Fatima Lette – Exploring The Quran For Women Surah Yusuf #12

Fatima Lette
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The speaker discusses the difficulties of life and the importance of finding a way to be functional in society. They emphasize the need to be patient and communicate one's struggles, and the importance of finding a solution to sadness and sadness in difficult situations. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of learning from the experience of the day and taking time to change.
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Until I make sure that being a means

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okay, so he's gonna stay there.

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And then we have this next ayah, where

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it says irji'u ila abikum, go to

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your father, fa-kulu and say to him,

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ya abaana, O our father, inna banat tharaqa

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wa ma shahidina illa bima alimna ma kunna

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lilghaybi haafileen.

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Tell your father, that O father, your son

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has stolen, and because of that, we need

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you to understand that we do not testify,

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we're not bearing witness, we're not saying anything

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except for what we know.

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So we're not making a character judgment, we're

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not saying that he's the worst son in

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the world, we're just saying that this is

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what we know and this is what they're

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holding him back for.

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And he says that wa ma kunna lilghaybi

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haafileen, and we were not witnesses or you

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would even say able to safeguard against things

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that are, how could we safeguard anything that

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was unseen, right?

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And what that means was this is unforeseeable

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circumstances that occurred, and because these circumstances were

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unforeseeable, we were not able to protect Binyamin

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in the way that we promised you that

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we would, because we couldn't see it.

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Had we known that this would be the

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outcome of taking Binyamin there, had we known

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that this would have been possible, then we

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wouldn't have begged for him to come.

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So they're essentially, he's essentially telling them, go

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and set up the case for yourself.

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And then tell him, was'alil qariya, give

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him the ability to go and investigate.

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So tell him and go and ask the

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people, aleti kunna feeha, in the city that

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we were in, and they had gone to

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the city multiple times.

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So remember, this is not the first time

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that they went to the city.

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It's not the first time that they interacted

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with the minister, who is Yusuf alayhi salam.

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So they said, go, and you can ask

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those people, walayil aleti aqbalna feeha, and you

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can also ask the people that gave us

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a ride there, meaning the caravan.

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So we traveled with people, we've been in

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that city, and they all witnessed what happened.

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Wa inna la sawdi kun.

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And indeed, you will find that we are

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truthful.

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Now, when they say this to their father,

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you can only imagine what the father's response

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is.

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Because they had once made a promise to

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their father that they would bring Yusuf back.

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They had once made a promise to their

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father that they didn't want anything evil done

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to Yusuf alayhi salam.

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And where did that get done?

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Or where did that get Yaqub alayhi salam

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without a son?

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And so now, they've made another promise to

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their father that they will bring their brother

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back, and Yaqub alayhi salam is still, again,

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without a son for a second time around.

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And so Yaqub alayhi salam's response was called

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a bal sawwa latadakum anfusukum amran.

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The same thing that he said in the

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time that Yusuf alayhi salam was missing, and

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they claimed that what occurred or what happened

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was that a wolf came and ate him.

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Then Yaqub alayhi salam tells them, no, there's

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something that has enticed your soul.

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And sawwa lat means that there was something

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that was presented to you that beautified this

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thing, that made it seem like the right

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decision to make.

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And then he says, fasawbarun jameen, so I

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will remain and have a very beautiful patience,

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which is the same thing that he said

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at the time of Yusuf alayhi salam disappearing.

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Now, beautiful patience is something that we've covered,

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but I think it's important for us to

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understand what it means, right?

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Remember that sawbar is about restraint.

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It's about, it literally is used when tying

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something, tying your camel.

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So it's about holding back the true level

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or extent of emotion that's irrational.

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You ever get to like, you ever be

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like so upset and there's like a lot

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of rationale, you're rational about it, but then

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you get to that, like, you know, the

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cliff is there and you just kind of

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go keep going.

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Yeah, sawbar is not going over the cliff

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and going over the cliff is what gets

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you to the Allah, why me?

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I didn't deserve this.

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Why would you do this to me?

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I pray, I pray all the time.

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I fast.

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There's other people who like do far worse.

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They have far more.

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Yeah, that sawbar stops you from reaching that

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point.

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And it's important to not reach that point.

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Why?

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Because even in the time of anger, okay,

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even in time of anger, we may say

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things that we do not mean, but imagine

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you're having a conversation with your best friend.

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Okay, imagine you have someone that you really

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love and you care for, and you're talking

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to that person, and maybe something triggers you,

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you get a little upset.

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And to that person, you tell them, you've

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never done anything for me.

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You were never there for me.

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You've always been this way and blah, blah,

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blah, and this and that.

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You keep saying these things.

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Then when you leave that conversation, you don't

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feel very good.

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But imagine how you make the other person

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feel.

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And though Allah SWT does not need us,

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and He does not need our kindness, but

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if we want to be the Wali of

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Allah, right, we want to be friends of

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God, then we also have to carry ourselves

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in that relationship accordingly.

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We wouldn't want someone to diminish the help

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that we've given them.

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So why would we diminish the help that

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Allah SWT has given us through and through

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in our life?

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Because a bump has come in the road,

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because a difficulty has occurred, because we have

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an inconvenience, right?

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I'm not by any means belittling what Yaqub

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AS is going through.

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Because Yaqub AS is the one who's saying

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that I'm not going to belittle the help

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that Allah SWT has given me in my

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lifetime.

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Yaqub AS himself is saying, I'm going to

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endure, I'm going to take this difficulty, but

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I'm going to take it in the most

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beautiful way.

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And the most beautiful way of taking a

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difficulty is taking it with Allah.

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And that means that you consult and you

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talk to God, and you ask Allah SWT

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for help throughout that difficulty.

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But it also means that you acknowledge that

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this difficulty, there's some khayr in it, there's

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some good, there's something that you may be

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able to get out of it.

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So Yaqub AS then says, that perhaps Allah

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SWT will bring me to bring them to

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me all together.

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So remember, his sons are now kind of

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scattered.

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Biamin and Yusuf AS, they're back in the

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city, but his older son is in the

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city too.

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Because remember, his older son said, I'm not

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leaving here without Biamin.

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I'm going to sit here until I know

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that his matter is taken care of, because

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we made a promise.

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And he wants to make sure that he

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doesn't make the same mistake that he made

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when they did what they did to Yusuf.

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So he's staying there.

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So Yaqub AS is not only grieving the

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loss of Yusuf now, but he's also now

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grieving the fact that Biamin is gone.

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And then on top of that, his older

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son is not there.

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But the rest of the sons are with

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him.

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So he says that there, I know that

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there's going to come a time where Allah

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SWT is going to bring me back with

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all of my kids.

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And he says, And he refers to Allah

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in two of his characteristics, two of his

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ismat, two of his names.

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The first one is that he says, I

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know that Allah is all knowing.

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He's all aware.

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He's all knowledgeable.

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He's all knowing.

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And he's all knowing of the difficulty that

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has befallen me.

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But he's also all knowing of the solution

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that's going to come out of this.

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Sometimes we're in the thick of hardship, and

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we feel like there's no solution in this.

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You know, you feel like, you know what,

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this is just going to be my life.

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And it is what it is.

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And some days is easy to accept that.

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And some days it's very difficult to accept

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it.

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On the days that is easy, you say

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I can live this life every day.

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I don't like it.

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It's not ideal, but it's fine.

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But the days that is hard, it is,

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okay, I don't know why Allah will put

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this burden onto me.

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But when you know that there is a

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solution, Allah SWT has made a cure for

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every single illness.

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Allah SWT has made a solution for every

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single problem.

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Allah SWT has made a way out for

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every single difficulty.

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But sometimes the journey of the difficulty is

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exactly what you need to go through in

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order to know something or to learn something

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or to develop and to grow.

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Because at the end of the day, the

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production of a diamond is not made by

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being cute.

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It's not how it happens, right?

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It's difficult, it's hard, it's pressure.

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Pressure makes diamonds, not pebbles, diamonds, right?

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Yeah, exactly.

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I can't do that.

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It's not how I work.

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You know, she's so funny.

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We'll talk about it later.

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But when you think about that, right, you

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think about how the most valuable things that

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you have in life, those things were not

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made through the process of someone just sitting

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around.

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It was made through difficulty, through hardship.

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Why?

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Because trial and tribulation allows you to know

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who you are and the things that you

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need to grow in, right?

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It lets you know that these are the

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things that I'm good at.

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This is a response I'm not so great

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at.

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This is a situation that I could have

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done better at.

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Well, actually, I'm very proud of myself because

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I got through this situation.

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So different things allow for you to see,

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different things allow for you to see different

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outcomes and different ways of who you are.

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But Allah SWT being all-knowing means that

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God knows the solution to this issue.

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Allah SWT knows when you're going to get

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out of it.

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And Allah SWT knows the exact type of

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help that you need to get out of

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it.

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And then we have Al-Hakim.

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Just because someone knows something doesn't mean they're

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wise, right?

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I can know a lot of things.

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But you ever heard of a know-it

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-all?

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Who likes to know it all?

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Nobody.

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Nobody likes to know it all.

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Because a know-it-all does not actually

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know the right time and place to say

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something.

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So it's like someone's in the thick of

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an issue and they're like seeking advice.

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They just, and maybe you as a person

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who's there as a bystander, know that that

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person needs to just be told it's going

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to be okay.

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And this know-it-all is like, well,

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let me tell you all the places that

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you went wrong.

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It's like, it's not the time.

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It's not the place.

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It's an honest statement.

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But this is not the time.

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It's not the place.

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It's definitely not the moment.

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It's not the moment.

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So someone can have knowledge of something, but

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not be very wise in how they communicate

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that knowledge.

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Not be very wise in how they navigate

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it.

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Not be very wise in the role that

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they play in people's lives.

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But Yaqub a.s. gives Allah subhana wa

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ta'ala, or refers to Allah subhana wa

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ta'ala in these two attributes, in these

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two characteristics and names of Allah, recognizing that

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I know that Allah is all aware of

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my situation.

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And I know that in the timeline that

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he's presenting the situation, and how long the

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situation has been going on for, and what

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is happening exactly right now, that Allah is

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all wise.

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And there's something that is going to come

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out of this.

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And then you have in verse number 83,

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that Allah subhana wa ta'ala says, وَتَوَلَّى

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عَنْهُمْ وَقَالَ يَا أَسَفَى عَلَى يُوسِفَهُ He says,

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I'm ever so saddened by the situation of

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Yusuf.

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Okay, I'm so sad.

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Remember, now, typically, when someone tells you be

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patient, they think that you're supposed to just

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be like, happy.

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Be patient means that you're so ecstatic, where

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someone says, how's life, and life may not

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be going that well.

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And you're like, it's actually the best it's

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ever been.

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That's not what being patient means.

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It doesn't mean that you lie.

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Okay, it means that you don't enter into

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a level of disparity.

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That's what being patient means.

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You don't despair in the in the rahmah

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of Allah subhana wa ta'ala.

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That's what being patient means.

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But you can face sadness and difficulty and

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acknowledge that sadness and difficulty.

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But Yaqub al-Islam, what does he do?

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He turns away from them, meaning that he's

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not expressing his sadness to them.

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Right?

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He's expressing his sadness one to himself, but

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he's expressing his sadness to Allah.

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And he says, I'm ever so sad, and

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there's so much sorrow that I have so

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much sadness that I have, because of the

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situation of Yusuf.

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And Allah subhana wa ta'ala says that

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his eyes turned white, because of how sad

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he was, meaning that he cried until he

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was blind.

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He cannot see anymore.

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And he was ever so sad.

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Kadhim is so interesting.

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Because kadhim means for someone to have not

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only someone to be sad, but it actually

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means for someone to be so sad, so

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sad, but they bottled up.

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Okay, it means like a sadness that one

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does not express is a sadness that one

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keeps inside of them.

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And they don't really tell other people.

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So Allah subhana wa ta'ala explains Yaqub

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al-Islam as being kadhim.

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Now, this is not an encouragement that you

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bottle things up until you're blind.

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It's not what God is saying.

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But look at Yaqub al-Islam's position.

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Was Yaqub al-Islam a normal community member?

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No.

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He was the one that people went to

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for their sadness.

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He was the one that people went to

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for their problems.

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He was the one who was the one

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who had to be the solution-oriented human

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in the community.

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And it wasn't just a responsibility that he

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put upon himself.

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It was a responsibility that Allah subhana wa

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ta'ala put upon him.

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And so you know how they say therapists

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need therapists, right?

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Yaqub al-Islam, the one that he would

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go to was to Allah.

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That is why.

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But it's true.

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It is true that Allah subhana wa ta

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'ala put people in your life for you

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to be able to express your difficulty, for

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you to be able to navigate that challenge

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or that journey.

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So Allah subhana wa ta'ala is not

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telling you that you're not allowed to communicate

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the problems that you're facing.

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In fact, consultation, shura, is a part of

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our tradition.

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And I know we think about consultation only

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in the facts of like, should I buy

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a house, should I not?

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You know, when we think about it in

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the life of the Prophet ﷺ, should we

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go to war, should we not?

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But there's a reason why there's an emphasis

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in that.

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This emphasis is doing what?

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It's showing us that the companions, when they

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would want to make a decision, they would

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go to the Prophet ﷺ and ask the

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Prophet ﷺ, should I do X, Y, and

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Z?

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They would tell the Prophet ﷺ, I'm feeling

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X, Y, and Z.

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What do you think?

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And the Prophet ﷺ would encourage them, or

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he would give them advice, or he would

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just spend time with them.

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What is that showing us?

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It is okay to have friends.

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It's okay to have families.

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It's okay to have communities.

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It's okay to have people that care about

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you and you communicate to them that this

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is the thing that I'm going through, and

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this is the difficulty that I'm facing.

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But when you're communicating that, ask yourself, am

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I doing this just to complain, or am

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I doing this because I want a solution?

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If it's for complaining purposes, then we're going

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to hold off.

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But if it's solution oriented, by all means.

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Why?

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Because you're going to stick to the facts,

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and you're going to address the situation accordingly.

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And sometimes the solution that you need is

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someone telling you it's going to be okay.

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And that is okay.

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It is okay to just need a pat

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on the back.

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It's okay to just need someone to say,

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someone to kind of push you forward and

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encourage you.

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Where they're not taking anything off of your

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plate, but they're giving you space, emotional and

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mental space.

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And it's important to know that wasfana does

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put people in other people's life for this

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reason.

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So Yaqub, being described as kadhim, it means

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that he was someone that was filled with

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grief, but he held back on expressing it.

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Which is why we don't find early in

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the surah, that wasfana says that he was

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blinded by his sorrow.

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We don't find that early in the surah.

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But there does come a point where sometimes

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when the rain, when it keeps pouring, and

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the difficulty keeps difficulting, that you do reach

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a point where you're like, this is a

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lot.

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And you find that Yaqub is at that

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point where he's facing so much difficulty, not

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just the situation with Yusuf, but now the

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situation of being a mean is a little

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triggering.

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It's a little triggering.

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He was already sad with the situation with

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Yusuf.

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And now being a mean situation comes up.

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So now we see that he really fully

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expresses that grief.

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But he still does it in a way

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that is pleasing to Allah because he expresses

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that grief to Allah alone.

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Then you have, he says, that the people,

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then his kids, they turn to him and

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they say, we swear by Allah, that you

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will not stop remembering Yusuf.

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You just keep remembering him.

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You keep reminiscing about him.

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And you're going to keep doing this until

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you become so sick.

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Not marudan, marud means someone who's sick, but

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it's an illness that's curable.

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Okay, it's an illness that could be fatal,

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but it's curable.

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Then you have harudan, which is an illness

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that is fatal.

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You're going to worry yourself to death about

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him.

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Or you'll be amongst those who just are

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perished or like lifeless, but more so means

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that there's nothing left to you.

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You're going to let grief eat you up

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so much so that you won't be able

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to be a functional person in society.

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Then Yaqub alayhis salaam responds and he says,

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innama ashkub bathee wa huzani ilallah.

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He says, and it's such an epic response.

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He says, I only complain of my suffering

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to Allah.

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You cannot say anything to me.

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They told him, oh, you're so sad about

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Yusuf.

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And you're just always so sad about him.

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And if you don't stop being sad about

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him, you're going to die this way.

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And it's just, you're just going to become

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useless human.

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And he says, I didn't talk to you

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about it.

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I've never complained to you about it.

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I've only complained about my suffering.

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He doesn't say my sadness.

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Okay, he doesn't start with my sadness.

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He says, bathee, my suffering, how heavy this

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has weighed upon me, wa huzani and my

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sadness ilallah.

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It is only to Allah that I've complained

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about it.

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And I only complained to Allah about it

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because I know about Allah what you do

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not know.

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Because he has conviction in Allah swt.

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He has this awareness and this knowledge that

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God will see him through a situation that

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everybody thinks is impossible.

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They were fully convinced that Yacoub alayhis salam

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would never see Yusuf alayhis salam again.

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But what does Yacoub alayhis salam say?

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He says, I have hope that my Lord

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will return all of my kids to me.

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So I know that I will see him

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again.

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But just because you know something doesn't take

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the emotion away from it, especially when the

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timeline is unknown.

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But we fast forward or we go back,

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rewind, fast rewind, back to the beginning of

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Surah Yusuf.

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And we said that Surah Yusuf was revealed

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at a time that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi

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wa sallam was experiencing a lot of grief

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and difficulty.

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And one of the things that he experienced,

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or two of the things, three of the

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things he experienced was the passing of his

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wife Khadija He experienced the passing of his

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uncle, Abu Talib.

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But he also experienced a difficulty that he

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hadn't thought.

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And you remember how we said when the

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rain is raining and the difficulty is difficulting

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and it's packing on and packing on, you

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reach a point where you're like, this is

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a lot.

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It's a lot.

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And you feel like it's the straw that's

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going to break the camel's back.

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Well, just like Yaqub alayhi s-salam reached

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that point here.

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And he says, I only complain of my

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difficulty to Allah when the Prophet sallallahu alayhi

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wa sallam goes to Ta'if and they

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stone his feet.

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It wasn't them like rejecting.

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That was a lot.

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But when they were willing to kill Zayd

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and then they were willing to harm the

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Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam so bad and

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it's so hot and he's so tired and

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he's walking, he was so kind to them.

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All of those things were difficult.

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But for him to see that they lined

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up the children too, it was almost like

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how terrible for people that you can make

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children do such atrocious things and gave the

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children and the slaves these rocks and pellets

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and told them to stone the Prophet sallallahu

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alayhi wa sallam's feet.

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And that's what they did.

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So you remember the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa

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sallam is sitting at this tree and he's

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thinking about the difficulty that he's faced.

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It's not just the difficulty he's faced at

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Ta'if.

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It is the three years of the boycott.

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It is the Abu Bakr Siddiq R.A.

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being beaten almost into a coma because of

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his belief.

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It is the passing of his wife.

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It is the passing of his uncle and

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his uncle is not Muslim.

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It is the disrespect and the rejection of

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the people of Ta'if.

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There's so many difficulties on difficulties on difficulties

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that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam has

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faced.

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So the year of sorrow is not really

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just a year of sorrow.

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It was like 12 years of difficulty and

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sorrow that all just came crashing down into

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one year.

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And what does the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa

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sallam say?

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Allahumma ilayka ashkul.

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Same wording.

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Oh Allah, it is only to you that

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I complain.

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Of the weakness in my power.

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And how little control and support that I

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have.

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And how I've been made to be so

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little and humiliated in front of the people.

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Oh the one who is ever so merciful

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and the one who's most merciful out of

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the people who are merciful.

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That you are the Lord of those who

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are weak.

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And you are my Lord.

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Who are you going to leave me to

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and give power over me?

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To people who are so far from caring.

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They're distant people.

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They don't care at all.

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Or is it to my enemy that you

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will give control over me too?

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Give them the control over my matter and

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my situation and my life?

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But if you're not upset with me then

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there is no problem.

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Do it all over again.

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But you see that that same sentiment is

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what the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was

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feeling at this time.

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And then this surah comes down as a

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consolation to him.

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And imagine you're going through something and life

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is really hard and someone comes to you

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and somebody that you respect and you love

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and you care for and they said that

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person also went through something similar.

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And these were the words that they said.

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And you're thinking to yourself like I said

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something very similar like that.

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All of a sudden it gives you a

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little bit more strength.

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Because you don't feel like you're going through

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that situation alone.

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And even though you may not have met

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this person but just sheer fact that you

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have so much love and respect for them

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makes you feel like wow this is an

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inspiration.

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This is something that is keeping me going.

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And so Yaqub alayhi sallam Allah SWT presenting

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this portion of the story.

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He kind of very well left it out.

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But he wants us to get a glimpse

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into what Yaqub alayhi sallam was feeling one

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and two how he dealt with what he's

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feeling.

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And then he says I know about Allah

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what you do not know.

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You may think that I'm a crazy senile

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old man that is crying about something that

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would never be better.

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But I know that my Lord will not

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leave me empty-handed.

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And this is the same thing that Ibrahim

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alayhi sallam said.

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He said over and over again there's never

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been a time that I've made dua to

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Allah and Allah has left me up empty

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-handed.

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Zakaria alayhi sallam says the same thing.

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When he's making dua for the impossible a

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child at a time when both him and

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his wife were so old that it was

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as if they were barren.

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They were not able to have a kid.

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And he makes dua to Allah.

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He says Allah I've never been left empty

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-handed when I prayed to you.

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And so I know you won't leave me

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empty-handed here.

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But the beauty of dua like this is

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that we have to understand what does being

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left empty-handed mean.

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Because for us you know if I ask

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Allah for a Corvette and I don't get

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a Corvette I'm like left me empty-handed.

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But I have a nice reliable functioning registration

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intact vehicle.

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Have I been left empty-handed really?

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No.

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Because maybe there's something that Allah is protecting

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me from.

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And so it's important to evaluate the dua

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that you're making but also what is it

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that Allah has given you in your life.

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And then we have here that he then

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responds to them.

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And he says Ya Baniyya, Idhhabu fatahassasu min

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yusuf wa akhihi.

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He says I want you guys all my

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sons.

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I need all of you to get up.

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And you need to go out.

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He doesn't just say go and like find

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him.

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He says go and investigate.

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Figure it out.

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Use your senses.

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It literally means to use your senses.

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I need you to go and use your

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senses to see what's happened to Yusuf and

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his brother.

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Wala ta'asu min rauhillahi.

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And don't go out there and lose hope

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in the mercy of Allah.

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Don't go and lose hope in the mercy

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of Allah.

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Because you won't know what happened to your

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brother and you won't know what happened to

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Binyamin, your other brother, when you go out

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and use your senses that God has given

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you.

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So go and be smart.

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What's interesting is that the brother's already interacted

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with Yusuf so many times.

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But you know when you're kind of like

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not really paying attention and there's people you

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should like recognize but you don't recognize.

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It happens to me all the time.

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People you should recognize you don't really recognize

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them and you just keep it pushing.

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That's what they're doing.

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They're not paying attention.

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So it's very interesting that he doesn't just

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tell them.

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Already?

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Okay.

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It's interesting that he doesn't just tell them

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to go and look.

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He doesn't just say look.

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He says use your senses.

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Investigate.

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Go see what is happening.

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And he says and don't lose hope in

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the mercy of Allah.

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Because it's only out of the mercy of

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Allah that you're going to get the answer

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that you you need to find.

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He says innahu laa yai'asu min rauhillahi

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illal qawmin kafirun.

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That the only people who lose hope in

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Allah are people who are disbelievers.

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Why?

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Because a disbeliever does not truly know who

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Allah is.

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If you truly knew who Allah was you

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would never lose hope in Allah.

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What does this mean to us though?

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It means that even in the roughest of

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situations you know that Allah is going to

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come and Allah is going to look out

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for you.

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That the blessings Allah has in store for

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you he's going to present them to you.

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You know that there's light throughout the tunnel.

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You know that there are difficulties that you

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face because this is life.

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But your life is not all difficult.

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You know that there is happiness in times

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of just the really toughest time but you

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still had a good time.

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There are still times where Allah allowed you

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to laugh.

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There are still times where Allah allowed you

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to enjoy life.

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There are still times where Allah allowed you

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to still see the beauty of the world.

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We are now in a situation where we're

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seeing so much atrocity.

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And I know we're faced with this difficult

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type of like feeling of do I be

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happy for the good things that I have?

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Should I always be sad?

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But just think about the Muslims in the

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time of Prophecy Salaam.

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They're facing the battle of Badr.

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Literally in the battle of Badr they're standing

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and Prophecy Salaam is placing each of them

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in in their roles.

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And there's a companion there and he doesn't

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have a shirt and Prophecy Salaam poked him

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to get him into his role.

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And then he looks at the Prophecy Salaam

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and he says like he like acts like

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he's like angry.

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And he tells him, Ya Rasulullah, all is

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not good with me.

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Because Prophecy Salaam is like everybody's good.

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You're in your position.

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You ready to go?

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He says no all is not good with

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me.

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Prophecy Salaam is like what are you talking

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about?

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He said you poked me.

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And Prophecy Salaam is like what?

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Like we're about to go for a battle.

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He's like, Ya Rasulullah, you poked me.

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And that it's an eye for an eye.

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So Prophecy Salaam says okay go ahead, poke

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me back.

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And he says no I didn't have on

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a shirt.

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So you have to take off your shirt.

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Because you poked me and I didn't have

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on a shirt.

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Prophecy Salaam took off his shirt.

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And then he poked Prophecy Salaam back.

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And it was just because he loved him

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so much.

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And they're about to go into battle.

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He doesn't know he's gonna make it.

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So his last memory that he wanted to

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have with Prophecy Salaam was something fun.

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Obviously he could have told him a joke.

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But that was his way of joking.

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But can you imagine like they know they're

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about to face odds that are going to

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be completely against them.

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They know this.

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And they know it's very possible they're not

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going to make it out of this battle.

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They know this.

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They know they're going to go and face

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their death and their mortality.

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They know this.

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But in that moment they still find happiness.

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Why?

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Because they did not lose hope in Allah.

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And so for us, for us Maghrib is

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in.

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Which they lied to me when we started.

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Okay just gonna let you know.

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But for us what are we getting out

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of today?

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We're getting out of today that you can

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never lose hope in Allah.

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Not just because Allah is always there.

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But because we're not disbelievers.

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And what does Yaqub alayhi salaam say?

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Only disbelievers lose hope in Allah.

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As a believer it's like as a believer

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we know who Allah is.

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We know that Allah will take care of

00:31:14 --> 00:31:14

us.

00:31:15 --> 00:31:16

We know that Allah is just.

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We know that Allah is kind.

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We know that Allah is fair.

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We know that Allah SWT holds oppressors accountable.

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And we know that Allah SWT is all

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wise.

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He's all knowledgeable.

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He's all aware.

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And he's forbearing.

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You know what it means for Allah to

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be haleem, forbearing?

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It means that Allah SWT will sit and

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watch his servants disobey him every single day.

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And though, and this is the definition of

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Imam Ghazali.

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And though Allah SWT has the right to

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hold someone accountable, immediately he does not do

00:31:50 --> 00:31:50

that.

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He gives them time to repent or time

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to dig themselves into a deeper hole.

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And that is actually the mercy of Allah.

00:32:00 --> 00:32:02

Because as believers we have a gift.

00:32:02 --> 00:32:04

That gift is not perfection.

00:32:04 --> 00:32:04

It's what?

00:32:05 --> 00:32:05

Tawba.

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So we don't lose hope in Allah because

00:32:08 --> 00:32:10

we know Allah SWT to be merciful.

00:32:10 --> 00:32:12

We don't lose hope of Allah because we

00:32:12 --> 00:32:14

also know Allah SWT to be just and

00:32:14 --> 00:32:15

hold people accountable.

00:32:16 --> 00:32:19

And so with everything that we are experiencing,

00:32:19 --> 00:32:21

it is time for us to take a

00:32:21 --> 00:32:23

lesson out of the book, out of the

00:32:23 --> 00:32:25

page of Yaqub al-Islam's life.

00:32:26 --> 00:32:29

And to be patient, but not be patient

00:32:29 --> 00:32:30

and passive.

00:32:30 --> 00:32:32

To be patient and strong.

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To be patient and have this level of

00:32:36 --> 00:32:38

conviction in Allah SWT's ability.

00:32:38 --> 00:32:41

To be patient and understand who our Lord

00:32:41 --> 00:32:42

is.

00:32:42 --> 00:32:44

To be patient and be educated.

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To be patient and make the right decisions.

00:32:47 --> 00:32:48

To be patient and push forward.

00:32:49 --> 00:32:50

That is what sabr and jameel means.

00:32:51 --> 00:32:53

Yeah, it doesn't mean be in the corner

00:32:53 --> 00:32:54

and be complacent.

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That's not who Allah created you to be.

00:32:57 --> 00:32:58

Allah created you to be someone to fight

00:32:58 --> 00:32:59

something with your hands.

00:33:00 --> 00:33:02

Allah SWT created you to be someone to

00:33:02 --> 00:33:03

fight something with your tongue.

00:33:03 --> 00:33:05

And Allah SWT created you to be someone

00:33:05 --> 00:33:07

to at least hate it in your heart.

00:33:08 --> 00:33:09

So I pray that Allah SWT allows us

00:33:09 --> 00:33:11

to benefit from everything that we heard here

00:33:11 --> 00:33:11

today.

00:33:11 --> 00:33:13

I pray that Allah SWT forgives us of

00:33:13 --> 00:33:13

our shortcomings.

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That Allah SWT allows us to be people

00:33:15 --> 00:33:17

who are always on the right side of

00:33:17 --> 00:33:17

history.

00:33:18 --> 00:33:19

I pray that Allah SWT allows us to

00:33:19 --> 00:33:21

gather in the gathering much better than this.

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To drink from the blessed hands of the

00:33:23 --> 00:33:24

Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.

00:33:25 --> 00:33:25

Subhanakallahumma bihamdika.

00:33:26 --> 00:33:27

An-nashadu ala ala ilaha ila anta.

00:33:27 --> 00:33:27

An-nashadu ala ala ilaha ila anta.

00:33:27 --> 00:33:28

An-nashadu ala ala ilaha ila anta.

00:33:28 --> 00:33:28

An-nashadu ala ala ilaha ila anta.

00:33:28 --> 00:33:28

An-nashadu ala ala ilaha ila anta.

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JazakAllah khayran.

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As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.

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Apparently the time goes back next week so

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we'll have our full hour inshallah.

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