Adnan Rajeh – Five Additional Points to Consider During Difficult Times

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The speakers discuss the long term work that will make it up to a "horrible point" and how it will affect the future. They emphasize the importance of long term advocacy and educating children on their potential. The focus is on protecting youth, preparing them for the future, and educating them on their potential. The conversation also touches on workplace oppression and the importance of speaking the truth and consulting others who have more knowledge. The conversation ends with a discussion of the current crisis and the importance of staying safe.

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			Salam Alaikum Warahmatullahi Dinobot
		
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			Hello egg Boudleaux Akbar
		
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			the rest soon on
		
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			Alhamdulillah Haysom Alhamdulillah
		
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			Alhamdulillah Hina Medina who want to start you know
		
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			in Lika, Allah Allah here see, Rekha ALA.
		
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			calm. Hola, hola, yo Hebrew, coulomb Hotelling for whom you're
		
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			becoming harder and harder to get up here and keep a straight face.
		
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			It's becoming harder to walk down the street and keep a straight face. It's harder to go to work.
		
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			Harder to stay at home with your kids. It's hard to do anything and be focused and feel engaged
		
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			Anything that we do, as we just watched this death count, climb,
		
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			as if there's no end to it.
		
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			If there's no end to it, you walk in here today, after three hospitals were just bombed, thrown 300
people, most of them people who are sick, would pass and be martyred in the eyes of Allah subhanho
wa Taala accept them.
		
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			And I don't know what else I can say up here at this point that will offer you any comfort.
		
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			But I have another five points I want to share with you.
		
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			Something to contemplate to reflect upon, as we see what occurs in Gaza.
		
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			The unprecedented amount of barbarianism that we are witnessing the world is fiddling their thumbs
watching it.
		
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			Something we've never
		
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			seen before. Our brothers and sisters in Afghanistan are dealing with an earthquake almost
completely ignored, as the world is focused on this one problem. And God knows how many other acts
of oppression are occurring elsewhere that we have just just hasn't reached the importance that the
media will actually share it with us.
		
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			So the first point I want to share with you is well, why is all this happening? Because this must
come to some people's minds. Maybe many of you actually why is this going on? Why is this occurring?
Why it philosophical meaning as in why not as in explaining the political background for why or, or
explaining the
		
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			intricacies of the scientific house? Or know why? Why is this occurring? Why is it getting so
difficult and so dark and so hard?
		
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			Sometimes Wake Up Calls are harsh.
		
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			Sometimes wake up calls can be really harsh. It can be very painful. Those who are sleeping out the
driver in the driver's seat it
		
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			sometimes a harsh Wake Up Call is needed. Those who are stuck in their bubbles are living their
lives focused on issues of, of reveal, of trivial importance, sometimes await a harsh Wake Up Call
is what is required.
		
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			And is there to serve a purpose to make sure the person wakes up.
		
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			And that's what this is, this is a wake up call. For a generation of human beings. It's a wake up
call.
		
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			This is a wake up call that we must wake up,
		
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			we must wake up.
		
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			In the darkest of moments, you find yourself you find your calling, when it becomes very dark and
very painful. That is when you find what you're here to do.
		
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			We're seeing a lot of bravery today.
		
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			We're seeing a lot of courage amongst Muslim people in the West. People are looting losing their
jobs, people who are losing their status, people are being targeted.
		
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			Because I believe that most of us are starting to find our voice.
		
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			Finding Your voice is important. Wake Up Calls do exactly that.
		
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			They come to a group of people that are just cruising along, just getting comfortable in their
lifestyle is comfortable with their little plans for what's going to come next in the next couple of
decades. When that's not what they're here to do. And that was never their purpose. And that's not
what life is about. And you can be left for for a while to figure it out. And then you don't. And
then a wake up call comes. And it can be sometimes as harsh as this one for sure is, but it's harsh
for a reason. So that we may never forget
		
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			that we truly, profoundly and sincerely wake up to understand that there's more to our lives, and
maybe what we were thinking our lives were going to be about to begin with. It's moments like these
that you have the opportunity. And yes, I use that term, it's an opportunity for you to change your
life. May you be 15 or 85. It's moments like these that come and come throughout time to offer
people an opportunity to change their lives, to make some dishes decisions that are difficult to
make but are meaningful. So that you may continue whatever journey you have left may be long or
short, walking a path that has purpose to it. And that's why these things occur. That's why stuff
		
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			like this happen.
		
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			Whether whether it may be man made or natural disasters, they're there for that one purpose and one
reason
		
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			may not be in vain. May they're suffering not be in vain.
		
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			While we continue to wait for it to finish so we can just go back to what we were doing before it
began.
		
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			That is my that is that is the fear will lie that's the fear. The fear is in them two months or
three or whatever. This become
		
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			seems a distant memory and we're back to just focus, we're back into trivial issues that don't
matter. That's number two.
		
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			Number one, why number two,
		
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			long term, long term work, the long term work. The long term works every among it for a crisis. For
any given crisis, there are two things. There's the short term work. And then there's a long term
work, the short term work, which is surely you will continue to do, you will continue to email, you
will continue to go on rallies and protesting, you will continue to make phone calls, you will
continue to voice your concerns and participate in social media, you will boycott you will do
whatever it is that you have within your strength or within your power to do you'll follow the guy
with the local advocacy groups like ECMO or NCCAM are putting out there we'll do whatever it is that
		
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			they think we should do, do the short term solution, we try to do something short term to stop
what's happening to get a ceasefire to make sure that the blood count does not continue to to rise.
That's the short term short term plan. Of course, we all have to be a part of that none of us are
excused for not being a part of a short term plan short term efforts to make sure that we make a
difference. But really, it's about the long term plan is the long term work that will make it make
that make the difference here. You see what we are reaping today is what was sown 30 years ago,
		
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			but we're reaping today is what was sown 30 years ago,
		
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			you are not responsible. Especially if you're a miner. You're not responsible for what's happening
right now directly. Because this was put into motion a long time ago, this was inevitable to happen.
But in 30 years, they will so what they will reap whatever we sow today. They will reap whatever we
sow to that whatever we do today will affect whether it's 30 years from now, when we're most of us
are not here and I'm too old to do was the Halima have to get up and say the same stuff and complain
about the same problem and born the same number of people? Or will it be a different reality. It's
the long term work that matters, not the short term work. As important as the short term work is I'm
		
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			not trying to dismiss it.
		
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			But the long term work,
		
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			unfortunately, is unattractive. It's unattractive. It's boring.
		
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			And it's not fun. And it's not flashy, and it doesn't make the news.
		
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			And I walk into massage and I see a gentleman or an older lady sitting in a corner somewhere with a
couple of kids teaching her I say that's where this is coming. That's where the that's where it will
come from. That's where the change will come from that little person who's sitting there, just doing
their role, doing their best trying to educate and raise awareness and make sure that there's
something coming down the pipeline, to make sure that the future is not going to be like the
present. But no one likes doing that piece. I'm not saying everyone should come and sit and teach
kids at msgid.
		
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			But are you understanding what I'm trying to say? It's about the long term efforts.
		
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			People come to massages when there's a crisis. And they get upset when there's a crisis. And they
get emotional when there's a crisis. But then when the crisis is gone, you can barely find anyone to
do anything anymore.
		
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			We can find we can find people to do stuff, outside of times of crisis. During a time of crisis. We
are bombarded with ideas and suggestions and action and events. And then when it's done, everyone
just goes on with their life. That's not how you solve these things. It's the long term investment
profit either yourself doesn't didn't live long enough. You ever think about that? He never lived
long enough to see
		
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			what he asked what the consequences of what he did. He passed away before it. Sometimes we've
studied to see we don't realize that piece. When he passed away. Islam was just in parts of, of
Arabia, and Yemen and but it wasn't no, it was only 30 years later.
		
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			During the time of Earth man where it was covering three or four continents, that's when the fruits
were clear where were born. He didn't see it. He was okay with that. He was okay with that said
Allah is no problem. I'll do this. I'll do my work. He knew it was coming. Can you understand how
the world works and understands that you you put in the long you put in those hours and you and you
work for the long term goal, and you may pass away before you actually see it. Maybe even your child
children will do as long as they have the same mentality it'll come
		
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			the long term effort. Number three, the long term advocacy, specifically for this long term effort
in general for this OMA status for this OMA struggle, but long term advocacy.
		
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			They want to bomb hospitals and kill children.
		
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			All right. For every child you kill, we will make sure another one here is properly educated to
speak on his behalf. For a young woman for every young man and for every elderly person that you
bury under the rubble. We will make sure another one will pop up here to speak on their behalf and
be their voice and advocate
		
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			case for their cause and make sure that their blood will not be forgotten. That is how you advocate
long term. That's how you because we are one big family, aren't we? Isn't that what it means to be
an OMA, we're one big family. So my son over there passed away, I'll make sure my one over here
never forgets his brother who passed away there, and will speak for him till the day he passes. And
every time they kill someone there, someone here will speak on their behalf. And we will educate and
we will advocate, we will make sure that they are prepared and make sure that they are
		
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			taken care of so they can do what they're going to do in the future. They can be their voice so they
can move this needle so they can change the reality. That is long term advocacy. And that is what we
have to focus on. Because maybe right now we don't have the image. Do you have the ability? Do you
control the sky? You control the winds? Are you able, what are you able to control to stop the blood
count?
		
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			Yeah, I don't think so. Neither am I.
		
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			I don't, I can't either. There's nothing I would want more. Just so we can sleep. Just so you can
sleep.
		
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			Just for a moment just started so we can sleep. But we can't. So what's the long term work, then
that's going to be the long term work in the long term advocacy.
		
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			Number four,
		
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			our youth. That is where the hope is.
		
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			That is why I do what I do. That's why I do it. Because I've I've always been a pessimist. Just
naturally speaking, this is how I'm built I just don't
		
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			working with youth is the only thing that gives you a little bit of hope. Because you look at each
one of them, you say you never know who has the potential of being the one who make the difference.
They need to be protected in their schools. They need to be protected in their universities, they
need to be protected and advocated for and they cannot be left alone. And they cannot be left in an
environment where they're discriminated against where they are being targeted.
		
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			This is our this is our obligation in the city and as an OMA to make sure our youth are equipped
with the skill set with the knowledge with the proper preparation and the protection so that they
can become Who are they who they are destined to become. And this is our obligation in the city to
make sure that our children and their schools and their universities and their colleges, that they
are protected, and they are equipped because they are the hope.
		
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			Over here it seems that the Hadith of the Prophet alayhi salatu salam, when he talks about
		
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			you know, this hadith everyone here has heard it before. The Karma is our that when the time of the
day of judgment comes with the ethical VAD, I had to confess ILA for the sutra alerta Houma, Hatha
Yoga, Hatha Yoga often, and you feel like this UTM is starting and you have a small tree in your
hand, then make sure before UTM happens that you put it in the ground and you prepare it, prepare
it. What, Why, what could possibly be the point of doing that? Because it's all about that hope.
It's all about that, that
		
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			always about that seed, that youth and what they can do, and it's not your business or mine, to
dictate what whether it's going to be worth anything or not, whether it's going to add up to
anything or not, whether there's hope, there's always hope is, and that's the Islamic mentality, you
have it you put in the ground, but there's put it in the ground, just do your job. Just take care of
whom you need to take care of, or you have to be protected. And I'm saying that here.
		
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			Because as we watch more and more people in schools and universities are being targeted, and I can't
have our youth start feeling unsafe, or wanting not to,
		
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			not to voice their concerns or wanting to hide their identities and that that's not okay. And that
has to be counted that has to be dealt with. Number five.
		
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			This is just a practical piece of advice for all of us. Beware, during these days, be careful.
		
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			What does What does oppression, ongoing oppression do? Ongoing unopposed oppression that is
surrounded by hypocrisy and lies, making the oppressed field not only are they being oppressed, but
they're wrong as well, and they're evil that provokes anger.
		
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			It provokes anger.
		
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			It's one thing for you to take away something that's not mine. It's another thing for you to tell
everyone that you didn't, and make me admit that you didn't. That's a whole different story, at
least if I can, if we can at least be clear about things. Now, honesty goes a long way.
		
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			But when oppression is actually manipulating the narrative, so now the oppressed are seeming evil
and the oppressors are seeming becomes one step too far. So it can provoke anger. Do not allow it to
provoke anger in you
		
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			We have to be careful. We cannot make mistakes we can't afford at this time to make mistakes. You
want to make a difference. We have to do this right? We have to take the right steps and we have to
do it in a way we're working as a group and not allow anger to dictate how we're going to behave and
not go out and do something for Hogan caught up. No, that's all that will be focused on. You know
that. All it takes is one person one and Muslims say one wrong thing and that becomes the center of
attention. 9000 people dead under the elbow, no, doesn't matter. 3372 children dead. That doesn't
matter. This person said this.
		
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			Because when when it's based on lies, it's based on lies.
		
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			So be careful. And be wise. Continue to advocate. Continue to speak your mind. Continue to speak the
truth but be wise about it. Be careful and consult and consult those who have more knowledge than
you and consult those who have something to offer you and help you out so you can make the right
decision of who you already have started. Hola. Hello, welcome. First of all, we have a federal law
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			Hola Hola. Hola. In Allah yet Moodle will ideally Well it certainly will eat easy CORBA when hernial
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change on Sunday, the Joomla 230 becomes difficult because also becomes too close so we make it 145
Now I'm going to plant the seed for the coming for maybe next year, as in the city you know be
prayed your mind might many massages before a time they pray at 12 o'clock sometimes and even
earlier. Why? Because the Hanabi to have within their mouth have a certain opinion that allows for
that that Maliki have within their mouth have also an opinion that allows for Giovanna to be later
		
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			meaning for it to be after. So after also anytime before Maghrib. So just like we use that when we
should at some point in the future as a community be able to use the other one specifically when it
offers a service to people who can't leave their work on time and want to attend a community based
Joomla. So it's something to think about I'm not going to do it this year. This is things that too
much is happening so I'm not going to talk about that. We're going to go 145 Starting next next week
145 is the latest I can make it so that we don't end up running into also throughout the winter but
it's something to talk about inshallah for next summer and next year in Chautala nothing