Ahsan Hanif – Lessons From The Battle Of Khandak

Ahsan Hanif
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The Bible and history of the battle of the trench in the city of cities in Islam highlight the importance of learning from the Bible and the historical story of the battle. The actions of the companions and the prophet sallavi alaihi wa sallam were shaking and causing the misunderstandings of Islam. The importance of knowing the path that leads to death and finding the right way to respond to situations of fear and sadness is emphasized. The importance of forgiveness and remorse is emphasized, and the importance of finding the right way to manage one's desires is emphasized.
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There are certain chapters in Surah's of the

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Quran

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that Allah

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has dedicated to certain incidents that took took

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place in the life of the prophet

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For example, the battle of Badr

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mentioned in Surah Al Anfal.

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The battle of Uhud,

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mentioned in Surat earlier Imran.

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The battle of Tabuk,

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mentioned in Suratul Tawba,

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and so on and so forth. Different places,

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different incidents that took place in the life

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of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.

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Allah mentioned certain surahs, passages in the Quran

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that dealt with some of those major incidents,

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lessons, principles, benefits that we can derive.

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It is one of those incidents and one

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of those passages of the Quran

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that I want to share with you today,

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and that is the battle of the trench.

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The battle of also known as the battle

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of Al Hazab,

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mentioned in surah named after this battle, Surah

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Al Hazab.

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This battle took place in the 5th year

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of the hijra,

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and it is a well known incident, a

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well known battle that took place in Islam.

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But briefly to summarize and to recap,

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in the 5th year of the hijra,

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the confederation

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of armies of Arabia came and laid siege

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to the city of Medina.

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This was no longer a battle just between

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the Muslims and Quraish, like in Badr, like

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in Uhud.

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This time,

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there were different tribes that came alongside Quraish.

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We had the people of Banu Fazara and

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and

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Banu Sullaim,

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and all of these different tribes from Najid

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and from the Hejaz and from the different

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provinces of Arabia

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gathered

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together, and they came to fight the Muslims.

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Some narrations

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in say that they were between 8 to

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10, 10000

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in the army of the disbelievers.

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And just to put that into context,

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it is said that the whole population of

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Medina,

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men, women and children,

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was less than that number.

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They came and they laid siege to the

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city of Medina in the month of Shawwal

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in the 5th year of the Hijra. When

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the prophet

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had that they were coming, this army,

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this big army that was coming to destroy

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Medina. Their goal is to wipe out Islam,

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to kill the Muslims, to sack the city

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of Medina once and for all. The prophet

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sallallahu alaihi wasallam gathered the companions as he

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would often do and he made

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consultation.

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Ask them for their advice and their opinions.

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And there were different positions from amongst the

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companions, but one of them was from the

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illustrious companions, Salman al Farisi.

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Salman said, oh, messenger of Allah, back home

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in Persia, if we were in a similar

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situation, what we would do is dig a

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trench

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that was wide and deep in order to

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defend the city from attack.

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Madinah,

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its geography, its topography

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is such that it is surrounded by mountains

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and lava rock. There is only one place

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that is practical

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for an attack, and that's from the eastern

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direction.

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So the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasalam liked this

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idea,

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and he told the companions in preparation for

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this impending attack that they should start to

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dig, so they dug. The prophet sallallahu alaihi

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wasallam and the companions everyday would go and

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they would dig. This deep and wide trench,

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and even today if you go to Madinah,

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there's a place in Madinah where they've built

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a masjid called masjid alhandaq,

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the mosque of the trench.

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That's part of where that trench was dug.

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They dug it, and they dug it before

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those enemies arrived.

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Those people came, their army, 8 to 10000

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people.

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The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam, just to give

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you an idea of how difficult that situation

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was,

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the companions

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had to rush in their food, rush in

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their supplies,

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because they don't have the luxury

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or the comfort or the ease that they

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should go and deal in business,

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that they should go and tend to their

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lands and cultivate their fields.

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They're worried for their existence, for their lives,

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and the lives of their families and their

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children.

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So every day they would go and they

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would dig and food was rationed to the

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extent that the companions

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of would take stones and rocks and they

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would tie them to their bellies.

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They would tie them

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because of the pangs of hunger, to suppress

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that feeling of hunger, to fool the body

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into thinking or the stomach into feeling that

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it was full when it was empty. And

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our prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam

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used to tie 2 rocks

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2 stones and 2 rocks, whilst others used

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to tie 1. That is how difficult the

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situation became. And there are numerous incidents, numerous

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benefits. It is a beautiful story

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as to how the companions and the prophet

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went through those difficult days weeks,

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but this isn't the time and place for

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that. The army of Quraish and the confederates,

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they came and they laid siege to the

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city of Madinah.

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And one of the things that is interesting

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about this battle, even though we call it

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a battle, there was very little actual fighting

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that took place. There were a few skirmishes,

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a few shooting of arrows, a few people

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that tried to break the trench from the

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side of Quraish

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and the non believing army, but actually in

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terms of actual fighting, it was very little

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because the trench did what it was meant

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to do.

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They stayed there for over 20 days nights

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laying siege to the city of Medina.

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And as the time progressed,

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because the Quraish came with a very clear

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objective thinking that it would be easy, that

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their numbers, their force, their might would just

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be a quick job. They would come and

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they would wipe out Medina and they would

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go home, but they came and they found

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a trench, something which the Arabs weren't even

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familiar

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with. So now after 20 days, they begin

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to have disputes amongst themselves.

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They start to have problems amongst themselves because

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this is not looking like it's going to

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be the quick and easy job that they

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anticipated.

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So after 20, 22, 23, 24 nights, the

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prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam is making dua to

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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And Allah

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sends a fierce violent wind

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on the camp of Quraish and the other

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armies.

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It blows away their tents,

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blows away their possessions,

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blows away the

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the the ropes that were tying their animals,

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so they start to flee, and the whole

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camp goes into disarray.

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And so once they realize this and they're

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already demotivated, they were already

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ready to go home, they decided that they

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would leave, that they would just simply go

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and they would leave and they would go

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home.

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The prophet told

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us in the hadith,

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I was helped with the Saba. Saba is

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the easterly strong wind that the prophet that

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Allah

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sent to help the prophet

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Those people left,

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and they went back home and Allah

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gave victory to the Muslims.

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This, in a nutshell, is what took place

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in the battle of, the battle of the

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trench. But what I want to focus on

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today

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is something that Allah mentions in Surah Al

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Hazab. As we said, the Quran

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doesn't speak about the historical story, doesn't give

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us a full play by play account. What

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the Quran does always is it gives to

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us lessons and principles,

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teaches you what you can learn from those

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incidents.

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in this Surah Surah

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Al Hazab, as he's mentioning to us one

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of those principles, he tells us something which

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is extremely interesting, but also extremely important,

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and that is the way that the companions

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reacted.

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And Allah mentions 2 reactions that they had.

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The first

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is an emotional reaction.

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It is a natural reaction.

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If you and I or anyone else was

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in a similar situation to what those companions

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were in,

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they would react in the very same way.

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It's an actual way to react in moments

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of fear,

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moments of terror, moments when you're fearing for

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your life, for the lives of your family

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and your children. It's a natural way to

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react. And the second way

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is how then the companions dealt with those

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emotions

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once they coupled it with iman

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and with knowledge and with the understanding that

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they had of their religion

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or what they learned from the Quran and

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from the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa

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sallam.

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Allah

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says concerning the first reaction.

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Or you who believe, remember the favor of

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Allah upon you. When the armies amassed against

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you,

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the armies, meaning the confederates, they amassed against

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you.

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So we sent upon them a violent wind.

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And armies that were invisible to your eyes,

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meaning the armies of angels

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that came and cast terror into the lions

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and into the armies of Quraish.

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Is ever watchful of that which you do.

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When you saw those armies amassing from above

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you and from beneath you. Imagine being in

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the city of Madinah,

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and there's only a couple of 1,000 of

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you, 2, 3, 4,000 of you, and amongst

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you, there's the hypocrites. As Allah mentions in

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this surah, the hypocrites were there every single

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moment of their way saying, there's no hope.

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There's no point fighting.

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There's no possible way that you can escape

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this time.

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Go home. And they themselves did that as

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Allah mentions in Surat Al Hazam. They came

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to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam

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the hypocrites and they said, oh messenger of

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Allah,

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our houses are exposed. We're not going to

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defend the city. We have to go and

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look after our own dwellings, our own homes.

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So they left also.

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And all of this is taking place, and

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the Muslims can see these thousands of enemy

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soldiers amassing,

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gathering outside with a single purpose,

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and that is to kill everyone within the

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city of Madinah.

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So

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Allah says, so your eyes began to roll

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in your heads. It's an expression

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to show how much fear was cast into

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the hearts of the believers.

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It's a natural reaction. Anyone

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would be in a very similar way if

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they were in that situation.

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And Allah says that your hearts reached your

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throats,

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meaning that you are so overcome by terror,

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you can barely speak, you don't know where

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to look, you don't know how to react

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because of the severity of that situation.

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And you even thought Allah

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because shaitan plays on those emotions.

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Shaitan waits for those times when there's anger

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or there's fear, whatever it may be. Shaitan

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uses that as an opportunity

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to plant those thoughts that are unbecoming of

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the believer.

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What are those thoughts?

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Where's the victory of Allah that was promised?

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Didn't they tell us that Islam would be

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supreme? Didn't the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam say

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that he would protect us? All of those

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different things that are playing in their mind,

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because what seems to be the case now

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is that this is the end.

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You had those thoughts that entered your mind

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concerning Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,

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concerning the promises that Allah made, concerning the

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words of Allah in the Quran, concerning the

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promises made by his prophet

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Allah says that is when the believers were

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truly tested.

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Then Allah

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tell us also in the Quran,

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Do the people think that they can just

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simply say we believe and they won't be

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tested?

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Doesn't Allah azza wa jal tell us in

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the Quran how often he test the believers?

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In fact Allah azza wa jal in the

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same surah at the beginning of Surah towards

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the beginning says,

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Allah will question the people of truth concerning

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their sincerity.

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How can that be questioned unless

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you are tested in your faith?

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The companions on that day, they were tested.

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And they were shaken a severe shaking.

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And the word that is used is the

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same word that is used for a zelzalah,

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for an earthquake,

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to show you the severity

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of what they were experiencing.

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And my words, no matter how eloquent, no

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one's description, no matter how descriptive, no one

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can put into our minds and our hearts

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the actual things that were taking place, the

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actual emotions that they were experiencing.

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The companions of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam

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in that situation

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had different options, just like anyone in a

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similar situation would have different options. But the

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one that they chose was to remain firm.

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The one that they chose was to trust

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in Allah and to trust in the Quran

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and what it says, to trust in the

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prophet

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What they chose is certainty and iman

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over nifaq and hypocrisy like those other people

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did.

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That is the first reaction that they had.

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But Allah

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towards the end of this passage after he

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mentions a number of issues concerning the battle

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of Hazar, Allah

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then tells us the way that iman benefited

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them.

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The way that they were able to overcome

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and temper

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those emotions,

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their reaction,

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not because they were brave or courageous,

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even though amongst them were the bravest of

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all people. Abu Bakr is there, Umar is

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there, Rasman and Ali

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are there. You won't find many people, if

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anyone, braver than those individuals,

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but they're also humans. They also have real

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worries and fears like every other human. But

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Allah

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gave to them iman,

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and Allah gave to them knowledge.

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And so they realized that this was a

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test from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Allah Subhanahu

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Wa

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Ta'ala then tells us the way that they

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reacted.

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When the believers saw the confederal armies gathering,

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They said this is what Allah and his

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messenger promised,

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and Allah and his messenger

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ever speak the truth.

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And

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it only increased them in iman,

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it only increased them in submission to Allah

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subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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What's the change that took place? Look at

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the words of the Quran and how beautiful

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is the description of Allah

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They knew that there was a promise that

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was taking place, and this is often

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the fault that we fall into, the mistake

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that we make. We focus so much on

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the end result, the promise that is made,

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the assurance that was given, the guarantee that

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is found in the Quran and the sunnah,

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but we forget and neglect the path that

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leads you there. That's also mentioned in the

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Quran and the sunnah.

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The difficulty,

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the discipline, the patience, the trials, all of

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those things that are mentioned also in the

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Quran and the sunnah.

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But one of the problems with the weakness

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of iman and knowledge is that you only

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know the headline. You only take the end

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result. You don't know the path that leads

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you there.

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But the companions realized. They understood because they

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were people of knowledge, people of understanding,

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people who were closely

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linked to the Quran and the sunnah.

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They said actually this now what's taking place

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is the promise of Allah and his messenger.

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What were the Umuna fiqeen saying? They made

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you a promise and it was false. Everything

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you find in the Quran is not true.

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They said certain things, look what's taking place.

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The believers realized, no, actually, this is the

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promise of Allah, the promise of his messenger

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sallallahu alaihi wasallam.

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Because they told us that this would be

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the path that you would have to take

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in order to attain that result.

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So we only increased them then in iman,

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we only increased them then in submission to

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Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

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This is an amazing principle for you and

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I. In all of the issues that we

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face in our lives, in the dunya, its

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trials and its tribulations, all of the emotions

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that we have to deal with because of

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the different things that take place

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to remember what Allah says, what the prophet

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says, salallahu alaihi wasalam. To temp and control

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our reaction,

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our emotion

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with iman and with knowledge, that is something

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which is the way of the Muslim, and

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it's something which the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam

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instilled with his companions.

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And so if you're able to understand the

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Quran and the sunnah, its principles, its methodology,

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its etiquettes,

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then in every situation you're able to focus

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on what Allah azza wa ta'ala wants from

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you and to deal with that situation in

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a way that is pleasing to Allah subhanahu

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wa ta'ala.

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This principle though is the one that is

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only used in times of terror or in

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times of fear.

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The principle of knowing how to react,

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that there is a natural reaction

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as as a result of being human, but

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our religion doesn't say that you just respond

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in a human way. It tells you to

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respond in the way that is beloved to

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Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Everyone can respond in

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a human way. And what I mean with

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is by that with with the natural reaction.

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What our religion tells us is that you

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have to find the way that Allah is

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telling you to behave in that in that

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situation.

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What the prophet told us taught us in

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terms of how we react to those issues.

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And that's not only in times of fear,

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it could be in times of anger.

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The religion tells us how to behave in

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times of anger, in times of sadness, in

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times of grief, in times of distress, in

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times of fear, even in times of happiness

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and joy.

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You can't just be happy the way you

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want to be happy. You can't just express

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that joy in any which way. There is

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a way, an etiquette that you behave in

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all of these situations,

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and I will conclude by mentioning an example

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of that also from the Quran.

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In the very end, he mentions to us

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the story of a man by the name

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of Qarun from the people of Musa, alayhis

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salatu was salam from Bani Israel.

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This was a man who was extremely wealthy

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and rich. Allah describes his wealth and his

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richness

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by saying that the keys to his treasures

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used to be carried by strong able-bodied men.

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That's just the key, let alone his treasures.

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But when he was so overcome with his

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joy as someone is when they have an

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unlimited amount of wealth, a filthy amount of

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witches that they could never, even in a

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number of lifetimes ever spend, that person becomes

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so happy that sometimes if it isn't tempered

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with that iman, with that knowledge with that

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knowledge of Allah and his messenger sallallahu alaihi

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wa sallam, that person responds

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in a way that they gloat

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and they boast and they become arrogant. And

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now instead of just being happy at the

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grace of Allah and his blessing, they become

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arrogant and proud.

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And so his people said to him

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and the word that is used is the

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one for joy.

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Don't be happy, but it doesn't mean don't

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be happy in any which way. It means

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don't be happy in that way, in the

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way in which you boast and you gloat

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and you show arrogance and pride.

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For Allah doesn't love that type of joy

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and happiness.

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So what should he have done instead?

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Use that which Allah gave to you to

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attain the life of the hereafter.

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Allah told you the way. Allah told you

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that when you have knowledge on a man,

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that is how you should be correctly or

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that is how the correct way to respond.

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That is how you use these blessings of

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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So whatever that emotion, whichever situation you're in,

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our religion from the rahmah of Allah ajawajal

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is that he has given us the knowledge,

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the etiquettes, the principles

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that show us how to behave and how

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to react. This is an issue that all

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of us suffer from. In different situations, in

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different scenarios, we respond in the way that

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we are that is an instant reaction.

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It's just the emotion.

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Whether it's correct or incorrect, that's something which

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we later realize and then maybe we regret

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or we don't regret.

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But our religion, what Allah praises those companions

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for in the battle of the handak, is

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they didn't wait till after the effects or

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after the result to then respond in the

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correct way, but they realized in that moment

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of need, in that moment as the message

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of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said to

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the woman who was suffering from a grief,

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someone had died in her family.

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So she was extremely upset and she was

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expressing

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her discontent and upset in a way that

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wasn't sanctioned in the Sharia.

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Prophet told us

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be patient.

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But she because of her grief and distress,

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she didn't realize who it was. So she

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said, you don't know what I'm going through.

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Leave me alone. So the prophet salallahu alaihi

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wasallam left her. The people around her told

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her that's the messenger of Allah you just

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spoke to salallahu alaihi wasallam.

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So she came to me, she said, oh,

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messenger of Allah, I didn't realize it was

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you. He said, sallallahu alaihi wasallam

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To patience is when calamity first strikes.

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Whether it was me or someone else, whether

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you're reminded or not reminded,

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true patience.

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The true level of iman is that you're

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able to temper those reactions yourself because you

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have enough iman, enough knowledge of what Allah

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wants, what is prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam instructed.

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Rescayhi that he bestows upon us iman and

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knowledge. That Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala makes that

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beneficial

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alongside righteous action. That Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

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makes us from amongst those people who respond

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in the way that is pleasing to him.

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In a way that lifts our and raises

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our station, increases our good deeds, and forgives

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and expates our sins.

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Still

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still

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waiting. You're always filling the gaps.

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No. I

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want more.

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No.

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Come on.

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No.

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Brothers and sisters.

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Saturday

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lectures this Saturday after Maghrib Salah, we will

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have our second lecture from the series entitled

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Crossroads,

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Tear the Flame, Managing Your Desires.

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This lecture will be delivered by sheikh Jamal

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Abdinasser

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on managing your desires.

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Al Bina.

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As you are aware that we had a

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very successful launch of Al Bina Alai Almi.

00:34:10 --> 00:34:13

The classes are open to everyone every Monday,

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Wednesday, and Friday.

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Today's Al Bina class will be on the

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seerah of our beloved prophet Muhammad

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delivered by Sheikh Mustafa Aburayyan straight after the

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Maghrib Salah, Insha'Allah.

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Also,

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309 GLM scouts

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are marking the start of the term by

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a fun day tomorrow

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at the masjid from 2

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till 5 PM. Please come with the family

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and support our young people. All proceeds go

00:34:40 --> 00:34:42

to scout activities.

00:34:42 --> 00:34:44

Brothers will be in the car park, and

00:34:44 --> 00:34:46

sisters will be in the community hall.

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