Adnan Rajeh – Final Three Ramadanic Reminders

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The speakers emphasize the importance of forgiveness and finding a way to forgive others in every situation. They provide recitation reminders for upcoming month and year in tries, emphasizing the need for forgiveness and the importance of praying and strengthening oneself. The upcoming month and year will focus on rebuilding behavior and finding ways to forgive others. The importance of working for Allah Subhanahu Wa Alexa and praying for one's new relationship with God is emphasized. The upcoming month will encourage people to give their lives to the cause and offer sadaqah to those who cannot eat enough. The event will start on Wednesday and last for 30 days, emphasizing the importance of making personal decisions and making changes to one's life.

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			A few days.
		
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			That's how he describes for us the
		
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			decreed fasting
		
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			upon us.
		
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			It's going to be a few days,
		
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			just a number of days.
		
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			And yet again, we come to the end
		
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			of these numbered days.
		
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			And the 3
		
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			final Ramadanic reminders I'm going to offer you
		
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			today are no different than the ones that
		
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			I offered you last year or the year
		
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			before or the year before that.
		
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			Firstly,
		
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			it does not end it's it's not over
		
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			until it's over. It doesn't end until it
		
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			ends.
		
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			If there's one second left of Ramadan, that
		
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			means there's still one second left of hope
		
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			for you
		
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			to make up for that which you have
		
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			missed out upon throughout the blessed month.
		
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			So renew your attentions
		
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			yet again.
		
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			Renew your intentions a final time.
		
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			Do not lose track or lose sight of
		
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			that which you set out to achieve at
		
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			the beginning of this month.
		
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			As long as there are time left in
		
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			the month, there is still time for you
		
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			desire and that which you hope for. Whether
		
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			that may be the forgiveness of your sins,
		
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			whether that may be the freedom of punishment
		
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			on the day of judgment, whether that may
		
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			be increased amount of hasanat, whether that may
		
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			be any other form of supplication that you
		
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			have made and something that you want Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala to respond to you and
		
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			to grant you, then you still have time.
		
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			It's not over until it's over.
		
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			You must con con continue to carry that
		
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			in your in your mind and in your
		
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			heart. That's how he lived his life, alayhis
		
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			salatu wa sallam.
		
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			If you if you if you follow him
		
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			along, alayhis salatu wa sallam, he never gave
		
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			up hope until there was no hope left
		
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			to be given.
		
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			The the example that I love the most
		
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			in his in
		
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			his is that year of Hajj 10th year,
		
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			the Hajj of that 10th year. When the
		
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			prophet alaihi salatu wasalam was looking for a
		
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			tribe to accept his dua. Someone who would
		
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			show him some degree of protection so he
		
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			could leave Mecca that were trying to kill
		
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			him at that point.
		
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			So he would spend the all 10 days
		
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			of Hajj speaking to different tribes. He would
		
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			speak to 26
		
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			different tribes and he'd be rejected by them
		
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			all.
		
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			And he would stay
		
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			in Mina
		
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			trying to speak to people till the last
		
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			moment. This peep the the narrators of Siraam
		
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			both Ibn Hisham and Louaqidi.
		
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			They point out to us that the
		
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			the meeting
		
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			between the prophet
		
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			and the 6 young gentlemen from Yathrib
		
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			happened at the last hour
		
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			of the last day of Tashriq
		
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			in the farthest part of Mina from Makkah.
		
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			This is how they describe it.
		
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			The days of Tashriq, which are the days
		
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			of Hajj, you don't have to go through
		
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			all of them.
		
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			So it's gonna be 2 days. You can
		
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			make them 3 if you really want to
		
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			stay till the end. Usually after the 2nd
		
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			day, people people leave and no one's almost
		
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			left at all. But he was there sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam on the 3rd day. And
		
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			he stayed until the literal end when there
		
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			was no one left.
		
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			As long as there was someone left in
		
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			Mina, he was there alayhi salatu wa sallam.
		
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			And all that was left were 6 people
		
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			all under the age of 21.
		
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			The eldest of them,
		
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			Asad Ibn Zurara, the eldest of them was
		
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			was 21 years old.
		
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			And their prophet, alayhi, salatu wa sallam, would
		
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			go to 6 young men,
		
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			shaving their heads. There was no one left
		
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			in all of Mina aside from them.
		
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			And he would speak to them.
		
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			And from there, the rest of the story
		
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			as you know it.
		
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			So you don't give up hope until the
		
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			last moment.
		
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			Today is the 26th
		
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			day. There's still a number of nights.
		
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			Ramadan this year is 30.
		
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			Until the Asr or till the Maghrib of
		
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			the 30th day of Ramadan, until the makes
		
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			Adhan of the 30th day of Ramadan for
		
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			Maghrib.
		
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			Then there is still hope
		
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			that you find your way back and that
		
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			you fulfill the promise that you made Allah
		
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			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			fulfills the promise that he made you.
		
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			My second reminder,
		
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			today
		
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			is and it's the 26th day, meaning we're
		
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			entering the 27th tonight.
		
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			And no matter where you come from or
		
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			where you lived your life, the 27th night
		
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			will always have a certain
		
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			place in the hearts of this.
		
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			I am a firm believer that the lady
		
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			is the the night that moves around throughout
		
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			Ramadan every year. But the 27th night is
		
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			a night that just has a cultural significance.
		
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			It has a significance a scholarly significance as
		
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			well. And it's the night of Afu, as
		
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			the scholars of Islam have talked about historically.
		
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			It's the night of Afu. It's the night
		
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			of pardoning.
		
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			It's the night where you can hope or
		
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			you can
		
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			you can have an ambition that Allah will
		
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			pardon you, will remove your sin. Forgiveness is
		
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			one thing.
		
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			So you're reminded of a yomul qiyama, but
		
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			you also be told it's forgiven.
		
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			But you will be reminded of it. You
		
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			will have to read it in your book.
		
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			Pardoning is where it's it's not even in
		
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			your book anymore.
		
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			No one recalls it. The melech who wrote
		
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			it does not remember it. The person who
		
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			was harmed by it does not remember it.
		
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			And you almost lose your mind, O Mirkiyama,
		
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			because this was what you were worried about.
		
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			All of your life you were worried about
		
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			this zamb and you can't find it. It's
		
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			not in your book. The medic who wrote
		
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			it does not recall it. The person that
		
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			you harmed does not remember it. And you
		
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			go to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and as
		
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			you're reading through the book, it never comes
		
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			out throughout the whole isaab, so you have
		
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			no choice but to ask Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala, where is this them? Not that I
		
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			want to I'm glad it's not there, but
		
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			I I just don't understand. This is literally
		
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			all I was worried about.
		
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			And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala remind you of
		
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			the night you said, Allahumma'inaka'afoooon
		
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			tuhibulafua fa faani. And he granted you that.
		
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			And he pardoned you. And he removed the
		
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			sin. And he'll tell you, you Abdi, the
		
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			only 2 that still know about this sin
		
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			is me and you.
		
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			And as you walk out of here, I
		
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			will make you even forget it. And it
		
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			will be not as if it did not
		
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			happen. It will be that it did not
		
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			happen. And that is what you are looking
		
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			forward to tonight.
		
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			You are looking forward to the opportunity of
		
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			sins not being forgiven. No. But be completely
		
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			erased
		
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			as if they never happened. And the only
		
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			one who knows about them will be
		
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			Allah
		
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			But that requires from you the ability to
		
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			pardon others. Sayyidina Umar would would stand in
		
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			front of people before this night and
		
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			will say,
		
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			Tonight, oh, people of Medina, everyone, I forgive
		
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			everyone.
		
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			I I I turn up I turn a
		
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			a page.
		
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			It's a new leaf. I as if nothing
		
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			before. That's Afu. Afu means you'll never talk
		
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			about it again.
		
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			You'll never bring up the the mistake ever
		
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			again. You will the person will regain trust
		
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			all over again. They'll regain trust. They'll go
		
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			back to how it was or even better.
		
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			That's
		
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			It's hard. It's not easy. It's very difficult.
		
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			Forgiveness is way easier.
		
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			Forgiveness, you go from negative to neutrality. That's
		
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			good. Afu, you go from negative to a
		
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			high positive.
		
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			I'm going to forgive the sin, we're never
		
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			gonna talk about it again, and then we're
		
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			gonna go back to the way it was
		
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			actually better.
		
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			So, Omer would stand and say this to
		
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			people, Indeed, everyone is tonight. That's it. I've
		
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			the the whatever I carried is gone. If
		
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			I've harmed anyone, come to me so that
		
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			you maybe feel the same way about me.
		
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			So they would. And then he would stand
		
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			and, radiAllahu anhu, and
		
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			he
		
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			would
		
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			say,
		
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			Oh, Allah, your servant now has pardoned. Now
		
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			it's your turn to pardon us. Jallajalalahu,
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala. And that's what we look
		
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			forward to this night.
		
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			You need to find a way to reach
		
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			deep down into your soul
		
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			and find the space to pardon those who
		
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			mistreated you at some point in your life.
		
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			And you will find it to be, hands
		
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			down, probably the most difficult thing you'll ever
		
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			do in the entirety of your existence.
		
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			Even though it requires zero physical stress,
		
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			but it just it's difficult for the human
		
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			being to pardon, to get rid of something
		
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			of a mistreatment that occurred that was never
		
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			it's just very hard. But if you look
		
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			forward to the night of Afu where Allah
		
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			offers you that, if that's what you want
		
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			from him, then do this. I guarantee you
		
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			will get it because
		
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			Allah refuses for his servant to be more
		
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			generous than himself. He refuses, Subhanahu wa ta'ala,
		
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			and impossible that his servant be more generous
		
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			than him. If you pardon, then you will
		
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			be pardoned.
		
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			My final reminder of the of the month
		
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			and of the year in Ramadan.
		
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			This may sound a little bit weird to
		
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			you.
		
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			There's no real value in filling up Masajid.
		
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			There's no real value in doing that.
		
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			Masajid
		
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			and Ramadan,
		
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			they serve as a launching pad.
		
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			Numbers don't mean anything.
		
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			I can show you pictures of Masajid that
		
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			have tens and thousands of people praying taraweeh
		
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			all year round. I go all month round.
		
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			We can just show you all throughout the
		
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			all throughout the the the Muslim world and
		
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			beyond. Tens of thousands of people. Masaijah being
		
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			full all
		
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			it there's no real value to that. If
		
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			Masajid do not if this month and and
		
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			these Masajid don't serve as launching pads for
		
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			people to go out after Ramadan and change
		
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			their lives and do something that is valuable.
		
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			Coming to a masjid and pray. We don't
		
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			fix our ummah by sitting in masajid and
		
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			and making dua all night or by praying
		
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			all night. I know that sounds a little
		
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			bit, weird, but this is the reality of
		
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			the matter. These salawats are designed to be
		
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			fuel so that the ummah goes outside of
		
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			the masjid and makes the difference that needs
		
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			to be made. And whenever they get tired
		
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			or they feel frustrated or they lose their
		
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			connection, they come back again and they fill
		
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			up and then they go back outside again.
		
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			This concept that the ummah's status is going
		
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			to be fixed just by filling Masajid up
		
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			is ludicrous, and I didn't realize that this
		
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			was an actual belief that exists inside of
		
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			our Ummah. That's not how this works.
		
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			Read Surah al Muzammil Allah Subhana Wa Ta'la
		
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			explains to the prophet alayhi sallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam why he wants them to do all
		
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			this
		
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			qiyam. You're going to be carrying a heavy
		
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			burden. It's a heavy message that we're going
		
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			to give you. You need as much prayer
		
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			as you can. In order for you to
		
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			carry this message, you have to be as
		
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			connected to me as possible. So pray as
		
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			much as you can so you can carry
		
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			this.
		
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			At night is a good time for you.
		
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			It allows you strengthens you more.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Is swimming. As if Allah subhanahu wa sallam
		
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			as if during the day you're gonna be
		
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			out there swimming amongst problems and masa'ib and
		
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			difficulties and people and that and you it's
		
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			hard to do that. It's hard to get
		
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			out there and actually do the work. You
		
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			need your salah, You need your connect. You
		
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			need your dua. You need that spiritual
		
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			You needed that spirituality. It has to be
		
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			strong or you can't do your work outside.
		
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			So the point of all of this is
		
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			not to fill these places and then after
		
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			that, after we go back to this No.
		
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			It's not gonna mean anything.
		
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			Quantity means nothing. It's quality that matters. The
		
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			fact that you came and you prayed, that
		
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			has to result, that has to translate into
		
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			some change in your life afterwards outside the
		
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			Masjid. Youami, outside the Masjid. This is not
		
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			where Islam is practiced. This is where Islam
		
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			is trained. This is where it's nurtured. And
		
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			then it launches people out into the world
		
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			where Islam is going actually be practiced, where
		
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			the work is going to happen.
		
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			We make dua because we have to because
		
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			we were commanded to. Because dua explains to
		
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			Allah it shows Allah what we want. So
		
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			we make dua for Al Quds explain. It
		
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			shows him that we care, that they're still
		
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			in our hearts. But if we're not gonna
		
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			go and do the work outside the Masjid
		
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			for them, then it doesn't mean anything. I'm
		
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			sorry. This may sound but that's that's the
		
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			reality of the matter.
		
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			There is this is this is the hard
		
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			truth. This is the hard truth.
		
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			Numbers and massage in Ramadan, that's just for
		
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			show.
		
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			We had this number of people come pray.
		
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			What happened afterwards?
		
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			How many of them
		
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			kept coming afterwards? How many of them educated
		
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			themselves? How many of them organized and actually
		
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			started to do something of worth, of value?
		
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			How many of them got into outreach or
		
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			education or mentorship or or advocacy? How many
		
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			of them did that versus they just came
		
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			and prayed and prayed and left, And they
		
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			came back and prayed again and then left
		
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			again.
		
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			When is the work gonna happen? Do you
		
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			think this is the work? This is not
		
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			the work. This is Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala's
		
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			bounty upon me and you. That's all this
		
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			is. This is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala opening
		
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			his doors and come my servants to me
		
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			so that you may see the beauty of
		
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			being connected to me. Because if you find
		
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			that beauty, then you will live the rest
		
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			of your life making sure that you hone,
		
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			you hold on to it, that you never
		
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			lose it again. Sure that you hone, you
		
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			hold on to it, that you never lose
		
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			it again. And
		
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			that you work for him, subhanahu wa ta'ala,
		
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			as his prophets did, as the Sahaba did,
		
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			as the people of God did. And as
		
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			the people of God did. And as the
		
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			people of God did. And as the people
		
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			of God did. And as the people of
		
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			God did. And as the people of God
		
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			did. And as the people of God did.
		
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			And as the people of God did. And
		
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			as the people of God did. And as
		
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			the people of God did. And
		
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			But without that, then this story will continue
		
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			as just a as just a replica.
		
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			We'll just do the same thing next year.
		
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			Then, yes, the massage will be full and
		
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			all the people running massage will be all
		
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			proud and be taking pictures and sharing them
		
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			on their social media. It'll be all nice
		
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			and cool and pretty, but then nothing will
		
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			change. We'll be in the same exact spot,
		
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			if not worse. Usually, if you don't move
		
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			forward, you regress and move backwards.
		
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			That's how life works. If you don't move
		
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			forward, you're you're moving backwards. So you have
		
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			a lot of numbers. The prophet
		
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			told us time and time again. Time and
		
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			time again, it's not about numbers. Never has
		
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			been. The Quran tells us never about numbers,
		
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			not about numbers. The one that keeps on
		
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			telling us that's not about numbers. He tells
		
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			us that, subhanahu wa ta'ala, after each battle,
		
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			he would explain. It's not about numbers. The
		
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			numbers don't mount don't don't mount to anything.
		
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			Don't don't count. They don't matter. What matters
		
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			is this quality. The people who are out
		
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			there doing the work, the people who have
		
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			that dedication, the grit, the resilience without that
		
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			allow Ramadan to be a launching pad for
		
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			you.
		
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			Allow Ramadan to be the starting point. So
		
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			you're gonna tell me it's all Ramadan is
		
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			almost done. Yeah. Ramadan is almost done. Not
		
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			your Ibad,
		
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			not your relationship with God.
		
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			That's not just that's not almost end. That's
		
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			just starting.
		
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			That's beginning
		
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			we use you celebrate you celebrate the beginning
		
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			of that real relationship with Aid. That's what
		
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			you're celebrating. You're celebrating that you are you
		
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			got through this this spiritual heavy month that
		
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			will allow you to be the best Muslim
		
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			you can be outside. So that's why you
		
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			celebrate
		
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			and and you celebrate, you start you celebrate
		
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			by starting and doing something of that meaning
		
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			by giving of sadaqah.
		
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			Because that's how you start doing something good.
		
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			You give someone from the wealth that you
		
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			have even if you don't have a lot.
		
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			So does
		
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			not require any salah. It just requires for
		
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			you to have enough food that day.
		
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			Enough food, enough clothing that day, you have
		
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			to pray the
		
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			why? Because that's how this works. Because you
		
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			are launching your new life. You're You're walking
		
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			out of Rabada, there's no more sin. You
		
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			have clarity. You're connected to the Lord Subhanahu
		
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			Wa Ta'ala himself. And now you're going to
		
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			move outside of the masajid and do the
		
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			job that needs to be done. You'll start
		
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			by giving zakat.
		
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			You'll start by giving sadaqah to those who
		
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			can't find enough to eat and you and
		
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			you begin your life.
		
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			That's what that's the point of this month.
		
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			Do not let this month do not the
		
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			purpose of it be defeated the moment it's
		
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			over. Please don't let it be defeated the
		
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			moments it it it ends. It's not fair.
		
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			It's not fair. He he opened his doors
		
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			for you
		
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			How could you walk away afterwards?
		
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			How can he open his doors for you
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala and grant you something in
		
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			your heart that you never felt before, and
		
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			then you turn your back after Ramadan and
		
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			walk away as if nothing happened?
		
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			No. This is where we start. This is
		
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			where we train. This is where we establish
		
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			our connection allowing us to be the people
		
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			that we need to be outside of the
		
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			That is what I have to share with
		
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			you today.
		
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			Eid Insha'Allah Ta'ala is going to be on
		
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			Wednesday.
		
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			It'll be 30 days this blessed month as
		
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			far as we we can tell.
		
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			The salawat will will
		
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			share inshallah with you the timings of salawatil
		
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			Eid on the groups. We will be inshallah
		
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			in the, JAMA'ah prayer and the BMO center.
		
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			I think there's one I believe at 9
		
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			and another one at 10:30. So we'll be
		
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			there. We won't have an aid here. We'll
		
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			look forward to seeing you all there to
		
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			to pray as a as a group. Is
		
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			between 15 and 20. I think I think
		
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			it's put 15, but I would say if
		
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			you have a little bit extra, may you
		
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			push that
		
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			upon everyone that you're financially responsible for.
		
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			Over men. Men are responsible for their spouses
		
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			and their children that they are taking care
		
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			of. Anyone that you are responsible for financially,
		
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			you owe for.
		
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			And if your wife is pregnant, if it's
		
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			is beyond
		
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			17 weeks, then then you owe for for
		
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			the for the fetus inside the belly as
		
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			well.
		
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			Give that salatul Filtr prior to
		
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			preferably give it maybe 2 or 3 days
		
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			before. Now usually the sun that used to
		
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			be, you give it the morning after fajr,
		
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			but it used to be easier people. There
		
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			were back then, there were more people who
		
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			were in need. You would just take your,
		
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			you
		
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			take the shayr or the burr or the
		
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			or the zabeeb or whatever you we're gonna
		
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			give out and go give it out before
		
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			It's much more difficult these days to do
		
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			that. So give it early on. It's a
		
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			couple of days in in advance so that
		
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			the organizations that give them out can actually
		
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			make sure that they that they reach
		
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			the people who need it. And keep your
		
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			brothers and sisters in Gaza in your dua.
		
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			The reason that I gave this last piece
		
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			is because I don't think that we have
		
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			we're left with any degree of doubt
		
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			of the
		
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			the horrors that we are seeing
		
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			overseas or things that we do not want
		
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			our our grandchildren to have to watch ever
		
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			again. And if that is the case and
		
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			if you truly believe that these 170
		
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			plus days that we have been witnessing
		
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			the ongoing just the the brutality that has
		
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			a that has been afflicting the people in
		
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			Gaza
		
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			on in lot in real time
		
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			being
		
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			documented moment by moment. If you truly believe
		
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			that this is something that has to stop,
		
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			then if even though we're not able, unfortunately,
		
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			for this, that we're not able to stop
		
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			it immediately and we just don't have the
		
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			tools to do so, that we have within
		
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			our hands, the tools to make sure that
		
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			this does not happen again and that the
		
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			cause, the the issue of the that happened
		
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			in the holy land. And any other that
		
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			happened anywhere else in this Ummah is not
		
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			forgotten, and that we don't leave it and
		
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			just live our lives as if this is
		
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			not an actual problem, which is which is
		
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			quite frankly the way we've been living our
		
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			lives for the last maybe 70 to a100
		
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			to 200 years. When there's nothing that's occurring
		
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			acutely, we just look the other way. And
		
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			we booked our time off, and we booked
		
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			our, you know, our vacations, and we and
		
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			we're focused on what we're buying and what
		
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			we're having, what we will possess, and what's
		
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			going to come next. And it and this
		
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			whole concept is not even a part of
		
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			the of the equation.
		
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			This what happened over the last 6 months
		
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			is a wake up call. And if it
		
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			doesn't serve as a wake up call, then
		
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			nothing will serve as a wake up call.
		
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			Quite frankly, this is not going to make
		
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			a difference for you. If this is not
		
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			pushing you to make this Ramadan different and
		
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			make what comes after it different, then I'm
		
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			I'm sorry. There may not be anything that
		
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			will ever save you and I or me.
		
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			And this is not I'm not speaking to
		
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			you. I'm thinking to myself. If this is
		
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			not going to make me be a different
		
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			person and think differently and focus and and
		
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			and
		
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			and change the way that I look at
		
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			the world, and the way I look at
		
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			myself, and my role in it, that I'm
		
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			not sure there is anything left to happen.
		
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			Because honestly, you can't look at it. You
		
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			you can't watch people die this way. You
		
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			can't watch children being brought into the emergency
		
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			department. There there are small bodies, lifeless. Before
		
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			that, they're eating grass of hunger. People being
		
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			buried under their homes days upon days before
		
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			they're removed, just to be buried. You can't
		
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			see that happen
		
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			unjustly and and nothing changed. It's not
		
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			brothers and sisters.
		
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			The witness and that which was witnessed, he
		
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			swears by Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. He witnesses as
		
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			well. You can't witness things and act like
		
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			you didn't see them. You saw them. Now
		
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			you have to say what you're going to
		
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			do about them and how your life is
		
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			going to be different because of them. And
		
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			that's why I think, Ramadan, make that that
		
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			starting point. Make it the launching pad for
		
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			a life that is different. And and you'll
		
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			see that if we just have a handful
		
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			of people in every Masjid that decide to
		
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			be different, to live differently, this Ummah would
		
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			be very would change really quickly. Really quickly.
		
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			A handful of people. Make sure you're amongst
		
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			that handful. Make sure you're amongst that handful.
		
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			Even if everyone listening to me does not
		
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			decide to make that and and they're just
		
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			waiting for me to finish the Khotbah, which
		
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			I will finish.
		
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			Make sure that you're not one of those
		
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			people. Make sure you're one of those people
		
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			who look at things differently after Ramadan. And
		
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			I hope that was a benefit to you.