Adnan Rajeh – Seeking Knowledge- Becoming Imams

Adnan Rajeh
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The speakers discuss the ongoing bleeding crisis in the holy land, where Muslims have no evidence of a pattern of bloodshed. They emphasize the importance of seeking knowledge and learning to avoid future events and building a "we" in the face of "we". The speakers also touch on the importance of learning and diversifying fields of knowledge for a better life, mentorship, education, and finding workforce to educate youth. They stress the need for people to have the knowledge of their deeps and workforce to teach them.
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I am going to continue with the series

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of seeking knowledge this week and and next

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week before I move on to something new.

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And

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the reason that I I want to focus

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on this even though prob I've done this

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this is probably the second or even third

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time I can't remember that I've covered short

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series within Khubbas talking about knowledge.

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It's not because I run out of ideas

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or topics that I think are worthy of

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sharing with you, but rather be because I

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truly believe to to to to my in

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my core, in the heart of my heart

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that this is the way out for us.

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This is the only way out for us.

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That's as a Muslim woman, as Muslim communities,

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as Muslim individuals, the way for us out

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of the darkness that we are residing in

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into a

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into enlightenment of any sorts. To find the

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light. To find the light. It has it's

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going to come through knowledge. It's going to

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come through knowledge because that's what happened the

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first time around. You have to learn from

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history. And sometimes learning from history is not

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just learning what mistakes not to make, but

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also learning what you should be doing. And

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I can't think of a better example of

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the status of the Arab when the prophet

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came to them. They had

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absolutely nothing working for them. Everything was against

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them. They were when there are few

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populations on earth that never historically

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build built a great empire.

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They didn't have the resources for it. They

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didn't live beside rivers. They have a lot

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of large bodies of of fresh water. They

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didn't have they just didn't have these things,

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so they never ended up having a large

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empire as many of the

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nations before them. If you

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exclude

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that did they didn't last very long anyways.

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Just didn't. And when the father, alaihis salatu

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salatu salatu salam, came to them,

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at that time, they they lacked any form

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of political organization.

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They didn't have any form of unity. They

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didn't really have any resources. They didn't have

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large armies. They didn't

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they didn't have almost anything that would indicate

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to anyone at that time looking at the

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world

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to think that the next change, the next

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huge change or shift within historical events is

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gonna come from this desert. No one had

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any reason to believe that.

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But he was able to actually do it

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in record time by the way. In record

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time, but that's for a topic for another

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Khutba. The amount of time it took him

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to transform people is is absolutely

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unheard

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of. Well, how did he do it?

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How did he do it? It was done

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through it was done through knowledge.

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Today we are

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in one of the darker spots of or

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darker points of Islamic history.

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The graph has has dipped quite low.

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And no matter how you look at it,

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no matter how optimistic you want to be

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or I want to try and be, it's

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just we're stuck with this reality that this

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is a very these are very dark moments

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for us. We've had worse. I've shared with

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you. There there have been worse for sure.

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But this is a dark moment nonetheless,

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where a full nation of 2,000,000,000 people lack

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the ability

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to stop bloodshed amongst their innocence, amongst the

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women and children of one of their one

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of their majority countries.

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That Muslims don't have enough pull within the

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world that they live in. Think about this.

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That Muslims, 2,000,000,000 of us, we don't have

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enough pull in any of the countries that

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we live in across the globe

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to stop this ongoing genocidal attempt

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that's happening in the holy land now counting

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over over 4045,000

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people have been killed.

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That to me is an indication that this

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is a very dark point. In case in

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case some of us, at some point before

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this, were thinking that we are yeah. Things

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are getting better or we're no. Not not

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really. Not really. We have to be honest

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about it. This is not the the the

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we have no indications right now. Now it

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can change for sure. And the goal is

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for that to change for sure. For us

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to actually be in a position where something

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like this would never happen again. It can

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happen. It can change, but that change is

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going to come through a gate. Which gate

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is it? It's going to come through the

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gate of knowledge of seeking knowledge by this,

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especially by the younger generation. We're gonna go

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and they're going to learn. They're going to

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learn everything that they can learn.

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The prophet

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tells us,

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And the difference between a scholar, a scientist,

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someone of knowledge, and a worshipper, a common

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person, is like the difference or the significance

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of a full moon over all the stars

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in the sky to you when you're looking

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at the sky. Huge difference. In another hadith

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in another hadith also

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he said, you say

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The significance or difference between a scholar and

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a common worshiper is a difference between Muhammad

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sallallahu alaihi sallam and the least of Muslims.

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And the least of Muslims is the one

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who's wording

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The ayah that I just recited for you.

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Say, is what Allah subhanahu wa sallam is

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telling the prophet

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and ask after him. Say,

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we ask this question, is it equal? Are

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they equal?

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Those who have knowledge.

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And those who don't.

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Exclusively the ones who will know the answer

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to these questions are the ones who have

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intellect.

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I Meaning the people who have knowledge know,

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they know the difference, they know the difference.

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Thomas Hobbes in his Leviathan, which is a

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book for those of you who are interested

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in sociology, is very important.

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One of the most important works, yeah, aside

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from Muqaddimit ibn Khaldun. And within it in

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1600, he he stated for the first time

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the the phrase knowledge is power.

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For the first time that statement was made

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in this in this in this script,

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And it's been, you know, kinda carried along

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for for 10 centuries afterwards.

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And as Muslims, we've always known that. We've

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always known that knowledge is your path to

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power.

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Your weakness and my weakness right now at

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this moment is just the fact that I

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don't know what's coming next. That's the that's

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that's that's it.

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My weakness right now is just that I

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don't know what tomorrow carries for me. I'm

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ignorant of

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to me. It's like I don't know what's

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what's what's in what's in store for me

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tomorrow or the day after. I don't know.

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If I knew, life would be very different

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for me.

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If you knew it was coming your way,

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you could avoid

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The prophet

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will say, if I knew if I knew

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if I knew all that which was unknown

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to a human being, which he doesn't

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and he's the most knowledgeable of everyone,

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then I would make sure no harm ever

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came to me. I would only do good

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things because I knew I knew what's going

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to happen next. I could plan a hood.

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We you can't.

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It's our ignorance that makes us weak as

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human beings. And the more ignorant we are,

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the weaker we are, and the more knowledge

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we have, the stronger we are. And this

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is what the word imam actually means in

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Islam. Which is why I called the, yeah,

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I need the, the academy, imam development. The

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word imam means this. When when when Allah

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spoke to Ibrahim, he said,

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that's the wording he used with Ibrahim alaihis

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salam. The most followed human being, even though

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lots lots of people follow him incorrectly. But

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he is the most followed human being. Most

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face on earth will identify with Ibrahim. They

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may disagree on the description of

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disagree on the story of Musa, disagree on

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the status of Muhammad

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but we all agree he's he's he's agreed

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upon by by at least half of the

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people living on this planet.

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During his life, he had very few followers.

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Ibrahim had very few people who listened to

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him during his life. He didn't build a

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country. He didn't have Sahaba as the prophet

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did. It happened after he passed away. Well,

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then why did Allah call him? I'm I'm

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going to make you for people in imam.

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Because what it means, it means to lead

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by example.

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It means to be the person who opens

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the doors, who paves the way, the one

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who's going to be the role model, the

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one who's not waiting for other people to

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come and do some of the scut work

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for him. He's not waiting for others to

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go and sacrifice themselves or put themselves ahead.

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He was going to do it, not looking

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back whether you follow him or not gonna

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make a difference to him, and

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he became the

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one of the most significant,

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historical

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figures of all time

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The concept of being an imam of

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of of take it but how do you

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do that? You can't you can't do that

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without knowledge.

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The word imam in our in our tradition

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was left for people who had so this

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is what this is what I did, for

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this Khutba. I made I challenged I made

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a challenge for myself. I'm gonna show you

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what the challenge was. I told myself right

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before the Khutba, 10, 15 minutes before the

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Khutba, I was gonna go into my office,

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and then my computer is still open. I

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was gonna go to the book This is

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written by And

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for 5 minutes, just for 5 minutes so

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that so that I this is a challenge.

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I could I could do this easily throughout

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the week. But I was gonna do right

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before Jummah. Go sit. I'm gonna scroll through

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and switch through and

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just choose scholars.

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Just choose scholars out of those book and

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come and read to you what he said

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about them.

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Right? This took me 5 minutes inside. This

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is 5 minutes just before the hookah. This

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is I didn't prepare this. I obviously can't

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remember I can't memorize this by heart, so

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I'm gonna read it to you.

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This is what he said about him.

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Another scholar, he's a known, Hanafi scholar. He

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wrote within he wrote in which is Arabic

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language. He wrote in he wrote meaning within

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geometry and and and and physics. And he

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has a book called

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Plants in Botany.

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He was given the Ijazah by Abu Muhammad

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Abu Amr ibn Abdul Baru, one of the

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most famous Maliki scholar of all time. And

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he wrote a book talking about the different,

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signs of prophecies. And he wrote the book,

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in geography,

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pointing out the names of all of the

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countries that existed within his region. He has

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a book called the Navat again. In botany.

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It was Josie, the very very famous scholar

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of Islamic law, very famous. He has written

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this man, wrote over 555

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books.

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These are the ones that we have.

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There's as much that we he wrote that

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we don't have. He wrote a book called

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the different yeah. The benefits of, of of

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medicine. He wrote

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he wrote a book about animals and plants.

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That you know when you get bored.

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He he he explained the that later on,

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Qadu Iyad would would explain his book. He

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was the first one to explain Sahih Muslim,

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and then they built on it afterwards to

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what Imam Minawi did later on. And he

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is someone who wrote in medicine, and he

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wrote in geometry, and he wrote in math.

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He had books that he he he made

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in math.

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One more.

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Put altogether the Khutb of the Prophet alaihis

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salatu wa sallam. He wrote a book in

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medicine, and he wrote a book. The first

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book that we have about chess. It's called

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telekesh we don't have it. It got lost.

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But he wrote a book where he explained

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how chess works and he talked about all

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the good games.

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I'll end with that.

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I have 5 more, just so you know.

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Yeah. It just took me 5 minutes.

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5, I sat in front of my computer,

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put

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I just swiped through. Just ranting. He went

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through, chose someone. Wrote down what he what

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what what he talked about. Swiffed through, wrote

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down what he talked about.

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This is our history.

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This is what Islam

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produced to the world. This is your legacy.

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This is your identity. This is where you

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come from. You come

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from

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a nation of

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ima, of imams,

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of ulama, of people who studied everything they

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could get their hands on. And they added

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to human knowledge. They added to human knowledge

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to a degree that without their additions and

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without their translations, without their works,

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we wouldn't have what we I know you

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were told growing up that all of this

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was made to in the way what yes.

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It was made the last piece of it

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was made in the west. The last piece

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of it. It it does not all that

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matters.

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No? If you're if if we're ignorant enough

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to think there's only the, yeah, the guy

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who scored the goal that matters, then you

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don't understand the sport.

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Everyone contributes. The goal is important, the defender,

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the midfielder. If you think it's just the

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person who scored the goal that you're a

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child, like my son like, my children, they're

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just like the, the forward the one who

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pushed the goals. They they don't they don't

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appreciate the genius of the people before.

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Muslims maybe not have done it now, but

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for the longest time, for a 1000 years,

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for a millennium,

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we

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we brought religion and faith together,

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in full harmony and in synchrony. And we

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added to human knowledge. And our imams were

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people who were educated in every aspect of

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of of existence.

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And that is what we have to go

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back to again. We have to go back

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to this. We are in the 100 of

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1000 I'm saying, in the 100 of 1000

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you, shabaab

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the shabaab, this ummah have to go back

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to this. You must learn and and diversify

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the fields of knowledge, please.

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Diversify the fields of knowledge as they are

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diverse today.

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We've had we have enough doctors. Just to

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just so you know. We were saturated. Just

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we we filled the the the core the

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quota is full. We don't need more doctors

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or engineers for that matter. We're we're good.

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We have enough. Maybe we move move on

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to other stuff. Maybe maybe political sciences. Maybe

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maybe literature. Maybe we we get into into

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media and into human sciences. We need people.

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We need to diversify the fields of knowledge

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that our children study. I know if you're

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a Middle Eastern mother and father, I know

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that the only thing that you want is

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either the or dead. None. None. That's the

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only 2 choices that you want your children.

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But really, that comes from mentality of living

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in the Middle East where it was hard

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to make a living. It was hard to

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survive. So you needed something safe. We don't

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need safe anymore. We can't afford safe anymore.

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We need people in every field and every

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discipline of this world. They have to go

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learn. And at this as they do that,

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they learn their deen.

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They learn their deen. They know the Quran.

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All these scholars are to follow the book

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of Allah subhanahu. All of them, I didn't

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have to read that because that is that

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goes without being said.

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Put that in the description. Kinda haf ilan.

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That's ridiculous.

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How is he an imam and not a

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haf that's that doesn't mean that doesn't exist.

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An imam not a no. No. Sorry. But

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the you wouldn't qualify for your name to

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be in this book if you were not

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if you if you didn't have these basics.

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It can be done together.

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It has been done together.

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It is still being done together, and you

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have to do these things together.

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And I don't accept anything less,

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and it's not having a high standard. If

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you think it's a high standard that for

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you to be someone who

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is is very proficient within a discipline of

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knowledge in this world and proficient in your

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deen. If you feel about the high standard,

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I'm suck. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry

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that you were led to believe that's a

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high standard. It's not a high standard. That's

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that's the norm. What are you talking about?

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You're a Muslim, of course you're going to

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be studying all of this stuff. Of course

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you're going to be a 'alim. Of course

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you're going to know more. Of course. How

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How else do you understand Islam? Please, if

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you understand Islam differently, come explain it to

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me. Because I don't I don't know any

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other way for Islam to exist in the

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world aside from this.

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This is my understanding of the word imam.

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It has nothing to do with gender.

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Imam means man. No. No. It has nothing

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to do with it. By the way, I

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could have shared with you names of of

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women as well. I didn't because, I I

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couldn't I couldn't get the I couldn't download

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the book in 5 minutes. But it it's

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it's very similar.

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The understanding of Ima is to lead by

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example,

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is to be a role model, is to

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be exemplar,

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is to be someone who takes upon themselves

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a responsibility of getting the job done, and

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then they walk.

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They only look back if someone's asking for

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help. Otherwise, they don't care. Whether you're following

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or you're not. Whether you're it doesn't matter.

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That's what imamah means. That's what Allah

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tells you.

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Oh oh oh our lord, grant us from

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our wives and our families something that will

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be the cool of our eyes. Something here.

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Show us give us beautiful families. Families that

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are strong. Families that are Muslim. Families that

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are productive. That will that will be with

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us in Jannah. You're up, I mean.

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And make us imams for the for the

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pious. What? Everyone's going to be an imam?

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It's gonna be very crowded up here if

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everyone's gonna be an imam. But that's not

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what he's talking about.

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He's talk not talking about the imam of

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a of salatul jumuah or or any salam.

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He's talking about you being a leader by

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example.

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You not waiting for someone else to do

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something for you. You and going and doing

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it yourself

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because you know that this is the right

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thing to do. He was an imam

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because Ibrahim was an imam before him. And

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all those who figured it out, who figured

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out Islam, what Islam was, became imams in

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their own sense.

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In their own sense. I just shared with

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you the names of the people,

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in that book that I I came by

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that were and also scientists.

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There's a lot that are were one not

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the other. And it's all at the end

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knowledge

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that people need to go and seek. The

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Quran uses this term a

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lot. I showed you this this with you

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a few weeks ago. When it talks about

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Yeah.

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Elman and Hikma. Talk about Musa.

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The

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same repeat repetition of the same words. What

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are they?

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They are the recipe of what an imam

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means.

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Is

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the ability, the confidence, and the wisdom to

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make

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proper and sound decisions.

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That needs mentorship. That's why I talk about

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mentorship.

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If you have no experience, if no one's

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in front of you making decisions, and you're

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making decisions

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based on those decisions they're making, if you're

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not being given space to go and make

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a choice, and then someone's watching you to

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bring you back and say, maybe next time

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do it that way, without that mentorship, you're

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not gonna you're gonna lack hokum.

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You're gonna lack. You can't you can't make

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decisions. You can't make choices. If we don't

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have a generation of people that are being

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prepared to make choices, then what exactly are

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we hoping for?

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We we no one lives forever. Whoever's making

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choices today, I hope they're making good choices.

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But if we're not preparing the next generation

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to do the same, we have a problem.

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So we need mentorship. And the second piece,

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knowledge. It's easy. This one's easy.

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Knowledge, they have to have the information.

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The knowledge that allow them to make proper

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judgments. What is good? What is bad? What

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is needed? What's prioritized?

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What is not? We have And that requires

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education.

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It requires people who are willing to learn,

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to be lifelong learners. This is what our

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deen is about.

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By the way, Yani, the book

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that we that I read for for you

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from, if you were to make another one

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today, it would be much

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thinner.

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You know? Even though there's way more Muslims,

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but it would be much thinner.

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All the names I shared with you were

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just from the 5th Islamic

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century.

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I just opened the 5th Islamic century and

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just went through them quickly. Those are the

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names.

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If you were to take this century, what

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century is the 15th Islamic century?

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If you had a Haqq ul, like, you

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know, the Habibi and he wanted to write

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it, it would be much thinner.

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It would.

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Sad that it would, but it would.

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We do have centuries like that.

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The 11th century is pretty thin, in comparison

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to the 8th 7th, and later on the

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12th 13th.

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We have to thicken that chapter a bit

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in our book. We have to get more

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people on those pages. We have to get

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we have to get you to actually see

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the value of knowledge, not to make a

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living

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Of course, you need to make a living.

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Of course, you need to make a living

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and a good one too. But knowledge because

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knowledge

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is

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is so valuable. It's the legacy

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of the prophets.

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It's the legacy of Muhammad alaihis sala. You

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love Muhammad alaihis salaam. This is the month

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of Rabia, where we get to remember the

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day he was born, the day he passed

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away, and his life where we get to

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celebrate his legacy, alayhi sallam. What is his

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legacy?

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We want to celebrate his alafani, celebrate, but

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what is his legacy

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aside from knowledge? Yeah.

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How are we celebrating his legacy when we're

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not learning his deen? It makes no sense

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to me. I'm embarrassed, actually. As much as

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I love celebrating his

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celebrating this month, I feel embarrassed to do

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it. If we're gonna celebrate him, and not

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learn what he left us and not actually

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take time to study with the knowledge that

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he left behind, then it seems like a

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sellout to me. It seems out that we're

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we're not doing this right. You wanna celebrate

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him, there's some start by making sure you

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dedicate your life to knowledge,

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to taking the knowledge that he left us,

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alaihis salatu, and to build his ummah, and

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to celebrate. And that's the celebration. He'll be

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happier with that, I'll tell you so as

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much. I'll tell you, he'll be happier with

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that, alaihis salatu, and I swear. He'll meet

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you, and you'll you'll be happy.

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You you took that legacy and you and

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you walked with it.

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The registration for the Imam Development Academy closes

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on Sunday. So those of you who would,

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still want to yeah. I mean,

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maybe someone can move it. There you go.

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If you would like to, register, so have

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until Sunday to do so.

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After that, we're gonna we're gonna, close registration.

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The goal of everything that we run-in this

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masjid is is to educate, is to mentor.

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That's the goal. That is what this place

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is open for. That's what I believe all

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Masajid should be open for. I don't think

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Masajid should have many other

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focuses aside from those 2. I really don't.

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I think everything else is premature. I think

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everything else, we have to wait a bit.

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You need a workforce.

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People think I'll cut keep keep on coming

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and saying Islamic school, Islamic schools. We need

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staff to teach in Islamic schools. That's what

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we need.

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We need staff to teach in Islamic schools.

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You want Islamic school? It's not hard to

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find space. We can rent space. No problem.

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Who's gonna teach? Who's gonna teach these kids?

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Who knows what the who has enough,

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knowledge and and and and skill set to

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do this stuff? That's what we lack. We

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lack workforce.

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We we lack people to do the job.

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We think it's all there. We're no. It's

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just not. It's not. So we have to

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go back and learn. And we have to

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make sure that becomes our priority. And we

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put our wealth there. We put our time

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to educate our youth. And make sure that

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those who left school go back to school

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again. And those who don't know Islam come

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and learn Islam appropriately.

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And you do that for a decade, and

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you see a change.

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You see a

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shift in 23 years of Prophet alaihi sallallahu

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alaihi wa sallam transformed

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a peninsula

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in a way that I we still don't

00:31:09 --> 00:31:09

fully understand.

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We still we still don't fully understand how

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these people were able to change the way

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they changed

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aside from aside from El. I'll end with

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that inshallah that was a benefit to you.

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