would try to give is me
		
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			trying to memorize the Quran, and I realized
		
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			the benefit of his Naseeh later on in
		
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			my life, you know.
		
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			Wherever we went, one thing he gave a
		
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			lot of concern to was memorizing the Quran
		
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			because brothers and sisters, that's the asl. You
		
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			know, I remember when I was in London,
		
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			he would try to,
		
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			pay from his own pocket, you know, for
		
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			a private teacher to come to the house
		
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			to teach the Quran.
		
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			I remember he took us to some madaris
		
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			in Finsbury Park to go learn, just to
		
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			memorize the Quran when I was a young
		
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			kid, even when I moved to Leicester. And
		
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			it became part of our lives,
		
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			and I always kind of through that had
		
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			this connection with the Quran before I left
		
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			to seek knowledge.
		
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			And this was the main reason
		
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			why I
		
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			decided to go out,
		
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			and seek knowledge, to go and just, you
		
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			know, learn the Arabic language,
		
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			you know, because I didn't know the Arabic
		
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			language.
		
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			I wanted to memorize the Quran and also,
		
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			to learn the Arabic language, stay in in
		
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			Yemen for 2 years, and then come back,
		
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			then go straight to university.
		
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			And what happened was was, when I was
		
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			in secondary school, I was memorizing the Quran.
		
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			I was going to this madrasah near my
		
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			house.
		
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			And,
		
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			subhanAllah,
		
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			you know, for a very long time in
		
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			my life, I couldn't go past 5 juz.
		
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			You know, the Quran is split into 30
		
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			parts,
		
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			you know, and you have 5 parts, and
		
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			I couldn't go past that. Every time I
		
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			may have reached the 5th juz,
		
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			something would happen, and then we might get
		
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			busy with all things, or we might move,
		
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			and then I would start again, you know.
		
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			So alhamdulillah, when I went to this madrasah,
		
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			I managed to reach 8 and a half
		
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			juz parts of the Quran.
		
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			So what happened was when I reached 8
		
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			Azza, I
		
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			entered into college.
		
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			I entered into college,
		
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			and,
		
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			because then I was a bit of a
		
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			superstar when it came to, sports.
		
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			I was very good at football, basketball as
		
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			well. But I don't think Sajid is going
		
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			to agree because the Americans are,
		
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			you know, one step higher when it comes
		
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			to the British, and they'll probably take me
		
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			out as well. I was very good at
		
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			these sports, also table tennis, and I became
		
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			very very busy. You know, normally the madras
		
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			is after, you know, the school that you
		
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			go to.
		
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			And I started going to them and I
		
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			seen that it was conflicting and my teacher
		
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			saw this as well.
		
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			And one statement that really tore me apart,
		
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			and this was the reason why I wanted
		
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			to leave everything behind.
		
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			He said something to me that, Gaius Walahi,
		
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			it was the reason why I left everything
		
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			behind.
		
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			When he saw that I was getting very
		
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			busy, he said to me that you, Muhammad,
		
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			you're not going to finish the Quran.
		
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			You are not going to memorize the Quran.
		
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			I went home that day and I sat
		
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			upstairs and I still remember. I can see
		
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			exactly how it happened.
		
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			I was sitting there depressed
		
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			and,
		
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			it just tore me apart. You know, this
		
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			is when, you know, I had this discussion
		
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			with my parents, and my dad wanted us
		
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			to go and seek knowledge as well. I
		
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			just wanted to leave everything behind and
		
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			and just memorize the Quran, and learn the
		
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			Arabic language.
		
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			And SubhanAllah, then I see how my dad,
		
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			when I looked later on,
		
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			at what Imam Nawa Rahimullah Ta'ala he mentioned.
		
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			Imam Nawa Rahimullah Ta'ala he mentions that once
		
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			a person becomes solidified in memorizing the Quran
		
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			and knowing it,
		
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			and also
		
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			becoming very strong in the Arabic language. The
		
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			rest of the funun, the different fields in
		
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			Islam that one can learn, it opens up
		
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			for him. And SubhanAllah, my dad was always
		
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			trying to
		
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			make us learn these two things. So my
		
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			dad inquired about a few places, and he
		
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			was made aware of an institute called Dar
		
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			al Mustafa.
		
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			Dar al Mustafa, guys,
		
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			is an institute based
		
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			in Hadhramaut, Southern Yemen.
		
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			K.
		
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			My dad went to check it out and
		
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			then he came back, and then we made
		
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			decision to go out
		
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			and learn the Arabic because we heard that
		
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			in that place,
		
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			they give a lot of consent to memorizing
		
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			the Quran and also memorizing Realsalihan,
		
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			and there's a good Arabic program.
		
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			Okay. But we didn't necessarily know about the
		
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			aqa'i, their beliefs, and some of the things
		
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			that they propagated.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			So,
		
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			we headed towards,
		
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			Al Yemen to that place.
		
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			And also another point that, guys, I wanna
		
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			mention is,
		
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			at that time a lot of people were
		
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			saying to me, you're going to fall behind
		
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			in your studies.
		
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			Everyone's going to surpass you. You know, you're
		
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			going to be studying with little kids when
		
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			you come back, You know, when it comes
		
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			to the academic level, college, university and things
		
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			like that. But, you know, I
		
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			didn't know anything. But one thing that I
		
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			did know, guys, is this hadith that I
		
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			used
		
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			to hear much on the tongues of the
		
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			people. That time I used to hear this
		
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			narration called,
		
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			Whoever leaves something for the sake of Allah
		
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			Azzawajal, Allah will always compensate for him with
		
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			that which is better. But when I looked
		
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			into this alfa loft, this this wording of
		
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			the hadith, there's absolutely no origin of it.
		
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			I found another one that was graded as
		
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			sahih by Sheikh Mookbib bin Hadidil Wadeye, narrated
		
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			by Imam Ahmed Orhim Allahu Ta'ala.
		
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			Where the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said
		
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			to a Bedouin who was walking with him.
		
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			You don't leave something out of taqwa for
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala accept that he will
		
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			always give you that which is better, you
		
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			know, and give you more than
		
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			that. And this is something that stuck with
		
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			me. Every time I try to move and,
		
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			you know,
		
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			make a decision in my life, I don't
		
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			hesitate. Why? Because I know the Prophet saying
		
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			this and the promise of Allah
		
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			he never fails in his promise.
		
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			And wala brothers, I never regretted it one
		
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			moment,
		
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			when I started seeking origin. I came back
		
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			after,
		
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			with what some of the things that, you
		
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			know, that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala blessed me
		
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			with.
		
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			And,
		
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			I was approximately,
		
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			I think, I was 17 at the time.
		
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			I was 17 at the time, Naam.
		
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			And I went there and I didn't know
		
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			anything.
		
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			So,
		
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			you know, there was a lot there was
		
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			a vibe there that the teachers there are
		
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			from the oliya,
		
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			the saints of Allah
		
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			Some brothers say to me, and I actually
		
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			started believing this,
		
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			that they have information of the unseen,
		
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			like, when they are not there, they are
		
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			watching us,
		
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			which is a very very big problem, guys,
		
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			which is a very very big problem. I
		
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			wouldn't say to you and it would be
		
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			oppressive to even oppress them by saying that
		
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			they taught us this. No. But this was
		
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			something that was very widespread amongst the students,
		
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			and I started believing this to an extent
		
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			where if I'm inside the marques, I would
		
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			think twice of doing an action because I
		
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			felt like the one of the teachers would
		
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			be
		
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			watching me and he would think bad of
		
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			me. When the reality of the matter is,
		
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			guys, Allah
		
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			is the only one who is Sameer and
		
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			Basir, who can see,
		
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			that which other people can't see. Okay. And
		
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			to actually believe there is a shirk in
		
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			the,
		
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			rububi of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, where a
		
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			person singles out Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala in
		
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			his lordship, what he can do, what he
		
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			can see, and also in his asma'wassifat.
		
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			And that the reason for this is where,
		
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			you know, when
		
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			you give a characteristic
		
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			to they specific to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			to, other than Allah azza wa jal. Only
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is sunni al Basir
		
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			and, his lordship, and that which Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala gives, that which Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala does
		
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			is specific for Allah, Subhanahu wa ta'ala, as
		
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			we know in his lordship.
		
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			So it's actually a problem.
		
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			And
		
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			other things that was taking place were and,
		
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			you know, I don't want to necessarily expand
		
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			on this is because I've already got another
		
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			video on this when I one time visited
		
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			a woman after I lost my phone.
		
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			You can check this out on my channel
		
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			anyway. It's called my it's one of the
		
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			most popular videos on the channel, my visit
		
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			to the magician.
		
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			And, I even, you know, used to go
		
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			to graves and pray there. It was one
		
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			time one of the heads of the marqas,
		
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			that institute,
		
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			his
		
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			his
		
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			great granddad,
		
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			he was buried. I think it was a
		
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			distance of an hour, and his grave was
		
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			inside a masjid.
		
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			Okay. We prayed there, and we started offering
		
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			prayers there. Even Qabarhut,
		
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			you know, and,
		
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			they believe that, you know, the Qabr of
		
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			Hoot
		
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			is buried somewhere in Hadarmouth. And they would
		
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			travel there. I went there, and I prayed
		
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			2 raka' in front of the graves.
		
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			And, when the reality of the matter is
		
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			that we don't know
		
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			anywhere
		
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			where any of the Prophets are buried except
		
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			the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			Wa hada makturan bih, you know.
		
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			So, yeah.
		
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			What actually happened was,
		
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			the decision by the administration
		
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			of the institute
		
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			came to me telling me that I need
		
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			to go back to Britain
		
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			And, and then I need to enter through
		
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			a student visa, which was a problem for
		
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			him because it really hurt me. I didn't
		
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			wanna go back. I just wanted to carry
		
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			on seeking knowledge.
		
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			So actually was crying, shedding tears when I
		
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			was leaving.
		
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			They told me I need to go. So
		
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			alhamdulillah, when we left on our way back
		
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			to Britain,
		
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			because we have Yemeni
		
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			origin,
		
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			you know, we was able to
		
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			gain some residency staying in Al Yemen. This
		
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			is because we are from Aqabeel Akud Bay
		
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			Alawi, which is from,
		
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			the family of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam. So, you know, to cut a long
		
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			story short, we managed to gain residency and
		
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			was able to stay there without having to
		
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			go back.
		
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			And Alhamdulillah, when I was in Sana'a,
		
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			this is when,
		
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			SubhanAllah,
		
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			I became so confused.
		
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			I became really, really confused. Everyone was telling
		
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			me, you need to stay away from that
		
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			place. Why? Because you do shirk.
		
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			Other people are telling me, you know, it's
		
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			better to go to Jamiat Il Iman, which
		
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			is a Ikhwani,
		
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			you know, Muslim Brotherhood Institute.
		
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			And, their, you know, beliefs and their ideology
		
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			is very well known
		
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			not to be in line with the prophet
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wasallam's tradition
		
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			and that which is in line with the
		
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			Quranic verses.
		
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			So I became so confused. There was even
		
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			times I used to walk,
		
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			you know, on the road.
		
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			And Anindi even one time got hit by
		
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			the car thinking, like just thinking about where
		
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			is the haqq, you know.
		
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			And, you know, one of my uncles kept
		
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			on advising me, make dua to Allah Subhanahu
		
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			Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			That Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala gives you the
		
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			right haqq, you know. And he used to
		
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			tell me to make this dua.
		
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			You know. Oh, Allah, show us the Haqq,
		
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			and,
		
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			you know, give us the ability to follow
		
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			the Haqq,
		
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			you know. So I used to try and
		
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			make this du'a a lot,
		
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			in my prayer at night.
		
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			And then just one time, subhanAllah,
		
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			because I had younger brothers, and I remember
		
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			my little brother was someone who used to
		
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			mess around a lot, and he wasn't serious
		
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			with his studies.
		
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			And we heard in a place called Mahabar,
		
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			they really put the kids straight. You know?
		
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			They really put the kids straight.
		
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			And the kids, they come out, you know,
		
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			very, very,
		
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			where they are, you know, good mannered,
		
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			and they start taking their studies more seriously.
		
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			So my mom just decided to go up
		
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			to a place called Ma'abar,
		
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			which is run by Sheikh Mohammed
		
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			Al Imam,
		
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			one of the Mashaikh of Aleman.
		
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			So we headed there
		
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			with all our family, my brothers and my
		
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			sisters, my parents.
		
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			And, subhanAllah, we was invited by this Somali
		
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			brother, which I still make dua for,
		
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			who is a person who lives in, Dubai
		
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			Emirates.
		
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			And he was there. He sat us down,
		
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			you know, really fed us, really hosted us
		
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			in a, you know, nicely, masha'Allah.
		
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			And he advised to go to the Maaj.
		
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			He advised to go to the Maj. Why?
		
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			Because there's a lot of there's a lot
		
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			of Westerners there.
		
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			And it's a place of knowledge. And every
		
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			time he finds the opportunity
		
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			and he's free from his other secular studies
		
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			that he was doing, he was trying to
		
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			combine between the 2,
		
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			he would go there to try and, you
		
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			know, cover through cover some books
		
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			and he would head towards the Majd.
		
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			So we stayed there for one day and
		
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			we just headed.
		
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			After Rabaktasana,
		
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			we packed our bags and we just headed
		
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			straight to the Maaj,
		
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			You know. And this is after Allah of
		
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			Dua,
		
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			asking Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to show me
		
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			where the right path is. And you know,
		
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			guys, this is a lesson.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells in the Quran,
		
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			Your Lord has said, you know, call on
		
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			to me so I can reply back to
		
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			you. Allah
		
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			says,
		
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			and when my servant asks me and then
		
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			I'm close.
		
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			Okay? And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam, he
		
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			said,
		
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			Allah is shy,
		
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			and he's generous that when his
		
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			servant puts his 2 hands off to him,
		
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			he doesn't send him back empty handed, you
		
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			know. He's shy from actually sending him back
		
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			empty handed.
		
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			You know, in the Ayat are many that
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala won't refuse
		
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			the 'Abd. And some of the scholars, they
		
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			even say that a person doesn't put his
		
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			hands up to Allah Azzawajal asking him, except
		
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			that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala wants to respond
		
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			back to him. You know, this is something
		
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			that we've been trialed with, especially living in
		
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			the West. We become so connected to the
		
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			makhluk,
		
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			the creation.
		
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			As soon as we become bankrupt or we
		
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			lose our jobs or we become ill, we
		
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			turn straight away to the creation.
		
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			You know, we become ill. The first place
		
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			that we turn to is the GP
		
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			or the hospital.
		
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			No one is saying don't take that as
		
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			bad or, you know, as soon as we
		
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			lose our jobs, we run to the job
		
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			center, you know, asking them to provide for
		
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			us straight away. You know, this should be
		
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			secondary, guys. The first thing that we turn
		
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			to is Allah asking him to open doors
		
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			for us.
		
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			And then after that go and, you know,
		
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			take the asbaab.
		
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			So alhamdulillah, I ended up, I came to
		
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			the Majh
		
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			and,
		
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			initially, I thought to myself, like, you know,
		
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			the place saw just it just looks very
		
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			rugged,
		
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			you know, because in the middle of Jibal,
		
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			village.
		
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			And but somehow I said to myself, all
		
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			these people from around the world,
		
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			they came to this village in the middle
		
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			of nowhere for what?
		
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			You know, why would they leave their luxurious
		
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			lifestyles? Because in Britain, guys, you know, we
		
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			have everything at our disposal.
		
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			Money, jobs,
		
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			you know, everything that we want is there.
		
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			Why would the people so I said to
		
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			myself, there must be something here that,
		
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			you know,
		
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			really,
		
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			made the people patient upon this lifestyle that
		
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			they are currently living.
		
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			And,
		
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			SubhanAllah, I remember, so I saw
		
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			everybody walking into the Masjid with their shoes.
		
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			I said to myself,
		
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			why on earth
		
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			are the people praying with
		
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			their shoes?
		
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			And then after that it became clear to
		
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			me that this is actually a prophetic tradition.
		
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			The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he mentioned
		
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			hadith
		
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			of Abu Saeed al Khudri
		
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			The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he said,
		
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			comes into the Masjid
		
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			and, he's wearing sandals,
		
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			then let him check out his sandals. You
		
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			know, if there's any dirt on there, alihim,
		
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			remove it,
		
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			And then after that, prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam said,
		
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			then let this person after that pray with
		
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			his sandals. Okay. Also in another hadith
		
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			he's wearing his leather socks,
		
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			and there's, you know, he stands on anything
		
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			dirty, then let him remove the dirt on
		
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			it, then let him pray in it. There's
		
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			another hadith in Bukhari and Muslim as well.
		
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			Shaikh Mohammed bin Hadid Wa Adi he compiled
		
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			16 or was 18 a hadith in Irrisala
		
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			about Mashru'ayat
		
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			Salatifi al Khufain or Na'ilin, sorry.
		
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			The permissibility of praying with your nial, with
		
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			your sandals.
		
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			It became clear to me after obviously, I
		
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			don't say to the brothers now just because
		
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			it's a prophetic tradition,
		
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			go to your local mezzanine America or Europe
		
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			or, you know, Britain,
		
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			and start wearing your sandals or your shoes
		
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			in front of everyone. Because obviously people aren't
		
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			ready for that.
		
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			Even Sheikh Mokbel, he mentions a very funny
		
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			story that in the Haram once,
		
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			a man started wearing his shoes.
		
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			And because obviously the Amma, the general common
		
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			folk, they don't know that this is a
		
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			prophetic tradition.
		
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			So people surround and he started calling him
		
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			a kafir.
		
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			They started making takfir and Sheikh Moob, basically
		
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			looking at them like in amazement and looking
		
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			at the guy as well. It's not necessarily
		
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			from Hikma,
		
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			from wisdom to be doing something,
		
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			you know, between the Amma, especially if they're
		
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			not ready for it, you know. That place
		
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			was a place where there was only students
		
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			of knowledge.
		
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			They were ready for it and
		
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			it wouldn't necessarily cause a fiasco if a
		
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			person was to do it. And the Sheikh,
		
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			Sheikh Yahya,
		
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			Sheikh Mokbel, they wouldn't they would advise the
		
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			people, obviously, not to go and cause,
		
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			And it's just something, you know, you will
		
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			learn in Usul Fikh, also Makhasr al Sharia,
		
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			you know, the importance of weighing the masalih,
		
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			the benefits, and also the harms that could
		
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			come out of you doing a certain action,
		
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			you know.
		
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			And if you're going to disapprove of a
		
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			certain action, if it's going to lead to
		
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			a bigger evil, then you don't necessarily do
		
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			that. How this is not Muslim, but many
		
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			holy light. Anyways,
		
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			we don't want to go into a lesson
		
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			of us.
		
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			But yeah. You know, in the in the
		
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			beginning I found it very weird. Why are
		
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			they doing this? And it actually put me
		
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			off. But then later on, you know and
		
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			this is what knowledge does, guys. When you
		
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			learn,
		
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			it removes the jahl and you start worshiping
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala with the ilm.
		
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			Okay? And he, you know, puts a lot
		
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			of pieces of the puzzle together.
		
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			Alhamdulillah.
		
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			And then SubhanAllah I saw that the sheikh,
		
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			all he taught was Bukhari,
		
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			Muslim,
		
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			jamiras Sahih, tafir,
		
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			and all the books on the site. Okay?
		
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			They would just be studying a hadith day
		
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			and night. They're just studying a hadith,
		
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			you know, and and this really, really made
		
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			me attracted
		
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			to this place
		
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			and want to remain here because this is
		
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			knowledge, guys. The Quran, the Sunnah and then
		
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			upon understanding of the Sahaba. And even the
		
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			Sheikh would say to us like don't follow
		
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			me. If I mention something to you that
		
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			has no proof, is mere of any proof,
		
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			then ask me for the daleel.
		
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			And this just like added more
		
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			love,
		
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			to the place, you know. That, yeah, and
		
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			he gave me more, SubhanAllah, love and affection
		
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			to this place.
		
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			And this was, you know, SubhanAllah, I thanked
		
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			Allah
		
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			They led me to a place where everything
		
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			is just Quran and sunnah. You know, you're
		
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			actually very comfortable.
		
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			You have a lot of trust with what
		
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			you're learning because they're not teaching you their
		
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			understanding. They're teaching you the companions,
		
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			Nam.
		
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			I was in, I was in the previous
		
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			place for a year
		
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			and then I ended up staying in the
		
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			match for 3 years.
		
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			Okay. I spent 3 years there.
		
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			Altogether, I was in Yemen for around 4
		
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			years.
		
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			Now, subhanallah,
		
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			you know, guys, I don't know if I
		
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			can actually put this into words, but and
		
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			I don't even think
		
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			that, I don't know if you're even going
		
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			to believe
		
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			me when it comes to describing how the
		
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			marriage was.
		
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			But it's just like one of them
		
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			stories that you might read in the ancient
		
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			books of how people used to live in
		
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			the past.
		
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			You know, it's basically you're between 4 mountains.
		
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			Four big mountains,
		
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			and it's just Purab,
		
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			it's just sand there.
		
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			SubhanAllah, and you have mud houses.
		
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			Yeah. Mud house. People are living in mud
		
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			houses.
		
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			The water comes,
		
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			twice once every 2 days.
		
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			The electricity is only on
		
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			some parts of the day. Okay? So if
		
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			you wanna charge your phone, you have to
		
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			try and get that hour of the day
		
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			or the few hours of the day, otherwise
		
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			you're going to be without a phone,
		
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			you know.
		
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			I remember some people, when I came to
		
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			Al Medina,
		
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			some brothers was like to me,
		
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			you're going to really struggle in Medina, living
		
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			with the students and Well, I turned around
		
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			to one of the masters, but I will
		
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			not mention his name. He's probably gonna laugh
		
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			when he sees this.
		
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			I said to him, Akhi, we have running
		
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			water. We have running electricity.
		
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			What do you mean I'm going to struggle?
		
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			You know. And you know the Prophet has
		
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			always told us this. He said to us,
		
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			Do not look at those above you, look
		
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			at those below you.
		
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			You know, it makes a person more grateful
		
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			and thankful of the blessings Allah gave him.
		
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			If you are a person now who is
		
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			used to not having much water,
		
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			sometimes,
		
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			not being able to shower every day. The
		
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			electricity, you don't have electricity all the time.
		
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			Sometimes I used to have I used to
		
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			pay 20 riyals
		
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			to and obviously it's not the same as
		
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			a Saudi currency. But I used to pay
		
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			money to charge my phone,
		
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			you know. You become really, you know, grateful
		
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			of a situation that one becomes,
		
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			subhanAllah, and your life was like that. Sometimes
		
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			you have to go, the water runs out,
		
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			you go to the Masjid and you're carrying,
		
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			you know, buckets of water.
		
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			And, and I lived without fridge,
		
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			you know. There was no fridge. People had
		
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			fridges, but they were very rare.
		
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			Only few people, you can just about, there
		
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			was 1,000, approximately there was around 10,000 people
		
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			in that village.
		
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			You can maybe just count on your 2
		
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			hands the amount of people that had fridges
		
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			because the motor wouldn't be able to Ilay
		
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			Khademil, you know, he can't bear the power
		
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			that the fridge,
		
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			you know. And there was no TVs at
		
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			all because that would just end up blowing
		
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			the
		
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			people there. They just didn't watch TV. They
		
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			were just, you know, straight into knowledge.
		
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			Oh my, guys, I don't I don't necessarily
		
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			wanna tell you about myself, but what I
		
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			can do is try and give you the
		
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			standard of some students of knowledge so we
		
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			can try and be like the best.
		
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			Okay. There was people guys
		
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			who would wake up for Fajr.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			All the way to Duhr,
		
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			they would be memorizing and revising the Quran.
		
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			That's a long time. You wake up at
		
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			5 o'clock,
		
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			Duhr is around 12.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			So in that period, they're either attending lessons
		
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			or memorizing Quran or they're doing moorajah of
		
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			the Quran.
		
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			Okay. And then after Duhr, they would take
		
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			the kailullah.
		
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			Okay. They would take the kailullah. This is
		
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			something that the companions do. You have the
		
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			hadith of Salim al Sa'ad.
		
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			He said
		
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			We never used to have a kalula
		
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			in the time of the prophet
		
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			on the day of Jum'ah
		
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			and also have a Gada.
		
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			You know, have, the food that we eat
		
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			in midday,
		
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			except after Duhr,
		
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			except after Duhr. So it's called the thing
		
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			in the English language they call a power
		
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			nap. You know, a power nap
		
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			that a person has because he's awake for
		
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			so for such long periods of the day.
		
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			Okay. You know, they will have that. After
		
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			Asl, they will be back into in the
		
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			Masjid, sitting there,
		
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			knowledge, you know, attending lessons, again back to
		
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			Quran.
		
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			Bad al Maghrib, you would have to attend
		
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			the sheikh's lesson. You had to attend the
		
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			sheikh's lesson.
		
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			Sorry. Badal Asar, you had the lesson of
		
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			Bukhari that you had to attend.
		
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			And the sheikh, subhanAllah, he went through a
		
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			lot
		
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			of a hadith
		
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			while I was there, teaching us Sahil Bukhari.
		
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			After,
		
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			Maghrib, you had the lesson of Sahih Muslim,
		
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			and also the kitab of ibn Abdul Bar
		
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			al
		
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			Malik,
		
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			you know, that he used to go through.
		
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			He also went through the kitab of
		
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			which is a kitab in sira. I didn't
		
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			manage to study that because I came just
		
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			as he was finishing that
		
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			Pajama.
		
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			Covered a lot of that while I was
		
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			there.
		
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			And, also by the door, I forgot to
		
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			mention, used to go through tafsir in the
		
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			Kathir, that a person has to And the
		
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			only beautiful thing about it was that all
		
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			the dakakin,
		
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			all the shops and the markets would be
		
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			closed at a time of the sheikh's lesson.
		
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			These were lessons that you had to go
		
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			through. They were mandatory lessons.
		
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			And this is was the life of the
		
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			Surah of Knowledge. Some of those who strived.
		
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			There was people who wasted their time, you
		
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			know. And then you find, you know, in
		
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			every place that you go, even in Medina,
		
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			even in Damaj, you have people who always
		
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			waste their time. A student of knowledge will
		
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			try to count every minute
		
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			and,
		
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			try to benefit from his time as much
		
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			as possible. And people really regret it, you
		
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			know, some of those who wasted their time
		
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			and never benefited, never finished the Quran,
		
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			never memorized the hadith, never benefit from the
		
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			Sheikh's Duroos. Maybe they were skiving. They really
		
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			regretted this, you know. So this was why
		
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			Talib and some brothers even Jum'ah,
		
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			Fridays. This was the only day where, you
		
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			know, you could have like a holiday.
		
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			I'm not saying you don't have breaks. Of
		
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			course, you need breaks. You're a human being.
		
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			But don't make it where, you know, you're
		
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			actually,
		
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			you know, making having more breaks than that
		
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			which you're actually studying, you know.
		
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			Nam.
		
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			Alright, guys. I I didn't wanna leave. I
		
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			wanted to perform Hajj
		
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			and and, come back because alhamdulillah,
		
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			my father has his own hajj and umrah,
		
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			you know, company, where and alhamdulillah, I used
		
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			to help him every year. Year. So every
		
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			year while I was in the marriage, I
		
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			used to go and perform Hajj with my
		
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			father, and I used to come back. So
		
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			what happened was, I left for Hajj, and
		
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			I left all my stuff, my books,
		
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			which was very expensive as well. My all
		
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			my goods were there.
		
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			I left and,
		
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			I left on Ramadan time, in between Ramadan
		
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			and Hajj, like 2 months.
		
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			So as we're going to Hajj,
		
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			my dad finds out that, you know, there's
		
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			a a war has just breaking out.
		
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			And the Houthis,
		
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			the Shiites
		
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			of Yemen,
		
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			who are, you know, pumped by,
		
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			you know, Iran.
		
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			They wanted to destroy this place. They really
		
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			wanted to destroy this place because they could
		
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			see guys, a person who doesn't know nothing.
		
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			He comes out, memorize the Quran, knows the
		
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			sunnah. He's able to give khutbas. He's able
		
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			to teach and benefit the people. And because
		
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			they really disliked,
		
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			the sunnah,
		
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			you know,
		
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			they wanted to destroy this place from its
		
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			roots. Even Sheik Rabi Ibn Hajd al Metghali,
		
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			he was one of the mashaikh of Al
		
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			Madina. He would say that studying in the
		
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			match for 1 year is equivalent to 3
		
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			years in Al Madina.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			So,
		
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			this is why they know if they destroy
		
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			the place from its origin,
		
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			then there wouldn't be anything left.
		
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			You know, but Lilayl Hikmatul Baligha,
		
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			the wisdom of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
		
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			you know, is ajeeb, is a'lim, you know,
		
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			is something highly great.
		
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			You know, people laughed out when the war
		
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			broke out, you know, and it ended up
		
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			it caused everybody to leave. I have a
		
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			video as well. Brother Imran. He won't hang
		
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			on an interview with me, and it's more
		
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			detail,
		
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			of what exactly happened. You might want to
		
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			find this on my channel as well.
		
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			So the Maj was,
		
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			you know, after Hajj, I went back.
		
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			Later on, the place was destroyed.
		
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			You know, I couldn't go
		
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			because there was a war there.
		
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			Like a year after I went back to
		
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			Britain,
		
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			the place was absolutely dismantled. It was destroyed.
		
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			It was ruined. These people were,
		
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			you know, throwing bombs at the masjid just
		
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			so everybody could leave,
		
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			and, it resulted in everybody leaving,
		
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			you know. So, nam.
		
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			Why, you know, subhanAllah, I was child,
		
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			after I left back to Britain to be
		
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			living there.
		
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			It's actually a trial that I had to,
		
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			you know, put myself in a position to
		
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			give dawah,
		
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			you know, because
		
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			I didn't go back to Britain to become
		
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			a dahi and start teaching the people. I
		
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			wouldn't stay there for 2 months and go
		
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			back to Dhammaj and carry on seeking knowledge,
		
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			you know. People actually think that, you know,
		
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			studying for 1 year or 2 years is
		
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			enough for
		
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			a person now to start dawah and Khallas.
		
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			He doesn't need to seek more knowledge,
		
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			you know. But this is not the case,
		
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			guys. Wallahi, it's just the beginning of seeking
		
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			knowledge, you know. Our masha'aikh, they've been studying
		
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			for 20, 30 years,
		
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			40 years even so, like our Sheikh Sheikh
		
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			Saleh,
		
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			Sahimi, and other than them.
		
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			But subhanAllah, because the standards in Britain and
		
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			in the West is very low, you know,
		
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			people are between Jahil and more Jahil.
		
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			Okay. Some of the mashaikhtaiba say like, if
		
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			you know that the guy who's given the
		
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			khutba, he's not,
		
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			befitting to give the khutba, then it might
		
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			become wajid for you to pay yourself forward.
		
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			If you know you could actually give something
		
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			back to the community.
		
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			And all the mihadeeth that we memorized and
		
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			we studied with,
		
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			in the Majd, then, you know, we have
		
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			to at least give sadaqa by teaching the
		
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			people. How do you give sadaqa from that
		
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			which you learn by going on and teaching
		
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			the people?
		
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			And especially when you see the ignorance,
		
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			it becomes hard to actually
		
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			be patient
		
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			in not doing anything.
		
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			So I just started, you know, trying to
		
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			teach the people whatever I knew.
		
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			And alhamdulillah, slowly, slowly, slowly, things started opening
		
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			up a bit more.
		
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			More people started,
		
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			calling me to their masajid,
		
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			and they started becoming, you know, I started
		
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			going out to different cities,
		
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			nationally, you know. And alhamdulillah,
		
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			allay Allahu khair happened. And this is Muhammadu
		
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			fiqhilla billah.
		
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			Whatever I done, you know, from the books
		
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			and the the awa that we established was
		
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			none nothing other than what, you know, Allah,
		
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			blessed us with from the success. And it
		
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			doesn't go back to, any of us. And
		
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			alhamdulillah, also some of the brothers really helped
		
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			out.
		
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			Like our brother Shay, you
		
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			know, have a lot of respect for Saduna
		
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			Abu Abbas. Also, Sheikh Zulfekar,
		
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			who kind of informed the masajid about myself
		
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			to come out and give dawah. Also, Sheikh
		
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			Abu Samad Dahabi,
		
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			that most of you lot, you know, know
		
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			about, and other brothers as well.
		
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			And Hamdul just slowly started giving dawah and
		
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			teaching the people
		
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			and according to the sunnah. And the lot
		
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			of Khair, you know, happened through this.
		
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			Now,
		
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			that that's that's,
		
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			you know, another, you know, blessing that's from
		
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			the many blessings that Allah blessed me with.
		
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			I was in fact accepted in 2014.
		
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			I was in Britain for a couple of
		
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			years.
		
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			2014,
		
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			I was accepted and I was over the
		
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			moon, you know.
		
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			And,
		
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			I remember as soon as I was told
		
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			about it, I just went on seshdeshukr.
		
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			And guys,
		
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			as it came in the hadith of
		
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			Abi Bakr radhiyallahu ta'ala.
		
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			That when the Prophet was ever given a
		
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			news
		
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			of something that, you know, brought,
		
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			happiness to him, he would hasten to prostrating
		
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			to Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. Thanks. It's a
		
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			lesson for us all. Also came with a
		
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			hadith that was narrated by Imam al Behaqi.
		
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			And the author of this hadith is in
		
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			Bukhari.
		
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			Hadith Ibrahim Azaib, radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu, and then
		
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			Nabi Salazim Baath Aileen in Aliamin. Prophet Sallallahu
		
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			Alaihi Wasallam, he sent Ali to Aliamin.
		
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			Islam
		
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			him. Ali radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu, he wrote a
		
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			letter to prophet SAW ASSAH telling him that
		
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			the people of Yemen accepted Al Islam. So
		
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			what did the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
		
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			do?
		
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			Fasajjadalillahi.
		
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			You know, he went and hastened into prostrating
		
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			to Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. Thanks. So anytime
		
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			you're given something, you thank Allah and what
		
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			happens, you're always given more. As Allah mentioned,
		
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			you
		
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			thank me and I'll give you
		
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			more.
		
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			I don't necessarily go through what happened and
		
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			why I couldn't go, but for many different
		
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			reasons, I couldn't go,
		
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			and perhaps for the best.
		
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			Because if someone wants to ask me now,
		
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			would you have preferred to go back in
		
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			2014
		
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			or now
		
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			in 2000 and, late 2016?
		
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			I would have definitely said no. Because, subhanAllah,
		
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			Allah opened a few things out for me.
		
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			I basically tasted life.
		
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			And,
		
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			it's not something that is now kind of
		
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			like dragging
		
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			me to go back because
		
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			people now, subhanAllah,
		
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			some of the things that kind of pushes
		
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			them to going back and maybe not even
		
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			finish their diaras is the issue of marriage.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			But alhamdulillah, you know, things happened
		
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			for the best. Wallahi, I I, subhanahu, when
		
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			I think about it,
		
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			even though I went through a difficult period
		
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			in my life,
		
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			well I'm really grateful to Allah. It did
		
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			happen
		
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			because I don't think that if some things
		
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			didn't happen, I would be here today.
		
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			Because there was things that dragged me from
		
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			actually coming out to Al Madina
		
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			or coming to live in Saudi Arabia. But
		
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			know, we say, Alhamdulillah.
		
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			Sometimes,
		
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			you know,
		
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			some things happen.
		
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			Perhaps you might just like some with so
		
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			much in it. And Allah says also,
		
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			Perhaps you love something but it's bad for
		
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			you. You know, and the opposite as well.
		
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			As somebody thinks to myself, SubhanAllah, I'm going
		
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			through this difficult period. Why? But anyways, long
		
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			story short, I don't want to go into,
		
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			you know, specifics of what happened in my
		
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			life,
		
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			but it stopped me from going to Al
		
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			Madina.
		
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			And SubhanAllah,
		
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			what actually made me come out was
		
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			a sitting that I had with
		
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			one of the mashaikh called Sheikh Abdul Hakad
		
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			Fukumani,
		
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			who is a scholar,
		
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			lives in,
		
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			was living in Britain. Now he's moved somewhere
		
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			else now.
		
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			And he's highly recommended by Sheikh Saad e
		
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			Chitri. Sheikh Saad e Chitri who is part
		
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			of Hayat al Kibar al Unama. I one
		
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			time, you know, went to Sheikh Saad e
		
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			Chitri when he came to Luton. I asked
		
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			him, a sheikh, why to come to Leicester?
		
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			The sheikh was like, Lester,
		
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			Knowing his Saudi accent.
		
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			He was like, you have Sheikh Abdul Haqq
		
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			there.
		
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			As long as you have Sheikh Abdul Haqq
		
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			Atulkumani
		
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			there, you don't necessarily need me there, and
		
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			that's a big test case, guys.
		
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			So Sheikh one time called me to his
		
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			house. I even remember it was quite
		
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			funny. I was like, what? You know, Sheikh,
		
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			you know, called me to his house. What's
		
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			he gonna tell me? You know?
		
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			So I went to his house.
		
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			We had some shahi,
		
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			gave me some tea, and I'm just getting
		
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			butterflies of what the Sheikh is gonna talk
		
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			to me about.
		
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			And,
		
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			he started talking to me about
		
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			the importance of, you know, getting a degree
		
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			and how this could help you in your
		
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			life.
		
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			And, that you shouldn't just rely on people
		
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			to
		
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			pay your rent for you, you know.
		
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			Because, you know, sometimes when you give dua,
		
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			you get, you know, things on the side.
		
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			Even though I was never and I've never
		
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			asked, except maybe once
		
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			when that week, like, you know, it was
		
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			the week I left my job. I didn't
		
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			have anything to put in my petrol to
		
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			kind of cover my you know, but I'm
		
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			one of the people that does not ask
		
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			at all and,
		
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			I just don't feel comfortable asking in the
		
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			name of Dawah
		
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			when it comes to asking people for lectures
		
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			and hutabs and things like that.
		
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			And he said he sat me down. He
		
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			was like, you know, to,
		
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			to rely on people is not necessarily
		
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			the most praiseworthy of things.
		
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			And it's important that you get a degree,
		
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			maybe work part time with your degree, and
		
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			then you can carry on doing dawah. You
		
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			just don't rely on the creation, basically,
		
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			to pay your rent for you. And,
		
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			he even advised me of the importance of
		
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			seeking knowledge. And I said to the sheikh,
		
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			you know, sheikh, you know, I would love
		
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			to go seek knowledge, but things are not
		
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			just that simple. I can't just pack my
		
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			bags. And
		
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			and he really, you know, Sheikh gave it
		
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			to me. And, oh, I I I I
		
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			love him so much and,
		
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			that was one of the main reasons what
		
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			made me think,
		
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			you know. So what happened was
		
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			I went home and I just lied down
		
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			like Sheikh just gave it to me, like
		
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			I need to go seek knowledge and and
		
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			think about this issue. And I told him
		
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			at that time I was studying civil engineering,
		
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			and he told me to take it more
		
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			seriously as well. And subhanAllah, what happened was
		
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			I had a Khutba in South Muzdara Salaam
		
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			Masjid. So I went to give a Khutba,
		
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			and a good friend of mine who was
		
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			also studying with me in the match called
		
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			Adil,
		
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			We went together. I gave the Khubbeh. He
		
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			said to me after, you know, Khutaimy, because
		
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			you've already
		
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			taken a position and given dawah in your
		
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			you know, alhamdulillah,
		
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			you're giving dawah, why don't you try and
		
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			maybe go and seek more knowledge as well?
		
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			I said, I've been thinking about this for
		
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			so long.
		
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			And it was a Friday, guys. It was
		
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			a Friday.
		
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			SubhanAllah. You know, when Allah wants to hear
		
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			for you, he, you know, makes you walk
		
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			in that direction.
		
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			What happened was I was sitting in the
		
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			car. It was
		
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			the. I I made dua to Allah, subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala. You know the famous hadith
		
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			So there's an hour in the day that
		
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			if a person wants to ask Allah
		
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			that Allah Azzawajal will, you know, respond back
		
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			to him. And this is the last hour
		
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			of the day on yawmuljumah before Maghrib. So
		
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			I just started asking, making du'a to Allah
		
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			Azzawajal.
		
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			So I said to myself, Abu Temi was
		
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			previously accepted
		
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			in the Jamia,
		
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			let's just see if your name is still
		
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			on there.
		
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			I go online
		
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			and my name is still there. So I
		
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			thought it must be expired.
		
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			So I started asking many people, SubhanAllah, and
		
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			they were like, nah. It just hasn't been
		
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			updated
		
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			and
		
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			no new students have been accepted. Those who
		
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			were accepted in 2014, their names are still
		
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			under there, and there's still a possibility of
		
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			them going, but they just need to renew
		
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			their
		
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			their tashirat and their visas.
		
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			SubhanAllah.
		
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			And, this is when I started making phone
		
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			calls, left, right, and center. I started calling
		
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			brothers from Madinah, a brother called Hussain, Hafidullah,
		
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			Ihsan,
		
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			Sheikh Zulfiqar,
		
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			and other brothers,
		
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			you know,
		
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			who just could like, you know, do some
		
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			running around maybe to sort this out.
		
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			And what really helped us all,
		
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			something that Sheikh Abu Sam at Dehavillan.
		
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			I remember back in 2014,
		
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			2,000 yeah. 2014,
		
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			he came and gave a lecture in my
		
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			Masjid. The masjid that I pray in Masjid
		
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			Al Furqan that I normally do some of
		
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			the programs there and teach there.
		
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			He told me, give me your papers.
		
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			Sheikh Abu Sam is now gonna have now
		
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			going to have a, you know, a queue
		
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			of people queuing up at his office.
		
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			Sorry to expose you, Sheikh, but I just
		
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			have to mention this. You gotta help more
		
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			people now as well.
		
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			What happened was he told me to give
		
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			me his papers,
		
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			because he had a meeting with the Mufti,
		
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			the Sheikh Salih al Haydhan was going to
		
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			be in that meeting. Sheikh Sudais was there,
		
00:45:47 --> 00:45:49
			the Mudir of the JAMA was there. The
		
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			king was meant to be there as well.
		
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			I still remember what he said, the names
		
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			he mentioned to me.
		
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			So he took my papers and he took
		
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			it to them. And he told them that
		
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			this brother you know, is trying to give
		
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			Dawah and things like that. And apparently what
		
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			happened,
		
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			the King Abdullah, alayirahmatullah,
		
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			he signed my papers off.
		
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			And
		
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			I said to myself when I got accepted
		
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			2 months later, I'm sure Abu Samba is
		
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			not that good.
		
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			Abu Samba, the Habibi Sheikh Abu Samba, I
		
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			don't think he's that good. Maybe because
		
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			all these time I've been applying in my
		
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			dad, may Allah I, you know,
		
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			may Allah have mercy upon my dad.
		
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			May Allah preserve him.
		
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			Every year we went to Hajji, he would
		
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			take me to the JAMA to apply. He
		
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			wanted me so badly to go to the
		
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			JAMA'
		
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			So I thought maybe my tizky of Sheikh
		
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			Salih Sadlani, and one time met Sheikh Salih
		
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			Sadlani wrote me a tizky for the Jami'ah.
		
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			And he's like the Mudir of
		
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			the jamya in in Riyadh.
		
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			I thought maybe it was that. I don't
		
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			think it's Sheikh Abu Samah. I found that
		
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			later on that it was the king's signature
		
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			that, you know, really
		
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			made the people like, you know, sort this
		
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			paper out. And that's what Sheikh Zulfiqar told
		
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			me. When he was running around going to
		
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			some of his links,
		
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			they were asking who who is this guy
		
00:47:01 --> 00:47:03
			like? You know, is, you know, they started
		
00:47:03 --> 00:47:05
			thinking why is he some the son of
		
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			a of a king or a of a
		
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			or a queen or that, you know, the
		
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			king came and signed it off.
		
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			They I remember the Sheikh, he said it's
		
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			when you translate it in English to Royal
		
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			Mail. You know, a private joke when the
		
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			British understand. We've got a company called Royal
		
00:47:21 --> 00:47:22
			Mail in
		
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			Britain. So everyone just like trying to sort
		
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			it out. So alhamdulillah, when everything was sorted
		
00:47:26 --> 00:47:27
			out,
		
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			Allah gave me another opportunity that I've been
		
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			asking for so much.
		
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			As soon as I left the Maja, I
		
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			was begging Allah, oh Allah, make me from
		
00:47:34 --> 00:47:35
			those I accepted.
		
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			And the opportunity came and I thought the
		
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			opportunity went again.
		
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			And,
		
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			and then Allah,
		
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			you know, gave me another opportunity
		
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			to carry on seeking this blessed light, the
		
00:47:46 --> 00:47:47
			Noor,
		
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			the 'ilm,
		
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			that Wallahi,
		
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			As some of the Salaf they mentioned.
		
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			Some of the Salaf they mentioned, if the
		
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			kings and their children knew the contention, the
		
00:48:00 --> 00:48:02
			tranquility that we currently feel, they would have
		
00:48:02 --> 00:48:03
			fought us
		
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			with their thoughts. Because everybody wants that, you
		
00:48:07 --> 00:48:08
			know, raha, that tumahneena,
		
00:48:09 --> 00:48:10
			that tranquility.
		
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			Nam.
		
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			SubhanAllah,
		
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			I went to Al Madinah,
		
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			to be given the opportunity to,
		
00:48:18 --> 00:48:20
			seek knowledge in this blessed place,
		
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			The place
		
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			that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he mentioned,
		
00:48:25 --> 00:48:26
			Al Madina Tukhairun lahuqanwiyaalamul.
		
00:48:27 --> 00:48:29
			You know, Madina is better for them if
		
00:48:29 --> 00:48:32
			only they knew. It's narrated by Imam Bukayr,
		
00:48:33 --> 00:48:35
			the place which the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
		
00:48:35 --> 00:48:36
			mentioned.
		
00:48:47 --> 00:48:49
			The hadith was narrated by Bukhari Muslim and
		
00:48:49 --> 00:48:51
			also Imam Mohammed on the authority of Ibn
		
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			Zubair.
		
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			Okay. Praying in Al Madina
		
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			is better than praying in any other Masjid
		
00:48:57 --> 00:48:58
			by a 1000 times,
		
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			okay,
		
00:48:59 --> 00:49:02
			except Masjid Haram. And praying in Masjid Haram
		
00:49:02 --> 00:49:04
			is better than praying in Madina, the Prophet's
		
00:49:04 --> 00:49:04
			Masjid,
		
00:49:05 --> 00:49:08
			by a, a hundred times. So meaning, if
		
00:49:08 --> 00:49:10
			you put that against a normal prayer in
		
00:49:10 --> 00:49:11
			any other Masjid, 100,000.
		
00:49:12 --> 00:49:13
			Okay? And also the prophet sallallahu alaihi was
		
00:49:13 --> 00:49:14
			encouraged.
		
00:49:14 --> 00:49:15
			He said,
		
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			whoever tries whoever can try and dine in
		
00:49:19 --> 00:49:21
			Madinah can do so. How can a person
		
00:49:21 --> 00:49:23
			try and dine in Madinah by making his
		
00:49:23 --> 00:49:25
			ikam, a residency in Medina, as long as
		
00:49:25 --> 00:49:26
			he can?
		
00:49:26 --> 00:49:29
			Okay. Muhammad Khattab radiAllahu ta'ala used to make
		
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			Oh, Allah.
		
00:49:34 --> 00:49:35
			You know, grant me,
		
00:49:35 --> 00:49:38
			shahada in your way for your sake,
		
00:49:38 --> 00:49:40
			and make my death in, you know, the
		
00:49:40 --> 00:49:41
			prophet's,
		
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			city, you know,
		
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			after he came to know about the hadith
		
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			of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. So
		
00:49:48 --> 00:49:50
			it's a fadilah that we should all try
		
00:49:50 --> 00:49:52
			to try to seize. And you know, guys,
		
00:49:52 --> 00:49:54
			what's very, very sad is that a person
		
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			is given this opportunity and he then wastes
		
00:49:57 --> 00:49:59
			it. You have to understand guys that
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala chose you amongst billions
		
00:50:02 --> 00:50:02
			of people.
		
00:50:03 --> 00:50:05
			You know, amongst billions of people.
		
00:50:06 --> 00:50:08
			On top of that, you come to the
		
00:50:08 --> 00:50:09
			best place in the world
		
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			after Allah Subh'ala's Tafaaq
		
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			and then you might waste it
		
00:50:13 --> 00:50:15
			by maybe going out to restaurants all the
		
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			time,
		
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			by not taking your dirasa seriously.
		
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			Astafaq Allah, aasawajal, he chose you amongst everyone
		
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			else.
		
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			I fear that you might go under Quffur
		
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			Ni'matillah,
		
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			you know, being ungrateful
		
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			of the bounties that Allah blessed you with.
		
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			Now I'm so
		
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			alhamdulillah, managed to come here in 2 at
		
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			the end of 2016
		
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			and, to study in the jamya.
		
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			Naam.
		
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			A lot of guys,
		
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			I try to spend as much time in
		
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			haram because, you know, there's a lot of
		
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			knowledge there. There's also people don't get it
		
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			twisted.
		
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			I remember before I came to the jamya,
		
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			I used to hear to Allah, brother, saying
		
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			that the jamya is a waste of time
		
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			and we should only be benefiting from, the
		
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			Haram. It's not necessarily
		
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			correct. Wallahi, there's a lot of knowledge in
		
00:51:01 --> 00:51:01
			the Jamiyah,
		
00:51:02 --> 00:51:03
			just in the Mahad.
		
00:51:03 --> 00:51:05
			Wallahi, I know many Tullahabil 'ilm,
		
00:51:06 --> 00:51:08
			if they were to take the examination that
		
00:51:08 --> 00:51:10
			they have in the Mahad in Mustawat Thalif
		
00:51:10 --> 00:51:12
			and Mustawat Rabia, I don't think they will
		
00:51:12 --> 00:51:13
			come out with flying colors.
		
00:51:14 --> 00:51:14
			Okay.
		
00:51:15 --> 00:51:16
			Because some of the stuff they have in
		
00:51:16 --> 00:51:17
			there, the nahul,
		
00:51:18 --> 00:51:18
			their grammar
		
00:51:19 --> 00:51:21
			and the morphology that you study in there,
		
00:51:21 --> 00:51:23
			are some things in Qadr, Nada and Alfiya.
		
00:51:24 --> 00:51:25
			So they're trying to build you up in
		
00:51:25 --> 00:51:26
			the Mahad,
		
00:51:26 --> 00:51:28
			you know, before you go into the kulia,
		
00:51:28 --> 00:51:30
			so that a person has a strong foundation
		
00:51:30 --> 00:51:32
			and he doesn't struggle when he wants to
		
00:51:32 --> 00:51:35
			go into kalia. I even remember our brother
		
00:51:35 --> 00:51:37
			Abu Salma, who is a PhD student,
		
00:51:38 --> 00:51:40
			was currently back in Britain. He mentioned to
		
00:51:40 --> 00:51:42
			me, he goes, there's so many gems
		
00:51:42 --> 00:51:43
			in the Mahad,
		
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			you know, in the
		
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			Institute of Learning Arabic before a person goes.
		
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			And you know, SubhanAllah guys, you have
		
00:51:51 --> 00:51:52
			in the Haram as well,
		
00:51:52 --> 00:51:54
			amazing halaqaat of memorization.
		
00:51:55 --> 00:51:56
			Amazing, guys.
		
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			And, the sad thing is that the majority
		
00:52:00 --> 00:52:02
			of the Westerners, they don't give much
		
00:52:02 --> 00:52:04
			concentration to when it comes to Mahfudat. I
		
00:52:04 --> 00:52:07
			know our brother Mufti Muhammad Munir
		
00:52:07 --> 00:52:09
			was someone who gave a lot of emphasis
		
00:52:09 --> 00:52:10
			to memorization.
		
00:52:11 --> 00:52:13
			And I don't think I'm the right guy
		
00:52:13 --> 00:52:14
			to speak about
		
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			how
		
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			a student of knowledge should be adorning himself
		
00:52:17 --> 00:52:18
			in Al Medina.
		
00:52:18 --> 00:52:20
			You know, the likes of Shekhtair White and
		
00:52:20 --> 00:52:22
			Mufti Mahal Munir who've been here for such
		
00:52:22 --> 00:52:25
			a long time. They can maybe give you
		
00:52:25 --> 00:52:25
			a better insight.
		
00:52:26 --> 00:52:27
			But from what I've known now in the
		
00:52:27 --> 00:52:28
			last 7 months,
		
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			because I've tried to connect myself to the
		
00:52:31 --> 00:52:34
			best of those who are in Medina from
		
00:52:34 --> 00:52:36
			the non British and non Westerners.
		
00:52:37 --> 00:52:37
			So maybe
		
00:52:38 --> 00:52:39
			they can give me better insight. I can
		
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			maybe try and gain what they gained. Okay.
		
00:52:42 --> 00:52:43
			And this is what someone should do, guys.
		
00:52:43 --> 00:52:44
			You
		
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			know, the standards he should have is
		
00:52:46 --> 00:52:48
			the standards of the best
		
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			of the best.
		
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			I remember my brother said to me, he
		
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			goes,
		
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			I don't think I should memorize,
		
00:52:54 --> 00:52:55
			you know, I have sufficient,
		
00:52:56 --> 00:52:58
			I have that which is sufficient,
		
00:52:58 --> 00:52:59
			and I have that which is,
		
00:53:00 --> 00:53:01
			enough for me,
		
00:53:01 --> 00:53:03
			to kind of keep me going in Britain.
		
00:53:03 --> 00:53:05
			Guys, I think this is our life. I
		
00:53:05 --> 00:53:06
			thought to myself, hemam
		
00:53:07 --> 00:53:07
			Qasira.
		
00:53:08 --> 00:53:09
			These are very low aspirations.
		
00:53:10 --> 00:53:12
			Rather, we should try and, you know, set
		
00:53:12 --> 00:53:14
			our standards with the standards of the best.
		
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			You have people in the Haram who memorize
		
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			Sahayn. There's some halakat,
		
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			some brothers, Jazamullah Kayin, who gave me time
		
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			to read to them. Oh, I've memorized Bukhari
		
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			Muslim.
		
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			Abu Soonan Abidawood. Some of them. There's
		
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			guys in Hallakat al Sheikh Oshaydan,
		
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			you
		
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			know. What the Sheikh done to me, or
		
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			speak about it maybe another time,
		
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			he tortured me,
		
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			you know. And I really appreciate that Wallahi
		
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			every time I see him I kiss him
		
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			on the forehead. Because
		
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			he
		
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			kind of disciplined me in a way where
		
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			that a person will get the best out
		
00:53:46 --> 00:53:47
			of seeking knowledge.
		
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			You know, you have guys who will read
		
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			Methil and you have Bey Quni, right? Which
		
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			consists of 34 lines of poetry.
		
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			I've mentioned two lines of poetry now. What
		
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			happens is they teach them how to read
		
00:54:06 --> 00:54:08
			the lines backwards.
		
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			You start from 34,
		
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			33,
		
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			32. This is the kind of tarbia, this
		
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			is how they nurture some of the students
		
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			in the Halakah.
		
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			So you're going backwards, basically. You're going upside
		
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			down.
		
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			What the Sheikh made me do, I remember
		
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			I went to him. He embarrassed me in
		
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			front of everyone. He humiliated me, and he's
		
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			doing that to test your patience.
		
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			I remember he even made me read a
		
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			hadith backwards.
		
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			First, he said to me, go memorize a
		
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			150 and then come back.
		
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			You know, just expelled me from the sitting
		
00:54:43 --> 00:54:44
			that I was sitting in.
		
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			And he kept on saying to me, you
		
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			won't be able to handle this in front
		
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			of everyone. And people started laughing at me,
		
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			you know. And I I remember I was
		
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			crying as well, and I had to kind
		
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			of like stop myself from,
		
00:54:55 --> 00:54:56
			crying.
		
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			And then
		
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			every day he's just testing me, you know.
		
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			I remember the first day he said,
		
00:55:01 --> 00:55:03
			my student is going to test you, not
		
00:55:03 --> 00:55:03
			me.
		
00:55:04 --> 00:55:06
			First question he asked me, how many times
		
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			in this 150 hadith of Balocha Maram
		
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			is there a hadith of Abu Hurairah?
		
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			It's like, Sheikh, are you testing me in
		
00:55:14 --> 00:55:15
			my memorization, or are you testing me of
		
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			how many Sahabas have narrated the hadith?
		
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			I was like, Sheikh, I don't know. And
		
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			he shouts at me. He goes, if you
		
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			can't, you know, answer some of the questions
		
00:55:23 --> 00:55:24
			of the little ones, how are you gonna
		
00:55:24 --> 00:55:25
			answer my questions?
		
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			Sheikh Roshaydan is the guy who reads on
		
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			Sheikh Abdul Masih al Adbad
		
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			everyday in the Haram.
		
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			So he expelled me, and I come back
		
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			and he's testing me, you make, you have,
		
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			you hesitate twice,
		
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			you gain expelled. And you make one mistake
		
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			or you make 2 mistakes, sorry, you gain
		
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			expelled. I remember one time he made me
		
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			read 70 ahadith backwards.
		
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			The 71th ahadith basically from 150 and you're
		
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			going backwards.
		
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			149, 148, 147.
		
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			I made one mistake, he said go away.
		
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			You know, so Yani, the sheikh really helped
		
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			when it came to,
		
00:56:01 --> 00:56:03
			doing Ithan, mastering their hadith, and being very
		
00:56:03 --> 00:56:04
			solidified.
		
00:56:04 --> 00:56:06
			You have them brothers as well from Halakhshayin,
		
00:56:06 --> 00:56:08
			you have other Hutun,
		
00:56:08 --> 00:56:09
			you know. And,
		
00:56:10 --> 00:56:12
			this is something that Sheikh Saal al Usayni
		
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			gives a lot of
		
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			emphasis to. You know, I'm trying to teach
		
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			you that what the kibar,
		
00:56:16 --> 00:56:17
			the mashaikh,
		
00:56:17 --> 00:56:19
			you know, say as well. You know, he
		
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			mentions in his,
		
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			tardim al alm, he says,
		
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			Whoever thinks he is going to seek knowledge
		
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			or he is going to obtain knowledge without
		
00:56:31 --> 00:56:34
			memorizing, this guy is chasing after the impossible.
		
00:56:34 --> 00:56:36
			Even the poet he said,
		
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			You know, if a person doesn't have hebd
		
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			and comprehension,
		
00:56:46 --> 00:56:48
			you just gathering books doesn't benefit you. There's
		
00:56:48 --> 00:56:50
			a, you know, a tahdul or you're going
		
00:56:50 --> 00:56:51
			to come to a sitting,
		
00:56:51 --> 00:56:54
			with ignorance and all your knowledge is in
		
00:56:54 --> 00:56:54
			the warehouse,
		
00:56:55 --> 00:56:58
			you know. He even mentioned about, he heard
		
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			Sheikh bin Uthaymi mention, and I heard Sheikh
		
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			Salih al Usaymi mentioned this. He said,
		
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			We memorized a little bit, and we read
		
00:57:08 --> 00:57:09
			a
		
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			lot.
		
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			And we benefited more from that
		
00:57:17 --> 00:57:18
			which we memorized
		
00:57:19 --> 00:57:20
			than that which we,
		
00:57:20 --> 00:57:22
			benefited from that which we read. Okay? This
		
00:57:22 --> 00:57:24
			is a Sheikh Sala al Usayni. I heard
		
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			this from him. And he heard this from
		
00:57:26 --> 00:57:28
			Sheikh Mohammed bin Saal al Uthaymin. And I
		
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			don't think who are Ghaneen Anil Al Talif,
		
00:57:32 --> 00:57:33
			Shaq bin Uthaymin, who he is, and what
		
00:57:33 --> 00:57:37
			he became. The Mutafanin, you know. So, Alhamdulillah,
		
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			you know, also a benefit I'm going to
		
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			conclude with is, Insha'Allah Ta'al, and I think
		
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			it's a beautiful benefit. As I previously mentioned,
		
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			we should try to make our standards the
		
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			standard of the best. Because once you do
		
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			that, you come out with a lot.
		
00:57:52 --> 00:57:54
			And, I'm not trying to say to you
		
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			that I've come out with anything because wallahi,
		
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			you know, guys, and I'm not saying this
		
00:57:58 --> 00:58:00
			I see myself to be from the smallest
		
00:58:00 --> 00:58:02
			of 2 of Nars Toaylib,
		
00:58:02 --> 00:58:05
			okay, just in Britain because as, you know,
		
00:58:05 --> 00:58:08
			Sheikh Abu Sam always mentions, he goes the
		
00:58:08 --> 00:58:10
			one eyed man, he's the king in the
		
00:58:10 --> 00:58:12
			land of the blind. You know, when you
		
00:58:12 --> 00:58:12
			have
		
00:58:12 --> 00:58:14
			people who don't seek knowledge and a guy
		
00:58:14 --> 00:58:16
			who just studied a bit, he looks like
		
00:58:16 --> 00:58:17
			the king, you know, he looks like the
		
00:58:17 --> 00:58:18
			most amazing guy.
		
00:58:19 --> 00:58:20
			But when you come to a Medina, guys,
		
00:58:20 --> 00:58:23
			you become humbled. You come to realize who
		
00:58:23 --> 00:58:25
			the scholars are. People who have memorized Sahihain,
		
00:58:26 --> 00:58:28
			they just sack it there. They don't say
		
00:58:28 --> 00:58:29
			nothing. They're studying with the scholars like the
		
00:58:29 --> 00:58:31
			likes of Sheikh Al Abba, Sheikh Sala Wusaim,
		
00:58:31 --> 00:58:33
			and other name, you know,
		
00:58:34 --> 00:58:35
			really humbles yourself.
		
00:58:35 --> 00:58:37
			The fact I wanted to mention
		
00:58:37 --> 00:58:39
			that I this is one of the first
		
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			things I heard from Sheikh Ibrahim Raheli when
		
00:58:41 --> 00:58:42
			I came to Al Madina, when I went
		
00:58:42 --> 00:58:44
			to stay with him. He mentioned
		
00:58:44 --> 00:58:45
			that
		
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			Abu Bakr radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu, he never reached
		
00:58:48 --> 00:58:48
			the piety
		
00:58:49 --> 00:58:51
			and the greatness that he reached, the excellent
		
00:58:51 --> 00:58:53
			person he became, except by trying to what?
		
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			Set his standards of the best. The Prophet
		
00:58:57 --> 00:58:59
			sallallahu alaihi wasallam. Whatever the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
		
00:58:59 --> 00:59:01
			wasallam, he tried to do, okay, when it
		
00:59:01 --> 00:59:03
			came to salah, when it came to piety,
		
00:59:03 --> 00:59:05
			when it came to action, when it came
		
00:59:05 --> 00:59:05
			to Ibadat,
		
00:59:06 --> 00:59:08
			okay, because the Prophet was the best, right?
		
00:59:08 --> 00:59:09
			And he tried to be like the best,
		
00:59:09 --> 00:59:10
			Okay.
		
00:59:10 --> 00:59:12
			And then he mentioned another example which is
		
00:59:12 --> 00:59:15
			also very very beautiful. You have Imam Bukhara,
		
00:59:15 --> 00:59:16
			him allahu, who was one of the best
		
00:59:16 --> 00:59:17
			in his time. Right? And he had his
		
00:59:17 --> 00:59:19
			student, imam Muslim. Imam Muslim
		
00:59:19 --> 00:59:21
			didn't settle for
		
00:59:21 --> 00:59:24
			something very low. He had imam Bukhari
		
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			And because he was the best, he tried
		
00:59:26 --> 00:59:27
			to set his standards, the standard of Imam
		
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			Bukhari So,
		
00:59:31 --> 00:59:33
			Imam Muslim never became whatever he became except
		
00:59:33 --> 00:59:34
			by trying to
		
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			be like Imam Bukhir
		
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			And the third example that he's going to
		
00:59:38 --> 00:59:40
			mention. You have Ibn Taym Rahim Allahu Ta'ala.
		
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			The third example is
		
00:59:42 --> 00:59:44
			Ibn Al Qaim, and Ibn Taymiyyah. You have
		
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			Ibn Al Qaim, was one of the best,
		
00:59:47 --> 00:59:48
			and Ibn Al Qaim, tried
		
00:59:49 --> 00:59:50
			to be like the
		
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			So,
		
00:59:51 --> 00:59:53
			trying to do that, you'll come out with
		
00:59:53 --> 00:59:54
			a lot, inshallah,
		
00:59:55 --> 00:59:57
			compared with everyone else. But at the same
		
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			time, with trying to be sincere in that
		
00:59:58 --> 01:00:01
			which you do not just trying to be
		
01:00:01 --> 01:00:03
			better than the rest of the people. And
		
01:00:03 --> 01:00:05
			Subhanu Alaikum wa bihamdikushadu
		
01:00:05 --> 01:00:06
			Allah ilaha illa anta astaghfirukkahuwili.
		
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			Achi, guys.
		
01:00:09 --> 01:00:11
			Guys, the brother's asking where can the people
		
01:00:11 --> 01:00:13
			find, some of my stuff?
		
01:00:13 --> 01:00:15
			What I can advise you with is some
		
01:00:15 --> 01:00:17
			brothers who might be more knowledgeable than me,
		
01:00:17 --> 01:00:19
			and if you do want, but,
		
01:00:20 --> 01:00:23
			these brothers are foremost okay. You have the
		
01:00:23 --> 01:00:23
			likes of
		
01:00:24 --> 01:00:25
			our brother,
		
01:00:25 --> 01:00:28
			Mufti Muhammad Munir. You type into Yusuf Hadid
		
01:00:28 --> 01:00:29
			disciple.
		
01:00:29 --> 01:00:32
			Very knowledgeable, masha'Allah. You can benefit from him.
		
01:00:32 --> 01:00:33
			You have also,
		
01:00:34 --> 01:00:35
			our brother
		
01:00:36 --> 01:00:39
			Ustad Abdurrahman Hasan, who has an encyclopedia
		
01:00:39 --> 01:00:40
			of books that he's gone through,
		
01:00:41 --> 01:00:43
			on his channel, if you type into YuJa
		
01:00:43 --> 01:00:44
			Abdulrahman Hasan.
		
01:00:44 --> 01:00:46
			You also have Sheikha Tahir White. It's got
		
01:00:46 --> 01:00:48
			some videos out there. You have Sheikha Abu
		
01:00:48 --> 01:00:50
			Usama, who has a lot of content out
		
01:00:50 --> 01:00:52
			there. You know, a lot of, you know,
		
01:00:52 --> 01:00:53
			pure quality content.
		
01:00:54 --> 01:00:55
			And there's many other prophets like, you know,
		
01:00:55 --> 01:00:58
			Ustad Mohammed Tim Hambal, another graduate from Al
		
01:00:58 --> 01:00:58
			Medina,
		
01:00:59 --> 01:01:01
			good friend of mine. Our brother, Abul Abbas,
		
01:01:01 --> 01:01:03
			Ustad Abul Abbas Naveed,
		
01:01:04 --> 01:01:05
			you know.
		
01:01:05 --> 01:01:07
			You have another brother who's currently living in
		
01:01:07 --> 01:01:09
			Dammam. His name is Khalid Green.
		
01:01:09 --> 01:01:11
			You can benefit a lot from him. And,
		
01:01:13 --> 01:01:15
			also, Abu Saheed Bassam, if you type his
		
01:01:15 --> 01:01:17
			name into YouTube, you can benefit from his
		
01:01:17 --> 01:01:20
			books. You know, there's this YouTube channel called
		
01:01:20 --> 01:01:22
			Criterion Productions, where there's a lot of his
		
01:01:22 --> 01:01:22
			lessons on there. And, inshallah, when you're done
		
01:01:22 --> 01:01:24
			with all of these, you can just maybe,
		
01:01:24 --> 01:01:25
			you know, grab some benefits from,
		
01:01:26 --> 01:01:26
			my channel,
		
01:01:32 --> 01:01:32
			inshallah.
		
01:01:33 --> 01:01:35
			But these brothers are Ola. They've been seeking
		
01:01:35 --> 01:01:36
			knowledge more than me,
		
01:01:37 --> 01:01:38
			much more knowledgeable than me,
		
01:01:39 --> 01:01:41
			you know. So I advise you to benefit
		
01:01:41 --> 01:01:43
			from them. And then once, you know, if
		
01:01:43 --> 01:01:45
			you do get any time, then come to,
		
01:01:46 --> 01:01:47
			my very humble,
		
01:01:48 --> 01:01:49
			you know, channel. Inshallah.
		
01:01:50 --> 01:01:52
			Like, guys, you know, just seek your knowledge,
		
01:01:52 --> 01:01:54
			you know. Don't be put off by, you
		
01:01:54 --> 01:01:56
			know, what some of the people they say
		
01:01:56 --> 01:01:58
			when it comes to that you're going to
		
01:01:58 --> 01:02:00
			fall behind in your life. Allah, he's not.
		
01:02:04 --> 01:02:05
			If you don't take from this video except
		
01:02:05 --> 01:02:06
			this hadith,
		
01:02:06 --> 01:02:08
			so many people, inshallah, might make another video
		
01:02:08 --> 01:02:11
			in the future talking about the experience I've
		
01:02:11 --> 01:02:13
			had with some people of how they've left,
		
01:02:13 --> 01:02:15
			you know, so many things for the sake
		
01:02:15 --> 01:02:15
			of Allah
		
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			and Allah always gave them far greater.
		
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			And you know,
		
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			and, I just didn't look back. Well, I
		
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			just didn't look back.
		
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			And to also,
		
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			you know, spend a lot of time learning
		
01:02:28 --> 01:02:29
			about the salif, their lives,
		
01:02:30 --> 01:02:31
			you know, because these are the people that
		
01:02:31 --> 01:02:33
			we're trying to be like scholars.
		
01:02:33 --> 01:02:34
			These are the people that we're trying to
		
01:02:34 --> 01:02:37
			attach you all to. Because if you read
		
01:02:37 --> 01:02:39
			their biographies of all these scholars, because they
		
01:02:39 --> 01:02:41
			are all foremost, and we just hear as
		
01:02:41 --> 01:02:43
			Tayamu, trying to connect you to
		
01:02:44 --> 01:02:44
			the scholars.
		
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			You know, may Allah all give us tawfiq
		
01:02:46 --> 01:02:48
			and make us sincere in everything that we
		
01:02:48 --> 01:02:48
			do.
		
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			Nam, for every step that we take, every
		
01:02:51 --> 01:02:53
			move that we make, everything that we study,
		
01:02:53 --> 01:02:54
			everything that we, you know, give back to
		
01:02:54 --> 01:02:55
			the community.
		
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			And and wallahi guys.
		
01:02:57 --> 01:02:59
			And I'm gonna keep saying this. I'm not
		
01:02:59 --> 01:03:00
			saying this.
		
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			We have such
		
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			in in the West. We see our scholars
		
01:03:04 --> 01:03:06
			people who are not scholars. Wallahi, there's
		
01:03:07 --> 01:03:10
			People who, when you ask them about they
		
01:03:10 --> 01:03:12
			might be good at certain things and they're
		
01:03:12 --> 01:03:14
			trying to cut you off from the scholars
		
01:03:14 --> 01:03:16
			and they're trying to call to themselves by
		
01:03:16 --> 01:03:17
			telling you we are the scholars even though
		
01:03:17 --> 01:03:19
			they might not say it directly and they'll
		
01:03:19 --> 01:03:21
			tell you that the scholars are backwards.
		
01:03:21 --> 01:03:22
			Wallahi, that's not the case.
		
01:03:23 --> 01:03:24
			In Britain,
		
01:03:24 --> 01:03:26
			tullab, the maximum we could say about people
		
01:03:26 --> 01:03:27
			is tullab,
		
01:03:28 --> 01:03:29
			you know. Even Dahi,
		
01:03:30 --> 01:03:31
			you know, subhanAllah,
		
01:03:31 --> 01:03:33
			scholars are out here and they know a
		
01:03:33 --> 01:03:35
			waka. You have the likes of Sheikh Falahe,
		
01:03:35 --> 01:03:36
			Ismail,
		
01:03:36 --> 01:03:38
			who I currently see as like the the
		
01:03:38 --> 01:03:39
			Fauzan of Kuwait
		
01:03:40 --> 01:03:41
			who has come to the west, they know
		
01:03:41 --> 01:03:43
			the west very well. Sheikh Fayez al Jazim,
		
01:03:43 --> 01:03:45
			you know. Sheikh Soleiman Ruheil has come to
		
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			the west. They can see Sheikh Ibrahim, Sheikh
		
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			Salih HaSahemi.
		
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			How can they be backwards? How can they
		
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			not know what's going on when they come
		
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			there all the time? You know, you can
		
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			always go back to them, talk to them,
		
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			and explain to them the situation that you're
		
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			in, you know.
		
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			Especially Sheikh Faiz Njassim who's been studying in
		
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			America.
		
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			And as for us, we're not marajah, we're
		
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			not references or anything like that.
		
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			We've just been trialed with trying to deal
		
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			with the problems of many people.
		
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			You know, we get, like, hundreds of emails
		
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			of people who are going through problems.
		
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			And we're just trying to do our part
		
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			because it's very difficult
		
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			for the community to get in touch with
		
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			the scholars.
		
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			And please do support, you know,
		
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			the scholars coming down in the future, inshallah
		
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			wah ta'ala.
		
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			And Allah knows best.