Ali Albarghouthi – Do You Feel Like a Stranger

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Chateau La ilaha illallah wa de la sharika y na Mohammedan Abu Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa early
or sahbihi wa sallam about to fire in the hiral howdy kita kita Allah, wa hyaluron hodja hodja
Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was Sharon Morimoto Jessa to her wakulla Desert in VEDA wakulla
monada aku lavona Latina, we praise Allah subhanahu wa tada the most high and the most forgiving,
and we thank him and we seek His help and protection and forgiveness.
		

			And we asked him to save us from the evil of ourselves in the sense that we do, indeed who serve
Allah guides no one can lead astray and who serve Allah leads astray no one can guide and a bear
witness that there is no one worthy of worship except Allah alone. And then Mohamed Salah while he
was seldom is his slave and messenger, the best of speech is the book of Allah. And the best of
guidance is the guidance of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and the worst of religious matters
of those that are innovated and every religious innovation is a beta and everybody dies. misguidance
and every misguidance will be in Hellfire about
		

			so the law he saw the law he was seldom says in the Hadith, but al Islam over Eva was i o horiba
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			He said Islam started as something strange, and it will return to be something strange. So good news
to the strangers.
		

			Here sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was describing the reality of Islam in the beginning.
		

			But that this reality will repeat itself in time, and ends it with giving good news and
encouragement to those who will persevere and hold on to their religion, despite the
unpredictability of time, and space, and people.
		

			But early slavery by Islam started as something that is strange wonder asuma lyocell allottee alayhi
wasallam started his Tao he was the only one. And slowly Surely, but slowly, people started to hear
about Islam and accept Islam. So he had few people around him. But the belief was an unbelief. The
practice was an odd practice because it is not dominant. Now that there is something strange about
it. When we say that Islam started as something strange, we're not saying that there's something
strange about Islam. No, this is your and my fifth law, it is the most natural thing that you can
embrace and follow. What we mean by it is that it's not the dominant belief. And it's not the
		

			dominant practice. And so people look at it with this suspicion, look at it with condemnation. So he
said it started strange, someone would accept Islam in a tribe and he will be the only person who
would accept Islam, the only person among his family to practice Islam, and either he will accept
migration to the prophets of Allah Azza wa sallam, and he'll be in a strange land among people that
he did not meet before. But there's still his brothers and sisters in Islam, but still
		

			is a stranger. Or he decides to stay in his own tribe. Among his own people. mana is not his family,
not his friends, not his neighbors except or understand. What he believes in what he is doing
started is something that is strange. And then slowly, people embraced Islam and it seems to be
something strange and became dominant in Mecca and in Medina and in Arabia and many other lands, but
there are sort of lies a lot of us in them said that it will continue or it will come back to be
something that is strange.
		

			will not be dominant again,
		

			not be dominant in power, not be dominant in numbers not be dominant in practice, or even not be
dominant in belief.
		

			And if you look at us today, you will notice a trace of that strangeness of how when you want to
practice and believe you become a stranger,
		

			politically, the power is not a Muslim power in the globe today. Economically, we're not powerful
with the media media is not for us, but mostly against us. So in terms of power and dominance, we
were strangers
		

			Whether we are living in non Muslim lands, so given and you experience this, when you own a hold on
to something that is Islamic, it is a struggle, struggle first within yourself because you know that
you're gonna stand out when you do this, and struggle with people around you because you know that
they don't understand it or maybe they will not accept it or even if they do, he always going to be
singled out as someone who's doing something different than not part of the group. And that's not a
feeling a comfortable feeling that any wants to have. Everybody wants to belong and to be accepted.
		

			But even in Muslim lens as well. Today, when you want to practice your Islam, you might find
yourself a stranger
		

			in your family, who resists your practice, in your city, or even in your country.
		

			So it started as something that is strange and it will continue or will turn to be something that is
strange, and a sort of lice of the law. It was seldom said then tuba glad tidings good news to the
strangers.
		

			Those who hold on to Islam, because of Allah did not because of people, those who want to do the
right thing. Though it is difficult. Those who sacrifice this life and comfort in this life, because
they want the pleasure of Allah as origin in the hereafter. This is sacrifice. And that's why he is
saying good news to you. Because you're alone, and Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam knows very
well and all the prophets of Allah know very well, what it feels like to be alone, you're alone. You
feel alone, you feel the pressure of being alone.
		

			You hear the criticism all the time. But despite that, you keep holding on to the truth. And those
sort of lies a lot of us hilum says good news to you expect the best to come your way in this role.
And when you meet Allah as a virgin, he said some alcohol he was sending them in another Hadeeth
		

			yet the other nurse is a man and he akuna tabuteau fee here and identical copy the Allah Jim, he
says there is going to come a time when people who will be holding on to their religion will be like
someone who holding in his hand hot coal, a hot burning piece of coal in his hand.
		

			And he said,
		

			a person at that time will have the reward of 50. among you, pointing to the campaign is a versatile
life's a lot he was in them because he said you find aides and helpers to assist you, but they
don't. So when there is mounting pressure, when it is hard to practice Islam know that Allah azza wa
jal knows that knows your struggle, and rewards you because of it. So the more that you hold on to
it, despite pressure, even if you're alone, a law as an understanding, and a law as though we reward
you and Allah azza wa jal will assist you. But this requires people who are committed to the truth.
By the way, this is not only simply about religion, if you want to be someone who's serious in this
		

			life, if you want to be a person who is honest, in a world that cheats and lies, you're going to
stand out, and you're going to be alone. If you refuse to cheat and lie, you're going to be alone.
If you want to be someone who dedicates his life to noble causes, in a world that emphasizes
mindless entertainment, you're going to stand alone, you're not going to have as many friends
because everybody else is attracted to the frivolous.
		

			But you have decided to do something that is better, and deciding to do what is best, always takes
sacrifice, and it's in fact, more so religiously.
		

			Horrible horiba ought to be estranged is a feeling that everybody has, religiously or otherwise.
People leave their homes, to other places they migrate. They leave their families. And once you do
that you will feel as a stranger. You may fight back, be born into a family, be born into a religion
be born into a culture but still feel estranged, not fully really belonging not knowing where do you
belong and what to believe and what to do. There are people who live on this in this life but never
really belong, not belong to their jobs, not to belong to a culture not belong to anything that
feels strange all the time.
		

			And that is the
		

			Because there is Horbury in this life. There is a strange moment in this life.
		

			When we are told
		

			confit dunia can never even argue Sabine, he says once also the lies and lollywood seldom says be in
this life as if you are a stranger or a traveler. He is pointing to the reality of this life that
is, no matter what happens, you're gonna feel
		

			this estrangement.
		

			Because once you enjoy something,
		

			it doesn't last. And you have to leave it behind. There is joy, but it's followed with pain.
		

			Yes, there is meeting with loved one, but there's also leaving them behind.
		

			There is always that estrangement
		

			always this departure always this movement. And so every one of us is a traveler in this life. So
Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam is telling you that you cannot escape this and in fact, embrace it be
as a stranger. Then he would ask him some Allah Honey, you said in the morning, when Where is my
home.
		

			And he would say Saloni you send them your home is in general.
		

			No matter how much you try to settle in this life, you'll always be a stranger. You will always be
moving on from one home to the other one country to the other one situation to the other, you're
healthy and you're sick, you're wealthy, then you're poor. You're married, and then you're not
married, you have children, maybe you don't have children later, you're always moving away from
things. You cannot hold on to anything. You're always a stranger, embrace it and become a stranger
in this life, knowing that you can only settle when you meet online.
		

			That's the home. This is not a home. This is not a home. Anything that you own today is not yours.
Anything that you're going to buy tomorrow, it's not yours. You can leave it to something else, or
you're going to throw it away. You're gonna leave it to somebody else, you're gonna throw it away.
It's not yours. You're not gonna only own anything. You don't own anything, until you enter Jannah.
		

			So yes, all of us human beings are strangers on this earth. Strangers when we move away from our
lands, strangers will move away from our families.
		

			But the true
		

			estrangement is to be estranged from Allah xojo.
		

			As to be a stranger on this earth because you're not connected to him. subhana wa Taala. That
		

			true alienation?
		

			It is said
		

			that Musa alayhis salam when he left Egypt, heading to meridian.
		

			And he said to Allah Azza, wa jal?
		

			He says, Yeah, Allah
		

			inua. Hayden, marry, don't worry. He says, Yeah, Allah hum alone.
		

			And I am sick.
		

			And I'm a stranger,
		

			than a lot as well reveal to him.
		

			He says the one who's alone is the one who does not have me by his side.
		

			And the one who is sick is the one who does not have me as his doctor.
		

			And the one who's a stranger is the one who does not deal with me, meaning worship me and talk to
me.
		

			So being a stranger does not mean that I'm not around my family or they're not around me. I'm not
living in my own land. Being a stranger means that I'm a stranger. When it comes to a laws origin,
he doesn't know me, he knows me. But I don't talk to him. I don't ask him. I'm not close to him. In
that sense, I'm a stranger. And there's that sense of strangeness or estrangement, will never leave
your heart in mind.
		

			And you will always feel that there is something missing is there's only one
		

			who can fill that emptiness.
		

			And it's not food. And it's not drinking, and it's not gambling. And it's not purchasing new things.
None of these things fill that emptiness. Only one can fill it. And that is a loss origin. You may
feel that I am sick. I have this physical ailment in that physical ailment. You're not sick. The one
who's truly sick is the one who is not being treated by Allah xojo whose heart is corrupt,
		

			that sickness, physical fitness can be overcome. When you die, you leave all sickness behind, but
internal spiritual sickness that stays with us till the time that we meet allows origin. So if Allah
is your doctor, you never really sick and if Allah is with you, you never really alone.
		

			That's why someone may ask how
		

			Can I have enough power and wisdom and patience, that if everybody else is doing harm, I tell them
this is haram. I'm not going to do it. If somebody else everybody else has taken off their hijab, if
they're doing this and that I tell them no, this is wrong and I do the right thing. And I become the
only person and they get ostracized. They don't call me they don't talk to me. They mock me. How can
I withstand have patience to continue? is if you have a man in Allah Zoo Did you never alone?
		

			Allah will send you if you ask him, pious friends. But if your friends are people who want to drag
you to Hellfire, they're not your friends.
		

			They're really not your friends. They may be well intentioned, but they're not your friends if they
want to take you to hellfire. If you are with Allah, you're not alone. If you are with Allah, you're
not weak.
		

			If you are with Allah, you are guided. If you are with Allah, you can influence others and change
them rather than allow them to change you.
		

			If you are with Allah, you can do the right thing.
		

			And if you remember, at any moment,
		

			in any place, when you feel weak, and you're the only one who is doing what's right, if you remember
that, this is how Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam was, and this is how you will be exactly if
he was standing right next to you, you will do the right thing. If you know at that moment that
Allah zodion is watching you and he loves the good things that you're doing despite resistance and
pressure. You continue to do it no matter who likes or dislikes what you're doing. If you know that
this is the thing that will save you not pleasing so and so and so, but pleasing Allah azza wa jal
if you know that this is the thing that will save you and will fill your heart with pleasure and
		

			will give you eternal happiness in the next life. You will do it despite resistance. So Islam
started strange, or something strange, but it needed men and women dedicated for for it to become a
dominant belief and a dominant practice for it to reach you.
		

			And still today, it needs those dedicated men and dedicated woman who will say the truth before
everybody else, that Allah azza wa jal before everyone else and when you choose Allah as a virgin,
you are indeed the strongest, and you're no longer a stranger, because Allah zodat is with you a
whole lot. Only Heather was the hero.
		

			At Hamdulillah, European alameen Hamza Catherine Ivanova confy, who also live on Sunday manasu li
Mohamed el sol de la de alayhi wa aalihi wa sahbihi wa sallam,
		

			when he was asked sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Who are those strangers or prophet of Allah?
		

			He said allatheena usili una edfs at a nurse. Those are the ones who reform and fix others when
people are corrupt.
		

			And another he says homeowner, Susana Hoon, Fiona xinzhou and Kathy, many I see him accidentally
menu to whom he says they are highest good people, but among a large number of evil, wicked people.
Those who oppose them and do not listen to them are far more than those who listen to them. It tells
you that at times, and in places, those who hold on to the truth will be strangers and will be few
in numbers.
		

			They will be the people who despite the corruption around them insist upon
		

			honesty. insist upon piety. insist upon purity, that not know not everybody cheats and lies. Not
everybody commits the harm. Not everybody disobeys Allah zildjian No, this is not common. This is
not normal and shouldn't be. And if it's normal for all of them, the algos are around me, I will
never make it normal for me, because it's not supposed to be normal, it's abnormal, and all over but
all of us should look at it as abnormal.
		

			So if I can't change you,
		

			at least I will not allow you to change me. But I will do my best to fix whatever I can fix. And
even if people reject what I'm saying, even if people reject my advice, I will continue to give it
so that at first I'll have an excuse before Allah azza wa jal that I did not conceal it and I tried
to do my best to fix it. And also perhaps one of those days one of
		

			Those people who listen to me and this is how Islam spread, with people whose Eman was like
mountains and they insisted upon changing themselves and people around them. And it became from
something weak into something that is strong, something that could be easily annihilated to
something that no one on this earth today can annihilate it.
		

			Islam is here to stay.
		

			But Islam also needs you
		

			need you to make that commitment and say,
		

			I'm going to hold on to it, even when it's difficult, because my sacrifice today will make it easier
for my child tomorrow.
		

			My sacrifice today will raise me in levels when I meet Allah azza wa jal. My sacrifice today will
make me a companion of Mohammed sallallahu alayhi wa sallam because I will understand what he did
and what he sacrificed, now will continue his legacy today. So Allah azza wa jal make us among the
strangers who hold on to his truth to his book and to the Son of His Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam to make us of the strangers who will reform themselves and those around them, to make us of
the strangers who resist temptations and pressure, so they always do what pleases Allah azzawajal
rather than what pleases people will ask him Subhana Allah to Allah to forgive us all of our sins,
		

			and to grant us a sincere repentance from all and every sin will ask him subhanho wa Taala to fill
our hearts with a man and our body with tequila to fill our hearts with his love and love with his
prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam to give us good character, with our families, with our friends
with Muslims and with non Muslims. They make us examples so that when people see us they want to
come closer to Islam and embrace it. Well ask him subhana wa tada to bless the omo Mohammed
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and to rescue them from ignorance and to rescue them from temptation.
Aloha Marina for dunya hacer una hora de la sera de hacer una joaquina either we're not alone I am
		

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