Aqeel Mahmood – Year the Prophets Shuab

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The interviewer emphasizes the importance of trustworthiness in businesses and individuals, highlighting the need for honest behavior and not lying. They advise paying off debts and increasing giving, emphasizing the importance of showing Treasitiveness to the messenger of Allah's law and giving advice on increasing giving. The interviewer also advises paying off debts and increasing giving, highlighting the need for Treasitiveness to show.

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			Today, we're going to be,
		
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			talking
		
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			about the story of
		
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			a prophet from the prophets of Allah.
		
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			Shoaib alaihis salaam.
		
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			And Shoaib alaihis salaam story
		
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			is mentioned
		
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			in
		
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			2 different sections of the Quran.
		
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			And
		
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			And
		
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			they mentioned similar stories,
		
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			but with some details added in some details,
		
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			included
		
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			in
		
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			one that aren't mentioned in the other and
		
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			vice versa.
		
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			And
		
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			Shoaib alaihi salam
		
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			was a prophet of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			who came after
		
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			prophet Lut alaihi salam,
		
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			and
		
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			he was
		
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			sent as a messenger
		
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			to the people
		
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			in an area
		
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			which would be
		
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			considered to be the modern,
		
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			country of Syria.
		
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			Sham, that area.
		
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			And
		
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			the place where he was sent and his
		
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			people that, he was sent to,
		
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			they lived,
		
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			you could say, today on the border of
		
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			Syria and the east of Saudi Arabia, the
		
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			Hejaz area. So the Hejaz area of Saudi
		
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			Arabia, the the western area of Saudi Arabia
		
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			is Mecca, Medina, etcetera, that area.
		
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			And Syria is obviously
		
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			west of Saudi Arabia, and the land that,
		
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			Sho'aib was from was around there, around the
		
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			on the border of,
		
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			the Hejaz
		
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			and, modern day Syria or Sham.
		
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			And
		
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			a few things I wanted to mention before
		
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			we go into the story of Shoaib alaihis
		
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			salaam.
		
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			Other than where he came from,
		
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			is who specifically
		
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			was.
		
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			Because
		
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			there are
		
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			there's not that much that's mentioned about
		
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			the life of
		
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			and
		
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			with regards to his story as we mentioned,
		
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			there are 2
		
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			areas in the Quran which talk about it.
		
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			And
		
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			there are a number of
		
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			things which sometimes we,
		
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			confuse
		
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			with regards to Shoaib alaihis salam and who
		
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			he was.
		
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			First of all,
		
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			in a hadith of the messenger of Allah,
		
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			he told us about some of the attributes
		
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			and some of the characteristics
		
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			of Shoaib alaihis salam.
		
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			And it's a hadith in
		
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			I'm not sure of its authenticity,
		
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			but it's something which is mentioned. It's something
		
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			which is there.
		
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			Where the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
		
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			he talked about
		
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			and he said,
		
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			in fact,
		
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			He said in a hadith that
		
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			when the messenger of Allah
		
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			would mention
		
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			he
		
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			would say,
		
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			He would say that is
		
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			the
		
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			of the prophets.
		
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			And it said that he was somebody who
		
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			was eloquent
		
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			and,
		
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			very
		
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			well spoken,
		
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			and he was
		
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			in terms of speaking.
		
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			And that's why it said that he was
		
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			known as
		
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			because of his eloquence
		
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			of his speech.
		
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			Another thing
		
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			related to Shoaib alaihis salam
		
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			is a misconception
		
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			that,
		
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			many
		
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			have
		
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			related to,
		
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			the prophet,
		
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			and another that
		
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			was,
		
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			met by Musa alaihi salaam during his lifetime.
		
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			Musa alaihi salaam
		
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			in a narration or or aya. Ayat
		
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			in fact in Surat Al Kasas, Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala talks about the story of Musa
		
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			alaihi salaam when he fled from
		
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			after he had killed that man from the
		
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			army
		
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			of who was harming someone from Bani Israel.
		
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			And he fled
		
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			and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, he talks about
		
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			the story in Surah Qasas about how he
		
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			went to a place and he went to
		
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			the well of Midian.
		
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			And this is the same name of the
		
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			people of Shoaib alaihis salam.
		
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			Allah says,
		
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			And to the people of Madyan we sent
		
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			them their brother Shoaib.
		
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			So here also
		
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			the term Madyan is mentioned. Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala, he says that when he came to
		
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			a well
		
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			in Madyan or the well of Madyan,
		
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			he saw
		
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			people there, a group of people there.
		
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			And they were taking water out of of
		
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			the well.
		
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			Okay. A large group of people. And maybe
		
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			some of you have heard the story, and
		
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			he found 2 women who were standing
		
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			alongside,
		
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			and they were standing away from the crowd.
		
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			And
		
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			he asked
		
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			them and they said he he said what
		
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			is what's what's going on here? Why aren't
		
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			you taking water from from the well like
		
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			everybody else?
		
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			And so they said
		
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			They said we're not gonna, get any water
		
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			out until the crowd disperses.
		
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			Now our father is an old man,
		
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			which is why we are here.
		
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			And so Musa alaihi salaam, to to cut
		
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			the story short, he went and he got
		
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			water for them even though he had just
		
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			fled from the rawn and he's distressed. He
		
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			has nowhere to go. He has no helpers.
		
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			No one to take care of him. No
		
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			one to help him except Allah. Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala. He takes, some water out of
		
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			the well for them. He gives it to
		
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			them. They go to their father, and their
		
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			father is an old man, and he is
		
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			mentioned as being called Shoaib.
		
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			And so
		
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			some confuse
		
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			this Shoaib with the prophet Shoaib alaihis salam,
		
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			and there's an
		
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			opinion that's mentioned by Imam al Hasan al
		
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			Basri, one of the famous scholars of the
		
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			past,
		
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			who,
		
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			mentioned that this is the same.
		
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			Whereas the majority opinion is that it was
		
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			somebody else. It wasn't the same.
		
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			This which Musa alaihis salam, met. And they
		
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			gave a number of reasons, a couple of
		
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			reasons. First of all,
		
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			the time span.
		
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			So historians and scholars of tariq, scholars of
		
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			history,
		
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			they say that
		
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			up the distance or the time span between
		
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			prophet Musa alaihi salam and this prophet Shoaib
		
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			alaihi salam
		
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			is around 2000 years.
		
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			So
		
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			it's a time span which,
		
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			you know, wouldn't make sense
		
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			because of how long is between Shoaib alaihis
		
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			salam, the prophet of Allah, and Musa alaihis
		
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			salam. So it wouldn't make sense for them
		
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			to have met because of the huge amount
		
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			of time that's gone by after Shoaib alaihis
		
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			salam's, death.
		
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			Another thing which is also mentioned is the
		
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			fact that in this story which is mentioned
		
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			in the Quran, Surakasas of Musa alaihis salam,
		
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			getting water for these 2, these 2 women,
		
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			the daughters of Shoaib.
		
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			They mention a social issue,
		
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			which is that of course, Shuayb alaihi salam,
		
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			as we'll see in this story, Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala saved him.
		
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			And his people were punished as a result
		
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			of their sins.
		
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			And of course, the people they knew, those
		
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			who were with him who were saved, they
		
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			of course believed in him and they were
		
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			they were followers
		
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			of prophet Shoaib alaihis salam. They were Muslim.
		
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			And
		
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			the prophets and messengers of the past were
		
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			people who were loved. There were people who
		
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			were respected.
		
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			So some of the scholars they say it
		
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			doesn't make sense
		
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			that if he did live,
		
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			let's just say for 2,000 years, just for
		
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			argument's sake, let's say he did live for
		
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			that long and he had daughters,
		
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			and the daughters went to get water, people
		
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			would of course
		
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			give him and his family that respect that
		
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			he deserves as a prophet and as a
		
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			messenger of Allah.
		
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			And so the last thing we would expect
		
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			is that the the daughters would be there
		
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			and that they wouldn't be shown that respect
		
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			and that honor that they should be shown
		
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			considering that they're supposed to be the daughters
		
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			of Shu'aib, the prophet Shu'aib alaihis salaam. So
		
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			there's a couple of things which I mentioned
		
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			regarding
		
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			how this which
		
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			is mentioned in Surah Qasas,
		
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			that Musa alaihi salaam meant can't be the
		
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			same
		
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			which is the prophet of Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala.
		
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			The people of Madyan,
		
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			the
		
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			land in which
		
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			was sent to,
		
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			they were Arab people who lived in
		
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			an area which is known as or was
		
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			known as Ma'an. And I mentioned that is
		
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			the part of the of Syria today.
		
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			And
		
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			they were individuals
		
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			who suffered from
		
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			many illnesses and,
		
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			diseases
		
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			which corrupted their hearts.
		
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			Mainly, of course, they would associate partners with
		
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			Allah,
		
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			and also they were people who were very,
		
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			greedy.
		
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			And they used to seek
		
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			wealth from
		
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			any means, by any means that they could.
		
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			Whether it was something legitimate or illegitimate, something
		
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			which is permissible or impermissible,
		
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			they would cheat and they would lie so
		
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			long as they were able to,
		
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			earn more money.
		
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			And as a result of this,
		
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			they led wicked lives, deceiving others, cheating others
		
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			of their wealth, and it was just the
		
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			lifestyle that they had.
		
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			And also they would give, whenever they would
		
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			sell something,
		
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			they would or even buy something, they would
		
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			try their best to cheat the the individual
		
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			that they were doing business with. So for
		
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			example, if they were selling something, they would
		
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			cheat the scales.
		
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			They would, give short measure. So if somebody
		
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			was buying something, they wouldn't give them
		
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			the amount,
		
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			that they paid for. They would give them
		
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			less than what they paid for. For example,
		
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			a kilo of of of wheat or whatever
		
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			the case may be, dates, whatever it is.
		
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			So if they bought a kilo, they would
		
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			measure it, but they wouldn't measure it properly
		
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			or they would have their own ways of
		
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			of cheating the customer. And so there maybe
		
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			they would give 750 grams, for example, just
		
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			as an example, using this this weight as
		
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			an example.
		
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			So they would give less than what, the
		
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			customer actually bought.
		
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			So this is something which was very common
		
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			and prevalent amongst the people of Shuayb alaihis
		
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			salam.
		
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			They would praise their goods also.
		
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			Anything which would make them get more money.
		
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			So they would praise their goods beyond
		
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			what they were actually worth.
		
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			Okay. They would say that it has this
		
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			and that, and they would say things about
		
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			their products, which
		
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			maybe weren't true. They would praise them beyond
		
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			their worth, and also they would hide their
		
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			defects.
		
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			So if there's any if there was anything
		
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			wrong with their products, if there was anything
		
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			wrong with their defects, they wouldn't tell, the
		
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			people that were buying it about those defects.
		
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			So they would hide certain things about those
		
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			products and things that they were selling. They
		
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			would,
		
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			praise their goods beyond what they were actually
		
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			worth and beyond the value that they actually
		
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			had. They would give short measure.
		
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			Also, he said that they would lie to
		
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			their customers
		
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			and completely just make make things up.
		
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			And, you know, when you hear,
		
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			these kinds of attributes of these people, it's
		
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			amazing how
		
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			similar it is to business today.
		
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			Like, it's something which is actually common today.
		
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			When you buy something, when you buy a
		
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			product,
		
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			you know, people praise those products more than
		
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			they're actually
		
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			more than they're actually worth.
		
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			You know, it's like
		
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			a phone or a car or whatever it
		
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			is that make it seem like the best
		
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			best thing since sliced bread is the best
		
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			thing ever. You're never gonna find anything as
		
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			as as great as this, and so they
		
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			praise it so much.
		
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			And
		
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			when you buy an when you buy something,
		
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			sometimes
		
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			or when even as as Muslims, when we
		
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			sell something that's unfortunate, sometimes we don't wanna
		
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			tell the other person about those defects.
		
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			That something may have. Or when we buy
		
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			something for example, we're not told about the
		
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			defects of whatever it is that we bought.
		
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			Let's say we bought a car, we bought
		
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			something else. We weren't told.
		
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			Okay. Even if it was something,
		
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			big in some cases,
		
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			we weren't we weren't told.
		
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			I remember once,
		
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			my brother, he bought he bought a car,
		
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			it's like a long time ago, and it
		
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			was like a it was his first car.
		
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			It was a Metro, like a red Metro.
		
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			And when he bought the car,
		
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			this is a long time ago, guys. Okay?
		
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			It wasn't like a few years ago. So
		
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			it's a long time ago.
		
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			He bought the car, and I can't remember
		
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			how much it was, but when we when
		
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			we got home,
		
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			you know, they have the mats
		
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			on on the where you put your feet,
		
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			the mats
		
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			by the pedals.
		
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			When they moved the mat, they found a
		
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			hole
		
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			where you could see the road.
		
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			It was like a big hole in the
		
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			car. So you can actually see
		
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			the roads, there's a big hole
		
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			in the car.
		
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			So and we weren't, obviously, we weren't told
		
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			we weren't told about that. The point being,
		
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			okay, sometimes people do whatever they can, try
		
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			to get rid of something. They'll praise it.
		
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			They'll say good things about it, or they'll
		
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			say things which maybe that the product isn't,
		
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			you
		
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			know worthy
		
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			of and even things as as big as
		
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			this, okay, they won't even mention, they won't
		
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			clarify,
		
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			they won't tell you before,
		
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			you buy it. And we'll mention some of
		
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			these things at the end insha'Allah about some
		
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			of the etiquettes of buying and selling, because,
		
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			subhanAllah,
		
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			it's something which these people, the people of
		
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			Shu'aib, alaihis salam, they were punished as a
		
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			result of this.
		
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			This is what's mentioned in the Quran.
		
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			Okay. This is what they did. These are
		
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			their sins,
		
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			that they would do these types of things
		
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			when it came to buying and selling.
		
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			So sometimes when we just think it's it's
		
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			nothing, it's minor, it's a small thing,
		
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			it's one of the reasons why these people
		
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			ended up,
		
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			ended up worshiping or ended up being punished
		
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			as a result of, them doing these things
		
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			and also not worshiping Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			So this story is mentioned
		
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			in the Quran. First of all in Surah
		
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			Al Aaraf
		
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			and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala as a result
		
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			of the sins of these people and them
		
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			being misguided. And of course they committed shirk,
		
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			they would worship
		
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			all kinds of things. It said that they
		
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			would also worship,
		
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			trees.
		
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			Because
		
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			in
		
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			Surah,
		
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			Surah,
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, when he talks about
		
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			the story of shayb alaihi salam, he says
		
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			That the companions or the people of
		
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			they denied
		
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			their messenger
		
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			or their messengers. They denied their messengers.
		
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			And so
		
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			the scholars they say, what does aca mean?
		
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			They say aca means a tree which is
		
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			in a group of trees.
		
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			Okay? Or a thicket. A thicket is like
		
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			a group of trees bunched together.
		
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			So the people of the thicket. So there
		
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			was a specific tree which they gave devotion
		
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			to, and they would end up worshiping it
		
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			worshiping it. It said that,
		
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			this tree was a tree which maybe belonged
		
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			to a righteous person of the past, or
		
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			it had some kind of
		
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			attachment or connection to, you know, righteous people
		
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			of the past. And so, of course, like
		
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			people do when they give something too much
		
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			importance,
		
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			they end up showing more reverence
		
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			to these things which are of no benefit.
		
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			And even today, that's the case. You know,
		
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			with good luck charms and bad luck charms,
		
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			it's the same principle. It's the same thing.
		
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			You know, you you consider these types of
		
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			things to have certain powers and certain abilities
		
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			when they're just rocks or stones or leaves
		
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			or whatever the case may be.
		
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			So
		
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			they used to,
		
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			commit shirk and they used to worship,
		
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			trees and they used to commit, shirk and
		
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			disobey Allah
		
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			by cheating others
		
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			and and
		
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			making sure that they made profits even if
		
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			it was by Haram means. And in Surah
		
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			Al Arab Allah
		
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			he says
		
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			and to the people of Madin we sent
		
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			their brother Shoaib.
		
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			And so he told the people
		
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			He said, oh people,
		
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			my people worship Allah. You have no
		
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			God except him.
		
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			And then he said,
		
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			Verily there has come to you clear evidence
		
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			from your Lord.
		
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			So the first thing Allah says,
		
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			through the time of Shoaib alaihis salam,
		
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			is him telling his people that they should
		
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			worship Allah.
		
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			Meaning they were committing shirk. Then he says,
		
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			So fulfill the measure and the wait.
		
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			And don't deprive people of their due.
		
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			Don't give less than what they deserve, and
		
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			don't take, more than what,
		
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			they're supposed to give.
		
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			And don't cause corruption on the earth
		
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			after its reformation, after things have been rectified.
		
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			So of course the previous prophets and messengers
		
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			that came, the earth was rectified, and now
		
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			there's corruption again, once again on earth. And
		
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			then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says that said
		
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			to his people,
		
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			that is better for you if you should
		
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			be believers. So Shoaib alaihis salam,
		
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			he's telling the people first and foremost
		
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			to worship Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and not
		
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			associate partners with Allah. And then he goes
		
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			on to,
		
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			the
		
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			faults and the sins that they're committing and
		
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			addressing those sins, which is cheating the people,
		
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			not fulfilling the measure and the weight, and
		
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			deprive depriving people of their due.
		
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			And
		
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			maybe I've mentioned this before about the importance
		
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			of
		
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			calling people first and foremost to the worship
		
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			of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			Because even with regards to etiquettes of how
		
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			we deal with other people and manners and
		
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			buying and selling and, you know, all the
		
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			other benefits which Islam,
		
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			comes with,
		
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			Sometimes a person may agree with the way
		
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			we sacrifice an animal, taking out all of
		
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			the blood, because as some of you may
		
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			or may not know, non Muslims, they don't
		
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			drain the blood out of their of their
		
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			meat. That's one of the differences between
		
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			us and them when we sacrifice our animals.
		
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			And so a person, he may hear about
		
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			what we do and how we, you know,
		
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			sacrifice the animal. He may be impressed. He
		
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			may even start to eat halal food because
		
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			of the way we slaughter our animals. Maybe
		
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			he likes the way we dress,
		
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			okay. Maybe it's a modest way of dressing,
		
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			for example. Maybe he likes the Ikhlaq of
		
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			a Muslim, etc, etc.
		
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			But ultimately at the end of the day
		
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			if the person doesn't believe in Allah, none
		
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			of those things are worth anything.
		
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			And also,
		
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			when a person
		
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			submits to Allah,
		
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			he's
		
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			automatically
		
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			submitting
		
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			to
		
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			specific things
		
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			related to Allah.
		
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			Meaning, he's
		
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			he's relate he's
		
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			submitting to
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala who is also
		
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			the most wise,
		
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			the most knowledgeable,
		
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			the the most powerful.
		
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			And so automatically
		
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			if a person starts to submit to Allah
		
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			and starts to,
		
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			believe in the existence of Allah,
		
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			then naturally anything which Allah ordains,
		
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			he's going to
		
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			agree with. He's going to accept.
		
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			Even if maybe some of those things he
		
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			may not understand, or he may have difficulty
		
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			understanding, or he doesn't, you know, he's not
		
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			fully on board with, but the fact that
		
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			he believes and obeys Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
		
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			straightaway,
		
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			by default,
		
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			he's going to accept anything which Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala says.
		
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			Whether or not he actually fulfills those obligations
		
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			are a different matter,
		
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			but the fact that he's believed in Allah
		
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			and he's believed in the messenger of Allah
		
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			salallahu alaihi wa sallam
		
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			is
		
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			more important than him agreeing with some of
		
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			the aspects of Islam, and he's impressed by
		
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			them,
		
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			and he doesn't become a Muslim.
		
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			So that's why, you know, this is fundamental.
		
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			Because when you
		
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			tell people about the worship of Allah Subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala, you're telling them about
		
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			everything that that comes with. You're telling them
		
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			about
		
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			everything
		
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			that Islam comes with once they basically accept
		
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			Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			as the one and only true God. But
		
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			if they don't accept this then they may
		
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			just pick and choose and think that certain
		
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			things are okay and certain things aren't.
		
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			If they haven't really grasped grasped and understood,
		
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			you know, the the greatness and wisdom of
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So Shoaib alaihis salam
		
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			here, he's calling them to the worship of
		
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			Allah.
		
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			And he's begging them begging them to be
		
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			mindful
		
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			of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's favors upon them.
		
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			Warning them of the consequences
		
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			of the evil ways.
		
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			But
		
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			what ends up happening is they start to
		
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			mock him. They start to make fun of
		
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			him. They start to,
		
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			mock,
		
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			what he's saying
		
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			and deny the message. Shoaib alaihis salam
		
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			remains calm, and he reminds them of
		
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			his kinship to them, as is mentioned
		
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			in,
		
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			other parts of the Quran.
		
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			And
		
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			that what he's doing isn't
		
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			for personal gain.
		
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			He's not doing it for his own benefit,
		
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			and this is mentioned
		
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			when,
		
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			Shoaib alaihi salam says in Surah
		
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			Ashura.
		
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			He
		
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			says
		
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			that I don't ask you for any payment
		
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			for what I'm doing, before I'm for for
		
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			what I'm calling you to.
		
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			My payment is only from the Lord of
		
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			the worlds.
		
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			So there's no financial gain in what I'm
		
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			calling you to. This is something
		
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			which I I'm not interested in the financial
		
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			rewards that I may be given because my
		
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			reward is with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			And then
		
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			Shoaib alaihi salam,
		
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			he continues to
		
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			tell them about the things that they're doing
		
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			that's causing harm.
		
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			And he mentioned some other traits
		
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			other than them cheating other people as a
		
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			result of, you know, wanting to earn more
		
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			money.
		
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			They used to do even worse things or
		
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			even more things
		
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			to harm the people and to earn more
		
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			money.
		
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			So he told them
		
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			He says don't sit on every path
		
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			threatening and averting from the way of Allah
		
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			those who believe in him
		
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			seeking to make
		
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			it seem deviant.
		
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			So the scholars they said what this means
		
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			is that they would sit
		
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			in the pathways,
		
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			on the roads,
		
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			on the routes,
		
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			and they would wait for caravans to come,
		
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			travelers to come, and they would basically go
		
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			and they would force those caravans and those
		
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			travelers to give them their own wealth. Robbers,
		
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			basically.
		
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			Highway robbers.
		
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			So they would rob people of their wealth.
		
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			So it wasn't enough
		
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			that when they would trade with other people,
		
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			they would basically
		
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			cheat them of their wealth, they would take
		
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			more, and they would lie about their products
		
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			and, you know,
		
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			tip the scales so that they were
		
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			making more money. But they would also
		
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			rob those individuals who were traveling
		
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			on their roots, minding their own business, and
		
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			they would go out of their way. They
		
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			would rob those caravans, and they would take
		
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			money which didn't
		
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			belong to them.
		
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			Shoaib, he would say,
		
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			He says to them, and remember when you
		
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			were few and he increased you. Meaning Allah
		
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			was
		
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			the one who increased you in number.
		
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			He was the one who honored you. He
		
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			was the one who gave you the strength
		
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			that you have.
		
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			See how was the end
		
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			of those who caused corruption.
		
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			Look at the path. Look at those who
		
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			came before you, and what happened to them.
		
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			How Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala punished them.
		
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			And
		
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			then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala he says
		
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			that Shoaib alaihi salam told them
		
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			And if there should be a group among
		
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			you
		
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			who has believed
		
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			in that which I have been sent,
		
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			and
		
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			a group that has not believed
		
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			Then be patient until Allah judges between
		
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			and he is the one who is the
		
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			best of judges. So
		
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			is telling them
		
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			that if there should be a group of
		
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			you who ends up believing in that which
		
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			I have sent,
		
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			and a group that haven't
		
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			believed
		
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			have patience, oh you who have believed until
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala judges
		
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			between us. Because if there are individuals who
		
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			are believing in and
		
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			worshiping Allah,
		
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			they're basically individuals who are going against the
		
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			grain.
		
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			They're going against the norms of society.
		
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			They're going against what's considered to be, you
		
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			know, normal
		
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			and
		
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			perfectly,
		
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			you know, fine behavior
		
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			such as
		
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			cheating and,
		
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			you know, not being honest with regards to
		
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			trade, etcetera, etcetera, and worshiping whatever they were
		
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			worshiping. And so when you're going against the
		
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			norms, when you're going against society,
		
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			naturally it's going to be harder for you
		
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			to remain on that path which Allah Subhanahu
		
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			Wa Ta'ala has guided you to. And this
		
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			has always been the case. It's always been
		
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			the case and the same is today.
		
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			Just like the messenger of Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala he told us that Islam is something
		
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			strange. It it began as something strange and
		
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			it would end as something strange. It would
		
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			finish as something strange.
		
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			So
		
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			when a person believes in Allah
		
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			and the worship of Allah
		
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			even though it's something which is
		
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			part of the fitrah.
		
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			Everything that Islam comes with is something which
		
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			is natural. It's something which makes sense.
		
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			But because of society and the corruption in
		
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			society,
		
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			an individual
		
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			finds it very hard to
		
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			express his faith
		
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			because
		
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			the majority of the people will find it
		
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			strange.
		
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			It's something which isn't the norm. And so
		
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			Shoaib alaihis salam
		
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			is telling them to have patience.
		
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			Because when a person has patience over the,
		
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			decree of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala over what
		
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			other people do or say towards him,
		
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			This is one of the strongest,
		
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			things
		
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			that a person can have and the most
		
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			rewarding.
		
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			Because impatience
		
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			will lead to a person becoming,
		
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			becoming rash
		
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			in the things that he says, in the
		
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			things that he does, in his behavior,
		
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			in his actions.
		
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			And so he'll end up doing and saying
		
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			things
		
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			which maybe he's doing
		
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			to appeal to those who don't believe in
		
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			Allah.
		
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			To appease those who don't worship Allah.
		
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			And as a result of this, he'll end
		
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			up giving up on the values
		
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			and the principles which he believes in as
		
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			a Muslim.
		
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			This is all as a result of a
		
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			lack of patience.
		
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			When you're patient with what Allah has decreed,
		
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			you're patient with the rulings and commandments of
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			That's going to help you persevere in times
		
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			of difficulty.
		
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			So
		
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			the people of Shoaib, they responded and they
		
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			said,
		
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			the eminent ones, the respected ones. You could
		
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			say the politicians of that time.
		
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			Those who were the seniors, the elders.
		
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			Those are people looked up to and respected.
		
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			Those who were powerful.
		
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			Those who were of status, the eminent ones,
		
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			and they were arrogant.
		
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			From his people,
		
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			they
		
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			said,
		
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			we'll throw you out, oh Shoaib,
		
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			and those who believe
		
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			along with you.
		
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			From your town, from your city, or from
		
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			our city they said. They never said to
		
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			your city. They said our city.
		
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			From our city.
		
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			So now he's already become an outcast.
		
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			He's somebody who is not part of their
		
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			of their city. He's not their people anymore,
		
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			even though he's from amongst them. Even though
		
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			he's one of them.
		
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			Now that he's called to other than what
		
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			they were worshiping and what they are used
		
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			to and other than the practices that they
		
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			would do, now he's not even a a
		
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			part of their, you know, their town anymore.
		
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			He's not one of them anymore. So he's
		
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			become an outcast.
		
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			We'll throw you out of the city, of
		
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			our city, along with your people,
		
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			or you must return to our religion.
		
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			So either you leave
		
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			or
		
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			you
		
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			worship what we're worshiping,
		
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			you return
		
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			to our religion.
		
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			And so he replies and he says,
		
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			He says even if we're unwilling,
		
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			meaning even if we don't want to, you're
		
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			forcing us to do something that we don't
		
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			want to do. You're forcing us to worship
		
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			something that we don't want to worship.
		
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			Meaning they would rather these individuals
		
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			worship what they're worshiping
		
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			even though they weren't sincere. And
		
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			subhanallah, look at the justice of Allah
		
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			with regards to somebody who
		
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			becomes a Muslim, but he was forced to
		
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			become a Muslim.
		
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			If a person is forced to become a
		
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			Muslim, then he's not a Muslim.
		
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			Nothing
		
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			is
		
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			obligated upon that individual
		
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			because he didn't want to become Muslim in
		
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			the first place.
		
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			This is why Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. He
		
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			says
		
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			there is no compulsion in religion.
		
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			And for us, this may seem like a
		
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			normal thing. It may something which makes sense.
		
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			You can't force someone to accept a religion
		
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			that he's not gonna he's not gonna abide
		
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			by, he's not gonna follow.
		
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			But if we look back in history,
		
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			you look at the the Christians
		
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			and and the Jews,
		
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			and how
		
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			they would force people to accept their faith
		
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			is something which was actually common. It was
		
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			very common
		
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			in their in their religions in the past.
		
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			I may only have to look at, for
		
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			example,
		
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			what happened to the Muslims in Andalusia in
		
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			Spain.
		
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			When the Muslims left,
		
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			those who could leave, the ones that were
		
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			left behind, those who left, they left. But
		
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			the the ones who were left behind from
		
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			the Muslims, they were forced to convert to
		
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			Christianity.
		
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			They were forced to become Muslim.
		
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			And it wasn't just enough for them to
		
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			say we we believe we were Christians.
		
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			They wanted to go into their homes. They
		
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			would go into the homes of the Muslims
		
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			to see
		
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			whether there were any artifacts or anything which,
		
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			you know,
		
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			showed or hinted that they were still Muslim.
		
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			So if there was if there were prayer
		
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			mats, if there was a mushaf, if there
		
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			were other things,
		
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			then
		
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			they would basically be punished, and they would
		
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			be forced to, you know,
		
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			have Christian emblems and Christian items of,
		
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			of of worship, crosses, etcetera,
		
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			to the extent that
		
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			they would check and they would see if
		
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			there was any
		
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			alcohol
		
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			in the households.
		
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			If there wasn't, then they would
		
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			they would basically assume this person isn't a
		
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			Christian.
		
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			And even pork,
		
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			sometimes in some cases, they would force people
		
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			to eat pork and drink alcohol just to
		
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			make sure that they weren't that they weren't
		
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			Muslim. That's the extent.
		
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			So, you know, when we think about it
		
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			from Islamic perspective, it's something which doesn't, it
		
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			doesn't make sense for someone to force another
		
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			to become Muslim.
		
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			But it's something which was rampant
		
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			in the past with previous religions.
		
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			So that's
		
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			why,
		
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			Shoaib alaihi salam, he says,
		
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			even if we were forced to, even if
		
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			we're unwilling
		
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			to worship what you're worship, you still want
		
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			us to.
		
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			And
		
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			he continued and he said,
		
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			that we would have invented against Allah a
		
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			lie. We would have made up something against
		
00:34:02 --> 00:34:04
			Allah if we decided to return
		
00:34:04 --> 00:34:06
			back to your religion
		
00:34:06 --> 00:34:08
			after Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has saved us
		
00:34:08 --> 00:34:09
			from it.
		
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			Meaning it's like as if we completely deny
		
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			what Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has sent down.
		
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			As if it's something which is made up.
		
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			As if it's something which isn't which isn't
		
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			true. It's not real.
		
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			And he says,
		
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			It's not for us to return to it
		
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			except that our lord, Allah should will it.
		
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			The only way that a person
		
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			will go back to that religion is if
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala decreed that it would
		
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			happen.
		
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			Meaning none of us
		
00:34:41 --> 00:34:44
			will come back to that faith that we
		
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			left to worshiping other than Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala. Subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala. Upon Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala we
		
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			have relied.
		
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			Our lord
		
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			is the one we have relied upon. We
		
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			have trust in Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala And
		
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			then he makes dua. Shoaib alaihis salam supplicates
		
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			and he says,
		
00:35:07 --> 00:35:10
			Oh our lord decide between us and our
		
00:35:10 --> 00:35:12
			people with the truth.
		
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			And you are the best of those who
		
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			gives the decision, who makes the decision.
		
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			And so as a result of this, the
		
00:35:21 --> 00:35:23
			people of Shoaib, the people of Madyan,
		
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			they took the belongings of Shoaib. Of course,
		
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			this was greed. This is built in.
		
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			So
		
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			they saw this as an opportunity.
		
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			He's somebody who's not cast. He's not agreeing
		
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			with what we're doing. We'll take his wealth
		
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			as well. We'll take his belongings, his possessions,
		
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			his wealth, along with the wealth and the
		
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			possessions and belongings of his followers.
		
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			And then they drove him
		
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			out of the city. And so Shoaib alaihi
		
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			salam turned to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
		
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			supplicate
		
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			and to ask for help. And Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala responded to his supplication.
		
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			And
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
		
00:36:01 --> 00:36:02
			he says in the Quran,
		
00:36:05 --> 00:36:07
			that the eminent ones, the respected ones from
		
00:36:07 --> 00:36:08
			his people.
		
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			They said
		
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			They said to the followers of
		
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			that if you follow
		
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			then rarely you are gonna be from the
		
00:36:20 --> 00:36:20
			losers.
		
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			Meaning if you follow this religion,
		
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			then you've lost.
		
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			Meaning this is something which is not it's
		
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			not something which is of of any worth.
		
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			It's something that if you continue to follow,
		
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			you're going to be destroyed.
		
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			You're you're harming yourselves.
		
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			And of course, subhanallah, nowadays,
		
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			this is what people say. This is a
		
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			typical tactic that's used, you know, of divide
		
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			and conquer.
		
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			You know? Critic criticizing Islam, criticizing
		
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			Muslims,
		
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			preying upon those who are weak in faith,
		
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			forcing them to leave Islam,
		
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			to, you know, have
		
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			to have a different
		
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			faith,
		
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			to have different to have different sets of
		
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			principles.
		
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			And so when other Muslims see Muslims leaving
		
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			Islam
		
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			and joining other faiths
		
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			or being atheists,
		
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			then it starts to put questions in their
		
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			house. They start to think, what's going on?
		
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			You know, why are people leaving? Maybe there
		
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			is something to this other religion
		
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			that other people are following.
		
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			And that's why, you know, you'll notice in
		
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			in in the media
		
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			how
		
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			people who leave Islam
		
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			are praised,
		
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			you know, and
		
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			they looked at
		
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			they looked up they looked up to us
		
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			heroes,
		
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			and they're, you know, they're shown all over
		
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			the media.
		
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			Like one of the cases of,
		
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			the woman who left Saudi Arabia,
		
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			and apparently she left Islam and apparently, I
		
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			was reading,
		
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			she posted
		
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			posted a picture of her eating pork for
		
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			the first time, and she you know, she's
		
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			like eating this. Okay. It's amazing or whatever
		
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			it is. And
		
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			strange things. But look at how much maybe
		
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			when you heard the story, maybe you some
		
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			of you heard about the story, and you
		
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			saw how prominent it was,
		
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			You know? How big of a story it
		
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			was.
		
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			You know? But,
		
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			I mean, there's many Muslims,
		
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			unfortunately,
		
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			who end up leaving Islam
		
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			from many nations.
		
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			From this country,
		
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			you have people leaving Islam.
		
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			You have people living Islam from Western countries,
		
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			but you never hear about those people.
		
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			You never hear about, you know, people living
		
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			Islam from other parts of the world.
		
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			So why did why was it such a
		
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			big deal?
		
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			It's it's all this, you know,
		
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			this this war
		
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			that's being played out
		
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			in the media. It's a propaganda war.
		
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			So Saudi Arabia, it's a Saudi Arabian woman,
		
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			So there must be some truth to Islam
		
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			being all messed up and being oppressive. It's
		
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			a woman on top of this. And so
		
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			they gave her so much, you know, respect
		
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			and admiration when she, you know, went to
		
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			went to Canada, I think it was. The
		
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			point being, this is a tactic which was
		
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			used from the beginning.
		
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			Look at how the people
		
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			are going now to the followers of shayeb
		
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			alaihi salaam, the Muslims.
		
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			And they're saying if you follow this man,
		
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			if you follow
		
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			you're gonna become people
		
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			If you follow you're gonna be from the
		
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			losers. You're gonna be you're gonna lose out.
		
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			You're missing out.
		
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			So it's something which was done in the
		
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			past.
		
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			So
		
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			then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			he says,
		
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			Allah talks about the punishment which occurred upon
		
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			these people.
		
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			He said, the earthquake so the earthquake sees
		
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			them and they became within their home corpses.
		
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			They became corpses as a result of the
		
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			punishment of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. Then Allah
		
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			Subhanahu wa ta'ala he says,
		
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			Those who denied
		
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			it was as though they had never resided
		
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			there. It's as if they never even existed.
		
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			Those who denied
		
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			they were the ones who were the losers.
		
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			Not the ones who worship Allah and
		
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			followed the message of
		
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			of worshiping Allah.
		
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			So the ones who disobeyed
		
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			and didn't worship Allah
		
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			They were the ones Allah
		
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			is saying
		
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			who were the losers.
		
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			And so,
		
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			in Kathir he mentions how,
		
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			from the punishments which they were afflicted with
		
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			by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is that
		
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			a
		
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			cloud
		
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			burst
		
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			into,
		
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			flames,
		
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			which they were under as a result of
		
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			the severe heat that they were suffering from
		
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			prior to that.
		
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			So one of the punishments that they had
		
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			before this cloud was,
		
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			the heat was unbearable.
		
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			And as a result of this, they were
		
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			waiting for for rain.
		
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			And so when a cloud did come and
		
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			they saw a cloud, they rushed towards it
		
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			hoping that water would come.
		
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			And when they rushed towards this cloud, instead
		
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			of rain coming down from this cloud,
		
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			thunderbolts and fire came down from this cloud.
		
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			And
		
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			they heard a thunderous noise, even Kathir mentions,
		
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			from above,
		
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			which caused the earth under their feet to
		
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			tremble.
		
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			As a result of this, those who disbelieved
		
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			in shuaib alaihis salam, they were destroyed
		
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			and they were in a state of shock
		
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			and in a state of horror. Allah Subhanahu
		
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			Wa Ta'ala he says,
		
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			turned away from them,
		
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			and he said,
		
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			He said, oh my people I had certainly
		
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			conveyed to you the messages of my lord.
		
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			And I advised you.
		
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			So how could I grieve for disbelieving people?
		
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			I advised you according to the worship of
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Another punishment of Allah
		
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			Subhanahu wa ta'ala has come upon you. So
		
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			how is it that I can grieve when
		
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			I told you by the punishment of Allah
		
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			Subhanahu wa ta'ala that was going to befall
		
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			you and that was going to happen.
		
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			This is the section in Surah Araf which
		
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			talks about the story of Shoaib alaihis salam.
		
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			In Surah
		
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			the story is also mentioned with some details
		
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			that are mentioned in, in Surah Al Farf
		
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			or Surah Araf. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in
		
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			Surah Surah Araf he says,
		
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			The companions of the thicket or the tree,
		
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			they denied
		
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			the messengers.
		
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			When Shoaib
		
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			said to them, will you not fear Allah?
		
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			Now surah
		
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			before this part of the qur'a, before this
		
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			part of the surah,
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentions the stories of
		
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			other prophets and messengers. So there are number
		
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			of stories of messengers which I mentioned and
		
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			prophets which I mentioned.
		
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			And
		
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			they all start with
		
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			The people of and then
		
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			the people of Luth, the people of Salih,
		
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			other people are mentioned. Other prophets are mentioned.
		
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			The people of Luth. So the people's name
		
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			the prophets
		
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			are mentioned
		
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			and how the people denied them and rejected
		
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			them.
		
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			And then in each of those instances
		
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			after Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentions that verse
		
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			about how their people denied them,
		
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			and the prophets that were sent to them.
		
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			In the next verse, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			will say,
		
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			when their brother
		
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			said to them,
		
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			didn't you fear Allah? Don't you fear Allah?
		
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			So the people of the other prophets
		
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			when they advised them,
		
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			okay, they will tell them
		
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			When their brother would say to them, don't
		
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			you fear Allah? So the word brother is
		
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			mentioned in each of those instances.
		
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			Whenever the prophets are mentioned and their stories
		
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			and what they said to their people.
		
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			In this instance when
		
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			is mentioned,
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala he says
		
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			is mentioned.
		
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			Their brother isn't mentioned.
		
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			Their brother isn't mentioned.
		
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			Allah says
		
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			when
		
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			Shoaib said to them,
		
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			don't you fear Allah.
		
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			Whereas in previous instances,
		
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			their brother is always mentioned. In in this
		
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			case and in only this case,
		
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			their brother isn't mentioned.
		
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			Allah moves straight to his name.
		
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			When he said to his people when said
		
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			he said to his people, don't you fear
		
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			Allah? Why is this the case? Why
		
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			isn't
		
00:45:02 --> 00:45:04
			his or their brother mentioned
		
00:45:05 --> 00:45:07
			in this case, just like it's mentioned in
		
00:45:07 --> 00:45:08
			the previous cases. Abi Kathir,
		
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			he says that one of the reasons why
		
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			is because
		
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			every time Allah mentions a previous prophet's,
		
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			nation before this,
		
00:45:20 --> 00:45:21
			Allah mentions the people.
		
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			He mentions the nation.
		
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			He mentions Thamud.
		
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			He mentions the other places
		
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			where these people were from. The land that
		
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			they were from.
		
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			And so Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala when he
		
00:45:36 --> 00:45:37
			mentions the prophets,
		
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			they
		
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			are brothers to those people because of the
		
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			land that they came from.
		
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			They're from the same land. So Allah will
		
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			say, it's
		
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			when their brother said because they are also
		
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			from the same land as their people.
		
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			In this case, there's a slight difference. What's
		
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			the difference?
		
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			How is Allah describing them?
		
00:45:59 --> 00:46:01
			The people of the thicket or the people
		
00:46:01 --> 00:46:01
			of the tree.
		
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			How is Allah describing them?
		
00:46:04 --> 00:46:06
			How is Allah describing them?
		
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			What is Allah mentioning? He's not mentioning this,
		
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			brother.
		
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			Very good. He's mentioning that they are committing
		
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			shirkuh as a result of them worshiping
		
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			this tree.
		
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			The acre was a tree that they would
		
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			worship.
		
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			And so Allah doesn't mention brother in this
		
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			case.
		
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			When Shoaib said to them not being their
		
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			brother because he wasn't their brother in what
		
00:46:34 --> 00:46:35
			they used to
		
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			worship, which is how they described. Whereas in
		
00:46:39 --> 00:46:40
			previous instances,
		
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			the land is specifically mentioned, the name of
		
00:46:42 --> 00:46:43
			the land.
		
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			And they are brothers because they came from
		
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			the same land in those previous instances.
		
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			So this just one example of the nuances
		
00:46:50 --> 00:46:50
			of the Quran.
		
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			The eloquence of the speech of Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala. This small difference is that maybe
		
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			we don't really think about or understand or
		
00:46:57 --> 00:47:00
			realize, but it's there. And the more a
		
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			person looks into the Quran the more beautiful
		
00:47:03 --> 00:47:06
			and eloquent and detailed and specific the Quran
		
00:47:06 --> 00:47:07
			is. So he tells
		
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			him, don't you fear Allah.
		
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			I am someone who is a trustworthy messenger
		
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			to you and that's one of the traits
		
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			of all the prophets and messengers of the
		
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			past. Every single one of them was known
		
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			for his trustworthiness and his honesty.
		
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			That was a condition of the prophets and
		
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			messengers, that they were trustworthy honest people. Of
		
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			course our messenger was sadaqul amin, the truthful
		
00:47:30 --> 00:47:31
			trustworthy one.
		
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			Because if a liar became a prophet and
		
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			messenger, no one will believe them.
		
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			He could just be making it up like
		
00:47:37 --> 00:47:38
			he always makes things up,
		
00:47:39 --> 00:47:40
			you know, in his lifetime.
		
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			But when somebody's honest and trustworthy,
		
00:47:43 --> 00:47:45
			and they reach a mature age,
		
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			and they've never lied before,
		
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			why would they start to lie now? And
		
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			that's one of the things which makes us
		
00:47:51 --> 00:47:53
			which would make us realize
		
00:47:53 --> 00:47:55
			the integrity and the honesty of the messenger
		
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			of Allah alaihis salatu wa sallam. In the
		
00:47:57 --> 00:47:59
			first 40 years of his life, no one
		
00:47:59 --> 00:48:01
			had ever heard him
		
00:48:02 --> 00:48:04
			ever say a lie, ever utter a lie,
		
00:48:04 --> 00:48:05
			ever.
		
00:48:06 --> 00:48:07
			You know, by the time we're, like, 11,
		
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			12 years old, we've we've got a whole
		
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			list
		
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			of, you know, the last lies we've we've
		
00:48:12 --> 00:48:14
			we've said and made up, isn't it? Look
		
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			at look at look at how nobody could
		
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			ever think of a time when he was
		
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			ever caught lying,
		
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			or ever uttered a lie in his life,
		
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			even in his childhood.
		
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			That's, that shows us
		
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			why he was actually called a.
		
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			Why that that was actually his nickname.
		
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			The truthful trustworthy one. That was a nickname
		
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			he was given. If you said that, everyone
		
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			knew who you were talking about at that
		
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			you know, in those days.
		
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			So he was somebody who was trustworthy,
		
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			like all the messengers were.
		
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			So fear Allah and obey me.
		
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			I don't ask for any payment
		
00:48:55 --> 00:48:56
			in only Allah
		
00:48:57 --> 00:48:58
			the lord of the worlds.
		
00:48:59 --> 00:49:01
			Only he is
		
00:49:01 --> 00:49:03
			my payment and he will be the one
		
00:49:03 --> 00:49:04
			who rewards me.
		
00:49:07 --> 00:49:08
			Give full measure
		
00:49:08 --> 00:49:10
			and don't be of those
		
00:49:10 --> 00:49:11
			who cause loss
		
00:49:12 --> 00:49:13
			to others
		
00:49:13 --> 00:49:16
			by cheating them and not giving them full
		
00:49:16 --> 00:49:16
			measure.
		
00:49:18 --> 00:49:21
			And weigh with an even balance.
		
00:49:22 --> 00:49:24
			Don't weigh with a balance which is uneven.
		
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			Because obviously, if you're weighing with a balance
		
00:49:28 --> 00:49:30
			which is uneven, you're
		
00:49:30 --> 00:49:32
			showing them that there's they're buying more than
		
00:49:32 --> 00:49:34
			what they actually bought,
		
00:49:34 --> 00:49:35
			And so you're charging them more.
		
00:49:38 --> 00:49:40
			Don't deprive people of their due.
		
00:49:42 --> 00:49:43
			And don't continue
		
00:49:44 --> 00:49:45
			and abuse,
		
00:49:46 --> 00:49:47
			on earth and cause,
		
00:49:48 --> 00:49:48
			corruption
		
00:49:49 --> 00:49:50
			and spread corruption on
		
00:49:53 --> 00:49:53
			earth.
		
00:49:54 --> 00:49:56
			Fear he who created you
		
00:49:56 --> 00:49:58
			and the former creation.
		
00:49:58 --> 00:50:00
			He is the one who created you. He
		
00:50:00 --> 00:50:02
			is the one who created everything that came
		
00:50:02 --> 00:50:04
			before you. And so they replied and they
		
00:50:04 --> 00:50:05
			said,
		
00:50:08 --> 00:50:10
			They said you are only of those affected
		
00:50:10 --> 00:50:13
			by magic. So they're looking for reasons now
		
00:50:13 --> 00:50:14
			to deny this messenger.
		
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			Just like people do. They'll claim a person's
		
00:50:17 --> 00:50:20
			a liar. They'll claim he's a sorcerer. He's
		
00:50:20 --> 00:50:22
			a madman. He's a magician. He's a soothsayer.
		
00:50:22 --> 00:50:25
			He's just trying to get attention. He wants
		
00:50:25 --> 00:50:27
			power. He wants money, etcetera, etcetera.
		
00:50:27 --> 00:50:29
			So they say you're somebody who is affected
		
00:50:29 --> 00:50:31
			by magic. You're somebody who's a sorcerer.
		
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			Again, more excuses.
		
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			You're only a man just like us.
		
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			You're no different to us.
		
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			So one of the reasons why we're not
		
00:50:42 --> 00:50:43
			gonna listen to you is because you're a
		
00:50:43 --> 00:50:44
			human being.
		
00:50:45 --> 00:50:48
			Meaning, why didn't Allah send down an angel
		
00:50:49 --> 00:50:50
			so that we could believe?
		
00:50:50 --> 00:50:52
			And I've heard this argument used today in
		
00:50:52 --> 00:50:55
			today's time. People will say the same thing.
		
00:50:55 --> 00:50:57
			They'll say, if this is the truth,
		
00:50:57 --> 00:50:59
			why doesn't God show me an angel
		
00:51:01 --> 00:51:02
			So that I can
		
00:51:03 --> 00:51:04
			believe.
		
00:51:04 --> 00:51:06
			If this is the truth, then this I
		
00:51:06 --> 00:51:07
			should be able to see these kinds of
		
00:51:07 --> 00:51:08
			miracles.
		
00:51:09 --> 00:51:11
			So how does a person respond
		
00:51:11 --> 00:51:13
			when a person says this? Why doesn't God
		
00:51:13 --> 00:51:15
			show me an angel coming down?
		
00:51:16 --> 00:51:18
			Even Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us in
		
00:51:18 --> 00:51:19
			the Quran,
		
00:51:19 --> 00:51:21
			even if we were to show you an
		
00:51:21 --> 00:51:22
			angel, you still wouldn't believe.
		
00:51:23 --> 00:51:25
			Because if they did see an angel, what
		
00:51:25 --> 00:51:26
			would they say?
		
00:51:28 --> 00:51:31
			This is like magic, it's CGI, it's special
		
00:51:31 --> 00:51:31
			effects,
		
00:51:32 --> 00:51:34
			it's not real. You know, I'm seeing this
		
00:51:34 --> 00:51:36
			video on YouTube about an angel coming down,
		
00:51:36 --> 00:51:38
			it's not this can't be real.
		
00:51:39 --> 00:51:42
			So regardless of what you show them, there's
		
00:51:42 --> 00:51:44
			always going to be an element of
		
00:51:44 --> 00:51:46
			of doubt. There's always going to be something
		
00:51:46 --> 00:51:48
			that's going to crop up in their minds.
		
00:51:48 --> 00:51:50
			Okay? Making them,
		
00:51:51 --> 00:51:53
			you know, not believe in the truth, no
		
00:51:53 --> 00:51:55
			matter what it is that you show them.
		
00:51:56 --> 00:51:56
			So
		
00:51:57 --> 00:51:59
			they say only a human being like us.
		
00:52:02 --> 00:52:05
			And with we think you're among the liars.
		
00:52:05 --> 00:52:06
			So even though he was a truthful
		
00:52:07 --> 00:52:07
			individual,
		
00:52:08 --> 00:52:10
			he was trustworthy, he never lied ever.
		
00:52:10 --> 00:52:13
			They said now you're among the liars. You're
		
00:52:13 --> 00:52:13
			somebody
		
00:52:14 --> 00:52:16
			who lies. You're somebody who's not telling the
		
00:52:16 --> 00:52:17
			truth.
		
00:52:17 --> 00:52:18
			And also,
		
00:52:20 --> 00:52:21
			you know, the argument,
		
00:52:22 --> 00:52:23
			for
		
00:52:23 --> 00:52:24
			honesty,
		
00:52:24 --> 00:52:27
			for being honest and having integrity,
		
00:52:28 --> 00:52:29
			is shown here because
		
00:52:30 --> 00:52:32
			like we said, when a person has
		
00:52:33 --> 00:52:34
			honesty and integrity
		
00:52:35 --> 00:52:36
			and truthfulness on his side,
		
00:52:37 --> 00:52:38
			people naturally
		
00:52:39 --> 00:52:41
			will respect that individual.
		
00:52:42 --> 00:52:44
			That is, you know, even, you know, non
		
00:52:44 --> 00:52:44
			Muslims.
		
00:52:45 --> 00:52:47
			When you meet a non Muslim who's somebody
		
00:52:47 --> 00:52:47
			who's
		
00:52:48 --> 00:52:50
			has honesty and integrity and trustworthiness,
		
00:52:50 --> 00:52:52
			it's something which is a valued it's something
		
00:52:52 --> 00:52:54
			which is a value trait. This is why
		
00:52:54 --> 00:52:57
			Shoaib mentions it. That I am a trustworthy
		
00:52:57 --> 00:52:57
			person.
		
00:52:58 --> 00:52:59
			I'm somebody
		
00:52:59 --> 00:53:00
			who's,
		
00:53:00 --> 00:53:01
			a
		
00:53:01 --> 00:53:03
			a trustworthy person. I'm truthful.
		
00:53:03 --> 00:53:05
			I'm not somebody who's,
		
00:53:05 --> 00:53:08
			lying to lying lying to you. I
		
00:53:09 --> 00:53:12
			mean, I'm somebody who's trust trustworthy, somebody who's
		
00:53:12 --> 00:53:12
			honest.
		
00:53:13 --> 00:53:15
			So they said,
		
00:53:17 --> 00:53:18
			we think you're somebody
		
00:53:19 --> 00:53:19
			who is
		
00:53:20 --> 00:53:22
			a liar. You're making this up.
		
00:53:22 --> 00:53:23
			So then they say,
		
00:53:26 --> 00:53:27
			They go further and they say,
		
00:53:28 --> 00:53:28
			cause
		
00:53:29 --> 00:53:31
			a fragment from the sky,
		
00:53:31 --> 00:53:34
			something to fall from the sky to fall
		
00:53:34 --> 00:53:36
			upon us, if you are indeed from those
		
00:53:36 --> 00:53:37
			who are truthful.
		
00:53:38 --> 00:53:40
			They're saying if you really are a messenger,
		
00:53:40 --> 00:53:43
			a prophet of Allah, then cause Allah to
		
00:53:43 --> 00:53:45
			punish us right now. Cause Allah to punish
		
00:53:45 --> 00:53:48
			us for something to happen to us. And
		
00:53:48 --> 00:53:50
			the same thing is also used today by
		
00:53:50 --> 00:53:52
			some. They say if this is if we're
		
00:53:52 --> 00:53:54
			not believers, if we're not worshiping Allah,
		
00:53:54 --> 00:53:56
			if if that's the truth, then why don't
		
00:53:56 --> 00:53:59
			they why don't we get a punishment from
		
00:53:59 --> 00:54:01
			Allah? Why doesn't God kill me right now?
		
00:54:01 --> 00:54:03
			Why doesn't God punish me right now?
		
00:54:04 --> 00:54:05
			And
		
00:54:05 --> 00:54:07
			when we reflect on this statement,
		
00:54:08 --> 00:54:10
			we don't liken Allah to the creation.
		
00:54:11 --> 00:54:13
			But imagine somebody of immense power,
		
00:54:13 --> 00:54:16
			and a weak individual approaching that person of
		
00:54:16 --> 00:54:18
			immense power and strength,
		
00:54:19 --> 00:54:20
			and poking fun at that individual
		
00:54:21 --> 00:54:21
			and,
		
00:54:22 --> 00:54:24
			you know, trying to provoke that person to
		
00:54:24 --> 00:54:25
			to cause harm to him.
		
00:54:26 --> 00:54:29
			The person with that power and that strength
		
00:54:29 --> 00:54:30
			and that knowledge
		
00:54:31 --> 00:54:33
			and that ability to cause harm,
		
00:54:34 --> 00:54:36
			he won't just exert that that power straight
		
00:54:36 --> 00:54:38
			away. He's going to ignore him. He's gonna
		
00:54:38 --> 00:54:39
			say his pants
		
00:54:39 --> 00:54:42
			this person's crazy. You know, he's it's like
		
00:54:42 --> 00:54:44
			an older brother with a with with a
		
00:54:44 --> 00:54:46
			young with a younger sibling. It's like an
		
00:54:46 --> 00:54:48
			older sibling with a younger sibling. You know?
		
00:54:48 --> 00:54:50
			They provoke you and they poke you and
		
00:54:50 --> 00:54:52
			they'll say things and they'll do things and
		
00:54:52 --> 00:54:53
			they'll say, what are you going to do?
		
00:54:53 --> 00:54:54
			What are you going to do? And they're
		
00:54:54 --> 00:54:55
			ready to to run as soon as you
		
00:54:55 --> 00:54:56
			do something.
		
00:54:57 --> 00:54:59
			Yeah. But why doesn't the older person, the
		
00:54:59 --> 00:55:01
			stronger one respond
		
00:55:02 --> 00:55:04
			as a as a and as an act
		
00:55:05 --> 00:55:05
			of mercy?
		
00:55:06 --> 00:55:09
			Because he knows what he's capable of doing
		
00:55:09 --> 00:55:10
			to that younger brother or sister.
		
00:55:11 --> 00:55:12
			He knows what might happen.
		
00:55:13 --> 00:55:14
			Okay?
		
00:55:14 --> 00:55:16
			So we don't liken Allah to the creation,
		
00:55:16 --> 00:55:18
			but it's very
		
00:55:19 --> 00:55:20
			arrogant and foolish
		
00:55:21 --> 00:55:24
			and self obsessed to expect that Allah is
		
00:55:24 --> 00:55:26
			going to punish you specifically
		
00:55:26 --> 00:55:29
			as a result of you not worshiping Allah.
		
00:55:30 --> 00:55:31
			Who are you to
		
00:55:32 --> 00:55:34
			ask that Allah punish you?
		
00:55:35 --> 00:55:37
			You know? Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
00:55:39 --> 00:55:41
			Allah won't be asked about what he did.
		
00:55:42 --> 00:55:45
			Okay. We'll be asked about what we did.
		
00:55:45 --> 00:55:47
			Human beings will be how to account for
		
00:55:47 --> 00:55:49
			what they did. And also from the rahman,
		
00:55:49 --> 00:55:51
			the mercy of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala as
		
00:55:51 --> 00:55:52
			we know.
		
00:55:54 --> 00:55:57
			That my as Allah says, my mercy encompasses
		
00:55:57 --> 00:56:00
			and has has taken over my wrath,
		
00:56:00 --> 00:56:01
			my punishment.
		
00:56:02 --> 00:56:04
			So, you know, this whole argument is an
		
00:56:04 --> 00:56:07
			argument is it's very foolishness and arrogant statement
		
00:56:07 --> 00:56:09
			to make in the first place. So Shoaib
		
00:56:09 --> 00:56:10
			alaihis salam, he says,
		
00:56:12 --> 00:56:14
			my lord is most knowing
		
00:56:14 --> 00:56:16
			of what you do.
		
00:56:16 --> 00:56:18
			And also even if a person was punished
		
00:56:18 --> 00:56:20
			in this world, he wouldn't accept this from
		
00:56:20 --> 00:56:21
			Allah.
		
00:56:23 --> 00:56:25
			Even if it was a thunderbolt from the
		
00:56:25 --> 00:56:25
			sky,
		
00:56:27 --> 00:56:28
			they'd call it a freak occurrence.
		
00:56:30 --> 00:56:31
			Isn't it? One in a million chance it
		
00:56:31 --> 00:56:32
			was a coincidence.
		
00:56:33 --> 00:56:35
			If a person, all of a sudden, was
		
00:56:35 --> 00:56:37
			afflicted with some kind of illness or disease,
		
00:56:37 --> 00:56:40
			he'll say I was just I wasn't eating
		
00:56:40 --> 00:56:40
			healthy,
		
00:56:40 --> 00:56:43
			so I'm sick now. My lifestyle wasn't good
		
00:56:43 --> 00:56:45
			enough. If all of a sudden Allah takes
		
00:56:45 --> 00:56:47
			away his wealth, what's he gonna say? You
		
00:56:47 --> 00:56:48
			know, I made a bad
		
00:56:48 --> 00:56:50
			bad business decision.
		
00:56:50 --> 00:56:52
			You know, I was my wife left me
		
00:56:52 --> 00:56:54
			and I didn't have, you know, the the
		
00:56:54 --> 00:56:56
			strength to carry on with my life. And
		
00:56:56 --> 00:56:58
			so now it affected my business, and I
		
00:56:58 --> 00:57:00
			don't have any money. There's always gonna be
		
00:57:00 --> 00:57:00
			something
		
00:57:00 --> 00:57:02
			that the individual would end up saying
		
00:57:03 --> 00:57:04
			not to,
		
00:57:05 --> 00:57:06
			admit or accept,
		
00:57:07 --> 00:57:10
			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala as the one who
		
00:57:10 --> 00:57:11
			caused him to enter in that into that
		
00:57:11 --> 00:57:12
			situation.
		
00:57:12 --> 00:57:14
			So they denied him. Allah says,
		
00:57:17 --> 00:57:20
			They denied him so the punishment of the
		
00:57:20 --> 00:57:23
			day of the black cloud sees them.
		
00:57:25 --> 00:57:28
			Verily this was the punishment of a terrible
		
00:57:28 --> 00:57:28
			day.
		
00:57:31 --> 00:57:32
			Indeed in that is a sign.
		
00:57:34 --> 00:57:35
			But most of them
		
00:57:36 --> 00:57:37
			were not to be believers.
		
00:57:40 --> 00:57:41
			And indeed your lord,
		
00:57:42 --> 00:57:44
			he is the exalted and he is the
		
00:57:44 --> 00:57:45
			most merciful. So
		
00:57:46 --> 00:57:48
			this is the story of Shoaib alaihis salaam,
		
00:57:48 --> 00:57:50
			mentioned in 2 different parts of the Quran,
		
00:57:50 --> 00:57:52
			and the lessons that we can learn
		
00:57:53 --> 00:57:54
			from this.
		
00:57:54 --> 00:57:56
			And you know one of the reasons as
		
00:57:56 --> 00:57:58
			I mentioned that they were punished was as
		
00:57:58 --> 00:57:58
			a result of,
		
00:58:01 --> 00:58:03
			the way that they dealt with others in
		
00:58:03 --> 00:58:04
			terms of their ethics
		
00:58:05 --> 00:58:05
			in
		
00:58:05 --> 00:58:07
			dealing with
		
00:58:08 --> 00:58:10
			them from a business perspective.
		
00:58:10 --> 00:58:12
			Buying and selling, and how they would behave,
		
00:58:12 --> 00:58:15
			how they would cheat and swindle and lie
		
00:58:15 --> 00:58:16
			and even rub,
		
00:58:16 --> 00:58:18
			just to earn more money. And look at
		
00:58:18 --> 00:58:20
			the punishment of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala upon
		
00:58:20 --> 00:58:22
			them as a result of this.
		
00:58:23 --> 00:58:24
			So, you know, nowadays
		
00:58:25 --> 00:58:27
			we live in a society where it's very
		
00:58:27 --> 00:58:30
			materialistic. It's all about money. It's almost like
		
00:58:30 --> 00:58:32
			as if nothing will ever happen unless we
		
00:58:32 --> 00:58:33
			have
		
00:58:33 --> 00:58:35
			money in order for us to do it.
		
00:58:36 --> 00:58:37
			So
		
00:58:38 --> 00:58:40
			as a result of people thinking that money
		
00:58:40 --> 00:58:43
			is the most important thing, they'll try and
		
00:58:43 --> 00:58:45
			do whatever they can to earn that money.
		
00:58:46 --> 00:58:48
			Even if it means something which is haram.
		
00:58:49 --> 00:58:49
			And
		
00:58:50 --> 00:58:52
			as we know, Islam has come to
		
00:58:53 --> 00:58:53
			protect
		
00:58:56 --> 00:58:57
			everything that
		
00:58:57 --> 00:58:59
			could potentially harm the Muslim
		
00:59:00 --> 00:59:02
			with regards to his acts of worship and
		
00:59:02 --> 00:59:05
			also his dealings with other people, Marriage and
		
00:59:05 --> 00:59:07
			divorce, buying and selling and everything else.
		
00:59:08 --> 00:59:10
			And I wanted to mention some of the
		
00:59:10 --> 00:59:10
			ethics
		
00:59:11 --> 00:59:14
			with regards to buying and selling and business
		
00:59:14 --> 00:59:16
			ethics from an Islamic perspective just so that
		
00:59:17 --> 00:59:17
			we're aware
		
00:59:18 --> 00:59:20
			that if Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala punched these
		
00:59:20 --> 00:59:23
			people as a result of how they behaved
		
00:59:23 --> 00:59:24
			with others
		
00:59:24 --> 00:59:26
			regarding trade, then we also need to be
		
00:59:26 --> 00:59:27
			very aware
		
00:59:28 --> 00:59:28
			of
		
00:59:28 --> 00:59:30
			what it is that maybe we're falling short
		
00:59:30 --> 00:59:31
			on
		
00:59:32 --> 00:59:34
			from this list that I'll mention, so that
		
00:59:34 --> 00:59:35
			we can work on,
		
00:59:35 --> 00:59:36
			you know, improving
		
00:59:37 --> 00:59:39
			that aspect of our lives, and the harms
		
00:59:40 --> 00:59:41
			as a result of these things that maybe
		
00:59:41 --> 00:59:43
			we're not doing, or we are doing, things
		
00:59:43 --> 00:59:44
			which aren't allowed.
		
00:59:45 --> 00:59:47
			First of all, not buying and selling things
		
00:59:47 --> 00:59:50
			which are haram, which of course is something
		
00:59:50 --> 00:59:52
			that happens today. We have Muslims, you know,
		
00:59:52 --> 00:59:54
			they're selling things which aren't permissible,
		
00:59:54 --> 00:59:55
			al card in restaurants,
		
00:59:56 --> 00:59:58
			cigarettes and news agents, etcetera, etcetera. The list
		
00:59:58 --> 00:59:59
			goes on. And
		
01:00:00 --> 01:00:01
			when a person
		
01:00:02 --> 01:00:04
			ends up selling things which are haram or
		
01:00:04 --> 01:00:05
			buying things which are haram,
		
01:00:05 --> 01:00:06
			then
		
01:00:06 --> 01:00:07
			you're
		
01:00:07 --> 01:00:09
			sinning. That's a sin.
		
01:00:09 --> 01:00:11
			As a result of you sinning,
		
01:00:11 --> 01:00:13
			you're going to become unsuccessful.
		
01:00:15 --> 01:00:16
			Your sins
		
01:00:17 --> 01:00:19
			end up causing you to become unsuccessful
		
01:00:20 --> 01:00:22
			in the next life and also in this
		
01:00:22 --> 01:00:22
			life.
		
01:00:23 --> 01:00:24
			Whether it's financially,
		
01:00:25 --> 01:00:26
			whether it's psychologically,
		
01:00:27 --> 01:00:28
			whether it's spiritually,
		
01:00:28 --> 01:00:30
			you're not going to be content,
		
01:00:31 --> 01:00:33
			because you're involved in things which are haram,
		
01:00:33 --> 01:00:34
			things which are impermissible.
		
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			The scholars of the past,
		
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			they were so careful
		
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			about not doing anything haram,
		
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			not doing anything sinful, not committing sins,
		
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			that when they did fall into it, it
		
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			affected them.
		
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			It affected their spirituality. It affected them psychologically.
		
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			It affected their lives.
		
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			Scholars of the past, they would say, we
		
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			recognized
		
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			the effects of our sins
		
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			when we committed them on our wealth,
		
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			on our families,
		
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			and on our riding beasts,
		
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			meaning it would affect their wealth.
		
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			So if they run out if they had
		
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			problems with their wealth, if they got into
		
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			debt, if they lost money,
		
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			that they would that they wouldn't normally,
		
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			you know, lose,
		
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			they would think to the sins that they've
		
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			that they've committed,
		
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			what they've been doing the last few days.
		
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			If they went home, and all of a
		
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			sudden, the family just went off on them,
		
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			the wife just starts going off on on
		
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			that individual
		
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			as a big row, and now things are
		
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			very stressful,
		
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			and you're and you're anxious at home,
		
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			out of the blue, for no apparent reason,
		
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			they would think about the sins that they've
		
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			been committing or what they did wrong
		
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			in the past few days that caused this
		
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			to happen.
		
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			If something happened to their riding, their riding
		
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			beast, or whatever it was in their everyday
		
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			lives,
		
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			okay,
		
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			they would think about what they did.
		
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			1 of the scholars of the past, he
		
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			was walking to the masjid for Jum'ah prayer
		
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			or for for a salah,
		
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			and
		
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			his sandal broke.
		
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			His sandal broke as a result of him
		
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			going to the masjid, something minor, something we
		
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			don't think of. And he said that my
		
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			sandal has broken
		
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			as a result of me not performing rusal
		
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			for the day of Friday for jummah prayer.
		
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			Meaning, that's the detail in which they would
		
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			recognize
		
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			the it's not even a sin.
		
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			It was an extra act of worship that
		
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			they would do that they didn't end up
		
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			doing, and they recognized
		
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			the shortcoming
		
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			and the problems
		
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			that be befou them as a result of
		
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			them not doing those things.
		
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			So they're shoe breaking. So it was for
		
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			them it was it was it was a
		
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			direct connection, a direct link.
		
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			And that's how it should be today. A
		
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			direct link between,
		
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			you know, our lives and what's happening in
		
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			our lives with our family members, with our,
		
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			you know, our wealth, whatever the case may
		
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			be, and
		
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			our actions, the things that we're doing.
		
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			And if there's a if there's a consistent
		
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			problem in our life, and it's happening regularly,
		
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			and it's been happening regularly,
		
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			and it's a constant problem
		
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			that makes us anxious and stressed and worried,
		
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			and it's happening for a long period of
		
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			time,
		
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			most likely it's connected to a sin that
		
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			we've been committed for that for that for
		
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			also that amount of time.
		
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			For something long term that we've been doing,
		
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			we haven't thought about it. Maybe we've been
		
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			doing it for so long, we've we've thought
		
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			it's not something wrong. It's not something that's
		
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			bad. It's not something wrong in the first
		
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			place.
		
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			So it's something which ends up harming us.
		
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			Allah says whatever
		
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			you did,
		
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			whatever
		
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			befouled you from any calamities or disasters,
		
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			it's a result of what your own hands
		
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			have have earned.
		
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			It's as a result of what you yourselves
		
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			have done.
		
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			Another thing with regards to business ethics and
		
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			buying and selling is not sacrificing
		
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			our faith for the sake of money.
		
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			And I heard a story today, maybe some
		
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			of you had heard it. It was on
		
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			Facebook, one of the du'as.
		
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			He said that a famous or
		
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			there's
		
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			a famous group of law firms,
		
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			called the Golden Circle or accountancy firms or
		
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			something something famous.
		
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			And he left
		
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			a big job as a result of,
		
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			some,
		
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			obviously haram things that they were involved in,
		
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			and he was offered
		
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			a job. But one of the conditions was
		
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			that
		
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			you
		
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			have to go and mingle with some of
		
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			the
		
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			some of the the the higher ups
		
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			of the business, some of the corporate,
		
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			managers and and those
		
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			top executives.
		
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			Mingle with them. They wanna see how they
		
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			get on with you and, you know, have
		
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			some beer with them, drink with them at
		
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			the at the bar, and if they like
		
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			you, you've got the job. And so he
		
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			he said, no. I'm not gonna do this
		
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			because I don't drink. I'm a Muslim. And
		
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			so when his his agent called him and
		
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			asked him why he's not taking the job
		
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			and he explained he doesn't drink, he's not
		
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			gonna take the job,
		
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			He called back after the agent had spoken
		
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			to the interviewer and the the ones who
		
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			had,
		
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			offered him the job.
		
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			And he said, I just spoke to them,
		
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			and they've never experienced
		
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			in their
		
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			in their lives
		
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			as,
		
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			you know,
		
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			executives
		
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			and hiring people for their company are an
		
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			individual
		
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			who
		
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			didn't
		
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			give up their faith
		
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			for money
		
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			until now,
		
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			meaning he rejected and refused
		
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			to drink as a result of his faith.
		
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			They say we've never we've never experienced somebody
		
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			who's given up who's not given up their
		
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			faith for money. This is the first time,
		
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			and so it's a sign of integrity. So
		
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			you've got the job.
		
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			You've got the job as a result of
		
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			the integrity that you've had. So the point
		
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			being, okay,
		
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			when you
		
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			have trust in Allah,
		
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			Whoever fears Allah,
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will always find for
		
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			him a way out. Also
		
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			from the etiquettes of actually,
		
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			having barakah and blessing in our wealth is
		
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			remembering
		
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			Allah when we're buying and selling.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says
		
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			when the prayer has been finished on the
		
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			day of Friday, when Allah talks about the
		
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			Friday prayer, he says
		
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			spread out on the earth and seek the
		
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			bounty of Allah
		
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			and remember Allah a lot
		
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			so that you are successful.
		
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			Meaning from the ways in which a person
		
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			can, you know, be successful from a business
		
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			perspective is by remembering Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			Also
		
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			being honest and not lying when buying and
		
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			selling. The famous hadith of the promise of
		
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			Allah when he talked about,
		
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			the the 2 parties involved in a transaction.
		
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			And he said the 2 parties involved in
		
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			a transaction have the option
		
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			of cancelling that transaction
		
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			until they part.
		
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			And then he said, if they're honest and
		
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			disclose any defects,
		
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			their transaction will be blessed. But if they
		
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			lie and conceal the defects,
		
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			the blessing of their transaction will be erased.
		
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			So when you're honest with the other person,
		
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			there'll be blessing in that transaction. It works
		
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			both ways.
		
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			If somebody was buying something and he's harsh,
		
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			he's rude, he's arrogant.
		
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			Okay? And maybe he's lying about, you know,
		
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			how much he sold a product for somewhere
		
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			else so he can get a cheaper, you
		
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			know, cheaper price, then there's not gonna be
		
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			no in whatever it is that he's buying.
		
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			Also,
		
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			showing leniency in buying and selling. Something which
		
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			we wouldn't expect
		
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			that there will barakah in our wealth as
		
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			a result of, but the messenger of Allah
		
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			SWAMI he said
		
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			May Allah have mercy on the person who
		
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			is easy going when he sells.
		
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			And when he buys.
		
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			And when he asks when he asks for
		
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			payment, when somebody owes him money. May Allah
		
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			have mercy on the one who is easy
		
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			going in these things.
		
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			So obviously if Allah's giving you mercy, showing
		
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			you mercy, Allah is going to give you
		
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			success in this life and the hereafter.
		
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			Also
		
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			increase in giving sadaqa. One of the ways
		
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			a person can become successful is by increasing
		
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			and giving sadaqah. The messenger of Allah sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam he said,
		
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			oh
		
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			businessmen.
		
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			Verily shaitan and sin attend the transaction.
		
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			Wherever the shaitan can try to trick you
		
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			into doing something haram or impermissible or making
		
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			some kind of shady deal or maybe there's
		
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			some condition or stipulations or you say something
		
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			wrong or you lie about the product or
		
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			whatever the case may be,
		
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			he will be there and he'll try his
		
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			best
		
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			to cause some corruption in that transaction.
		
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			So mix
		
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			your transactions
		
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			with.
		
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			Give
		
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			when you're buying and selling at the same
		
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			time,
		
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			so that it purifies that wealth. Also,
		
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			and finally the last thing, paying off debts
		
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			as soon as one is possible
		
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			and not delaying. The messenger of Allah he
		
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			said,
		
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			verily the best of you are those who
		
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			are the best in paying off debts. The
		
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			best of you in Islam
		
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			are those who are best in paying off
		
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			their debts, they don't delay.
		
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			So,
		
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			you know, we need to reflect on
		
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			our etiquettes when we're buying and selling. Whether
		
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			we own a business, whether we have individuals
		
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			who we employ,
		
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			whether we just buy and sell on Shpock
		
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			or on Ebay. You know?
		
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			How do we how careful are we when
		
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			we buy and sell? Do we show others
		
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			defects
		
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			in terms of,
		
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			the things that we're selling and what's wrong
		
01:10:02 --> 01:10:04
			with our products? Because there's barakah and there's
		
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			blessing and there's wisdom in the the the
		
01:10:07 --> 01:10:08
			rulings of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. When you
		
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			show somebody else the defects
		
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			of your product,
		
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			and you're selling it for a certain amount,
		
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			he's not going to try to look for
		
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			any more defects because you've already showed him
		
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			all the defects in the first place. As
		
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			a result of which, he won't be able
		
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			to ask for
		
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			a cheaper price.
		
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			So there's hikmah and there's wisdom
		
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			in all of these aspects of Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala's
		
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			laws and commandments when it comes to buying
		
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			and selling, when it comes to transactions. We
		
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			ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that,
		
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			he gives us the ability to be able
		
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			to
		
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			show obedience to him with regards to buying
		
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			and selling and with regards to all of
		
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			our affairs.
		
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			If there's any questions, then I'll do my
		
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			best to answer them, Insha'Allah.
		
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			So the question is, what does it mean,
		
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			what does a hadith mean when he, alaihis
		
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			salatu wasalam, said Islam was strange and he
		
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			will return,
		
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			it began as something strange and he will
		
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			return as something strange. So
		
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			in the time when the messenger of Allah
		
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			was calling people to Islam,
		
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			people found it strange that
		
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			things were given rights that weren't
		
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			given rights
		
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			prior to that.
		
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			So slaves for example, women were given certain
		
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			rights.
		
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			This whole concept of worshiping one God when,
		
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			you know, Sheikh was something which was so
		
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			commonplace.
		
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			So it was something which people couldn't wrap
		
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			their heads around. Resurrecting,
		
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			the bodies on the day of judgment when
		
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			we're just, you know, dust.
		
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			All these things appeared, and they thought of
		
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			it to be strange.
		
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			And
		
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			again, from the sunnah of,
		
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			what,
		
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			he said that will come true is that
		
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			the same will be the case towards the
		
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			end of time. That is something strange, which
		
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			is happening today, you know. It's something which
		
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			isn't people find it strange, the way we
		
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			the way you behave and the way we
		
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			dress and the way we, you know, do
		
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			things. So it's something which
		
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			we see happening today.
		
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			Any more questions?