Asim Khan – The Steadfast Believer Tafsir of Suah AsSaff #2

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The U meantime session for Islam is being hosted live transmitted on YouTube and Facebook, emphasizing the importance of unity in protecting and promoting Islam. The speakers stress the need for everyone to show proof of Islam to strengthen their faith and emphasize the importance of punishment and punishment in achieving goals. The speakers also discuss the history of Islam, including the downfall of Jesus's actions and the use of coverings and non-M-thirsty people. The speakers provide insight into the meaning of "imoral" and the historical context of "has" in various interpretations, and provide advice on the meaning of "imoral" in various interpretations. The segment concludes with a suggestion to conclude the segment with a statement about the Surah transition and a reminder to take notes for future discussions.

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			Respected
		
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			Muslim.
		
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			We are gathered here for another session of
		
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			Quran course,
		
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			which started
		
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			last week.
		
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			And as you have heard,
		
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			Ustad
		
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			Mashkur
		
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			explained that this sort of gathering is blessed
		
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			and surrounded by angels.
		
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			And,
		
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			it's your names will be mentioned,
		
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			in the better
		
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			situation
		
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			in front of Allah
		
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			We pray that
		
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			Allah accepts all our effort in coming.
		
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			I can see today a bit less,
		
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			attendance.
		
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			Next week will be the last session of
		
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			the this
		
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			course.
		
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			So what I would urge all of you
		
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			to target 1 brother
		
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			or sister
		
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			and bring them in.
		
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			So that would be double this number, Insha'Allah,
		
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			all of this.
		
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			And the benefit would be if any of
		
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			them be became
		
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			practicing
		
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			because of your effort,
		
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			then you will
		
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			reap the reward.
		
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			You'll get the same as
		
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			that person
		
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			who becomes,
		
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			practicing.
		
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			So we should all try next week
		
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			to bring one person with
		
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			us. Is that okay?
		
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			And
		
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			for this,
		
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			other and now a couple of announcements I'll
		
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			do, and then we'll start with starts
		
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			in
		
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			Firstly,
		
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			that this
		
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			program is,
		
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			live transmitted
		
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			on YouTube, Darul Ummah YouTube channel.
		
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			So if you go to Darul Ummah YouTube
		
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			channels, and I urge all of you to
		
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			go to that,
		
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			not right now after the program,
		
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			and,
		
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			press on like button. So any future ones
		
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			automatically
		
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			will go to you.
		
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			Also, we've got Facebook channels. So if you
		
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			can,
		
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			kindly all open your Facebook,
		
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			accounts and type in Daruluma Redbridge.
		
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			There is 2 Daruluma channel. 1 is Daruluma
		
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			in schedule,
		
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			and you need to type in Daruluma red
		
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			red bridge and, press like button, Inshallah.
		
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			Then any prog,
		
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			announcement for programs and so on, it will
		
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			go straight to you, Inshallah.
		
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			And after
		
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			Ustad
		
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			finishes his program
		
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			for question and answer session,
		
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			if you if brothers can raise their hands
		
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			and ask their question
		
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			loudly, please. Ask your question loudly.
		
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			And on the sister side,
		
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			they can use pen and paper to send
		
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			their questions.
		
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			Next week,
		
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			Slido. Okay.
		
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			So so so,
		
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			they can use
		
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			Slido
		
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			program to send questions to study and see
		
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			it sisters.
		
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			And next week, we'll have a quiz,
		
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			on these 3 weeks
		
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			of talks,
		
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			and
		
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			prizes will be given out as well. The
		
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			the top I don't know. Ustad will,
		
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			decide how many prizes to give.
		
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			So those who can answer the questions correctly,
		
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			Insha'Allah, you'll get prizes.
		
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			Just so make sure you bring your,
		
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			friends and family and young ones there, especially
		
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			next week. So if they can participate in
		
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			the quiz,
		
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			they will benefit
		
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			and be motivated, inshallah, for features.
		
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			Insha'Allah, without further ado, I hand it over
		
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			to Ustad because he'll be starting with tilawa,
		
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			so we are not doing extra tilawa inshallah.
		
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			Dearest, beloved brothers,
		
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			you're always very scattered.
		
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			And, you know, I have to really move
		
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			my neck around if I wanna see everyone.
		
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			Could you do me a favor and try
		
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			to come in a bit closer, maybe towards
		
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			the center?
		
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			So you're not, on the left. You're not
		
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			on the right. You're kind of in the
		
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			middle and coming together.
		
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			Thank you very much.
		
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			So welcome back to the second part of
		
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			the sir suf sixty 1st surah of the
		
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			Quran.
		
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			Out of the 14 verses, we've covered, 4
		
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			so far, and, we return
		
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			to the explanation in verse number 4. There's
		
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			a few,
		
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			outstanding points I wanted to make. So the
		
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			verse Allah the almighty says,
		
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			Allah truly loves
		
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			those who fight in his cause.
		
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			As though they are a soft.
		
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			As though they are a soft. This is
		
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			the actual
		
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			name of the Surah comes from this. They
		
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			fight in the cause of Allah in as
		
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			though they are one
		
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			well cemented wall.
		
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			So,
		
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			this verse,
		
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			it really
		
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			points towards how much Allah loves
		
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			people who are committed to his religion.
		
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			And more than that, are united with one
		
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			another
		
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			in defending
		
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			and promoting
		
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			the religion of Islam.
		
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			One of the interesting things about the wording
		
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			is that the word soft
		
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			is singular. Though the context
		
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			is to do with,
		
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			many people. Allah loves those people who fight
		
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			in his cause as though they were. And
		
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			the word here should be
		
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			in rows, in ranks. But the word
		
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			was translates to a row
		
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			or a rank is used
		
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			because
		
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			it expresses
		
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			the unity factor
		
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			as though they are many,
		
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			but they come together as one
		
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			as though they are together
		
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			in a soft united
		
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			together fighting as a collective force.
		
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			And to further
		
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			expand with this idea of unity Allah says
		
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			that that they are like a well cemented
		
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			wall and the and the word for well
		
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			cemented is marsus.
		
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			And marsus in Arabic means
		
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			to be
		
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			together such that there are no gaps, no
		
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			cracks,
		
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			no shortcomings whatsoever. So imagine a wall and
		
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			the bricks that are coming together
		
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			are flush.
		
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			There are no gaps, there are no cracks,
		
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			there are no divisions.
		
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			And metaphorically then, it means that Allah loves
		
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			those people that come together are so unified,
		
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			so together
		
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			that really there is no dividing them. There's
		
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			no way to get in between them.
		
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			And one of the sad realities is that
		
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			muslims sometimes are the cause of the old
		
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			disunity.
		
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			Like for example
		
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			Muslims that may poke fun at their fellow
		
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			brother or sister because of where they come
		
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			from, which country they come from, which region
		
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			they come from, which village they come from,
		
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			the type of,
		
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			language that they speak.
		
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			And those,
		
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			you know,
		
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			that type of,
		
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			even if you say it was banter or
		
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			joking around,
		
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			some people will take offense to that. And
		
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			sometimes
		
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			offense is intended by the person.
		
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			And in reality, what that what that
		
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			what that leads to is a level of
		
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			disunity in the Ummah
		
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			brought about by itself. SubhanAllah.
		
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			So we should be mindful about how we
		
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			speak about our fellow brothers and sisters because
		
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			we could be the cause of our own
		
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			disunity
		
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			just by poking fun at one another. And
		
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			so the Hajrat Allah the Almighty tells us
		
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			that we should not make nicknames up for
		
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			one another.
		
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			And the scholars, they say what this means
		
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			is you shouldn't call someone by a name
		
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			they don't appreciate.
		
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			Like the prophet he would have nicknames for
		
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			other people. He would have a nickname for
		
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			his wife, Aisha Does
		
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			anyone know what nickname he would give his
		
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			wife? Aisha? Aishu.
		
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			Aishu. Yes. This was like a shortened, more,
		
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			endearing
		
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			way of calling her.
		
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			He'd even have a nickname for his, camel
		
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			as well. Does anyone know the name he
		
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			used to have for his own camel?
		
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			No? You don't know? Kaswa? You don't know?
		
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			Yeah. He had a name for his camel.
		
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			So he used to give people names, and,
		
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			the names were
		
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			endearing. They showed love, and people liked them,
		
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			appreciate them. But when you have a nickname
		
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			for someone that puts them down, like you
		
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			say, oh, he's fluoride or he's fat or
		
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			something like, you know, fatty, whatever. You know,
		
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			these kind of nicknames, they're the ones that
		
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			people don't appreciate, and they're the ones that
		
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			can cause resentment in the heart as well.
		
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			And on a level of a community, if
		
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			we do that, it creates divisions.
		
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			1 of the interesting things about
		
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			is that we all know in 11/87,
		
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			he reconquered Al Quds. Right? We all know
		
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			about the battle of and how that brought
		
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			about the reconquest of the holy land. May
		
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			Allah bring about the return once again.
		
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			But what you don't know is that when
		
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			he became the leader of the Ayyubid dynasty,
		
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			when he became the leader in Egypt,
		
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			that it took him 13 years from that
		
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			position of prominence
		
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			to rally the Ummah together
		
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			to unite them on the cause of fighting
		
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			once again for al Quds.
		
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			13 years. He consolidated his power, expanded his
		
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			power, and he educated the Ummah about uniting
		
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			against the one common enemy that was who
		
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			at the time?
		
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			The Crusaders.
		
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			He said we have a common enemy. Why
		
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			are we fighting against ourselves? We should be
		
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			fighting against the one who wants to destroy
		
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			us.
		
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			And so he ride them together, united their
		
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			hearts and then he put their focus towards
		
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			Al Quds.
		
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			And it was only as a united
		
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			force were the muslims able to recapture
		
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			Al Quds. And in that there is a
		
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			lesson for us all that in unity comes
		
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			a help of Allah as well. It's not
		
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			just about strength and unity. It's also about
		
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			gaining the favor, the grace and the nasa
		
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			of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And that is
		
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			what Allah is saying here.
		
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			So Allah loves this and if Allah loves
		
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			you, they will support you. He will help
		
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			you.
		
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			So,
		
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			this verse then,
		
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			it has that word soft and this word
		
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			soft, it relates to the whole message of
		
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			the surah. The idea of being in ranks
		
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			is depicting
		
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			the message of
		
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			Muslims should be committed to the religion of
		
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			Islam.
		
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			Defend it, promote it together in unity. Yes.
		
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			Commitment to the religion and togetherness as brothers.
		
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			May Allah place this understanding in our hearts
		
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			and allow us to enact upon it.
		
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			Then Allah says waifqalamu salikaummiyaqalmi
		
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			lima tuuzunani wakataalamunani
		
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			rasulallahuilahi
		
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			ilaikum
		
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			and remember when Moses said to his people
		
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			my people
		
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			why do you harm me when you know
		
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			very well that I am a messenger of
		
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			Allah sent to you.
		
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			So when their hearts deviated
		
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			Allah made their hearts deviate even more.
		
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			Allah does not love the immoral people.
		
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			Now this surah seems to transition into history
		
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			now talking about the the case of Musa
		
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			alaihis salam and in particular how he was
		
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			treated by his own people the Bani Israel
		
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			and here Musa is speak to them and
		
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			he's saying
		
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			You call me, oh my people.
		
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			This is a way of calling out with
		
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			a level of care and concern.
		
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			My people, he sees himself as one of
		
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			them
		
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			and he says to them, why do you
		
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			to'zoonani? Which means to harm or to annoy.
		
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			Why do you annoy me? Why do you
		
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			harm me whilst you know that I am
		
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			a messenger Allah sent to you?
		
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			So he's criticized them. He's complaining. He's saying
		
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			what is the matter with you that you
		
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			behave in a rebellious
		
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			disloyal
		
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			manner?
		
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			So what we should be thinking is you
		
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			know what does this have to do
		
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			with
		
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			the message of Surasaf or what has Allah
		
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			has just explained previously in the first four
		
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			verses? Why did Allah choose the case study
		
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			of Musa alaihi salam above all the other
		
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			prophets and how many prophets are there? Do
		
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			we know?
		
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			How many prophets were sent to humanity?
		
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			124,000. Yes. Out of 100 Allah chose? No.
		
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			Remember him.
		
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			Because in the context of what I'm talking
		
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			about, his case study
		
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			has great relevance.
		
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			So when you think about how Bani Israel
		
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			treated their prophet Musa alaihi salam, once knowing
		
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			that he is indeed a messenger of Allah,
		
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			you find they were very rebellious and belligerent.
		
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			So Allah will talk about,
		
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			for example, how
		
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			they went up to Musa alaihis salaam and
		
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			they said,
		
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			Arina Allah hajara.
		
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			Show us Allah right now in the open.
		
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			Now if you think about that, these are
		
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			believing people speaking to their prophet and demanding
		
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			that he shows them Allah in the open.
		
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			What an outrageous question.
		
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			I remember when I was in college,
		
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			do you still have, is it p s
		
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			h e? Is that sort of thing? Yeah.
		
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			So they I think he was like,
		
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			a cover teacher, and he came in from
		
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			New Zealand, I remember.
		
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			And he started a conversation about God and
		
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			whether God exists or not.
		
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			Bear in mind, this college,
		
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			most people were Muslim. Right? So in the
		
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			class, we all sat there. There was, like,
		
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			I think maybe 5 non Muslims there.
		
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			And, he's going around and saying, you know,
		
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			do you believe in God? Do you think
		
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			he exists? And then he's I think he
		
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			was, like, saying, how can you prove that
		
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			God exists?
		
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			And then, I remember there's this one normal
		
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			sim girl.
		
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			She was dressed like a goth, you know?
		
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			So he said, what do you think? She
		
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			said, you know what? I think that if
		
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			God really exists, then he should come down
		
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			right now and show me that he exists.
		
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			And when she said that, everyone got mad.
		
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			And I shouted, and I said, who are
		
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			you to demand God to come?
		
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			And then the teacher was like, okay, ever
		
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			calm down calm down calm down.
		
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			I always think back to that, I think,
		
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			you know, what a foolish person to spark
		
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			such a conversation,
		
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			knowing that most of the people here are
		
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			believers.
		
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			You know, these people's power, sometimes they have
		
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			a hidden gender, and they're not just foolish.
		
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			Any any case,
		
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			this that was a non Muslim girl.
		
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			These are his own. These
		
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			are supposed to be his followers. He is
		
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			their messenger and they're saying to him show
		
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			us Allah.
		
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			That shows you how rebellious and disloyal they
		
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			were. And remind you what happened when Musa
		
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			alaihis salam he left them. This is after
		
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			he saved them from the clutches of Iran,
		
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			parted the sea
		
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			and then he says Allah has called me
		
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			to a meeting. I will leave you for
		
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			a number of days and he returns. What
		
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			are they doing?
		
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			What are they doing? Waiting for him?
		
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			They're worshiping a calf.
		
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			They made an idol and they started worshiping
		
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			it. Can you how frustrating must that be
		
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			for Musa alaihis salam to see his people
		
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			do that?
		
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			After they witnessed such a great miracle.
		
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			It's crazy
		
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			to think that after they witnessed a miracle
		
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			the parting of the sea saved from Firaun
		
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			he drowned in front of the eyes and
		
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			then they end up worshiping other than Allah.
		
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			So Musa alaihi salam says why do you
		
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			why do you behave like this toward me?
		
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			You know? But there's one other thing that
		
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			they did that is documented in the Quran
		
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			that makes his example
		
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			very
		
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			salient and relevant to the context of Surah
		
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			Saf. I'm gonna ask if anyone knows what
		
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			the other incident is. Before I do though,
		
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			there's one other thing I want to mention.
		
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			Again,
		
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			about how was
		
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			so
		
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			annoying
		
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			when it came to their prophet. So Musa
		
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			alaihi wasalam was known to be extremely modest
		
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			man. So much so he would always keep
		
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			himself fully covered, wouldn't bare his arms or
		
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			his legs or anything. And you know what
		
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			Bani Israel used to say?
		
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			You know what they used to say?
		
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			You don't know?
		
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			They used to say, we bet we think
		
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			he's got a skin condition.
		
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			There's something wrong with him and that's why
		
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			he covers him up himself up so much.
		
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			And then what happened is that hadithin Sahibukhay,
		
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			Musa alaihis salam was taking a bath as
		
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			they do in the old days on the
		
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			river banks and took his clothes off, put
		
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			him on a rock. And as he's taking
		
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			a bath,
		
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			a miracle happened where the rock
		
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			moved away with his clothes.
		
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			Musa alaihis salam is running after the rock
		
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			with a stick in his hand,
		
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			chasing after it until some of the Bani
		
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			Sa'id saw him.
		
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			And because of that, they realized
		
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			that, you know what?
		
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			We were making things up about him.
		
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			We were making things up about him. And
		
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			even though that was an embarrassing moment of
		
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			Musa alaihis salam, Allah
		
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			chose that incident to take place in order
		
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			to free him of such
		
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			claims, right? Of these lies, of this gossip.
		
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			So Musa alaihis salam had a very very
		
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			tough time with these people.
		
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			But what is that incident that really relates
		
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			to Surah Asaf
		
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			that makes it chosen
		
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			as the case study?
		
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			Yes.
		
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			Ascent. Ascent.
		
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			In Surah Maidah, Allah the Almighty says, you
		
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			know, there there was a point where Musa
		
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			Alaihi Wasallam managed to
		
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			rally his, Ummah together to conquer
		
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			Al Quds, Palestine.
		
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			And they were literally there. All they had
		
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			to do was enter and defeat a tyrant
		
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			and his people.
		
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			And he commands them,
		
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			let's go.
		
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			Together, we'll fight.
		
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			And what did they say in response?
		
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			Listen to this. They said, you and your
		
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			Lord go and fight. We will wait here.
		
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			So Surah Saf is talking about being that
		
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			committed believer willing to do whatever it takes
		
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			for the sake of Allah if the situation
		
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			arose and Allah says and don't forget before
		
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			you there were people
		
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			that lacked this quality of being committed to
		
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			the religion
		
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			and how
		
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			horrible they were and how difficult they made
		
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			the life of their prophet Musa alaihis salam
		
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			and then Allah says
		
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			So when their hearts Azara, Azara comes from
		
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			Zeir.
		
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			Zeir means
		
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			to turn away from the truth.
		
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			This idea that your heart slowly starts to
		
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			deviate
		
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			away from the truth. You become averse to
		
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			the truth. You become averse to doing the
		
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			right thing. You like to do the things
		
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			that are wrong instead.
		
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			And Allah says when their hearts became like
		
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			this,
		
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			Allah further
		
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			made their hearts deviate
		
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			as a form of punishment.
		
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			This is quite scary.
		
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			It's as though Allah is saying, you know,
		
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			when people
		
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			they become bent, stubborn on doing the wrong
		
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			thing, Allah makes them even more stubborn on
		
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			doing that thing.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Why would Allah do that for?
		
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			Why would Allah make you even more damned
		
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			to doing the wrong
		
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			thing? Why?
		
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			They're disobedient? Yes.
		
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			You're closed
		
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			but
		
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			Why? Yes. It's
		
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			a good answer but it's not the correct
		
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			answer. He said because Allah knows they won't
		
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			change.
		
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			Because if that was the case then
		
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			we could say that from the from day
		
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			dot,
		
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			isn't it? Because that's from day dot. Look,
		
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			the day they're born Allah knows they're going
		
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			to be saqhalas.
		
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			Damn them to misguidance. Somebody put their hand
		
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			up there?
		
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			Asant, it's the form of punishment.
		
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			And sometimes we don't think of it as
		
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			punishment,
		
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			but the reality is that sometimes punishment comes
		
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			in this world
		
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			and its form
		
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			can be
		
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			fortune.
		
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			Its form
		
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			can be becoming even more stubborn on a
		
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			sin. A'udu billamilah, may Allah protect us.
		
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			It's crazy to think
		
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			that Allah sees his slave, he's going down
		
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			the wrong path and despite all the signs,
		
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			all the guidance,
		
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			he deliberately ignores it, ignores it until Allah
		
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			says: Okay, you want to go down this
		
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			path? Go further now.
		
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			And I'll make his heart even harder so
		
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			that he doesn't he becomes blind to what
		
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			he's doing even more.
		
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			That doesn't mean that the person cannot turn
		
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			back to Allah, it just means that now
		
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			they're in a lot more trouble. That's what
		
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			it means.
		
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			And there's a verse that's what qalam is
		
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			law, where Allah says, fatharni
		
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			walmukhadibin.
		
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			Yes?
		
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			So leave me with those who belie.
		
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			Sanestadarijuhum
		
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			min haythula
		
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			You Alamun.
		
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			Sanestadarijuhum.
		
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			This is called Istidraj.
		
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			And Istidraj
		
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			means
		
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			to be punished through fortune.
		
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			To be punished through fortune.
		
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			Sometimes Allah sees a tyrant or a person
		
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			and they're so evil
		
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			that the way Allah will punish them is
		
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			that He'll give them more wealth,
		
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			He'll give them more resources,
		
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			more opportunities
		
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			and so they only increase in their tyranny
		
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			and oppression,
		
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			that becomes
		
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			a greater source of punishment for them in
		
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			the akhirah.
		
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			And that can happen to any person,
		
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			any person.
		
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			That Allah sees a person,
		
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			and he deserves punishment and the punishment comes
		
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			by the world opening up to them,
		
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			and they gain even more.
		
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			And the crazy thing is that the person
		
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			when they see them gaining more power, prominence,
		
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			fame, money, what do they think in their
		
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			head?
		
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			What?
		
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			They think they're doing the right thing. They
		
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			think that we're I'm on the right they're
		
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			on the look at those people, they're poor!
		
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			They have nothing, I have everything. Surely I
		
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			must be doing something right and they have
		
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			no idea. That's why I say, min haythulayaaalamun.
		
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			They will not perceive it.
		
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			It will come from a in a way
		
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			that they will not perceive this is a
		
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			punishment, they won't see that, they will think
		
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			oh this is a blessing from God, God
		
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			must love me.
		
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			Just look at the case of Israel,
		
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			surely in their mind they must think we
		
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			are so powerful, we can control governments, we
		
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			can get them to give us everything.
		
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			And they have
		
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			the highest form of technology
		
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			and weaponry.
		
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			And they must be thinking, oh well, if
		
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			anyone's on the right path, it must be
		
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			us.
		
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			But little do they know, this is all
		
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			an increase in their punishment on your and
		
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			it'll form punishment in this dunya as well.
		
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			Then Allah ends by saying Allah
		
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			does not guide an immoral people,
		
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			An immoral people.
		
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			Now this is like a generic
		
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			statement
		
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			applying to any person who fits this criteria.
		
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			What does it mean that they are farsikhin?
		
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			This word farsikhin,
		
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			translating as immoral,
		
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			it comes from the root of fisk. Fisk
		
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			means to go out of the bounds.
		
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			Go out of the bounds. So the sharia
		
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			has set up boundaries,
		
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			and you behave in a manner
		
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			you're violating those boundaries.
		
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			You may still be a Muslim, you may
		
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			still be a believer, but your behavior means
		
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			that you are
		
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			behaving recklessly, you're negligent,
		
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			you're disobedient,
		
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			all round immoral person.
		
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			And Allah says he doesn't guide people like
		
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			that.
		
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			If that's the way you're gonna behave, then
		
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			just know Allah will not guide you. And
		
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			the implication is that if Allah doesn't guide
		
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			you, what will happen to you?
		
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			If Allah doesn't guide you, what will happen
		
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			to you?
		
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			Automatically,
		
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			you'll be misguided.
		
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			There is no way in no there is
		
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			no way for you to be guided
		
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			unless Allah guides you. Isn't that what we
		
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			hear the Khatib say every Friday?
		
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			Mayyoodlillahu
		
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			fala haadi Allah whoever Allah misguides, there is
		
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			no one to guide that person
		
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			and whoever Allah guides none can misguide that
		
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			person. Allahu Akbar.
		
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			So when Allah says Allah will not guide
		
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			immoral people
		
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			that means that these people have no salvation,
		
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			they have no salvation.
		
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			What is interesting about the phrase is
		
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			that it teaches us something about the Qadr
		
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			of Allah,
		
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			divine decree.
		
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			See Allah the Almighty said when their hearts
		
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			deviated
		
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			then
		
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			Allah made their hearts deviate more. Do you
		
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			see the sequence?
		
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			What came first? Allah's
		
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			intervention
		
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			or
		
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			the actions of the people?
		
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			The actions of the people.
		
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			So Allah is saying the reason why I
		
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			misguided them is because they behaved recklessly in
		
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			the first place. We don't force people to
		
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			be evil.
		
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			But when they behave evil, then
		
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			there's
		
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			accountability to
		
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			that. There's
		
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			a reaction to that. There's a consequence to
		
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			that rather.
		
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			So when you think of Allah's divine decree,
		
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			the opposite is also true.
		
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			When does Allah guide someone?
		
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			Does Allah guide someone
		
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			just because he likes that person?
		
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			Because he likes the color of their skin?
		
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			Or the lineage that they have?
		
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			Why does Allah guide someone? Because here Allah
		
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			is saying I'll tell you why I misguided
		
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			him, is because he didn't want guidance in
		
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			the first place.
		
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			He wanted to stay away from the right
		
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			path. Therefore I misguided him more. So then
		
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			the opposite is what? Allah will guide who?
		
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			The one seeking guidance.
		
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			The one whose heart is inclined towards Allah
		
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			wants Allah to guide them, wants Allah to
		
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			help them, wants Allah to take them away
		
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			from the wrong in this world, from the
		
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			harms,
		
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			from the sins, from he wants that.
		
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			When Allah sees that this person wants that
		
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			then no matter your situation
		
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			your circumstance
		
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			your circle of friends Allah will remove you
		
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			from that.
		
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			Allah will guide you no matter who you're
		
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			with no matter where you are if
		
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			you want the guidance.
		
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			So Allah
		
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			says
		
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			Allah does not guide
		
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			a people who are first serene.
		
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			Abna Ashoor said the word is interesting here
		
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			because Allah didn't say he will not guide
		
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			immoral people, but he said he will not
		
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			guide a people who are immoral. Meaning
		
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			there are people
		
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			and they're known to be immoral. There's a
		
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			difference.
		
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			It's not that they were immoral here and
		
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			there.
		
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			They were caught being immoral once upon a
		
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			time. No. They are known to be this
		
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			of this type.
		
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			You know, they're known to be like this.
		
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			You know, recently there was a survey survey
		
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			done in Israel
		
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			about the 7th October and
		
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			the
		
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			military intervention they called it of Israel against
		
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			Hamas. Right?
		
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			And they asked the people of Israel,
		
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			do you believe
		
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			that the,
		
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			proportion of, the proportion of military intervention
		
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			was and then they gave answers,
		
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			choices rather. One of them was
		
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			excessive.
		
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			Another one was adequate. Another one was
		
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			not enough.
		
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			Yeah? Not enough.
		
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			Do you know how many people said it
		
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			was an excessive
		
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			percentage?
		
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			7.5%.
		
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			7.5 percent of those people believed
		
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			that what was waged over a genocide on
		
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			the people of Palestine was not enough.
		
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			Oh, sorry, it was too much.
		
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			It was too much. And the 90 something
		
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			is not enough.
		
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			That's what you call a people.
		
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			Inherent quality now has become immoral.
		
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			Yes?
		
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			And not just on one occasion.
		
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			It's a long standing issue.
		
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			So Allah is saying those are the type
		
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			of people I do not guide. They become
		
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			persistent on immorality
		
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			and it becomes widespread.
		
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			2 things come together. When that happens,
		
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			then really and truly,
		
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			the door of guidance has been closed for
		
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			those type of people. May Allah protect us
		
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			from that. And then a second historical case
		
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			is brought. Waifqalayeeeesabunummariamayeeisraelinni
		
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			rasulallahuilayeemma
		
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			bayna
		
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			yadayaminaturatiumu
		
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			bashiram bi Rasooli yatinbaadismuhuuhmad.
		
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			And also remember
		
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			when Aissa, the son of Maryam
		
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			said,
		
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			O Bani Israel,
		
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			I am truly a messenger of Allah sent
		
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			to you
		
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			confirming
		
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			that
		
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			was before me in terms of the tawrat,
		
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			and giving you glad tidings of a Messenger
		
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			who will come after me. His name is
		
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			And then when
		
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			the evidences
		
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			were brought to them, they said this is
		
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			clear magic.
		
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			This is clear magic. Does anyone know how
		
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			many years after Musa, alaihis salam, did Isa,
		
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			alaihis salam come,
		
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			roughly?
		
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			No.
		
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			Yes. 1500.
		
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			1500 years have passed.
		
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			Isa alaihis salam comes.
		
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			And a lot of people, a lot of
		
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			scholars say they say that the coming of
		
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			Isa alaihis salam to the same bone, bani
		
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			israel,
		
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			was actually their last chance to redeem themselves.
		
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			So what's interesting is Musa alaihis salam is
		
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			like one of their first main prophets.
		
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			Okay. He's the biggest one that they receive
		
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			and Musa alaihis salam is already complaining about
		
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			their behavior.
		
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			Yes. That they are what?
		
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			What would that mean? Immoral, rebellious,
		
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			disloyal.
		
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			1500 years later, ae salaam comes to them.
		
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			Miraculous birth.
		
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			So many miracles like what? He could cure
		
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			the blind,
		
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			cure the leper, he could bring the dead
		
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			back to life all by the permission of
		
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			Allah. And there is another miracle that the
		
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			Quran mentions that the Bible in today does
		
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			not mention. Does anyone know the other miracle
		
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			that he could do? Yes.
		
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			No, this is known, Hariweh.
		
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			Even when we were in primary school, we
		
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			had to do this in the play.
		
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			Speaking for the cradle is known. There's another
		
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			one.
		
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			The Quran mentions it.
		
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			Give you a clue to do with birds.
		
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			Yes. He could shape a bird out of
		
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			clay,
		
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			blow into it and it would come alive.
		
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			Allahu Akbar. Imagine that, subhanahu wa jeed.
		
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			All of these miracles
		
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			How do they treat him?
		
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			How do they treat How do Bani Israel
		
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			treat him?
		
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			They say he's a'udba illegitimate
		
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			son
		
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			His mother, 'A'udbillamindalexania.
		
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			Indecent woman. And then what do they say?
		
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			He's not a real prophet. And then what
		
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			do they try to do to him?
		
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			They try to kill him.
		
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			Imagine
		
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			the state of those people.
		
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			So So 1500 years ago, they were just
		
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			first 15.
		
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			Then
		
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			after when isa alayhi salam comes, now they're
		
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			not even real believers anymore because when the
		
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			prophet comes to them, they don't even accept
		
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			him from the very beginning.
		
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			Before, they were like, okay. We'll believe in
		
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			you, but we're gonna make life difficult for
		
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			you. Now they're like, we're not even gonna
		
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			accept you.
		
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			And all the while, Allah is teaching the
		
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			ummah of Muhammad, salallahu alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			That's the message here. That look, those people
		
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			back in the day, this is how they
		
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			behaved. They were a bit immoral, a bit
		
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			disloyal, disobedient. And do you know what happened?
		
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			I misguided them more and more and more
		
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			until
		
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			this happened. Another prophet came to them with
		
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			so many miracles
		
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			and so soft hearted as well.
		
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			And what did they try to do to
		
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			him? Kill him.
		
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			Outright misbelievers.
		
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			What is the message? You will become like
		
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			this if you follow their footsteps. Very clear.
		
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			This will happen to you.
		
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			You will go down the same path if
		
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			you behave like those people.
		
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			This goes back to the beginning then, which
		
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			is why do you say what you don't
		
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			do? Why Muslims are you not committed to
		
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			the religion? Why are you not prepared to
		
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			unite,
		
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			to defend and promote your deen of Allah?
		
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			If you do, you'll be victorious. If you
		
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			don't, you will go down the path of
		
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			these people. And this is exactly where we
		
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			are today. Is it not disunited
		
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			and humiliated by our enemies? Isn't it?
		
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			This is exactly what happened to Bani Israel.
		
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			Exactly what happened to them.
		
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			Because after they rejected Isa alayhi salam,
		
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			the downfall came and even though they had
		
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			power at that time, they quickly lost the
		
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			power. They were,
		
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			Al Quds
		
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			was utterly destroyed
		
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			by before,
		
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			and then who came afterwards to destroy?
		
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			The Romans.
		
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			And to the point that they became a
		
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			scattered nation, they had no land. They had
		
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			to live in the lands of other people,
		
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			always humiliated.
		
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			Until today.
		
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			Allahu Akbar.
		
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			And this is what is happening to the
		
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			Muslims.
		
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			This is exactly what is happening to the
		
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			Muslims.
		
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			Disunited,
		
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			divide and conquer, and now we find ourselves
		
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			in a very precarious situation.
		
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			But we know, alhamdulillah,
		
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			that Allah has promised us victory.
		
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			And Allah has given us the guidance that
		
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			will help us redeem ourselves.
		
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			This is why it's so important to study
		
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			the Quran because it lays down that path
		
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			to greatness again for us. May Allah go
		
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			into understanding.
		
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			So Allah says
		
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			and remember when a israel alayhis salam he
		
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			said
		
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			when Musa alayhis salam
		
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			spoke to his people what did he say
		
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			you call me oh my people
		
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			'Isa
		
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			doesn't say You Komi. Isn't 'Isa from Bani
		
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			Israel, yes or no?
		
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			He is, but he doesn't say You Komi.
		
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			Why does he say You Komi? There's a
		
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			number of different opinions here. One of them
		
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			is that he wants to address them by
		
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			their title,
		
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			which is honorable.
		
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			Actually means
		
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			the tribe that goes back to
		
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			Yaqub alaihi salam.
		
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			Yaqub
		
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			alaihi salam, prophet, noble man. They're the children
		
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			of Yaqub.
		
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			So he's trying
		
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			to talk them up. He's saying, you know,
		
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			you know who you are. You are the
		
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			children of Jacob.
		
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			Yaqub alayhi wasalam.
		
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			And then he says, you know that I
		
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			am truly a messenger. Allah sent to you.
		
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			And my message is only
		
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			reconfirming
		
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			what was sent to you by a previous
		
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			prophet who
		
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			musa alaihi salam he's the one who gave
		
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			him the tawat
		
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			So Jesus is saying, you know, my message
		
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			really isn't that different to
		
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			Moses.
		
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			Why are you being so hostile? Why are
		
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			you rejecting me? It's not like I'm asking
		
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			you to
		
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			reevaluate
		
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			your religion.
		
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			I'm merely
		
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			coming to confirm
		
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			the major traditions and the values that were
		
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			promoted in that religion.
		
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			And then he says something else.
		
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			Besides this,
		
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			I'm giving you the good news
		
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			of a messenger who will come after me.
		
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			His name will be
		
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			Ahmed.
		
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			Was Ahmed the name of the prophet alayhi
		
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			salatu wasalam?
		
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			Was it his name?
		
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			Some of the scholars, they say, yes. It
		
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			was one of his names. But
		
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			the reality, as Ibn Ashur said, is that
		
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			the prophet Muhammad
		
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			was never called Ahmed by people before or
		
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			after he became a prophet. Never.
		
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			It is listed
		
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			as one of the names, but those are
		
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			like,
		
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			honorifics.
		
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			Yes. Those are like honorifics, titles almost.
		
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			But here, Jesus is saying, I will tell
		
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			you later on, there's gonna be another prophet
		
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			to come. His name is Ahmed.
		
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			Now that is very close to Muhammad
		
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			because they both come from the root of
		
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			hamd, which means to praise.
		
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			But still, he said, ismuhu,
		
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			his name will be Ahmed. And yet,
		
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			his name was not Ahmed. It was Muhammad.
		
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			So this is an interesting explanation given by
		
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			Ibn Ashoor. He says that, see, in Arabic,
		
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			the word ism
		
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			can mean the name of a person that
		
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			distinguishes them from the next person, but it
		
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			can also, he said,
		
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			refer to inherent qualities
		
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			that a person becomes famous for.
		
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			So it's more of a description
		
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			than a name of a person.
		
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			And then he says,
		
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			what does ahmad actually mean? It's a superlative.
		
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			It means
		
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			the one who is the most praised.
		
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			And Muhammad sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wasallam is the most praised.
		
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			Even before he became a prophet, he was
		
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			one of those who was praised the most
		
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			and after he became a prophet of Allah,
		
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			even more so until he is the most
		
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			praised human being on this planet
		
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			every day
		
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			every day.
		
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			The Mu'adin will say on the
		
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			and, in the masjid every day
		
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			all around the world. Imagine,
		
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			we will raise your renowned.
		
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			He's the most praised individual. Even in this
		
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			country, in the UK, one of the most
		
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			common names in the United Kingdom is
		
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			Muhammad.
		
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			It's crazy. No Muslim country. 66,000,000.
		
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			And there are about 5, I don't know,
		
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			5 to 8,000,000 Muslims, they say.
		
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			And yet, Muhammad
		
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			is the most common name.
		
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			They say if you'd look at all the
		
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			different spellings, you know, with the u and
		
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			the o, and they say amounts to more
		
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			than
		
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			Oliver, which is supposed to be the most
		
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			common name in this country.
		
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			That was about 5 years ago anyway.
		
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			So
		
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			if that is the case, that Jesus is
		
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			saying there will come a man
		
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			who will be the most praised,
		
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			then this would make more sense.
		
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			Yes?
		
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			And ibn al-'Ashur, he goes further. He says,
		
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			it is as though Jesus is saying
		
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			that he is the most praised, meaning he's
		
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			even more praised
		
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			than me
		
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			and Musa, alaihis salaam.
		
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			And we know Isra'il Mi'raj, when the prophet
		
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			went to Jerusalem, he led the prayer. And
		
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			who was praying behind him?
		
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			All of the prophets. All the prophets.
		
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			Sayyidul Mursaleen. He is the leader of all
		
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			the messengers, Allahu Akbar.
		
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			Fascinating to think that Allah chose us to
		
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			be the followers
		
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			of Muhammad and
		
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			who is the leader of all the prophets.
		
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			We could have been chosen to be from
		
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			Musa Alaihi Salam, from Isa Alaihi Salam, from
		
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			any other nation. Allah chose us to be
		
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			from the very best. Say, Alhamdulillah.
		
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			So Allah says,
		
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			Falam,
		
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			jaaahum bil bayinat. And then,
		
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			when
		
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			the bayinat the bayinat means something
		
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			very clear and compelling.
		
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			So they say that
		
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			what this end of the verse talking about
		
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			is either Isa alaihis salam. So when the
		
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			Isa alaihis salam came, he said this to
		
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			his people, Aben Israeel, they rejected him.
		
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			They were hostile towards him. And then he
		
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			showed them the bayyanat, which means all those
		
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			miracles that we listed.
		
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			What did they say?
		
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			This is
		
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			plain magic.
		
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			Plain magic.
		
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			Why would they say that for?
		
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			Why would they say it's magic?
		
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			When they know it's not magic.
		
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			It can only be a miracle to do
		
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			all bring a dead person back to life.
		
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			Come on, bro.
		
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			Magic?
		
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			You know it's not. Why would they say
		
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			it's magic?
		
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			Because they need to reinterpret
		
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			it in a way
		
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			that takes away the responsibility of having to
		
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			believe in Him.
		
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			And this is the way people behave. If
		
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			they don't want to accept the truth, they
		
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			reinterpret the situation in a way that makes
		
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			it out that they don't have to follow
		
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			this.
		
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			People today will say, Oh, you know the
		
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			hijab, that was a historical context, you know,
		
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			it was the culture of the Arabs they
		
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			used to cover.
		
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			So it doesn't relate to me.
		
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			People try to reinterpret things, yeah, in a
		
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			manner. They say, oh this is just magic,
		
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			meaning
		
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			it would be silly to follow this man.
		
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			What time is open?
		
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			We have 10 minutes? Okay,
		
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			we'll try to finish, the next verse and
		
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			then we'll take some questions, inshallah.
		
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			The other interpretation actually, we'll finish with other
		
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			interpretations. So the first interpretation is the the
		
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			people when he brought his miracles
		
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			in front of Ben Israel, they explained it
		
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			away as being clear magic.
		
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			The other interpretation, however, is.
		
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			So when
		
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			he came with
		
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			the proofs, refers to who?
		
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			The prophet
		
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			Because Jesus just said, and I give you
		
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			good news that they will come a messenger
		
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			after me. His name is Ahmed. And when
		
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			he came with those clear proofs, I e,
		
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			the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam, then the people
		
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			said, this is clear magic which is also
		
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			true they did say that all the quresh
		
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			what did they see of miracles
		
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			I mean they saw the splitting of the
		
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			moon what other miracles did they see
		
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			the person perform
		
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			what was the greatest miracle
		
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			The Quran reciting the Quran.
		
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			He's a man who doesn't engage in poetry.
		
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			We've never known him to speak like this
		
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			all of a sudden and his speech is
		
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			more eloquent,
		
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			more articulate,
		
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			more wise than any human being, any poet
		
00:43:41 --> 00:43:43
			that we have ever come to hear or
		
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			see in our life.
		
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			And they said this plus every form of
		
00:43:48 --> 00:43:49
			miracle that you show on us is what
		
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			is just magic.
		
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			It's all magic.
		
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			And what is beautiful is that both of
		
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			these meanings, though they are different, the first
		
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			referring to Jesus, the second referring to Muhammad
		
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			They both are true at the same time
		
00:44:02 --> 00:44:03
			as law.
		
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			Isn't it? They're both true. That is what
		
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			happened to
		
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			students that come on time to my class,
		
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			what am I really saying?
		
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			Don't be late to my class. I don't
		
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			like people that come late.
		
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			But does that mean I don't love people
		
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			that come on time?
		
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			It means that I love the people that
		
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			come on time as well. So I you
		
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			can say something,
		
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			2 meanings. You can intend both of them.
		
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			And the Quran is the most eloquent and
		
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			sophisticated of all books,
		
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			of all speech. And so if there are
		
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			multiple meanings that could be possible,
		
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			then we can accommodate
		
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			all of them and maybe even suggest that
		
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			Allah intended the mizzah
		
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			Allahu Adam.
		
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			Now next week inshallah will continue and,
		
00:45:03 --> 00:45:05
			you'll see the Surah transition
		
00:45:05 --> 00:45:08
			to now take on a more direct message.
		
00:45:08 --> 00:45:10
			So moving away from the historical counts to
		
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			laying down some direct advice and guidance
		
00:45:14 --> 00:45:16
			to, the Ummah Muhammad and
		
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			inshallah we'll try to conclude
		
00:45:19 --> 00:45:21
			next week as well. Little bit behind schedule.
		
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			But let's stop here. If there are any
		
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			questions, we'll take from from the brothers first,
		
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			and then
		
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			I believe there is a mechanism for sisters
		
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			to
		
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			ask questions.
		
00:45:31 --> 00:45:32
			You got them? Mhmm. So Oh, can you
		
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			read them out to me then?
		
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			Because I Now we've got no questions, but
		
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			Okay. It's plus the one in the sister's
		
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			room. On the screen. The TV. Okay. They've
		
00:45:40 --> 00:45:41
			got us. Is it answer, and then I'll
		
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			read them out to you. Okay.
		
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			But, brother, is there any question from last
		
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			week or this week? Because last week, we
		
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			didn't have enough time. So I wonder if
		
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			I'm gonna take any questions.
		
00:45:52 --> 00:45:53
			No questions?
		
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			Reminded, there will be a quiz next week.
		
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			I'm not sure how we're gonna do the
		
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			quiz.
		
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			Sister Sapali maybe and the brother's
		
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			Sapali as well.
		
00:46:05 --> 00:46:07
			Can anyone who's been taking notes put the
		
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			quiz together for us
		
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			and give it to me and then I
		
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			can revise it? It'll make my life a
		
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			little bit easier.
		
00:46:25 --> 00:46:27
			I didn't get the question, sir, uncle. Do
		
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			I choose to hide and really
		
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			to fight?
		
00:46:33 --> 00:46:34
			I don't know, uncle. I have to do
		
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			research on that. I'll have to look into
		
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			that. I'll ask specifically.
		
00:46:39 --> 00:46:41
			Okay. Surely. Yes. Please do. Yes.
		
00:46:41 --> 00:46:42
			No problem.
		
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			Any other questions?
		
00:46:47 --> 00:46:47
			No?
		
00:46:48 --> 00:46:49
			Yes, miss Mullah.
		
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			The one I was quoting, ibn Aashur.
		
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			Yes, Tunisian scholar,
		
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			passed away in the last 150
		
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			years. He was a grand mufti of Tunisia.
		
00:47:03 --> 00:47:05
			The and the mufti of the Zaytun Institute
		
00:47:06 --> 00:47:06
			there,
		
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			which is the most prestigious university in Tunisia.
		
00:47:10 --> 00:47:12
			But, yeah, his book at tafsir is one
		
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			of the greatest works ever written.
		
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			Yeah.
		
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			Yes.
		
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			Are you talking about today or back then?
		
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			When?
		
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			So you're saying so the question is that,
		
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			do I think that some of the
		
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			Jewish people
		
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			are forgiven, overlooked
		
00:47:55 --> 00:47:57
			for their behavior because of
		
00:47:58 --> 00:47:59
			not knowing the truth?
		
00:48:00 --> 00:48:01
			Is that your question?
		
00:48:01 --> 00:48:02
			What do you think?
		
00:48:05 --> 00:48:06
			Why why would you think I would have
		
00:48:06 --> 00:48:07
			a different answer
		
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			the thing is father we live in a
		
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			time where access to the truth is so
		
00:48:14 --> 00:48:16
			much easier than it would have been years
		
00:48:16 --> 00:48:17
			ago right
		
00:48:17 --> 00:48:19
			With the explosion of the Internet
		
00:48:20 --> 00:48:22
			and information age, you can just go on
		
00:48:22 --> 00:48:24
			to chat GPT and ask ask away.
		
00:48:25 --> 00:48:26
			Find out wherever you want.
		
00:48:27 --> 00:48:29
			So there used to be this there was
		
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			this concept. It can still apply of,
		
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			which the scholars coined this term to refer
		
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			to a people that lived in between 2
		
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			prophets.
		
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			And they because of account of being either
		
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			very remote or living in between 2 prophets
		
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			that were so far apart, they didn't really
		
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			get to hear the truth.
		
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			And so on the day of judgement, what
		
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			will happen to those people?
		
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			Yes. And there's 2 opinions as to what
		
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			will happen to those people. But any case,
		
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			imagining that today
		
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			is very difficult. I mean, they were on
		
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			the news. There was supposed there was a
		
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			recent,
		
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			a case where there were some, I think,
		
00:49:03 --> 00:49:05
			aborigines or something. They were found,
		
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			and they are believed to have lived in
		
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			the jungle, in the rainforest,
		
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			completely disconnected from civilization.
		
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			The the
		
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			the
		
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			the
		
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			the
		
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			the
		
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			the
		
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			the the the the the the the the
		
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			the the the the the the the the
		
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			the the the the the the the the
		
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			the the the the the the the the
		
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			the the the the the the the the
		
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			the the the the the the the the
		
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			the the the the the the or Allah
		
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			will judge them based on his knowledge. Those
		
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			are the 2 different opinions. But as for
		
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			a massive community like the Jewish community just
		
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			blanket
		
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			saying, yeah, they they probably excuse because they
		
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			don't know any better.
		
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			I'd find I find it very difficult to
		
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			think
		
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			how that could have
		
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			any substance
		
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			or basis to that, Walla'alam.
		
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			Any other questions? Yes. Sorry. Did the system
		
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			answer any question? No? Okay.
		
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			Sure.
		
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			No problem.
		
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			Why do you say what you don't do?
		
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			Yes.
		
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			Yes. Good, yeah.
		
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			So it's a good question. The brother asked,
		
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			you know, he knows someone who
		
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			refuses to
		
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			maybe take up opportunities
		
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			to do reminders and talks and lectures because
		
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			he's afraid he would fall under this verse
		
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			meaning that, you know, he's saying things and
		
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			advise people to do good things where he
		
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			doesn't do himself.
		
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			So what we explained last week is that
		
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			that's not the meaning of the verse. The
		
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			meaning of the verse isn't why
		
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			do why would don't advise people if you
		
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			don't do things yourself.
		
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			The the meaning is
		
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			why would you don't
		
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			be the type of person who says I
		
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			will do x y zed good deed, and
		
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			then when it comes to the time, you
		
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			back out of it.
		
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			Yes? You back out of it. So you
		
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			lack that commitment and devotion to the region.
		
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			Don't be that type of person.
		
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			A big part
		
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			of the world. We're gonna be a big
		
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			part of the world. We're gonna be a
		
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			big part of the world.
		
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			We're
		
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			gonna be a big part of the world.
		
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			We're gonna be a big part of the
		
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			world. We're gonna
		
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			say the truth,
		
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			act according to the truth
		
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			and advise on the truth.
		
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			But
		
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			here's the thing,
		
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			if
		
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			somebody said should I pray tahajjud
		
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			and you don't pray tahajjud
		
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			would it be haram for you to say
		
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			I don't know I don't know I don't
		
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			know
		
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			in your mind thinking I don't be the
		
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			guy who telling people to do something good
		
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			and he doesn't do it himself
		
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			so would that be wrong
		
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			to say
		
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			well, sorry, is that the right answer? That
		
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			oh,
		
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			I'm not sure.
		
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			Because in your mind you're like I wanna
		
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			do it myself so I'm not sure if
		
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			I should advise him.
		
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			Is that what Allah wants from us?
		
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			No, of course not.
		
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			You're supposed to advise people to do the
		
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			right thing even if you don't do yourself.
		
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			The only time you should refrain from it
		
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			is
		
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			if you have no desire to do that
		
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			good deed.
		
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			Because now you're you are a hypocrite now
		
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			Because you're telling people to do the right
		
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			thing and you have no desire to do
		
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			it yourself.
		
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			Now you have fallen
		
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			under that threshold.
		
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			Yes?
		
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			So you don't wanna be that person, but
		
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			inshallah, we we are not like those people.
		
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			We would love to do all the good
		
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			deeds, and we have a desire to do
		
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			all of them, but we fall short. That
		
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			doesn't mean we would never be able to
		
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			advise people to do x y z good
		
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			deeds or refrain from x y z sin
		
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			just because we have to make sure we're
		
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			doing that ourselves first.
		
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			Ideally, yes, but technically,
		
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			no. And that's not what the verse is
		
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			saying either. Just to be clear. It's not
		
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			saying that don't be the person who advises
		
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			someone to do a good deed if you
		
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			don't do it yourself.
		
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			Any final questions?