Ahsan Hanif – Quran Tafseer – Page 177 – Qualities Of True Believers

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The transcript discusses the importance of religion in driving people to achieve their goals and the need for high levels of chained eating to achieve success. The speakers stress the importance of setting out and avoiding fear to avoid confusion and loss of property, and emphasize the need for a healthy marriage and faith in Islam to avoid harming one's health. The Qurayshipped incident highlights the emotional impact of the virus and the importance of showing faith in Islam to avoid confusion and loss of property. The segment ends with a promise to provide guidance on achieving goals.

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			I seek refuge with Allah from Satan the
		
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			accursed.
		
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			In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most
		
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			Merciful.
		
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			As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
		
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			In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most
		
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			Merciful.
		
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			All praise is due to Allah, Lord of
		
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			the worlds.
		
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			There is no retribution for the righteous, and
		
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			there is no aggression except against the wrongdoers.
		
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			I bear witness that there is no god
		
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			but Allah, alone, with no partner.
		
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			He is the God of the first and
		
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			the last.
		
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			means to have Iman.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala then mentions the
		
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			level of complete Iman or the true believers
		
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			or the complete Iman in verse number 2
		
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			and he says The
		
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			true believers are those whose hearts tremble with
		
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			awe when Allah is mentioned, whose faith increases
		
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			when his revelations are recited to them and
		
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			who put their trust in their Lord.
		
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			We have as we know two levels of
		
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			Iman.
		
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			There is the Iman that is Wajib and
		
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			there is the Iman that everyone must have
		
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			in order to be a Muslim and to
		
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			be a believer that you believe in Allah
		
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			alone that you believe in the Prophet sallallahu
		
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			alayhi wa sallam that you believe in the
		
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			different aspects of Iman and so on and
		
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			then you have what we call Al-Iman
		
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			Al-Kamil which is the complete Iman the
		
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			highest level of Iman those people who have
		
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			completed Iman and here is what Allah azawajal
		
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			is referring to those types of believers because
		
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			that is the one that we all aspire
		
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			towards so all of us inshallah have Iman
		
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			in the sense that we have the basic
		
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			level of Iman but now with working towards
		
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			the higher level by doing good by fulfilling
		
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			your obligations by staying away from the haram
		
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			that is how you reach the higher level
		
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			of Iman.
		
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			Indeed the believers or the true believers are
		
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			those there are those whose hearts tremble in
		
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			awe or with awe when Allah azawajal is
		
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			mentioned so when Allah is mentioned his name
		
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			when Allah signs are mentioned when his verses
		
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			are mentioned when his verses are recited there
		
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			are those whose hearts tremble because they know
		
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			that these are the words of Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala they're fearful that they're not
		
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			going to be able to follow them and
		
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			fulfill them they're fearful of what will happen
		
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			if they fall short of adhering to them
		
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			and they're fearful of the punishment of Allah
		
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			azawajal and that isn't a fear which then
		
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			incapacitates them but the fear that is mentioned
		
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			in the Quran and the Sunnah and the
		
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			Khuf that we have is one that inspires
		
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			one to action because there are two types
		
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			of fear and sometimes when we use the
		
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			word fear in the context of the Quran
		
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			and Sunnah we think of the fear of
		
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			for example someone's coming to murder you or
		
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			you're walking along that there's a lion or
		
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			predatory animal that's about to attack you there's
		
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			a fear that incapacitates you it freezes you
		
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			it makes you not able to perform in
		
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			action you just freeze because of the amount
		
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			of fear that's overcome you but the fear
		
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			of the believer is the one that actually
		
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			does the opposite like for example the fear
		
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			that a child the father and the mother
		
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			have that their children are going to live
		
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			in poverty they don't just get incapacitated and
		
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			freeze it spurns them into action they look
		
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			for work they look for provision they they
		
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			take it's a fear that they have but
		
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			it's a fear that prompts and motivates to
		
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			action a person who fears for their health
		
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			or they fear that something is going to
		
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			come upon them there that's a fear that
		
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			spurns them to act makes them take certain
		
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			measures and in order to safeguard themselves that
		
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			is the fear of Iman the fear that
		
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			inspires you and motivates you to action makes
		
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			you brings you closer to Allah allows you
		
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			to understand that you need to do good
		
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			and stay away from evil and there are
		
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			those these true believers or complete believers whose
		
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			faith increases when the revelations of Allah are
		
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			recited to them because they ponder over them
		
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			and they reflect upon them and they seek
		
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			to understand them and learn about them like
		
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			we're doing here in the Tafseer of the
		
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			book of Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala and because
		
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			of that it increases them in Iman so
		
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			look at how the mention of the name
		
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			of Allah Azza wa Jal brings to them
		
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			fear that spurns action motivates them to action
		
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			and his words which are also a reminder
		
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			of Allah Azza wa Jal is the part
		
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			of the mentioning of Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala
		
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			it increases them in Iman because their heart
		
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			becomes stronger the Iman becomes increased and higher
		
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			and so as a result they will do
		
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			more good and stay away from more evil
		
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			and they rely upon or they trust upon
		
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			their Lord they trust in their Lord for
		
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			all of their needs of the dunya and
		
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			the akhira for all of their wants and
		
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			everything that is that they require not only
		
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			that but Allah Azza wa Jal then continues
		
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			in verse number three and they are those
		
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			who keep up the prayer and give to
		
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			others in zakah or of that which we
		
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			provided for them so from their attributes also
		
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			is not just the heart not just issues
		
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			of Iman and fear of Allah Azza wa
		
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			Jal and issues of contemplation and pondering over
		
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			the recitation of Allah Azza wa Jal and
		
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			issues like reliance upon Allah and trusting in
		
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			Allah Azza wa Jal but it spurns them
		
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			into action and that action is manifested in
		
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			their limbs and upon their tongues because they're
		
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			praying and they're giving zakah and they're doing
		
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			other good deeds these are the people who
		
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			have true Iman so the people who claim
		
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			that their Iman is only in their heart
		
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			that they don't need to pray they don't
		
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			need to do a lot of good deeds
		
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			they don't need to abide by the Sunnah
		
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			Iman's in the heart it's okay I have
		
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			fear of Allah in my heart Allah Azza
		
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			wa Jal is showing here that's not true
		
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			and complete Iman you may have Iman but
		
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			this isn't the true and complete Iman that
		
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			every believer should strive to because if Allah
		
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			is telling you to do certain things then
		
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			part of the completeness of Iman is to
		
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			abide by that which Allah Azza wa Jal
		
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			is instructing us with and that is why
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in verse
		
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			number four those
		
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			are the ones who truly believe they have
		
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			high standing with their Lord forgiveness and generous
		
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			provision this is true Iman this is the
		
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			Iman of the people who have Iman in
		
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			their hearts and their actions of the heart
		
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			and it is manifested upon their limbs and
		
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			upon their tongues and so they merge and
		
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			they join between this the inner Iman and
		
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			the outer manifestations of Iman through righteous deeds
		
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			and actions those are the people that Allah
		
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			Azza wa Jal is saying they are the
		
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			ones who have truly completed the Iman and
		
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			they are therefore the ones who will have
		
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			the completest of reward they will have elevated
		
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			lofty stations a high standing before their Lord
		
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			on Yawm al Qiyamah and forgiveness for all
		
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			of their sins and they will have the
		
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			greatest and most generous of provision in this
		
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			life but more importantly in the next life
		
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			on Yawm al Qiyamah in the gardens of
		
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			Jannah Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala after mentioning
		
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			this now will begin by going into the
		
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			story of the battle of Badr so from
		
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			verse number five from the very beginning of
		
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			the Surah Allah Azza wa Jal starts speaking
		
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			about the battle of Badr and look at
		
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			how the battle of Badr before it Allah
		
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			Azza wa Jal brings to us this prelude
		
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			if you like this opening of the Surahs
		
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			introduction with these attributes of Iman because this
		
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			is what the companions had the companions had
		
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			to display these levels of Iman both internally
		
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			and externally in order for them to be
		
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			able to participate in that first battle after
		
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			that they now understand what's required of them
		
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			but that first time this is the first
		
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			time the Muslims have to engage in battle
		
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			the first time that they're going into open
		
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			warfare and not just with anyone but with
		
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			the Quraish who for many of them are
		
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			their family their blood relatives their kin their
		
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			kin's people the people that they grew up
		
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			with their neighbors this is their community that
		
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			they come from their tribes people that they
		
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			emanate from and so they are required a
		
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			high level of Iman and a high level
		
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			of Taqwa of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			and that is why Allah Azza wa Jal
		
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			knows best that the verse the verse is
		
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			open in this way if you are able
		
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			to have these attributes that Allah mentions at
		
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			the beginning of Surah Al-Anfal you can
		
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			overcome any challenge in life the companions overcame
		
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			the battle of Badr and the Quraish that
		
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			were the enemies in the battle of Badr
		
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			me and you may not have to fight
		
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			in the battle like the battle of Badr
		
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			but we have many other challenges many of
		
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			the hardships and trials that come upon us
		
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			the principle is the same the characteristics and
		
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			attributes are the same the level of Iman
		
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			that is required is similar and so you
		
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			have to abide by what Allah Azza wa
		
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			Jal is saying at the beginning of this
		
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			Surah obedience of Allah obedience of the Prophet
		
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			sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Iman in Allah Azza
		
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			wa Jal fear of Allah Azza wa Jal
		
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			recitation of the Quran with contemplation trust in
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Salah, Zakah and
		
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			fin complications and then Allah Azza wa Jal
		
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			will honor you and when he honors you
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala then you can overcome
		
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			and surmount even what seems to be like
		
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			the greatest of challenges in life Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala then says in verse number
		
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			5 therefore recitation of the Quran with contemplation
		
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			Allah Azza wa Jal says now speaking about
		
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			the battle of Badr which is the first
		
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			battle that took place in the second year
		
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			of the Hijra and the story as we
		
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			know very briefly and we will go into
		
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			it inshallah in more detail as we come
		
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			the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam the Muslims
		
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			were poor the Muhajirun who had left behind
		
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			and sacrificed everything in order to migrate property
		
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			wealth family everything they left behind so the
		
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			Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam heard of a
		
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			caravan a trade caravan being led by Abu
		
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			Sufyan coming back towards Mecca so the Prophet
		
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			sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said to the companions
		
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			let us go and intercept the trade caravan
		
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			because the trade caravan will have some guards
		
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			some people defending it but they will be
		
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			very few and far between and they're very
		
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			easily be overpowered by an army that's coming
		
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			to ransack thee or come to take from
		
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			the caravan let us go and take back
		
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			from some of the wealth that we wanted
		
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			to gain that we've lost and so we
		
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			can go and take from it and that
		
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			is what the companions set out to do
		
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			but as we will see Allah Azza wa
		
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			Jal had a different direction for them Allah
		
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			Azza wa Jal had a different decree for
		
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			them so Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says
		
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			for it was your Lord who made you
		
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			venture from your home for a true purpose
		
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			though a group of believers disliked it Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala is saying after mentioning
		
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			the true level of Iman that these companions
		
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			had with the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
		
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			that they were able to go and they
		
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			were able to fight in the battle of
		
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			Badr the Prophet said that Allah Azza wa
		
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			Jal is saying it is that Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala wanted you to leave from
		
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			your home Allah is the one who wanted
		
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			you to go and Allah Azza wa Jal
		
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			did it in such a way that would
		
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			have been that made it easy for you
		
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			because had the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
		
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			stood there and said we are going to
		
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			fight Quraish in open warfare, we are going
		
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			to face them on a battlefield they are
		
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			few in number, they outnumber us by 2
		
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			or 3 times then many of the believers
		
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			would have found it very difficult at that
		
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			stage why?
		
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			why antagonize them?
		
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			why go away?
		
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			we are still weak, give us time and
		
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			so on but Allah Azza wa Jal wanted
		
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			this to be done Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala wanted his victory for the believers to
		
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			be shown and manifest so Allah Azza wa
		
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			Jal caused them to leave for a different
		
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			idea that they thought would be what would
		
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			take place and that is intercepting the third
		
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			caravan and so Allah Azza wa Jal sometimes
		
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			for the believer he makes them leave or
		
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			tread or set out upon a path but
		
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			the actual path that Allah wants for them
		
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			is a different one but in order for
		
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			them to reach that different one they must
		
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			first set out this way because the other
		
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			one seems too difficult insurmountable too hard for
		
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			them to contemplate at the moment but Allah
		
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			will aid them and help them to overcome
		
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			that but in order for them to get
		
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			there they must take this other way first
		
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			and then divert towards it and this is
		
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			what happens with the companions in the battle
		
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			of Badr Allah Azza wa Jal continues in
		
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			verse number 6 يُجَادِلُونَكَ فِي الْحَقِّ بَعْدَ مَا
		
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			تَبَيَّنَكَ أَنَّمَا يُسَاقُونَ إِلَى الْمَوْتِ وَهُمْ يَنظُرُونَ and
		
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			they disliked it so a group of believers
		
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			disliked it and they argued with you about
		
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			the truth after it had been made clear
		
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			as if they were being driven towards a
		
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			death they could see with their own eyes
		
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			a number of the companions disliked that they
		
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			would have to go and fight their own
		
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			family members and that's understandable it's a human
		
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			nature it's a human emotion to have that
		
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			if you were standing on a battlefield and
		
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			across you is your father your brother your
		
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			uncle your best friend your neighbor the people
		
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			that you've grown up with then clearly that's
		
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			going to like have some emotional impact upon
		
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			you and so some of the companions were
		
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			discussing this with the Prophet ﷺ saying to
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ maybe we shouldn't do this
		
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			maybe that's not what should happen maybe we
		
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			should change course and that is because when
		
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			the companions left to intercept the caravan of
		
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			Quraysh Abu Sufyan being the genius leader that
		
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			he was was sending scouts ahead and when
		
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			the scout realized that there's an army coming
		
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			from Medina he told Abu Sufyan so Abu
		
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			Sufyan did two things very quickly number one
		
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			he sent riders to Mecca warning them your
		
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			wealth is about to be attacked and taken
		
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			come and save your wealth the Muslims are
		
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			coming you want to protect your wealth come
		
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			and save it and number two he changed
		
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			course and he went a different way in
		
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			the end he saved the caravan and he
		
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			left and he managed to get to Mecca
		
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			without any problem but the army of Quraysh
		
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			had already been set out and because they
		
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			were looking for an excuse to destroy the
		
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			Muslim and Islam anyway and this was an
		
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			excuse for them and no one could blame
		
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			them now because they're trying to defend their
		
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			property they wanted to continue even when Abu
		
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			Sufyan said it's okay, it's safe the danger's
		
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			been averted they said no, we've left now
		
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			we're going to fight them and so that
		
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			is how the battle takes place and so
		
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			some of the believers were afraid of this
		
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			because to stand in front of them to
		
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			fight them and so on wasn't an easy
		
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			thing for them to necessarily accept at the
		
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			beginning and so they could see كَأَنَّمَا يُسَاقُونَ
		
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			إِلَى الْمَوْتِ وَهُمْ نَظُرُونَ Allah says as if
		
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			they were being driven towards the death they
		
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			could see with their own eyes because they
		
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			knew the numbers they knew where the strength
		
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			lay in terms of weapons and cavalry and
		
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			everything else armor and so this is something
		
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			which Allah azza wa jal is saying it
		
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			is something which took place but Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala continues in verse number 7
		
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			وَإِذْ يَعِذُكُمُ اللَّهُ إِحْدَى الطَّائِفَتَيْنِ أَنَّهَا لَكُمْ مَتَوَدُّونَ
		
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			أَنَّ غَيْرَ ذَاتِ الشَوْكَةِ تَكُونُ لَكُمْ وَيُرِيدُ اللَّهُ
		
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			وَيُرِيدُ اللَّهُ أَن يُحِقَّ الْحَقَّ بِكَلِمَاتِهِ وَيَقْطَعَ دَابِرَ
		
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			الْكَافِرِينَ Remember when Allah promised you that one
		
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			of the two enemy groups would fall to
		
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			you you wanted the unarmed group to be
		
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			yours but it was Allah's will to establish
		
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			the truth according to His word and to
		
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			finish off the disbelievers as we mentioned before
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ left they left with 300
		
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			odd companions in order to intercept the Quraysh
		
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			caravan and when the Quraysh hear of this
		
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			they would send out their army in order
		
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			to go and protect the caravan Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala says that Allah azzawajal promised
		
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			the believers the Muslims, the companions that one
		
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			of the two you would have you would
		
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			either have the wealth of the caravan or
		
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			you would fight the Quraysh this is the
		
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			promise that Allah azzawajal made the believers wanted
		
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			the one that would be easier and that's
		
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			also natural it is human nature that you
		
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			want the one that's not going to put
		
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			your life in danger not going to put
		
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			you in the way of risk of harm
		
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			you want the one that's going to be
		
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			easier to intercept and that would have been
		
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			the caravan but Allah azzawajal wanted something else
		
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			and that shows that sometimes in life when
		
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			you make a decision you hope that it's
		
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			going to be easy for you that that's
		
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			going to be plain smoothing for example marriage
		
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			before marriage and even after marriage some people
		
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			get married and they hope that they're going
		
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			to have inshallah and this is the dua
		
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			that we all have a good marriage a
		
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			healthy marriage a marriage that is fruitful and
		
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			blessed and so on but sometimes it's not
		
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			the case sometimes Allah azzawajal doesn't decree that
		
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			for you but it is through that difficulty
		
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			and hardship and that patience that you show
		
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			that Allah azzawajal elevates your status that Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala honors you in ways
		
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			that you are yet to understand because of
		
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			the reward that you will gain so you
		
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			can't always know what Allah has planned for
		
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			you you set out with one intent with
		
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			one vision if you like and Allah azzawajal
		
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			has a different one that he has intended
		
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			for you and that is what happened here
		
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			when you read Allahu ayyuhaqqal haqq you wanted
		
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			to make your life easy you wanted the
		
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			caravan the trade caravan you wanted some of
		
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			that wealth in order to relieve some of
		
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			the hardships of the dunya from you what
		
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			did Allah azzawajal want for you ayyuhaqqal haqq
		
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			that the truth should be established wa yaqta
		
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			'adabiral kafireen and that these disbelievers who have
		
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			opposed you who are your enemies who have
		
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			harmed you and tortured you that they should
		
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			be cut off and that is why many
		
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			of the leaders of Quraish died in that
		
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			battle the likes of Abu Jahl and Utbah
		
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			and Walid and others they died, Shaybah they
		
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			died in the battle of Badr many of
		
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			the leaders of Quraish died there and so
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is telling us
		
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			that this is the reality of that day
		
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			Allah azzawajal wanted this to happen because from
		
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			there the Muslims will only increase in strength
		
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			and yes they will get that wealth they
		
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			will get that wealth but it may be
		
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			a longer process to it but the things
		
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			that will come about as a result of
		
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			Badr the way that the Muslims their reputation
		
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			was enhanced amongst not only the Quraish but
		
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			all of the Arabs the way that the
		
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			people understood now that this is serious that
		
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			these people are not just a small group
		
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			of people that can be taken lightly they
		
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			are a force now to be reckoned with
		
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			that is something which has many great benefits
		
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			and obviously the people who then come to
		
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			the fold of Islam as a result and
		
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			that is why in the final verse that
		
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			we'll take today Allah azzawajal says in verse
		
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			number 8 liyuhaqqal haqqa wa yubatila albaatila walaw
		
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			kariha almujrimoon to prove the truth to be
		
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			true and the false to be false much
		
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			as the guilty might dislike it meaning that
		
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			by doing so the battle of Badr it
		
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			became clear where is the truth and where
		
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			is the falsehood people now knew it was
		
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			clear because the Quraish had an army that
		
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			was greater more well equipped more formidable and
		
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			the Muslims were weaker and less in number
		
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			but Allah azzawajal aided them and honoured them
		
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			and so the truth became clear and the
		
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			falsehood became clear and that is why the
		
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			Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam as we know
		
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			made dua on that day and he said
		
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			oh Allah if this group of Muslims is
		
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			destroyed meaning on the battle of Badr then
		
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			you will never be worshipped again meaning this
		
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			is all of Islam the strength of Islam
		
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			and the Muslims is right here if we're
		
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			wiped out there's no one left and so
		
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			Allah azzawajal gave them victory and it was
		
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			a tremendous victory as we know and inshallah
		
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			ta'ala as we will see in the
		
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			forthcoming passages and verses but for today inshallah
		
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			ta'ala we will conclude with this verse
		
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			and in the following verses Allah azzawajal will
		
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			speak to us of many of the blessings
		
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			and principles and lessons that we can benefit
		
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			from this battle