Ahmad Saleem – Connecting with the Quran- The Key to Overcoming Todays Trials

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			Alhamdulillah, we praise Him, we ask His help,
		
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			and we ask His forgiveness.
		
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			And we seek refuge in Allah from the
		
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			evil of our souls and from the evil
		
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			of our deeds.
		
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			Whomsoever Allah guides, none can misguide him, and
		
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			whomsoever He misguides, none can guide him.
		
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			And I bear witness that there is no
		
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			god but Allah, alone, no partner for Him.
		
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			And I bear witness that Muhammad is His
		
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			servant and Messenger.
		
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			I advise you and myself to fear Allah.
		
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			There should be no doubt in anybody's mind
		
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			that the events that display themselves on the
		
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			fabric of this universe and this earth today
		
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			for all of us, that doubt should not
		
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			be there that we are going through a
		
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			very difficult time.
		
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			As a matter of fact, we're going through
		
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			a time of fitna, a test.
		
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			And the word fitna in the Arabic language,
		
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			as many of you may have already known,
		
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			is to take something that was very precious,
		
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			such as gold, which has impurities in it,
		
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			and you put it in fire to remove
		
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			those impurities.
		
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			And that process is called fitnatul dhahab, i
		
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			.e. the cleansing of the gold.
		
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			And the trials and tests that we are
		
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			going through are just the beginning of what
		
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			may come, as Rasulullah ﷺ has told us.
		
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			And to sit down and enumerate, and if
		
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			you do remember the last time that I
		
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			was here, we talked about the fitna of
		
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			dajjal, and we talked about how that is
		
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			the greatest fitna.
		
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			But between the dajjal and our fitna, there
		
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			are lots that are going to take place.
		
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			As it is mentioned in Tirmidhi and many
		
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			of the seerah books, a story, although the
		
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			story has some da'af, but the meaning
		
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			of the hadith itself, as the ulema have
		
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			said, is absolutely accurate because it is verified
		
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			by every single ayah of the Qur'an.
		
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			And the story is that Ali was sitting,
		
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			and Rasulullah ﷺ was in the majlis.
		
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			And he turns to Ali, and he says,
		
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			Indeed, there is going to be these great
		
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			trials that the ummah is going to be
		
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			inflicted.
		
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			Satakoonu, i.e. this is about to happen.
		
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			Something that is going to happen as soon
		
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			as Rasulullah ﷺ, Abu Bakr, Umar, and after
		
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			that, after that fitna began.
		
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			All the trials and tribulations on the ummah
		
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			from that time till today.
		
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			So I said, How do
		
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			we get out of these trials and tribulations?
		
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			How do we get out of these fitnas?
		
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			Now, obviously, we are living in a very
		
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			rational time where everything is through rational.
		
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			What is the hikmah?
		
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			Why did Allah say this?
		
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			Well, this hukum of Allah doesn't make sense.
		
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			Before I submit, I need rationality, I need
		
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			rational proofs.
		
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			If we were there at the time of
		
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			Rasulullah ﷺ, we would be asking such questions.
		
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			But Ali, whose tarbiyah was done at the
		
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			hand of Rasulullah ﷺ, he's not concerned about
		
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			rationality.
		
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			He knows that whatever Rasulullah ﷺ says is
		
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			true.
		
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			And he says, How do we get out
		
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			of it?
		
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			Today, that is the number one question we
		
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			need to ask.
		
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			We have so many debates.
		
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			Everyone has their own solution to how to
		
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			get out of it.
		
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			We have to protest more.
		
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			Perfect.
		
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			We have to do this more.
		
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			Perfect.
		
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			We have to do this.
		
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			We have to boycott this.
		
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			Everyone is presenting solutions.
		
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			What is the solution of Rasulullah ﷺ?
		
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			To get out of this fitna is what
		
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			we need to hear.
		
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			He ﷺ says, Kitabullah, it's the book of
		
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			Allah.
		
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			You want to get out of this fitness?
		
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			By holding on to the kitab of Allah.
		
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			Now, as we go through this hadith, it's
		
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			going to enumerate a few things.
		
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			But I want to pause and reflect on
		
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			the state of ummah and our connection with
		
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			the kitabullah.
		
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			First, in this entire audience, I see that
		
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			the hall capacity says 597 plus the sisters
		
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			at the back and the children.
		
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			We would, by the time the Jummah, at
		
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			the end of Jummah, we would roughly be
		
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			around 6 to 700 people easily.
		
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			What percentage of these individuals can accurately recite
		
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			Surah Al-Fatihah without mistakes?
		
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			We don't need to go far.
		
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			We don't need to become an alim.
		
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			Just something we need for our daily five
		
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			prayers.
		
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			Surah Al-Fatihah to recite it without lahan
		
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			jali, without major mistakes.
		
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			Add to that, how many of us would
		
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			have a deeper understanding of that Surah Al
		
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			-Fatihah or even just the translation?
		
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			We don't need to go far.
		
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			We have left, as an ummah, at wholesale
		
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			Qur'an.
		
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			We have jumped onto every single type of
		
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			solution to fix the gap, to fix the
		
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			space, fix that emptiness that can only be
		
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			filled by the Qur'an.
		
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			You say there is a halaqa about tafsir
		
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			of the Qur'an?
		
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			10-15 people will show up.
		
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			You say we're having a halaqa about hard
		
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			connections, hard talk.
		
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			Everyone's gonna go, Oh, it's hard.
		
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			I need to, my heart's aching.
		
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			That hard talk ain't gonna fix you if
		
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			you don't connect with the Qur'an.
		
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			Right?
		
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			This, again, we have to be realistic about
		
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			this.
		
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			There is no way, no matter how high
		
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			the maqam of an alim, the kalam of
		
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			alim is going to supersede kalam Rabbil Alam.
		
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			It can't happen.
		
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			When I hear ayahs from the Qur'an,
		
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			if I am not moved greater than the
		
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			way I'm moved by the words of a
		
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			scholar, then we have a problem in that
		
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			equation.
		
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			So Rasulullah ﷺ says, Kitabullah, it's the book
		
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			of Allah.
		
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			Why?
		
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			It has news for the people that came
		
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			before you.
		
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			Notice how the hadith did not say, There's
		
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			a difference between naba and khabar.
		
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			Every news, khabar is news.
		
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			Naba is, It is a great news.
		
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			I.e. it has an impact in your
		
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			life and it is beneficial to you.
		
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			When you get that news, it provides you
		
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			benefit.
		
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			Just a quick reflection.
		
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			Surah Al-Baqarah has 286 ayat.
		
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			115 ayat, they speak about Bani Israel.
		
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			That's almost 40% of Surah Al-Baqarah.
		
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			The first surah that you are introduced to
		
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			in the Qur'an after Surah Al-Fatiha
		
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			is all about how not to be like
		
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			them.
		
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			How not to be like them.
		
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			Be careful.
		
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			They were given the book.
		
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			They were given this.
		
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			They broke their promises.
		
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			They did this.
		
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			They did this.
		
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			All of that.
		
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			How not to be like them.
		
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			And now this is different.
		
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			Over here Rasulullah says, And you're going to
		
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			get information about what is going to happen
		
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			in the future.
		
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			There are predictions in the Qur'an about
		
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			what is going to come.
		
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			Some of those predictions are And others, they
		
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			are clear like the sun.
		
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			And there are others, They are between, you
		
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			have to ponder.
		
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			And when you ponder and reflect more, you
		
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			get to understand more.
		
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			It is the criterion through which you and
		
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			I, if we have issues amongst us, is
		
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			there as a criterion to rectify that issue
		
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			between us.
		
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			It is a decisive criterion.
		
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			It separates between that which is haq and
		
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			which is baatil, non-righteousness.
		
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			And it is not hazal.
		
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			It's not a joke.
		
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			It's content or not a joke.
		
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			It's a matter of serious understanding.
		
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			And this is related to the leaders of
		
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			the Muslim ummah.
		
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			But if they stop, if they stop using
		
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			Qur'an as the source of legislation, Allah
		
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			will sever them.
		
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			If you read the tafsir of this, and
		
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			if you read the sharh of this, it
		
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			says, Allah will sever them from his rahmah.
		
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			Allah will sever them from izzah.
		
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			Allah will sever them from karama.
		
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			Allah would sever, i.e. the leaders and
		
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			then us, vis-a-vis.
		
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			We all know the shaheed that we had
		
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			last week, very famous.
		
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			When he passed away, that same week in
		
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			the khutbah in the morning, I viewed over
		
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			200 khutbahs in the last 24 hours after
		
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			his death, and only two khutbahs talked about
		
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			him.
		
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			Over the 200 khutbahs that were live-streamed
		
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			on YouTube in major masajid across the Muslim
		
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			world, only two people spoke about him.
		
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			So when we leave Qur'an as a
		
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			legislator, then this is the consequence.
		
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			And then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,
		
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			And if somebody wants to seek guidance, you
		
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			choose any other source other than the Qur
		
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			'an, you will be misguided.
		
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			You may gain some religious knowledge, but it
		
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			won't be accordance to the Qur'an and
		
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			the sunnah.
		
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			I remember when I went for my studies,
		
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			and this is right after we attended the
		
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			ilm summit in 2008 with Sheikh Waleed Bisyouni
		
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			and some of the mashayikh at that time
		
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			in Houston.
		
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			I got motivated and I said, I need
		
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			to go and learn.
		
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			And when I went there, my teacher, they
		
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			met me, and almost all of them, all
		
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			of them, they said, How much Qur'an
		
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			do you know?
		
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			Can you recite Qur'an properly?
		
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			I said, No, Sheikh, but I want to
		
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			learn this amazing book.
		
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			And he's like, One of my Sheikh, he
		
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			says, Why did you get involved in the
		
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			books and you can't even recite Qur'an?
		
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			Today, you have people who are graduating from
		
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			in these lands, graduating from madaris, ma'ahid,
		
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			they're graduating from institutions with a degree in
		
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			five years, and they have read tafsir of
		
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			taftazani or madri ish, and then you ask
		
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			that guy to lead the salah and he
		
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			can't even recite surah al-fatiha.
		
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			Hajib, our priorities as a community is off.
		
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			In the past, they would say that somebody
		
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			who would get a status within the community,
		
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			they said, Whosoever would memorize and understand surah
		
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			al-baqarah, if you understood surah al-baqarah,
		
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			then you would get the status of being
		
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			like an elder in the society.
		
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			Today, you have so many hufadh of the
		
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			Qur'an, they don't even understand anything.
		
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			And it has become a status symbol.
		
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			When I go to new communities, they will
		
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			be like, As-salamu alaykum, my name is
		
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			Abdul Basit, I have a son who's a
		
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			hafiz.
		
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			How does that add any value to you?
		
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			Then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, sorry,
		
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			Prophet shallallahu alaihi wa sallam says, This, this
		
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			Qur'an is the rope of Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala.
		
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			If we hold on to it, that's what
		
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			Allah says in the Qur'an.
		
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			Hold on to the rope of Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala collectively.
		
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			And don't divide yourselves in the community.
		
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			Then he says, Prophet shallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
		
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			You want wisdom and remembrance, and you want
		
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			to be remembered, reminded of wisdoms, you will
		
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			find them in the Qur'an.
		
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			Through the Qur'an, you will find the
		
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			straight path.
		
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			This is the book, if you understand it
		
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			in the Arabic language, your desires, your nafs
		
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			is not going to be able to come
		
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			and deviate you from that.
		
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			You have, no tongues are going to be
		
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			able to convolute the recitation of it.
		
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			The greatest mu'jiza is that if you
		
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			go to Kenya, if you go to any
		
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			of these places, if you go to Ethiopia,
		
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			if you go to Pakistan, if you go
		
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			to India, China, people who have memorized the
		
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			entire Qur'an with proper tajweed, with proper
		
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			recitation, they don't know what the meaning is,
		
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			but their tongues are in...
		
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			If any Arab comes and recites, the ajam
		
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			will correct him.
		
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			They may not know the meaning, but the
		
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			tongues, they are, that once you know the
		
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			Qur'an, it becomes impossible for you not
		
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			to read it correctly.
		
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			And the scholars, they cannot get enough of
		
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			the Qur'an.
		
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			It is mentioned if you read the stories
		
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			of the ulema of the past with the
		
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			Qur'an.
		
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			For example, Ahmash.
		
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			It is mentioned about him that he told
		
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			his daughter that I, you know, he pointed
		
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			to a pillar of the masjid, and he
		
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			was about to leave this earth, and he
		
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			was smiling.
		
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			And they said, why are you smiling?
		
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			He said, I smile because I know that
		
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			underneath that pillar, I have finished the Qur
		
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			'an 400 times in my life.
		
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			Recently, there is a shaykh in Morocco, and
		
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			he's well known, and his video has been
		
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			circulating online.
		
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			He has listened to the Qur'an cover
		
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			to cover of hufadh, more than 7,000
		
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			students.
		
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			Imagine the iman of that person.
		
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			The ulema, they can't get tired of reading
		
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			the Qur'an.
		
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			May Allah make us from that.
		
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			And then, you don't get bored.
		
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			You don't get bored at all of repetition
		
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			of the Qur'an.
		
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			And then it says, And it has amazing
		
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			things in the Qur'an from the time
		
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			of Rasulullah ﷺ till today.
		
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			People can't stop writing enough about the Qur
		
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			'an.
		
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			Just yesterday, Right?
		
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			It's a printed copy of a tafsir from
		
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			the ulema of Najd.
		
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			And I came across this because my own
		
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			shipment was lost.
		
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			So I lost my copy, and I was
		
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			looking for a PDF version.
		
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			And I had forgotten that just for Surah
		
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			Al-Fatihah, Shaykh Ad-Dawsari, just for Surah
		
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			Al-Fatihah, he has dedicated a mujallad kamil,
		
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			over 400 pages on just the tafsir of
		
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			Surah Al-Fatihah.
		
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			And then in the end of it, he
		
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			says, I could write a lot, but I
		
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			said, people are going to get tired of
		
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			400 pages.
		
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			So I did a summary of that, which
		
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			I had to say about Surah Al-Fatihah.
		
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			May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allow us
		
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			to truly connect with the message of the
		
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			Qur'an.
		
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			In the end, we finish the hadith.
		
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			It says, If we act upon the Qur
		
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			'an, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gives us
		
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			ajr.
		
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			There's a beautiful kitab written.
		
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			It's called Qur'an It's a consortium of
		
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			effort of multiple scholars, over 20 scholars that
		
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			put together.
		
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			And if you're in Arab, mashallah, it is
		
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			translated.
		
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			It's very easy to read.
		
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			If you're not in Arab, there are few
		
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			translations that are coming out.
		
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			I think just 30th, few of the surahs
		
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			are out there.
		
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			But it is beautiful because one page you
		
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			read, and in the bottom, it says, Here
		
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			are the three things you have to put
		
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			in practice today with this page of the
		
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			Qur'an.
		
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			This is what the Qur'an tells.
		
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			This page tells us to put into action.
		
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			It has taken away your thinking.
		
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			Just follow and say, I read this page
		
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			today.
		
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			What are the points of amal I need
		
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			to do?
		
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			You follow those points and bismillah.
		
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			And if we use the Qur'an as
		
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			a source of legislation, then there is no
		
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			greater justice.
		
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			Hudiyya ila siratil mustaqeem.
		
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			And if we become callers to others to
		
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			come to this Qur'an, Allah with the
		
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			barakah of that calling will take you to
		
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			siratil mustaqeem.
		
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			And then Rasulullah ﷺ in the end, he
		
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			says, Take it.
		
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			Take this.
		
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			Don't leave this Qur'an.
		
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			Take it.
		
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			May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make us
		
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			from those who hold onto the Qur'an.
		
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			In the end, we ask Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala on this blessed day to send
		
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			salutations on Nabi Muhammad ﷺ.
		
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			We ask you Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			on this blessed day of Friday to protect
		
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			every single one of us in our imans.
		
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			We ask you Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			that you know what is in our hearts.
		
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			We come to you on this Friday with
		
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			weak imans and we hope in your mercy
		
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			and your rahmah.
		
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			O Allah, do not deprive us on this
		
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			day from your rahmah.
		
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			O Allah, let not any one of us
		
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			leave this masjid except that you have forgiven
		
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			all of our sins and you have confirmed
		
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			the protection of iman of every generation to
		
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			come ila yawm al-qiyamati Ya Rabb al
		
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			-alameen.
		
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			We ask you Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			that we have not honored the Qur'an
		
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			the way it was supposed to be honored.
		
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			O Allah, do not hold us accountable for
		
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			that.
		
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			We ask you Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			on this blessed day to connect our hearts
		
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			with the Qur'an and make us from
		
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			those people who recite the Qur'an day
		
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			in and day out.
		
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			We ask you Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			to give us the tawfiq to recite surah
		
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			al-kahf today.
		
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			For those of us who have recited, Allah
		
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			puts barakah in them and provides them the
		
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			nur that was promised.
		
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			And for those who haven't recited, Allah gives
		
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			them the tawfiq to recite before maghrib.
		
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			We ask you Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			that our brothers and sisters in Gaza, our
		
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			brothers and sisters in Sudan, our brothers and
		
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			sisters in Kashmir, our brothers and sisters in
		
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			Bangladesh, our brothers and sisters in every single
		
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			part of the world are suffering.
		
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			Oh Allah, ease their suffering.
		
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			We ask you Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			to protect their bloods.
		
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			We ask you Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			to protect their sanctity, to protect the sanctity
		
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			of our sisters in Gaza, protect the sanctity
		
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			of our sisters in Sudan and all other
		
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			parts of the world.
		
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			We ask you Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			that all of these affairs are in a
		
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			simple term, kun fayakoon, Oh Allah make ease
		
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			for our brothers and sisters with your kun
		
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			fayakoon.
		
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			We ask you Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			that our ummah has suffered for too long.
		
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			Do not let our sins be the cause
		
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			of that suffering.
		
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			Please provide the ease to the Ummah of
		
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			Muhammad salallahu alayhi wasalam and provide every single
		
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			one of us the tawfiq to carry on
		
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			the banner of Quran and the banner of
		
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			la ilaha illallah Muhammadur Rasulullah to every corner
		
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			of this earth.
		
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			We ask you Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			that we become a source of providing hidayah
		
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			to the people around us and we become
		
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			a source of blessing and rahmah for the
		
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			people of America.
		
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			We ask you Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			that our Ummah is going to going through
		
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			difficult times, allow us to be from those
		
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			who worship you with true sincerity in these
		
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			difficult times and make us from those when
		
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			you make ease for us, that we are
		
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			the ones who come to the masjid and
		
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			fill the masajid in those ease times.
		
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			We ask you Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			to protect the maal, the money, the health
		
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			of every single one of us here and
		
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			provide us shifa and kamilah if anyone is
		
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			suffering with any diseases.
		
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			And we ask you Allah that if any
		
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			one of us has lost any of our
		
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			relatives, and if any one of us has
		
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			lost any of our fathers and mothers and
		
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			grandfathers and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala raises
		
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			their ranks in the qabr and makes their
		
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			qabr a piece of paradise and provides them
		
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			the nur and hidayah of life and makes
		
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			every single one of us who have left
		
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			behind a mother, father or grandfather that you
		
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			become from those where Prophet shallallahu alaihi wasallam
		
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			says, Give us the tawfiq to make dua
		
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			for our parents if they have been deceased
		
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			and to provide sadaqah jariah for them if
		
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			they are deceased.