Aqeel Mahmood – Having Good Thoughts of Others Sign Language

Aqeel Mahmood
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The importance of having good thoughts of one another and being careful of one's words is emphasized in Islam. The worst-Verse is a false statement about Islam, which can lead to negative reactions and suspicious behavior. Shams and suspicions can build up in one's mind and affect one's behavior, and one should avoid false assumptions and backlash. Supportive and supportive behavior is also encouraged.
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Whenever the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam

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would go on an expedition,

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he would always take one of his wives

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with him.

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And on one of those expeditions, he took

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Ayush radiallahu anha with him.

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And on the way back, they camped outside

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of the city of Madinah because the sunnah

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was that he would always enter Madinah during

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the day as opposed to the night.

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When they camped outside of the city of

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Madinah, Ayyas Radiallahu Anha,

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she lost her necklace.

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And so

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she wandered around

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away from the camp looking for her necklace.

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And while she was away,

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the camp prepared to enter the city of

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Madina,

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forgetting her and leaving her behind.

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And when they left her behind, one of

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the companions radhiallahu anhu

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was

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also at the back of the camp,

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and he was also delayed. And he saw

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Ayes radhiallahu anha on her own, and he

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brought her back to the city of Madinah.

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And when

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Naira

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came back,

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unassuming

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anything

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evil

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was being said

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regarding her and her delay,

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she realized after a number of weeks that

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rumors had spread about her.

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And this incident is known as

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the incident of the ifq or the slander

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against Aisha radhiallahu anha.

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And this is a story which is well

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known from the seerah of the messenger of

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wazasul alaihi wa sallam.

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And

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these rumors continue to circulate

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amongst

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the companions

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and amongst the people in Madinah

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and they were instigated and started by the

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munafiqun,

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by the hypocrites.

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And some of the companions

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fell into the mistake and fell into the

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error of also being involved in spreading some

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of these rumors.

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Eventually, after

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much distress upon the Muslims and especially upon

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the messenger of Allah salallahu alaihi wa sallam

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and Aisha radiallahu anha,

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Allah

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himself

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sent down and revealed ayaat

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declaring the innocence of Aisha

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And these are the first few ayaat of

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Surat An Nur.

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And

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I want to talk today about one of

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the lessons that we can learn

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from this story

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which is the importance

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of having.

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The importance of having good thoughts of each

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other

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and being careful of su'udhan,

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having bad thoughts and being suspicious of others.

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And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala when he sent

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down these ayats declaring the innocence of A'is

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Radiallahu Anha,

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He said in one of these ayat,

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If only you had heard these slanders and

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these accusations,

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If only when you had heard these accusations,

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when you had heard these things,

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the believing men and the believing women

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thought good of one another.

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And they would say to each other, and

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if only they had told each other this

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is a big slander,

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a clear lie, a clear accusation against the

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Aisha radiAllahu anha, umwal mumineen.

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One of the greatest

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harms

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of having

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bad thoughts of one another brothers and sisters,

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is that it can cause

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distress just like it caused Ayesha had

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distress

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when she had this slander

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against her.

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It affected her

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It affected the messenger of Allah Subhanahu Wa

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Salam because it's one of his wives. It

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affected his family. It affected the family of

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Abu Bakr radiallahu an. And it affected the

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whole of the Muslim community.

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And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,

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he mentions in this ayah the importance of

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having having

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good thoughts of one another.

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And

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bad thoughts

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can end up being one of the major

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sins.

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If an individual has bad thoughts of Allah

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subhanahu wa ta'ala himself.

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One of the worst sins that a person

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can do, one of the greatest sins a

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person can do, is having bad thoughts of

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Allah

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himself. And that's when a person

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is experiencing some type of hardship or trial

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in his life,

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and he starts to show displeasure to Allah,

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or starts to question why

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Allah causes to happen to me.

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And he may even start to question Allah's

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power.

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Why didn't Allah save me from this?

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Why didn't Allah, the most powerful, save this

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harm and stop this happening in my life?

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Or a person makes dua and his dua

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isn't responded to. And so he starts to

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question

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the power of Allah, the knowledge of Allah

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and the abilities of Allah

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And when a person thinks

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along these lines, you're questioning

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the names and attributes of Allah. You're questioning

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Allah's power and Allah's knowledge.

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You're questioning things which Allah

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possesses and what makes him

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And when a person starts to question these

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things, a person's iman will decline.

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And when a person's iman starts to decline,

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he'll start to leave off acts of worship.

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And then you'll end up distancing yourself from

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Allah

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So when a person has bad thoughts of

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Allah

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himself,

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it can be something detrimental and harmful to

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his iman. Harmful to his faith. Harmful to

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his life.

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And it's something which is from the greatest

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sins.

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Imam Malik

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Rahimahullah,

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during his time,

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whenever there will be beggars,

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coming to him and his companions and his

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people

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in the city of Madinah,

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his companions

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and generally speaking this is sometimes things that

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Muslims do. When beggars come and they ask

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for money, sometimes we'll say Allah will provide

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for you. Allah will take care of you.

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When we don't wanna give anything, we'll just

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say Allah will take care of you. Allah

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will provide for you. But Imam Malik Rahimahullah,

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whenever beggars would come to him,

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he would always make other excuses.

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He would always say other things. He would

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go out of his way to make up

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other things, to say other things, not to

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give money. Without lying and without being untruthful.

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But he would never mention Allah's name.

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And whenever they asked him, or when they

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asked him, why do you do this?

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He said, because I don't want to mention

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Allah's name

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after not giving anything to them, and then

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they end up thinking badly of Allah himself.

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And this was the extent that the scholars

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would have of being careful about having husnudhan

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of Allah. To the extent that they wouldn't

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even

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allow and they wouldn't even want others to

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think badly of Allah because of the things

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that they may say to them.

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When we reflect brothers and sisters

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on

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suspicion and su'udhan,

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and how dangerous it can be, we look

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at the narration of the messenger of Allah

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sallallahu alaihi wa sallam which was

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said by Safiyyah radhiallahu anha, the wife of

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the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.

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She said that once I was with the

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messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and

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we were walking during the night.

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And 2 companions passed by, and when they

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saw us,

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they started to walk faster.

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And so the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi

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wa sallam,

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he rushed to them.

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And he said to them,

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Take it easy.

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This is Sophia who is with me. There's

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nobody else, it's my wife Sophia.

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And so the companion says, SubhanAllah,

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O Messenger of Allah, we never expected it

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to be anybody else. We wouldn't think anything

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badly we wouldn't think anything bad of you.

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We wouldn't have bad thoughts of who you

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would be associated with. And so the messenger

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of Allah

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he told them,

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That verily the shaytan

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runs

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in the body of the son of Adam

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like blood runs through his body.

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And I wanted to make sure that you

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wouldn't have any evil thoughts coming to you

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from shaitan.

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Meaning even the messenger of Allah was

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aware of the dangers of a person having

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suhudhan

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or being suspicious

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of what he sees or being suspicious of

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things that he hears.

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And today unfortunately we live in a society

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where

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sometimes if we see something or if we

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hear someone say something, the first thing we

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think is something evil. Meaning we become suspicious

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straight away of how a person behaves or

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what a person does.

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Whether it's towards us or whether it's towards

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somebody else.

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We call somebody on their phone and they

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don't respond. And we call them a second

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time, they don't respond. We text them, they

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still don't answer our text messages. And we

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think to ourselves, if you don't if you're

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not gonna answer my phone calls, at least

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respond to my text messages.

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And then we start to think he's got

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some kind of problem. He doesn't wanna talk

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to me. He doesn't like me. We start

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to become suspicious.

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And the simple fact maybe that he may

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have lost his phone,

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or his phone may have been off,

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or maybe he had other pressing needs.

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A person walks past somebody, and he gives

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salaam to him and he doesn't reply.

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And he thinks to he thinks to himself,

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why didn't he reply to me? Why didn't

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he reply when I gave salaam? You're supposed

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to reply when you give salaam. Maybe he

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doesn't like me. Maybe he wasn't gonna talk

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to me anymore.

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Maybe there's some issues there.

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And the simple fact maybe that something else

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was preoccupying his mind so much that he

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never even heard you.

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And the list goes on. A person may

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not be invited to

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the walima,

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or an invitation,

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or a party,

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and he starts to think why didn't that

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person invite me? And a person starts to

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become suspicious. A person starts to think of

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all kinds of things

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regarding why that person never invited me, why

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didn't he do this, why didn't he do

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that, why did he say this, what did

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he intend when he said this. And we

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start to become suspicious of those people.

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And this is as the messenger of Allah

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has told us, and as I mentioned, it's

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something which shaitan

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breeds up in our minds.

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Because shaitan runs through our veins just like

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blood.

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And we start to think of all these

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different types of thoughts, these different suspicions.

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And it's reported also

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in the sunnah

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that

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before the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa

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sallam,

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pank at Makkah,

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he prepared his army and Allah subhanahu wa

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ta'ala revealed to him

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that

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somebody was going to

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inform

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the people of Makkah that they were on

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their way.

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Because it was supposed to be a surprise

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attack.

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And so when they captured this individual, he

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was from the companions.

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He was a Muslim.

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And so the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi

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wa sallam

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told him

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that this letter

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was found

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and it's signed by you.

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Did you intend to send this letter to

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the people of Makkah telling them of our

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arrival? That we were leaving and on our

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way to Makkah. And he said, yes. And

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some of the companions, they said, Oh messenger

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of Allah,

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allow us to kill him and execute him

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right here.

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He's a munafiq.

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He's trying to tell them that we're on

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our way, and he would have spilled the

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beans.

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And so the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi

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wa sallam asked him, why did you do

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this?

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And this companion

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whose name was Hatib,

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he said, the old messenger of Allah,

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the only reason why

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I wanted to send this letter to Makkah

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was because I don't belong to any tribe

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in Mecca.

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I'm a muhajr, I came from Mecca.

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And I don't have any tribe that will

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support me and my family. I know my

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family are in Mecca, and no one will

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support them. No one will take care of

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them.

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So I was hoping that if I send

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this letter to the Quraysh in Makkah,

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that because of this letter, they'll be good

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to my family members, they'll take care of

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my family members because all of you, you

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have your tribes. And you have people who

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will take care of you and support you.

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And I don't have anybody.

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And so the messenger of Radha alaihi salatu

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wa sallam told the companions,

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leave him for verily he is speaking the

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truth.

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Even though in this situation a person would

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think this is

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somebody who's

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spilling the beans. He's somebody who's betraying the

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the the muslims.

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He's somebody who's bringing

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the safety and the security of the muslims

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into jeopardy.

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Yet even in this situation,

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the messenger of Allah had

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husnudhan of his companions.

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And he had good thoughts of the companions

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of of his own. Another story which shows

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the importance of having Khasnur Advan brothers and

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sisters

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is

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of one of the companions

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who

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went by the name of Abdullah.

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And this companion,

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he would always fall into the mistake of

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drinking alcohol.

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And each time he would drink alcohol he

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would be brought to the messenger of Allah

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salallahu alaihi wa sallam, and he would be

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punished.

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And one day he was brought to the

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messenger of Allah alaihi wasallam to be punished.

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And one of the companions he said,

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may Allah curse him.

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He's always coming to the messenger of Allah

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salalahu alaihi wasallam all the time for the

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same reason.

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And so the messenger of Allah sallam spoke

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and he said,

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don't curse

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him. For verily he loves Allah and his

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messenger.

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So even when an when a companion or

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when companions would commit these sins,

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the messenger of Allah will

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go out of his way

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to think good of them, to have good

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thoughts of them.

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And this is something which the companions did

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after them. And the scholars also brothers and

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sisters, they would also have good thoughts of

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each other.

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There's a story of Imam Shafi'i Rahimahullah

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that when he was sick, a man came

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to him

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and he said to him,

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oh Allahu Gafaaq,

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may Allah strengthen your weakness. Meaning may Allah

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make you better. And so imam Shafi'i, he

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said if Allah strengthens my weakness then that's

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gonna kill me.

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And so he said I only intended good.

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I didn't actually mean that.

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And so Imam Shafi'i, he said, even if

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you had cursed me,

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I wouldn't have thought that you intended some

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kind of harm.

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But instead say, may Allah strengthen your strength

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and weakness your weakness.

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For even the companions brothers and sisters, they

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would have Even the scholars they would have

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good thoughts of one another. They would think

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good of each other. They wouldn't think badly

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of one another.

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Another one of the scholars of the past,

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he once told his students,

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he said, I said alhamdulillah

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once,

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and because of my statement alhamdulillah,

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I made lots of istighfar.

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And so they said, How can you make

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istighfar for saying

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Saying is a good thing?

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And he told them that people came to

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me from my city, from my town, and

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they said there was a fire that took

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place in your town destroying everything.

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Nothing remained,

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except for your shop

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with your possessions.

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That's the only thing that survived. And so

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I said, Alhamdulillah.

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And then I remembered and I realized

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the misfortune that befell the rest of the

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people in that town. And I felt bad

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and I felt guilty for thinking of myself

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and not thinking of other individuals.

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So I started to make istighfar

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because of the shortcoming,

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because I only thought about myself.

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The companions also,

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they would, the scholars also they would

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go out of their way

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to think good of others,

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even if a person was doing something

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haram.

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Once one of the scholars, he was sitting

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with his students,

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and a group of people came and they

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were singing,

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and they were dancing.

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And so

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the scholar,

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he made dua,

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and he said, oh Allah

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give them happiness in the akhirah,

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just like they are happy now.

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Just like they are happy now, give them

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happiness in the akhira.

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And the people around him, they said, how

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can you make dua for these people when

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they're they're dancing and they're singing out on

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the street?

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And he told them, wouldn't you like Allah

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subhanahu wa ta'ala to give them happiness

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in the akhira

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just like they are happy now?

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So we see from these stories, brothers and

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sisters, we see from these narrations

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that

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and good thoughts of one another

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is something which is encouraged in Islam.

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And it's something which if a person does,

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he relieves these bad thoughts from his mind.

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And it frees him from possibly doing things

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which may be haram.

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Allah

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He tells us in the Quran and warns

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us against suspicion

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and thinking badly of one another. And He

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tells us in the Quran,

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Oh you who believe

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Stay away from lots of suspicion.

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Stop being suspicious of each other.

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Verily some suspicion is sinful.

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And don't spy on one another.

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And don't backbite one another.

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In this ayah, tells

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us the dangers of suspicion.

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And he warns us to stay away from

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suspicion and stay away from su'udhan and bad

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thoughts of each other.

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And then he tells us to stay away

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from spying,

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and from gossiping, and backbiting.

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Why does Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mention spying

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and gossiping

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after he talks about having bad thoughts and

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being suspicious of each other?

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The scholars they say that when a person

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starts to become suspicious of someone,

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maybe someone is doing something. I heard this

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person smokes, I heard he drinks alcohol,

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I heard he's going out with this individual.

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A person will start to go out of

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his way to see if he's right,

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And he may end up spying on that

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person.

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He'll start to follow that person wherever he

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goes, just to see whether his suspicions were

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true.

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And that person, when he's on his own,

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and he's being followed, no doubt he's going

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to fall into some type of haram.

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In fact a person with iman, a person

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with faith,

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will commit sins in private because he knows

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their sins.

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He knows it's something which is haram.

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And so when someone accompanies somebody and that

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person is unknowing

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to this hidden company,

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and he starts to commit sins,

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that person will see him committing those sins,

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and then he'll go

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after spying on him, which Allah has forbidden

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us from in this ayah, and he'll start

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to gossip about him to others.

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So we see brothers and sisters, the effects

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of having su'udhan.

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You may end up

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seeing someone doing something haram,

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as a result of you spying on him,

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which Allah has forbidden.

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And then you may end up gossiping to

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others about what you saw.

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And so we see the dangers of how

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su'udhan

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can end up becoming not just suspicion,

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but a reason for a person committing lots

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of sins.

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A reason for a person committing multiple sins

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just for him having this simple suspicion.

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One of the ways

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that a person can rid himself

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of having this suspicion

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is

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by making sure and ensuring that whenever he

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hears something evil about somebody,

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whenever he hears something bad about somebody,

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instead of contributing,

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and

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you know,

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increasing their suspicion

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and talking more about that person in a

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negative way,

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instead of doing that, making dua for that

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person.

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Supplicating

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for him.

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And this is why the messenger of Allah

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told us,

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that when a person

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covers and conceals the faults of a Muslim

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in this world,

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Allah

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will conceal his sins and conceal his faults

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on the day of judgment.

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And also when a person hears

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somebody

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having su'udhan of another individual

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in his company, in his presence,

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he should protect him and say good things

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about him. Make excuses for him.

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Maybe he said those things

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because he was stressed about something else.

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Maybe he never gave salaam to you or

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never spoke to you because he's preoccupied with

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something.

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Maybe he never came round because he has

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guests coming round his house.

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Making excuses for your brothers is something which

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actually increases the love that you might have

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for each other.

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And this is why one of the scholars,

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he said that if something reaches you about

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your Muslim brother or sister,

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then come up with some kind of excuse.

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And if you can't come up with some

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kind of excuse,

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then say maybe he has some excuse. Maybe

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he has a reason to do why he

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did.

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Even if you can't come up with something

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specific,

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just make something up.

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When a person

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has

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good thoughts of his Muslim brothers and sisters,

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it's a way of him relieving the stress,

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and the hatred, and the anger from his

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heart. Because one of the reasons why a

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person will become suspicious of somebody,

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is because of preconceived notions,

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or

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things which happened

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previously between you and them.

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Maybe something happened, maybe you never got along,

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maybe there was a business deal that went

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bad, maybe you had an argument,

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whatever the case maybe.

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Something happened between you and them, and then

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later

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in your life, further down the line,

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you hear something about that person, and because

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of those bad experiences

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that you had,

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you start to make suspicions, and start to

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have evil thoughts and bad thoughts of that

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person.

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Because of the way you feel about that

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individual, because of those evil

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feelings that you have, because of the conflict

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that you had in the past.

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And so when a person instead has good

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thoughts of a person,

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it relieves him and removes that hatred he

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may have from his heart.

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And also,

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when a person has good thoughts brothers and

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sisters, a person becomes just,

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and you start to see things clearer.

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You start to become just with regards to

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what a person said, and what a person

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did. There's no preconceived notions

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about how a person behaved

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based on the way he's dealt with you

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previously, and what he did.

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And so I'd like to remind

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myself and every single one of us

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of the dangers of having su'udhan,

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and having bad thoughts of one another.

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And how in fact

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having good thoughts of each other will increase

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the love and the brotherhood between us.

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We're living in

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a time where

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Muslims need to remain united,

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and we need to support one another.

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We're living in a time where people are

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attacking us from left and right, and from

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all over,

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regarding any single issue that they can find.

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And so it's important for us to

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stick together, to support one another. Because if

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we don't support our fellow muslim brothers and

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sisters, and think good of each other,

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then when non Muslims start to accuse Muslims

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of something,

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straight away we'll agree with them.

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We won't even wanna defend our Muslim brothers

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and sisters,

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because we were already suspicious of them. We

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already had of them. We already had bad

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thoughts of them.

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So when we think good of one another

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brothers and sisters,

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it strengthens the community.

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It makes us better. It makes us stronger.

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We ask Allah

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that he removes this illness

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of su'udhan from our hearts, and that

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Allah strengthens our communities

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and strengthens us as an Ummah.

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