Adnan Rajeh – Personal Reflections

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The speakers discuss the return of Islam and the importance of avoiding false assumptions and staying true to one's values. They emphasize the need to be a good person and the importance of trusting oneself. The importance of learning to deal with pain and suffering, including learning to handle emotions and dealing with past experiences. The speakers stress the need for self-help and finding one's own way to deal with pain.

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			As-salāmu ʿalaykum wa-rahmatullāhi wa-barakātuh.
		
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			As
		
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			-salāmu
		
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			ʿalaykum wa-rahmatullāhi wa-barakātuh.
		
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			I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger
		
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			of Allah.
		
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			Come to
		
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			Prayer Come
		
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			to Prayer As
		
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			we continue to watch what is occurring in
		
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			the Holy Land And this is the 58th
		
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			or 59th coming out of the 60th Khutbah
		
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			Where I've had to talk about this I
		
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			count the age of this genocidal attempt in
		
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			Khutbahs It's been around 60 now That I've
		
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			had to come up on this minbar and
		
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			figure out how to address The ongoing bloodshed
		
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			in the Arab of Palestine upon the Palestinian
		
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			people in Gaza May Allah grant them salvation
		
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			Last week as I talked about some reflections
		
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			regarding what occurred in Sham The moment I
		
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			said that this is the last Khutbah I
		
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			was going to talk about it It's almost
		
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			like there was this psychological relief that I
		
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			experienced Because I could put this away now
		
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			I didn't have to think about it anymore
		
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			And the moment you do that in life
		
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			is when it all comes pouring in And
		
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			it had to happen obviously during my week
		
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			off to make my week off easy And
		
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			I got the chance to really reflect on
		
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			the last 14 years And to process what
		
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			happened And to relive or to at least
		
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			deal with many of the emotions that had
		
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			been put away for over a decade Listening
		
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			to the testimonies of the people who walked
		
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			out of the jails And to those who
		
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			have been there for the 14 years And
		
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			what they've been through and what they've felt
		
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			and how they are today And what they
		
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			hope for the future Listening to them was
		
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			listening to every Muslim And to every person
		
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			in this world who hopes for freedom And
		
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			hopes for a better future A future where
		
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			there is justice and there is tolerance And
		
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			there is khair for everyone And listening to
		
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			all that coming from people who I lived
		
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			with And I grew up with from my
		
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			country Was just a lot to deal with
		
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			And I had to spend the week really
		
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			just processing all of it and thinking about
		
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			it And I walked away with a few
		
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			personal reflections Just personal reflections Things that I
		
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			learned for myself Things that I now am
		
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			much more aware of than I was maybe
		
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			before I left Lessons that I've taken with
		
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			me that I know now to be for
		
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			sure truthful Not just through the wisdom of
		
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			those who taught them But also through personal
		
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			experience And hopefully something that can be of
		
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			benefit and of value to you And the
		
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			verse in Surah Yunus that I just quoted
		
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			for you Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and
		
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			it's hidden in the surah It really is
		
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			It's hidden within the surah that talks about
		
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			qada and qadar And if you've followed me
		
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			over the years Surah Yunus is one of
		
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			the surahs that I talk about a lot
		
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			It talks about one of the most essential
		
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			aspects of our aqidah Of our atiqad, of
		
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			our creed Which is believing or understanding what
		
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			qada means What qadar means, what destiny When
		
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			he predestinates things subhanahu wa ta'ala What
		
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			does that actually mean And within the surah
		
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			right in the middle There's two verses They're
		
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			almost inserted there just for an occasion like
		
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			this Where he says subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			Indeed we have destroyed many of the nations
		
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			that came before you Once they oppressed, once
		
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			they transgressed And we had sent them our
		
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			signs to educate them But they would never
		
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			listen Because they disbelieved in it to begin
		
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			with They weren't going to change their mind
		
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			midway through their tyranny And it's through our
		
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			destruction of them We offer them that which
		
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			they deserve Those who are criminals And then
		
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			he says ثُمَّ جَعَلْنَاكُمْ خَلَائِفٍ And then we
		
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			made you predecessors, stewards And then we made
		
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			you stewards of the earth After them لِنَنظُرَ
		
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			كَيْفَ تَعْمَلُونَ So we will observe, watch, judge
		
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			Hold accountable, depending on what you do Sometimes
		
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			in life This is what Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala does He takes it away from
		
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			someone, the baton And gives it to someone
		
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			else Here, let's see what you'll do with
		
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			it You didn't like what they were doing
		
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			with it, did you?
		
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			You thought they were all corrupt and weren't
		
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			doing a good job Here, go ahead, here's
		
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			yours لِنَنظُرَ كَيْفَ تَعْمَلُونَ Watch, see, observe what
		
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			you're going to do with it How are
		
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			you going to deal with this responsibility?
		
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			The same thing was said to Bani Israel
		
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			When Musa told them وَقَالَ مُوسَى لِقَوْمِهِ استَعِينُوا
		
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			بِاللَّهِ وَاصْبِرُوا Musa said to his people Seek
		
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			aid in Allah Be perseverant إِنَّ الْأَرْضَ لِلَّهِ
		
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			يُرِثُهَا مَنْ يَشَاءُ مِنْ عِبَادِهِ وَالْعَاقِبَةُ لِلْمُتَّقِينَ The
		
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			earth belongs to God He makes the inheritors
		
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			of it, whomever he wants And at the
		
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			end, the Muttaqeen will prevail So they answered
		
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			him They said قَالُوا وُذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِ أَنْ
		
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			تَأْتِيَنَا وَمِنْ بَعْدِ مَا جِئْتَنَا We have been
		
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			living a horrible life Before you became prophet
		
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			And after you became prophet Nothing has changed
		
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			with your presence It's all been just garbage
		
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			From before and after They're complaining They didn't
		
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			like any of it So what did he
		
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			say?
		
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			قَالَ عَسَىٰ رَبُّكُمْ What do you know?
		
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			Maybe the day will come Where your Lord
		
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			يُهْلِكَ عَدُوَّكُمْ عَسَىٰ رَبُّكُمْ يُهْلِكَ عَدُوَّكُمْ That he
		
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			will destroy your enemy وَيَسْتَخْلِيفَكُمْ فِي الْأَرْضِ And
		
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			he will make you the stewards of the
		
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			earth فَيَنظُرَ كَيْفَ تَعْمَلُونَ And then he will
		
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			observe and judge you For how you will
		
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			do With the responsibility And authority that you
		
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			have And that happened as well I have
		
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			four personal reflections That I want to share
		
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			with you Number one You need a Qibla
		
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			in life When I walked, when I left
		
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			Just before I left Syria I went and
		
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			visited my Shaykh In the middle of the
		
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			night The night that I left Just to
		
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			give salams to him And kiss his head
		
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			And he told me This is the phrase
		
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			that he told me Before I left قَالَ
		
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			يَبْنِي الْمُؤْمِنُ كَالْغَيْثِ Because I was in tears
		
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			I didn't want to قَالَ الْمُؤْمِنُ كَالْغَيْثِ أَيْنَ
		
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			مَا حَلَّ نَفَعَ A true believer is like
		
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			rain Wherever he goes He will do something
		
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			good So don't be upset Wherever you go
		
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			If you have good in you You will
		
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			do something good الْمُؤْمِنُ كَالْغَيْثِ أَيْنَ مَا حَلَّ
		
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			نَفَعَ And I never And this is a
		
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			very common phrase And I thought he was
		
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			just Throwing a cheesy quote to me A
		
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			quote that I've heard a million times before
		
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			It's nothing new I was hoping for something
		
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			different I asked the guy who came to
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ And told him And he
		
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			said And he didn't like it He's like
		
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			no no give me something Give me something
		
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			I want substance I won't see you again
		
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			So I thought the same way He gave
		
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			me some cheesy quote That I've heard a
		
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			million times Only to understand it later That
		
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			this is actually How we're supposed to live
		
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			as people And as Muslims specifically As a
		
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			Muslim specifically Wherever you're dropped on earth You
		
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			have a Qibla The word Qibla is not
		
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			just for Salah Actually it exists for Salah
		
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			As a figure of speech As an analogy
		
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			to be drawn from life itself Like the
		
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			concept of Qibla that we have in Salah
		
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			Is an analogy that is drawn from your
		
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			life Your life has a Qibla Which is
		
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			why your Salah has a Qibla It's not
		
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			the other way around Your life has a
		
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			direction A Qibla You're directed You're facing somewhere
		
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			You know where you're going You have an
		
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			idea of what the goal is It doesn't
		
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			matter where you're dropped on earth We can
		
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			pick you up Twirl you around until you're
		
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			dizzy And then throw you somewhere And you'll
		
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			stand up Wait until the dizziness goes away
		
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			Ask where the Qibla is Not just for
		
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			your Salah As important obviously As it is
		
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			for you to taqeem To your ritual But
		
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			the idea here is that you know What
		
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			you're here for You know what your goals
		
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			are You have a direction You know your
		
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			Qibla Where is Mecca?
		
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			Where is Mecca?
		
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			Where did it all begin?
		
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			Where did Adam a.s. put the first
		
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			brick?
		
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			Where did Ibrahim a.s. rebuild?
		
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			Where did Muhammad a.s. establish things?
		
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			That's my direction And you stand towards it
		
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			Not just in your Salah But in your
		
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			life Your life has a direction The Qibla
		
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			This saves you Understanding this It saves you
		
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			It saves you This is why this is
		
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			a personal reflection It's not about you doing
		
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			something for the ummah No, this is to
		
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			save you You need this direction You need
		
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			to carry this Or you're the one who's
		
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			going to suffer If you don't have that
		
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			You're aimless I came here, I was aimless
		
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			I was ripped out of my environment The
		
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			two things that I do in life Are
		
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			impossible Very difficult to do in other places
		
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			If you're a physician Once you work in
		
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			one place That's it It's hard to move
		
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			It's very, very hard to go And work
		
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			as a physician somewhere else If you're a
		
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			sheikh And you run a masjid It's very
		
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			hard to go and work somewhere else It's
		
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			based on trust It's based on It's on
		
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			merit, on work I was aimless But if
		
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			you have a Qibla If you were taught
		
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			There's a direction Then you'll figure it out
		
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			You know where to go And you know
		
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			where you're going So brick by brick You'll
		
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			build again You'll rebuild again Because you have
		
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			a Qibla Because you were taught something important
		
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			in your life We stand in Salah And
		
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			we sit down And we figure out And
		
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			the masjid is a little bit crooked It's
		
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			not perfect Why?
		
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			Because we're trying to make sure That our
		
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			direction is accurate in Salah May your direction
		
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			be accurate in life as well May your
		
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			direction be accurate in life as well What's
		
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			the point of you getting it by Arguing
		
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			for hours Upon exactly what is the right
		
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			direction here for Qibla And figuring it out
		
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			down to the decimal And then standing there
		
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			in Salah But then your life has no
		
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			direction What's the point?
		
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			What's the point?
		
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			Your life has to have We stand there
		
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			and put our hands up like this Why?
		
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			Go do Umrah What do you do in
		
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			Umrah?
		
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			Every time you come in front of the
		
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			Hajar al-Aswad As you perform your tawaf
		
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			You turn You're walking this way You turn
		
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			to your left And you look Where's the
		
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			Hajar al-Aswad And you put your hands
		
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			up And you say Allahu Akbar Bismillah Allahu
		
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			Akbar Because this is your direction And in
		
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			Salah you stand here in London, Ontario And
		
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			you put your hands up towards the Hajar
		
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			al-Aswad And you say Bismillah Allahu Akbar
		
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			Because your direction is the same It doesn't
		
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			matter where you are If you lived in
		
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			a colony in Mars You would figure out
		
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			where the direction of the Kaaba is And
		
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			you would put your hands up And you
		
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			say Bismillah Allahu Akbar Because you have a
		
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			direction We have a direction That Qibla saves
		
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			you It saves you These are personal reflections
		
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			It saved me It saved my life My
		
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			sanity My ability to be anything Was just
		
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			having that direction Remembering that there's a goal
		
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			here There's an Ummah that we carry the
		
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			hum of That we carry the responsibility of
		
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			We are champions of our own nation The
		
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			nation of Muhammad alayhi salatu wasalam We are
		
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			the champions of it We belong to it
		
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			It belongs to us We carry the responsibility
		
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			on our shoulders We walk around with it
		
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			When we do that When we live that
		
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			way Knowing where the direction is Knowing what
		
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			we're trying to do It doesn't matter where
		
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			we are Or when we are Or how
		
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			well we are doing Or how poorly we
		
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			are doing How happy you are How sad
		
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			you are It doesn't make a difference And
		
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			when you live like that It saves you
		
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			There will be a moment in your life
		
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			Well this will be the only thing that
		
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			saves you As it saved many before us
		
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			Imam Muslim narrates to us That Abdullahi bin
		
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			Shaqiq the Tabi'i Asked Ummah Aisha May
		
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			Allah be pleased with her He said O
		
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			Ummah of the believers Did the Prophet ever
		
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			pray sitting down?
		
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			That was his question So she said This
		
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			is what she said though Listen to this
		
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			answer She said Yes After people broke him
		
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			She said yes After people broke him It's
		
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			rubble That's hatam Hatam is when you break
		
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			something Destroy it People They asked of him
		
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			so much That they literally They literally made
		
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			him so tired He couldn't stand up anymore
		
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			That's when he finally prayed But he continued
		
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			to pray He continued to do it He
		
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			never stopped Yes he had to do it
		
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			sitting down now Because he was that tired
		
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			Because people sucked his blood Because they took
		
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			away They took from him everything they could
		
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			Because they kept on asking He kept on
		
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			giving He kept on asking He kept on
		
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			giving He never stopped though Yes he got
		
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			tired But he prayed He didn't stop This
		
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			is the point I want to make He
		
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			didn't give up at some point He kept
		
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			on doing it Yes he did it sitting
		
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			down But he kept on doing it And
		
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			his direction was the same And this is
		
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			the This is what we have to learn
		
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			from him My second piece of reflection Al
		
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			-Hijrah is a sunnah of the prophets To
		
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			immigrate To go from one place to the
		
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			other To travel Not just for purposes of
		
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			leisure and tourism But rather to be removed
		
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			from where you live And go live somewhere
		
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			else And have to build a life Is
		
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			the sunnah of the prophets When the prophet
		
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			was being prepared for this After he figured
		
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			out Mecca couldn't do it Was not going
		
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			to do it for him He went around
		
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			And he started asking the tribes In the
		
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			different years of Hajj Year of number 10
		
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			Year of number 11 Year of number 12
		
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			And he knew at that point in his
		
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			mind That he was going to leave his
		
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			hometown He knew it He didn't like it
		
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			But he knew it That at some point
		
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			he was going to have to leave If
		
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			this works out He's going to go somewhere
		
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			So the verse of the Qur'an Would
		
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			talk about this a lot It would tell
		
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			him stories Of Musa alayhi salatu wasalam When
		
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			Musa had to leave He had to leave
		
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			and go to Median And then come back
		
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			Tell him the stories of Ibrahim alayhi salam
		
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			So he got to hear all these verses
		
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			in the Qur'an Of the prophets before
		
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			him Of Yusuf alayhi salam People having to
		
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			go and live And build a life somewhere
		
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			else And he loved Mecca And he loved
		
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			Mecca He didn't love a piece of earth
		
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			More than Mecca And I don't think anyone
		
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			alive Loves their hometown As much as Rasulallah
		
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			alayhi salatu wasalam Loved Mecca You see he
		
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			was born there And his father was born
		
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			there And his grandfather was born there And
		
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			his great grandfather was born there All of
		
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			them All of these people Of great status
		
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			They built the city They built the city
		
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			It's not that he lived there No no
		
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			Abdul Mutalib And Hashim ibn Abid Manaf And
		
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			Qusay ibn Kilaf These people who are his
		
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			direct ancestors They built the city They defended
		
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			the city They gave the city its legitimacy
		
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			His great great grandfather Sayyidina Ismail Is the
		
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			reason the city exists To begin with His
		
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			ownership His right to live on this land
		
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			Is unparalleled And he would say this As
		
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			he walked out He would turn towards And
		
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			he would say You're the most beloved piece
		
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			of land to me If it wasn't for
		
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			the fact That I was kicked out By
		
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			your people I would never have left But
		
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			he never went back He never went back
		
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			Alayhi salatu wasalam Some of us can't go
		
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			back Because we can't go back Like we're
		
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			not there Because we can't He could But
		
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			he didn't Like he was able But he
		
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			didn't Out of loyalty to those Who took
		
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			him in Alayhi salatu wasalam He visited He
		
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			did Umrah But he never did He never
		
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			went back And lived there again He lost
		
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			his home He lost his ability To reside
		
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			there His descendants would reside In Medina for
		
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			many generations Before they moved back To Mecca
		
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			again And Allah would tell him Indeed the
		
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			one Who has made the Quran Obligatory upon
		
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			you We'll send you back one day We'll
		
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			send you back one day It's okay Because
		
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			he was in tears Alayhi salatu wasalam He
		
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			was crying But he went And he lived
		
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			somewhere else And he built something Of great
		
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			beauty Everyone who goes to Umrah Comes back
		
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			and says I love Mecca I love Medina
		
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			But I would stay in Medina Longer if
		
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			I could Everyone I love Mecca I love
		
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			Medina But I wanted to stay In Medina
		
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			longer Because he built it there Alayhi salatu
		
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			wasalam Because he's there Alayhi salatu wasalam You
		
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			can love a piece of land But land
		
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			is only as good As the people who
		
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			are living on it The value of a
		
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			community Is the value of the people in
		
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			it When you leave And you go somewhere
		
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			else And you have to rebuild There's nothing
		
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			It's not evil It's not bad Imam Shafi
		
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			'i tells us Imam
		
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			Shafi'i has a piece of poetry He
		
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			says Go, travel Learn There are five benefits
		
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			Of traveling Because he saw it Alayhi salatu
		
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			wasalam Himself Imam Shafi'i had one madhhab
		
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			When he was living in Mecca And then
		
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			he built a whole new one If you
		
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			study Shafi'i It's a very tiring madhhab
		
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			To study Because you have to see The
		
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			opinion of al-jadeed And al-qadeem You
		
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			have to study The new opinion And the
		
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			old opinion Because when he went to Cairo
		
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			It was a whole different lifestyle People were
		
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			from all over the place He had to
		
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			figure out A new madhhab Alayhi salatu wasalam
		
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			There's benefit In being sent somewhere else I
		
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			didn't feel that I'll be honest with you
		
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			I didn't feel that When I left I
		
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			didn't feel it Not at all I couldn't
		
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			see it It took me a long time
		
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			To see it It took me a long
		
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			time To love the place I was in
		
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			And love the people That I was with
		
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			But once I did It made sense He
		
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			did this Alayhi salatu wasalam And many of
		
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			you Have done this as well In your
		
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			lives See that as something positive Because Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala does أقول قولي هذا
		
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			وأستغفر الله لي ولكم فاستغفروه يغفر لكم يا
		
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			فوز المستغفرين استغفر الله الحمد
		
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			لله وحده وصلى الله وسلم وأبارك على من
		
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			لا نبي بعده وعلى آله وصحبه ومن اتبع
		
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			نهجه ووفى عهده My third piece of reflection
		
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			That I wanted to share with you You
		
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			must learn to hold yourself accountable For failures
		
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			and things that don't go on well I
		
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			learned this over the last 11 years This
		
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			is probably the most important lesson That I
		
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			learned You have to learn to hold yourself
		
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			accountable For the misfortunes The failures The lack
		
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			of accomplishments That you suffer in your life
		
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			If you don't learn how to do that
		
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			It's hard for you to grow as a
		
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			person We can't really grow as human beings
		
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			If we don't have the ability To hold
		
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			ourselves accountable Look at the Prophet His life
		
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			Look at how he Every single time something
		
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			went wrong He went back And he reassessed
		
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			their choices His choices and the Sahaba's choices
		
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			And he held himself and the Sahaba accountable
		
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			For things that didn't go well And he
		
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			made And he admitted that And he pointed
		
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			it out And he took feedback And the
		
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			Qur'an made sure That this is documented
		
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			This is an easy point Because the Qur
		
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			'an documented this piece Had the Qur'an
		
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			not documented this piece I may not have
		
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			had the ability To talk about it I
		
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			may have gone to Mimbar and said this
		
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			And someone would say No, this is not
		
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			true Rasulullah made no mistakes He never did
		
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			this But the Qur'an talks about it
		
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			The Qur'an says عَبَسَ وَتَوَلَّ The Qur
		
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			'an says عَفَى اللَّهُ عَن كَلِمَ أَذِنْتَ لَهُمْ
		
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			حَتَّى يَتَبَيِّنَ لَكَ لَذِينَ صَدَقُوا Not to take
		
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			down from his status No one comes even
		
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			remotely close To how much we love him
		
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			And listen to him But even him عليه
		
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			الصلاة والسلام Had to be pointed out That
		
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			didn't work out very well You should have
		
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			done something different Do it differently next time
		
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			And he did عليه الصلاة والسلام Time and
		
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			time again Because how else Are you going
		
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			to grow?
		
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			How else are we going to become better
		
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			people If we don't have the ability To
		
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			look at our mistakes And say That wasn't
		
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			right I didn't do that right I didn't
		
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			have the right mentality During that period of
		
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			time Being able just to say that And
		
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			hold ourselves accountable For our mistakes I grew
		
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			up in a country Where I had the
		
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			perfect anger I could blame everything On this
		
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			tyrant And I did I absolutely did I
		
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			blamed him for everything If it was too
		
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			cold I blamed him for it I blamed
		
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			him for the bad weather Everything was his
		
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			fault Because of what he was Because of
		
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			what he did to people Because of how
		
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			he treated human beings You couldn't help but
		
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			feel that way towards him But that took
		
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			away something from me I didn't notice it
		
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			then But it took away something from me
		
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			It took away my ability To assess my
		
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			own efforts And to blame myself when it
		
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			didn't work When I came here And that
		
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			wasn't there anymore And I faced the same
		
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			failures These same failures I figured out just
		
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			now He was responsible for a number of
		
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			things But he wasn't responsible for the stuff
		
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			That I wasn't doing well I was responsible
		
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			for that I sucked at it I didn't
		
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			know what I was doing I had to
		
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			relearn it again Make sure that in your
		
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			life You have no hangers Because you won't
		
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			grow You honestly won't grow If you have
		
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			something to blame Every time it doesn't work
		
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			out Then you won't go anywhere My last
		
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			piece of reflection That I want to share
		
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			with you And this is for everyone in
		
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			this room And those beyond Oppression and trauma
		
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			And pain and suffering They don't just disseminate
		
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			They don't disappear They don't just go away
		
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			Once you are inflicted by this stuff It
		
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			doesn't go away It stays with you It's
		
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			you and this new pain Before it was
		
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			just you And then you were hurt Now
		
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			it's you and this hurt You have to
		
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			deal with it It will never go away
		
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			But it doesn't have to sit there And
		
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			ruin your life But it won't go away
		
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			But it's there It's always going to be
		
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			there You have to learn how to deal
		
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			with it You have to learn how to
		
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			process it Understand it Accept it Incorporate into
		
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			you Incorporate this pain Into the new you
		
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			Allow it to affect you In a positive
		
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			way Because if you don't It will sit
		
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			there And then it will weigh on you
		
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			And it will harm you Most people don't
		
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			know that And I am amongst most people
		
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			Who don't understand that very well We weren't
		
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			taught this piece But when you study his
		
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			life Out of his salatul islam You find
		
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			he was different He is someone who was
		
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			very very In touch with his own emotions
		
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			So much so that Sometimes we don't understand
		
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			the stories Sometimes he's so in touch That
		
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			we don't feel like We can relate to
		
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			it As a man who would cry At
		
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			every story he was told Of pain by
		
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			someone That came and shared it with him
		
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			He didn't feel that was a problem He
		
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			would share their sorrow He had that openness
		
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			He had that ease He loved the people
		
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			that he loved And when he lost them
		
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			He mourned them He grieved for them And
		
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			he did it for as long as he
		
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			needed You have it in the stories When
		
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			Hamza bin Abdul Talib passed away When Zaid
		
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			passed away When he went back to the
		
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			grave of his mother All of these are
		
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			in sihah All of these are stories In
		
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			the authentic books And he would sob And
		
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			they would describe his sobbing And they would
		
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			say Naheeb Naheeb is when someone cries And
		
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			goes like this I've never seen anyone do
		
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			that before I've never seen anyone do that
		
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			before Yeah he did Because he was not
		
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			ashamed Of his own emotions He wasn't ashamed
		
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			Of expressing them Of feeling them It didn't
		
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			take away from his masculinity It allowed him
		
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			to grow as a person Allowed him to
		
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			deal with more We don't know how to
		
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			do that A lot of us don't We
		
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			don't We think masculinity Is just masking it
		
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			all And just keep on going It changes
		
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			us You're not the same person after a
		
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			while You're not the same person after a
		
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			while When you're hurt And you don't allow
		
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			that hurt You don't deal with it It
		
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			changes you Wallahi it does These are personal
		
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			reflections I'm telling you I'm not talking about
		
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			you It changes you You're not the same
		
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			person Your wife does not recognize you anymore
		
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			Your parents ask what's going on Something changes
		
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			when you're hurt And you don't deal with
		
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			your hurt When you go through pain You
		
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			go through oppression Or you go through mistreatment
		
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			And you don't allow it You don't sit
		
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			down and deal with it It takes away
		
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			a piece of who you are It eats
		
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			away at you as a person And it
		
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			ruins what you once were And it takes
		
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			away from your own potential So don't let
		
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			it happen Deal with your personal pain and
		
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			suffering And if you need to cry Then
		
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			cry And if you need to talk to
		
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			someone Talk to someone And if you need
		
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			professional help Then go seek it Because it
		
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			doesn't go away It doesn't disappear Alayhi salatu
		
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			wasalam Had a level of maturity And strength
		
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			on the inside That he could deal with
		
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			these pains Think about Someone who was born
		
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			as an orphan No father Buried his mother
		
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			at six Lost his grandfather at eight Got
		
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			married Lost the love of his life Lost
		
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			two of his male children Lost three of
		
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			his female children Lost four of his uncles
		
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			Three of his close cousins Two of his
		
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			close aunts His adopted son I don't know
		
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			how he got up in the morning And
		
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			smiled Alayhi salatu wasalam I honestly don't All
		
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			this within his life He didn't live that
		
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			long Sixty-three Gregorian Sixty-one years he
		
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			lived Sixty-three in hijri Not sixty-one
		
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			in miladi Sixty-three in miladi Sixty-one
		
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			in miladi That's all he lived Alayhi salatu
		
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			wasalam He saw all that And yet no
		
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			one smiled more than him And no one
		
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			was more optimistic More than him Alayhi salatu
		
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			wasalam Because he allowed himself To feel his
		
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			pain When he lost Ibrahim Alayhi salatu wasalam
		
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			At the end of his life His son
		
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			Ibrahim died Ibn Mas'ud came and found
		
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			him Crying for him He called Ya Rasulallah
		
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			Hatta anta ya Rasulallah Ibn Mas'ud thought
		
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			This is not appropriate Men don't cry Fa
		
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			qala ya Ibn Mas'ud Inna al-'ayna la
		
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			tadma' Wa inna al-qalba la yakhsha' Wa
		
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			inna ala firaqika Ya Ibrahim la mahzunoon Wala
		
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			naqulu illa ma yurdi rabbana The heart feels
		
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			the sorrow And the eyes pour the tears
		
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			And we are so saddened That we lost
		
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			you O Ibrahim But I will never say
		
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			anything That does not please my lord I
		
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			only say that What pleases my lord Alhamdulillah
		
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			For everything Alhamdulillah for everything Everything Everything Alhamdulillah
		
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			But learn to deal with it Because if
		
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			you don't It will eat away at you
		
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			Brothers and sisters I have spent most of
		
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			my time Explaining things in English So I
		
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			will brief you as much as I can
		
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			Four thoughts I contemplated during this week When
		
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			I said to myself I will avoid talking
		
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			about what happened in Damascus And I will
		
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			focus on the issues Of the Muslims in
		
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			this land So I remembered That I learned
		
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			from this experience Things And I wanted to
		
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			share some of them First You should have
		
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			a Qibla Carry the burden of this Ummah
		
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			If you don't carry its burden This Ummah
		
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			will carry your burden If you don't carry
		
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			the burden of this Ummah This Ummah will
		
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			carry your burden This Qibla that is in
		
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			prayer That was sent by the messenger of
		
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			Allah Peace be upon him Towards the Kaaba
		
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			Towards Mecca It is a Qibla for you
		
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			in your life Not only in prayer It
		
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			was sent in prayer To be a mirror
		
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			of what happens in life You have a
		
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			Qibla in your life Wherever Allah places you
		
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			Wherever you go No matter how small or
		
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			big you are Healthy or sick Poor or
		
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			rich You have a Qibla And you know
		
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			where you are heading And you know who
		
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			you serve And you know what is required
		
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			of you And you hold on to this
		
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			Qibla At least five times a day You
		
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			know where you are heading This will save
		
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			you I swear to you by my Lord
		
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			That this will save you It may not
		
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			save the whole Ummah It may not be
		
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			my effort to save the Ummah But it
		
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			is the burden of this Ummah And knowing
		
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			your Qibla will save you And save me
		
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			from it As a person, it will save
		
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			us to have a Qibla So do not
		
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			forget this matter You are not alive The
		
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			second issue Migration is good The messenger of
		
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			Allah migrated Peace be upon him In response
		
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			to the migration of the prophets before him
		
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			Joseph, Moses and Abraham They all migrated And
		
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			Noah They all left their homes And their
		
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			lands And their countries Which they loved To
		
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			another country So Allah wrote in their hands
		
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			a benefit So look at your benefit In
		
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			the country where Allah established you And keep
		
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			the love of your country in your heart
		
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			As the messenger of Allah kept the love
		
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			of his country in his heart The third
		
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			Know that if a person does not learn
		
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			To bear the responsibility of his actions He
		
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			will fail If a person does not bear
		
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			the responsibility of his actions He will fail
		
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			Each of us should look at what he
		
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			does Does he present the best face?
		
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			Do not blame anyone but yourself This is
		
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			advice by Allah There are those who deserve
		
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			to be blamed No doubt There are those
		
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			who deserve to be blamed But if you
		
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			blame them What will benefit them from their
		
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			blame?
		
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			What will fight them?
		
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			Yes Will try to remove them?
		
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			Yes But what will benefit them from their
		
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			blame?
		
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			If you blame them and do not blame
		
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			yourself You will not be able to improve
		
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			your effectiveness Nor your productivity Nor your effort
		
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			So bear the responsibility alone This is the
		
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			Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah As for
		
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			the last issue Deal with the pain that
		
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			is inside you As the Messenger of Allah
		
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			dealt with him Deal with the pain that
		
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			is inside you Every person has pain inside
		
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			Close the door on it and leave it
		
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			It will not melt and go But stay
		
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			Maybe it grows Then you change your personality
		
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			Then you change your being Then you change
		
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			your feelings Change your emotions We know this
		
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			in marriage It is known If there is
		
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			pain in marriage And when the couple talks
		
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			about it He turned to hatred He turned
		
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			to hatred The pain does not go The
		
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			pain is not forgotten It stays with you
		
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			But if you deal with it You took
		
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			something positive from it for your life And
		
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			if you did not deal with it You
		
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			took something negative from it for your life
		
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			Feel free to do so Encourage your friends
		
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			who have time And want to take a
		
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			course to learn something I think there is
		
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			benefit within it You