Ahmad Arshad – Hazrat Bayan # 9

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The segment discusses the complex human creation process of removing a body from its body, the deen, and the importance of organizing oneself in a beneficial way. The deen is a complete adoption and the way in which individuals act is the way in which they act. The deen is a complete adoption and the way in which individuals act is the way in which they act. The deen is a complete adoption and the way in which individuals act is the way in which they act. The deen is a complete adoption and the way in which individuals act is the way in which they act. The deen is a complete adoption and the way in which individuals act is the way in which they act. The deen is a complete adoption and the way in which individuals act is the way in which they act. The deen is a complete adoption and the way in which individuals act is the way in which they act. The deen is a complete adoption and the way in which individuals act is

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			My dear brothers, if we look at the
		
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			human creation, we find that Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala has created this insan as a
		
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			very complex organism.
		
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			I always tell my students who are doctors
		
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			that just studying medicine should open up doors
		
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			of ma'arifa to you because every day
		
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			you come across so many findings that you
		
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			are left with nothing but saying subhanallah over
		
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			them.
		
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			So if you look at our body, Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala has made us as
		
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			a combination of seemingly very opposite and different
		
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			systems.
		
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			For example, I am able to see you
		
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			with my eyes because Allah ta'ala has
		
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			put those properties in it but I cannot
		
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			listen with my eyes, I cannot taste with
		
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			my eyes because that is something else.
		
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			I can taste with my tongue but I
		
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			cannot taste with my ears.
		
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			I can hear people with my ears but
		
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			I cannot use it for some other function.
		
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			So every function or every organ that Allah
		
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			ta'ala has given us, outside or inside,
		
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			they are very different.
		
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			My heart will pump, my lungs, it is
		
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			going to be used for breathing purposes.
		
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			I have a blood system, a vascular system
		
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			that is being used as a transportation system
		
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			inside.
		
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			All of these things with all of the
		
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			organs and tissues and cells and within the
		
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			cells as well, this is a kainat, this
		
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			is a universe that exists.
		
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			But sometimes you wonder how is it that
		
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			all of these different things and organs are
		
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			able to come together and act as one.
		
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			Because when we look at each other, we
		
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			identify each other as a person.
		
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			Abdullah, Muhammad, I don't say eyes of Abdullah
		
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			and now I am going to be talking
		
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			to ears of Abdullah and now I am
		
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			going to be talking to the heart of
		
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			Abdullah.
		
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			No, we recognize a person.
		
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			And the reason for that is that Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala has put something immaterial
		
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			in this body, in this jisam and jasad,
		
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			which the Quran calls the ruh, which is
		
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			an amri rabbi.
		
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			And once this ruh enters the body, now
		
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			sort of harmony comes within it.
		
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			Now it acts as one.
		
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			Despite the differences, now it is acting as
		
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			one so much so that that is how
		
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			we recognize the person as well.
		
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			Because of the presence of the ruh.
		
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			And as long as the ruh exists, the
		
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			body is going to act like that.
		
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			And it is so harmonious, this existence, and
		
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			there is so much working together between these
		
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			organs that if one part stops to work
		
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			the way it is supposed to, the whole
		
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			body is affected by it.
		
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			So for example, if you are walking and
		
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			you stub your toe, it is your toe
		
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			that got hurt, but you find your hand
		
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			rubbing it.
		
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			You find tears flowing from the eyes.
		
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			You find that your tongue is moaning because
		
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			of the hurt that you are feeling.
		
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			It could very well be like the eyes
		
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			could be rebellious.
		
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			They can say, well, nothing happened to me.
		
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			Why should I care about what has happened
		
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			to the toe?
		
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			But we understand this.
		
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			This is how our understanding of our own
		
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			existence is.
		
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			That yes, it is the toe that is
		
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			getting hurt, but it is affecting my whole
		
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			body.
		
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			And so the whole body has to react
		
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			to it, respond to it.
		
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			Now, once this ruh is taken out, which
		
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			is what happens when we taste death, once
		
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			the ruh is taken out, it is chemically
		
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			the same person.
		
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			The same organs still exist.
		
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			The same tissues and cells are still there.
		
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			But Allah Ta'ala has taken away the
		
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			ruh, the soul, the asal from the body,
		
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			which makes it act as one.
		
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			Now, all of these organs and tissues, now
		
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			they become strangers to each other.
		
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			You can take a knife, you can cut
		
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			off the arm.
		
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			This time around, the eyes are not going
		
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			to cry, the tongue is not going to
		
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			moan.
		
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			Your hand is not going to come to
		
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			the rescue.
		
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			Why is that?
		
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			It is the same person, it is the
		
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			same body.
		
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			People will say, well, now this person is
		
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			dead.
		
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			Before, that person was alive.
		
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			When the ruh is taken out, we call
		
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			such a person a mayyat, a dead body.
		
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			And a dead body is exactly that.
		
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			It is extremely, extremely dead and static.
		
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			And so, this is something that we need
		
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			to understand on an individual level.
		
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			There is something that brings things together.
		
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			And when we talk about our collective existence,
		
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			because we are, you know, human beings are
		
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			social animals as they say.
		
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			We live in a collection.
		
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			There has to be something that is able
		
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			to bring the hearts of human beings together.
		
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			Just like they are glue.
		
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			I was looking at this very wonderful structure
		
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			and honestly I was thinking, how did they
		
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			do it?
		
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			What is this made of?
		
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			Is it bricks coming together?
		
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			Because if you have bricks, you need cement.
		
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			Is this made from some kind of wood?
		
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			If it is wood, you need some special
		
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			kind of nailing.
		
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			If it is made from some other material,
		
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			to be able to connect it, because this
		
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			is not just one thing, there are a
		
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			bunch of materials coming together, you need a
		
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			third thing to bring it together.
		
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			And so the question becomes, when we are
		
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			talking about people who may have coming from
		
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			different backgrounds, different ethnicities, different colors, different
		
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			races, different languages, different cultures, well there has
		
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			to be something that acts as a rooh,
		
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			there has to be something that acts as
		
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			glue.
		
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			Because people need to be connected.
		
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			Something has to be there to connect us.
		
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			And this, we can argue, is the Deen
		
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			of Allah SWT.
		
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			This Deen acts as a glue that connects
		
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			the hearts of people, people who come from
		
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			extremely different backgrounds.
		
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			It just connects the hearts.
		
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			It is the rooh that allows everybody to
		
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			work as one, act as a body.
		
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			And just like a dead body, when the
		
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			rooh is taken out, now you can take
		
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			and try to pump artificial air into it
		
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			through a ventilator, you will see the air
		
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			clinging, but the doctors will tell you this
		
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			person is physically dead.
		
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			You can try to replace that rooh, that
		
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			iman, that Allah SWT has given, and try
		
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			to replace it with other ideologies and philosophies
		
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			and isms, it may seem like that person
		
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			is alive, but that body will be dead.
		
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			And so it is important that we recognize
		
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			this iman, this islam, as not something that
		
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			is required just for our individual existence.
		
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			This iman, this islam, is the glue that
		
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			Allah SWT has sent down to connect mankind,
		
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			to connect humanity.
		
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			And if you take that out, then there
		
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			is utter anarchy, and we can see that.
		
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			If you take the rooh out, there is
		
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			utter death, and we can see that as
		
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			well.
		
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			We can see that as well.
		
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			This really is how the Divine Creator wants
		
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			us to organize our societies, having an Allah
		
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			-centric life, in which our hearts are open
		
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			up to Divine existence, and because of that,
		
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			Allah SWT blesses us with such a connection,
		
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			that there is so much muhabbat and muaddat
		
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			that we act like one body.
		
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			And this is what the Quran tells us,
		
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			إِنَّ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ Verily, those people
		
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			whose hearts are open to iman, وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ
		
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			and they actualize their iman into actions in
		
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			their life, سَيَجْعَلُ لَهُمُ الرَّحْمَنُ وُدًّا Allah SWT
		
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			will bless, and this is a Divine gift
		
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			that comes as a result of إِنَّ الَّذِينَ
		
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			آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ that Allah SWT will bless
		
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			such hearts with what?
		
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			وُدًّا وُدًّا is very focused muhabbat, very devoted
		
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			love.
		
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			We know that wudud is the name of
		
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			Allah SWT as well.
		
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			And wudud is somebody who is very loyal
		
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			and devoted, and loves you entirely.
		
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			And so Allah SWT says, different people from
		
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			different backgrounds, all you need to do is
		
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			open up your heart to iman, and actualize
		
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			the deen in your lives, and then you
		
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			will find that connection, and it is a
		
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			gift.
		
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			It's not because of our own doing.
		
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			Because Allah SWT says to Rasulullah ﷺ as
		
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			well, that O' Nabi ﷺ, if you wanted,
		
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			if you spent all the wealth, and if
		
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			you tried to put ulfat, that muhabbat, that
		
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			love in the hearts of the believers, that
		
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			love would not come, it is Allah SWT
		
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			who puts that love.
		
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			It's Allah SWT who puts it.
		
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			So this is like a divine plan, that
		
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			we individually organize ourselves in a specific way,
		
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			and our communal organization will automatically fix ourselves.
		
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			Now that communal organization could be family, right?
		
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			Once you start a family, what do you
		
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			need?
		
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			إِنَّ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ You have that,
		
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			and you are committed to it, Allah SWT
		
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			will put that muhabbat.
		
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			Because some people do complain, that I do
		
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			not have لِتَسْكُنُوا إِلَيْهَا I do not have
		
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			the sukoon, I do not have the peace
		
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			that I am looking for.
		
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			What is missing?
		
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			That is what is missing.
		
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			But the adoption of the deen, it really
		
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			has to be a complete adoption.
		
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			You know that hadith mubarakah, الدين النصيحة It
		
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			really talks about deen, a way of life,
		
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			and this is معارفة معارفة that this deen
		
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			is nothing but providing benefit to others.
		
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			It is nothing but being a source of
		
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			khair for others.
		
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			And the way this conjugation has been done,
		
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			it tells you that these two things cannot
		
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			exist without each other.
		
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			So wherever deen is going to be, there
		
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			is going to be overflowing khair there.
		
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			And wherever you find khair, there is going
		
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			to be deen there as well.
		
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			However, if sometimes you find so-called deen
		
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			somewhere, but you do not find khair there,
		
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			there is some nuqs, not in the deen
		
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			but the implementation of it.
		
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			Because these two things, according to the most
		
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			truthful tongue, that of Rasulullah ﷺ, these two
		
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			things will always go together.
		
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			So we need to become those people who
		
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			are serious about our deen and making it
		
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			our collective identity because this is what Allah
		
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			SWT wants us to live.
		
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			Because of this beautiful deen, Allah SWT has
		
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			made us part of the Ummah of Rasulullah
		
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			ﷺ.
		
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			And this is something so amazing.
		
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			This transnational, this supranational entity, where it does
		
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			not matter what the background is, as soon
		
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			as that iman enters, we feel this manusiyat,
		
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			this familiarity that we feel.
		
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			It does not matter where you go.
		
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			You come across a mu'min and a Muslim,
		
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			you always find that connection.
		
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			You may not even understand their language.
		
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			You may not even eat the same cuisine,
		
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			but there is a connection there.
		
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			And that is miraculous in nature.
		
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			Because from a secular perspective, it is very
		
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			difficult to understand that.
		
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			That this faith community has such a connection
		
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			across political boundaries, across language barriers, and across
		
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			different cultures.
		
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			That connection is amazing.
		
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			And this is why Allah SWT mentions إِنَّمَا
		
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			الْمُؤْمِنُونَ إِخْوَةٌ This brotherhood or this sisterhood that
		
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			Allah SWT is talking about because when you
		
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			are brothers, you are sharing the same blood.
		
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			But here we are sharing the same spirit,
		
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			which is more stronger.
		
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			Sometimes it is stronger than blood relationship.
		
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			That it connects us, that it makes us
		
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			one.
		
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			So the reason that I wanted to sort
		
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			of bring our attention to this is because
		
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			obviously what is happening around the world, you
		
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			know, we find yet again that the Ummah
		
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			of Rasulullah ﷺ is facing again a trial
		
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			and tribulation.
		
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			Well, in this time specifically there is extermination
		
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			going on.
		
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			You have children, you have babies who are
		
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			being blown to bits.
		
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			You have mothers and daughters whose Izzah, whose
		
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			honor is not safe anymore.
		
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			So it is their bodily existence, it is
		
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			the existence of their Iman, it is the
		
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			places of their worship, it is the places
		
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			of their residence.
		
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			All of those things are getting utterly destroyed.
		
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			And yet, are we acting as a single
		
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			body?
		
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			Just like if I stub my toe, the
		
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			whole body will react to it.
		
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			Do we find that the reaction to these,
		
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			you know, basically this holocaust, this genocide that
		
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			is ongoing, is it the way that it
		
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			should be that we are acting like as
		
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			one body?
		
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			Do we have the fikr?
		
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			Do we have the gham?
		
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			Do we have that grief in our heart
		
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			that keeps us up at night because we
		
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			cannot eat knowing that our brothers and sisters
		
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			are starving.
		
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			That we cannot drink knowing that they do
		
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			not have clean water to drink.
		
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			That we are unable to sleep in our
		
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			beds.
		
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			We wake up at night because they are
		
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			out there in wet, cold tents.
		
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			Because this is how one body would have
		
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			reacted.
		
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			And so it seems that there has something
		
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			that has penetrated deep within the Ummah and
		
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			caused a rot.
		
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			Now we don't see ourselves as one group.
		
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			We don't.
		
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			And so things happen.
		
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			I mean just look at every single country
		
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			around the world.
		
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			Not only Palestine, whether it's Gaza, whether it's
		
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			Lebanon, whether it's Syria, hundreds of thousands of
		
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			people killed, whether it's Yemen, whether it's Sudan,
		
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			even Muslims killing Muslims, Nigeria, Somalia, you know,
		
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			there are so many different places that the
		
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			Ummah is in dire, dire trouble.
		
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			But the problem becomes that we become those
		
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			people, not only do we not do anything
		
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			about it, sometimes we are so paralyzed that
		
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			we feel this fear even to say anything
		
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			about it.
		
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			This lack of being able to say Kalima
		
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			-e-Haq, the righteous Kalima, that shows even
		
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			a deeper rot, this level of weakness, this
		
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			level of cowardice, that has penetrated within us
		
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			that we are saying that as long as
		
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			I am okay in the little bubble that
		
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			I have created for myself, nothing, you know,
		
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			it doesn't matter what happens around the world.
		
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			As long as I am safe, my family
		
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			is safe, my business is safe, my job
		
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			is safe, my career is safe, that is
		
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			all that matters.
		
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			And anything else that happens to the Ummah
		
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			of Rasulullah ﷺ, something that was really part
		
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			and parcel of who we are, it doesn't
		
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			matter anymore.
		
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			And which is really just taking this Deen
		
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			and flipping it upside down.
		
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			Because that is not the sort of collective
		
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			identity and collective life that Rasulullah ﷺ wanted
		
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			us to live.
		
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			And it is very sad, I mean if
		
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			you go down the history, especially the last,
		
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			I would say the 150 years, you know,
		
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			Muslims themselves have caused this.
		
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			That they have let go of their primary
		
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			identity of Qur'an and Sunnah and coming
		
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			under it together.
		
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			And inspired by, again, isms and ideologies outside.
		
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			Those who have studied history, we know that
		
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			when nationalist movements started, at the end of
		
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			the 19th century, you find that the Muslims
		
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			actually followed suit as well.
		
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			And rather than looking at ourselves as a
		
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			collective, as an Ummah, looking at pan-Islamism,
		
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			you know, it doesn't matter who we are,
		
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			we are connected.
		
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			Whether it is politics, whether it is economy,
		
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			whether it is sociology, anthropology, it doesn't matter
		
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			what area of humanities we are talking about,
		
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			we are connected together.
		
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			People separated it out and then you had
		
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			all sorts of others, you know, you had
		
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			pan-Arabism that came up and it started
		
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			to fracture the Ummah.
		
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			Pan-Turkism came up, started fracturing Ummah because
		
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			they started to look at themselves not solely
		
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			as the Ummah of Rasulullah ﷺ, now they
		
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			are taking their language, their ethnicities, and it
		
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			actually spread like fire.
		
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			They tried to bring in, you know, ideologies
		
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			like socialism and what not and tried to
		
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			implement that within our societies as well.
		
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			And seriously, we need to become better students
		
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			of history.
		
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			And you will see the decline of the
		
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			Ummah and anarchy and fasad and fitna that
		
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			has followed us for the last 150 years.
		
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			Because we are replacing something that Allah ﷻ
		
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			has given us as a gift with something
		
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			else that will not act as the glue
		
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			at all.
		
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			And, you know, I'm reminded of that story,
		
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			you know, when we were young there was
		
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			something called Aesop's Fables.
		
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			You know, Aesop's Fables, you know, these are
		
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			stories with some kind of a lesson to
		
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			be learned.
		
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			There are a couple of them, you know,
		
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			one of them was that one time a
		
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			father was passing away and so he brought
		
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			together all of his sons and he says,
		
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			you know, sons, I want you to stay
		
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			together, stick together no matter what.
		
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			And the way that he explained it because
		
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			he said that each of you bring me
		
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			bring me some sticks.
		
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			So they brought some sticks and he said,
		
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			now individually try to break them.
		
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			And each and every one of them they
		
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			were able to break the individual sticks.
		
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			And then he says, now bring the sticks
		
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			together and now try to break them.
		
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			And they all tried, they all tried and
		
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			they were unable to do.
		
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			I mean, it's a simple baby story.
		
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			But the lesson there is that our connectedness
		
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			was our strength.
		
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			We were able to do for each other
		
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			as a collective that we have not been
		
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			able to do for each other now that
		
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			we are completely fragmented.
		
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			I mean, look at this.
		
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			Two billion Muslims.
		
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			You start counting, it will take you years
		
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			to end the count.
		
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			But two billion Muslims, they are so fractured
		
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			and fragmented that it doesn't even feel like
		
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			something is happening because all of these separate
		
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			nation states have been created.
		
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			And now, Allahu Akbar Kabira, it doesn't matter
		
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			what is happening to Al-Quds, it doesn't
		
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			matter what is happening to some other places,
		
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			as long as my little nation state is
		
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			OK and there's nothing happening there.
		
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			There's nothing happening there.
		
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			Another fable, there was once a lion, he
		
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			came across a herd of bulls that used
		
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			to live together.
		
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			And so he wanted to eat them, but
		
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			every time he would attack, they would come
		
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			together and defend each other.
		
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			And so you know what he did?
		
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			He went and one time he found one
		
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			of them alone.
		
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			So he said that rather than just eating
		
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			the bull, here, let me play a trick.
		
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			And so he went up to him and
		
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			he said, you know what, you're the best
		
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			bull and I'm your friend, you're just wasting
		
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			your time with the others, so why don't
		
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			you just, you know, you don't need to
		
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			be with them, you're so much better.
		
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			And they're not your friends, they're your enemies.
		
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			So individually, he went to each of the
		
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			bulls and he was able to sow the
		
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			seeds of discontent in their hearts.
		
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			And so what happened was they started to
		
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			absorb and they started to think like that
		
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			as well.
		
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			And before you know it, that whole herd
		
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			was broken up.
		
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			And you know, it was Eid for the
		
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			lion.
		
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			He went to one of them and he
		
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			ate that ox.
		
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			He went to the second and ate that
		
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			bull.
		
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			And he went to the third one and
		
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			he ate the bull as well.
		
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			Exactly like that.
		
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			The Ummah is getting consumed.
		
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			One nation state, one country at a time,
		
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			and everybody else is just hoping that something
		
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			like that will not happen.
		
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			You know, recently, I think in Jummah, we
		
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			mentioned that hadith of Rasulullah ﷺ in which
		
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			Nabi ﷺ spoke about this state.
		
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			The state where the nations of the Ummah
		
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			will invite each other to come and attack
		
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			the Ummah of Rasulullah ﷺ just like people
		
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			invite each other over Sufra.
		
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			You know, you first, you eat this dish,
		
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			you eat this dish.
		
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			You know, just like that lion.
		
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			Let's eat this, let's finish up with this
		
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			dish.
		
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			Let's go to the second, let's go to
		
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			the third.
		
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			And the Sahaba Kiram Rizwanullah Hajmeen, they were
		
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			shocked by this.
		
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			They asked Rasulullah ﷺ, will we be less
		
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			in numbers?
		
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			And Nabi ﷺ said no.
		
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			You will be numerous in numbers but you
		
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			will be like garbage, like trash, like scum,
		
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			like foam and froth on the waves.
		
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			You will be nothing.
		
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			No existence of your own.
		
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			And Allah ﷻ will take away your ru
		
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			'b, your haybah, your fear from the hearts
		
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			of your enemies.
		
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			And your hearts will be filled with enervation,
		
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			with fatigue, exhaustion, unable to think for themselves,
		
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			unable to act, no direction, waiting for other
		
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			people to claim your narrative and impose their
		
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			narratives on you.
		
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			And you will just be like a nobody,
		
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			like garbage.
		
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			Other people will decide for you.
		
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			And so the word that Nabi ﷺ used,
		
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			this fatigue, it's called wahan.
		
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			This is present in Qur'an and Sunnah.
		
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			Wahan is, you know, the literal translation is
		
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			exhaustion and fatigue.
		
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			But Nabi ﷺ explained this, Nabi ﷺ, what
		
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			is this wahan?
		
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			He said, حُبَّ الدُّنْيَا love and attachment to
		
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			this little wretched world وَكَرَاهِيَةُ الْمَوْتِ that you
		
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			don't want to think about your death, you
		
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			don't want to think about your akhirah.
		
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			And it's not just our thinking, our mindset,
		
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			it is our تعليم and تربية as well.
		
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			We put into the minds of our children,
		
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			بيتا, do well in your دنيا, that dunya
		
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			matters, you have to become somebody.
		
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			And when it comes to mawt, how many
		
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			of us are actually teaching our children that
		
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			one day you have to leave this dunya,
		
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			you have to prepare for it.
		
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			Even when somebody comes and talks about this,
		
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			you know, sheikh, you're talking about depressing topics.
		
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			Literally somebody said, you know, you really shouldn't
		
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			be talking about jannat and jahannam, and you
		
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			really shouldn't be talking about this, you know,
		
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			the child is too young, he might become
		
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			too afraid.
		
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			It's like, isn't that what we're trying to
		
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			do, to put khawf of Allah سُبْحَانَهُ وَ
		
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			تَعَالَى in the hearts of the children.
		
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			So they can become cautious and careful people
		
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			with taqwa.
		
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			But we don't want to do this.
		
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			And because of that lack of تعليم and
		
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			تربية, now that wahan has captured us, has
		
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			captured us.
		
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			And every single person, every single community you
		
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			find, that they have become so materialistic in
		
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			their existence, that we just don't have the
		
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			time to talk about that connection that Allah
		
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			سُبْحَانَهُ وَ تَعَالَى has given us.
		
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			And on top of that, this asabiyyah, that
		
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			Nabi ﷺ said, anybody who lives on asabiyyah
		
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			and dies on asabiyyah, he has died in
		
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			a death of ignorance.
		
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			Asabiyyah, you know, this nationalism, tribalism, you know,
		
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			based on anything.
		
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			You know, I'm from Pakistan, and even in
		
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			a country that was built in the name
		
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			of Islam, you find this.
		
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			It's so ajeeb that it is happening.
		
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			It is so ajeeb that it's happening.
		
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			This is the lack of adoption of true
		
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			faith, a faith that transforms and changes the
		
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			heart.
		
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			You have Punjabis who are saying things about
		
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			the Pakhtuns, and Pakhtuns saying things about the
		
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			Punjabis, and the Sindhis, and the people, the
		
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			muhajireen, and this and that.
		
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			It's so ajeeb that we are otherizing our
		
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			Muslim brothers and sisters.
		
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			We are otherizing it.
		
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			We are excluding them.
		
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			We are not even looking at them as
		
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			part of us.
		
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			Allah سُبْحَانَهُ وَ تَعَالَى وَاعْتَسِمُوا بِحَبْلِ اللَّهِ جَمِيَّا
		
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			وَلَا تَفَرُقُوا Do not fall into this into
		
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			the differentiation.
		
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			Allah سُبْحَانَهُ وَ تَعَالَى has created this differentiation
		
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			so we can recognize each other.
		
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			And there's beauty in it.
		
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			You go to a garden and you find
		
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			different flowers of different colors and fragrances.
		
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			Isn't that beautiful?
		
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			This is why Allah سُبْحَانَهُ وَ تَعَالَى created
		
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			us in qabail and tribes and different languages
		
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			and cultures.
		
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			Only for that.
		
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			Not so we take it as a source
		
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			of animosity and hatred.
		
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			On top of this asabiyyah, that is so
		
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			prevalent today.
		
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			That is so prevalent today.
		
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			Every country you will go, you will hear
		
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			it.
		
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			We have to become keen listeners.
		
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			You go and you find this.
		
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			Nabi ﷺ is negating this.
		
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			He is negating it completely towards the end
		
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			of his life in this dunya.
		
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			He is saying this, know that any Arab
		
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			has no precedence over any ajab.
		
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			And any ajami does not have any sort
		
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			of superiority of any Arab.
		
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			A black is not better than a white.
		
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			A white is not better than a black.
		
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			These are just telling us different ways that
		
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			people like to differentiate.
		
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			It happens.
		
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			There's a lot of racism within our communities
		
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			as well.
		
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			A lot of racism based on color.
		
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			We will say things na'udhu billah min
		
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			zalik that are extremely ignorant.
		
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			Extremely ignorant based on language and race and
		
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			culture and what not.
		
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			It's extremely ignorant.
		
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			And so Nabi ﷺ negated all of that.
		
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			The person that has any value in the
		
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			eyes of Allah ﷻ is a person that
		
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			has God consciousness in their hearts.
		
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			Taqwa in their hearts.
		
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			That is all Allah ﷻ cares about.
		
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			This physical form, Allah ﷻ does not care.
		
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			Because we have no control over it.
		
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			Where I was born, I had no control
		
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			over that.
		
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			What color I am, what language I speak,
		
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			what I eat, what I don't eat, my
		
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			culture and what not.
		
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			That's not my decision.
		
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			Allah ﷻ created this my qadr.
		
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			And so hating each other and despising each
		
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			other based on things that are not in
		
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			our control is mind-boggling.
		
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			And if you go back my dear brothers
		
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			and if you look at every single time,
		
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			every single time where we left this principle,
		
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			there was more division and more division.
		
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			You know, going back to Pakistan, 1971, our
		
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			own brothers and sisters, we stopped looking at
		
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			them as Muslim brothers and sisters in other
		
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			division.
		
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			In other division.
		
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			And it just keeps on going.
		
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			This is like heart-breaking.
		
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			Why is it that we are not waking
		
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			up to this tragedy that is happening to
		
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			the ummah?
		
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			Why is it that, you know, you have
		
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			Europe who for thousands of years they have
		
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			been mortal enemies.
		
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			They have different religions, different ways of life,
		
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			different language, nothing connected them.
		
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			They have been able to come together after
		
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			the utter destruction of World War II.
		
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			Still they have been able to connect each
		
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			other at least on a political, economical level
		
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			with this European Union.
		
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			We have not been able to do that.
		
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			While our hearts are supposed to be connected.
		
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			It is the same Qur'an everywhere.
		
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			It is the same sunnah everywhere.
		
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			Yet we are unable to do that.
		
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			I mean, it warrants some thinking.
		
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			Why aren't we thinking about that?
		
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			Isn't deen more than just our aqaid and
		
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			ibadat?
		
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			Isn't this...
		
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			There is a whole part of the deen
		
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			that talks about how do we organize our
		
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			mu'ashirat?
		
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			How do we do our mu'amalat?
		
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			How do these things need to take place?
		
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			Why is it that we have to look
		
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			at the West for answers to every problem
		
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			that 2 billion people face?
		
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			We are waiting for answers from them.
		
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			This is how paralyzed we have become.
		
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			This is not the state that Rasulullah ﷺ
		
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			left the ummah.
		
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			They were leaders.
		
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			They led.
		
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			They led humanity.
		
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			Only 124,000 people.
		
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			And a part of them, they went in
		
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			the expeditions.
		
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			They changed the face of the world.
		
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			They changed the cultures of the world.
		
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			They changed everything.
		
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			Because they were so grounded in their deen.
		
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			They took it seriously.
		
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			To them, it was more than just something
		
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			that is a part of their life.
		
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			It was their life.
		
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			And so you had sahaba karam from all
		
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			different backgrounds.
		
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			You have rumis.
		
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			You have Persians.
		
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			You have ta'bain and ta'ba ta
		
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			'bain from many different backgrounds.
		
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			Yet, they were acting as one, alhamdulillah.
		
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			And as long as they acted as one,
		
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			Allah ﷻ put barakah.
		
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			And they cared for each other.
		
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			They cared immensely for each other.
		
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			I mean, you know, the examples of sahaba
		
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			karam, how they exercised self-sacrifice when any
		
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			person was in need.
		
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			The sacrifice of the ansar for the muhajireen.
		
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			You know, they were different people.
		
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			But they were doing it because the iman
		
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			was forcing them to do it.
		
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			Their iman was making them act in a
		
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			different way.
		
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			Same thing with ta'bain and ta'ba
		
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			ta'bain.
		
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			There are many stories like that.
		
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			You know, there was a sheikh.
		
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			His name was Abu Hassan Nuri.
		
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			It is said about him that in his
		
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			time, some people, they murdered somebody close to
		
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			the governor of the time.
		
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			So the governor was extremely angry and he
		
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			wanted to take revenge.
		
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			So he gathered some people and he says
		
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			that we are going to make these people
		
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			as an example.
		
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			And so Abu Hassan Nuri was amongst them.
		
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			So somebody told the governor, you know, there
		
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			is a big sheikh here.
		
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			Please don't, you know, don't murder him because
		
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			it is going to cause a lot of
		
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			riots.
		
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			So he says basically, he collects everybody.
		
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			He is like, okay, now the execution is
		
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			going to take place.
		
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			And what does he see?
		
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			He sees that all the people who were
		
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			gathered who would have been executed, Abu Hassan
		
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			Nuri, he stands up front as the first
		
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			person.
		
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			Now he obviously does not want to hurt
		
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			him.
		
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			So he says, okay, you know, we will
		
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			postpone.
		
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			Let's do it tomorrow.
		
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			So tomorrow in a different place, he calls
		
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			them again.
		
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			This time again, Abu Hassan Nuri, he comes
		
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			up front as the first person to present
		
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			himself for execution.
		
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			This happens two or three times.
		
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			Now the governor himself becomes frustrated.
		
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			And he calls him.
		
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			He says, take a hint.
		
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			I am trying to save your life.
		
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			What are you doing?
		
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			Why are you the first one always when
		
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			the execution is about to happen?
		
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			And he says that I know that you
		
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			want to execute these people and I present
		
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			myself as the first one.
		
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			So when you execute me, this will give
		
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			that much more time for my brothers to
		
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			live.
		
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			They will have that many more minutes or
		
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			hours or whatever to live and I'd rather
		
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			you kill me than you hurt my brothers.
		
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			So it's very ajeeb.
		
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			This was the level of self-sacrifice.
		
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			This was the level of concern that the
		
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			Muslims had for each other.
		
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			You know, we have always been told when
		
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			we were growing up that in the states,
		
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			in South Asia, when the King Dahir from
		
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			Sindh, when he took some Muslims as hostages,
		
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			there were some women who were present there.
		
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			And they called out that why is it
		
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			that the Khalif, the Umayyad Khalif, why is
		
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			it that the Khalif does not care about
		
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			us?
		
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			Why doesn't he help us?
		
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			And Hajjaj ibn Yusuf, who himself was a
		
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			tyrant, when he heard this, he sent his
		
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			own nephew who was 17-18 years old,
		
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			very young person, to go and rescue these
		
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			Muslim hostages.
		
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			This is at least the level that, yes,
		
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			the zulm he did on the Ummah, that's
		
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			a separate thing.
		
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			But they actually cared about what is happening
		
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			and how others are treating the mu'mineen.
		
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			And now Muslims, they're screaming, they're yelling with
		
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			dead bodies in their hands.
		
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			There's nothing.
		
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			I mean, how many of us actually make
		
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			dua for them?
		
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			That's the least we should be doing, right?
		
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			How many of us wake up at night,
		
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			go into sajdah, and cry in front of
		
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			Allah Ta'ala, that, O Allah, these are
		
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			our brothers and sisters.
		
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			They are in this trial and tribulation.
		
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			They are not worse than us.
		
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			We are not better than them.
		
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			That we are saved and preserved from this.
		
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			O Allah, please send down your nusrah.
		
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			Help us help them.
		
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			Use us to help them.
		
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			Do we even make that dua?
		
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			Or is it that for us it's just
		
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			like, OK, something is happening across Atlantic, and
		
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			it doesn't really affect me because I am
		
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			sort of living in my own life.
		
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			So we need to become a little more
		
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			conscious of what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			has given us.
		
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			And this really hit me.
		
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			I want to share a personal anecdote.
		
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			This really hit me 23 years ago.
		
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			Or less than 23 years ago.
		
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			Allah Ta'ala gave me the opportunity to
		
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			travel for Hajj.
		
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			And this was right after 9-11.
		
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			It was a few months after 9-11.
		
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			And as you can imagine, there was a
		
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			lot of uncertainty.
		
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			It was chaotic.
		
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			And while I was in Hajj, it just
		
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			so happened that I lost my travel documents.
		
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			You know, my passport and everything in it.
		
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			I lost it.
		
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			And it became very difficult for me to
		
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			get a new passport or travel document to
		
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			come back.
		
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			So I am extremely worried because it's in
		
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			the middle of the Hajj.
		
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			Hajj was not as organized as it is
		
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			now.
		
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			So I am standing there, I'm thinking what
		
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			do I do?
		
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			Who do I go to?
		
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			You know, the groups were not arranged like
		
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			they are arranged now.
		
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			Every person was sort of on their own.
		
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			And at that moment, somebody who was not
		
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			even a part of the few people who
		
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			were traveling together, he was probably part of
		
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			the same tent.
		
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			He heard that this was happening, so he
		
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			came up to me.
		
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			He's like, okay, what happened?
		
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			I was like, this is what happened.
		
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			He said, okay, I live in Jeddah and
		
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			there are other I know some people and
		
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			inshallah, you can be our guest.
		
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			And I was like, okay, well, inshallah, jazakallah
		
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			for offering this.
		
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			And he said, you know, the apartment is
		
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			close by to the U.S. consulate, so
		
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			it will be easy for you to talk
		
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			to them and get your paperwork.
		
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			So I come to Jeddah.
		
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			Again, I had never really lived in Jeddah.
		
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			You only just land on Jeddah airport and
		
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			go to the haram.
		
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			So first time really that I am exploring
		
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			Jeddah and they take me to an apartment
		
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			complex.
		
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			There were two rooms there and there were
		
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			Muslims from sort of different backgrounds but they
		
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			were laborers.
		
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			And these laborers, who were immigrants, they were
		
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			living in two bedrooms and I remember when
		
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			they heard what had happened to me, they
		
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			actually emptied out a room completely.
		
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			They chose to sleep on the couch, some
		
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			on the floor outside.
		
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			A whole room was emptied out.
		
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			And they're like, you stay here and you
		
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			stay as long as you want.
		
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			Because I had no idea.
		
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			I could have stayed there for months because
		
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			it was just so unclear.
		
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			I ended up staying there for 40 days.
		
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			For 40 days they just opened up their
		
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			homes, gave up the room, everything, shelter, food,
		
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			etc.
		
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			Why?
		
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			I didn't know any single one of them.
		
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			And so I was just like, you know,
		
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			we have to become students, we have to
		
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			try to understand human psychology and what motivates
		
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			people.
		
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			So I was trying to understand.
		
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			And even my time there, it was so
		
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			amazing.
		
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			I'll share a couple of stories with you.
		
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			I remember that when, you know, obviously people,
		
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			you know, with a small community, so the
		
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			word spreads.
		
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			Very soon, you know, people started coming to
		
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			the apartment.
		
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			And they were like, okay brother, you're a
		
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			Musafir, you're in trouble, do you need something?
		
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			Okay.
		
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			The director of Saudi Airlines, a Saudi, he
		
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			came and he knocks on the door and
		
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			he says, is there something I can do?
		
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			He thought that maybe I needed a flight.
		
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			He said, can I get a flight for
		
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			you so you can come back, go back
		
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			to your home?
		
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			I said, no, no, this is something to
		
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			do with travel documents, etc.
		
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			And he was willing to do whatever it
		
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			took to help me.
		
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			Then another person came, he was from Egypt,
		
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			so this was a Saudi.
		
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			Another person came from Egypt, an elderly person,
		
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			and he was like Ahle Zikr, you know,
		
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			he's doing his Zikr.
		
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			And this person takes me, he takes me
		
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			to one of these local restaurants and he's
		
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			like, you know, I have to give you
		
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			Ziyafat.
		
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			I have to give you some food.
		
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			Alhamdulillah, you know, this is something that Nabi
		
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			ﷺ has told that if somebody invites you,
		
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			you should accept it.
		
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			And so I go there and he's asking,
		
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			he's like, okay brother, you know, do you
		
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			need something?
		
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			And I'm trying, I'm speaking in my broken
		
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			Arabic.
		
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			And when I am about to leave, he
		
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			tries to force some Faloos, some money in
		
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			my hand.
		
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			I mean, he was not that rich himself.
		
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			I was like, no, no, no, you know,
		
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			because, you know, coming from America, you know,
		
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			you're very, sort of like try to be
		
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			independent, I don't need anybody.
		
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			He's like, no, I don't need anything, Jazakallah,
		
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			I have the money, which I did.
		
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			And so, but he was so, you know,
		
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			he's like, no, no, if you need anything,
		
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			tell me, eat this, that and the other.
		
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			And I was like, you know, just your
		
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			Duas are enough.
		
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			So this was like the second person.
		
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			Now the third person, he was a Muhandis.
		
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			A Muhandis is an engineer.
		
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			He used to work somewhere and so he
		
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			said, he comes up to me and he
		
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			says, you know, I want to take you
		
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			to different Masajid in Jeddah.
		
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			He was very much attached to the Qur
		
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			'an.
		
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			So he just drove me around, went to
		
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			different Masajid, listening to the Qur'an and
		
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			listening to different, you know, Masha'ikh there.
		
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			And when we come back, we're sitting in
		
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			the car, you know, I look at him
		
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			and he's in deep thought.
		
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			And before I could say something, he started
		
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			crying.
		
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			This elderly person, he's crying and he's weeping.
		
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			And I'm thinking, how did I offend this
		
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			guy?
		
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			What did I do?
		
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			Did I say something?
		
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			Did I do something?
		
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			So I'm, you know, I'm sorry if I
		
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			had offended you in any way.
		
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			Please forgive me.
		
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			He says, no, no, no.
		
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			The reason I'm crying is because I want
		
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			to ask you a favor.
		
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			And I'm just afraid that, you know, you're
		
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			going to say no.
		
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			Now my, again, the American brain, I wonder
		
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			what he's going to ask.
		
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			Does he want a visa to America?
		
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			Does he want something, you know?
		
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			You know, it's you know, I mean, this
		
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			is how cynical we are.
		
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			And I was like, you know, brother, if
		
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			there's anything I can do, it's in my
		
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			control inshallah, I will try to do it.
		
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			And Allah Ta'ala is my witness.
		
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			This guy, he takes out three thousand riyals,
		
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			Saudi riyals, from his pocket.
		
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			And he gives it to me and he
		
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			says, you know, I want you to take
		
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			it because you are in so much need.
		
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			Because you are in trouble, you know, I
		
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			know that you're just, you know, this is,
		
00:44:13 --> 00:44:16
			you're a musafir, you are a stranger in
		
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			this land.
		
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			You know, so please take this.
		
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			And I was like, again, no, no, no,
		
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			brother, I don't need this, I don't need
		
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			this.
		
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			And he said, you know, he was still
		
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			crying.
		
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			And he's like, you know, you said that
		
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			you will do me this favor.
		
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			And now I gave in because you know,
		
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			Nabi Salaam said, give each other hadiyah, Allah
		
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			will increase you in your love.
		
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			But I was amazed at that gesture.
		
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			Imagine three thousand riyals, that's, you know, close
		
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			to a thousand dollars, US dollar.
		
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			This person just gives it to me.
		
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			And I'm, again, like I'm thinking the psychology
		
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			behind this.
		
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			What is going on here?
		
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			Why are people acting this way?
		
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			There were two people, mashallah, nice Saudis, and
		
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			you know, again, belonging to very different, you
		
00:45:04 --> 00:45:07
			know, as we would call like, sects.
		
00:45:07 --> 00:45:10
			So they were people, you know, who understood
		
00:45:10 --> 00:45:12
			deen from a very specific angle.
		
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			Obviously, you know, I came from a very
		
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			traditional background.
		
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			But when it came to something like that,
		
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			you know, they were like, okay, you don't
		
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			have a travel document, don't worry, we are
		
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			Saudis, inshallah, we are going over Umrah, and
		
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			you are more than welcome to go.
		
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			So they actually took me, and when we
		
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			were stopped, they spoke to the army people,
		
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			whoever, they're like, no, no, no, he's our
		
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			guest, don't worry about him.
		
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			They actually took me to Umrah as well,
		
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			and I was able to perform.
		
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			They didn't need to.
		
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			These people, you know, because somebody was telling
		
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			them, oh, you know, it's a traditional person
		
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			from very different kind of understanding about the
		
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			deen, you know, to cause some strife.
		
00:45:53 --> 00:45:55
			But they were like, no, it doesn't matter.
		
00:45:56 --> 00:45:57
			You come, you want to do Umrah, inshallah,
		
00:45:58 --> 00:45:58
			come with us.
		
00:46:00 --> 00:46:02
			And last, what I, you know, was, I
		
00:46:02 --> 00:46:04
			guess, that really touched my heart, and again,
		
00:46:04 --> 00:46:06
			this is happening over the course of 40
		
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			days.
		
00:46:07 --> 00:46:09
			I remember that there was a Jamia Masjid
		
00:46:09 --> 00:46:12
			in front of the apartment building, and close
		
00:46:12 --> 00:46:14
			by, there was a smaller Musalla.
		
00:46:15 --> 00:46:18
			This is back when they had not Arabized
		
00:46:18 --> 00:46:19
			all the imams.
		
00:46:20 --> 00:46:23
			You know, you had imams from different backgrounds
		
00:46:23 --> 00:46:23
			as well.
		
00:46:23 --> 00:46:27
			So the small Musalla, there was an imam
		
00:46:27 --> 00:46:28
			from Sudan.
		
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			An imam from Sudan.
		
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			Mashallah, such a beautiful person.
		
00:46:34 --> 00:46:37
			Obviously, extremely dark skinned, but he had so
		
00:46:37 --> 00:46:41
			much nur on his face, your eyes could
		
00:46:41 --> 00:46:42
			not settle on his face.
		
00:46:42 --> 00:46:44
			He had such nur, such light on him.
		
00:46:45 --> 00:46:46
			And, you know, it was ajeeb.
		
00:46:48 --> 00:46:49
			He stuttered.
		
00:46:49 --> 00:46:52
			He stuttered, you know, because there were some
		
00:46:52 --> 00:46:54
			looks, so he stuttered when he recited.
		
00:46:55 --> 00:46:57
			But Allah Ta'ala had given him such
		
00:46:57 --> 00:47:01
			love of the Quran, that when he would
		
00:47:01 --> 00:47:04
			start reciting, very plain, but it was such
		
00:47:04 --> 00:47:08
			an involved recitation, that you would just start
		
00:47:08 --> 00:47:10
			saying, Ya Allah kareem, just please put it
		
00:47:10 --> 00:47:12
			in his heart so he keeps on reciting.
		
00:47:13 --> 00:47:15
			Something would happen to your heart.
		
00:47:15 --> 00:47:16
			It would touch your heart.
		
00:47:18 --> 00:47:19
			Such an amazing person.
		
00:47:19 --> 00:47:21
			Very beautiful smile on his face.
		
00:47:22 --> 00:47:24
			And he was extremely poor because in that
		
00:47:24 --> 00:47:27
			small Musalla, there was a curtain and he
		
00:47:27 --> 00:47:29
			used to live behind that.
		
00:47:29 --> 00:47:31
			He did not have a separate home that
		
00:47:31 --> 00:47:31
			he lived in.
		
00:47:32 --> 00:47:36
			And so, Alhamdulillah, I got my travel documents
		
00:47:36 --> 00:47:39
			and I was going to be traveling after
		
00:47:39 --> 00:47:39
			a couple of days.
		
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			So I went to the Imam and said,
		
00:47:41 --> 00:47:45
			Alhamdulillah, my mushkil, my musibah is over now.
		
00:47:45 --> 00:47:46
			I can go back to my family.
		
00:47:47 --> 00:47:50
			So he says, Inshallah, I want to do
		
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			ziyafat for you.
		
00:47:51 --> 00:47:53
			I want to invite you for dinner.
		
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			And, you know, I knew his halat.
		
00:47:54 --> 00:47:56
			So I was like, no, no, Sheikh, there's
		
00:47:56 --> 00:47:56
			no need.
		
00:47:57 --> 00:47:58
			Just sitting in your company is enough.
		
00:47:58 --> 00:48:01
			MashaAllah, you know, listening to your recitation is
		
00:48:01 --> 00:48:02
			enough food for me.
		
00:48:02 --> 00:48:04
			I said, no, no, no, tomorrow, Inshallah, whatever
		
00:48:04 --> 00:48:05
			we can.
		
00:48:05 --> 00:48:05
			He's like, okay.
		
00:48:06 --> 00:48:09
			So next day, I go to him and,
		
00:48:09 --> 00:48:13
			you know, mashaAllah, he presents daal roti in
		
00:48:13 --> 00:48:13
			front of me.
		
00:48:14 --> 00:48:16
			And I look at it and I'm amazed.
		
00:48:16 --> 00:48:20
			Because he, his own food was, right, a
		
00:48:20 --> 00:48:22
			different cuisine, Mediterranean cuisine.
		
00:48:23 --> 00:48:24
			So I was like, Sheikh, where did you
		
00:48:24 --> 00:48:25
			get this daal roti from?
		
00:48:27 --> 00:48:28
			Daal roti, right?
		
00:48:28 --> 00:48:30
			And the Sheikh said, you know, subhanAllah, he
		
00:48:30 --> 00:48:33
			said that, I knew that I had invited
		
00:48:33 --> 00:48:35
			you, but I didn't want to give you
		
00:48:35 --> 00:48:37
			food that we ate because I didn't know
		
00:48:37 --> 00:48:39
			if you would like it or not.
		
00:48:39 --> 00:48:41
			Like, Allahu Akbar, this is what he's thinking.
		
00:48:41 --> 00:48:44
			So he takes that trip all the way
		
00:48:44 --> 00:48:48
			to Shahr-e-Sittin, a place where Indian
		
00:48:48 --> 00:48:50
			and Pakistani restaurants were.
		
00:48:51 --> 00:48:52
			He didn't know what they ate.
		
00:48:52 --> 00:48:55
			So he just says, just give me that
		
00:48:55 --> 00:48:57
			food that everybody can eat and enjoy.
		
00:48:57 --> 00:49:00
			And so the people, you know, the shopkeeper,
		
00:49:00 --> 00:49:03
			they're like, okay, here's daal roti.
		
00:49:04 --> 00:49:06
			And so, alhamdulillah, you know, I ate that
		
00:49:06 --> 00:49:09
			daal roti, Allah knows, I mean, that was
		
00:49:09 --> 00:49:12
			one of the best daal rotis I had
		
00:49:12 --> 00:49:13
			eaten in my life.
		
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			You know, because it was not just the
		
00:49:16 --> 00:49:19
			daal roti, it was the khulus, it was
		
00:49:19 --> 00:49:23
			the muhabbat, you know, that came from the
		
00:49:23 --> 00:49:24
			heart of the Sheikh.
		
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			I still remember his beautiful face, I don't
		
00:49:28 --> 00:49:29
			know whatever happened to him.
		
00:49:30 --> 00:49:32
			But after all of this, on my way
		
00:49:32 --> 00:49:35
			back, I'm thinking, you know, this is what
		
00:49:35 --> 00:49:36
			Islam is.
		
00:49:37 --> 00:49:39
			This is what Islam is.
		
00:49:39 --> 00:49:41
			I came across Egyptians and Saudis and people
		
00:49:41 --> 00:49:45
			from other lands and Sudanese and this is
		
00:49:45 --> 00:49:46
			what Islam is.
		
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			That unfiltered muhabbat and ishq, connection, love for
		
00:49:53 --> 00:49:55
			each other, care for each other, that you
		
00:49:55 --> 00:49:58
			don't care you know, that that person belongs
		
00:49:58 --> 00:49:59
			to your tribe or not.
		
00:50:00 --> 00:50:04
			All there is, is that la ilaha illallah
		
00:50:05 --> 00:50:08
			Muhammadur Rasulullah and that is enough.
		
00:50:08 --> 00:50:10
			That is enough of the connection.
		
00:50:11 --> 00:50:12
			These are our values.
		
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			This is what gives us meaning and this
		
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			is what makes us an ummah.
		
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			So there is a need inshallah, and inshallah
		
00:50:21 --> 00:50:23
			we're going to end this talk now.
		
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			You know, this was just sort of, you
		
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			know, basically what's going on around the world.
		
00:50:29 --> 00:50:30
			It's, you know, that the ummah is in
		
00:50:30 --> 00:50:33
			such slumber, it's like, what will wake us
		
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			up?
		
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			What will wake us up?
		
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			Because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala wants us
		
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			to wake up.
		
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			Fix yourselves.
		
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			Become one again.
		
00:50:42 --> 00:50:43
			Let go of all the differences.
		
00:50:43 --> 00:50:49
			You know, I have a specific fiqh that
		
00:50:49 --> 00:50:49
			I follow.
		
00:50:50 --> 00:50:53
			That fiqh has been there for 1400 years.
		
00:50:54 --> 00:50:55
			I have a naqeedah that I follow.
		
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			That has been there for hundreds of years.
		
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			You may follow a different fiqh.
		
00:51:00 --> 00:51:01
			That's okay.
		
00:51:02 --> 00:51:05
			You know, I don't say ameen out loud.
		
00:51:05 --> 00:51:06
			You might say ameen out loud.
		
00:51:06 --> 00:51:07
			Alhamdulillah.
		
00:51:08 --> 00:51:10
			You do rafayah then, I don't do rafayah
		
00:51:10 --> 00:51:10
			then.
		
00:51:10 --> 00:51:12
			We all have our proofs.
		
00:51:13 --> 00:51:13
			That's okay.
		
00:51:14 --> 00:51:15
			It is okay.
		
00:51:15 --> 00:51:19
			We're not going to resolve these sectarian differences
		
00:51:19 --> 00:51:21
			if they have not been able to be
		
00:51:21 --> 00:51:23
			resolved for hundreds of years.
		
00:51:24 --> 00:51:27
			So stop dividing and stop hating and stop
		
00:51:27 --> 00:51:31
			having animosity for each other over little things.
		
00:51:32 --> 00:51:33
			All we need to, you know, when I
		
00:51:33 --> 00:51:35
			am standing for prayer, you know, sometimes people
		
00:51:35 --> 00:51:39
			will try to force their feet, that they
		
00:51:39 --> 00:51:40
			want to touch their feet.
		
00:51:41 --> 00:51:43
			You know what I do when somebody tries
		
00:51:43 --> 00:51:44
			to do that?
		
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			I don't resist it.
		
00:51:46 --> 00:51:47
			I don't resist it.
		
00:51:47 --> 00:51:50
			The poor guy, he's making effort to touch
		
00:51:50 --> 00:51:50
			the feet.
		
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			Okay, if you want to touch my feet,
		
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			here, touch my feet.
		
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			That's okay.
		
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			Because you are my brother in Islam.
		
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			You are doing sazda in front of the
		
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			same rab that I am doing sazda in
		
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			front of.
		
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			I am not going to try to make
		
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			a point here, and you know, because of
		
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			my own nafs.
		
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			If this helps your salah, go ahead, do
		
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			it.
		
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			Let's have huzooriya qalb.
		
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			Let's make sure that our heart is connected.
		
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			And we have to approach that this deen
		
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			is there to connect us, not divide us.
		
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			It is here to connect us.
		
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			And so whoever tries to divide the ummah,
		
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			reject that person.
		
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			Reject that person.
		
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			Nabi ﷺ made us one body.
		
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			He said in there couple of ahadith like
		
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			that.
		
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			Nabi ﷺ made us one body, let's act
		
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			like one body.
		
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			Body is supposed to be different.
		
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			They are not eyes all over the body.
		
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			They are different.
		
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			Alhamdulillah, the difference is okay.
		
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			As long as we have ikhlas, as long
		
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			as we have ishq of Allah ﷻ, as
		
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			long as we have ishq of Rasul ﷺ,
		
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			ishq of the Qur'an, this deen is
		
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			this maqsad, and we try our level best
		
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			to follow the Qur'an and sunnah.
		
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			You know, inshallah if you ask me a
		
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			question, I will answer you in the way
		
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			that I have learned it.
		
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			You can choose to accept it, you can
		
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			choose not to accept it.
		
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			Same thing, if you tell me, jazakallah khair,
		
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			jazakallah for letting me know it has increased
		
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			in my knowledge, but give me, you know,
		
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			give me the benefit of the doubt that
		
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			I am also trying to follow sunnah as
		
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			well.
		
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			Maybe, perhaps we have a different understanding of
		
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			sunnah.
		
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			That's okay.
		
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			And that's okay.
		
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			Alright, so let's not divide, you know, Deobandi,
		
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			Burelwi, Ahl-e-Hadith, this, falah, tamkant, you
		
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			know, this needs to be rejected now.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			Because there are enemies out there who are
		
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			trying to destroy the Ummah of Rasulullah ﷺ,
		
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			and if we keep on hanging on to
		
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			those petty differences, they will be successful at
		
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			what they are trying to do.
		
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			Alright?
		
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			So my dear brothers, inshallah, we make dua
		
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			to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that Allah
		
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			ta'ala blesses us with that muhabbat and
		
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			muaddat, blesses us with that care and love
		
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			for each other that will help us to
		
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			sacrifice our own needs for the sake of
		
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			falah.
		
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			That I'm going to, you know, there's a
		
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			hadith that Nabi ﷺ mentioned that you cannot
		
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			be a mu'min until you want for your
		
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			brother what you want for yourself.
		
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			So take this hadith, just take this.
		
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			I am going to want for all of
		
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			the Ummah what I want for myself.
		
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			Whatever goodness I want for myself, I'm going
		
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			to want for you.
		
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			Whatever sharr I want to protect myself from,
		
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			first and foremost, my own sharr, I'm going
		
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			to protect you from that and I want
		
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			you to be protected from it.
		
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			So inshallah, just little ahadith like that, they
		
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			are so profound that if only we adopted
		
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			this, only adopted those ahadith, they would be
		
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			enough to unite the Ummah.
		
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			They would be enough to unite the Ummah.
		
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			So inshallah, today, let's just make this intention
		
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			today, inshallah.
		
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			Let's just make this intention that from now
		
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			on, inshallah we are going to take a
		
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			proactive, proactive step in making sure we are
		
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			taking care of each other, no matter what
		
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			background they might be coming from, as long
		
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			as we are muslimeen and mu'mineen, inshallah, we
		
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			are going to be there for each other.
		
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			We are going to be ansar to the
		
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			muhajireen, inshallah.
		
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			May Allah ﷻ unite us, may Allah ﷻ
		
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			bring us together.
		
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			Ameen, Ya Rabbul Alameen.
		
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			Wa khudawwana alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen.