Adnan Rajeh – Dealing with Turbulence of Time 4

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The speaker discusses the difficulties of life and the importance of grabbing the "fitna" concept in achieving success. They emphasize the need to recline to the basics and hold onto the basics for stability and happiness. The speaker also mentions the importance of not getting too caught up in details and not giving too much information.

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			بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والحمد لله رب العالمين
		
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			اللهم صلي وسلم وبارك على نبينا وحبيبنا محمد
		
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			وعلى آله وصحبه أجمعين وبعد Inshallah, after the
		
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			khatira The brothers and sisters who fell during
		
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			the last 670 days or so or 470
		
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			days since the beginning of this conflict or
		
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			beginning of this attempt of genocide that the
		
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			apartheid state began on the people of Gaza
		
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			and as the ceasefire enters or enters into
		
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			action basically now or within this period we
		
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			ask Allah to grant them some degree of
		
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			relief and may they find some degree of
		
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			satisfaction in achieving a certain standard of bravery
		
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			and courage as a people, as a population
		
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			that will forever hold the bar for us
		
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			at a certain point that we may find
		
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			difficult to emulate in our lives and may
		
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			Allah teach us from this the lessons that
		
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			we need to learn to move forward in
		
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			a way that pleases him سبحانه وتعالى اللهم
		
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			آمين So we'll do this right after the
		
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			khatira inshallah يروي الإمام الطبراني في الكبير والإمام
		
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			الطحاوي في شرح المشكلة بسند صحيح عن أبو
		
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			واقد الليثي رضي الله عنه وقال The hadith
		
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			of Imam Tabarani with an authentic chain narration
		
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			narrated to us by Abu Waqid Al-Laythi
		
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			where he tells us in this theme of
		
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			dealing with fitna with turbulence or as it
		
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			was pointed out to me there's a different
		
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			word but now I forget what it is
		
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			but regardless fitna is something I think most
		
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			people understand at this point it's just the
		
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			difficulties of life really if you take the
		
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			word fitna the difficulties, the misfortunes, the shortcomings,
		
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			the hardships this is what fitna is all
		
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			that life is hitting you with it's the
		
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			good and the bad but mostly fitna is
		
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			used for the difficulties and the Prophet's hadith
		
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			within this chapter is always a little bit
		
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			overlooked because it's seen as prophecies for the
		
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			future but I think there's something for us
		
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			to benefit from these teachings because we all
		
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			go through turbulence in our lives and all
		
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			go through fitna and Abu Waqid Al-Laythi
		
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			tells us we were sitting with the Prophet
		
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			on a carpet of some sort and he
		
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			said indeed there's going to be in the
		
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			future there's going to be turbulence and difficulties
		
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			there's going to be a fitna something that
		
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			will make it difficult for people to function
		
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			and do their thing a lot of confusion
		
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			what do we do Ya Rasulallah?
		
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			he went down and he picked up the
		
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			piece of the carpet that he was sitting
		
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			on and he said you go like this
		
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			and he held on to the piece of
		
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			carpet strongly what he meant by that is
		
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			you hold on to your deen and you
		
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			hold on to what you were taught because
		
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			they were sitting with him on it now
		
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			we all know Aladdin had a carpet that
		
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			he sat on so the Arabs always had
		
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			some degree of respect for the concept of
		
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			carpets again there was a scarcity to having
		
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			something like this so they're all sitting on
		
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			the carpet it's really nice, it's comfortable unlike
		
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			what we're used to for us this is
		
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			uncomfortable because we're pampered as people but if
		
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			you're sitting all the time on turab you're
		
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			sitting on soil or dirt or sand or
		
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			you're sitting on rocks sitting on carpet was
		
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			pretty nice so they're sitting with him on
		
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			the carpet there's this feeling of oneness of
		
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			togetherness of clarity and they're asking what do
		
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			we do if it's difficult so he says
		
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			you hold on you hold on to what
		
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			you know to what you have and he
		
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			kept on talking saying about a fitna and
		
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			people are talking they're talking about it will
		
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			you not listen to the prophet he's talking
		
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			about the fitna what do you command us
		
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			to do you go back to the origin
		
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			of things you go back to your original
		
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			state this to me is an extremely profound
		
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			piece of advice that he offers here go
		
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			back to the origins of it all when
		
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			it gets really hard you have to be
		
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			able to recline on some of your maxims
		
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			what is it that is absolutely agreed upon
		
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			Islam is a beautiful and large faith and
		
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			there's a lot in it for sure it
		
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			can become a little bit confusing after a
		
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			while or it can be a little bit
		
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			complex if you're getting confused and if you're
		
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			feeling that you're in a state of fitna
		
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			and a little bit of chaos and turbulence
		
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			just recline go back to the basics go
		
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			back to the basics go back to what
		
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			it means to say la ilaha illallah go
		
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			back and know who your lord is go
		
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			back and just love Muhammad and hold on
		
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			to the Quran in your hands and just
		
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			hold on to the basic principles of honesty
		
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			and justice and truthfulness and righteousness and if
		
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			you do that in life then you'll be
		
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			safe even if you miss some details and
		
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			you fail to get it all right you
		
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			won't get it all right it's impossible to
		
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			do so if you get confused just go
		
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			back and hold back to the basics just
		
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			hold on that's what he was saying just
		
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			hold on to what you know just keep
		
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			yourself stable with the winds as life hits
		
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			you with all these winds and as you
		
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			start to lose orientation just hold down to
		
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			that which you know is stable which is
		
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			rooted in the ground and that's what we
		
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			have to do today as Muslims we have
		
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			to go back to the origins we have
		
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			to go back to the basics we have
		
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			to go back to the basics just the
		
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			basics of what Islam is and what Islam
		
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			teaches if we do that then a lot
		
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			can change for us if we stop fighting
		
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			about details that don't matter really that don't
		
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			matter that have no weight at all that
		
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			don't affect us as Muslims really and we
		
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			can't afford even to talk about right now
		
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			anyways we just put those aside and we
		
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			turn back and we climb back onto those
		
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			basics and we hold on to them and
		
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			we work together then there's nothing that's standing
		
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			in the way of removing our fitnas except
		
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			ourselves and I think he taught us a
		
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			lesson there that's worthy of sharing with you
		
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			Arabic we're
		
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			going to stand up and perform salat al
		
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			-ghaib and then salat al-sunnah and then
		
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			we have inshallah do we have some nasheed?
		
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			okay so