Ali Ataie – Lessons From The Blessed Night Journey Isra And MiRaj

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The conversation covers various topics related to Islam, including the discovery of large fruit bush in the seventh heaven, the return of the Prophet servicing the Bible, the transmission of religion and the importance of praying for the presence of the Prophet Muhammad, the controversy surrounding the idea of a spacecraft and the " claiming to be God" theory, the importance of affirmations and affirmations in prayer, and the theory of " claiming to be God" and how it is impossible for humans to be truly God. The segment also touches on the controversy surrounding the idea of a spacecraft and the " claiming to be God" theory.

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			As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
		
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			So tonight, inshallah, we're going to talk about
		
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			Laylatul Israa wal Mi'raj, the ninth journey
		
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			and ascension of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ.
		
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			So this is something that we should reflect
		
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			upon once a year.
		
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			So we talked about this last year and
		
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			the year before.
		
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			So that's good, because the Qur'an says
		
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			reminders benefit the believers, and that we should
		
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			be growing spiritually every year.
		
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			In fact, every month, in fact, every day,
		
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			one of my teachers said that if I
		
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			don't feel spiritually elevated from day to day,
		
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			then I fail.
		
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			So every day, we should be increasing in
		
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			our spirituality and in our knowledge, sacred knowledge
		
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			of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and of
		
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			our deen.
		
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			So the Qur'an, obviously, is something that
		
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			doesn't change in its love, in its text.
		
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			The text of the Qur'an doesn't change.
		
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			So that doesn't mean if you read the
		
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			Qur'an once, then you're done.
		
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			Some of our cultures, we celebrate when a
		
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			child, for example, finishes Iksa Khatam of the
		
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			Qur'an, which for me is sort of
		
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			mixed, I have mixed feelings about it, because
		
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			the children tend to think, well, I've done
		
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			that, now it's time to move on.
		
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			I made the Khatam, it's over, they had
		
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			a party, goodbye, they never opened the Qur
		
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			'an again.
		
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			Many of them are under that impression.
		
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			So the Qur'an is something that we
		
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			read all the time, right?
		
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			Because we increase in our spirituality.
		
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			We might read Yasin today and discover a
		
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			nuance or a subtlety in its meanings that
		
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			we didn't know yesterday.
		
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			You can imagine when you read the Qur
		
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			'an when you're 10 years old compared to
		
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			when you're 50, it's almost a completely different
		
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			book, because the meanings of the Qur'an
		
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			are infinite, the ma'ad of the Qur
		
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			'an are infinite, the text never changes, and
		
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			this is part of the miracle of the
		
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			Qur'an, that it's infinite in its meanings.
		
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			So read a response, right?
		
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			So talking about the Isra, some of the
		
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			San'af say that it happened in the
		
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			year 5 after the Birtha.
		
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			What is the Birtha?
		
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			Does anyone know?
		
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			I like to be more interactive.
		
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			Do you know?
		
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			Birtha, what does it mean?
		
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			If I say that the Isra is in
		
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			the year 5 after Birtha, or if I
		
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			say 8 before Hijrah, it's the same year.
		
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			What is the Birtha?
		
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			The Birtha is the commissioning of the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ when he was 40 years old.
		
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			His commissioning.
		
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			Birtha literally means his raising, right?
		
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			When Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala commissioned him,
		
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			when he was 40 years old, he was
		
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			in Jabal al-Nur, Ghar al-Hara, he
		
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			was in a cave called Hara on the
		
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			Mount of Light, and Ibrahim ﷺ came into
		
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			the cave.
		
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			This is called the Birtha.
		
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			Other ulama, they say, and this is more
		
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			dominant in its opinion, that it occurred in
		
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			the year 10 after the Birtha, which is
		
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			equivalent to the year 3 before the Hijrah,
		
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			right?
		
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			And this is the opinion of most of
		
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			the ta'abirin.
		
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			No sahabi as far as I know mentions
		
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			a year.
		
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			As far as the month and the day,
		
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			it's also not mentioned by the San'af,
		
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			but many later scholars, they suggest different dates
		
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			for Laylatul Isra.
		
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			Some say 27th of Rabi'ul Awwal.
		
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			This is the opinion of al-Alusi and
		
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			Suyuti and Nawawi.
		
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			Other scholars, they say the 17th of Rabi
		
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			'ul Awwal.
		
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			Some say the 29th of Ramadan.
		
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			The dominant opinion is 27th Rajab.
		
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			27th Rajab, which is around today's date, 10
		
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			after the Birtha, this is the dominant opinion
		
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			as to when the Laylatul Isra and Mi
		
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			'raj occurred.
		
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			The Jumhur of the ulama say that it
		
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			happened after the Amr al-Huzun, the year
		
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			of sadness.
		
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			Does anyone know what happened during the year
		
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			of sadness?
		
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			Any of the shabab?
		
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			Yeah, so Khadijah al-Kubra passed away.
		
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			The Prophet's wife.
		
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			And Abu Talib, his uncle that was the
		
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			chief of the Bani Hashim, passed away.
		
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			But also the Prophet ﷺ, he went to
		
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			a place called Ta'if, right?
		
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			To the Bani Thaqif for a da'wah.
		
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			And he was stoned out of the city.
		
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			He was stoned out of the city.
		
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			They rejected him.
		
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			They bruised and bloodied him ﷺ.
		
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			And he had a low point in his
		
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			life, right?
		
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			And Allah ﷻ says in the Qur'an,
		
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			And Shaykh Abdullah ibn Bayyad, may Allah preserve
		
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			him, he just visited us recently.
		
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			He commented on this verse and said, With
		
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			a definite article.
		
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			Which means that the second occurrence of al
		
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			-ursul is the same as the first.
		
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			One difficulty.
		
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			So, But yusra is repeated without a definite
		
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			article.
		
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			Meaning this is two different eases.
		
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			So with every difficulty, there are two eases.
		
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			And this verse was revealed to the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ as a consolation.
		
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			So this was the day of Ta'if
		
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			was sort of the low point in the
		
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			life of the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			And it's interesting when that happened, there were
		
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			some leaders of Quraysh.
		
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			The sons of Rabi'ah who were in
		
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			Ta'if at the time.
		
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			And had seen what had happened to the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			That he was stoned out of the city.
		
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			So they sent him a Christian slave named
		
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			Adas.
		
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			Who brought grapes to the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			And the Prophet asked him where he was
		
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			from.
		
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			And he said, I'm from Nineveh.
		
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			And Nineveh is the city of who?
		
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			Yunus ﷺ.
		
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			So it's very interesting.
		
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			You're going to mention here something beautiful.
		
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			They say, look Allah ﷻ is reminding the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ here of Yunus ﷺ.
		
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			Yunus ﷺ had a difficult time.
		
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			He was in dhurumat.
		
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			In darknesses in the plural.
		
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			Right.
		
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			He was in the belly of the fish
		
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			or the whale.
		
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			In the ocean in the darkness of the
		
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			night.
		
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			But then soon after that Allah ﷻ gave
		
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			him victory.
		
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			Allah ﷻ says that over 100,000 people
		
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			believed in his message after that.
		
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			So after this so-called Yunus moment, there
		
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			was a great victory for Yunus ﷺ.
		
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			A great victory.
		
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			So this is the Yunus moment of the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			He's clasped under a tree in an orchard
		
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			owned by mushrikeen.
		
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			His feet are soaked in his own blood.
		
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			Right.
		
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			So Allah ﷻ gave him a great victory.
		
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			He gave him a gift.
		
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			The gift is laylatul isra wal mi'raj.
		
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			The night journey in ascension.
		
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			Why did Allah ﷻ give him this gift?
		
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			To give him tathbeet in his qalb.
		
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			To give him strength in his heart.
		
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			The nubiyahu min ayatina.
		
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			And as Allah ﷻ says, in order for
		
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			us to show him some of his signs.
		
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			In order for us in the royal plural.
		
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			General Maliki.
		
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			Allah ﷻ uses a royal plural.
		
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			In order for us to show him some
		
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			of our signs.
		
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			So this is something that we have to
		
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			believe in as Muslims.
		
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			We believe in laylatul isra.
		
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			The isra is dalil qata'i.
		
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			Qata'iyatul thubut.
		
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			This is a definitive proof text.
		
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			That we believe that the Prophet ﷺ was
		
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			taken in body.
		
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			Suhkana bi-asra bi-abdi'i laylan min
		
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			al-masjid al-harami ila al-masjid al
		
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			-aqsada bi-baratna hawla.
		
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			Li-nubiyahu min ayatina.
		
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			Inna huhu sirri basir.
		
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			Glory be to the one who took his
		
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			servant on a journey by night.
		
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			From the inviolable mosque of Mecca to the
		
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			furthest mosque.
		
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			And we'll talk about what that is in
		
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			one night.
		
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			Laylan.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So this is a clear definitive proof text.
		
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			Now, bits and pieces of the isra and
		
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			the mi'raj are sprinkled across numerous ahadith.
		
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			Many of these ahadith have weakness in them.
		
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			So it presents a challenge when trying to
		
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			piece together an authentic narrative or chronology.
		
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			So there's a few hadith we're going to
		
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			be looking at.
		
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			The hadith in Sahih Muslim, which is related
		
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			by Abdullah ibn Mas'ud, radiallahu anhu.
		
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			And in Bukhari, Malik ibn Sa'sa and Anas
		
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			ibn Malik.
		
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			First of all, linguistically, you know, look at
		
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			him.
		
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			Linguistically, what does isra mean?
		
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			Does anyone know?
		
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			What does isra mean?
		
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			Yes, sir?
		
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			Yes.
		
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			Huh?
		
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			No, no.
		
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			No, that's not what he means.
		
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			Isra.
		
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			Does anyone know?
		
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			Anybody else?
		
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			Isra means a nocturnal journey.
		
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			A journey by night.
		
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			To go out on a journey at night
		
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			time.
		
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			Isra.
		
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			And the verbal form here is causative.
		
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			Asra.
		
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			Causative.
		
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			So in other words, Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala causes someone to go on a nocturnal
		
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			journey.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala took his abd,
		
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			took his servant, the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi
		
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			wa sallam.
		
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			So isra is a nocturnal journey.
		
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			Mi'raj is an ism ala in Arabic,
		
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			which is called a noun or instrument.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So you can translate mi'raj as a
		
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			staircase or a ladder or something like that.
		
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			The means by which one ascends.
		
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			Ascension itself is called the urooj.
		
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			The urooj of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
		
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			sallam.
		
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			So isra or mi'raj.
		
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			In Bukhari, we are told that this journey
		
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			began when the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
		
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			was in al-Hatim.
		
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			Al-Hatim is also called hijab Ismail.
		
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			So if you obviously, you've seen the Kaaba
		
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			or you've been to the Kaaba, there's a
		
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			small semi-circle, right?
		
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			Right adjacent to the Kaaba that we may
		
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			talk around.
		
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			That's called the hijab Ismail or al-Hatim.
		
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			There's another hadith in Muslim that says, كنت
		
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			عند البيت.
		
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			That I was at the bayt.
		
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			I was at the baytullah, the Kaaba.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So you have two hadiths here saying two
		
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			different things.
		
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			So according to the principles of hadith, right?
		
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			Usul of hadith.
		
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			If you have two hadith that seem to
		
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			contradict one another, you have to sort of
		
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			try to make them work together, right?
		
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			It's called that jemaa.
		
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			So in reality, there's no contradiction here.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And the bayt and al-Hatim are the
		
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			same thing because the Hatim is at the
		
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			house.
		
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			It's at the Kaaba.
		
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			There's another hadith that says, the Prophet ﷺ
		
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			was in the house of Umm Hani when
		
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			this began.
		
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			Umm Hani.
		
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			And in another hadith, it says, in the
		
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			house of Abu Talib.
		
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			In another hadith, he says, I was between
		
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			two.
		
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			So how do we make these hadith work?
		
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			Who is Umm Hani?
		
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			Does anyone know?
		
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			Umm Hani?
		
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			Nobody knows?
		
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			The wife of Abu Talib.
		
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			Very good.
		
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			The daughter of Abu Talib.
		
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			The daughter of Abu Talib.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So one says, I was in the house
		
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			of Umm Hani.
		
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			Another says, in the house of Abu Talib.
		
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			So there's no contradiction here.
		
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			Right?
		
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			It's the same house.
		
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			In Bayna Ithnayn, the Prophet ﷺ was sleeping
		
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			between two men.
		
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			So there's a room full of men that
		
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			are sleeping.
		
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			This is a very precarious time for the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			If you remember, when he returned from Ta
		
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			'if, he could not go directly into Mecca
		
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			immediately because Abu Talib had passed.
		
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			And the chief of the Bani Hashim was
		
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			Abu Lahab.
		
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			And Abu Lahab did not offer his nephew
		
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			any type of protection so they can kill
		
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			him on sight.
		
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			So the Prophet ﷺ, he sends a correspondence
		
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			to Suhail ibn Amr.
		
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			Right?
		
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			For protection.
		
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			In reality, Allah ﷻ protects His Nabi.
		
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			Right?
		
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			وَاللَّهُ يَعْصِي لُكَ مِنَ النَّاسِ Allah protects you
		
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			from human beings.
		
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			Right?
		
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			فَإِنَّكَ بِأَعْيُونِنَا You are in our Inaya.
		
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			You are in our fortress.
		
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			We are guarding you.
		
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			That's in reality.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So the Prophet ﷺ, he actually went back
		
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			to Jabal al-Nur and he wrote a
		
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			correspondence to a man named Mut'in ibn
		
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			Adi.
		
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			And Mut'in and his sons, they offered
		
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			to protect the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			But still, it's very precarious.
		
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			So he's sleeping in a room, there's other
		
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			men in the room, a group of men,
		
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			and he's between, the ulama say, he's sleeping
		
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			between Sayyidina Hamza and Sayyidina Ja'fa.
		
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			Now, how do we make these hadith work
		
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			with the previous hadith?
		
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			That he was in that bayt, that he
		
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			was at al-Hateem.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So, ibn Hajar al-Asqalani al-Hafidh, may
		
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			Allah be pleased with him, he says, the
		
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			journey initially began in the house of Umm
		
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			Hani.
		
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			Right?
		
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			In Jibreel alayhi salam, according to a hadith
		
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			in Sahih Muslim, he came and he extracted
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ from the house of Umm
		
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			Hani through the roof and took him to
		
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			the Hijra Ismail al-Hateem.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So this is how he makes the hadith
		
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			work.
		
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			The Prophet ﷺ at this point, his blessed
		
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			chest is split open and his heart is
		
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			washed at least for the second time.
		
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			Some say it's happened three times.
		
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			We know what happened when he was a
		
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			child.
		
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			And he says that a tasmin dahab, a
		
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			bowl made of gold, was used, was filled
		
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			with zamzam and it was poured over his
		
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			his heart and soul, Allah alayhi salam.
		
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			So, the uran al-masih, gold is problematic,
		
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			we can't use gold utensils, so how does
		
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			this hadith work?
		
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			Well, one interpretation is that prohibitions against gold
		
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			utensils was not in place yet.
		
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			Another interpretation, more spiritual, says that these utensils
		
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			came from Jannah, they're from paradise.
		
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			So the fiqh of Jannah takes precedence here
		
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			over the fiqh of dunya.
		
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			So in Jannah, you can wear silk, you
		
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			can wear gold, you can drink wine, it
		
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			doesn't intoxicate.
		
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			Right?
		
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			These types of things.
		
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			So, this time, however, what's known as the
		
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			hafd al-shaytan, when the Prophet, salallahu alayhi
		
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			wa sallam, was a very young boy, his
		
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			chest was split open and a black clot
		
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			was taken from his heart.
		
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			Right?
		
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			This clot is called hafd al-shaytan.
		
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			And there's different ways of understanding this.
		
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			Hafd al-shaytan is a construct phrase.
		
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			It's called in Arabic, annexation.
		
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			So how do we understand that?
		
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			There's two ways to understand it.
		
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			As either partitive annexation or possessive annexation.
		
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			So partitive annexation means, if you just bear
		
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			with me with the grammatical terms here, this
		
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			is according to the Al-Jurumiya, which is
		
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			a treatise of grammar that intermediate students of
		
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			Arabic will study.
		
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			Hafd al-shaytan will be translated as hafdun
		
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			min al-shaytan.
		
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			A portion from the shaytan.
		
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			A portion of something that originates from the
		
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			shaytan.
		
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			So the ulema say that's not the correct
		
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			understanding of hafd al-shaytan.
		
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			The other way of looking at it is
		
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			as possessive annexation.
		
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			With the particle or the preposition li.
		
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			So hafdun li-shaytan.
		
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			A portion for the shaytan.
		
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			Meaning that this hafd, this portion originates with
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ, but he intended to give
		
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			it to the shaytan.
		
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			So you see the subtle difference between min
		
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			and li, from and for.
		
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			A portion that's from the shaytan that originates
		
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			from the shaytan that was given to the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			This is rejected by the ulema.
		
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			Hafd li-shaytan.
		
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			A portion of something that originates with him
		
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			ﷺ that he intended to give to the
		
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			shaytan.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So a portion of what?
		
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			The ulema say a portion of mercy.
		
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			That the Prophet ﷺ, his heart is quite
		
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			literally overflowing with mercy.
		
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			There's too much mercy.
		
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			You have to take some of it out.
		
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			He would have shown some inclination of mercy
		
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			towards even the shaytan ﷺ.
		
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			And Allah ﷻ did not want him to
		
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			do that.
		
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			So that was removed from his heart.
		
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			So remember that Allah ﷻ speaking directly to
		
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			him says, وَمَا أَرْسَلْنَاهِ إِلَّا رَحْمَةً لِلْعَالَمِينَ We
		
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			did not send you except as a mercy.
		
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			رَحْمَةً And this word is feminine.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So the longer the word in Arabic, the
		
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			more emphasis it has.
		
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			So if you add a tamar buta, if
		
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			you make it feminine, it has more emphasis.
		
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			Right?
		
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			In another verse in the Qur'an, this
		
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			is in surah al-A'raf, verse number
		
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			56, Allah ﷻ says, إِنَّ رَحْمَةَ اللَّهِ قَرِيبٌ
		
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			مِنَ الْمُحْسِنِينَ Right?
		
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			So if you look at that, if you
		
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			study Arabic and you look at this verse
		
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			immediately, you notice a grammatical issue here.
		
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			Right?
		
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			إِنَّ رَحْمَةً What gender is rahma?
		
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			Does anyone know?
		
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			Feminine.
		
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			Mu'innaf.
		
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			What gender is qareebun?
		
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			Masculine.
		
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			So you have a problem here.
		
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			In this type of sentence, this is called
		
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			a nominal sentence, where there's two parts.
		
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			Right?
		
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			There's a muktada and khabar.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Subject and predicate.
		
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			And according to Arabic rules of grammar, these
		
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			two are supposed to match in their gender.
		
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			Right?
		
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			If I say, أَلْرَجُلُ طَوِيلٌ That's a good
		
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			sentence.
		
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			The man is tall.
		
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			If I say, أَلْرَجُلُ طَوِيلٌ طَوِيلٌ The predicate,
		
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			that's finishing the sentence here, is now feminine,
		
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			so now it becomes a problem.
		
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			So what do the ulema say here?
		
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			إِنَّ رَحْمَةً اللهِ قَرِيبٌ مِنَ الْمَرْسِنِينَ They say,
		
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			the rahma here is the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			So that's why qareeb is masculine.
		
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			Indeed, the mercy of God is close to
		
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			the doers of good.
		
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			So these are subtleties in the Arabic that
		
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			people tend to not even notice.
		
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			That's why we should study some Arabic, inshallah
		
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			ta'ala.
		
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			So, at this point, the Prophet ﷺ, he
		
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			says that a dabbah, which is some sort
		
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			of animal, دُونَ الْبَطْلِ وَفُقَ الْحِمَارِ أَبْيَطْ He
		
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			says, an animal that's smaller than a mule,
		
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			but bigger than a donkey, that's white, was
		
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			brought to him.
		
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			And this is called البُرَق البُرَق And there
		
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			are later writers who say things like, the
		
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			بُرَق had the head of a woman and
		
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			the tail of a peacock and it had
		
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			wings like a pegasus.
		
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			None of these things are authentic.
		
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			They're not found in sound hadith.
		
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			It was simply a small white horse.
		
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			And, of course, بُرَق according to many urdu
		
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			grammarians, they say the root is بَرْق which
		
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			means lightning.
		
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			So بُرَق can move like lightning.
		
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			So the Prophet ﷺ said the بُرَق he
		
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			took his front hoof and he placed it
		
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			on the horizon and it would move by
		
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			folding up the earth very quickly and get
		
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			around the world, basically.
		
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			And in the hadith of Timothy, when the
		
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			بُرَق was brought to the Prophet ﷺ, it
		
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			initially shied away from him.
		
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			It was awestruck by the majestic appearance of
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			So he mounts the بُرَق and they speed
		
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			northwards and they land on the Temple Mount
		
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			in Baitul Maqdis.
		
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			They land in Jerusalem, al-Quds.
		
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			And the Prophet ﷺ...
		
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			Now this is interesting.
		
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			This is called Masjid al-Aqsa.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So if you look at the Temple Mount
		
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			today, there's two structures on the Temple Mount.
		
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			Right?
		
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			One of them is in the middle, almost
		
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			directly in the middle.
		
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			What's that called?
		
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			Dome of the Rock.
		
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			Masjid al-Quds al-Sahra.
		
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			The Dome of the Rock.
		
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			It has the golden dome.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Then you go to the southern end of
		
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			the platform, you find something else with a
		
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			black dome.
		
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			What is that called?
		
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			Masjid al-Aqsa.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So Allah ﷻ says, سُبْحَانَهُ الَّذِي أَصْلَ بِعَدِهِ
		
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			لَيْلًا مِنِ الْمَسْجِدِ الْحَرَامِ إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ الْأَقْصَى Was
		
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			that structure there at that time when this
		
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			ayah was revealed?
		
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			No.
		
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			It wasn't there.
		
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			Neither of these two structures were there.
		
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			They were built by the Bani Umayyah many,
		
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			many decades after the passing of the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ.
		
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			In fact, some western Orientalists, they'll actually say
		
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			that this is proof that this ayah is
		
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			much later.
		
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			It's not even part of the Qur'an
		
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			because there was no Masjid al-Aqsa at
		
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			that time.
		
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			But how do we understand it?
		
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			So I think here that Martin Wings makes
		
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			a good point.
		
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			He says that the Prophet ﷺ was taken
		
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			to the site of the old temple.
		
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			In fact, the entire temple mount is holy
		
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			according to Judaism.
		
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			That entire platform which has a surface area
		
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			of something like 40 or 50 football fields
		
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			in the old city, that entire area is
		
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			considered to be sacred.
		
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			And that probably the old temple of Solomon
		
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			where each ayah is an amistak pray was
		
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			where the Dome of the Rock is now.
		
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			So Masjid al-Aqsa, the farthest masjid, is
		
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			simply a reference to that entire temple mount.
		
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			Wallahu alam.
		
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			So Prophet ﷺ, he ties the rock and
		
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			he prays raka'atayn.
		
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			And then he looked behind him and he
		
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			said, I saw jameera al-anbiya.
		
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			All of the Prophets were behind me.
		
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			And he led the Prophets in prayer.
		
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			He is Imam al-Mursaleen, the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			He is the leader of all the messengers.
		
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			And this is part of our aqidah.
		
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			He's the best of creation.
		
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			He's better than angels.
		
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			He's better than the ta'ala.
		
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			He's better than the kursi.
		
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			And he's better than the arsh.
		
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			He's better than Jibreel.
		
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			He's better than the lawh.
		
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			He's better than the qalam.
		
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			Khayr al-khalqillah.
		
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			He's better than anything that's created.
		
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			As Imam Ibrahim al-Aqami says, wa arthur
		
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			al-khalqi alam itlaqi nabiyyuna fil min'an
		
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			al-shiqaqi.
		
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			In the Johara at Tawheed.
		
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			He says that, that absolutely the best of
		
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			creation is our Prophet.
		
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			So leave any type of dissent.
		
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			Some of the rationalists, they said that certain
		
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			angels are better than certain prophets and things
		
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			like that.
		
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			But that's not, that's going against the ijma'
		
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			of the salaf.
		
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			The prophets are the best.
		
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			They're better than angels.
		
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			And the best of the prophets is the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			Imam al-Samakhshari, for example, who was a
		
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			martazila, he said that the Prophet ﷺ is
		
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			the best prophet.
		
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			He's the best of creation.
		
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			But then Jibreel is next.
		
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			And then the rest of the prophets.
		
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			So he made a mistake there according to
		
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			the jumur of Ahlus Sunnah wal-Jama'ah.
		
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			Although Imam al-Samakhshari's tafsir, which is called
		
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			al-kashaf, is a beautiful, beautiful syntactical exegesis
		
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			of the Qur'an.
		
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			So you'll find that in many libraries.
		
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			Nonetheless, the Prophet ﷺ, and, you know, is
		
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			it all of the prophets, 124,000 additional
		
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			weakness in that tradition?
		
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			Is it only the messengers, 313 or so?
		
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			Is there a difference between the two?
		
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			Some say they're identical.
		
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			Did Allah ﷻ somehow resurrect all of the
		
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			prophets?
		
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			Was it the arwah, was it the souls
		
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			or spirits of the prophets?
		
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			Allahu adem.
		
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			We know that the Prophet ﷺ, he saw
		
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			Musa ﷺ three times in this one night,
		
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			in three different places.
		
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			When was the first time he saw him?
		
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			Hmm?
		
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			Praying in his grave.
		
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			So when the Prophet ﷺ was flying overhead
		
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			on the Barak, over the Sinai Peninsula, he
		
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			looked down and he saw a red dune
		
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			that was glowing, and Musa ﷺ was praying
		
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			in his grave.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And he said, how can the Prophet ﷺ
		
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			see that when he's flying so quickly?
		
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			It's because the Prophet ﷺ doesn't necessarily see
		
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			you with his eye.
		
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			You know, he sees with his heart, ﷺ.
		
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			He becomes aware of it.
		
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			When was the second time he saw him?
		
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			On the Temple Mount, in Jerusalem, when he
		
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			led all the Prophets in prayer, and then
		
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			he sees him again in the sixth heaven.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Three times he saw Musa ﷺ.
		
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			How did he see him?
		
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			Allah ﷻ.
		
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			According to a hadith of Abdullah ibn Mas
		
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			'ud, the Prophet ﷺ, he met Ibrahim, Musa,
		
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			and Isa ﷺ, and had a conversation with
		
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			them about As-Sa'ah, the day, the
		
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			hour, and the Yawm al-Qiyamah.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			Where did this conversation take place?
		
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			On the Temple Mount, in the Samawat.
		
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			We don't know for certain, but most of
		
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			the ulema say that this conversation happened on
		
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			Laylatul Isra al-Niyaraj.
		
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			In another hadith of Jadah, the Prophet ﷺ,
		
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			he describes the appearance of these three men.
		
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			He says that Isa ﷺ looked like Urwah
		
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			ibn Mas'ud al-Thaqafi.
		
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			Who knows how Urwah looked like?
		
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			We don't know what he looked like.
		
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			But the Sahaba knew what he looked like.
		
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			Right?
		
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			But in another hadith, the Prophet ﷺ is
		
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			more specific about the appearance of Isa ﷺ.
		
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			So he says he was a shorter man,
		
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			stocky, a very fair complexion, and length hair
		
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			like it was wet.
		
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			So, in ancient Israel, prophets used to consecrate
		
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			kings by pouring oil on their heads.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So, Isa ﷺ, he's called al-Masir, or
		
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			al-Mashiach in Hebrew, which means the one
		
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			who is anointed.
		
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			The one whose hair is oily.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Quite literally.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So, in all of the visions of Isa
		
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			ﷺ, of the Prophet ﷺ, he notices, he
		
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			mentions that fact that his hair looks like
		
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			he just walked out of the bath.
		
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			Right?
		
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			His hair was wet.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Another opinion is that Isa ﷺ is called
		
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			al-Masir, which means, you know, mas'ha,
		
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			of our head, we make wudu, we rub
		
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			over our heads, we anoint our heads.
		
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			One opinion is that Isa ﷺ, he would
		
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			simply pass his hand over infirmities, over a
		
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			blind man's eyes.
		
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			He'd just make mas'ha over his eyes
		
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			and he can see.
		
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			Over his ears and he can hear for
		
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			a deaf man.
		
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			Over skin that has leprosy.
		
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			Just pass his hand over it.
		
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			This is why he's called al-Masir.
		
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			Allahu akbar.
		
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			And then he describes Musa ﷺ.
		
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			He says, Musa ﷺ looked like a man
		
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			from the tribe of Shanu'a.
		
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			Who knows about the men of Shanu'a?
		
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			We don't know.
		
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			But the sahaba do.
		
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			But in another hadith, he describes in more
		
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			detail.
		
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			And he says, Musa ﷺ was taller, he
		
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			was lean, had darker skin, an olive complexion,
		
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			and he had curly hair.
		
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			That's Musa ﷺ.
		
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			And then about Ibrahim ﷺ, he says, He
		
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			says, the closest one in appearance to Ibrahim
		
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			is her companion.
		
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			Referring to himself.
		
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			So he looked like Ibrahim ﷺ.
		
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			He had the closest resemblance to Ibrahim ﷺ.
		
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			So he has this conversation, and Musa ﷺ
		
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			and Ibrahim ﷺ, they have nothing to offer
		
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			as far as the sa'ah, or the
		
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			day of judgment.
		
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			But Isa ﷺ, he says something interesting to
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			He says, between now and the sa'ah
		
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			is my rujoor.
		
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			Between now and the hour is my second
		
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			coming, my return.
		
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			Ibn Kathir says, that this tradition has reached
		
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			Kawathar.
		
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			It's multiply attested that Muslims believe in the
		
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			second coming of Isa ﷺ.
		
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			Multiple attestation.
		
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			This is called the parousia in the New
		
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			Testament, in Greek.
		
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			The second coming.
		
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			And there's indications in the Quran, that he
		
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			is a sign of the sa'ah, Isa
		
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			ﷺ.
		
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			In reference to Isa ﷺ.
		
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			He is a sign of the hour.
		
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			Allah ﷻ says, also says, that Isa ﷺ
		
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			will speak to the people as a child
		
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			and as an old man.
		
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			Right?
		
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			According to Ibn Jawzi, does not begin until
		
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			you're 35 years old.
		
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			And Isa ﷺ, according to the dominant opinion,
		
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			ascended.
		
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			Allah ﷻ raised him up when he was
		
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			either 31 or 33.
		
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			So he's yet to speak to the people
		
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			as an old man.
		
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			So these are indications in the Quran.
		
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			There's many, many hadith many hadith that are
		
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			sound hadith in which the Prophet ﷺ speaks
		
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			of the second coming of Isa ﷺ.
		
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			He also tells the Prophet ﷺ that he
		
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			will kill the dajjal.
		
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			And dajjal, the word dajjal is actually Syriac.
		
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			Meshiafa dagala in Syriac, the language of Isa
		
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			ﷺ, which means anti-christos or false messiah.
		
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			That Isa ﷺ will kill a false messiah.
		
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			And the Prophet ﷺ said, I'm going to
		
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			tell you something about the dajjal that no
		
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			other Prophet told them.
		
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			Innahu a'war wa rabbukum laysa bi-a
		
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			'war.
		
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			The dajjal has one eye and your Lord
		
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			is not one eyed.
		
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			He kathiran.
		
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			That between his eyes or on his forehead
		
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			is written kathara.
		
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			kathara or kafir.
		
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			Right, unbeliever.
		
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			Every mu'min, whether they can read or not,
		
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			will recognize that.
		
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			Right, this is what he says in the
		
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			hadith.
		
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			And if you're familiar with popular culture, you'll
		
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			see the one eye everywhere.
		
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			If you watch American Idol, it's everywhere.
		
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			If you go to a concert, it's everywhere.
		
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			If you watch a movie, you'll start noticing
		
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			the one eye everywhere.
		
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			It's on the back of the dollar bill.
		
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			It's on the great seal of the United
		
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			States.
		
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			novus ordo seclorum, the new world order, and
		
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			then you have the one eye.
		
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			there's a hadith which is a big haqi
		
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			in Abu Dawud that Prophet ﷺ said, that
		
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			there will come a time when the ummah,
		
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			the nations, will invite each other to the
		
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			killing of Muslims, like they're inviting each other
		
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			to a banquet.
		
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			Why does he use food?
		
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			He uses the analogy of ta'am, because
		
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			food puts up no resistance.
		
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			You can eat it, devour it, spit on
		
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			it, step on it, throw it in the
		
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			garbage.
		
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			So what are the sahaba?
		
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			These are arrows, right?
		
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			So he says, We must be very few
		
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			in number.
		
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			And the Prophet ﷺ said, You are
		
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			many, many, many on that day, but you're
		
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			like the scum on the ocean.
		
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			It's an honor.
		
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			Scum on the ocean.
		
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			No depth, right?
		
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			Superficial.
		
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			One dimensional.
		
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			There's no depth to them at that time.
		
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			He's worried about one thing.
		
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			They have one eye.
		
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			How do I make money or something?
		
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			Right?
		
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			Anyway, there is this organization called the, we
		
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			don't want to get political or anything, the
		
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			Council on Foreign Relations.
		
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			Right?
		
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			They meet and they discuss foreign policy.
		
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			Basically, they talk about how to colonize the
		
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			Muslim world.
		
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			The Council on Foreign Relations is called CFR.
		
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			So we'll leave it at that.
		
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			CFR.
		
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			Anyway, the Prophet ﷺ, Isa ﷺ, he also
		
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			says, he talks about Ya'juj and Ma
		
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			'juj, Gog and Magog, were mentioned in the
		
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			book of Ezekiel in the Old Testament, as
		
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			well as the book of Revelation.
		
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			That Ya'juj and Ma'juj are going
		
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			to run amok on the earth.
		
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			They're going to consume the world's resources.
		
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			And Isa ﷺ will make du'a against
		
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			them and they will die.
		
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			And then their carcasses will stink up the
		
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			earth.
		
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			And Isa ﷺ will make another du'a
		
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			and floods will come and take them out
		
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			to the oceans.
		
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			Who are Gog and Magog?
		
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			So most of you are going to say
		
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			that these are the wild tribes of Central
		
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			Asia.
		
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			Ibn Kathir says that these are the Khazars.
		
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			So Khazars, this used to be the kingdom
		
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			of Khazaria, which is in southern Russia.
		
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			Between the Black and Caspian Sea.
		
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			Just north of the Caucasus.
		
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			And they actually converted to Judaism.
		
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			And many scholars actually believe that the Khazars
		
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			are the progenitors, the ancestors of the Ashkenazim
		
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			Jews.
		
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			The European Jews.
		
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			So at the end of time, Isa ﷺ
		
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			is going to come into major conflict with
		
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			Western Zionism.
		
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			Western Zionism.
		
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			It was Ashkenazim Jews that founded Israel.
		
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			The State of Israel.
		
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			Theodor Herzl, for example.
		
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			An Ashkenazic Jew.
		
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			He convened the First Zionist Congress in 1898.
		
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			He wrote about the Jewish State.
		
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			In fact, what's interesting is the vast, vast
		
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			majority of Orthodox Jews are totally against the
		
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			legality of the State of Israel.
		
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			Because for them, only the Messiah can set
		
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			up the State.
		
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			Renew the State of Israel.
		
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			To do it through political means is actually
		
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			forbidden.
		
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			So Isa ﷺ, in his end-of-time
		
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			conflict with Gog and Magog, will have major,
		
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			major issues with Zionist Jews as well as
		
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			Evangelical Christians because the majority of Zionists are
		
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			Evangelical Christians.
		
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			This is the opinion of the Big Catheter,
		
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			but I think he has something interesting to
		
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			say about this.
		
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			Of course, the Christians think that we're Gog
		
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			and Magog.
		
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			Anyway.
		
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			The Prophet ﷺ, at this point, he begins
		
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			his ascension into the Samawah.
		
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			And these are not the Jannat.
		
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			This is different.
		
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			These are not the paradises.
		
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			These are the heavens.
		
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			There's a difference between the two.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			He meets eight prophets in these seven heavens,
		
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			these seven Samawah.
		
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			Eight prophets.
		
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			Why these eight prophets?
		
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			You know, why didn't he meet Yaqub or
		
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			Elias or Dawud or Suleiman?
		
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			Why these eight prophets?
		
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			The ulama say something beautiful.
		
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			They say because these eight prophets represent some
		
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			type of Muhammadan typology.
		
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			Some sort of, in other words, they're foreshadowing
		
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			something that's going to happen in the life
		
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			of the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			For example, he meets Adam ﷺ in the
		
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			first heaven, which is called As-Samad al
		
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			-Dunya.
		
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			And the Samad al-Dunya is our perceptible
		
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			universe.
		
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			The Samad al-Dunya is the only Samad
		
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			that has stars.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			Allah ﷻ says, وَزَيْقِنَّا أَلْسَمَادَ الْدُنْيَا بِمَا صَابِحَةٍ
		
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			That we decorated or ornamented the Samad al
		
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			-Dunya, the first Samad with stars.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So all these images we're getting from the
		
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			Hubble telescope of, I don't know, thousands of
		
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			light years away, that's all from the first
		
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			heaven, the first Samad, As-Samad al-Dunya.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			The first heaven.
		
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			So the Prophet ﷺ actually said in a
		
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			hadith that, imagine a man dipping his finger
		
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			into the ocean and extracting it.
		
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			Compare the water on his finger with the
		
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			water in the ocean.
		
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			That's analogous to how much of the perceptible
		
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			creation that we see with our eyes compared
		
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			to what we don't see.
		
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			The vast, vast, vast majority of creation is
		
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			veiled from our eyes.
		
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			We can't even imagine what's out there.
		
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			Anyway, Adam ﷺ, what happened to him?
		
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			He was exiled from Jannah, he was exiled
		
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			from the Garden.
		
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			This is an indication, this is a typology
		
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			or foreshadowing that the Prophet ﷺ will be
		
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			exiled from Makkah.
		
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			Right?
		
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			It's according to a Quran.
		
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			In the second heaven he meets Isa ﷺ,
		
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			Isa ibn Maryam and Yahya ibn Basakariyya.
		
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			And these are the cousin prophets.
		
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			And what happened to these two prophets?
		
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			That their people were constantly trying to kill
		
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			them.
		
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			They were persecuted.
		
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			In Isa ﷺ they attempted murder.
		
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			The Quran says, وَنَا قَتَلُهُ وَمَسَلَبُهُ وَلَكِمْ شُبِهَنَهُ
		
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			They did not kill him or crucify him
		
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			that was made to appear so unto them.
		
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			In fact, the name of Jesus in Syriac,
		
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			Yeshua, literally means one who is saved by
		
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			God.
		
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			Saved by God.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And Yahya, right?
		
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			His Hebrew name is Yohanan, but we call
		
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			him Yahya.
		
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			Yahya means what?
		
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			Literally means alive.
		
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			Alive.
		
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			Why is he called alive?
		
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			Because Allah ﷻ says, وَلَا تَقُولُوا لِمَي يُقْتَلُوا
		
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			فِي سِبِيلِ لَهِ أَمْوَىٰ أَمْوَىٰ بَالْأَحْيَاءِ Don't say
		
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			about those who are killed in the path
		
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			of God that they are amwat, they are
		
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			dead.
		
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			بَالْأَحْيَاءِ They are alive.
		
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			So Yahya ﷺ is a martyr.
		
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			And according to the story of the New
		
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			Testament, this is what it says, the four
		
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			Christian Gospels, it says that Yahya ﷺ was
		
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			imprisoned by a man named Herod Antipas, who
		
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			was kind of a puppet.
		
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			You know, we have a lot of puppets
		
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			nowadays.
		
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			He was a puppet Jewish leader of Judea.
		
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			He was a Roman puppet.
		
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			And Herod Antipas, he had his birthday celebration.
		
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			So he wanted his own daughter to dance
		
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			in front of all of the men.
		
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			This is called a dayyuth in Arabic.
		
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			It's the worst thing you can call in
		
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			Arabic.
		
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			It's a dayyuth, which means a man who
		
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			doesn't care about women, who looks at his
		
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			daughter, his wife, he's proud of it.
		
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			Dayyuth is also the word for pim in
		
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			Arabic.
		
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			So she refuses, and he says, no, dance
		
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			for us, it's my birthday.
		
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			And she says, I'll dance on one condition,
		
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			bring me the head of Yahya ﷺ.
		
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			So they bring the head, and she dances.
		
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			And the Prophet ﷺ, 13 times, assassination attempts
		
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			were made on him.
		
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			And Ibn Mas'ud actually says that the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ, he died a shaheed.
		
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			Allah ﷻ gave him the honor of martyrdom.
		
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			Because he complained to Aisha on the day
		
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			of his passing, that I can still feel
		
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			the tinge of the poison on my palate.
		
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			Because years earlier, he was invited to the
		
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			dwellings of the Bani Nadir, and a Jewish
		
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			lady, she put some poison into the shoulder
		
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			of a lamb, and the Prophet ﷺ went
		
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			there with his companion, Bishop, and Bishop ate
		
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			and he died.
		
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			And the Prophet ﷺ, he put the meat
		
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			into his mouth, and he said, that this
		
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			meat is telling me it's been poisoned.
		
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			And he spit it out, but it caused
		
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			damage to his palate.
		
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			So Allah ﷻ, as a martyr, extended his
		
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			life many years, so he can complete his
		
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			Risada, but it was a contributing factor to
		
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			his death.
		
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			This is the opinion of Abdullah ibn Mas
		
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			'ud.
		
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			Yusuf ﷺ, he met in the third heaven.
		
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			What happened to Yusuf ﷺ?
		
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			He was persecuted by his brothers, and then
		
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			they came to him, pledging allegiance.
		
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			So the Prophet ﷺ, when he comes back
		
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			into Mecca, where they say, Ahun Kareem, you
		
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			know, generous brother.
		
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			And the Prophet ﷺ, he climbs Abu Ubais,
		
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			and what does he say to them?
		
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			He quotes Yusuf ﷺ from the Qur'an.
		
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			There's no blemish on you today.
		
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			Allah has forgiven you.
		
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			In the fourth heaven, Idrees, ﷺ, there's not
		
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			much that the Qur'an says about Idrees
		
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			ﷺ.
		
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			مُذْكُرْ فِي الْكِتَابِ إِدْرِيسِ إِنَّهُ كَانَ صِدِّقًا نَبِيًّا
		
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			وَرَفَعْنَاهُ مَكَانًا عَلِيًّا Remember Idrees in the book,
		
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			he was a truthful man and a prophet,
		
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			and he was, and Allah ﷻ raised him
		
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			to a high place, and this high place
		
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			is the fourth samaan.
		
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			And what does Allah ﷻ say about the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ?
		
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			وَرَفَعْنَا لَكَ ذِكْرَكَ وَرَفَعْنَا لَكَ ذِكْرَكَ That Allah
		
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			ﷻ raised your remembrance.
		
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			He raised your remembrance.
		
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			According to the Jalalayn of Suyuti, Allah ﷻ
		
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			said to the Prophet ﷺ, إِذَا ذُكِرْتُ ذِكِرْتَ
		
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			إِذَا ذُكِرْتُ ذُكِرْتَ مَعِي Whenever I am mentioned,
		
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			you are mentioned.
		
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			Whenever I am mentioned, you are mentioned.
		
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			Right?
		
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			في الأظام، في الإقامة، في الخطبة Right?
		
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			In the tashahud, لا إله إلا الله محمد
		
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			رسول الله This is one of the meanings
		
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			of وَرْفَعْنَا لَكَ ذِكْرَكَ وَضَهُ عَلَمْ Hasan al
		
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			-Kithabit, he said, وَشَقَّذَهُ مِنْ إِسْمِهِ لِيُجِلَّهُ وَشَقَّذَهُ
		
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			مِنْ إِسْمِهِ لِيُجِلَّهُ فَذُوَ الْأَرْشِ مَحْمُودٌ وَهَذَا مُحَمَّدُ
		
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			He says that Allah ﷻ He took his
		
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			name from one of His names for the
		
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			possessor of the Arsh is Mahmood a name
		
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			of Allah, while this is Muhammad.
		
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			In other words, they share an etymology This
		
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			is a way of eulogizing the Prophet ﷺ
		
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			In the fifth heaven, he meets Harun ﷺ
		
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			According to the Torah, it was Harun that
		
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			actually fashioned the ijl, the golden calf This
		
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			is mustahil for a prophet to do In
		
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			the Qur'an, it doesn't say Harun ﷺ,
		
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			it says As-Samiri, right?
		
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			This person called As-Samiri But Harun ﷺ,
		
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			he was hated by his people and then
		
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			he was loved So the Prophet ﷺ is
		
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			going to be exiled They're going to try
		
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			to kill him He's going to be hated
		
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			by his people and then they're going to
		
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			accept him and love him, just like Harun
		
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			ﷺ In the sixth heaven, he meets Musa
		
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			ﷺ And Musa ﷺ, the Qur'an must
		
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			say had a lot of difficulties with his
		
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			people And the Prophet ﷺ will also have
		
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			a lot of difficulties with his people Something
		
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			else they say here is that Musa ﷺ
		
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			received a shariah And the Prophet ﷺ will
		
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			also receive a shariah There's an affinity between
		
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			the two prophets And there's actually a prophecy
		
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			in the Torah in the fifth book called
		
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			Devarim that a prophet will come who's similar
		
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			to Moses and he'll be given shariah And
		
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			that's why Waraqa bin Naufa after the birth
		
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			of the Prophet ﷺ he said لَقَدْ جَاءَكَ
		
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			أَن نَمُوسُ الْأَكْبَرُ كَمَا جَاءَ إِلَى مُسَىٰ There
		
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			has come unto you the great shariah نموس
		
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			is from the Greek nomos which means shariah,
		
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			law There's come unto you the great law
		
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			just as it came to Musa ﷺ And
		
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			in the Qur'an also إِنَّ أَرْسَلْنَا إِلَيْكُمْ
		
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			رَسُولًا شَهِدًا إِلَيْكُمْ إِنَّ أَرْسَلْنَا إِلَيْكُمْ رَسُولًا
		
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			شَهِدًا إِلَيْكُمْ كَمَا شَهِدًا عَلَيْكُمْ to Pharaoh meaning
		
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			Musa ﷺ and there's other indications as well
		
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			In the 7th heaven the Prophet ﷺ he
		
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			meets Ibrahim ﷺ and the ulema say here
		
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			it's an indication that the Prophet ﷺ will
		
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			inherit the rights of the hajj In the
		
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			7th heaven the Prophet ﷺ he also saw
		
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			various ayat, ayatul kubra وَلَقَدْ رَأَىٰ مِنْ آيَتِهِ
		
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			الْكُبَرَىٰ He saw great signs of Allah ﷻ
		
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			in the 7th heaven He saw the Baytul
		
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			Ma'mur The Baytul Ma'mur is the celestial Ka
		
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			'bah Baytul Atif is also called So if
		
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			you're standing at the Ka'bah and you
		
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			look directly up into the sky In the
		
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			7th heaven directly above the Ka'bah is
		
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			the celestial Ka'bah called Baytul Ma'mur The
		
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			ulema say if the Baytul Ma'mur fell from
		
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			the sky it would crush the earthly Ka
		
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			'bah It's directly above it, it's much much
		
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			bigger 70,000 angels enter into the Baytul
		
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			Ma'mur according to the Prophet ﷺ Every day
		
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			70,000 angels go in and no one
		
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			sees them come out And according to the
		
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			hadith Ibrahim ﷺ was leaning on the Baytul
		
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			Ma'mur when the Prophet ﷺ entered into the
		
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			7th sama'ah the 7th heaven He also
		
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			saw the jannat the gardens, all 7 gardens
		
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			are in the 7th heaven the jannat, right
		
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			He also saw the and he saw he
		
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			was in one of the gardens and he
		
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			was walking and he saw this huge palace
		
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			and he said to Jibreel ﷺ whose palace
		
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			is this?
		
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			And Jibreel ﷺ said a youth from the
		
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			Quraish And he said who?
		
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			He said Umar And as he was walking
		
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			to get a closer look, a woman passed
		
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			by him and it was the mother of
		
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			Anas Umm Sulaym And then he heard the
		
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			footsteps of Bilal ibn Tarada' So you know
		
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			we talk about Ash'aran Mubashireen of the
		
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			jannat The Prophet ﷺ told 10 men guaranteed
		
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			they're going to jannat, but there's many other
		
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			people he told they're going to jannat including
		
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			many many women But these 10 is found
		
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			in a hadith that is considered mutawatid It's
		
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			a multiply tested hadith The other hadith are
		
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			considered qadr ahad singular attestation, but they're still
		
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			strong and sound hadith And then he saw
		
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			Jibreel ﷺ Jibreel ﷺ in the way that
		
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			Allah ﷻ created him with 600 kings in
		
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			the seventh heaven just as he had seen
		
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			them before on Laylatul Qadr, the first revelation
		
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			of the bi'atha And then he saw
		
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			something called As-Sitratul Muntaha which translated the
		
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			low tree of the furthest region the low
		
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			tree The ulama say this is the end
		
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			of the seventh heaven Imam al-Nawawi says
		
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			that some of the ulama say the trunk
		
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			of the Sidrat is in the sixth heaven
		
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			and the branches extend into the seventh heaven
		
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			Some hadith regarding the Sidrat which is in
		
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			Muslim al-Muhari The fruits of the Sidrat
		
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			are like the jars of the people of
		
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			Hajar The jars of the people of Hajar
		
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			Again, what did they look like?
		
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			We don't know The sahaba knew, but the
		
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			ulama say here that the people of Hajar
		
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			they had these huge jars about six feet
		
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			high, so huge fruits And then he says
		
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			that the leaves of the Sidratul Muntaha were
		
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			like Adhan or Fiyadah They were like the
		
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			ears of elephants And there's no indication that
		
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			the Prophet never saw an elephant Right?
		
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			But this is something he's divining through revelation
		
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			The first time elephants were brought into Medina
		
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			was at the time of Imam Malik Ibn
		
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			Anas When the Muslims had conquered some lands
		
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			and some elephants had come into the city
		
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			And Imam Malik was sitting in the Masjid
		
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			of Nabawi He was teaching hadith And the
		
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			elephants came into the city And all of
		
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			his students ran outside to look at the
		
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			elephants Except one man, Yahya bin Yahya And
		
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			Imam Malik said to him Why don't you
		
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			go look at the elephants?
		
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			And he said I came to learn I
		
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			came to learn Not to look at elephants
		
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			So then he also says that The Sidrat
		
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			has these Alwan These colors It's enshrouded and
		
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			enveloped by these colors And these colors They
		
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			roll over the leaves of the Sidrat Changing
		
00:47:54 --> 00:47:59
			colors It's dynamic Allah subhana wa ta'ala
		
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			says When the low tree was enshrouded with
		
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			whatever it was enshrouded Some of the ulema
		
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			here, they say This is an indication of
		
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			these colors That the Prophet described I don't
		
00:48:10 --> 00:48:13
			even know what these colors are They're not
		
00:48:13 --> 00:48:15
			on the spectrum These are colors that you've
		
00:48:15 --> 00:48:19
			never seen before So Allah said And then
		
00:48:19 --> 00:48:25
			he says There's these Butterflies Maybe even angels
		
00:48:25 --> 00:48:29
			Of gold that are enshrouding the Sidrat And
		
00:48:29 --> 00:48:30
			then he says There are four rivers at
		
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			its base Nahrani Batinani Two hidden rivers Al
		
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			-Kawthar and As-Sasabee And Nahrani Zahirani Two
		
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			rivers that are apparent Which is the Neel
		
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			And the Furat The Nile and the Euphrates
		
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			Now you say, well the Nile and the
		
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			Euphrates Are on earth, right?
		
00:48:50 --> 00:48:52
			The Nile is in Egypt, the Euphrates is
		
00:48:52 --> 00:48:54
			in Iraq So how is it that the
		
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			base of these two rivers Is at the
		
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			Sidrat al-Muntaha Allahu alam We don't know
		
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			In fact this actually Confirms something in the
		
00:49:03 --> 00:49:06
			Torah Genesis chapter 2 For your information It
		
00:49:06 --> 00:49:10
			says that Gan Adin The Garden of Eternity
		
00:49:12 --> 00:49:15
			Flowing out of Eden Has Arba'a Roshim
		
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			In Hebrew, that's four river heads There are
		
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			four river heads coming out of the Garden
		
00:49:19 --> 00:49:22
			of Eden According to Genesis chapter 2 Which
		
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			is in the Torah And then the Prophet
		
00:49:25 --> 00:49:27
			Jibreel alaihi salam He says to the Prophet
		
00:49:27 --> 00:49:31
			You have to go forward And Jibreel alaihi
		
00:49:31 --> 00:49:34
			salam could not go forward Beyond the Sidrat
		
00:49:34 --> 00:49:37
			al-Muntaha Beyond the seventh heaven He says
		
00:49:37 --> 00:49:40
			that If I went beyond this point I
		
00:49:40 --> 00:49:43
			would combust into flames So Jibreel alaihi salam
		
00:49:43 --> 00:49:46
			does not have the Maqam Doesn't have the
		
00:49:46 --> 00:49:49
			station To go beyond the Sidrat al-Muntaha
		
00:49:49 --> 00:49:53
			Only the Prophet Was Khayr al-Khalqillah Right
		
00:49:53 --> 00:49:56
			And the Ulema say that The Prophet salallahu
		
00:49:56 --> 00:49:59
			alayhi wa sallam He kept his sandals on
		
00:49:59 --> 00:50:01
			When he went beyond the Sidrat al-Muntaha
		
00:50:01 --> 00:50:03
			He didn't take them off One of the
		
00:50:03 --> 00:50:06
			reasons why is The sandal would combust The
		
00:50:06 --> 00:50:08
			only reason that it didn't is because it's
		
00:50:08 --> 00:50:11
			attached to his foot Right So the Ulema
		
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			say here there's a great lesson If you
		
00:50:13 --> 00:50:17
			have strong attachment Strong attachment to the Prophet
		
00:50:17 --> 00:50:19
			salallahu alayhi wa sallam You won't combust into
		
00:50:19 --> 00:50:22
			flames You won't go to Jahannam Insha'Allah
		
00:50:22 --> 00:50:26
			ta'ala Right A strong attachment to him
		
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			salallahu alayhi wa sallam And then he heard
		
00:50:29 --> 00:50:31
			the scratching of the pen According to a
		
00:50:31 --> 00:50:33
			strong hadith He said salallahu alayhi wa sallam
		
00:50:33 --> 00:50:35
			The first thing that Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala created Was al-Qalam The pen and
		
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			then Allah said Write all of the history
		
00:50:41 --> 00:50:44
			All of the history of human existence All
		
00:50:44 --> 00:50:48
			of the history of creation Meta-history So
		
00:50:48 --> 00:50:49
			the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam He heard
		
00:50:49 --> 00:50:53
			the scratching of the pen So he came
		
00:50:53 --> 00:50:56
			into the presence of al-Qalam And al
		
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			-Arsh Which most scholars They don't translate Because
		
00:51:01 --> 00:51:05
			when we translate Words like Arsh They seem
		
00:51:05 --> 00:51:08
			to conjure up anthropomorphic images In our head
		
00:51:08 --> 00:51:12
			Arsh like footstool or throne Or something like
		
00:51:12 --> 00:51:15
			that The Arsh is a huge celestial creation
		
00:51:15 --> 00:51:17
			That was created by Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
00:51:17 --> 00:51:20
			'ala And at the base of this Arsh
		
00:51:20 --> 00:51:23
			At this maqam Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
00:51:23 --> 00:51:25
			He speaks to his Habib salallahu alayhi wa
		
00:51:25 --> 00:51:27
			sallam Directly He speaks to the Prophet salallahu
		
00:51:27 --> 00:51:31
			alayhi wa sallam Directly And the Prophet salallahu
		
00:51:31 --> 00:51:33
			alayhi wa sallam He experiences what's known as
		
00:51:33 --> 00:51:37
			Which is translated The Catholics call it the
		
00:51:37 --> 00:51:41
			beatathic vision To see Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
00:51:41 --> 00:51:43
			'ala In the Mustadrak of Al-Hadamain The
		
00:51:43 --> 00:51:45
			Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam said And Ibn
		
00:51:45 --> 00:51:50
			Abbas I saw my Lord So he didn't
		
00:51:50 --> 00:51:54
			see him with the Eye that perishes But
		
00:51:54 --> 00:51:57
			with the Potential eye What is that?
		
00:51:59 --> 00:52:02
			It's beyond our comprehension There's no modality There's
		
00:52:02 --> 00:52:06
			no way to describe it But it's a
		
00:52:06 --> 00:52:08
			reality The beatathic vision Is a reality for
		
00:52:08 --> 00:52:10
			the people of Paradise You know how he
		
00:52:10 --> 00:52:13
			says that The beatathic vision of Allah subhanahu
		
00:52:13 --> 00:52:15
			wa ta'ala Is a reality for the
		
00:52:15 --> 00:52:17
			people of Paradise You say how?
		
00:52:18 --> 00:52:20
			There's no modality You can't even begin to
		
00:52:20 --> 00:52:22
			imagine it So why even bother trying to
		
00:52:22 --> 00:52:24
			explain it Even Jannah which is a created
		
00:52:24 --> 00:52:27
			place The Quran says you can never even
		
00:52:27 --> 00:52:31
			imagine Jannah Which is a created place Right
		
00:52:31 --> 00:52:34
			So seeing Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Or
		
00:52:34 --> 00:52:36
			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala To try to
		
00:52:36 --> 00:52:40
			envision Intellectually Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala It's
		
00:52:40 --> 00:52:44
			beyond our comprehension But it's a reality And
		
00:52:44 --> 00:52:54
			there's indications in Quran That
		
00:52:54 --> 00:52:59
			you desire The fleeting immediate gratification And you
		
00:52:59 --> 00:53:03
			procrastinate The afterlife But on that day Faces
		
00:53:03 --> 00:53:13
			will be beaming In surah Yunus Allah
		
00:53:13 --> 00:53:18
			subhanahu wa ta'ala says In Imam Ghazali
		
00:53:18 --> 00:53:21
			His exegesis on this For those who do
		
00:53:21 --> 00:53:24
			good are good things And a little addition
		
00:53:24 --> 00:53:27
			Another addition And the addition here according to
		
00:53:27 --> 00:53:30
			Imam Ghazali Is a ru'ya The beatific
		
00:53:30 --> 00:53:33
			vision of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Musa
		
00:53:33 --> 00:53:35
			alayhi salam Asked to see Allah subhanahu wa
		
00:53:35 --> 00:53:38
			ta'ala And if it wasn't possible He
		
00:53:38 --> 00:53:40
			wouldn't ask because that would be bad adab
		
00:53:41 --> 00:53:47
			Right So it's possible to do that So
		
00:53:51 --> 00:53:53
			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in surah
		
00:53:53 --> 00:53:56
			Najm That at this point Allah subhanahu wa
		
00:53:56 --> 00:53:59
			ta'ala He revealed to his servant Whatever
		
00:53:59 --> 00:54:03
			he revealed It's left ambiguous So the ulema
		
00:54:03 --> 00:54:06
			say These are asrar between Allah and Habibi
		
00:54:06 --> 00:54:09
			That these are secrets That Allah subhanahu wa
		
00:54:09 --> 00:54:11
			ta'ala revealed to his Habib To his
		
00:54:11 --> 00:54:14
			beloved That we don't know But there are
		
00:54:14 --> 00:54:16
			three things that were revealed that we do
		
00:54:16 --> 00:54:18
			know At least according to Abdullah ibn Nasir
		
00:54:18 --> 00:54:21
			At this point The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
		
00:54:21 --> 00:54:25
			sallam Was given a salat The prayer The
		
00:54:25 --> 00:54:28
			prayer is now fardh For him and his
		
00:54:28 --> 00:54:30
			ummah This is one of the three things
		
00:54:30 --> 00:54:33
			that were given The prayer is now obligatory
		
00:54:33 --> 00:54:35
			for his ummah The second thing that was
		
00:54:35 --> 00:54:39
			given Khawatim al-baqarah Khawatim al-baqarah The
		
00:54:39 --> 00:54:46
			last two verses of surah al-baqarah These
		
00:54:46 --> 00:54:49
			two verses were placed Directly into the heart
		
00:54:49 --> 00:54:51
			of the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Without
		
00:54:51 --> 00:54:54
			Jibreel alayhi salam As a means Because Jibreel
		
00:54:54 --> 00:54:57
			alayhi salam is not in this maqam It's
		
00:54:57 --> 00:54:59
			only Allah There's no living creature beyond asr
		
00:55:00 --> 00:55:03
			Except the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Right
		
00:55:03 --> 00:55:05
			This is a place The base of the
		
00:55:05 --> 00:55:08
			arsh is a place Which means that Allah
		
00:55:08 --> 00:55:10
			is not in this place There's some people
		
00:55:10 --> 00:55:12
			who think You know you climb high enough
		
00:55:12 --> 00:55:14
			you get to Allah Because he's not in
		
00:55:14 --> 00:55:21
			a place No No Allah exists without place
		
00:55:21 --> 00:55:25
			Where was he before he created place Right
		
00:55:25 --> 00:55:29
			Space time Materiality were all created by Allah
		
00:55:29 --> 00:55:34
			subhanahu wa ta'ala Therefore he's necessarily Transcendent
		
00:55:34 --> 00:55:37
			of these things So for those who say
		
00:55:37 --> 00:55:39
			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has a physical
		
00:55:39 --> 00:55:42
			body He's sitting on a throne That means
		
00:55:42 --> 00:55:45
			Allah dwells in his creation Because the arsh
		
00:55:45 --> 00:55:47
			is created by Allah The seventh heaven is
		
00:55:47 --> 00:55:50
			created by Allah What's the difference between that
		
00:55:50 --> 00:55:52
			And what Christians say about Isa alayhi salam
		
00:55:52 --> 00:55:56
			No different in my mind Allah dwells in
		
00:55:56 --> 00:55:58
			his creation Right So you have to be
		
00:55:58 --> 00:56:00
			very very careful Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
00:56:00 --> 00:56:05
			Allahu kan qabla almakan wa huwa al an
		
00:56:05 --> 00:56:09
			alama alayhi kan Imam Ali said Allah is
		
00:56:10 --> 00:56:14
			Allah is Without any type of place And
		
00:56:14 --> 00:56:18
			he is now Exactly as he is Right
		
00:56:18 --> 00:56:24
			Allah transcends Direction Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
00:56:24 --> 00:56:27
			is not facing any direction He's not moving
		
00:56:27 --> 00:56:30
			He's not still He's not above anything physically
		
00:56:30 --> 00:56:33
			or below anything physically This is beyond our
		
00:56:33 --> 00:56:35
			comprehension Because our only frames of reference Are
		
00:56:35 --> 00:56:38
			this world We live in time We're material
		
00:56:38 --> 00:56:41
			beings We can't think outside of that box
		
00:56:41 --> 00:56:48
			Right But There's nothing like The likes of
		
00:56:48 --> 00:56:57
			God Whatsoever Whatsoever So then The third thing
		
00:56:57 --> 00:57:01
			is that The promise of Jannah The wa
		
00:57:01 --> 00:57:04
			'af of Jannah So three things give it
		
00:57:04 --> 00:57:06
			to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam In
		
00:57:06 --> 00:57:09
			this intimate Mystical conversation he has With Allah
		
00:57:09 --> 00:57:13
			subhanahu wa ta'ala At the base of
		
00:57:13 --> 00:57:17
			the arch The presence of the Qalam That
		
00:57:17 --> 00:57:20
			The prayer was made faad The last two
		
00:57:20 --> 00:57:22
			verses of Baqarah Were put into his heart
		
00:57:23 --> 00:57:25
			And he's giving a wa'ad A promise
		
00:57:25 --> 00:57:29
			that his Ummah Will go to Jannah Will
		
00:57:29 --> 00:57:34
			go to Paradise When he descends He passes
		
00:57:34 --> 00:57:37
			the seventh heaven Musa alayhi salam says What
		
00:57:37 --> 00:57:39
			were you commanded?
		
00:57:39 --> 00:57:41
			Why is Musa alayhi salam saying this?
		
00:57:41 --> 00:57:43
			Because the ulama say Musa alayhi salam has
		
00:57:43 --> 00:57:46
			experience Right, that he was called Now he's
		
00:57:46 --> 00:57:48
			coming back Because Musa alayhi salam was also
		
00:57:48 --> 00:57:52
			called At a smaller scale The Prophet salallahu
		
00:57:52 --> 00:57:54
			alayhi wa sallam Was called beyond the seventh
		
00:57:54 --> 00:57:56
			heaven Musa alayhi salam was called to Mount
		
00:57:56 --> 00:58:00
			Sinai Musa alayhi salam He was given forty
		
00:58:00 --> 00:58:06
			nights We appointed forty nights For Musa The
		
00:58:06 --> 00:58:08
			Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam Was given one
		
00:58:08 --> 00:58:14
			night Laylan One night Musa alayhi salam He
		
00:58:14 --> 00:58:17
			was called to a shajarah A small tree,
		
00:58:17 --> 00:58:20
			it's called a burning bush Right The Prophet
		
00:58:20 --> 00:58:22
			salallahu alayhi wa sallam Was called to another
		
00:58:22 --> 00:58:27
			shajarah The low tree of the Outermost region
		
00:58:27 --> 00:58:30
			And some of the ulama also say Musa
		
00:58:30 --> 00:58:32
			alayhi salam, you know Allah told him Ikhla'
		
00:58:32 --> 00:58:34
			alayk, take off your sandals Whereas the Prophet
		
00:58:34 --> 00:58:36
			salallahu alayhi wa sallam He said keep your
		
00:58:36 --> 00:58:41
			sandals on And other differences as well There's
		
00:58:41 --> 00:58:43
			a book by Imam Izzuddin Ibrahim abdus salam
		
00:58:43 --> 00:58:49
			Which is called Bidayat al-sur The beginning
		
00:58:49 --> 00:58:50
			of the inquiry Into the eminence of the
		
00:58:50 --> 00:58:53
			Prophet He compares the Prophets And he says
		
00:58:53 --> 00:58:56
			something interesting He says Musa alayhi salam Was
		
00:58:56 --> 00:58:59
			commanded to strike a rock A stone with
		
00:58:59 --> 00:59:02
			his staff And when he did that Twelve
		
00:59:02 --> 00:59:06
			springs gushed This is a miracle The Prophet
		
00:59:06 --> 00:59:09
			salallahu alayhi wa sallam His miracle is akbar
		
00:59:09 --> 00:59:13
			and abhar It's greater and more apparent The
		
00:59:13 --> 00:59:14
			Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam Did not have
		
00:59:14 --> 00:59:16
			to strike a rock He pointed to a
		
00:59:16 --> 00:59:19
			rock in the sky Called al-qamar The
		
00:59:19 --> 00:59:24
			moon Al-qamar The moon Just by pointing
		
00:59:24 --> 00:59:28
			to it Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam So he
		
00:59:28 --> 00:59:29
			says what did your lord command you He
		
00:59:29 --> 00:59:33
			says fifty prayers For me and my ummah
		
00:59:33 --> 00:59:38
			And Musa alayhi salam says Go back to
		
00:59:38 --> 00:59:41
			your lord and ask for Go back to
		
00:59:41 --> 00:59:43
			your lord and ask for A discount A
		
00:59:43 --> 00:59:47
			discount A lessening So the Prophet salallahu alayhi
		
00:59:47 --> 00:59:49
			wa sallam Did he go back Or did
		
00:59:49 --> 00:59:52
			he do it in dua But there's a
		
00:59:52 --> 00:59:54
			hadith in Ahmad Where he when Musa alayhi
		
00:59:54 --> 00:59:56
			salam said that The Prophet salallahu alayhi wa
		
00:59:56 --> 00:59:59
			sallam He looked at Jibreel alayhi salam As
		
00:59:59 --> 01:00:02
			if he was waiting For Jibreel to give
		
01:00:02 --> 01:00:07
			him Permission for some sort of Indication Which
		
01:00:07 --> 01:00:12
			is a hadith that somebody Used To encourage
		
01:00:12 --> 01:00:15
			people to get a second Opinion Doctor tells
		
01:00:15 --> 01:00:17
			you something Get a second opinion So the
		
01:00:17 --> 01:00:21
			Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam When Musa alayhi
		
01:00:21 --> 01:00:23
			salam said He looked at Jibreel alayhi salam
		
01:00:23 --> 01:00:26
			And Jibreel alayhi salam gave him The thumbs
		
01:00:26 --> 01:00:28
			up as it were So it goes to
		
01:00:28 --> 01:00:31
			forty five It goes to thirty five And
		
01:00:31 --> 01:00:34
			then it goes to five And Musa alayhi
		
01:00:34 --> 01:00:39
			salam says Go back to your lord and
		
01:00:39 --> 01:00:43
			ask for A lessening It's too much Musa
		
01:00:43 --> 01:00:47
			alayhi salam said I have experience In ummah
		
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			And that's too much for them So the
		
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			Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam Says I asked
		
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			my lord And I've become embarrassed So that's
		
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			it It's going to be five And then
		
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			it says A voice was suddenly heard I
		
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			have determined my obligations And I have reduced
		
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			the burden of my servants I have determined
		
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			my obligations It is five But the reward
		
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			is fifty It is five But the reward
		
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			is fifty And this again It speaks to
		
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			the importance of salah There's a hadith The
		
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			Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam He says The
		
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			difference The difference The difference between the believer
		
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			And the non-believer is the prayer And
		
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			Ahmad ibn Hamal He took this as an
		
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			essential difference Meaning that if a Muslim is
		
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			not praying He's left Islam He's become a
		
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			kathir This is the opinion of Ahmad ibn
		
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			Hamal That's why according to the Hamali school
		
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			If you're a Muslim that didn't pray until
		
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			you're twenty years old You don't have to
		
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			make up five years of prayer Because you
		
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			were a kathir Right Right But the other
		
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			imams they say No it's a qualitative difference
		
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			That if you're leaving the prayer You're imitating
		
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			the attributes of the kathir And this is
		
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			a dominant opinion But that opinion is out
		
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			there That if we left the prayer we
		
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			left Islam Which is scary So we have
		
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			to really make sure If we're not implementing
		
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			prayer We're in big trouble To be honest
		
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			with you Big big trouble if we're not
		
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			praying Right So inshallah to Ahmad Inshallah people
		
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			are doing their Salawat on a daily basis
		
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			Trying to do it on time Nothing is
		
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			more important in your life If you have
		
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			to watch a movie Godzilla 3D IMAX That
		
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			starts at 8 o'clock But your maghrib
		
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			salah Is at 8.30 Guess what you
		
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			can't watch the movie Or you have to
		
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			leave Go in the hallway and pray I've
		
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			done that before And I don't advise doing
		
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			that Especially on Memorial Day I'm Muslim I'm
		
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			a Mormon Can't believe it So you have
		
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			to use your judgement Don't put yourself in
		
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			harm's way You have to plan your day
		
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			Around your prayer Everything circulates around your prayer
		
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			Because what makes your prayer Circulate around as
		
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			if we're A Muslim all the time So
		
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			you don't say Well if I'm not doing
		
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			anything I guess I'll pray No no no
		
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			Prayer takes the Priority The Prophet sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam He goes back to Mecca And
		
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			he tells Umm Hani that he was in
		
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			Jerusalem The night before And Umm Hani is
		
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			begging and pleading with him Not to tell
		
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			anyone The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says
		
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			I swear to Allah I don't want to
		
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			go now He goes to the hijab And
		
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			he tells them And they're literally falling over
		
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			themselves Laughing at him And many Muslims actually
		
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			apostated Because of this Why?
		
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			Because they judge Allah's power Against their own
		
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			intellects Right?
		
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			In other words If it doesn't make sense
		
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			to me Then it can't make sense to
		
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			God If it doesn't make sense to me
		
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			It doesn't make sense to God And it's
		
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			false The birth of Isa a.s. Is
		
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			something we believe in It doesn't make sense
		
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			to us But it's possible, it's conceivable From
		
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			the realm of the Qutra of Allah s
		
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			.w.t The omnipotence of Allah s.w
		
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			.t To create a human being Without any
		
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			male intervention And this is part of our
		
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			belief Ibn Qayyim said The root of all
		
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			fitna is when we Subjugate revelation to our
		
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			intellects We subjugate revelation To our intellects Why?
		
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			Because the aqal has a Very clear jurisdiction
		
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			There are certain things that the aqal Simply
		
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			cannot understand We have to admit that So
		
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			we believe in what's known as Khawarikul adat
		
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			Of the hukum adi There's miracles, there's grace
		
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			in natural law It's part of our aqidah
		
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			We believe in saniyat Supra-rational transmissions Saniyat
		
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			mutfayabat They're also called Supra-rational, not irrational
		
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			What's the difference?
		
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			What's a supra-rational transmission?
		
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			Something that transcends the aqal And is affirmed
		
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			in sacred text Unfalsifiable textual traditions Unfalsifiable textual
		
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			traditions Transcends the aqal And is affirmed in
		
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			sacred text Like the isra of the Prophet
		
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			s.a.w. Dalil qata'i We have
		
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			to believe it as Muslims Even if it
		
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			doesn't make sense to your aqal It transcends
		
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			your aqal It's well within the qudra of
		
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			Allah s.w.t To do that So
		
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			we believe in it Go back 200 years
		
01:05:44 --> 01:05:47
			in a time machine And tell somebody I'm
		
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			going to pick up a device in 200
		
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			years And I can call my cousin in
		
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			China They'll say that's a miracle The aqal
		
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			isn't there at that time But it's possible
		
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			and now we see it And now we
		
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			say so what?
		
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			It's clear science, we can explain it very
		
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			easily But how do you explain it to
		
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			people back then?
		
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			What is an irrational transmission?
		
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			Something that Transgresses the aqal And is repudiated
		
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			in sacred text In other words it's falsifiable
		
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			You don't have to believe in anything that's
		
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			falsifiable As a Muslim If somebody tells you
		
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			you have to believe as a Muslim that
		
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			the world is flat You don't have to
		
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			believe in that Because you can demonstrate that
		
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			it's false And this is why we get
		
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			into danger When it comes to literalism There's
		
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			a hadith that says in the last third
		
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			of the night Allah s.w.t. descends
		
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			to the Sunnah of dunya and answers his
		
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			supplicants And there's some people who Take these
		
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			things very literally Because there's aqal and naqal
		
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			Aqal means intellect Naqal means revelation So you
		
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			have people that are naqal heads The naqal
		
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			heads Who don't use the aqal They say
		
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			no Allah s.w.t. quite literally As
		
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			a physical body He descends Into the sunnah
		
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			of dunya in the last third of the
		
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			night But aqal tells you That it's always
		
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			the last third of the night Somewhere in
		
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			the world Isn't it?
		
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			According to time zones It's always the last
		
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			third of the night That means Allah s
		
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			.w.t. is forever stuck in the sunnah
		
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			of dunya Does that mean arshan is angels?
		
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			No So what does that mean?
		
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			So we can't take a hadith This cannot
		
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			be literal What does it mean?
		
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			That Allah s.w.t.'s mercy Descends to
		
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			the sunnah of dunya His mercy Not himself
		
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			So we have to use our intellect So
		
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			something like the incarnation Christians believe in hulul
		
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			It's called hulul Tajessul Allah s.w.t.
		
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			He became a human being It's called incarnation
		
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			And the Christian will say to the Muslim
		
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			Can't God do whatever he wants?
		
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			And the Muslim will say yeah God can
		
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			do whatever So can God become a man?
		
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			And the Muslim will say I don't know
		
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			I guess so But here's the thing Allah
		
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			s.w.t. can do whatever is possible
		
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			Allah cannot do the impossible And it's not
		
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			a limit on his power There are certain
		
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			things that are simply Against the nature of
		
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			Allah s.w.t. That doesn't mean that
		
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			he has weakness Can a man give birth
		
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			to a child?
		
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			You can't do that Oh you're weak No
		
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			it's against the nature If Stephen Hawking Stephen
		
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			Hawking is probably the smartest man In the
		
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			world And I asked Stephen Hawking Can you
		
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			draw a four-sided triangle?
		
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			No I can't do it Oh you're not
		
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			the smartest man It's impossible to do that
		
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			Triangle by nature has three sides So a
		
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			human being Naturally needs things I need something
		
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			I need oxygen Without it I'm dead If
		
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			I don't wear clothes And I don't stand
		
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			outside on a hill I'm going to die
		
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			from the elements If I stop eating or
		
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			drinking I'm going to die If the earth
		
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			kind of tilted a little bit We all
		
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			die If the sun burned out we're dead
		
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			If the moon goes away we're dead We're
		
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			dependent on so many things But Allah s
		
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			.w.t. is not dependent on anything كل
		
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			شيء يحتاج إليه وهو لا يحتاج إلى شيء
		
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			Everything needs him and nothing Allah s.w
		
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			.t. doesn't need anything So ironically If we
		
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			believe that Allah s.w.t. becomes a
		
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			human being The truth is That's limiting Allah
		
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			s.w.t That's a limit on Allah
		
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			s.w.t The Muslim belief does not
		
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			limit Allah s.w.t Anyway So The
		
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			Mushrikeen They went to Abu Bakr as-Siddiq
		
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			They said you know what your friend is
		
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			saying now You know It's interesting one time
		
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			I quoted a hadith In a masjid in
		
01:09:42 --> 01:09:45
			a khutbah It was the hadith of the
		
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			lizard The lizard was making tasbih The lizard
		
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			said لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله
		
01:09:52 --> 01:09:53
			A lizard, it's a hadith There's a weakness
		
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			in the hadith The brother came up to
		
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			me and said Why do you say these
		
01:09:56 --> 01:09:58
			things in a khutbah These things are ridiculous
		
01:09:58 --> 01:10:02
			and so on and so forth And I
		
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			said did you know there's a hadith That
		
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			a tree was crying The Prophet s.a
		
01:10:06 --> 01:10:08
			.w. Used to lean on a tree and
		
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			give khutbah And then they'd go to the
		
01:10:09 --> 01:10:12
			masjid And then the sahaba said that we
		
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			can hear The tree crying It sounded like
		
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			a she-camel giving birth Ah It was
		
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			loud like this And this is a Multiple
		
01:10:23 --> 01:10:28
			attested hadith So yeah Why do you mention
		
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			these things And I said If he said
		
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			it It's true Who said that?
		
01:10:37 --> 01:10:39
			Abu Bakr s.a.w. Mushrikin came to
		
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			him Do you know what he's saying now
		
01:10:41 --> 01:10:43
			He was in Jerusalem The Prophet s.a
		
01:10:43 --> 01:10:45
			.w. he didn't mention the Mi'raj immediately
		
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			He just mentioned the Isra And Abu Bakr
		
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			s.a.w. said If he said that
		
01:10:51 --> 01:10:54
			then it's true In a hadith of Bukhari
		
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			لما كذبني قريشون قمت في الحجر فجاء الله
		
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			لي بيت المغخص So he says that When
		
01:11:02 --> 01:11:06
			Quraysh disbelieved me I stood up In the
		
01:11:06 --> 01:11:09
			hijab of Ismail And Allah s.w.t
		
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			Manifested a vision of Baitul Maqdis I think
		
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			we have it So inshallah we're getting the
		
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			adhan So I'll say Alhamdulillah Bismillahir
		
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			Rahmanir Rahim Let's all pray They're trying to
		
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			annihilate God's love and they say things That
		
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			are incorrect Because they're in a certain state
		
01:11:37 --> 01:11:44
			So they're like men Intoxicated Anyway We'll stop
		
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			there inshallah Yes ma'am Something that I
		
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			have to tell you First of all it
		
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			was a wonderful evening To spend listening to
		
01:11:53 --> 01:11:58
			you Nice to see you One thing I
		
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			mentioned to you earlier I'd like to share
		
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			with everyone Yes of course Because you had
		
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			mentioned that Barak also means lightning And what
		
01:12:07 --> 01:12:09
			we now know In the past people took
		
01:12:09 --> 01:12:13
			everything on faith But because Lightning or the
		
01:12:13 --> 01:12:16
			Barak Traveled at the speed of light You
		
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			ask even the kids today They know when
		
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			something travels at the speed of light Time
		
01:12:20 --> 01:12:25
			stands still So whatever length of time The
		
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			Prophet took To go to Jerusalem and to
		
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			all the heavens And come back And so
		
01:12:31 --> 01:12:34
			on For him The time just stretched out
		
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			Because he was traveling at the speed of
		
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			light And the reason I mentioned This is
		
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			so important Is because so many of the
		
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			young people Are so overwhelmed by science And
		
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			they see science versus religion This is how
		
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			it's projected in the schools Even though we
		
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			know in Islam Science is really a way
		
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			of understanding What Allah created But I think
		
01:12:57 --> 01:12:59
			this is important Especially for the children And
		
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			for mothers to understand To explain to their
		
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			kids when they come home from school That
		
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			time stood still The Prophet took all the
		
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			time he needed Mashallah That's true There are
		
01:13:12 --> 01:13:13
			Fire pilots who go up in these F
		
01:13:13 --> 01:13:17
			-16s And they actually documented this When they
		
01:13:17 --> 01:13:19
			hit Mach 2, Mach 3 That they actually
		
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			noticed that their clocks Will slow down Even
		
01:13:22 --> 01:13:24
			at that speed So imagine that you're traveling
		
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			Like you said, close to the speed of
		
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			light Then when you come back to Earth
		
01:13:30 --> 01:13:32
			You haven't aged as much as everyone else
		
01:13:32 --> 01:13:36
			has Theoretically I saw this documentary on the
		
01:13:36 --> 01:13:39
			History Channel What's the closest star system?
		
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			What is it called?
		
01:13:41 --> 01:13:45
			Alpha Centauri There was a scholar who said
		
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			If we can build a spacecraft That can
		
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			travel the speed of light Go to Alpha
		
01:13:48 --> 01:13:52
			Centauri Take a two week vacation there Come
		
01:13:52 --> 01:13:55
			back It's been a month for you But
		
01:13:55 --> 01:13:58
			ten years for people on Earth Theoretically possible
		
01:13:58 --> 01:13:59
			Of course you can never build a spacecraft
		
01:13:59 --> 01:14:02
			that fast Unless Allah SWT wills it to
		
01:14:02 --> 01:14:10
			happen But the Duraat can certainly move Yes
		
01:14:10 --> 01:14:16
			ma'am So, I mean What I have
		
01:14:16 --> 01:14:18
			heard is I don't know how far it
		
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			is true But the Dome of Rock Is
		
01:14:20 --> 01:14:24
			the place from where Prophet Muhammad SAW ascended
		
01:14:24 --> 01:14:30
			To the heavens So It is also said
		
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			And I want to Get verification How far
		
01:14:34 --> 01:14:37
			that is true That the rock also started
		
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			moving When Prophet Muhammad SAW ascended And Prophet
		
01:14:41 --> 01:14:45
			Muhammad SAW Said You stay here And the
		
01:14:45 --> 01:14:51
			rock Has moved And it is A little
		
01:14:51 --> 01:14:58
			bit Kind of Suspended Is that something true
		
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			Or is it just Kind of a story
		
01:15:02 --> 01:15:06
			It doesn't seem to be Authentic I've heard
		
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			this many times It seems like this comes
		
01:15:08 --> 01:15:12
			from later Traditions from poets That the rock
		
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			began to rise And then he actually made
		
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			it go Back down I don't think there
		
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			is authentic traditions That mention that Yes sir
		
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			You were saying earlier that At the end
		
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			of creation Israel said You can't go any
		
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			further Because I've come much too late Me
		
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			and several People that we went to class
		
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			today They got taught that Israel actually Tried
		
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			going up And then his will started to
		
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			burn So would that go against the belief
		
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			That angels only do what Allah Tells them
		
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			to do Yeah even this tradition Of Jibreel
		
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			AS combusting There is weakness in this tradition
		
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			as well But that's true The angels don't
		
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			have free will like human beings So Jibreel
		
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			AS Because he's the host of the Prophet
		
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			SAW During this journey It's conceivable that he
		
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			would Try to go beyond, not beyond creation
		
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			Beyond the Sidratul Muntaha Because beyond the Sidratul
		
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			Muntaha Is the Arsh Al-Qalam And that's
		
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			all created So Prophet SAW he never left
		
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			creation He is created So a created entity
		
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			Cannot leave creation Just as a creator cannot
		
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			enter into creation These are mustahib This is
		
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			inconceivable But that was the place where So
		
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			somebody would say Who's writing?
		
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			You know the pen is scratching Who's the
		
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			writer?
		
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			There's no writer The pen is scratching because
		
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			Allah said Write So this is all in
		
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			Created reality, Jannah is a created place The
		
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			Arsh Al-Kursi All these things are created
		
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			The only thing not created is Allah SWT
		
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			And his actions and attributes He's Al-Khaliq
		
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			Everything else is Makhluqat And the nature of
		
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			Makhluqat Makhluqat is that change Anything that changes
		
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			is created That's how you can tell If
		
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			something is creator or created So automatically anyone
		
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			comes out and says I'm God Just by
		
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			him saying that he's invalidated Disqualified as being
		
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			God because human beings are changing You can't
		
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			see me now but I'm actually changing I'm
		
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			aging before your eyes Right now, it's very
		
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			subtle It's very slow, my beard is getting
		
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			longer You can't see it but it's happening
		
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			We're all changing Everything is in a state
		
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			of flux Except Allah SWT Because he is
		
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			not in creation In Allah SWT He has
		
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			pre-eternality And he has post-eternality Beginning
		
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			He's the first without a beginning and the
		
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			last without an end This is impossible for
		
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			us to conceive Because we're human beings and
		
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			we live in a linear world Once upon
		
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			a time And then we live happily ever
		
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			after That's how we think That's how the
		
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			Bible is written The Bible says In the
		
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			beginning God created the heavens and the earth
		
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			In the beginning And then you have the
		
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			book of Revelation And they lived happily ever
		
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			after The Quran however Is not linear, it's
		
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			circular Because Allah is the author of the
		
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			Quran Allah SWT doesn't say First Allah created
		
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			Adam And then he goes through the prophets
		
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			chronologically He doesn't do that He goes through
		
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			Musa AS, Ibrahim AS Back to Musa AS,
		
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			Isa AS Why is he going back and
		
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			forth?
		
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			Because the Quran is circular In its states
		
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			Which indicates that its author is not a
		
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			human being That's why initially The western orientalist
		
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			when he sees the Quran He thinks this
		
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			is all jumbled, it's out of order What's
		
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			going on here Because he doesn't understand that
		
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			this is not written by a human being
		
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			He has to think outside the box When
		
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			he reads the Quran Right So Allah SWT
		
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			On the Day of Judgment He will give
		
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			human beings A quality Of Baqa Of perpetuity
		
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			As a gift So when we go to
		
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			Jannah We will never die Because Allah SWT
		
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			gave us this quality Of Baqa, perpetuity That
		
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			he has naturally, that he has inherently Given
		
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			to us And the people of Jahannam Khalidan
		
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			Fiha Forever and ever As the Quran says
		
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			Right, and Allah doesn't break his promise So
		
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			Allah SWT Will not say on the Day
		
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			of Judgment I know I said this in
		
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			my Quran, but I'm going to break my
		
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			promise And destroy creation And have no Jannah
		
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			Because why?
		
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			Because Allah himself says my promise is true
		
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			Allah himself said it Right So when it
		
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			comes to a Wa'id on the believers,
		
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			a promise On the believers, Allah will always
		
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			fulfill His promise.
		
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			If Allah makes a promise To you, you
		
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			can as it were take it to the
		
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			bank And cash it.
		
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			It's always going to come true But a
		
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			wa'id A threat on the believers Allah
		
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			SWT may forego That threat out of his
		
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			mercy He may forego his Wa'id, his
		
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			threat So Allah SWT For example, and this
		
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			is not Him being, you know Showing Any
		
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			type of infidelity or anything like that So
		
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			I'm going to use an example Imagine a
		
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			king has a kingdom And he has a
		
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			law in the kingdom The law says anyone
		
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			who's caught Poaching sheep is going to be
		
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			killed So A young boy is caught poaching
		
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			sheep He's brought to the king.
		
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			And the king says to him You know
		
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			what the penalty is for poaching?
		
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			Execution.
		
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			And the boy says I only did it
		
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			because my family is starving And the king
		
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			says okay, go away And take the sheep
		
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			with you That's from the magnanimous Nature of
		
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			the king to forego his threat So Allah
		
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			SWT Could conceivably forego All the threats and
		
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			enter all of His agenda without any type
		
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			Of reckoning or punishment in the grave But
		
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			that's what we hope for We don't depend
		
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			on it.
		
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			We don't lean on it Because Allah doesn't
		
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			have to do that Allah can take out
		
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			his threat on Whoever he wants That's why
		
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			we have to be between hope and faith
		
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			And pray that Allah SWT foregoes his threats
		
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			On us.
		
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			Because he'll never forego His promise.
		
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			Yes sir Today the science and technology Has
		
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			so advanced That they are Determining and finding
		
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			so many Things which has been told 1400
		
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			years ago Well In Our
		
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			intellect It's very interesting People who say They
		
01:22:49 --> 01:22:51
			can date the universe to four decimal places
		
01:22:51 --> 01:22:57
			Lawrence Krauss Foremost cosmologist Professor atheist And he
		
01:22:57 --> 01:22:59
			says that he can date the universe To
		
01:22:59 --> 01:23:04
			four decimal places 13.7256 billion years That's
		
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			when the point of singularity Exploded So you
		
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			ask him Where did the point of singularity
		
01:23:10 --> 01:23:13
			come from He says Well we don't know
		
01:23:13 --> 01:23:16
			yet Or some say it came from nowhere
		
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			It comes from nothing Which is a big
		
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			leap of faith If you can believe something
		
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			comes from nothing Then you can believe anything
		
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			Something coming from nothing So I use the
		
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			analogy with my students Let's say I took
		
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			off my hat I pulled a rabbit out
		
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			of my hat That's something from something Allah
		
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			SWT In the Quran He is He is
		
01:23:40 --> 01:23:43
			the one who Creates from existing matter And
		
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			then shapes it as it were Going from
		
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			some creation To another creation But Allah SWT
		
01:23:49 --> 01:23:55
			is also The one who creates Out of
		
01:23:55 --> 01:23:59
			nothing He creates something Out of nothing So
		
01:23:59 --> 01:24:02
			to believe that a universe Comes from nothing
		
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			Is a big leap of faith In other
		
01:24:05 --> 01:24:07
			words what I'm trying to say is The
		
01:24:07 --> 01:24:09
			greatest scientists in the world The biggest atheists
		
01:24:09 --> 01:24:11
			in the world They're making a big, big
		
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			leap of faith By saying an entire universe
		
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			Can come from nothing Can they demonstrate that
		
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			something comes from nothing No, they can't, they
		
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			have to take it on faith They used
		
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			to believe the universe was eternal In the
		
01:24:23 --> 01:24:28
			past Eternal, right That's called the steady state
		
01:24:28 --> 01:24:31
			model And then it was Einstein Who was
		
01:24:31 --> 01:24:34
			such an amazing genius Who sat at his
		
01:24:34 --> 01:24:37
			desk and said You know I'm getting this
		
01:24:38 --> 01:24:43
			Expanding universe in my calculations Or contracting So
		
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			he added something called lambda Cosmological constant Which
		
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			guarantees that the universe Has a steady state
		
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			And then later on we found out that
		
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			He was actually right In his initial calculations
		
01:24:56 --> 01:24:59
			The universe is expanding Because of the redshift
		
01:24:59 --> 01:25:02
			of the stars Microwave background radiation All these
		
01:25:02 --> 01:25:04
			types of things So you can extrapolate backwards
		
01:25:04 --> 01:25:09
			To a point of singularity So what is
		
01:25:09 --> 01:25:15
			What is the smallest Possible Piece of matter
		
01:25:16 --> 01:25:20
			What is it Scientists say it's The light
		
01:25:20 --> 01:25:26
			quantum It's a photon Light, everything comes from
		
01:25:26 --> 01:25:29
			light Very interesting The first verse of God
		
01:25:29 --> 01:25:34
			in the Torah Is Let there be light
		
01:25:34 --> 01:25:36
			There was light There's a hadith of Jabba
		
01:25:36 --> 01:25:39
			The Prophet said to Jabba Don't you know
		
01:25:39 --> 01:25:41
			the first thing that Allah created Was the
		
01:25:41 --> 01:25:44
			light of your prophet And from that all
		
01:25:44 --> 01:25:46
			the rest of creation was extracted It's very
		
01:25:46 --> 01:25:54
			interesting You know Very very interesting Um So
		
01:25:55 --> 01:25:58
			You know Daniel Dennett, one of the four
		
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			horsemen Of the new atheism, he said the
		
01:25:59 --> 01:26:03
			universe came From nothing, for nothing By nothing
		
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			If you want to believe in that type
		
01:26:06 --> 01:26:09
			of religion You can, that's a religion Right,
		
01:26:09 --> 01:26:11
			scientism or atheism What do you call it?
		
01:26:12 --> 01:26:15
			Creation of Whatever you want to call it,
		
01:26:15 --> 01:26:19
			scientism I guess They call it For nothing,
		
01:26:19 --> 01:26:22
			by nothing For nothing, from nothing, by nothing
		
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			So the point of revelation I mean, there
		
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			may be a verse In the Torah that
		
01:26:27 --> 01:26:29
			indicates the big bang theory Allahumma irrazeena kathur
		
01:26:29 --> 01:26:32
			anasna wa al-ardhakaat al-raq What is
		
01:26:32 --> 01:26:32
			it?
		
01:26:34 --> 01:26:38
			Taqannahum ma Right, so Maurice Bukai for example
		
01:26:38 --> 01:26:42
			He says, the Translation is, don't the unbelievers
		
01:26:42 --> 01:26:44
			see The heavens and the earth was one
		
01:26:44 --> 01:26:46
			unit Of matter and then we clothed them
		
01:26:46 --> 01:26:52
			Asunder We clothed them asunder But primarily the
		
01:26:52 --> 01:26:54
			purpose of Revelation is to tell you why
		
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			Not how or what Why So scientists can
		
01:26:58 --> 01:27:04
			say, what Right, and when 13.72 Initial
		
01:27:04 --> 01:27:09
			point of singularity Quantum mechanics All this scientific
		
01:27:09 --> 01:27:11
			jargon But why?
		
01:27:13 --> 01:27:16
			Allah says why Wa ma khalaqtul jinn wal
		
01:27:16 --> 01:27:19
			-insa illa liyaAAudoon We did not create jinn
		
01:27:19 --> 01:27:23
			And human beings except to worship illa liyaAAudoon
		
01:27:23 --> 01:27:28
			Ibn Abbas says illa liyaAAudoon means illa liyaAArifoon
		
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			We did not create human beings in jinn
		
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			And ins, except to worship Ibn Abbas Mufassirul
		
01:27:35 --> 01:27:38
			Quran, he says That you can't really worship
		
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			Allah Unless you know Allah So then the
		
01:27:41 --> 01:27:44
			purpose is to know Allah But then you
		
01:27:44 --> 01:27:46
			But then he says, if you knew Allah
		
01:27:46 --> 01:27:49
			You would love Allah So then the purpose
		
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			is just to love Allah That's the purpose
		
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			of creation To love Allah By worshipping him
		
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			with knowledge But you can't get that from
		
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			You know, Stephen Hawking Or who's this other
		
01:28:01 --> 01:28:06
			guy Who's the guy in Oxford Richard Dawkins
		
01:28:08 --> 01:28:13
			Richard Dawkins You know The What is it?
		
01:28:13 --> 01:28:18
			Roger Penrose What's his degree in?
		
01:28:18 --> 01:28:23
			Richard Dawkins Biology A biologist engaging in a
		
01:28:23 --> 01:28:28
			theological debate Right It's very strange These people
		
01:28:28 --> 01:28:34
			have never studied theology You know So it's
		
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			like The analogy my teachers use Is like,
		
01:28:36 --> 01:28:40
			you have a painting The Mona Lisa And
		
01:28:40 --> 01:28:42
			you take a scientist and you say Analyze
		
01:28:42 --> 01:28:44
			this And the scientist will go up to
		
01:28:44 --> 01:28:46
			it He'll take a sample from the paint
		
01:28:47 --> 01:28:50
			He'll do a carbon dating on the canvas
		
01:28:51 --> 01:28:54
			Give you all this information How this paper
		
01:28:54 --> 01:28:56
			is from Florence In the 15th century And
		
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			the paint is acrylic And it's from here
		
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			All this information And they put a child
		
01:29:03 --> 01:29:05
			in front of it And you say, what
		
01:29:05 --> 01:29:05
			is this?
		
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			And the child says, why is she smiling?
		
01:29:08 --> 01:29:08
			Why?
		
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			What does it mean?
		
01:29:12 --> 01:29:13
			So who is closer?
		
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			Which one of these two people Is closer
		
01:29:16 --> 01:29:17
			to the mind of the author?
		
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			Of the artist, isn't she?
		
01:29:19 --> 01:29:21
			Is the child, because he's asking the better
		
01:29:21 --> 01:29:26
			question The more Transcendental question of why Not
		
01:29:26 --> 01:29:26
			what.
		
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			What is there?
		
01:29:27 --> 01:29:27
			Right.
		
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			But why?
		
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			That's revelation compared to science And
		
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			they're not at odds Not that I'm aware
		
01:30:00 --> 01:30:04
			of No Not that I'm aware of Um
		
01:30:05 --> 01:30:10
			The The ulema say that That every mu'min
		
01:30:10 --> 01:30:13
			can go on a marriage And that's the
		
01:30:13 --> 01:30:13
			Salah.
		
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			That's the prayer You can't go physically So
		
01:30:16 --> 01:30:21
			there's two things that That a saint We
		
01:30:21 --> 01:30:23
			believe in al-riyadh, right?
		
01:30:23 --> 01:30:23
			Saints.
		
01:30:24 --> 01:30:26
			There's two things that a wali Can not
		
01:30:26 --> 01:30:27
			do that a prophet can Because a wali
		
01:30:27 --> 01:30:32
			can perform miracles with al-karamat Which are
		
01:30:32 --> 01:30:35
			prophetic miracles So A wali can not receive
		
01:30:35 --> 01:30:37
			revelation Tanzeel, right?
		
01:30:37 --> 01:30:39
			Because revelation, the door is closed And also
		
01:30:39 --> 01:30:43
			he can not make a physical miraj But
		
01:30:43 --> 01:30:47
			the ruh Can make a miraj There's even
		
01:30:47 --> 01:30:49
			a hadith It's attributed to the Prophet I
		
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			don't know the strength of its authenticity That
		
01:30:52 --> 01:30:56
			the prayer As-salatu mirat al-mu'min The
		
01:30:56 --> 01:30:59
			prayer is the ascension Of the mu'min, of
		
01:30:59 --> 01:31:04
			the believer You can pray for that Some
		
01:31:04 --> 01:31:07
			of these When they go into prayer They're
		
01:31:07 --> 01:31:11
			not here And time draws out You know
		
01:31:11 --> 01:31:12
			like you're watching a good movie Like you're
		
01:31:12 --> 01:31:17
			watching Titanic It's like four hours long You're
		
01:31:17 --> 01:31:19
			watching Avatar or something like that And you're
		
01:31:19 --> 01:31:22
			sitting there And you're loving it And then
		
01:31:22 --> 01:31:25
			you go, it's been three hours It's gone
		
01:31:25 --> 01:31:29
			because you're so immersed You lost time That's
		
01:31:29 --> 01:31:32
			how some people are in their prayer That
		
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			just It's gone Because they're not really there
		
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			There's a companion Ibad bin Bishop And he
		
01:31:42 --> 01:31:45
			was praying At one of the Bedouin tribes
		
01:31:45 --> 01:31:49
			From Bani Hathafan He saw him praying And
		
01:31:49 --> 01:31:52
			he started firing arrows at him And Ibad
		
01:31:52 --> 01:31:54
			bin Bishop kept plucking them out of his
		
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			body And praying And then at the end
		
01:31:57 --> 01:31:59
			of the prayer he stopped Right?
		
01:32:00 --> 01:32:04
			Because he's in He understands That he's in
		
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			prayer There's another companion who had a compound
		
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			Fracture in his leg And the bone is
		
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			sticking out You can't set it at that
		
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			time to cut off the leg So he
		
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			tried to amputate it and he went So
		
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			he said Help me to my good foot
		
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			To pick him up And he says And
		
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			he said And he cut his leg off
		
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			Didn't make a sound Because he's in prayer
		
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			One of my teachers who studied in Syria
		
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			He told me this story He said he
		
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			was in the front row of the Masjid
		
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			And during the prayer A tank came into
		
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			the mosque A tank Imagine how loud that
		
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			is Everyone scattered Except Ibad He didn't even
		
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			budge And then he said Did you know
		
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			a tank came into the mosque?
		
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			Really?
		
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			I did not get here Is there any?
		
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			So that's what we should pray for Focus
		
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			on the prayer You know Focus on the
		
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			prayer Very important Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah I think we'll
		
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			stop at this point Thank you for coming
		
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			May Allah bless all of you Increase our
		
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			understanding and our knowledge May Allah increase our
		
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			love of Allah His Messenger May Allah give
		
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			us the tawfiq to implement Our prayer on
		
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			a daily basis To help our families implement
		
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			their prayer Our women, children, and husbands May
		
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			Allah give them the tawfiq By means of
		
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			our du'a To help them implement the
		
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			prayer To keep the prayer going And also
		
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			to give us focus in the prayer The
		
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			focus of the sahaba The focus of the
		
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			awliya and anbiya Wa sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
		
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			Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah