Ali Hammuda – Lessons From The Rubble – Words From Women Of Gaza

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The importance of healthy shame and taking action in transformational ways is emphasized in May's teachings on healthy shame and the need for individuals to be mindful of their own lives. The message is that Allahism compels individuals to show gratitude and support during difficult times, and that peace be upon them. The importance of not fall victim to evil behavior and not assuming anything but the finest of Islam is emphasized.

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			As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu, alhamdulillahi
		
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			wahdahu wa salatu wassalamu ala man la nabiyya
		
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			ba'dahu wa ala alihi wa sahbihi ajma'in.
		
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			On the 22nd of October 2024, the world
		
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			was about to experience a life-changing lesson
		
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			in aqeedah, in belief, in thabat, steadfastness, in
		
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			stubbornness, in resilience, defiance in the face of
		
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			oppression, reliance upon Allah Almighty.
		
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			What is amazing is that this lesson was
		
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			not delivered by some big-time sheikh.
		
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			It wasn't on a podium of some sort,
		
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			nor was it delivered from the depths of
		
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			a book authored by a scholar.
		
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			This lesson would be delivered by a simple
		
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			middle-aged lady by the name of May.
		
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			One of the many women who had her
		
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			home bombed in Gaza, and a 60-second
		
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			video, that's all it was, went viral.
		
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			The moment when they arrived, they pulled her
		
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			out from the rubble, and the conversation that
		
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			happened between her and those young paramedics who
		
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			saved her.
		
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			In those 60 seconds, May was a teacher
		
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			to scholars.
		
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			May was the educator of educators.
		
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			May taught us lifeless, timeless lessons of life
		
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			that cannot be ignored, that deserve pause, reflection,
		
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			tears, application, and appreciation.
		
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			During those 60 seconds when May spoke, it
		
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			was almost as if angels were inspiring her
		
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			to say the right thing, the most beautiful
		
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			and appropriate and decorated thing.
		
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			So allow me in these next few minutes
		
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			this evening to share with you some of
		
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			what she said, and I have put it
		
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			for you under six simple headings that I
		
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			hope you will take note of, and more
		
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			importantly, I hope you will take home and
		
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			strive to convert this case study into a
		
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			living application in your life.
		
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			Number one, May taught us the value of
		
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			hayaa, healthy shame in the life of the
		
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			Muslim man and Muslim woman.
		
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			You will notice when they were pulling her
		
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			out from the rubble that May was dressed
		
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			in her full Islamic hijab.
		
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			As though she was praying, I thought to
		
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			myself, there's only one of two options why
		
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			a woman would be wearing her hijab in
		
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			her own home when she doesn't need to.
		
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			Either she was in a state of salah,
		
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			praying, when bombs were falling all around her,
		
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			she was in salah, or either, like many
		
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			of the other ghazan women that we have
		
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			seen, she was preempting the situation where her
		
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			house would come tumbling down, and so when
		
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			strange men would arrive at the scene, she
		
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			wanted to be seen in a way that
		
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			was pleasing to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			Regardless of which of the two it was,
		
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			we are in awe, and we can only
		
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			admire May.
		
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			At a time when some of our sisters,
		
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			some of our mothers, some of our daughters,
		
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			some of our righteous women folk are perhaps
		
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			rethinking the hijab, reconsidering the hijab, perhaps removing
		
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			it because of pressure of friends, or social
		
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			media, or work expectations, or the never ending
		
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			and ever devolving isms of society.
		
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			They can't make up their mind as to
		
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			what they want from us.
		
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			May was also under a lot of pressure,
		
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			pressure of slabs of concrete, because when her
		
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			home was decked, May found herself wedged between
		
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			the floor and the ceiling of her home.
		
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			For how long?
		
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			For five consecutive days.
		
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			No food, no drink, and not even an
		
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			inch of space to move for five days.
		
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			Somehow Allah allowed her to survive.
		
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			Yet there she was, wedged in the 40
		
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			centimeter slabs of concrete on her fragile, vulnerable,
		
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			feminine body, and she was in her full
		
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			Islamic hijab.
		
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			Take that for pressure.
		
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			And that is why our Prophet ﷺ, he
		
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			said in a hadith that we should remember
		
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			from time to time because the implications are
		
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			so severe.
		
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			He said, There are two categories of people
		
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			who will go to *, but I've never
		
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			seen them with my own eyes in my
		
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			life.
		
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			The first category, قَوْمٌ مَعَهُمْ صِيَاطٌ كَأَذْنَابِ الْبَقَرِ
		
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			يَضْرِبُونَ بِهَا النَّاسِ The first was a group
		
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			of people who were carrying in their hands
		
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			whips that looked like the tails of cows,
		
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			and they were torturing people with them.
		
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			Have we not seen this?
		
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			He said, and as for the second category,
		
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			نِسَاءٌ كَاسِيَاتٌ عَارِيَاتٌ Women who are clothed, but
		
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			unclothed.
		
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			مُمِلَاتٌ مَائِلَاتٌ They deviate in their walk and
		
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			they cause hearts to deviate as well.
		
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			رُؤُسُهُن كَأَسْنِمَةِ الْبُخْرِ الْمَائِلَةِ Their heads look like
		
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			the swaying humps of camels.
		
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			لَا يَدْخُلْنَا الْجَنَّةِ They will never enter paradise.
		
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			وَلَا يَجِدْنَ رِيحَهَا And they will never even
		
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			smell its fragrance.
		
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			وَإِنَّ رِيحَهَا لَتُوْجَدُ مِنْ مَسِيرَةِ كَذَا وَكَذَا وَكَذَا
		
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			Although the smell of Jannah can be perceived
		
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			from very far distances.
		
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			So there she was, May teaching us a
		
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			lesson in حياء, even in the most difficult
		
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			circumstances, she did not compromise her hijab despite
		
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			the physical pressure of concrete on her vulnerable
		
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			body.
		
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			If that amazes you, there is more.
		
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			As they were pulling her out from the
		
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			debris of her home, you will see that
		
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			she says to them in her simple Palestinian
		
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			dialect, she said, أَقْلِبْ حَالِي أَحْسَنَ She said,
		
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			Can you turn me over please?
		
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			I don't want to be pulled out face
		
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			down.
		
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			This is not appropriate.
		
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			Can you turn me over and pull me
		
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			out face up so that it is my
		
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			face that is in your reception, not a
		
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			different part of my body.
		
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			الله أكبر Who thinks of these meanings when
		
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			you are in this situation?
		
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			Except a man or a woman of true
		
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			حياء, healthy shame.
		
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			May she recognize that the Prophet ﷺ said,
		
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			إِنَّ لِي كُلِّ دِينٍ خُلُوقًا وَخُلُقُ الْإِسْلَامِ الْحَيَاءِ
		
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			He said, every religion has a defining characteristic.
		
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			Every religion has a signature trait.
		
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			He said, and our signature trait as Muslims
		
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			is the characteristic of حياء, healthy shame.
		
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			And the companion قُرَّةُ بْنُ إِيَاسِ He said,
		
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			we were sat with the Prophet ﷺ in
		
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			a gathering and somebody asked the question, يا
		
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			رسول الله or messenger of Allah, الحياء من
		
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			الدين is حياء part of the religion?
		
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			He said, الحياء هو الدين كله He said,
		
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			حياء, healthy shame is the entirety of the
		
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			religion.
		
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			You will say, how come the whole religion
		
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			is encapsulated in this trait of حياء?
		
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			I say, because if you and I have
		
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			حياء of Allah Almighty, we will pray.
		
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			We will be too shy to be seen
		
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			by Him missing a salah.
		
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			If we have حياء, we will wear the
		
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			full Islamic hijab.
		
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			If we have حياء, we will lower our
		
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			gaze.
		
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			We will restrain our prohibited desires.
		
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			We will limit our flirtatious behavior with strangers.
		
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			We will not engage in riba.
		
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			We will not smoke.
		
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			We will not take shisha.
		
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			We will not engage in riba.
		
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			All of these things and more we will
		
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			do if we have حياء.
		
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			So he said, الحياء is the entirety of
		
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			the religion.
		
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			والحياء من الإيمان والإيمان في الجنة The Prophet
		
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			ﷺ said, حياء, healthy shame is part of
		
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			إيمان and إيمان is in Paradise.
		
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			This was the first message that May taught
		
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			us from beneath the rubble.
		
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			The value of حياء in the life of
		
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			a Muslim man and woman.
		
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			The second message May taught us was the
		
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			importance of being a person of حمد.
		
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			Praise of Allah Almighty irrespective of your circumstances,
		
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			how good or bad it may be.
		
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			They said to her, are you okay?
		
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			Are you injured?
		
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			She said, لا الحمد لله جروح بسيطة She
		
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			said, no I'm not injured.
		
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			الحمد لله, all praise is to Allah.
		
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			I just have some minor injuries.
		
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			وله الحمد في الأولى والآخرة Allah said, to
		
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			him belongs the praise in the beginning and
		
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			in the end.
		
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			She said, no الحمد لله, how did she
		
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			pull off?
		
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			Praise to Allah Almighty in this difficult circumstance.
		
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			Because she was a woman inshallah who used
		
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			to praise Allah when she was healthy.
		
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			So Allah enabled her and inspired her to
		
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			praise Him when she was in a dark
		
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			hour.
		
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			Just as Allah Almighty wants you and I
		
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			to praise Him when we're healthy, strong and
		
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			happy.
		
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			And our relationships are well.
		
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			Allah Almighty also wants you to praise Him
		
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			when you're down, when you're upset, when you're
		
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			ill, when you're poor and when your relationships
		
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			are strained.
		
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			الحمد لله, in all circumstances, this was the
		
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			second message taught to us by May.
		
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			The importance of showing hamd, praise to Allah
		
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			irrespective of how dark your hour may be.
		
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			The third message that May taught us from
		
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			the six that I will share with you
		
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			is the importance of being a man and
		
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			woman of gratitude to people.
		
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			What happened with May?
		
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			When she was in the ambulance, you can
		
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			hear her saying She said to the young
		
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			men around her, May Allah Almighty increase the
		
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			righteous people who resemble you.
		
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			No one can be compared to you, she
		
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			said to them.
		
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			Despite her exhausted, dehydrated, fatigued and injured body,
		
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			she found it in her to recognize that
		
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			those around her were working around the clock.
		
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			Sometimes with no qualifications, with their bare hands,
		
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			no heavy machinery to cut through iron and
		
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			the debris and rubble and concrete.
		
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			With no wage, working free of charge, she
		
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			recognized that.
		
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			She said, May Allah reward you.
		
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			May Allah multiply the people who resemble you.
		
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			No one can be compared to you.
		
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			She had heard that the Prophet ﷺ said
		
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			He who does not show gratitude to Allah,
		
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			he who does not show gratitude to people
		
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			has not shown gratitude to Allah.
		
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			Your parents, show them gratitude.
		
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			Beware of thinking in an arrogant way that
		
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			somehow you can outgrow them.
		
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			Show them gratitude with your words, gratitude with
		
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			your gifts, gratitude with your calls and messages
		
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			and visits, gratitude with your smile and patience
		
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			and service.
		
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			Show them gratitude with your apologies and tears
		
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			and kisses.
		
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			Your parents, your spouse, show her gratitude.
		
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			Your spouse, show him gratitude for their sacrifice.
		
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			Though you may feel they could be doing
		
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			better, show them gratitude and Allah will inspire
		
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			him or her to do better.
		
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			Show gratitude.
		
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			Your teachers, who may have taught you something
		
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			you didn't know, who showed you the ropes
		
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			in life, beware of that arrogant sense of
		
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			entitlement thinking you can outgrow him or her.
		
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			That's your teacher who taught you something you
		
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			didn't know.
		
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			Consider yourself ever indebted till the day you
		
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			meet Allah Almighty.
		
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			Anyone who has served you in any part
		
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			of your life, helped you remove yourself from
		
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			a hardship, consider yourself indebted till the day
		
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			you meet Allah Almighty.
		
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			May taught us that you are to show
		
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			gratitude, we are to show gratitude even if
		
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			you are staring death in the eyes.
		
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			This is the third message that May was
		
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			communicating to the world in that 60 second
		
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			video, La ilaha illallah, who taught her, Allahu
		
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			Akbar.
		
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			The fourth message May taught us was the
		
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			value, the importance of being well-mannered when
		
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			speaking about Allah.
		
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			Something we may fall short on when we're
		
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			going through a tough time.
		
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			Where is Allah Almighty, we may ask.
		
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			They said to May, who was with you
		
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			in the house?
		
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			She said, my mum.
		
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			They said to her, is she alive?
		
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			She said, no, she's next to me, she
		
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			passed away.
		
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			They said to her, so she's a martyr.
		
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			What did she say?
		
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			One word.
		
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			She said, if Allah wills.
		
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			I don't know if she's a martyr, if
		
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			Allah wills, I hope.
		
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			Sometimes we get excited when talking about our
		
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			martyrs and we say so and so is
		
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			a martyr.
		
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			So and so the martyr.
		
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			So and so who has been forgiven by
		
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			Allah.
		
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			We don't know.
		
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			The signs are there.
		
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			We hope that they are martyrs.
		
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			We hope that Allah has forgiven them.
		
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			But we cannot make that assertion.
		
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			May, she said, inshallah, my mother was a
		
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			martyr.
		
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			That is why it is narrated, Woe to
		
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			those who make assumptions about the will of
		
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			Allah.
		
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			Those who boldly say, this person is in
		
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			paradise and this person is in *.
		
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			May taught us in her message number four,
		
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			be well-mannered when speaking about Allah Almighty.
		
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			The fifth of those messages before I round
		
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			up with the sixth.
		
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			May taught us that Allah Almighty will give
		
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			you support and good news during your darkest
		
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			hour in life.
		
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			They said to May, how long were you
		
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			beneath the rubble track?
		
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			She said five days.
		
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			They said to her, Meaning, that means, they
		
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			said to her jokingly, you saw back to
		
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			back days and nights.
		
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			She said, listen to these words.
		
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			She said, no, no, angels, they came by
		
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			my side and they illuminated the space.
		
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			Watch the video.
		
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			She said, no, the angels, they came.
		
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			They lit up the space for me.
		
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			The message is that Allah Almighty will support
		
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			you as individuals.
		
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			During your darkest hour and will give you
		
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			good news.
		
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			And will support the Ummah during its darkest
		
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			hour.
		
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			When we thought it couldn't get any worse
		
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			for us there in Palestine.
		
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			A seemingly hopeless course, some may have described
		
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			it.
		
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			And then 11 days, the neighboring country of
		
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			Syria's regime comes crashing down.
		
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			And it is returned to the people of
		
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			Syria.
		
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			Allah Almighty, He said.
		
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			Truly, for the allies of Allah, may Allah
		
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			make us amongst them.
		
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			For the allies of Allah, there is no
		
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			fear for them.
		
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			And they shall not grieve.
		
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			Who are they?
		
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			Those who believe in Allah Almighty.
		
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			And those who feed Him.
		
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			Listen, listen.
		
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			For them is the good news in this
		
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			life and the hereafter.
		
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			For them is the good news in this
		
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			life and in the hereafter.
		
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			Ya Rabbi, give us the good news.
		
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			Ya Rabbi, give us the good news.
		
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			Is it a difficult moment you're experiencing in
		
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			your life?
		
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			Hold on.
		
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			Have hopes in Allah Almighty.
		
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			Be patient.
		
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			Don't allow it to tarnish your religion.
		
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			Allah will send you the good news.
		
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			And that is why the Prophet ﷺ, he
		
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			said, Know, realize, know that victory is with
		
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			patience.
		
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			And that what follows hardship is relief.
		
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			And with difficulty comes ease.
		
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			Message five.
		
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			May she taught us that in your darkest
		
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			hour, Allah Almighty will send you the good
		
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			news.
		
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			The sixth and final message I share with
		
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			you.
		
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			May taught us the value of Expecting the
		
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			very best from Allah Almighty.
		
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			And assuming what is finest.
		
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			She said to the paramedics around her in
		
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			the video, By Allah, I knew that you
		
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			would come.
		
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			And I knew that you would not fail.
		
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			She said, By Allah, I was certain that
		
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			you would arrive.
		
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			And find me and I was certain that
		
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			none of you would fall short.
		
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			I was certain.
		
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			How was she able to pull off that
		
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			certainty?
		
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			With everything in terms of circumstances around her.
		
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			How was she able to pull off and
		
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			muster up this certainty in Allah Almighty?
		
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			With everything against her.
		
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			Because she had the best of expectations of
		
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			Allah Almighty.
		
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			She did not think bad of him.
		
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			Like the poet, he said, My Lord, I
		
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			hold a beautiful and abundant expectation in you.
		
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			A hope that I present.
		
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			It walks with me every step of the
		
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			way.
		
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			My Lord, all those who wanted rain were
		
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			showered by you.
		
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			So it is impossible that you would then
		
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			leave my land to remain dry.
		
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			What is your expectation?
		
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			The Quran asks.
		
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			What is your expectation of Allah Almighty, the
		
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			Lord of the worlds?
		
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			May, she said, I was certain.
		
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			When was the last time you used those
		
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			same words when talking about Palestine and Gaza
		
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			and Al-Masjid Al-Aqsa?
		
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			I am certain.
		
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			Let them do what they do.
		
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			I am certain.
		
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			Sudan, I am certain.
		
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			The Uyghurs, I am certain.
		
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			Syria, I am certain.
		
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			The Prophet, peace be upon him, echoing the
		
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			words of the Prophet Ya'qub, peace be
		
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			upon him, who said to his children, Did
		
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			I not say to you, O my kids,
		
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			that I know of Allah Almighty that which
		
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			you do not know?
		
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			And there he was, standing outside of the
		
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			gates of Mecca, our Prophet, peace be upon
		
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			him, not knowing how he was going to
		
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			go back inside.
		
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			He wasn't supposed to leave Mecca to give
		
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			Dawah, but he did so secretly.
		
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			How is he going to go back inside?
		
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			He's lost his wife.
		
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			He's lost his uncle.
		
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			He's losing his companions.
		
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			They are persecuting him.
		
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			And Zaid, he said to the Prophet sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wasallam, how are you going to get
		
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			back into Mecca?
		
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			What are we going to do?
		
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			We weren't even supposed to leave.
		
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			And the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said words
		
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			that I want you to etch in your
		
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			heart, especially today.
		
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			He said to him, Ya Zaid, O Zaid,
		
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			إِنَّ اللَّهَ جَاعِنٌ لِمَا تَرَى فَرَجًا وَمَخْرَجًا وَإِنَّ
		
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			اللَّهَ نَاصِرٌ دِينَهُ وَمُظْهِرٌ نَبِيَّهُ Zaid, Allah is
		
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			going to provide a relief from the difficulty
		
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			that you see.
		
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			And Allah is going to give victory to
		
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			the religion and He's going to allow His
		
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			Prophet to prevail.
		
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			Don't ask me how but I am certain.
		
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			May she said, كُنتْ عَرْفَ I was certain.
		
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			This is the sixth message of May who
		
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			said to us, harbor the finest of expectations
		
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			to Allah.
		
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			Beware of ever doubting Him or thinking ill
		
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			of Him despite what you may see in
		
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			your field of cruelty, your feed of cruelty
		
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			and freezing children and limbs that are torn
		
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			off.
		
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			Beware of assuming anything but the finest of
		
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			Allah Almighty.
		
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			Our ummah, my brothers and sisters, and my
		
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			time is up.
		
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			Our ummah is beloved to Allah Almighty.
		
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			And our ummah is the role model ummah
		
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			for the rest of the nations of the
		
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			world.
		
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			We are the ones who've been entrusted with
		
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			the mantle of leadership.
		
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			No one will lead but us, a justice
		
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			-based leadership in an ill and depraved world.
		
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			This is our role and Allah's expectation from
		
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			us.
		
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			So we will be placed into the furnace
		
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			of life and battered with iron and then
		
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			taken back out.
		
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			Then pushed back into the oven, battered with
		
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			irons and then taken back out.
		
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			And admittedly, some of us will crumble during
		
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			that horrific process, but others will emerge refined,
		
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			polished, pristine, stronger than ever before, irresistible and
		
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			able now to assume their position of leadership
		
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			that Allah intends for us.
		
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			So beware of mischaracterizing the suffering of ummah
		
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			as being anything but a display of Allah's
		
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			mercy upon us.
		
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			And that is why the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
		
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			wa sallam, he said, أمتي هذه مرحومة This
		
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			nation of mine is treated with mercy by
		
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			Allah.
		
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			This nation of mine is treated with mercy
		
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			by Allah.
		
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			ليس عليها عذاب في الآخرة It's not gonna
		
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			suffer in the hereafter.
		
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			عذابها في الدنيا الفتن والزلازل والقتل All of
		
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			its suffering will be hurried for it in
		
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			the life of this world by way of
		
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			tests and earthquakes and killing.
		
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			So beware of misinterpreting and mischaracterizing any of
		
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			the bloodshed that you may see today as
		
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			being anything but as a display of mercy
		
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			from Allah and a preparation for leadership.
		
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			This is our qadr.
		
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			This is what Allah Almighty has decreed for
		
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			us and we announce in this evening in
		
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			this city in this blessed gathering that we
		
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			are content with the decree of Allah Almighty.
		
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			Ya Allah, on behalf of all of the
		
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			thousands here in front of me, all 15
		
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			,000 of them, that if it means that
		
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			our suffering today, O Allah Almighty, is that
		
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			you will erase our sins and you will
		
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			expose our hypocrites and you will purify our
		
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			conduct and you will prepare us for leadership
		
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			and you will restore our land and you
		
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			will give us no suffering in the hereafter
		
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			and above this all you will be pleased.
		
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			Then come what may, Ya Allah, we are
		
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			pleased with your decree.
		
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			May taught us six lessons.
		
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			I summarize them and I remind you.
		
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			Lesson number one, May taught us the value
		
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			of healthy shame in our life.
		
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			Message number two, May taught us the importance
		
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			of hamd, thanks, praise of Allah Almighty in
		
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			all circumstances.
		
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			Message number three, she taught us gratitude to
		
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			people irrespective of your circumstance.
		
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			Message number four, to be of adab, good
		
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			manners when speaking about Allah Almighty.
		
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			Message number five, good news will come to
		
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			you during your darkest hour.
		
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			And message number six, think well of Allah
		
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			Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			وصلى الله على نبينا محمد والحمد لله رب
		
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			العالمين