Ammar Alshukry – The INCREDIBLE Justice of the Prophet Muhammad

Ammar Alshukry
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The Prophet Sallallli's approach to control distribution and wealth includes animals, names, events, and giving everything to everybody without harming their reputation. The importance of fairness is emphasized, including the use of animals and their names, the need for resources for different individuals, and the importance of giving everything to everybody without harming their reputation and maintaining their attraction. The Prophet Sallallli campaign is discussed, including five ways to be more fair, including asking oneself, finding their intentions, being fair in their actions, and being a guide to justice. The importance of verifying information and criticizing actions and deeds is emphasized, along with the use of negative language in media and the need for flexibility and positivity to create change.
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Alhamdulillah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam So on the beautiful

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topic, I have the topic of justice with

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Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.

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And you heard Imam Faruqi mentioned that hadith

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near the end of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi

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Wasallam's life, where he said, that whoever I

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have lashed his back, then here is my

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back.

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And whoever I've taken of his wealth, then

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here is my wealth.

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Like come in and claim.

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And let none of you say, I fear

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as-shahna'u min Rasulullah.

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Let none of you say that I fear

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that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is gonna

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hold a grudge.

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If I come and I take something that

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I feel like I'm owed.

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Because by Allah that is not my character.

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The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is offering himself

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out of an abundance of caution.

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Because he told us that on the day

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of judgment there's not gonna be any money

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that's exchanged.

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On the day of judgment, if you are

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not fair, then there's only going to be

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good deeds that are exchanged.

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And so I wanna look at a couple

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of glimpses of the fairness in the life

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of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.

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The first is the fairness with his family.

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Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, as you know, was

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married to nine wives.

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And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, his habit

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after Asr was that he would go and

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he would stop at every single one of

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their houses.

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And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam would not

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be physically intimate with any of them.

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And he would then go and retire in

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the house of the woman who it was

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her night that night.

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Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam would be diligent and

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rigorous with regards to the time that he

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spent with every single wife.

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And as you know, the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi

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Wasallam, even as he was dying in his

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last days, he would ask the question and

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he would say, whose night is it now?

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Until they realize that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi

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Wasallam is intending the night of Aisha, but

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he wouldn't even suggest, can I please go

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to the house of Aisha?

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Because he recognized that every single one of

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his wives had the rights of his company.

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Until they themselves volunteered that he spend his

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last days in the house of Aisha.

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The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, on one occasion

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was sitting with a man.

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And that man had one of his children

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come and he kissed his boy and he

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placed him on his lap.

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And then his daughter came and the man

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grabbed her and he placed her to his

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side.

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And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said to

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him, why don't you be fair between them?

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If you kissed one and placed them on

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your lap, then you kiss the other and

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you place them on their lap.

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And this is to indicate to us that

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fairness with regards to your family is regarding

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circumstances that are equivalent.

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Those children were both around the same age,

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meaning they had the same needs.

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And so the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is

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challenging him to be just with regards to

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that.

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But it doesn't mean that every family member

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always has the same needs.

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So before you start looking at your parents,

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like I need a car too.

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Hold on a second, you just turned 16.

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Your older brother or sister might be 20,

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21 years old.

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They might need a car in a way

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that you don't.

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So fairness does not necessarily mean that you

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give everybody who are different the same resources.

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That's not what it means.

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But you give people who are similar, similar

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resources.

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But the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was fair

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with his children.

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The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was fair even

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with regards to the rights of his children

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vis-à-vis the rights of the community

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around them.

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We know how much the Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi

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Wasallam loves Fatima.

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We know.

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He says that Fatima is a portion of

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me.

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And he said that on the minbar.

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But on one occasion Ali tells this story

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that him and Fatima were both complaining about

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how difficult the manual labor they were enduring

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was.

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Fatima would grind barley until her hands became

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calloused.

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And she's a young woman.

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She's a bride.

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The last thing you want is calluses on

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your hand.

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And Ali radiallahu anhu is telling her and

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he's saying that I am carrying water so

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much I got back pains.

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Why don't you go and ask the Prophet

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Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam for a servant?

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And so Fatima goes to Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi

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Wasallam and she asks him for a servant

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and the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam who would

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say yes to everything that Fatima could possibly

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request.

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He says to her, No.

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I can't give you a servant and leave

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Ahlus Suffah.

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Ahlus Suffah are the people who live in

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the masjid.

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They're people who basically are on the welfare

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state of Medina.

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And yet the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is

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telling Fatima that I can't provide for you

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a resource even though you are the daughter

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of Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.

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You are the daughter of the head of

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state.

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I can't give you a resource that I

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can't give to every single member of the

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Muslim community.

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The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is fair with

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regards to the distribution of his resources.

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So much so even with regards to his

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family when he would give money to his

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wives, he would make dua to Allah Subhanahu

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Wa Ta'ala and he would say, Allahumma

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hadha qismi fee ma amlik.

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Oh Allah, this is my distribution regarding what

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I own.

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Fala tuakhidni fee ma tamlik wala amlik.

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And do not hold me accountable regarding what

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you possess, meaning my heart and my emotions

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and my attraction.

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I don't control who I love the most

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of my spouses.

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But I can control my distribution of my

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wealth.

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I can give them all equally.

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But do not hold me accountable for what

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I do not control and what you control.

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The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was fair with

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his animals.

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You know, after the treaty of or before

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the treaty of Hudaybiyah, Ba'a Hudaybiyah, the

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Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam had a camel and

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his camel's name was Al-Qaswa.

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Al-Qaswa.

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You have to know, I don't want to

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go into this tangent, but the Prophet Sallallahu

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Alaihi Wasallam, he would name all of his

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items.

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He would name his items.

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As I said, I'm not going into the

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tangent.

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Look at, I'm in the tangent now.

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He would name his items.

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So he had a camel named Al-Qaswa.

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He had a donkey named Ya'fur.

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He had a mule that was named Duldul.

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Sheikh Waleed, for a period of time, his

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license plate said Duldul, by the way.

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It's the mule of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi

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Wasallam.

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Ibn Abbas has this beautiful quote that Tabarani

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mentions, and Ibn Al-Qayyim has it in

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Zad Al-Ma'ad.

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There's a section on the items of the

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Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.

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He had a rug that was called Al

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-Jami.

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He had a mirror that was called Al

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-Mawt.

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The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam would name his

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items, and something that you'll notice, in a

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time where we're very materialistic, and we're coming

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across holiday season very soon, and Black Friday

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and what have you, that naming your items

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creates an attachment to these items.

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It becomes something more than just a transient

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material thing.

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It becomes a part of your family.

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I know a family who they had a

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childhood blanket that they called Favorite.

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And so even as they replaced every blanket

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in their house over the years, that childhood

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blanket that was a member of their family,

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what was the difference is that it had

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a name.

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And so you might find that if you

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call your car a name, that you might

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have a greater attachment to your car.

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If you name your laptop, if you name

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your iPad, if you name your clothes, if

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you name your phone.

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In any case, the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,

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his camel's name is Al-Qaswa, and Rasulullah

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Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, as he's moving forward, Al

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-Qaswa kneels on the ground, and it refuses

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to move.

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And so the Sahaba radhiyallahu anhu, they say,

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خَلَعَتِ الْقَسْوَاءِ They said, Al-Qaswa has refused

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to move.

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Like it's refusing the command of its owner.

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It's being disobedient.

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And so Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says, no,

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Al-Qaswa has not done it.

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And this is the part where he says,

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and it is not part of its character.

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It's not her character.

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I'm defending the character of my camel.

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Imagine you say, that is not my cat's

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character.

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But the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, that's

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not her character.

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وَلَكِنْ حَبَسَهَا حَابِسُ الْفِيلُ But the one who

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caused her to not move is the same

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one who made the elephant not move when

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it was charging towards the Kaaba.

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The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is defending the

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character of his camel out of his fairness.

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There is an incident, and I don't know

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anybody who can measure up to what the

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Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam does here.

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This hadith wows me.

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It floors me.

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It's in Bukhari and Muslim, after Hunayn.

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Mecca accepts Islam in the 8th year.

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The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam has a campaign.

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The campaign is called Hunayn.

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And there are incredible spoils of war that

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are distributed.

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The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam would give this

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person from Mecca a hundred camels.

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The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam would give this

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person hundreds of sheep.

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The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was distributing the

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distribution of somebody who doesn't fear poverty.

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You know who he doesn't give anything to

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though?

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The Ansar.

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These people of Mecca who had just accepted

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Islam, the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is giving

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them incredible wealth.

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Here you go, here you go, here you

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go, here you go.

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And so some of the Ansar started to

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feel a type of way.

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Like what's going on?

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Some of them said, our swords are still

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dripping with the blood of the Meccans.

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We were just fighting them.

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And now Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is giving

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them all of this wealth.

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Some said, perhaps he's reunited with his family.

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These are his people.

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You know, he's gone back to his people.

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And so Sa'd ibn Ubadah, he comes to

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Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.

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And he says, Ya Rasulullah, there are some

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people who are saying such and such.

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And so the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says

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to Sa'd, he says, and where do you

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fall in this O Sa'd?

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Where are you in this?

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How do you feel?

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And Sa'd says, I'm just a man for

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my people.

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I'm just a man for my people.

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And so the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says,

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okay then, gather all of the Ansar at

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such and such in this place, if it

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was a pen or a barn, gather them

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over there.

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And when they're there, then call me.

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And so the Ansar are gathered and nobody

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else is included.

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It's just the Ansar.

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This is a private meeting between the Prophet

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Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and the Ansar.

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And look what the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam

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says.

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He says, Ya Ma'shar al-Ansar, weren't you

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misguided and Allah guided you through me?

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And weren't you fighting?

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How long have y'all been fighting for?

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And Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la

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united your hearts through me?

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And weren't you impoverished before?

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And Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la

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enriched you through me?

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Didn't I do this for you?

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And they said, yes, Ya Rasulullah.

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This is where all of our arguments would

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end.

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All of our arguments would end there.

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Didn't I do this for you?

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So what does the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam

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say?

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Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.

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He says, why don't you respond to me?

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And they said, Ya Rasulullah, what could we

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possibly say?

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Yes, you did all of those things.

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Al-minnatu lillahi wa rasulihi.

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Allah's favor over us and our Prophet Sallallahu

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Alaihi Wasallam's favor over us, that's who's done

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the favor.

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Allah and his Messenger have done the favor

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for us.

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And then the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says,

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in Bukhari Muslim it says, law shi'tum laqultum

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katha wa katha.

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If you had wished, you would have said

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such and such.

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But there are other additions.

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Shaykh al-Albani, for example, in Fiqh al

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-Seerah, he adds and he authenticates that the

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Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says that if you

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had wished, you could have said, weren't you

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a refugee?

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fa'awaynak Weren't you expelled and we gave

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you refuge?

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And weren't you a'il?

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And weren't you impoverished?

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fawasaynak and we gave you from our wealth?

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And weren't you makhzul?

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Weren't you forsaken?

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wa nasarnak and we supported you?

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The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, if you

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had said that, la sadaqtum wa suddiqtum you

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would have spoken the truth and I would

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believe you.

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Tell me, who argues like that?

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When the person you are arguing with doesn't

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have a response for you, you say, gotcha,

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I told you.

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Dummy.

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But the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, when they're

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not arguing back, whether because they don't have

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an answer or because they're shy or what

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have you, that you say to them, no,

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you do have an answer.

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Who's more fair than that?

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Who's more just than that?

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And then the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he

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says, ya ma'shar al-ansar are you not

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pleased?

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ayyadhaban nasu bishati wa alba'ir wa tathabun

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bi Rasulillahi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam ila rihalikum.

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Aren't you pleased that people are going back

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with their sheep and their camels and what

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have you, but you're going back with Rasulullah

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Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam?

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What are you upset about?

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I'm giving them camels, who cares?

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I'm giving them the dunya.

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But I'm going back with you.

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And the ansar began to cry.

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And they said, radina, we are pleased with

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Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam as our shaykh.

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And then the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said,

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Allahumma akhfiril ansar wa abna'il ansar wa

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abna'i abna'il ansar.

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O Allah, forgive the ansar and the children

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of the ansar and the children of the

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children of the ansar.

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But that idea of even in an argument

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that Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is arguing on

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behalf of their interlocutor, out of fairness.

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And there are so many more examples, but

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the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is fairness with

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non-Muslims.

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Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says, man dhalama mu

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'ahadan, whoever oppresses someone who there is a

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covenant with, then I am going to be

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their arguer on the day of judgment.

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I want you to think of all the

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foreign workers in the Muslim world, people who

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are non-Muslim, people who are Christian coming

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from countries poorer than, and they're working amongst

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Muslims.

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Those people, those bosses who are abusers, or

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you yourself, if you have somebody who is

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an employee or staff or what have you,

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and you're oppressing them, you're wronging them, the

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Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says, I am going

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to be arguing on behalf of them on

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the day of judgment.

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That is from the fairness of Rasulullah Sallallahu

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Alaihi Wasallam.

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And we can spend a lot of time

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on this topic, but I want to conclude

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with what are five things that we can

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do to be more fair.

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What are five things that we can do

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to be more fair?

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The first is always to ask yourself, what

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is my intention?

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What is my intention?

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What is my motivation?

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If I am challenging this person, or I'm

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criticizing this person, or what have you, what

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is my intention in doing it?

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Is it my own ego?

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Why am I pushing this person in this

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regard?

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Is it my ego?

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That's number one.

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That you be fair in seeking the pleasure

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of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

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In seeking the pleasure of Allah, rather, that's

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how your greatest north star to fairness.

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But then number two is that you seek

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justice from the Qur'an and Sunnah of

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the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.

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That's where I learned justice from.

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That is my guide to justice.

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Justice is not defined by what society deems

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as just.

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Justice is not defined by what the law

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deems as just.

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Is it just?

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Is it fair?

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That just because the law gives me this

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right, for example, that I take advantage of

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this loophole?

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I have to look and I have to

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learn, like Imam Farooq mentioned, I have to

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learn the Qur'an and Sunnah, I have

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to study, and I have to be comfortable

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and confident to submit to the will of

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Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala on every issue.

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So that's number two.

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Then number three is that when information comes

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to you about somebody, that you verify it

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in fairness.

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That you verify it.

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So number one, is this information true?

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Did you say this?

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Did you do that?

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I don't go, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala

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says, إِن جَاءَكُمْ فَاسِقٌ بِنَبَئٍ فَتَبَيَّنُوا Allah Subhanahu

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Wa Ta'ala says, when a evil doer

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comes to you with news, then verify it.

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أَن تُصِيبُوا قَوْمًا بِجَهَارَةٍ فَتُصْنِعُوا عَلَى مَا فَعَلْتُمْ

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نَادِمِينَ You might harm people out of your

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ignorance, and then you become regretful over what

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you did.

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And so the importance of verifying information, you

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know Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, it's the famous

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hadith of Hatib ibn Balta'a.

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Hatib ibn Balta'a was a man who

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wrote a letter to his family in Mecca,

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letting them know that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi

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Wasallam was planning to come and conquer Mecca.

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It is an act, outwardly it's an act

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of treason.

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You are giving information to the people of

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Mecca about the military advancement of the Prophet

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Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.

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But what does the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam

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also always do with his companions?

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He brings Hatib, Jibreel tells him about the

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letter, he sends Ali ibn Abi Talib and

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Az-Zubair ibn Al-Awam to go and

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intercept the letter.

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There was a lady who was on her

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way to Mecca, and Ali and Az-Zubair

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go and they intercept the letter.

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But when the letter is brought to Rasulullah

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Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,

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he says to Hatib, ما حملك على هذا؟

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What caused you to do this?

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Let me verify.

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Even though I have all of this information,

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what caused you to do it?

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And then Hatib ibn Balta'a says, Ya

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Rasulullah, I didn't do this out of Ridda,

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I didn't do this out of apostasy, I

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didn't do this because of Kufr or anything

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like that, but simply because I really feel

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like my family is unprotected.

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All of y'all have families that protect

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you.

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Umar ibn Al-Khattab doesn't believe it, and

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he says, Ya Rasulullah, give me the green

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light.

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And then the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says,

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No.

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And then he says, and you don't know

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Umar, perhaps Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A

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'la glanced at the people of Badr and

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say, do whatever you wish, for I have

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forgiven you.

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That great virtue of the people of Badr.

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But the point here is the importance of

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verification of news, so that's number three.

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Number four is that you don't bury people's

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good deeds every time you have something to

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criticize.

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You know, sometimes people, as soon as they

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have something to criticize, they're like, he's not

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a Shaykh.

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He's not a scholar.

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Habibi, you studied with him for five years,

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what do you mean he's not a scholar,

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he's not a Shaykh?

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As soon as you have something, or you

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point out what is negative about people all

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the time.

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A person says, Ibn Kathir, he narrates a

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lot.

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Ibn Kathir's Tafsir, it narrates he has a

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lot of Israeliyat, Judeo-Christian narrations.

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Really?

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The great Tafsir of Ibn Kathir, that's all

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you have to say about it?

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You don't have to say all of the

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authentic narrations of Ibn Kathir?

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You don't have the incredible service that this

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man has done, the incredible qaboo that this

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man has for his Tafsir?

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That's all you can point to?

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Some people, they have that attitude.

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They will always notice.

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You'll have a community, you'll have a masjid

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that's doing well for ten years.

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But they'll only notice what's wrong with that

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community, what's wrong with that masjid.

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They bury people's sins.

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They bury people's good deeds.

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And they always showcase the sins.

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That's four or five?

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I promised you how many?

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Okay, number five is criticize the action and

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recognize that that is separate from the individual.

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My critique can be of the person's statement,

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my critique can be of the person's actions,

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but I don't assume that I know that

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person's intention or that person's standing in front

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of Allah.

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How could a person ever claim to know

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the intention of so-and-so?

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They're like, no, no, no, trust me.

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I've known them for five years.

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I know why they did it.

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Habibi, you don't even know why you do

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things.

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You yourself, you don't know why you do

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things.

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You're sitting there thinking about your intention and

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struggling with your intention.

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So how can you claim to know the

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intention of somebody else?

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That's ridiculous.

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That's insanity.

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And so I can critique the action, but

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then I'll add a sixth one.

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And this is an addition to that, which

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is to actually not only not criticize their

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intention, but to think well of them.

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As best as I can, let me be

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a builder.

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Let me be someone who's able to construct

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beautiful meanings.

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If something goes 50-50, let me always

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err on the sides of thinking well of

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this person.

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Umar ibn Khattab has a beautiful statement.

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I want you to write it down and

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then we'll be done.

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He says, Umar ibn Khattab says this.

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He says, Never think well, not never think

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well, never think ill of a word that

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comes out of any Muslim if you are

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able to find a good construction for it.

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Never think ill of a word that comes

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out from any Muslim if you are able

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to find a good construction for it.

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Shaykh Nasheikh Salah As-Salawi here in Houston.

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I heard him one time say that if

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a statement means kufr from 99 different angles

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and it means iman from one angle, then

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we are going to assume that it was

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meant to mean iman.

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That's how we try to navigate creating space

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for our brothers and sisters, creating flexibility where

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we can create flexibility, create positivity where we

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can.

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And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala knows best.

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May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala make us

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of those who are just.

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Wasalamu Alaikum Jazakumullah Khair

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