Adnan Rajeh – Seerah Halaqah #50

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The speaker discusses the aftermath of the Badr battle and the confusion surrounding the Quraysh's name. They emphasize the importance of peace and blessings for the day and the importance of fasting during war. The Prophet Luca's plan was to attack small mountain, but it was too far away for 500 people. The Prophet Luca's plan was to put 50 well-trained archers on the mount, but the only way to fight was to retreat from Uhud. The Prophet Luca's plan was to build a small mountain, but it was too long to fit 200 people.

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			Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem, walhamdulillahi rabbil alameen,
		
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			Allahumma salli wa sallim wa barak ala nabiyyina
		
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			Muhammad wa ala alihi wa sahbihi ajma'in
		
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			wa ba'd.
		
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			That's okay.
		
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			I think we're okay.
		
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			Tonight, inshallah ta'ala, we continue with the
		
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			seerah of the Prophet alayhi wa sallam.
		
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			And last week, we had stopped right at
		
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			the end of the battle of Badr, or
		
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			close to it at least.
		
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			And I had taken some time and reflected
		
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			on a few aspects of the last few
		
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			lessons from the battle itself.
		
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			Now, the aftermath of Badr was huge in
		
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			Arabia in general.
		
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			It was an earthquake that the ripples of
		
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			it reached the whole peninsula and beyond.
		
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			The story of it, the news of the
		
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			loss that Quraysh suffered at the hands of
		
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			the Muslims, of the Prophet alayhi wa sallam
		
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			and the sahaba, was just very, very surprising.
		
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			It was rarely in life, in wars at
		
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			least, do the underdogs get such an advantage.
		
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			It doesn't happen very often.
		
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			And when it does happen, it becomes a
		
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			food for chatter, and it's a type of
		
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			talk that people enjoy engaging in.
		
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			And the Qur'an talks about the day
		
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			of Badr, and it calls it yawm al
		
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			-furqan.
		
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			This is the name of it, yawm al
		
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			-taq al-jama'in, is what it's called
		
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			in the Qur'an.
		
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			Furqan comes from the root of farq, and
		
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			farq is difference.
		
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			And al-furqan is the thing that made
		
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			the difference.
		
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			That's how the derivative would be understood in
		
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			Arabic.
		
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			Al-furqan, the thing that made the difference,
		
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			which is why the Qur'an is called
		
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			that.
		
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			The book of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
		
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			one of its names, the Qur'an al
		
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			-karim, we call it al-furqan as well.
		
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			Because it's the one thing that made the
		
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			difference in terms of people understanding who they
		
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			were and who they needed to be and
		
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			what they have to leave in terms of
		
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			theologies or practices or values and what they
		
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			needed to adopt.
		
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			And in terms of events in the life
		
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			of the Prophet ﷺ, the Qur'an calls
		
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			the day of Badr yawm al-furqan, the
		
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			day where the difference was established, it made
		
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			the difference.
		
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			And the scholars would often say, yawm al
		
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			-farraqallahu bihihi bayn al-haqqi wal-baatil, the
		
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			day that the difference between haq and baatil
		
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			became very clear.
		
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			And I don't think it became clear as
		
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			in haq and baatil were suspiciously similar beforehand,
		
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			no.
		
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			But rather, from that moment forward in Arabia,
		
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			you had to choose a side.
		
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			You had to make a choice of who
		
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			is it you're going to be supporting from
		
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			now on.
		
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			Is it going to be the people of
		
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			al-haq or the people of al-baatil?
		
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			Because before that, the Prophet ﷺ, and I
		
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			find this to be an extremely interesting sociological
		
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			approach.
		
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			There may be some benefit to reflecting upon
		
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			it.
		
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			Prior to Badr, the Prophet ﷺ's movement was
		
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			not well understood by the rest of the
		
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			peninsula.
		
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			It was not well known.
		
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			It was not well established.
		
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			And a lot of people living in Arabia
		
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			at the time could have easily, easily, just
		
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			said, he's a person who's seeking some fame,
		
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			causing trouble, it's a big fitna, I don't
		
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			want to get involved.
		
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			They could afford to say, I don't want
		
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			to get involved.
		
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			Because the rumbling that was happening in Mecca
		
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			was very low-key.
		
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			It was just between the Prophet and Quraysh,
		
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			right?
		
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			And then he goes to Medina, still just
		
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			an immigration.
		
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			The tribes have immigrated throughout the history of
		
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			Arabia many times.
		
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			Tribes in Arabia always move around, it's not
		
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			something new.
		
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			But once the Prophet ﷺ took an army
		
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			and battled another army, and was victorious, you
		
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			could not ignore him anymore.
		
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			The people living in Arabia, they couldn't ignore
		
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			it anymore.
		
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			And when you can't ignore something, when something
		
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			has that degree of establishment, now he has
		
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			a country, and he has an army, and
		
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			he has a constitution that was written by
		
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			locals, read by locals, and signed by locals,
		
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			and they have had a victorious day in
		
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			war.
		
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			For Arab, wars are known by days.
		
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			يوم النخيل, يوم الضيقار, just days, they know
		
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			it by days.
		
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			They don't even call them, like we call
		
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			them wars later on.
		
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			We say حرب البسوس, حرب داحس, we call
		
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			them names, we give the war a name.
		
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			But the Arab didn't.
		
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			There's يوم بعث.
		
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			Even though the war was a 40-year
		
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			war, they just talk about a day.
		
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			And something happened that was significant on that
		
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			day.
		
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			Either a great warrior fell, or a great
		
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			warrior was victorious or successful.
		
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			Something happened of significance on that day.
		
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			And Arab never really cared who won or
		
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			who lost, as much as they cared who
		
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			stood their ground.
		
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			So if you could prove that you stood
		
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			your ground, even though you lost the war,
		
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			then that's a day that you would continuously
		
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			or ongoingly be proud of, even if your
		
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			army did not emerge victorious.
		
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			If you ran away, even if your army
		
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			won, then that would be a day of
		
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			embarrassment for you.
		
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			Because it's just how they looked at things.
		
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			And you'll find this a lot when you
		
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			study the history of Arabia, that they cared
		
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			about whether they could establish, they could prove
		
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			that they were brave that day.
		
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			And poets would be the ones who would
		
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			kind of carry that along.
		
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			It's a very interesting dynamic that they had.
		
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			On the day of Badr, not only did
		
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			the army of the Prophet ﷺ establish itself
		
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			as a well-organized one, not only was
		
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			it diverse, meaning it had people from different
		
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			backgrounds.
		
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			You had people from Quraysh, and you had
		
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			people from al-Aws, and you had people
		
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			from al-Khazraj, and you had people from
		
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			beyond all three who were Muslims and came
		
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			and joined, like Abu Dharr al-Ghifari, for
		
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			example, and others.
		
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			So you had people, even though we don't
		
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			know if Abu Dharr was actually amongst the
		
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			people of Badr or not, but I'm saying
		
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			that within that army, it was quite diverse.
		
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			And actually just before, maybe less than four
		
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			years or three years before, al-Aws and
		
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			al-Khazraj were at each other's necks.
		
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			They weren't actually getting along.
		
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			So the Prophet ﷺ established the presence of
		
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			a well-trained, functional army, and he established
		
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			the bravery of the people who stood by
		
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			him, because that's what they were interested in.
		
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			The Arabs were interested in, who does he
		
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			have?
		
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			A bunch of missionaries, like a bunch of
		
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			mercenaries, forgive me, people who just were there
		
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			for the money, like they're paid to do
		
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			this, so when it gets really, really difficult,
		
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			they'll run away.
		
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			Based on what are they?
		
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			No, he was able to establish that.
		
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			He went with a smaller army, and they
		
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			stood their ground longer.
		
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			And Quraysh, technically that day, many of them
		
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			ran.
		
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			There was a lot of chaos in there.
		
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			So it was a big day.
		
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			It was a big day in the history
		
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			of the peninsula.
		
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			Meaning, outside of understanding your deen, in the
		
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			documentation of the Qur'an, obviously, for Arabs,
		
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			historically in their norms, the day of Badr
		
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			was an important day, because something happened that
		
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			day that had never happened before, where Quraysh,
		
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			in all of its glory, was beaten.
		
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			It was beaten outside of Mecca.
		
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			Usually Quraysh stays and defends the Kaaba, but
		
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			it went on a conquest, and when it
		
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			goes on a conquest, it never loses.
		
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			So it went on a conquest, and it
		
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			lost, and it lost to a very small
		
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			group of people, a small group of people,
		
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			new, newly established.
		
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			Some of the people on the other side
		
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			they were fighting were from their own, like
		
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			Quraysh.
		
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			This became the water cooler rumors.
		
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			This is what people talked about.
		
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			They talked about this.
		
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			And the understanding of what occurred that day,
		
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			and the stories of what occurred that day,
		
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			it grew, and it spread far and wide.
		
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			And people started to ask, who is this
		
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			new person?
		
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			Who are these people who challenged Quraysh with
		
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			a third of their numbers, and emerged victorious?
		
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			And what is this mix that they have?
		
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			Again, if you study the Arabian history, you'll
		
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			find that qabā'il fight each other, like
		
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			tribes will fight other tribes.
		
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			Even if the two tribes are cousin tribes,
		
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			like Aus al-Khazraj, or Bakr al-Taghlib,
		
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			or other examples, they still are tribes.
		
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			You don't find pieces of tribes coming up
		
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			and gathering together.
		
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			Meaning, the concept of war within the peninsula
		
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			was not understood outside of the tribal system.
		
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			Could you argue that maybe there was once
		
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			or twice where the Arab came together to
		
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			fight a foreign enemy?
		
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			Maybe.
		
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			But even then, it was still tribal.
		
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			Still, tribes would take on certain parts of
		
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			the army and function.
		
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			The Prophet ﷺ didn't do that.
		
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			He melted this group.
		
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			On the day of Badr, you didn't have
		
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			the 314 divided based on tribe.
		
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			On the day of Badr, you didn't have
		
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			the Aus on the right, and the Khazraj
		
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			on the left, and the Quraysh on the
		
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			middle.
		
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			None of that.
		
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			It was actually not divided like that at
		
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			all.
		
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			People stood all amongst each other.
		
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			It was as they do for prayer.
		
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			For salah, for example.
		
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			We don't start our salah, all right, Palestinians
		
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			at the far left, and then the Egyptians
		
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			beside them, and the Syrians beside them, and
		
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			then they move on, the Pakistanis.
		
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			No, we don't do that.
		
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			It's just whoever's in the masjid, whoever comes
		
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			first, they stand together.
		
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			This is our understanding of our deen, because
		
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			we don't see it that way.
		
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			We don't accept that type of segregation in
		
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			our shara.
		
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			So Badr, for Arab, was something that they
		
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			had not seen before.
		
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			This type of warfare was not something that
		
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			they had witnessed and didn't understand.
		
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			And he was victorious.
		
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			You see, that's the piece that the Qur
		
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			'an is pointing out.
		
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			He won that day.
		
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			Had he lost that day, then this whole
		
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			thing would have been different.
		
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			A bunch of rebels, they went, they caused
		
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			some trouble, Quraysh went and took care of
		
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			them, and it's over now.
		
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			So you could afford not to even read
		
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			about the story.
		
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			You could easily, back then, you could afford
		
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			not to need to know anything about Muhammad
		
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			ﷺ, him or his message or whatever happened
		
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			there.
		
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			But because he won that day, now you're
		
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			forced.
		
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			Now there is a force to be reckoned
		
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			with.
		
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			There's a force that exists in Arabia.
		
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			It's new.
		
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			They have a story.
		
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			They have a problem.
		
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			You need to know something about them.
		
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			And you know something about them.
		
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			At that point, you are forced to make
		
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			a decision.
		
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			Are you for what it is that they're
		
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			calling for?
		
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			Or are you against it?
		
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			Which is why it's called Yawm al-Furqan.
		
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			It was the earthquake that shook all of
		
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			Arabia.
		
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			The ripple of it, basically knocked down every
		
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			home within the whole region.
		
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			And Quraysh was not unaware of that.
		
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			Quraysh knew that this was the biggest catastrophe
		
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			that has ever befalled them in their history.
		
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			Mind you, Quraysh has been in many wars
		
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			to defend the Kaaba and to defend themselves.
		
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			Many, many wars.
		
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			The Prophet Ali himself, in his own life
		
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			as a young person, participated in at least
		
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			one of them.
		
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			So it's not like they don't know what
		
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			they're doing.
		
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			But the issue here is different.
		
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			They were challenged by a new group, a
		
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			group that is very diverse, a group that
		
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			is fundamentally, theologically, ideologically refusing their status quo.
		
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			See, tribes didn't have that.
		
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			Two tribes would fight, but there's nothing fundamentally
		
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			different.
		
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			They're all tribes.
		
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			They all worship the same couple of Aslam.
		
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			They all have the same mentality.
		
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			It's more, you killed one of mine, so
		
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			I'm going to erase your tribe off the
		
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			face of the earth if I can.
		
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			It's just an issue of revenge or avenging
		
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			someone.
		
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			But this was different.
		
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			This was very different.
		
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			What the Prophet Ali was bringing was not
		
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			that, not to avenge anybody.
		
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			This is the right to believe something different.
		
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			Your freedom of speech, your freedom of belief.
		
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			Someone who was saying, I'm being oppressed, I'm
		
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			not being given my right to speak my
		
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			mind and to believe what I want.
		
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			And I'm challenging your way of life.
		
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			I'm challenging what you have believed to be
		
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			the status quo and the norm and the
		
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			right way to live for many, many, many,
		
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			many centuries.
		
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			And I'm challenging it and saying that you're
		
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			wrong and you need to change.
		
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			That's big news.
		
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			You're forced to listen to that.
		
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			And because he won, he forced everyone's hand
		
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			to listen.
		
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			So people had to choose on his side
		
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			or against him.
		
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			And of course, the story began from that
		
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			point.
		
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			It was called Yawm al-Furqan, the great
		
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			day.
		
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			A great day in the history of Islam.
		
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			He knew that, he stood there before this
		
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			battle and he made dua.
		
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			And he would say, Ya Rabb, if this
		
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			group of men fall today, then this is
		
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			the end of the story.
		
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			You'll never be worshipped on earth the way
		
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			you deserve to be worshipped.
		
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			And he would make dua to the point
		
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			where the burda that's on his shoulders would
		
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			fall off and Abu Bakr would come and
		
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			say, Take it easy, O Prophet of Allah.
		
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			Your Lord will deliver for you that which
		
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			He promised you.
		
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			But the Prophet did not know if that
		
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			day things were going to work out or
		
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			not.
		
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			You and I know the day.
		
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			It's easy, the story.
		
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			We've heard the story.
		
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			But he wasn't.
		
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			He was very, very obviously concerned that what
		
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			if this doesn't work out?
		
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			What if I had not prepared appropriately?
		
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			What if I did make the wrong move
		
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			here?
		
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			There's always that questioning of your decisions when
		
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			the stakes are that high.
		
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			The stakes were very high on the day
		
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			of Badr, which is why the people of
		
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			Badr, those who stood there, were forever beloved
		
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			and respected and trusted by the Prophet and
		
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			by the Muslims until the day they passed
		
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			away.
		
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			And they had a certain status amongst their
		
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			peers and amongst us as well.
		
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			So that happened in Ramadan of the second
		
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			year of hijrah.
		
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			Now, I don't usually talk about the fact
		
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			that it was in Ramadan because I talk
		
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			about it in Ramadan and I usually share
		
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			a little bit within Ramadan regarding Ramadan.
		
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			But it happened in Ramadan and keep that
		
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			in mind.
		
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			On the 17th of Ramadan, this occurred.
		
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			It was their first Ramadan.
		
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			You say, well, what about the first year
		
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			of Ramadan?
		
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			No, it wasn't really Ramadan yet.
		
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			The first year of his hijrah, peace and
		
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			blessings be upon him, Ramadan was not prescribed
		
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			as a faridah yet.
		
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			So the concept of Siyam has always existed
		
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			historically even amongst the Prophet, peace and blessings
		
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			be upon him, teachings.
		
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			But the concept of the month being mandatory
		
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			and Taraweeh and all that other beautiful stuff
		
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			that come with it was made mandatory the
		
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			second year of hijrah.
		
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			So the sahaba were being told, okay, this
		
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			is a part of your faridah.
		
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			This is Bani al-Islam and one of
		
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			them is Sawm Ramadan.
		
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			And you start teaching what Ramadan is.
		
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			This is the month that we're going to
		
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			fast from first day to the last day
		
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			and then there's Eid after it and you
		
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			fast from dawn to sunrise, to sunset and
		
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			you're going to have the salah at night
		
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			and itikaf and all those other beautiful things.
		
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			It's the night, it's the month of the
		
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			Quran within it, Layatul Qadr, the night that
		
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			the Quran was revealed to the Prophet peace
		
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			and blessings be upon him on Inghar Hira.
		
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			That night is being basically solidified as a
		
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			very significant night until this day.
		
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			So all of this is happening and the
		
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			sahaba are very happy about it which explains
		
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			to you why they didn't want to go
		
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			to begin with.
		
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			Remember I told you they didn't want to
		
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			go.
		
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			Technically a lot of them were like وَإِنَّ
		
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			فَرِيقٌ مِّنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ لَكَارِهُونَ Many of the believers
		
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			they didn't want to go on this battle.
		
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			Why do we go?
		
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			Amongst the reasons wasn't just that they were
		
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			doing well, it was Ramadan and they were
		
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			just learning to fast and it was really
		
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			nice.
		
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			Ramadan is a beautiful time even if you
		
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			worry about it a little because of the
		
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			fasting piece.
		
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			But once you get used to the first
		
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			three days of fasting you're fine afterwards and
		
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			then you just enjoy the spirituality of it.
		
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			You enjoy the beauty of the time itself
		
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			and what it carries within it and the
		
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			closeness to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and
		
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			the sense of community and there's a lot
		
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			of things in it.
		
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			So they were enjoying it.
		
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			The first 15 days had gone by and
		
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			the Prophet Ali said no, we have to
		
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			go and claim our rights.
		
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			So they didn't want to.
		
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			But they went and they went fasting and
		
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			the majority of them stayed fasting.
		
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			Scholars say the reason that they did is
		
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			because the ahkam regarding rukhsah in fasting had
		
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			not been established yet.
		
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			Meaning today if you get in your car
		
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			and you drive beyond the 80 kilometers for
		
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			example then you can break your fast in
		
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			Ramadan.
		
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			Technically you're not allowed to do that.
		
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			You make up for it after Ramadan but
		
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			you have the rukhsah if you're traveling or
		
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			if you're sick.
		
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			When you're going to war it's the same
		
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			thing.
		
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			War is similar to travel or sickness or
		
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			illness it's the same thing.
		
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			So you could break your fast but the
		
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			majority of them didn't because at that point
		
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			the rukhsah was not yet described.
		
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			It was not there yet as a hukum
		
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			shar'i so it was still the first
		
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			year and most of them were fasting when
		
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			they fought this battle.
		
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			So there's a lot for them in this
		
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			experience that they had that day.
		
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			Within the verses we'll talk about this in
		
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			Uhud I'll leave it to Uhud.
		
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			So this happened at the end of the
		
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			second year or the ninth month of the
		
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			second year of hijrah.
		
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			The battle of Uhud is going to happen
		
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			in Shawwal of the third year of hijrah.
		
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			So exactly a year and a month later.
		
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			Almost exactly a year and a month later
		
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			the Uhud would happen.
		
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			As I explained to you before there's a
		
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			lot that happens obviously between these battles.
		
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			I don't always have the perfect historic record
		
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			of exactly what happened in the eleventh month
		
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			of the second year in the twelfth month
		
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			in the first I don't always have that.
		
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			And if you do go to the books
		
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			of Surah you may find some of them
		
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			that will talk about certain events but there's
		
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			lack of evidence of the timing for it.
		
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			So the way I do it is I'll
		
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			tell you Badr and Uhud the aftermath of
		
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			Uhud and Khandaq and then I'll talk to
		
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			you a lot about social events that were
		
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			happening in the midst of all of these
		
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			years just to make it a little bit
		
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			easier.
		
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			But between the second and third year of
		
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			Hijrah a lot of what was occurring was
		
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			establishing the rituals of our deen.
		
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			Surah Al-Baqarah and parts of Surah Al
		
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			-Nisa and parts of Surah Al-Ma'idah
		
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			and parts of all of Surah Al-Anfal
		
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			for example all of Surah Al-Anfal was
		
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			being revealed to the Prophet and these Surahs
		
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			are the Surahs in the Quran that established
		
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			what the rituals would look like.
		
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			Like they start to establish appropriately the Jama
		
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			'ah of Salah all five prayers with their
		
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			timings and the Sunnahs that exist before them
		
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			and the Sunnah of Jumu'ah and establishing
		
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			obviously Ramadan and establishing the amount that needs
		
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			to be paid for Zakah so these things
		
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			started to be established within this period.
		
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			So as the Prophet is building up his
		
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			followers in Medina between Badr after Badr for
		
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			the year after Badr so he's educating people
		
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			and people are attending and they're learning and
		
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			the rituals are being established and those who
		
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			are accepting Islam now they have to start
		
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			from zero from scratch they have to learn
		
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			the values of the Deen and the belief
		
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			system of the Deen so a lot of
		
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			that's what was happening for a lot of
		
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			this period.
		
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			Now we do have evidence that the Prophet
		
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			got married to Saudah bin Zam'ah during
		
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			this period.
		
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			So the Prophet mind you up to this
		
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			moment was single or a widower because Khadijah
		
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			passed away in the 10th year of B
		
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			'itha right after Hisar al-Shi'ab right
		
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			after the boycott of the clan of Bani
		
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			Hashim so once it finished she passed away
		
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			so he spent the rest of the 10th
		
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			year all of 11th year 12th year and
		
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			13th year of B'itha in Mecca without
		
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			a wife and then he went to Medina
		
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			and spent the first year and the second
		
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			year also without a wife but after Badr
		
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			we have evidence that he got married to
		
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			Saudah bin Zam'ah Saudah was an 85
		
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			year old lady she was the first widow
		
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			within Islam regarding war her husband had fallen
		
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			before Badr this is the majority opinion that
		
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			he wasn't amongst the people of Badr but
		
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			before Badr he had fallen in one of
		
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			the Saraya one of the conquests that he
		
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			would send with his Sahaba and to honor
		
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			her so all the marriages of the Prophet
		
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			after Khadija were godly commands were divine commands
		
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			of Allah his wife as in his wife
		
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			as a man someone Muhammad the man choosing
		
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			a wife it was Khadija hands down from
		
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			the beginning till the end the day he
		
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			died he spoke of her it was Khadija
		
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			who he loved and Khadija who he remembered
		
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			the marriages that occurred after were marriages that
		
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			had purposes had purposes not only for the
		
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			region or just for the Deen but also
		
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			for the ladies themselves because after Hijrah the
		
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			wife of the Prophet had a name she
		
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			was called after that point Ummul Mu'mineen the
		
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			mother of believers this gave her religious immunity
		
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			and it gave her political immunity and this
		
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			would be a big deal after he passed
		
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			away for Aisha and Hafsa and Umm Salama
		
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			and Juwayri the Ummahat of Mu'mineen that outlived
		
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			him would have a lot of impact on
		
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			how the region would look and the role
		
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			of ladies within Islam after he moved on
		
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			so these marriages after Khadija were all commands
		
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			by Allah to take this wife and take
		
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			that wife and the first lady he would
		
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			marry is a lady who is obviously way
		
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			beyond her years of caring about being married
		
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			or not being married Sauda bin Zama at
		
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			the ripe age of 85 years old now
		
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			when they talk about Uhud they say it
		
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			was for revenge is what you find in
		
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			some of the books and to me it's
		
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			an understatement for sure to say the least
		
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			Uhud was much more than just revenge Uhud
		
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			was the acknowledgement from Quraish that the Quraish
		
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			established something that was getting too strong their
		
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			reputation was what they were worried about the
		
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			most they had lost a lot of ground
		
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			since Badr every month that went by after
		
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			Badr they lost more and more ground and
		
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			the prophet in his new city his new
		
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			country that was established was gaining more and
		
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			more popularity people were more interested in this
		
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			people were actually making their way to Medina
		
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			to visit just to see what is it
		
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			that he established there is it true that
		
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			the Quraish are living in the homes of
		
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			the people of Aus is it true that
		
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			they are living in the same homes is
		
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			it true that there is a different system
		
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			that is governing this because they couldn't believe
		
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			it it was something they had not seen
		
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			before people who didn't care about faith they
		
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			lived that way but they wanted to see
		
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			what was this new establishment they would come
		
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			back telling stories this is different everyone seems
		
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			to be living there you have this new
		
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			faith they are all living in the same
		
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			area everyone is being treated it was something
		
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			of great interest for people he was becoming
		
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			more popular the numbers were ramping up slowly
		
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			but surely his army was getting stronger not
		
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			in numbers but in faith Quraysh was losing
		
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			faith so they had to try something so
		
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			they kept on provoking the Muslims until they
		
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			pushed their way they gave themselves a reasoning
		
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			they accused Muslims of harming a caravan something
		
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			that had nothing propaganda none of it occurred
		
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			there was no reason for the prophet to
		
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			hide his intentions they would move out of
		
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			Mecca with 3,000 warriors they tripled their
		
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			army from the day of Badr they had
		
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			to save face they could not afford to
		
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			allow the story of Badr to be the
		
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			last thing people remember about the clash between
		
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			the two forces they needed to go if
		
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			you set a siege around the castle if
		
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			they have a lot of provision on the
		
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			inside the army on the outside gets very
		
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			ill and gets very tired and they lose
		
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			their strength and they lose their and the
		
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			ladies and their children would help us from
		
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			the rooftops this was a part of the
		
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			plan we We would have our warriors on
		
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			the ground, we would hold our city, and
		
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			then the ladies would help us from the
		
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			rooftops with archery and with rocks and whatever
		
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			they could help us with.
		
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			But the problem was that the majority of
		
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			his congregation, it's a beautiful thing actually, were
		
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			younger people, were people in their 20s.
		
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			And most of them did not attend Badr,
		
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			most of them weren't there for the day
		
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			of Badr.
		
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			And it gnawed at them, it bothered them
		
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			heavily that they weren't there for the day
		
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			of Badr because they lost out on this
		
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			critical, crucial, monumental moment.
		
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			If not for the sake of Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala, but just for the sake
		
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			of fame.
		
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			Even if just for a young person sometimes
		
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			you want to be there when it matters.
		
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			And all of Arabia is talking about Yawm
		
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			Badr, the day of Badr, what happened, and
		
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			you weren't there.
		
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			And you were with him, you just weren't
		
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			there that morning, the day that he decided
		
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			that we're going to get the caravan, you
		
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			just were away or you just didn't attend
		
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			or whatever happened then.
		
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			So a lot of the younger people were
		
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			very disappointed that they were not there that
		
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			day, they didn't like it.
		
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			So they said, Ya Rasulullah, we go and
		
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			fight them like we did on the day
		
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			of Badr.
		
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			Because the young blood is always a little
		
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			bit more passionate, they're a little bit more
		
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			enthusiastic, a little bit more gutsy, they want
		
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			to go out.
		
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			All of the older sahabah were like, no,
		
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			no, we stay in Medina.
		
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			Not because of his vision, at all.
		
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			Just based on simple wisdom, just a little
		
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			bit of experience.
		
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			Their wars, it's all the same.
		
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			You don't go out and they'll open, especially
		
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			if you're outnumbered.
		
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			They're coming to us with 3,000 people,
		
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			we're 1,000 at best, we're 1,000
		
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			at best.
		
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			We're going to go, we're outnumbered, again, 3
		
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			to 1.
		
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			Why repeat the same scenario of Badr again?
		
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			We got, not lucky, but we got Tawfiq
		
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			from Allah, Subhanallah, on the day of Badr.
		
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			What if this, no, we shouldn't, we shouldn't
		
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			just go out, we stay in Medina, we're
		
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			more likely to be able to push them
		
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			back and defeat them if we stay in
		
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			our city and utilize the fact that we
		
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			know our city, that it's well protected, and
		
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			that we have the ladies to help us
		
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			so the numbers go up, so it's a
		
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			better idea, there's more wisdom in it.
		
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			But the shabab outnumbered the elderly, they outnumbered
		
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			them by a lot.
		
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			He put it for a vote, alayhi salatu
		
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			wasalam, and he was outnumbered by quite a
		
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			bit.
		
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			So the Prophet, alayhi salatu wasalam, said, alright,
		
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			then, as agreed, we will go out for
		
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			the battle.
		
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			So he goes home, alayhi salatu wasalam, and
		
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			he starts dressing himself for war.
		
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			War is a horrible thing.
		
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			We don't celebrate it.
		
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			We don't celebrate war.
		
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			None of the stories that I'm telling you
		
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			are designed to celebrate the concept of war,
		
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			ever.
		
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			War is a horrible thing.
		
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			And if you don't think war is horrible,
		
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			it's because you have not witnessed it.
		
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			If you were to witness war for a
		
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			day, then you'll understand how horrible it is.
		
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			It's a time of fear.
		
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			It's a time of pain.
		
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			It's a time where countries suffer, where the
		
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			weak suffer the most.
		
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			It's a very difficult thing to undergo.
		
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			So we don't celebrate that.
		
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			What we celebrate in these stories is the
		
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			bravery of the people whom we look up
		
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			to.
		
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			The bravery of our role models, of the
		
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			Prophet, alayhi salatu wasalam, and the sahabah who
		
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			were with him.
		
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			That even though they had to do this,
		
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			they didn't want to, but they had to
		
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			do it.
		
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			They did it with bravery.
		
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			Even though war is the worst thing possible,
		
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			when they needed to do it, when they
		
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			were forced to do it, they went and
		
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			they did it.
		
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			The Qur'an talks about this.
		
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			Take a look.
		
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			Have you not seen the example of the
		
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			people?
		
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			He's speaking about the sahabah here.
		
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			Subhanahu wa ta'ala in Surah An-Nisa.
		
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			When they were told, hold your hands, you're
		
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			not allowed to initiate war or cause any
		
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			physical...
		
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			This is in Mecca.
		
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			In Mecca you're not allowed to carry a...
		
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			Don't carry a sword.
		
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			Hold your hand back.
		
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			But rather focus on your relationship with Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala and aiding the poor
		
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			and taking care of people.
		
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			When the war or combat or battle was
		
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			made mandatory that you have to fight back,
		
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			a group of them, a small group, the
		
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			munafiqeen, they start saying, why did you make
		
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			this...
		
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			They start fearing people more than they fear
		
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			Allah.
		
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			They would say, why did you make this
		
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			mandatory upon us?
		
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			Could you not have just postponed this?
		
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			Maybe just protect us yourself instead of making
		
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			us fight.
		
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			Surah An
		
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			-Nisa,
		
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			قُلْ مَتَاعُ الدُّنْيَا قَلِيلٌۭ He walks away with
		
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			the decision made, but a bunch of people
		
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			stay back, not satisfied.
		
00:36:08 --> 00:36:09
			Why are we going out?
		
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			Well, you were outnumbered in the vote.
		
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			Yeah, but the majority of those who voted
		
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			to go out are a bunch of teenagers
		
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			and 20-year-olds.
		
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			What do they know?
		
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			They know nothing.
		
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			Why are they even voting?
		
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			Why don't they just listen to the people
		
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			who know?
		
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			So this became an argument piece, people getting
		
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			upset.
		
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			And then one of the Sahaba, who the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ told the vision to, let it
		
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			go.
		
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			He said, by the way, guys, just so
		
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			you know, the guys who were so enthusiastic
		
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			to go fight outside, he saw a vision,
		
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			ﷺ, that he was supposed to stay in
		
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			Medina, and you guys voted against this.
		
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			So now the younger people are like, what?
		
00:36:44 --> 00:36:45
			We didn't know that.
		
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			So they go running to his house, ﷺ,
		
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			and they knock on his door.
		
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			He opens his door, he's half-dressed for
		
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			his gear.
		
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			He has his upper gear on.
		
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			And he opens the door and there's like
		
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			200 young men standing out the door.
		
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			What do you want?
		
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			ﷺ.
		
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			ﷺ.
		
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			ﷺ.
		
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			Have we coerced you to do something you
		
00:37:04 --> 00:37:04
			didn't want to do?
		
00:37:06 --> 00:37:07
			Are we out of line?
		
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			This is their adab.
		
00:37:09 --> 00:37:09
			ﷺ.
		
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			Out of adab.
		
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			Did we say something we shouldn't have said?
		
00:37:12 --> 00:37:13
			Did we make a decision, did we force
		
00:37:13 --> 00:37:14
			you to make a decision that you didn't
		
00:37:14 --> 00:37:14
			want to make?
		
00:37:15 --> 00:37:15
			We didn't know.
		
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			ﷺ.
		
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			ﷺ.
		
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			If it pleases you to stay in Madinah,
		
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			we stay in Madinah as you want.
		
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			فَقَالَ عَلَيْهِ الصَّلَاةُ وَالسَّلَامُ مَا كَانَ لِنَبِيٍّ إِذَا
		
00:37:26 --> 00:37:30
			لَبَسَ لَأْمَةَهُ لَأْمَةَ الْحَرْبِ أَن يَضَعَهَا حَتَّى يُقَاتِلَ
		
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			أَوْ حَتَّى يَفْصِلَ اللَّهُ بَيْنَهُ وَبَيْنَ عَدُوِّهِ No,
		
00:37:33 --> 00:37:33
			no.
		
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			It's unacceptable.
		
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			I've worn my gear.
		
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			There's no excuse for a prophet to wear
		
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			his gear with the intention of going to
		
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			fight for the sake of Allah, and then
		
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			he decides not to in the middle of
		
00:37:44 --> 00:37:45
			it or he changes his mind.
		
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			We agreed.
		
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			We're ready.
		
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			I'm going.
		
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			There's a lesson in this piece that we're
		
00:37:53 --> 00:37:55
			going to take some time and talk about
		
00:37:55 --> 00:37:58
			at the end of the Battle of Uhud
		
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			that is worthy of contemplation, especially these days,
		
00:38:02 --> 00:38:03
			for sure.
		
00:38:03 --> 00:38:07
			But I'm going to give you a sneak
		
00:38:07 --> 00:38:08
			peek of it now just so you can
		
00:38:08 --> 00:38:09
			think about it.
		
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			The outcome of this war is not going
		
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			to be in the favor of the Muslims.
		
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			It's not.
		
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			And some people are going to use that
		
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			as an argument to say, well, you know,
		
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			you put it to a vote and you
		
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			involved the youth and you shouldn't have.
		
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			That was their argument to him.
		
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			The Qur'an would come, would be revealed
		
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			to him after Uhud, and it would state
		
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			clearly, وَشَاوِرْهُمْ فِي الْأَمْرِ And we're going to
		
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			read these verses in depth.
		
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			And continue to consult with them as you
		
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			move forward.
		
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			Taking away the idea or the possibility that
		
00:38:47 --> 00:38:50
			consulting with his congregation was ever optional.
		
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			It was never optional.
		
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			This is what he was going to always
		
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			do.
		
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			Even though the outcome was negative.
		
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			He was not permitted to say, well, I
		
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			asked you once.
		
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			It failed.
		
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			Take a back seat, please, from now on.
		
00:39:05 --> 00:39:07
			And this is in war.
		
00:39:08 --> 00:39:09
			This is in war.
		
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			Not in some program that you wanted to
		
00:39:13 --> 00:39:16
			start in a tertiary masjid in some city
		
00:39:16 --> 00:39:18
			that no one has heard of.
		
00:39:18 --> 00:39:20
			No, this is in war.
		
00:39:20 --> 00:39:22
			That war that was going to affect the
		
00:39:22 --> 00:39:24
			future of Islam as a whole.
		
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			And people were still, no, no, you asked
		
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			them their opinion, they gave it.
		
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			It doesn't matter whether it worked or it
		
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			didn't.
		
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			You're going to do this again.
		
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			The idea of, no, no, we have to
		
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			put them aside because they're younger or they
		
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			know less or they're not.
		
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			No, no, this is Islamically unacceptable.
		
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			Not only should masjid and should the ummah
		
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			empower the younger generation to make decisions and
		
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			to come up with plans and to try
		
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			things.
		
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			But they have to be okay when they
		
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			do that and fail to allow them to
		
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			try again.
		
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			And again.
		
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			And again.
		
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			Because it's normal that if you try something
		
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			and you do something that's a little bit
		
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			innovative, you have a little bit of creativity,
		
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			then you're going to fail a couple of
		
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			times.
		
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			Who said that it's a one strike deal
		
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			and you're out?
		
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			I'm going to give you one shot at
		
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			getting this done.
		
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			If it doesn't work, then you're out.
		
00:40:14 --> 00:40:15
			Who said this?
		
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			Who came up with this silly rule?
		
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			If on the day, if in war.
		
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			Because I would accept an exception for war,
		
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			by the way.
		
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			Like my mind would be okay with that.
		
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			My mind would be okay with saying, well,
		
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			consult with the youth and let them make
		
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			decisions.
		
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			But not in war.
		
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			Because war is, you know, it's life and
		
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			death.
		
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			No, I would be okay with that.
		
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			I personally would say that.
		
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			That makes sense to me.
		
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			The Qur'an, no.
		
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			Even in war.
		
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			Even in war, you're going to consult and
		
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			you're going to go by the majority.
		
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			And if they make a mistake, then that's
		
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			how it is.
		
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			And you try again.
		
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			And to me, that's an indication of the
		
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			mentality that we are obligated to carry as
		
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			Muslims within our deen.
		
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			That as you rise, as you move through
		
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			life and you rise up the rankings as
		
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			a person, going into your 40s and your
		
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			50s and your 60s, you have more.
		
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			It's your obligation, not an option.
		
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			You don't deserve applause for this.
		
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			It's your obligation to empower the people who
		
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			are coming after you.
		
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			And to advise them.
		
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			And to let them fail.
		
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			And to help them learn and let them
		
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			try again.
		
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			This is so rare that when it happens,
		
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			we're so impressed by the person who does
		
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			it.
		
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			It's not optional.
		
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			It never was.
		
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			It never was.
		
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			This is the least that you can do.
		
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			If Rasulullah ﷺ said this.
		
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			Before war.
		
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			You're more wise than him ﷺ.
		
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			Your wisdom is better than his vision.
		
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			His ru'ya at night when he saw
		
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			that he had to stay in Medina.
		
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			He saw it.
		
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			He's a prophet.
		
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			He's not a guy.
		
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			Just some person.
		
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			He's Rasulullah who saw a vision, a ru
		
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			'ya.
		
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			Not some weird dream.
		
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			He saw a vision that he should stay
		
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			in Medina.
		
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			But the majority, the youth want to get
		
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			out.
		
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			We go out.
		
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			We go out.
		
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			Because how else do you empower them?
		
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			How else do you make sure that they
		
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			matter?
		
00:42:04 --> 00:42:05
			And their voices matter?
		
00:42:05 --> 00:42:06
			And their feelings matter?
		
00:42:07 --> 00:42:08
			And their opinion matters?
		
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			That's how.
		
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			I am not more wise than him ﷺ.
		
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			I don't have more authority than him.
		
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			I have no reason.
		
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			If he allowed for this, then who am
		
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			I?
		
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			Who am I to dare hold that back
		
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			from people who are coming up?
		
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			Who am I to judge them when it
		
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			doesn't work out?
		
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			Who am I to threaten to hold it
		
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			off as if it's something that I own?
		
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			It's my decision.
		
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			It's not my decision.
		
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			It never was.
		
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			It's not optional.
		
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			Masajid that function through this old hierarchy, this
		
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			just...
		
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			I don't know how to put this in
		
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			a way that's not going to come off.
		
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			Islam institutions that function that way are doomed.
		
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			They're going to fail.
		
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			They're going to fail.
		
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			Because if you get...
		
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			What was it about the Prophet ﷺ and
		
00:43:00 --> 00:43:02
			his movement that was most interesting?
		
00:43:03 --> 00:43:05
			It was the number of the youth that
		
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			existed.
		
00:43:05 --> 00:43:07
			You know that the number is high just
		
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			from the vote of the day of Uhud.
		
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			You just know that they outnumbered people by
		
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			far.
		
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			They had status.
		
00:43:13 --> 00:43:14
			They had positions.
		
00:43:14 --> 00:43:15
			They had...
		
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			Because the tribal system doesn't allow for that.
		
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			The tribal system is based on seniority.
		
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			That's pretty much it.
		
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			That's why people of young age, who did
		
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			not have the good fortune of their elders
		
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			dying early, where they could come in and
		
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			take a position, were forced to do something
		
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			different.
		
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			They had to get out of politics.
		
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			When you study Arabic history, you find that
		
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			these princes were wasting their lives drinking and
		
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			partying.
		
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			The reason being is that there's nothing else
		
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			to do.
		
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			The grandfathered-in hierarchy of people was not
		
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			going to allow anyone to penetrate into this
		
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			group unless there was going to be a
		
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			pet, unless they were going to behave as
		
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			pets to the older people and listen to
		
00:44:00 --> 00:44:02
			the old geezers, whatever they had to say.
		
00:44:02 --> 00:44:04
			So that's why the majority of Arabian princes,
		
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			even in modern-day media and in Hollywood,
		
00:44:08 --> 00:44:10
			they are depicted as people who are just
		
00:44:10 --> 00:44:13
			living lavish lifestyles, eating and drinking and playing
		
00:44:13 --> 00:44:14
			and wasting their lives.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Even though they're very capable, it's because of
		
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			this.
		
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			It's because of this very toxic mindset in
		
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			running things, where you're not senior.
		
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			Sit aside.
		
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			Be quiet.
		
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			If you want to get involved, then you
		
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			have to become someone's pet.
		
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			And this is a very important piece of
		
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			understanding how he did things, and it wasn't
		
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			like that.
		
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			In war, he listened to them.
		
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			I would have been okay if he didn't
		
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			listen to them in war.
		
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			I would have been okay him establishing all
		
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			of this outside of war and making war
		
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			the one exception because lives are going to
		
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			fall.
		
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			No.
		
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			He was going to do it in war,
		
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			and for this to stand as an example
		
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			that you will continue to point out till
		
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			the day of judgment, that you cannot miss
		
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			it.
		
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			You can't miss it.
		
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			More than that.
		
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			I'm going to go one step more than
		
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			that, because that may not be enough for
		
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			you.
		
00:45:03 --> 00:45:06
			Abdullah bin Ubaid bin Salul got so upset.
		
00:45:06 --> 00:45:07
			He is the leader of Al-Khazraj.
		
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			And this poor gentleman, well, I shouldn't say
		
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			poor, but I feel a certain, when I
		
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			think about it, you have to understand his
		
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			story.
		
00:45:15 --> 00:45:16
			Abdullah bin Ubaid bin Salul is the worst
		
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			of the munafiqeen, and he is going to
		
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			be punished on the day of judgment for
		
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			that which Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala sees
		
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			fit for him.
		
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			But this gentleman, right before the Prophet ﷺ
		
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			came to Medina, was being prepared to rule
		
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			the city.
		
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			To rule the city, based on a lot
		
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			of stories and a lot of things that
		
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			happened beforehand.
		
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			So he was already very disgruntled with the
		
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			presence of the Muslims, and he was really
		
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			not committed to the idea, but he couldn't
		
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			afford to break off.
		
00:45:39 --> 00:45:40
			He couldn't.
		
00:45:40 --> 00:45:41
			He signed the constitution.
		
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			He was technically a Muslim, but he looked
		
00:45:43 --> 00:45:47
			for any opportunity to divide this group that
		
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			he was a part of, hoping that this
		
00:45:48 --> 00:45:49
			group would fall to pieces at some point.
		
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			So when the Prophet ﷺ took a vote,
		
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			and didn't just come and ask him and
		
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			the elders, he got very offended.
		
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			He got very offended.
		
00:46:01 --> 00:46:05
			قَالَ يَتْبَعُ يَسْمَعُ الْغِلْمَانَ وَيَتْبَعُ الْغِلْمَانَ وَيَتْرُكُنِ He
		
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			listens to these kids and he leaves me.
		
00:46:07 --> 00:46:09
			I was the leader on the day of
		
00:46:09 --> 00:46:09
			Bu'ath.
		
00:46:10 --> 00:46:14
			I was the commander who was victorious on
		
00:46:14 --> 00:46:17
			a very famous day amongst the days of
		
00:46:17 --> 00:46:19
			Arabian wars.
		
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			So he got so upset that he commanded
		
00:46:23 --> 00:46:25
			the 300 people who listened to him to
		
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			not join the army.
		
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			So the army that was 1,000 people
		
00:46:29 --> 00:46:31
			going to fight 3,000 went from 1
		
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			,000 to 700 overnight because of this decision.
		
00:46:35 --> 00:46:37
			Now at that point, I would have been
		
00:46:37 --> 00:46:39
			okay with I'm totally okay now with the
		
00:46:39 --> 00:46:40
			Prophet ﷺ.
		
00:46:40 --> 00:46:41
			All right, we stay in Medina.
		
00:46:42 --> 00:46:43
			We'll continue to listen to the shabab.
		
00:46:43 --> 00:46:45
			It will completely empower you, but maybe it's
		
00:46:45 --> 00:46:46
			not for this day specifically.
		
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			No.
		
00:46:47 --> 00:46:48
			No, kept on going.
		
00:46:48 --> 00:46:50
			There was a consequence to this decision.
		
00:46:51 --> 00:46:53
			The consequence of actually putting it to a
		
00:46:53 --> 00:46:58
			void and involving people had a consequence that
		
00:46:58 --> 00:46:58
			was detrimental.
		
00:46:59 --> 00:47:01
			He lost a third almost of his army.
		
00:47:02 --> 00:47:03
			A third of his army.
		
00:47:03 --> 00:47:05
			An army that was already outnumbered 1 to
		
00:47:05 --> 00:47:07
			3 was now going to be outnumbered 1
		
00:47:07 --> 00:47:07
			to 4.
		
00:47:10 --> 00:47:11
			This is what was going to happen on
		
00:47:11 --> 00:47:11
			the day of Bu'ath.
		
00:47:12 --> 00:47:14
			And of course, Abdullah ibn Salul that day,
		
00:47:15 --> 00:47:19
			up to that time, every time the Prophet
		
00:47:19 --> 00:47:21
			ﷺ gave a khutbah jum'ah, I'll explain
		
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			to you the dynamic here.
		
00:47:24 --> 00:47:24
			Before he...
		
00:47:24 --> 00:47:26
			You know how the imam says, As-salamu
		
00:47:26 --> 00:47:27
			alaykum, sits down.
		
00:47:28 --> 00:47:29
			So when the Prophet ﷺ would say, As
		
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			-salamu alaykum, and then sit down for a
		
00:47:31 --> 00:47:33
			moment, he would stand up, he would turn
		
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			to the congregation, and he would say, Ya
		
00:47:35 --> 00:47:39
			ayyuha al-nas, hatha rasulullah, isma'uhu wa
		
00:47:39 --> 00:47:39
			tabi'uhu.
		
00:47:39 --> 00:47:40
			He would stand up and say, Oh people,
		
00:47:40 --> 00:47:41
			this is the Prophet of God.
		
00:47:42 --> 00:47:43
			Listen to him and follow him.
		
00:47:43 --> 00:47:44
			He gave himself a little bit of a
		
00:47:44 --> 00:47:46
			status where he could speak.
		
00:47:46 --> 00:47:48
			The Prophet ﷺ allowed for it.
		
00:47:48 --> 00:47:49
			He had no problem.
		
00:47:49 --> 00:47:50
			He never told him to sit down.
		
00:47:50 --> 00:47:50
			He was allowed.
		
00:47:50 --> 00:47:52
			He was never told later on, took aside,
		
00:47:52 --> 00:47:53
			maybe stop doing this.
		
00:47:53 --> 00:47:53
			No.
		
00:47:53 --> 00:47:56
			For over two years, two full years, and
		
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			the third year, half of the third year,
		
00:47:58 --> 00:47:59
			this happened every jum'ah.
		
00:47:59 --> 00:48:01
			Imagine being in the masjid of the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ during the beginning of the third year
		
00:48:04 --> 00:48:06
			of hijrah, and you're attending the khutbah, and
		
00:48:06 --> 00:48:08
			some guy stands up before the khutbah and
		
00:48:08 --> 00:48:10
			starts telling you that you should listen to
		
00:48:10 --> 00:48:11
			the Prophet ﷺ.
		
00:48:11 --> 00:48:12
			Very weird.
		
00:48:12 --> 00:48:13
			But the Prophet ﷺ understood.
		
00:48:13 --> 00:48:14
			He felt for this guy.
		
00:48:15 --> 00:48:16
			He felt for the loss that he went
		
00:48:16 --> 00:48:16
			through.
		
00:48:17 --> 00:48:18
			He understood that the Prophet ﷺ was very
		
00:48:18 --> 00:48:20
			sensitive, a very sensitive soul.
		
00:48:20 --> 00:48:23
			He knew the difficulty of what Abdullah ibn
		
00:48:23 --> 00:48:24
			Ubayy ibn Salul was dealing with.
		
00:48:25 --> 00:48:27
			The difficulty of accepting that he was no
		
00:48:27 --> 00:48:29
			longer going to be the alpha, that he
		
00:48:29 --> 00:48:30
			was no longer going to be the king.
		
00:48:30 --> 00:48:31
			He was not going to rule anymore.
		
00:48:32 --> 00:48:34
			That's hard to swallow, especially when you're that
		
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			close.
		
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			You're that close to becoming a king.
		
00:48:36 --> 00:48:37
			A king.
		
00:48:37 --> 00:48:38
			He was going to be a king.
		
00:48:38 --> 00:48:40
			In Arabic, there are different ranks.
		
00:48:41 --> 00:48:44
			You only use the word king if you
		
00:48:44 --> 00:48:46
			are ruling more than just your tribe.
		
00:48:46 --> 00:48:48
			If you're just your tribe, you're not called
		
00:48:48 --> 00:48:49
			a king.
		
00:48:49 --> 00:48:51
			In Arabic, you had kings.
		
00:48:51 --> 00:48:55
			Himyar, Wakinda, Al-Ghassasia, you had kings because
		
00:48:55 --> 00:48:57
			they ruled more than just their own tribes.
		
00:48:58 --> 00:48:59
			He was going to become a king because
		
00:48:59 --> 00:49:01
			he was going to rule Khazraj and Aus.
		
00:49:01 --> 00:49:03
			It was not just his tribe that was
		
00:49:03 --> 00:49:04
			pulled from under him.
		
00:49:06 --> 00:49:09
			The Prophet ﷺ let things, he let a
		
00:49:09 --> 00:49:09
			lot go.
		
00:49:10 --> 00:49:11
			But the day he took back the 300,
		
00:49:13 --> 00:49:17
			after Uhud, after Uhud, once the Prophet ﷺ
		
00:49:17 --> 00:49:20
			got on the minbar for the first Jumu
		
00:49:20 --> 00:49:21
			'ah, he stood up.
		
00:49:21 --> 00:49:23
			The Prophet ﷺ told him, sit down.
		
00:49:24 --> 00:49:24
			Sit down.
		
00:49:24 --> 00:49:25
			No.
		
00:49:25 --> 00:49:26
			You don't get to do this anymore.
		
00:49:27 --> 00:49:29
			You don't get to pull back 300 fighters
		
00:49:29 --> 00:49:33
			before the night of the battle and then
		
00:49:33 --> 00:49:34
			stand up and do this.
		
00:49:34 --> 00:49:34
			Not anymore.
		
00:49:34 --> 00:49:35
			So he sat down.
		
00:49:36 --> 00:49:37
			He didn't allow it for Ali.
		
00:49:37 --> 00:49:38
			Ali was not a pushover.
		
00:49:38 --> 00:49:39
			He was very wise.
		
00:49:39 --> 00:49:41
			And he was very merciful.
		
00:49:42 --> 00:49:43
			But he had to draw lines.
		
00:49:43 --> 00:49:45
			He couldn't allow for this man to continue
		
00:49:45 --> 00:49:47
			to speak the way he did after what
		
00:49:47 --> 00:49:47
			he did.
		
00:49:47 --> 00:49:50
			After doing that, after deciding the night before
		
00:49:50 --> 00:49:52
			the battle that he was going to withhold
		
00:49:52 --> 00:49:54
			a third of his army, the Prophet ﷺ's
		
00:49:54 --> 00:49:54
			army.
		
00:49:55 --> 00:49:56
			That was a big deal.
		
00:49:56 --> 00:49:57
			Some of the people who were held back
		
00:49:57 --> 00:49:58
			were not necessarily bad people.
		
00:50:00 --> 00:50:02
			Some of the people who stayed back later
		
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			on became very good Muslims.
		
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			But the day that they were told by
		
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			their leader, see, it was very confusing for
		
00:50:07 --> 00:50:08
			a lot of these new Muslims.
		
00:50:08 --> 00:50:09
			Who do they listen to?
		
00:50:09 --> 00:50:11
			Because they're used to a certain way of
		
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			things running.
		
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			This is the leader of our tribe.
		
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			For as long as I remembered, he's been
		
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			the leader of our tribe.
		
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			And he's my second uncle or my third
		
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			grandfather or my stepdad or whatever.
		
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			He's related to me.
		
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			So it's hard for me to say no
		
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			to him.
		
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			So even though I love Muhammad ﷺ, sometimes
		
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			he can get confused.
		
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			So some of those 300 that stayed back
		
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			were actually not bad people.
		
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			They just didn't know what else to do
		
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			when they were told this by their leader
		
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			and they stayed back.
		
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			Of course, they would later on make up
		
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			for it in other battles.
		
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			But this was a big deal.
		
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			So Abdullah ibn Ubaid bin Salul just tilted
		
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			an already unbalanced battle.
		
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			He made it less balanced.
		
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			One to three is already pretty bad.
		
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			Now it's one to four.
		
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			And it's out in the open.
		
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			And there's a little bit of turmoil amongst
		
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			the Sahaba.
		
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			Even the guys who said, let's go out
		
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			are now like, should we have not done
		
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			this?
		
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			Should we have said we should stay home?
		
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			The Prophet ﷺ would go and establish the
		
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			place.
		
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			Depending on where the Mushrikeen were headed, the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ would choose an area for this
		
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			battle to occur.
		
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			A little bit outside of Madinah.
		
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			Today it's not outside of Madinah.
		
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			It's in Madinah.
		
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			But Madinah today is much bigger than it
		
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			was during the time of the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			So Uhud at that time technically was outside
		
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			of Madinah, just so you understand how it
		
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			works.
		
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			So he would go, ﷺ.
		
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			He would meet the Mushrikeen.
		
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			Beside Jabal Uhud.
		
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			The reason he would choose Jabal Uhud, because
		
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			similarly to the day of Badr, he had
		
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			an idea, ﷺ, that if he can force
		
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			the opposite army to fight him in a
		
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			narrow area, then the advantage of their numbers
		
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			becomes less applicable.
		
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			Like they can't cash in on the advantage
		
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			of numbers anymore.
		
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			If 50 is standing in front of 100,
		
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			but the hallway can only take 25, then
		
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			really the hundreds doesn't have that advantage anymore.
		
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			If the people who are standing, the 25
		
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			up front are good, then they can basically
		
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			steamroll the 100 because they lost the ability
		
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			to flank.
		
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			Really, most people here play some form of
		
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			video games.
		
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			So you know, flanking is a big thing
		
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			when you're fighting.
		
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			It's very helpful.
		
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			Because if the guy can't see you, they
		
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			can't really do anything about it.
		
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			In Arab, ﷺ, that's how they did their
		
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			wars.
		
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			And flanking was what you used if you
		
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			had a number advantage.
		
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			If you were way more, then you tried
		
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			to surround your enemy.
		
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			So if you're a couple of thousands and
		
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			they're a couple of hundreds, it's very easy.
		
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			So now they have to fight in every
		
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			direction.
		
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			So their numbers become less and you dilute
		
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			them, so it's easier.
		
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			So the Prophet ﷺ's idea was that he
		
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			was going to force them into a very
		
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			small area to fight.
		
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			And I think I have a picture of
		
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			it.
		
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			Okay, so you can see up there.
		
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			So the Prophet ﷺ positioned his army between
		
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			the mountain of...
		
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			Oh, here's a big mountain.
		
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			And a smaller mountain that today is called
		
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			Jabal al Rumah because of the archers that
		
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			were on it.
		
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			Rumah is the plural of archers, so the
		
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			mountain of archers.
		
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			But at that time, it didn't have a
		
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			name.
		
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			It was just a mountain that was high
		
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			enough.
		
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			It was around 23 kilometers to go around.
		
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			So 23 kilometers on horseback takes a bit
		
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			of time.
		
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			It's not something you're going to get through
		
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			a couple of minutes.
		
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			So if the Prophet ﷺ had the first
		
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			Muslim on the right side standing at the
		
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			beginning of Uhud and the last person on
		
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			the left side standing right at the amount
		
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			of archers, so the only way that he...
		
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			And that's not enough for 700 people.
		
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			That distance can only fit maybe 200 people
		
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			at tops or 250.
		
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			So now the army of the Mushrikeen have
		
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			to come in 250 at a time instead
		
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			of all 3,000 coming in.
		
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			So the only way for them to cash
		
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			in on their advantage and to benefit is
		
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			to flank.
		
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			They can't flank from Uhud.
		
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			Uhud's way too big.
		
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			It'll take forever.
		
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			It'll be the next day before they can
		
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			make it around.
		
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			The only way is to flank from around
		
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			this small mountain, this small mount.
		
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			So his plan, ﷺ, was to put 50
		
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			well-trained archers on that mount.
		
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			Their only job was to...
		
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			You see where that blue...
		
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			Is to make sure whoever tries to go
		
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			in the blue area there, to take them
		
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			out.
		
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			To basically end the advantage because unless it
		
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			was going to be cavalry, then it's not
		
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			going to work because it took too long
		
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			to go around.
		
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			The way that the Mushrikeen or the Quraysh
		
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			would benefit is if they went around and
		
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			went up the mountain and then came down
		
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			upon the Muslims on the side.
		
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			To go around from the whole thing takes
		
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			too long.
		
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			I don't think this...
		
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			When you look at the pictures, you don't
		
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			always have great pictures.
		
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			I don't have a better picture.
		
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			It's not fully accurate because they didn't go
		
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			around.
		
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			That's not what happened on the day of
		
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			Uhud.
		
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			They ended up going over the mountain.
		
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			They came to the side and went over
		
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			the mountain.
		
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			Going around the mountain takes too long.
		
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			So that was his plan.
		
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			He had agreed amongst themselves that this was
		
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			going to be the case.
		
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			So he put on the mountain 50 people.
		
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			The leader is a...
		
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			A Sahabi by the name of Abdullah ibn
		
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			Jubair.
		
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			And he was responsible for running the plan.
		
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			And the plan was very clear.
		
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			The Prophet ﷺ very clearly stated the following.
		
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			He said, إذا رأيتمونا انتصرنا أو رأيتمونا متنا
		
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			وأكلنا الدود فلا ينزلن أحد منكم حتى آمرة
		
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			Whether you see us victorious celebrating our victory
		
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			or you see us all dead and we're
		
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			being eaten by worms, don't move from this
		
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			mountain unless I personally tell you so.
		
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			So if I die, you die on the
		
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			mountain.
		
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			This is the command.
		
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			This is the commander of the army.
		
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			If I die, then you're going to die
		
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			on this mountain.
		
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			You're not going to move from this mountain
		
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			because you won't move until I tell you
		
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			to move.
		
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			Clear?
		
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			Everyone's clear.
		
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			Abdullah ibn Jubair, he takes this message.
		
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			He makes sure it's absolutely clear.
		
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			He prepares the 50 archers a lot.
		
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			50 archers, well-trained archers.
		
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			The Arabian bow is similar to the English
		
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			bow, not like the French one.
		
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			French bows are smaller.
		
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			So you get more frequency.
		
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			They don't go as far, but you get
		
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			more frequency.
		
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			You're able to throw more.
		
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			The English bows are a bit bigger.
		
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			The Arabian bow is maybe half a size
		
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			bigger than the English bow.
		
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			I once went to a friend of my
		
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			father's who had memorabilia of this sort, and
		
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			he showed me an Arabian bow.
		
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			I was maybe 13 at the time, and
		
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			I could not even move it.
		
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			You're supposed to be able to hold the
		
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			bow and then pull it back, right?
		
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			I couldn't move it at all.
		
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			I know I'm a little bit of a
		
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			wimp, but not to the point where I
		
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			couldn't move it at all.
		
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			I couldn't actually do anything with it.
		
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			It was so difficult, and the old brother
		
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			who owned it, he took it, and he
		
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			pulled it back a little bit.
		
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			He wasn't able to pull the whole thing
		
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			back.
		
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			So imagining what this actually looks...
		
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			So if you get the right person who
		
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			knows what they're doing, and he took me,
		
00:57:03 --> 00:57:05
			and there's a Bedouin man who uses these
		
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			Arabian bows, and I watched him.
		
00:57:06 --> 00:57:07
			I actually put the arrow in.
		
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			The arrow, forgive me, is quite...
		
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			It's around a meter long, and he pulls
		
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			it back, and when he lets it go,
		
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			it has force.
		
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			You're talking about something that will penetrate a
		
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			wall very easily.
		
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			This will go right through a horse, no
		
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			problem.
		
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			So these bows and these arrows are very,
		
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			very powerful.
		
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			So having 50 well-trained archers on that
		
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			mountain was actually an important piece, and they
		
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			were properly shielded from the archers of the
		
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			enemy, and this was the game plan.
		
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			This was the battle layout for the Battle
		
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			of Uhud.
		
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			We'll end with that, inshallah.
		
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			We'll continue next week.
		
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			SubhanAllah wa bihamdik.
		
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			Shalom.
		
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			La ilaha illa anta astaghfirullah wa atubu ilayk.
		
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			Wassalamu'alaikum wa barak ala nabiyyina Muhammadin wa
		
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			ala alihi wa sahbihi ajma'in.
		
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			Jazakumullah khair.
		
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			Are you leading, inshallah?
		
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			We just need the batteries.
		
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			The batteries are all dead.