Abu Taymiyyah – New The Trials Of The Prophets – Winter Conference – London

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The speaker discusses the struggles of Islam's "married woman" and the importance of praying for friendships and hardships to avoid becoming angry. They share stories of people experiencing hardships and struggles, and encourage others to pray for their friendships and hardships to avoid becoming angry. The importance of praying for one's friendships and hardships to avoid becoming angry is emphasized, and the church is called the best of two. Prayer and finding one's own family and history is also emphasized, as well as practicing their religion and not going back to their past.

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			I seek refuge in Allah from the accursed
		
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			Satan.
		
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			Were not My verses recited to you, but
		
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			you used to deny them?
		
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			They said, Our Lord, our misery has overcome
		
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			us, and we have been a people astray.
		
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			Our Lord, drive us out of it, for
		
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			if we return, we will be wrongdoers.
		
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			He said, Settle in it, and speak not.
		
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			There was a group of My servants who
		
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			said, Our Lord, we have believed, so forgive
		
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			us and have mercy on us, and You
		
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			are the best of those who show mercy.
		
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			Alhamdulillah, Rabbil Alameen.
		
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			As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh, Wembley.
		
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			You know, my brothers and my sisters, once
		
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			upon a time, I dreamt of playing on
		
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			Wembley Stadium.
		
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			And here we are today, some of you
		
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			guys know I had trials for West Ham,
		
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			right?
		
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			Back in the day.
		
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			But Alhamdulillah, now we've replaced all of the
		
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			rappers, the singers.
		
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			On some of these days, when you could
		
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			have been doing something completely different.
		
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			We know what many of our friends, many
		
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			of our siblings, many people that we know
		
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			what they're going to be engaging in, in
		
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			this festive period.
		
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			But Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala picked you
		
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			out from thousands of people to be sitting
		
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			here, looking to get closer to Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala.
		
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			I said this in the last two venues,
		
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			and I'm going to say it again, my
		
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			brothers and my sisters.
		
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			These gatherings, they're not just for practicing people.
		
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			The doors are wide open for anyone and
		
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			everyone.
		
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			It doesn't matter what stage you are at
		
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			in your journey to Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala.
		
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			No one has the right to make you
		
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			feel unworthy sitting here with your brothers and
		
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			sisters.
		
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			Like I said, it's not just for practicing
		
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			people.
		
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			No matter where you are at in your
		
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			journey to Allah, the door of repentance and
		
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			the door of mercy, my brothers and my
		
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			sisters, is open.
		
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			My brothers and my sisters, in this segment
		
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			today, I want to speak a little bit
		
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			about the trials, the tribulations.
		
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			The hardships and the difficulties that the prophets
		
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			went through when dealing with their people.
		
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			When things get really, really difficult, it's easy
		
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			to feel as if though Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala has forsaken us.
		
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			When the weight of the world feels unbearable
		
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			and life's trials crush down upon you, despair
		
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			will begin to creep in.
		
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			But sometimes, a single good thought about Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala, a glimmer of hope
		
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			in His mercy and His wisdom can be
		
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			the turning point.
		
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			The reason why your fortunes shift in unimaginable
		
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			ways.
		
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			To truly hold on to that hope, we
		
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			must first know who Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala is.
		
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			My brothers and my sisters, would you all
		
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			agree that you can't love something that you
		
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			don't know?
		
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			You can't love something that you don't know.
		
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			Many of you all are maybe looking to
		
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			get married or already married.
		
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			And if you're not looking to get married,
		
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			you've got a problem, right?
		
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			You are going to pick someone out from
		
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			the midst of thousands of choices, both the
		
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			brother and the sister.
		
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			The more you get to know about that
		
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			individual, the more your desire and your love
		
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			for that potential spouse increases.
		
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			Agreed?
		
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			Tomorrow you find out that Bushra prays at
		
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			night and you're thinking to yourself, you've hit
		
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			the jackpot.
		
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			And likewise my sisters, right?
		
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			You came to know about this individual, he
		
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			prays at night, he fasts in the day,
		
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			he's wonderful to his mother.
		
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			And you're expecting inshallah ta'ala the same
		
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			treatment.
		
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			But he's always going to treat his mother
		
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			better, remember that.
		
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			The point is, you can't love something that
		
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			you don't know.
		
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			The more you come to know about something,
		
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			the more you begin to be inclined towards
		
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			them.
		
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			Not that I'm comparing Bushra to Allah in
		
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			any way, shape or form, my brothers and
		
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			my sisters.
		
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			But how do we expect our hearts to
		
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			become activated?
		
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			How do we expect to have that connection
		
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			with Allah and we don't know anything about
		
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			Him?
		
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			The only source of information that we have
		
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			of Allah are His names and His attributes.
		
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			We don't learn it in order to start
		
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			debating online.
		
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			No, it is to get him to know
		
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			better.
		
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			And the more you do, my brothers and
		
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			my sisters, the more you'll feel that touch,
		
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			that connection, the sweetness and the contentment that
		
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			you are so crying out for.
		
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			You know when you're in the prayer, one
		
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			of the common questions that I get on
		
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			Fitnagram is, I don't feel that connection.
		
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			Please advise me.
		
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			How can I feel that touch with Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala?
		
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			My brothers and my sisters, this is what
		
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			I want you guys to walk away with.
		
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			To understand Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's names.
		
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			When Allah azzawajal tells us time and time
		
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			again in Surah Yusuf, He is all-knowing
		
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			and He is all-wise.
		
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			It doesn't make sense to us.
		
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			Why is this happening to me?
		
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			I so badly want this particular sister, but
		
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			it doesn't seem to be happening.
		
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			And vice versa, my sister, you try everything
		
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			in your power.
		
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			You speak to your father, your uncle, and
		
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			maybe even the mayor to try and convince
		
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			him.
		
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			But it doesn't seem to be working.
		
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			Years go by.
		
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			Years go by, my brothers and my sisters.
		
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			And then we say, if that didn't happen,
		
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			we wouldn't have this today.
		
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			Allah is all-knowing, Allah is all-wise.
		
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			It is mentioned a number of times in
		
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			Surah Yusuf.
		
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			His own blood brothers, my brothers and my
		
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			sisters, they get rid of him.
		
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			They throw him in the well and then
		
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			he is sold into the slave trade.
		
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			It doesn't stop there.
		
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			The wife of Al-Aziz, of the minister,
		
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			she is going crazy over Yusuf a.s.
		
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			Absolutely stunned by how handsome he is.
		
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			And she has lost it.
		
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			Locks him in the room.
		
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			And she says, hey Talak, let's get it
		
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			on.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And Yusuf a.s. runs for his life.
		
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			Eventually he is thrown into prison.
		
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			One trial, hardship after another, and another, and
		
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			another.
		
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			And you are thinking to yourself, right, why
		
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			would Allah a.s. do this to Yusuf?
		
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			But like I said, Allah is all-knowing.
		
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			He is watching every step that you take.
		
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			And every move that you make, fully aware
		
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			of every little thing, my brothers and my
		
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			sisters, that you are going through.
		
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			But, bear in mind, everything happens by Allah
		
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			a.s. wisdom.
		
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			A lot of the time it don't make
		
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			sense to us as to why this is
		
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			happening.
		
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			When life overwhelms us, it's very, very tempting,
		
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			my brothers and my sisters, to turn our
		
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			backs on Allah a.s. To let our
		
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			pain drive us away from the one who
		
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			really understands us better than anyone that walks
		
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			on the face of this earth.
		
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			We've all faced moments, we've all faced moments
		
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			where the storm seemed endless.
		
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			It felt like there was no light at
		
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			the end of the tunnel.
		
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			Our problems piled up, leaving us broken and
		
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			exhausted.
		
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			With all that which is going on, my
		
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			brothers and my sisters, like I said, it's
		
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			so easy to turn your back on Allah
		
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			a.s. We've all been there, my brothers
		
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			and my sisters.
		
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			Don't think you are the only one that
		
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			is going through these troubles, these hardships, these
		
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			trials and these tribulations.
		
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			So, my brothers and my sisters, Allah a
		
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			.s. tells us countless stories in the Qur
		
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			'an.
		
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			About the prophets, the most beloved to him.
		
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			The most severely tested people are the prophets.
		
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			And those that are like them, those that
		
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			are like them.
		
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			The Messenger s.a.w. said, one is
		
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			tested in accordance to how much he's holding
		
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			on to his religion.
		
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			These stories in the Qur'an, my brothers
		
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			and my sisters, are not there for entertainment.
		
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			They're not there as bedtime rhymes or chimes
		
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			and whatever you want to call it.
		
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			And then as if, my brothers and my
		
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			sisters, these stories are not speaking to us.
		
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			They were speaking to the Messenger s.a
		
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			.w. Did you know, my brothers and my
		
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			sisters, when he went through hardships, when he
		
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			went through difficulties, he needed inspiration.
		
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			He needed something to get him through.
		
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			Yes, that's Prophet Muhammad s.a.w. And
		
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			Allah tells us, O Prophet of Allah, we
		
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			know exactly what you're going through.
		
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			The pains, the anxiety, the distress, we know
		
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			what you're going through.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Allah tells him, keep glorifying him.
		
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			Rush into prayer.
		
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			And this is what the Messenger s.a
		
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			.w. would do.
		
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			And I can put my hand up, my
		
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			brothers and my sisters, this is something that
		
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			really, really helped me.
		
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			Right?
		
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			In the face of trials and hardships, run
		
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			to the prayer.
		
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			The feeling that you feel, right?
		
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			It is unimaginable.
		
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			Right?
		
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			You can't put it into words.
		
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			Rushing back to Allah, especially when things get
		
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			difficult.
		
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			As the Messenger s.a.w. told us.
		
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			Right?
		
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			He goes through hardships, he's rushing to the
		
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			prayer.
		
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			How do we expect my brothers and my
		
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			sisters, right?
		
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			To move away or to navigate around all
		
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			of these problems.
		
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			And we are not even trying.
		
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			That one connection that we have between ourselves
		
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			and Allah.
		
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			That which keeps us breathing.
		
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			That which keeps us, my brothers and my
		
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			sisters, right?
		
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			Being able to function, the oxygen.
		
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			Can you function without oxygen?
		
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			The salah is no different to that.
		
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			It is that connection.
		
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			Ask yourself this question, my brothers and my
		
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			sisters.
		
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			If I'm not praying, what else am I
		
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			doing as a Muslim?
		
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			What is the only Islamic thing about me?
		
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			Is it only my name?
		
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			Think about it for a moment.
		
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			Throughout the day, what is it that we
		
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			do that allows us to identify as Muslims?
		
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			May Allah s.w.t. allow us to
		
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			stand before Him in humility.
		
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			So there are many stories.
		
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			There are many examples in the Quran, my
		
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			brothers and my sisters.
		
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			Of the prophets who went through hardships and
		
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			difficulties.
		
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			Ibrahim a.s. The Imam of At-Tawheed.
		
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			The man, my brothers and my sisters, who
		
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			smashed the idols.
		
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			Who called to At-Tawheed.
		
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			Fulfilled the message in the best way possible.
		
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			And even then, he begs Allah.
		
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			He begs Allah.
		
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			Oh Allah, prevent me and also my offspring
		
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			from falling into associating partners with you.
		
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			Worshipping idols.
		
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			This is a man of such caliber, my
		
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			brothers and my sisters.
		
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			Despite him having passed all of the tests.
		
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			He's begging Allah s.w.t. to keep
		
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			him firm.
		
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			Where do me and you stand, my brothers
		
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			and my sisters?
		
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			The trials after trials.
		
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			He had to leave his beloved wife.
		
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			Hajar a.s. And his son in the
		
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			middle of nowhere.
		
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			Many of us have been to Mecca, right?
		
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			You can see how lit the place is.
		
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			He's leaving his wife and his son in
		
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			the middle of nowhere.
		
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			There were no lights, right?
		
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			There were no walls.
		
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			It was just the Kaaba there.
		
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			In the middle of nowhere.
		
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			Inni askantu min dhurriyati biwadin ghayri dhi zar
		
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			'a.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Nothing, my brothers and my sisters.
		
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			Allah instructed him, no ifs and no buts.
		
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			And he begins to walk away.
		
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			Right?
		
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			He begins to walk away.
		
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			His wife, Hajar, she comes running behind him.
		
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			And she says, Allahu amara ka bihaza.
		
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			Did Allah a.s.w. instruct you with
		
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			that?
		
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			He said, yes.
		
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			You know what her response was?
		
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			If that is the case, Allah will never
		
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			forsake us.
		
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			Allah will never desert us.
		
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			Right?
		
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			When you feel like, my brothers and my
		
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			sisters, no light at the end of the
		
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			tunnel, Allah will never forsake us.
		
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			My brothers and my sisters, what did this
		
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			lead to?
		
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			Her good opinion.
		
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			Her good thought of Allah s.w.t.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Zamzam came out from beneath her.
		
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			The people started visiting Mecca.
		
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			The Kaaba.
		
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			Right?
		
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			It's not just her anymore.
		
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			Up until this very day, whenever we go
		
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			to Safa and Marwa, after having finished doing
		
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			the circumambulation around the Kaaba, we remember Hajar.
		
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			Right?
		
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			When she was running from Safa and Marwa,
		
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			she would see the mirage, thinking that it's
		
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			water.
		
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			But nothing.
		
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			She did this seven times.
		
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			Can you imagine?
		
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			Right?
		
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			A mother who's by herself with her child,
		
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			running back and forth, back and forth.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And then the Zamzam springs up from beneath
		
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			her.
		
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			Right?
		
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			All of that, my brothers and my sisters,
		
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			because of a good thought of Allah s
		
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			.w.t. It didn't stop there.
		
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			From the offspring came out who?
		
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			Prophet Muhammad s.a.w. In one's darkest
		
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			moments, my brothers and my sisters, Yaqub's reliance
		
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			on Allah's perfect plan serves as a timeless
		
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			reminder.
		
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			He endured the pain of not just losing
		
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			one son.
		
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			Not just one son that he lost, my
		
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			brothers and my sisters, but two, both Yusuf
		
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			and Binyamin.
		
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			Yet he remains steadfast, placing his trust entirely
		
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			in Allah.
		
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			In the depth of his sorrow, he poured
		
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			his grief out to the only one who
		
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			really understood him.
		
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			Right?
		
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			The only one who really understood him.
		
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			I only complain my suffering and my sorrow
		
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			to Allah s.w.t. We run to
		
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			the creation, right?
		
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			Maybe the first time they'll be there, you
		
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			have a shoulder to cry on.
		
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			Second, third, after that, this guy is always
		
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			complaining.
		
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			Why is she always crying?
		
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			This is what he said behind your back.
		
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			But my brothers and my sisters, right?
		
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			Allah loves for you to run back to
		
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			Him.
		
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			In fact, He gets angry when you don't
		
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			ask Him.
		
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			As the Messenger s.a.w. said, Whoever
		
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			doesn't ask Allah, Allah becomes angry with him.
		
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			Ya'qub s.a.w. is showing us
		
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			how we should deal with our adversaries.
		
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			How we should deal with our problems and
		
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			hardships.
		
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			Go in a corner, my brothers and my
		
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			sisters, while the people are fast asleep.
		
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			Go and beg Allah.
		
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			Go and cry out your sorrow to Him.
		
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			Your hardships and your difficulties.
		
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			Then you also have my brothers and my
		
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			sisters, Musa s.a.w. I want every
		
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			single one of you, my brothers and my
		
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			sisters, to imagine the following scene.
		
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			Musa s.a.w. and his people standing
		
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			before an endless ocean.
		
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			As far as the eye can see, it's
		
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			waves stretching, my brothers and my sisters.
		
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			And you're thinking to yourself, there's no way
		
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			for us to go past this ocean.
		
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			Behind him, the sound of Pharaoh's army grows
		
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			louder and louder.
		
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			The thunderous pounding of hooves, the clashing of
		
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			weapons, and the shouts of warriors carried on
		
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			in this wind.
		
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			Dust rises in the distance, signaling their approach,
		
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			drawing closer at every single heartbeat.
		
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			The people glance back in terror, their eyes
		
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			filled with despair.
		
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			An unstoppable force bears down upon them, and
		
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			ahead lies an immovable barrier.
		
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			They are trapped, sandwiched between a raging sea
		
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			and a might of Pharaoh's army.
		
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			Where do you go, my brothers and my
		
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			sisters?
		
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			There is no way out.
		
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			Where are the people now of Musa going
		
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			to escape to?
		
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			It feels impossible, and hope seems like a
		
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			distant memory.
		
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			They looked at one another.
		
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			The companions of Musa, they said, we are
		
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			now going to get caught.
		
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			Musa Alayhi Salaam, his good thought, his good
		
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			opinion of Allah, he turns around and he
		
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			says, No!
		
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			Allah is with me, and he is the
		
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			one that is going to guide me.
		
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			And we know the rest of the story.
		
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			The sea was split open, and Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala saved Musa and his people.
		
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			And the one who drowned was Fir'aun
		
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			and his people.
		
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			He calls out to Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala, saying his shahada, but it was a
		
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			little too late.
		
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			It was said to him, Now!
		
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			Now, oh Fir'aun!
		
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			Now!
		
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			You were disobedient.
		
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			You were someone who engaged in corruption.
		
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			He butchered and he massacred.
		
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			This is Fir'aun, my brothers and my
		
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			sisters.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Are we going to wait, my brothers and
		
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			my sisters, for the last very moments, before
		
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			we depart from this world?
		
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			And even then there is no guarantee that
		
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			we will be able to utter the shahada.
		
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			How many people do I know, my brothers
		
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			and my sisters?
		
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			Allah gave them many, many opportunities, lifelines after
		
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			another.
		
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			They went to sleep and they never woke
		
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			up.
		
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			I will and I shall.
		
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			I'm going to repent.
		
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			Make dua for me, bro.
		
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			Yolo, right?
		
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			You only live once.
		
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			This is what he says to me.
		
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			I've got my whole life ahead of me.
		
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			He went to sleep and he never woke
		
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			up.
		
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			When Allah gives us non-stop reminders.
		
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			You coming here today, my brothers and my
		
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			sisters, is a reminder for all of us
		
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			to wake up.
		
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			Every single one of us, including the mashayikh
		
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			who will be speaking here.
		
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			We all have shortcomings.
		
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			We all have errors and mistakes.
		
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			But you know what makes you distinct from
		
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			your fellow human being?
		
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			The fact that you respond back to Allah
		
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			Azza wa Jal.
		
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			The fact that you repent.
		
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			وَخَيْرُهُمَا الَّذِي يَبْدَعُ بِالسَّلَامِ The best of the
		
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			two is the one, my brothers, وَخَيْرُهُمَا الَّذِي
		
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			يَتُوبُ إِلَى اللَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلٍ The best of
		
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			the two is the one who returns back
		
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			to Allah Azza wa Jal and repents.
		
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			كُلُّ بَنِ آدَمَ خَطًّا وَخَيْرُ الْخَطَّائِينَ الْتَوَّابُونَ They
		
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			are the best of those who make these
		
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			errors.
		
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			They rush back to Allah Azza wa Jal.
		
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			They cry their eyes out, right?
		
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			They beg Allah Azza wa Jal for their
		
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			forgiveness.
		
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			So you have Musa A.S. as I
		
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			mentioned, my brothers and my sisters.
		
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			Despite them having their hearts in their mouths,
		
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			my brothers and my sisters, Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala saved them.
		
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			Musa A.S. had good thoughts of Allah
		
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			Azza wa Jal.
		
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			Then you have also Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam.
		
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			Despite the endless trials, pain, and relentless battles
		
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			he faced from every direction.
		
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			Did you know, my brothers and my sisters,
		
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			our Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam lost six
		
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			out of his seven children.
		
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			He lost six out of his seven children
		
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			in his lifetime.
		
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			The only one that remained was Fatima.
		
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			And she passed away six months after he
		
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			departed from this world.
		
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			Can you imagine?
		
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			And then we lose a little bit of
		
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			money through Bitcoin, right?
		
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			And we want to perhaps like turn the
		
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			whole world on top of ourselves.
		
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			Just a bit of money, right?
		
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			Money comes and goes.
		
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			He lost six out of his seven children
		
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			in his lifetime.
		
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			Can you imagine?
		
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			And despite all of that, my brothers and
		
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			my sisters, he remained unwavering in his confidence.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And believed strongly that this religion that he
		
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			was preaching and propagating would reach the four
		
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			corners of the world.
		
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			The Messenger of Allah A.S. said, لَيَبْلُغَنَّ
		
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			هَذَا الْأَمَرُ مَا بَلَغَ اللَّيْلُ وَالنَّهَارُ You know
		
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			this religion here?
		
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			It is going to reach wherever the night
		
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			and the day has reached.
		
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			He still has this unwavering confidence, right?
		
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			This certainty that this religion is going to
		
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			reach every single household.
		
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			Now imagine my brothers and my sisters, right?
		
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			How far the religion is going in the
		
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			era of social media.
		
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			Wasn't the Messenger of Allah A.S. truthful?
		
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			Even if you don't want to listen, it's
		
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			going to be in your face.
		
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			Allahu Akbar!
		
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			Allahu Akbar!
		
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			The Messenger of Allah A.S., my brothers
		
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			and my sisters, we are also told, when
		
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			he went to Ta'if, did you know
		
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			my brothers and my sisters, the noble feet
		
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			of the Messenger of Allah A.S. started
		
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			bleeding because they began to stone him.
		
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			He's saying to them, Say, لا إله إلا
		
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			الله calling them to Tawheed.
		
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			Say, لا إله إلا الله and you'll be
		
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			successful.
		
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			And they're stoning him, right?
		
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			Bullying the Messenger of Allah A.S. Just
		
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			so the religion of Islam can reach us,
		
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			my brothers and my sisters, on a plate.
		
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			They had it hard.
		
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			Today we have it easy.
		
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			But even then, we take it for granted.
		
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			The angel of the mountains comes to the
		
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			Messenger of Allah A.S., approaches him and
		
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			says, If you wish, we can get these
		
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			two mountains and smash it on top of
		
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			them.
		
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			You know what he said?
		
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			You know what he said, my brothers and
		
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			my sisters?
		
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			Did he say, right, no problem, get rid
		
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			of them?
		
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			No.
		
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			إِنِّي لَأَرْجُوهُ أَن يُخْرِجَ اللَّهُ مِنْ أَصْلَابِهِمْ مَنْ
		
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			يَعْبُدُ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ وَلَا يُشْرِكُ بِهِ شَيْيًا
		
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			I have hope one day that from their
		
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			loins, there will be people who call to
		
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			Allah A.S. They accept the message of
		
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			Tawheed and they stay away from shirk, associating
		
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			partners with Him, right?
		
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			And this is exactly what happened, my brothers
		
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			and my sisters.
		
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			He continued with his good thought.
		
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			He never ever thought about having bad thoughts
		
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			of Allah SWT.
		
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			Also my brothers and my sisters, right, also
		
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			my brothers and my sisters, think about your
		
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			darkest and most suffocating moment.
		
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			The Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam again, he
		
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			never shifted whatsoever in his unwavering confidence, right,
		
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			and his good opinion of Allah.
		
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			They are migrating from Mecca to Al-Madinah.
		
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			And we all know the famous story of
		
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			when him and Abu Bakr radiallahu ta'ala
		
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			anhu, hid inside of the cave, right?
		
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			And then they were being followed up until
		
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			the enemy had ascended the mountain.
		
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			You think to yourself, they're about to get
		
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			caught.
		
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			You know what Abu Bakr radiallahu ta'ala
		
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			anhu mentioned?
		
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			لَوْ أَنَّ أَحَدَهُمْ نَظَرَ تَحْتَ قَدَمَيْهِ لَأَبْصَرَنَا If
		
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			only he just looked down like that.
		
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			If one just looked down to his feet,
		
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			then he would have seen us.
		
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			The Messenger of Allah a.s, he says
		
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			to his companion, لا تحزن.
		
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			Do not be sad.
		
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			إِنَّ اللَّهَ مَعَنَا Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			is with us.
		
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			Encouraging him to continue with his good faith
		
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			in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			My brothers and my sisters, when you are
		
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			struck with a problem and you begin to
		
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			think that there is no way out, then
		
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			remember Prophet Yunus a.s. who was in
		
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			three darknesses.
		
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			The darkness of the night, the darkness of
		
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			the sea, and the darkness of the stomach
		
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			of the whale.
		
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			When you find that your family is the
		
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			biggest obstacle in your growth and your progress
		
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			as a Muslim, then remember Ibrahim a.s.
		
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			who was driven out of his home by
		
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			his own father.
		
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			I know we probably have rivers here.
		
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			Ibrahim a.s. who was given a very,
		
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			very hard time.
		
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			لَأَرْجُ مَنَّكَ He threatened his own son that
		
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			if you don't stop, then I'm going to
		
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			stone you.
		
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			But he continued and eventually left.
		
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			When your body cries with pain, remember Ayub
		
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			a.s. who had more pain than any
		
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			of us can imagine.
		
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			When you are practicing your religion and those
		
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			around you and everybody else thinks that you're
		
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			backwards, irrational, disconnected from reality.
		
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			You don't make sense.
		
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			Or they talk to you as if, you
		
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			were just practicing or you only started practicing
		
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			right now.
		
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			Yesterday, you were smoking.
		
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			Yesterday, you weren't wearing hijab.
		
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			Yesterday, you were messing around.
		
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			And now you want to tell me what
		
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			is right and what is wrong.
		
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			When somebody makes you feel like that, my
		
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			brothers and my sisters, then remember none other,
		
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			Nuh a.s. who was instructed by Allah
		
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			to build an ark in the middle of
		
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			a village and everyone's laughing at him.
		
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			And Allah tells us, وَيَصْنَعُ الْفُلْكِ وَكُلَّ مَا
		
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			مَرَّ عَلَيْهِ مَلَأٌ مِن قَوْمِهِ سَخِرُوا مِنْهِ As
		
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			he's building, people are walking past making a
		
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			mockery, ridiculing Nuh a.s. But he continued,
		
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			he continued, made them aware that he will
		
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			have the last laugh.
		
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			فَسَوْفَ تَعْلَمُونَ مَنْ يَعْتِيهِ عَذَابٌ يُخْذِيهِ Remember that,
		
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			my brothers and my sisters, this life is
		
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			short, we will have the last laugh as
		
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			you continue to hold on to your religion.
		
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			When you begin to feel, my brothers and
		
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			my sisters, that you've lost everything, or that
		
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			you're bankrupt, or you're struggling financially, then remember
		
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			Prophet Muhammad ﷺ who would enter into his
		
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			house and he would say to his wife,
		
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			هل عندكم شيء؟
		
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			Is there anything that I can eat?
		
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			The response would be, لا, we don't have
		
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			anything.
		
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			If that's the case, you know what?
		
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			I'm gonna fast.
		
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			Have any of us, my brothers and my
		
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			sisters, ever entered into our homes, into our
		
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			kitchens, opened the fridge and we saw it
		
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			completely empty?
		
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			The Messenger ﷺ, barely had anything, my brothers
		
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			and my sisters.
		
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			When you feel betrayed, stabbed in the back,
		
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			your own blood brothers, or sisters, or family
		
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			members are giving you a hard time, then
		
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			remember Yusuf ﷺ.
		
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			They tried to kill him but he did
		
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			not die.
		
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			They sold him into the slave trade, yet
		
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			in the end he became a king.
		
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			When you think of the massacre that is
		
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			taking place in Palestine, then remember my brothers
		
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			and my sisters what Firaun done.
		
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			He killed thousands of children so that Musa
		
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			ﷺ would not arrive.
		
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			And in the end, not only did he
		
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			arrive, but he was raised in the house
		
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			of the one who sought to kill him.
		
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			Remember, the will of Allah ﷻ is above
		
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			the will of all.
		
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			وَاللَّهُ غَالِبٌ عَلَى أَمْرِهِ And Allah ﷻ has
		
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			full power and control over his affairs.
		
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			But most people don't know.
		
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			وَاللَّهِ وَبِاللَّهِ وَتَلَّهِ Victory in the end, my
		
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			brothers and my sisters, will be for the
		
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			Muslims.
		
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			As I was preparing this lecture, my brothers
		
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			and my sisters, I was looking for something
		
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			that I could perhaps inspire the attendees.
		
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			A lot of the time when people come
		
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			to us with their problems, we tell them
		
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			be patient.
		
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			We give them examples of the Prophets.
		
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			And sometimes we feel, this is maybe out
		
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			of touch with my reality.
		
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			As I was writing my brothers and my
		
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			sisters, the Syrian thing happened.
		
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			And I thought to myself, it may have
		
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			reached a breaking point with our brothers and
		
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			sisters in Palestine.
		
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			And now they are seeing the freedom that
		
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			the Syrians are enjoying.
		
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			Perhaps this is a way now to make
		
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			them feel better, to give them hope, to
		
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			make them aware that there is light at
		
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			the end of the tunnel.
		
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			My brothers and my sisters, Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala is aware of everything that takes
		
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			place.
		
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			To conclude, I want to remind every single
		
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			one of us that once upon a time,
		
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			we used to make dua to Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala about something that we so
		
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			desperately wanted.
		
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			And it is today that we are enjoying
		
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			all those duas that we used to make.
		
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			Don't ever forget that.
		
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			With a dua, no matter what your situation
		
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			is, you feel like that it's all doom
		
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			and gloom.
		
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			And that there is no hope for you
		
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			now to become a better person.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Then remember, you are one dua away.
		
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			Asking Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in the
		
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			last third of the night, when my brothers
		
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			and my sisters, the people are fast asleep.
		
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			This is the time when Allah comes down
		
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			in a manner that suits His Majesty.
		
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			And He says, whoever from amongst you wants
		
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			something, right?
		
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			Then let him ask me.
		
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			Everyone's got a background here.
		
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			Everyone has a past.
		
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			Everyone has a history.
		
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			We were all like that once upon a
		
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			time.
		
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			But Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, He showers
		
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			His blessings upon those who so desperately want
		
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			change.
		
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			Make that intention that I'm not going to
		
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			go back to where I came from the
		
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			same way I entered into this building.
		
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			I am not going to leave the same
		
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			way I came into this building.
		
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			The rahma of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			is so vast.
		
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			May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make us
		
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			from amongst those who become His beloved close
		
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			servants of His.