Abu Taymiyyah – The sad reality of our kids today knowing about Barcelona but not about Islam

Abu Taymiyyah
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The use of sh arc in Islam is discussed, with a focus on sh pattern and sh patterning. The use of sh pattern means that individuals perform sh pattern in a certain way, and the use of sh pattern in sh patterned language is widely used. The use of sh pattern means individuals perform sh pattern in a certain way, and the use of sh pattern in sh patterned language is widely used. The importance of praying for the eighth prayer and not getting involved in Christmas, Halloween, and Valentine's Day is also discussed, as well as the importance of giving Christmas to people and not celebrating Valentine's Day. The speaker also discusses the use of apologizing for actions and the importance of praying for the eighth prayer.

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			Brothers and sisters,
		
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			the prophet said
		
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			in an authentic hadith
		
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			on the authority
		
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			of Ibn Abbas.
		
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			That That
		
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			the
		
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			prophet
		
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			said,
		
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			There is an action
		
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			or there is a day when a person
		
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			applies or practices a particular action.
		
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			That when a person does it in these
		
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			10 days,
		
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			these 10 days that we're living in now,
		
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			these 10 days of Dhul Hijjah,
		
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			That is more beloved to Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala.
		
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			So a man said to the prophet sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam,
		
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			Not even jihad.
		
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			The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
		
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			Not even jihad.
		
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			Except for one person, one type of person.
		
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			Amanda went out for jihad
		
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			with his will and with himself.
		
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			And this person came back with nothing,
		
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			meaning this person died as a matter.
		
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			The virtue of these 10 days are mentioned
		
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			in this hadith.
		
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			There is no day from the days that
		
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			we live in in this dunya that are
		
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			better than these 10 days.
		
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			Last week's
		
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			he spoke about these 10 days,
		
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			and mentioned many different things that person
		
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			can do in these 10 days.
		
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			But that which we wanna speak about today
		
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			is a matter that every single person here
		
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			today
		
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			needs to comprehend,
		
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			needs to teach these people or the people
		
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			who are close to him, his family members,
		
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			his children.
		
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			Brothers and sisters, if you look at the
		
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			sad reality today
		
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			of our
		
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			youth, how they are, what they know,
		
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			it is a very very sad situation.
		
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			When you ask our kids when you ask
		
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			our kids
		
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			about some of the channels on the TV,
		
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			and some of the football players that they
		
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			know about, that they look at,
		
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			they are able to tell us the full
		
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			Barcelona team, the full Arsenal team, from top
		
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			to
		
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			bottom. The guy that's playing in goal, all
		
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			the way to the guy that's playing in
		
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			the forward position.
		
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			The guy that's on the bench, even the
		
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			guy that's injured, our kids, our youth, they
		
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			know.
		
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			You ask them about the TV programs.
		
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			From the things that they watch, the little
		
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			kids. Programs like Pepper Pit.
		
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			This is a program today that they use,
		
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			that the little kids they are connected to.
		
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			Most of the little kids, they know this
		
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			program. You ask them about it, it is
		
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			a program where you find things going up
		
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			and down.
		
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			The that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala prohibited from
		
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			us, their kids are doing it, are looking
		
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			at it. They're loving it, they're liking it.
		
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			And games that they play, games like GTA.
		
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			When a person goes and kills, he's able
		
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			to even go into a strip club. This
		
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			is the things that our kids, our youth
		
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			are playing today.
		
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			You ask them about the characters
		
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			of what this pig is called, and what
		
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			that pig is called. They are able to
		
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			tell you. They can tell you all the
		
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			football players.
		
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			But when it comes to the reality of
		
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			what they're supposed to know, it's sorry to
		
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			say that they don't know this.
		
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			The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he said
		
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			in a hadith,
		
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			Never did Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala place a
		
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			responsibility
		
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			upon anyone.
		
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			And the day when this person dies,
		
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			He dies as a person that has committed
		
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			deception.
		
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			He has deceived.
		
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			He has been treacherous
		
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			to his children, and the people that come
		
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			under him with his responsibility.
		
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			And he came in another narration,
		
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			How is this person treacherous?
		
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			He doesn't advise. He doesn't do that which
		
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			is an obligation upon him to do.
		
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			To simply convey and teach his children and
		
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			the people that are close to him these
		
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			basic things in his religion.
		
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			Today our kids know this.
		
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			We shout from the top of our voices
		
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			when it comes to academics,
		
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			when it comes to going to the school,
		
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			when it comes to
		
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			studying in the primary, in the secondary, we
		
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			want them to go to university.
		
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			And rightly so, we want them to get
		
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			an education.
		
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			But do we have the same Muamal with
		
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			our kids, and the people that are close
		
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			to us when it comes to
		
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			knowing what Al Islam
		
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			means. You ask our kids,
		
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			the majority of our kids, they don't know
		
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			the simple meaning of what Al Islam
		
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			means. I interviewed a few kids one time
		
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			outside of a masjid. A lot of them
		
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			they say, I don't know. Some of them
		
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			they say, peace. Some of them they say,
		
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			it's a way of life.
		
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			The true meaning of when the
		
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			Islam, they looked at the Quran, and they
		
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			derived from it. Three things that what Al
		
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			Islam means.
		
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			Our kids, they don't know this.
		
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			A person might be excused if he doesn't
		
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			know the virtues of these 10 days that
		
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			we're living in. But something that we all
		
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			claim, we claim to be Muslims,
		
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			and we don't know simply what an Islam
		
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			means.
		
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			It is a musiva.
		
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			It is a problem that we have in
		
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			our society today.
		
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			But when you ask our kids,
		
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			they can tell you condensation,
		
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			evaporation,
		
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			alliteration,
		
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			how the water goes up, how the water
		
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			comes down. Some of the things they teach
		
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			them in Science, they know it inside out.
		
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			They've mastered it. But when it comes to
		
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			know what al Islam means, we don't know.
		
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			Brothers and sisters,
		
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			the ulama of al Islam, they derive 3
		
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			ingredients from the Quran of what al Islam
		
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			means.
		
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			They mentioned,
		
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			There are person
		
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			submits to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala with
		
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			that a person does what Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala commanded him to do. And then the
		
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			third thing,
		
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			that person is free from shirk and his
		
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			people.
		
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			So what do these things mean?
		
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			That person submiss to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			that the
		
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			that we
		
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			do, the worship that we do, we don't
		
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			divert except to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			How many people in our society today, in
		
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			our communities,
		
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			in the community that we have today here
		
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			in Lester?
		
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			How many people do we find who easily
		
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			perform shirk?
		
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			You Allah. You Rasulullah.
		
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			It's okay for us to make duh to
		
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			Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala and also make duh
		
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			to the prophet
		
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			And this is now becoming widespread. Whether we
		
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			know it or whether we don't, this is
		
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			the reality.
		
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			Our kids playing with magic, they know Harry
		
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			Potter. They know Cinderella.
		
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			They know abracadabra.
		
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			All these things, they know about it very
		
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			very well. The kids are taking once, and
		
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			they're saying, spelling arm. All these things that
		
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			you find inside the programs,
		
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			that is in relation to.
		
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			And this is why I seen with my
		
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			own eye. A Muslim father with his Muslim
		
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			child
		
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			In Toys R Us, she's getting a one
		
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			and she's doing this.
		
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			Do you really think that when these kids
		
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			become older,
		
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			they are going to stay away from a
		
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			pig, akhinzir, that they're watching today, or they're
		
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			gonna stay away from magic?
		
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			Or they're not gonna be doing that which
		
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			they do in the programs?
		
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			The prophet
		
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			said to us,
		
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			Muhammad. Whoever comes to a sorcerer or a
		
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			fortune teller, and he believes what she says,
		
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			then this person has disbelieved in what came
		
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			down upon the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			In another narration,
		
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			Whoever just comes, comes to Arab
		
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			and asks her a question. Just one question
		
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			he ask. His salat is not accepted for
		
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			40 days.
		
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			So if our kids today, they find it
		
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			normal, there's no problem with it.
		
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			Then do you really think that when they
		
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			grow up, there's not gonna be a problem.
		
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			When they're having some marriage problems, it came
		
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			through my door.
		
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			Someone writing, if anybody has any marriage problems,
		
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			call this number.
		
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			And we can do spells, and we can
		
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			do this, and we can do that. It
		
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			came through my door.
		
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			This is what goes for every a lot
		
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			of people's doors, a lot of people's houses.
		
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			So if a person doesn't know the basics
		
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			of his religion,
		
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			then do you really think that he's not
		
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			gonna pick up a call when him and
		
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			his wife are having problems in order for
		
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			this problem to get solved?
		
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			And then he leaves the fold of Islam.
		
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			This is the sad reality that we have
		
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			today. And today we hear
		
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			is not important. Where is written in the
		
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			Quran? The matter
		
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			of is very little.
		
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			Knowing your
		
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			Brothers and sisters, the matter of
		
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			the preordained
		
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			decree, is one matter from the matters that
		
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			is upon a person to believe.
		
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			Abdullah ibn Umar,
		
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			the son of Umar ibn Khattah. He
		
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			said,
		
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			He swears by Allah that if one has
		
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			the size of ushus in goat,
		
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			And then he spends this in the way
		
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			of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			Nothing will be accepted from this person until
		
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			he believes in the kadar. Now one thing,
		
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			no matter how many Ibadah that we do,
		
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			the
		
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			superogatory standing
		
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			up in prayer all day, everyday.
		
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			But we don't believe in this kind of
		
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			beliefs, it won't benefit us at all.
		
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			Nothing is accepted from this person.
		
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			Nothing is accepted from this person. And if
		
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			a person is committing sin,
		
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			this person
		
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			is Major sin.
		
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			But at the same time,
		
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			He has the correct belief, and at the
		
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			same time, he doesn't commit
		
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			Then it wouldn't be
		
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			exaggerative if we said that this person, if
		
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			he lies upon what he's upon,
		
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			there is still a chance sooner or later
		
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			he's gonna come out of the hellfire. This
		
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			is
		
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			someone that does commit
		
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			but at the same time, at the same
		
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			time, this
		
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			is a
		
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			We don't wanna have a bubble above our
		
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			heads, that there's even a chance for us
		
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			to go into the * fire, to get
		
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			punished
		
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			for whatever we done. The Prophet
		
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			said, and
		
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			now The fire that you have in your
		
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			house
		
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			is 1 70th
		
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			from the fire in the * fire.
		
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			So brothers and sisters, this is the reality.
		
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			The importance of our aqeedah, the importance of
		
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			establishing the tawheed.
		
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			Today, the focus has been taken away.
		
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			People that are very famous on YouTube, they're
		
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			saying things like, oh, we need to only
		
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			give preference.
		
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			We only need to speak about drugs and
		
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			alcohol and girls. But the matter of aqeedah,
		
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			we don't need this.
		
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			The guy that drinks,
		
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			the guy that commits zina
		
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			is a 100 times better than the one
		
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			that commits shirk.
		
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			Because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala might forgive him
		
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			and might punish him. It's solely down to
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala whatever he does with
		
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			him. The second thing the second thing
		
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			that a person does what Allah commanded
		
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			him to do.
		
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			If you look
		
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			at the second most important thing in our
		
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			religion,
		
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			the matter pertaining salat.
		
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			If you look at the issue of salat,
		
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			how many Muslims today who claim
		
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			to be Muslims, but at the same time
		
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			they don't pray? The matter of salat is
		
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			not important.
		
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			The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said to
		
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			us,
		
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			The promise, the contract between us and them,
		
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			The difference between us and them. The agnostic,
		
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			the Hindu, the seer, the Christian, the Jew.
		
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			The difference between us and them.
		
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			Whoever leaves this oath, this person has disbelief.
		
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			Abdullah
		
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			who met Ali the 30th of the Sahaba.
		
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			He
		
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			said, They never used to see an action
		
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			that was abandoned to be kufr other than
		
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			salal. Maybe the person didn't commit siyam. He
		
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			never fasted. They had excuses.
		
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			They had excuses for this person. Perhaps, this
		
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			person is a traveler. Perhaps, he's ill. If
		
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			a person didn't perform hajj, perhaps this person,
		
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			he doesn't have the money. But when he
		
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			came to the salah, nobody had had excuses.
		
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			Because if the person if he can't pray
		
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			standing up, he has to pray sitting down.
		
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			If he can't pray sitting down, he has
		
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			to pray lying down. It's never ever fools
		
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			of a person.
		
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			Ibrahim. You have a perfect example
		
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			in Ibrahim alaihi salaam.
		
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			Ibrahim alaihis salatu wa salam.
		
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			Now look at Ibrahim alaihis salatu wa salam.
		
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			How he was adhering to what Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala told him to do.
		
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			Imagine you were told
		
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			that it's upon you to slaughter your child.
		
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			It's upon you to slaughter your child.
		
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			How our reaction would be?
		
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			And look at what
		
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			Ibrahim
		
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			and also his sub did.
		
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			Did.
		
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			His son says to him, oh father,
		
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			do what you've been told to do.
		
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			And Ibrahim alaihi salatu wasalam does it. Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala tells him to leave his
		
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			family in the middle of the desert.
		
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			Ibrahim alaihis salaam didn't say, oh Allah, I
		
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			like al Islam, but I don't wanna do
		
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			this.
		
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			I like al Islam, but I don't like
		
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			the hijab.
		
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			I like al Islam, but I don't like
		
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			the bib.
		
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			When the command came down,
		
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			Ibrahim alisrad was salam
		
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			was from the first people to submit.
		
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			When Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala told him to
		
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			submit, he submitted straight away. That doesn't mean
		
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			a person is perfect, that he does
		
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			that he's not going to fall into mistake,
		
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			that he doesn't have any shortcomings. That's why
		
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			we have tawba.
		
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			Some of us we find tawba is not
		
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			even part of our DNA.
		
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			When he Adam, he's going to make mistakes.
		
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			He falls into sin, something that is bound
		
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			to happen, but a person needs to make
		
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			tawba. It is from the things that Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala commanded him to do.
		
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			The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
		
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			as Allah mentioned, in Hadith al Khutri,
		
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			You make mistakes day and night. Buy, forgive
		
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			all sins. But what do we have to
		
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			do? First off,
		
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			Seek forgiveness from me, and I will forgive
		
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			you.
		
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			And the last thing from the 3 ingredients
		
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			that the ulama have mentioned,
		
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			To be free from shirk and also his
		
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			people.
		
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			Does that mean when your neighbor John says
		
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			good morning to you, that you blank him,
		
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			and you frown at him, and you give
		
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			him a dirty look, or you don't get
		
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			involved in any community cohesion.
		
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			Is that what
		
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			means? How was the prophet
		
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			was
		
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			nice.
		
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			One of the main reasons why a lot
		
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			of the kuffar, they entered into an Islam
		
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			was because of the salallahu alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			His lofty manners, his lofty etiquettes. And also
		
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			you ask majority of those that are newly
		
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			coming to Islam. Why is the main reason
		
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			why you came into Islam? They tell you
		
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			what.
		
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			Because of how the Muslims they deal, and
		
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			how the akhlaq is, how the mannerism is,
		
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			and etcetera.
		
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			So what does he mean? That when it
		
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			comes to
		
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			when it comes to their religion, we have
		
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			nothing to do with it. We don't do
		
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			what they do. Their
		
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			we are free from it.
		
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			And this is what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			commanded us to do.
		
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			And at the same time, pay attention. I
		
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			am not saying that we cut off from
		
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			these people. Today, we tell the people. We
		
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			tell the people, do not get involved in
		
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			Christmas,
		
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			do not get involved in Halloween, do not
		
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			celebrate Valentine's Day,
		
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			because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, and he
		
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			ommakmah
		
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			The day when I completed your religion,
		
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			and I perfected my favor upon you,
		
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			and I chose Islam as your religion.
		
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			And also because we have the Ayyad, wait
		
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			a few months, wait a few days, the
		
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			Eid is coming. The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
		
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			The day of Arafah, the day of Shashriq,
		
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			the Yomunaha.
		
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			Also the Jum'ah that we have, and also
		
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			the yomal the Eid al Fitr, these are
		
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			days of celebrations that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			has given the Muslim in. Stick to these
		
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			stick to these celebrations,
		
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			and it is enough for you.
		
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			We get looked at as if we are
		
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			speaking another language, or as if we are
		
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			crazy.
		
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			The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, and I
		
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			will conclude with this, a man came up
		
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			to him and he said,
		
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			I made an oath that I want to
		
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			slaughter in a place
		
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			called So the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam,
		
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			why this place?
		
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			Why this place? So the prophet salallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam asked him 2 questions.
		
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			Did they used to worship their gods there?
		
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			2nd question he asked him.
		
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			Did they used to make their celebrations
		
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			in that place that you're speaking about.
		
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			The man said, no. And the prophet
		
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			told him to
		
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			carry on with his oath and to slaughter.
		
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			The whole point is that the prophet sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam was about to prohibit him
		
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			from slaughtering, doing an
		
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			in a place where they do the ayaat,
		
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			the celebration. Let alone a person actually celebrating,
		
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			getting involved in Christmas. Today, the Muslim man,
		
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			the Muslim father, what does he do? He
		
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			buys a box of chocolates for his wife
		
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			on Valentine's Day. But the rest of the
		
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			year, what happens? There is no love, there's
		
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			nothing.
		
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			All in imitation to what the disbelievers do.
		
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			Brothers and sisters, if
		
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			only we knew the true meaning of this
		
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			definition,
		
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			a lot of the things that we do
		
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			today we wouldn't do. We ask Allah
		
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			to give us tawfil, and we ask Allah
		
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			to make us from those who submit to
		
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			whatever they hear, and they act upon the
		
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			aya, the ahadith, and the azaarasalam.
		
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			Just as Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala told them
		
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			to do. Brothers, a very quick announcement, as
		
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			the brothers requested for us to
		
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			announce now regarding the
		
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			sadaqah. The masjid
		
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			is in dire need. They have a lot
		
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			of dewun, they have a lot of problems.
		
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			All we're asking the brothers, wherever you can,
		
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			remember the statement of the prophet
		
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			prophet When a person
		
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			performs sadaqah or he pays the sadaqah, it
		
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			doesn't decrease him in wealth. Another important thing,
		
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			brothers,
		
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			is regarding the 8th prayer. The 8th prayer
		
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			in Victoria Park will go ahead.
		
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			The 8th prayer in Victoria Park will go
		
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			ahead unless
		
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			there is a very big problem.
		
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			It is severely raining
		
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			or, you know, frosting or it starts to
		
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			snow or something major like that happens. Otherwise,
		
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			it will carry on being established there. But
		
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			if something really major like that happens, what
		
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			happens? We will end up praying in this
		
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			Masjid inshallah. Subhanahu