Ahmad Saleem – The True Definition of Masculinity in Islam

Ahmad Saleem
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The concept of chivalry or " Georgia night" is discussed, with men experiencing "verbal behavior" and "verbal identity" in their Islam. The culture is centered around fear of failure and fear of failure to achieve something, including praying and spending money on things. Regular prayer and social interaction are emphasized as important for alleviating mental and physical health issues.
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In our series that we carry on and

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continuing in, which is correcting concepts, last week

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we touched upon the concept of chivalry or

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masculinity, rojoola, and we talked about the various

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different angles that Quran has taken for us

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so that you and I can have a

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definition of what this chivalry or masculinity entails.

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Is it young men with long mustaches and

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big beards?

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Is it having muscular bodies?

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Is it that you are strong?

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Is it that you have a position, a

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C-level position in a company, a good

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car and a big house?

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What are the definitions of chivalry and masculinity

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in sharia and in specific in the Quran?

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Prophet ﷺ, he once, again correcting concepts, he

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saw some of the sahabas and they were

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sitting with one another and they were mocking

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at the skinny and feeble legs of Abdullah

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ibn Mas'ud.

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Abdullah ibn Mas'ud, he climbed up the

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tree and as he climbed up, obviously your

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shin and your calves get exposed but he

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had a really skinny, so the men, they

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were like, they were laughed at it.

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They were like, look at these feeble weak

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legs and they were laughing.

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So Prophet ﷺ saw them mocking and laughing

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the skinny legs of Abdullah ibn Abbas radiyallahu

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anhu, Abdullah ibn Mas'ud and then he

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turns to them, he said wallahi these legs

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are heavier than Uhud in the eyes of

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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So is it that muscular structure that we

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so dearly and some of our young men

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want to achieve?

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What is it?

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What is masculinity?

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Umar radiyallahu anhu, once he sat with the

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sahaba and he said, ask, tamannu, make a

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wish.

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What do you want to wish for?

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Somebody's like, oh I wish I get this

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and I wish I get this and there

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was a list.

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Then when they were done with wishing everything,

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they said, ya ameer al mu'mineen, you make

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a wish.

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It's your turn, like we've done our part,

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your turn.

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And he says, I wish that Allah subhanahu

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wa ta'ala atamanna law anna li rijal.

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I wish I had men like Ubaidah ibn

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Jarrah and Mu'adh ibn Jabal and Abi

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Hudhayfa.

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So I use them and I seek help

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from them.

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I use them so that I can be

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a source, they can be a source of

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raising and venerating and sanctifying the kalima of

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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Another time, these are ajib, some of the

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men were equal to zero, while others were

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equal to hundred, while others were equal to

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a thousand.

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Once, Khalid ibn Waleed, he was in a

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place and he was trying to free a

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land in Bilad al-Hayrah and he was

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over there towards the upper portions of Sham

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and he recognized that he ran out of

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army and he's gonna need some support and

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he's gonna need some backup.

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So he pauses the expedition and sends a

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message to none other than Abu Bakr at

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that time, radiAllahu anhu.

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Abu Bakr radiAllahu anhu arsala lahu rajulun wahid.

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Abu Bakr sent him one man.

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When the man arrives, Khalid ibn Waleed reads

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the message and it says, ya Khalid, oh

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Khalid, arsaltu laka, I have sent for you

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rajulun, one man, bi alfi rajul.

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He's equal to a thousand men.

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And he was none other than Taqaa bin

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Amr al-Tamin.

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Nobody could wrestle him.

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So he was not just the physical strength,

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the awe that people have for his presence

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as a man was so terrifying for people

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that they could not stand in front of

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him.

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Another time, this was during the Khilafah of

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Umar radiAllahu anhu, Zubayr ibn al-Awwam, he

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is the brother-in-law of Prophet salAllahu

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alayhi wa sallam, married to the sister.

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So Aisha and Asmaa bint Abu Bakr, they're

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both sisters and Zubayr ibn al-Awwam is

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the brother-in-law of Prophet salAllahu alayhi

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wa sallam.

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And Miqdad ibn Amr, so sorry, Amr ibn

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al-As was in Egypt and he was

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on the expedition of opening Egypt.

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And he asks Umar radiAllahu anhu, can you

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send me some help?

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I am in desperate need.

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He sent four men.

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Zubayr ibn al-Awwam, the brother-in-law

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of Rasulullah salAllahu alayhi wa sallam, Miqdad ibn

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Amr, Ubadah ibn Samit and Maslamah ibn Makhlad

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radiAllahu anhu ajma'in.

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And Umar sent a letter for them.

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وقال لهم يا عمر ابن العاص مددتك بأربع.

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I have helped you with four.

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رجال, they're all men.

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كل منهم, every single one of these يساوي

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ألف رجل.

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I've sent you an army of four thousand

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men equal to four.

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So what are they talking about?

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I mean this is, and the list can

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go on, the list can go on.

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For example, one of the times the Khalifa,

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Umawi Khalifa, he saw a young man, he

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was sent by a qawm from Yemen, I

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forgot the name, but you know that comes

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and he was a young man.

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So that Khalifa, he says, اذهب, leave.

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I will not talk to somebody like you,

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bring me أسن منك, bring me somebody older

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than you.

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So this is a young man, he says

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فقال الشاب يا أمير المؤمنين لو كانت تقدموا

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بالسن.

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Oh, Ameer al-Mu'mineen, if the matter was

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about age, لكان في الأمة من هو أولى

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منك.

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There are much older people than you, and

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I mean if it was a matter of

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an age, then you're not even worthy of

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being an Ameer because there's much more older

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people than that.

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فسكت له خليفة فقال له تكلم.

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So these were men, they held on to

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some responsibilities.

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This masculinity of ours, which sadly has been

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looked down upon in the recent times, in

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the last 10 years, you can't even talk

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about it and these words of toxic masculinity

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and all of this is misunderstood because masculinity

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is not about a man going in his

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house and asserting his power.

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Masculinity is not about going and screaming at

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your wife and kids and they're terrified from

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you.

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Masculinity is not about you being in your

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job, a tyrant, and everyone is scared of

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you.

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Masculinity is not about a bully.

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That's not what men do.

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That's a misunderstood concept.

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That's only manliness.

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See, there are two different things.

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One is jibilli.

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You were born as a man, you can't

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control that.

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But you choose to become a man.

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They're two different things.

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You're born as a man, that's one thing.

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But when you make the choice to become

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a man, that is jibilli.

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That is something you attract.

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So last week we talked about رِجَالٌ صَدَقُ

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مَا عَهَدُ اللَّهِ These are people who fulfill

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the promises.

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Anything that they have promised with Allah and

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people, they hold on to their words.

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They're true to their words.

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When the going becomes difficult, they don't back

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down.

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When they have to speak up against that

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which is injustice, they stand up even if

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there are consequences.

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They don't bend down.

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And we talked about it, for those of

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you that missed it, you can go back

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and listen to that khutbah.

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And then we said there were other attributes.

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Before we get into the next attribute, this

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masculinity of ours, not manliness, not being a

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gender male, the masculinity Allah subhanahu wa ta

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'ala talks about it as an imtinan.

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It is a blessing that Allah has given

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us.

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Where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, when

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in Surah al-Kahf, the person says to

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this his friend, أَكَفَرْتَ بِالَّذِي خَلَقَكَ مِنْ تُرَابٍ

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ثُمَّ مِنْ نُطْفَةٍ ثُمَّ سَوَّاكَ رَجُولًا Are you

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denying the one who has created you from

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a *, a cup of *, then he

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formed you and fashioned you into rajul.

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If you read the entire Quran, many times

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has removed the

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names of individuals who stood up against tyrants

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but left you a specimen of masculinity.

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And we'll talk about that.

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Today's verse is لَمَسْجِدٌ أُسِّسَ عَلَى التَّقْوَى Where

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are these men going to be found?

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In masajids.

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Allah says لَمَسْجِدٌ and as for the masjid

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أُسِّسَ عَلَى التَّقْوَى The foundation of masajids, the

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foundation of every masjid should be taqwa.

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It shouldn't be that I support this group

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or that group or this section or that

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section.

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That's not why, those masajids never flourish.

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Because these are the houses of Allah and

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Allah should be the greatest above all of

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our divides and disconnects and differences.

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When we stand and we say Allahu Akbar,

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we're all unified in that.

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We set aside our agendas, we set aside

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our political agendas, whatever people may have, we

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set aside our minute differences.

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95 to 96 percent of us of the

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sharia is unified and we're all united.

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لَمَسْجِدٌ أُسِّسَ عَلَى التَّقْوَى The foundation of our

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masajids should be taqwa.

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We should get really angry when somebody is

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not living up to that taqwa.

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Because in this house, in any masjid of

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Allah, taqwa is the barometer.

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لَمَسْجِدٌ أُسِّسَ عَلَى التَّقْوَى مِنْ أَوَّلِ يَوْمٍ And

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this is talking about Quba but it's also

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giving you a foundation that that masjid will

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flourish if from day one the foundation was

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not factions but Allah.

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عَلَى التَّقْوَى And then Allah says, أَحَقُّ أَن

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تَقُومَ فِيه To Prophet ﷺ that those are

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the masajids that you should seek out.

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It is talking about Masjid Darar but that's

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a side note.

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Then Allah says what?

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فِيهِ رِجَالٌ In those masajids you will find

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men.

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What's the quality that Allah describes about these

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men?

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فِيهِ رِجَالٌ يُحِبُّونَ أَن يَتَطَهَّرُ They love to

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be pure.

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They're pure in their bodies.

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They're pure in their clothes.

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They're pure in their hearts.

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They focus on purity from inside and out.

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They're focused in this element of cleansing themselves.

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They're not focused and, and oh look at

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this person's عَيْب and look at this person

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look at this and that.

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They're not focused on others.

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They're focused on يَتَطَهَّرُ They're trying to cleanse

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themselves of all the ailments of the hearts.

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They're trying to cleanse themselves of physical impurities.

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They're trying to keep a look that is

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beautiful.

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That's why Prophet ﷺ when he was commanded

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in Surah Al-Mudathir وَثِيَابَكَ فَطَهِّرُ Purify your

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thawb.

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The ulema they said the thiyab there are

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seven meanings of it.

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Number one is the dress of yours.

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Number two is your heart.

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Number three is your mind.

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Number four is the place where you pray.

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Number five is the way you carry yourself.

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Number six is the way you walk.

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Number seven is the way you talk.

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وَثِيَابَكَ فَطَهِّرُ Purify your existence.

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Thawb that covers you.

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فِيهِ رِجَالٌ يُحِبُّونَ أَن يَتَطَهَّرُوا وَاللَّهُ يُحِبُّ الْمُتَطَهِّرِينَ

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And Allah loves those who wants and their

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focus is mutatahirin.

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Their quality that Allah describes are that they're

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just focused on cleansing themselves.

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وَاللَّهُ يُحِبُّ الْمُتَطَهِّرِينَ May Allah make us from

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those.

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Allah loves those who are focused on that.

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Then Allah ﷻ says in another ayah, فِي

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بُيُوتٍ أَذِنَ اللَّهُ أَن تُرْفَعَ وَيُذْكَرَ فِيهِ هَسْمُهُ

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Right?

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These are the houses in which Allah's names

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are being venerated.

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بِالْغُدُوبِ وَلَا أَصَالِ In the morning and the

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evening.

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Why is this?

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رِجَالٌ There are men in those houses.

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لَا تُلْهِيهِمْ تِجَارَةٌ Their trade and commerce does

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not distract them from Allah.

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لَا تُلْهِيهِمْ تِجَارَةٌ وَلَا بَيْعٌ No commerce or

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trade or job or seeking money ever comes

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in the way of Allah.

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That's a man.

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A man is where Allah is first and

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his job is second.

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A man is where Allah comes first, his

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family, his job, everything comes second.

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And not only that, over here Allah is

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saying, لَا تُلْهِيهِمْ It doesn't distract them.

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Let alone get occupied with it.

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SubhanAllah.

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لَا تُلْهِيهِمْ تِجَارَةٌ وَلَا بَيْعٌ عَنْ ذِكْرِ اللَّـهِ

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وَإِقَامِ الصَّلَاةِ They are not distracted from what

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things.

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Number one, the dhikr of Allah, remembrance of

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Allah.

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Ask ourselves, how many of us have daily

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wirds?

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How many of us have at least 100

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SubhanAllah and 100 Alhamdulillah and 100 Allahu Akbar

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daily?

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How many of us have the wird of

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Allahumma salli ala Muhammad 100 times?

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How many of us do astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah

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for verily the Prophet ﷺ in one majlis

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would have been heard over 70 times seeking

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istighfar if he had not committed any sin,

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ﷺ?

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How much are we in need of that

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dhikr to resuscitate our dying hearts?

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How much are we in need of that

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dhikr and that remembrance to moisten our tongues

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and to plant the trees in Jannah so

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that when we enter we see every single

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tree when you say SubhanAllah, Allah plants a

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tree and that tree, the length of it

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if a bird was to fly and the

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shade of that tree for 500 years would

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not cross.

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SubhanAllah, Alhamdulillah, Allahu Akbar.

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فِيهِ رِجَالٌ لَا تُلِهِهِمْ تِجَارَةٌ وَلَا بَيْعٌ Their

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commerce, trade, jobs does not distract them عَنْ

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ذِكْرِ اللَّهِ بَيْعٌ عَنْ ذِكْرِ اللَّهِ from the

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remembrance of Allah and then when you are

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in that state of remembrance وَإِقَامِ الصَّلَاةِ establishing

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prayer every single one of us irrespective if

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you're a man and you don't have an

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excuse you don't have an excuse we have

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to be in the masjids for salah and

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if you're living in these lands and sometimes

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the jobs are difficult I've done corporate world

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too then at least we strive to pray

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in jama'ah even in the corporate towers

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find a musalla, get a couple of buddies

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and pray together and as a Muslim try

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to make sure that you're here either fajr

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or isha one of the two there's no

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reason why this masjid is filled in juma

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'ah and for isha we have four lines

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there's a real question mark on every single

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one of us as a man by these

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definitions we cannot get distracted oh I'm too

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tired I just got home from work not

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accepted in the eyes of Allah as an

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excuse because about your jobs Allah says نَحْنُ

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نَرْزُقُهُمْ وَإِيَّاكُمْ I don't ask you to provide

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for your families we give food to them

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and to you وَإِقَامِ الصَّلَاةِ وَإِيْتَاءِ الزَّكَاةِ giving

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zakat I was shocked the other day I

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was at lunch with somebody and the person

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did not even know the ahkam of zakat

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and he's 55 years of age he said

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oh sheikh I didn't know I have $30

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,000 of cash I have to put zakat

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on that or $50,000 of cash I'm

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like you've been 55 these are our pillars

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we cannot meet Allah SWT if we're neglecting

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our zakat وَإِتَاءِ الزَّكَاةِ and zakat is wajib

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we can't wait till oh I want more

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ajr so I will give it in Ramadan

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if your nisab the minimum amount which is

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roughly $5,000 if you have savings of

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that in your bank you have to give

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2.5% of that it's not a

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zakat course but you know depending on your

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gold and stuff it gets complicated but again

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you have to give you can't wait because

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every single day you wait according to the

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majority of the scholars the person is sinful

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it's literally like qada of salah because after

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your hawl after your one year is complete

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حَلَّ عَلَيْكَ الزَّكَاتِ وَجَبَتْ عَلَيْكَ zakat becomes wajib

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every day you delay for every day there

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is a delay then Allah SWT says وَإِيْتَاءِ

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الزَّكَاةِ يَخَافُونَ يَوْمًا تَتَقَلَّبُ فِيهِ الْقُلُوبُ وَالْأَبْصَارُ

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يَخَافُونَ يَوْمًا تَتَقَلَّبُ فِيهِ الْقُلُوبُ وَالْأَبْصَارُ their fear

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is not oh how am I going to

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provide for my family how am I going

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to provide for my next generation do I

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have enough savings how is my 401k, how

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is my this and that that's not their

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fears Allah says their fear is يَخَافُونَ their

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fear is only one which is يَوْمًا تَتَقَلَّبُ

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فِيهِ الْقُلُوبُ وَالْأَبْصَارُ يَوْمًا تَتَقَلَّبُ فِيهِ الْقُلُوبُ

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وَالْأَبْصَارُ the hearts and the eyes would be

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looking left and right and they will be

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in trembling state on the day of judgment

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their only fear is they have to stand

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in front of Allah SWT may Allah grant

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us the tawfiq and the ability to start

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with at least one of those things and

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build it in our lives and if I

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was to start with something I would start

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with salah so every single one of us

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that is here and close by to the

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masjid make an intention that you wanna be

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here for isha today make an intention because

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you make the intention Allah fulfills it's the

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intention that counts أقول قولي هذا وأستغفر الله

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لي ولكم ولسائر المسلمين فاستغفرو فإنه هو الغفور

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الرحيم ...

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