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Salam mubarak ala nabiyina wa habibina wa qurati
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aayunina muhammadin wa ala aalihi wa sahbihi ajma
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'in Amma ba'du fahadihi laylatul jumu'ah laylatun
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azeematun mubarakah yusannu fihal ikhtharu minas salati ala
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sayyidi wa maulayi rasoolillah wa ala aalihi wa
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sahbihi wa man walaahum kulli aamalin salih This
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is the night of Jumu'ah.
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It's a blessed night.
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There's a lot of barakah in this night
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in the sunnah.
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It's to increase your salah upon the Prophet,
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alayhi salatu wa salam, in every good deed.
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Ya rabi al-shaykhaan fee mattafaqa alayhi min
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hadithi hudhayfata ibn al-yamani radiyallahu anhu qaal
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There is a night collection of both Bukhari
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and Muslim narrated to us by Hudhayfa.
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And before I start, in the main hall,
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inshallah, Sheikh Tawakkol has a session, inshallah.
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And up in the extension, there's a sister's
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mentorship, so keep it empty for the sisters.
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And the adult Qur'an program for men
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is in the classroom.
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And you go through the hallway, inshallah, through
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the kitchen in there, inshallah, just so that
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everyone knows which way to go.
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The theme of dealing with the tribulation or
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turbulence or difficulties or fitna, and I think
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the word fitna is very, very specific in
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our deen.
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It's important to understand kind of what it's
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referring to.
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It's referring to all that which happens in
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life that you find challenging.
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It's a fitna.
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It tests you, right?
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That's actually the origin of the word.
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Meaning I tested you, I pushed you a
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little bit, I pushed you to an edge,
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I made you have to regroup and stand
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your ground or rethink things or reassess because
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you're off balance.
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And there's a lot of beauty to the
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word itself because someone muftun, someone fitan, for
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example, we use that word to describe someone.
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So it's used to describe someone who is
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causing fitna.
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It's also used to describe someone who is
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beautiful.
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Like in Arabic, they use fitan as an
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amir.
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But what do they have in common?
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They both throw you off balance.
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They both throw you off your balance for
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a moment.
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So they test you a little bit.
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They test your composure.
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They test your stability.
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So whether it's a difficulty they throw your
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way or just someone who is absolutely gorgeous
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and you just haven't seen something like that
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before.
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So it tests are you able to continue
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to behave normally or are you going to
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lose your balance?
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So that's really kind of the origin of
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the word.
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It's kind of throwing you off balance and
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seeing how you're going to behave.
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And the hadiths that talk about fitna, honestly,
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are extremely, extremely important.
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And they're always put in context of apocalyptic
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incidents or events.
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And I want to take them out of
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that for a moment so that you can
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actually benefit from them because we may not
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be living in an apocalyptic moment.
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It doesn't mean that we can't learn something
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from what he taught regarding dealing with fitna.
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And I feel like we rip ourselves off
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from learning sometimes of what he said.
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Let me get this quick.
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Sorry.
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I was looking to see you but I
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didn't see you there.
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I'll make it quick, inshallah.
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So this is what Hudayfah said.
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Everyone asked the Prophet ﷺ about khayr, what
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to do, what good things to do.
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And I always asked him about evil because
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I was scared of it.
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I was scared of at some point being
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inflicted by it.
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Which is why the Prophet ﷺ chose him
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to be ameen as sirr, to know all
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the names of munafiqeen and to kind of
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carry the majority of a hadith that talk
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about the ends of time and what happens
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there.
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And he is the best source for it.
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We were in a very bad situation.
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It was all sharr, it was evil before
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Islam.
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And then Allah ﷻ substituted that for us
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with khayr.
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Islam is what we have right now.
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So is after this khayr, is there going
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to be sharr again, is there going to
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be evil again?
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Yes.
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And after that evil, will there be another
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bout of goodness and khayr?
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Yes, but it's going to be polluted.
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Dukhan or dakhan is smoke.
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So it's going to be polluted.
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It's not going to be as pure.
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And what is the pollution of it?
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People, they're going to follow a different, they're
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not going to purely follow my teachings.
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They're not going to purely take my guidance.
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You'll know good things from them, you'll see
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good things from them.
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But you'll also see munkar, you'll see things
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that you don't like from them.
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What about after that khayr, will there be
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sharr again?
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Hudayf is very interested in the sequence of
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things.
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Yes, there will be people who stand calling
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others to jahannam.
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And those who respond to them, they'll throw
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them into jahannam.
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Describe them for us.
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They'll be like us and they speak like
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us.
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They're similar.
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What do I do at that point?
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You can hear throughout this hadith how Hudayf
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is processing this information.
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He's trying to figure out.
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Because what he's worried about is, what do
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I do?
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This is very beautiful, being with you, Ya
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Rasulullah ﷺ, and the barakah, being with the
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Prophet ﷺ.
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He's with him.
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He feels very safe.
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He feels very secure.
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He feels very pure.
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It's beautiful.
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He's worried, if the Prophet ﷺ leaves him,
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then what happens?
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And if he's around for some of it,
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what is he supposed to do?
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And I agree with him because I think
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we all feel that way.
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There is no bigger museeba than the loss
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of Muhammad ﷺ in our lives.
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And until this day, until the end of
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time, there'll be nothing that's worse for us
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as a group of people than not having
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him ﷺ amongst us to teach us and
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move us along.
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So he's asking this question.
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So what do I do if that happens?
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You stay with the jama'ah of the
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Muslimin and their leader.
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What if there's nothing?
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تَعْتَزِلُ تِلْكَ الْفِرْقَ كُلَّهَ إِلَىٰ أَن تَلْقَ اللَّهُ
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Then you leave all of that chaos and
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confusion.
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And even if you need to hold down
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to the root of a tree, remember?
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He was sitting on the carpet a few
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days ago.
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And he told them, hold on to the
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carpet.
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He keeps on teaching the same thing, ﷺ.
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Go back to the roots.
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He literally said, go back to the roots
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this time.
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I've been telling you figuratively for the last
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couple of days, and you've been kind of
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saying, yeah, okay.
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He literally said, hold on to the roots.
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He actually used the word tree and roots
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in the hadith.
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أَصْلُ شَجَرًا What is أَصْلُ شَجَرًا in Arabic?
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Roots.
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He said, hold on to the roots until
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you meet Allah that way.
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You leave all the chaos and you hold
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on to the roots until you meet Allah
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that way.
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Again, in my opinion, his message is very
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consistent, ﷺ, in how we protect ourselves as
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time progresses, as things change, as there's confusion.
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Hold on to the basics.
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Hold on to the base, the fundamentals of
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our deen.
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You don't need to make things complex.
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Don't make things complicated.
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People who are trying to make things complicated
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for you, leave them.
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Leave them.
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There's no time.
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We don't have the luxury for complicated conversations
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right now in Islam.
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We don't.
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We are way too far.
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Maybe later.
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Maybe when the khilafah comes back.
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Maybe when we are all powerful and we
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have our unity.
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Maybe then when we can sit around and
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talk about little issues of khilafah.
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Right now we don't.
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Now our ummah is divided, is horrifically divided.
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It's politically divided.
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It's theologically divided.
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It is ideologically divided.
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It is geographically divided.
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We don't need more division.
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We need people who just go back and
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hold on to the roots.
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The basics.
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The stuff that we all agree on.
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The stuff that are simple.
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Because everyone in this room agrees on la
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ilaha illallah muhammadur rasulullah.
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We agree on the sanctity of that book.
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On the sanctity of our prophet ﷺ.
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On the beauty of the basics of our
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principles and values.
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No, why do we need?
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We don't need more than that really.
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But the nafs loves the action.
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Loves the drama.
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It's fun.
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It's fun to categorize a whole group of
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people and just call them something.
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You know, clean things up a bit.
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They don't know what they are doing.
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He is an idiot.
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That whole group is lost.
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And then you are just left with you
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and maybe five people who are still on
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the scene.
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This is a disease of the heart.
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It's very simple.
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It's extreme.
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It's very common.
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It's been happening since the beginning of time.
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And it will continue to happen until the
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end of time.
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Just a disease of the heart where you
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want to be different.
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You want to be superior.
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Even though you don't want to say it,
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but you want to feel it.
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So the easiest way to do it is
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just to point out everyone who is not
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doing well.
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The prophet ﷺ said go back.
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Go back to the group.
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Stick with the group.
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There is no group.
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Hold on to the roots.
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Whatever you can do.
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But don't increase the division.
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And don't be someone calling upon Jahannam.
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And I find this hadith to be absolutely
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beautiful.
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I'll end with that inshaAllah.
