Ammar Alshukry – Allahs Beautiful Names – How To REMOVE Fears and GAIN Security – Al Mumin

Ammar Alshukry
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The speakers discuss the meaning of Al Mu'min, a term used by Islam to describe individuals or situations. They stress the importance of breaking promises and avoiding violence to achieve security and safety. The speakers also touch on the use of words like "naughty man" and "naughty woman" to describe people and their behavior, highlighting the negative impact of violence on people's lives. They emphasize the importance of providing security to others and grant them access to their own lives.
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Al Mu'min, the remover of fear.

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How many things could have gone terribly wrong

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today but didn't? Even a small decision, like

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taking your next step, has some element of

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doubt. Al Mu'min has two meanings. Linguistically,

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the first is to believe.

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The brothers of Yusuf, they tell their father,

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after they lied to him about a wolf

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eating Yusuf,

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but you would not believe us even if

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we were telling the truth.

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You don't believe us. The second meaning is

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to grant security. Allah says

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and made them safe from their fear in

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Surat Quresh recounting the favor over Quresh. And

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so the name of Allah subhanahu ta'ala Mu'min

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includes 2 things. Number 1, Allah subhanahu ta'ala

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is the one who fulfills his promises. Allah

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doesn't break his promises.

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And we know that Allah promises the believers

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with forgiveness and mercy in paradise, and Allah

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promises those who do evil that they'll be

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punished. Does that mean that every person who

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does evil and falls under that threat will

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be punished? Or are there some promises that

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala makes that he does

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not fulfill? You have to understand that there

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are 2 types of promises. There's a promise

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of reward, what's called a and a promise

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of punishment which is called a. It's always

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praiseworthy to fulfill your promises of reward and

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it is blameworthy to not fulfill them. However,

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fulfilling a promise of punishment

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may at times be praiseworthy, and at times

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it could be praiseworthy to not fulfill it.

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For example, you have a father who has

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a son who's not doing well at school,

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and he says you're only doing poorly because

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you are not applying yourself at all. You're

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always wasting your time with this or that.

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So this is what I'm gonna do. This

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semester,

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if you get the marks that I know

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you can get, if you get me straight

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a's, then I'll take you to that adventure

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park that you always wanted to go to.

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Right? That's the promise of reward. But if

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I even smell the scent of a bee,

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not only will you not go to that

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adventure park, but you're gonna be grounded, you're

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not gonna be able to go anywhere for

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a month.

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So the father has given both a promise

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of reward and a promise of punishment.

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Both.

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Now, let's say his young son

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is motivated

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and he's working harder than he's ever worked.

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And every time his father sees him, he

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sees him exerting more effort than he's ever

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exerted before. His nose buried in a book.

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He's always working on his homework. And at

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the end of the marking period, the boy

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comes rushing home

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with glee. He's so excited with his report

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card. And when he opens it up, his

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father looks and he sees a a

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a a straight ace.

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The child is bouncing off of the walls.

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Baba, we're gonna go to adventure park.

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And his father

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looks at him and goes, just kidding. Sorry.

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I was only kidding about the Adventure Park.

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He's broken a promise of reward.

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Is that praiseworthy or blameworthy?

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Obviously, that's brayeworthy. There's no scenario

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where breaking a promise of reward is praiseworthy.

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But let us reimagine that the boy is

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coming back home.

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He's super excited and his father opens it

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up and he sees

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2 A's,

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4 B's.

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Now the father had swore that if he

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smells the scent of a bee, that child

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is going to be grounded.

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But imagine he looks at his son and

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he says to him, you know what? I

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know that I promised that you would be

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punished, but I just want to let you

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know I'm still gonna take you to Adventureland

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and I'm proud of you because you worked

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harder than you've ever worked before and you

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actually applied yourself. He still broke his promise,

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but he broke a promise of punishment.

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Is he praiseworthy in doing that? Yes, he

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might be. So when the law subhanahu ta'ala

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promises those who commit sins, when he promises

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them punishment, it's a conditional promise that he

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may fulfill or he may not, and he's

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praiseworthy and not fulfilling it in mercy and

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forgiveness.

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The secondary meaning of Al Mu'min is the

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one who grants

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and aman, the one who grants safety and

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security.

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And so it's a name to be pronounced

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on the tongue of anybody who's feeling fear.

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Safety is one of the greatest blessings that

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people forget to appreciate and pay attention to.

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And yet, were it to be removed from

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any society would cause massive displacement

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and relocation. The prophet

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says, whoever of you wakes up safe in

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their dwelling, healthy in their body with enough

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food for today, then it's as if they

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have the world rolled out for them, the

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hadithas in Timothy.

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So after waking up, the prophet

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mentions the blessing of safety.

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Everything else that we do, everything that we

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gather is useless without safety. War is the

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great negator. I am from Sudan. And in

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the past year, the city of Khartoum has

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been emptied out by war, an image

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that in my wildest dreams I could never

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have imagined. There was a time in my

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life growing up that I thought and I

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would have believed 100% and I had reason

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to that Khartoum was the safest city in

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the world. Giving rights to strangers

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in your car in a city that large

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was normal behavior. Murders were unheard of. Armed

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robbery, almost nonexistent.

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But when war breaks out,

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everyone leaves.

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All of the retirement projects, all of the

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assets, all of the homes,

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everything that they were building over their lifetimes

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or over multiple generations that they hope to

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pass to their children or their children's

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children becomes erased. And their entire existence, their

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dreams, their history, their families, their stories

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becomes enveloped by a single word, refugee.

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A person who's seeking refuge from violence.

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The gift of safety is one of the

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greatest gifts that we can experience,

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that you can go about your day going

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to work or school and not worry about

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the people you left at home. Allah says,

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Do they not see that we made Makkah

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a safe sanctuary

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while people are being taken away all around

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them? People are being snatched up all around

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them? In falsehood do they believe or in

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the favor of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala do

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they disbelieve?

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As we look at much of the Ummah

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and we see conflict and occupation and see

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proxy wars and see the tension and oppression,

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If you and your family are in safety

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and security,

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then make sure to be grateful. Make sure

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to be grateful. Thank Allah

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for that blessing. And so finally, how do

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we interact with his name? How do we

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interact with the name Al Mu'min? Give security

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to others. The prophet

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says in hadith, it's reported by

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He says, By Allah, they don't believe. By

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Allah, they don't believe. By Allah, they don't

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believe. Three times the prophet

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is saying he's negating perfection of iman from

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this person. Who is it, You Rasulullah?

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He says

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He says the one who their neighbor does

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not feel he does not

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He doesn't feel safe. So the prophet

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is using similar wordings, iman and aman. That

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person who their neighbor does not feel safe

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from their evil.

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How can you expect

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safety from Allah on the day of judgment

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if your neighbor does not feel safe from

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you? And so the Muslim neighbor is supposed

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to be the best neighbor. I want you

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to ask yourself this question. If I were

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to survey

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the neighbors

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of the Muslims, our Masjid, our Islamic centers,

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what would they say? Do they feel safe

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from our evil? I hope so. I don't

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wanna bring up the negative, but a a

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memory that always stayed with me growing up

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in New York was an elderly Italian woman

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who was a neighbor to a masjid that

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was just a small house. And so she

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lived in the house next door. And every

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Friday at 12 o'clock, she would go and

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she would guard her driveway

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because

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Muslims were gonna start parking there as they

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tried to get to Jumah. And I remember

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one time I was walking to the Masjid,

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I was a block away, and I could

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see this man because he was rushing to

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Jum'ah because the started, he actually blocked her

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driveway. And he got out of the car

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and he was rushing to the and it

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was the moment that she had been preparing

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for. So she started screaming and she's like,

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hey. Hey. That's my driveway.

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And he was like, okay. And then she

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said, I'm gonna call the cops.

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And then in that moment, he became defiantly

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arrogant, and he said, We'll call them then.

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And he walked into the masjid.

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In that moment,

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we failed

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to protect our community's neighbor from our evil.

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And the prophet

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said, that person does not believe whoever's neighbor

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is not safe from their evil. So if

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you want to experience

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security

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and a man from Al Mu'min, then make

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sure that you grant security

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to others that people feel safe from your

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evil.

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