Hamzah Wald Maqbul – 11 Ramadn 1442 Late Night Majlis Sultn of the Ulam Izz b abd alSalm ESA

Hamzah Wald Maqbul
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The speakers discuss the importance of forgiveness and acknowledging one's love for Allah. They emphasize the need to practice and learn to become a better versions of oneself, as well as the significance of learning and practicing to become a better versions of oneself. The segment covers the history of the Islamic Republic and the book of the same name, as well as the importance of finding out who is a deity and learning to be a deity. The speakers also touch on the importance of honoring previous deane and the need for deference and respect in order to show political legitimacy.

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			We've reached this Mubarak, 11th night of Ramadan.
		
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			The second 10,
		
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			the second 10 nights of Ramadan and days
		
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			are characterized by
		
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			forgiveness.
		
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			Forgive and have mercy,
		
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			and you are the best of those who
		
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			have mercy.
		
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			We're in need of.
		
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			Oftentimes, we find ourselves trying to ice skate
		
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			uphill,
		
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			in life.
		
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			And it's really nothing other than
		
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			a believer is destined to go to Jannah,
		
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			but then we do, like, all this dumb
		
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			stuff in our lives,
		
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			and
		
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			we have to make up for it somehow.
		
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			And, we're sometimes our own worst enemy.
		
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			We go around cursing Shaitan, and shaitan looks
		
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			at us and says, well, I didn't have
		
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			anything to do with that. In Ramadan, I
		
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			definitely didn't have nothing to do with that.
		
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			And, you know, these are some stark realizations
		
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			we have to make. And, we can
		
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			telescope that process
		
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			by being humble in front of Allah and
		
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			asking for forgiveness.
		
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			Allah is the one who asks, is there
		
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			anyone who seeks forgiveness that I may forgive
		
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			him? Allah is the one who is happier
		
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			to forgive you than you are to be
		
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			forgiven, and he's happier to hear your,
		
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			your request for forgiveness than you are happy
		
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			to ask for it. So Allah
		
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			give us all from his forgiveness.
		
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			Amin,
		
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			another note I wanna give is
		
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			that this is the,
		
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			the traditional time of
		
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			the mid Ramadan lull.
		
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			I've been talking to people, they say, well,
		
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			the ranks are thinning out in the masajid
		
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			for
		
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			and for, other other prayers and whatnot. And
		
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			where I pray, it
		
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			seems just as packed as,
		
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			as anywhere else where it was. But this
		
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			is something I've observed in the past,
		
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			that there is this kind of midram amongst
		
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			people. Yeah, man. I know. I get it.
		
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			You know, you lose a lot of sleep.
		
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			I myself am
		
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			progressively,
		
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			moving up the continuum of, like, sleepless zombie
		
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			mode hamza. But,
		
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			that's part of the whole thing is that,
		
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			you know, the the the
		
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			the struggle that a person does.
		
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			Allah
		
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			says the one who strives and struggles
		
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			in our path,
		
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			we will guide him the ways to find
		
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			us.
		
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			And, that's beautiful. That's wonderful. But just like
		
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			you have to pray 5 times a day,
		
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			just like you have to fast in Ramadan,
		
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			just like you can't eat pork, just like
		
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			you have to be good to your parents,
		
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			etcetera. You can't lie. You gotta tell the
		
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			truth. One of the things you have to
		
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			do in Islam is you have to make
		
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			mujahada. You have to struggle.
		
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			And struggle, by its very definition,
		
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			is
		
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			not something that, comes with ease.
		
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			Reynold Nicholson,
		
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			the
		
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			famous Mustashireq,
		
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			who did an excellent job in translating Moana
		
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			Rumi's Masnawi Sharif
		
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			and,
		
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			the kashf almajjub that we actually used to
		
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			read from in this medullus.
		
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			Reynold Nicholson translates
		
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			as self mortification,
		
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			which literally means to kill yourself.
		
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			I found it, somewhat of an excessive translation.
		
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			But, you know, Nicholson was very well read
		
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			in
		
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			in the books of the Sophia,
		
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			and he was,
		
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			a man who no one can accuse of
		
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			not having a great command over the English
		
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			language and probably one of the best translators
		
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			from Persian into English,
		
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			and probably a pretty good translator from Arabic
		
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			as well. And he translated
		
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			as self mortification.
		
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			And so, yeah, you know,
		
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			people are like, oh, look. Fasting is good
		
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			because some
		
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			intermittent fasting will, like, lower your blood sugar
		
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			and, like, fight diabetes, and it's a good
		
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			diet. And people in Silicon Valley and Hollywood
		
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			are doing it blah blah blah. Yeah. That's
		
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			fine, and it may even be true. It
		
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			probably is true. In fact, it is true.
		
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			However, the point of making for the sake
		
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			of is not to look younger and, have
		
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			bright skin or whatever. The point of the
		
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			is that you should do something. You should
		
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			sacrifice something for the sake of
		
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			as a as a, a verification
		
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			of the truthfulness of your claim of love
		
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			for Allah
		
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			Otherwise, if it's kinda like, yeah, as long
		
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			as my blood sugar is going down, I
		
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			guess I'll do this.
		
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			You're not gonna really open any doors. So
		
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			lose a little sleep. It's okay.
		
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			You won't die.
		
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			If you're about to die, then get some
		
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			sleep. Until then, lose a little bit of
		
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			sleep.
		
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			Push yourself a little bit more. Read a
		
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			little bit more, hustle, make it to the
		
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			masjid even if it's hard. One of the
		
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			most beautiful traditions that we had in our
		
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			Madrasah, which I suspect is, you know, kind
		
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			of a Pan Madaras tradition, is when a
		
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			student was sick, the teacher would order him
		
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			to attend, and if he had to bring
		
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			his pillow and blanket and,
		
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			his
		
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			mat and lay sick in the darshan, but
		
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			he he he would he would be allowed
		
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			to do that. But we would be there
		
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			together, all of us. And even if he
		
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			was half delirious or half asleep,
		
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			you know, he would be there in the
		
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			dars with us.
		
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			And,
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, I think there's, like,
		
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			great hikmah in some of these some of
		
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			these things.
		
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			So, you know, make it. Get there.
		
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			So many of us have these kind of
		
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			satanic habits, Not satanic in intent, but satanic
		
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			in in in consequence.
		
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			They have these satanic habits of, like, oh,
		
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			I'm not a 100% perfect, so I'm not
		
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			gonna go to the masjid right now. I'm
		
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			not a 100% perfect. I'm not gonna go
		
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			to the gym. I'm not a 100% perfect.
		
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			I'm not gonna, you know,
		
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			do my work or whatever. You know? Things
		
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			are not a 100% perfect. Nothing is a
		
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			100% perfect. This world wasn't meant to be
		
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			a 100% perfect.
		
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			If you think it, you know, you that
		
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			that that moment ever exists, you're just deluding
		
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			yourself.
		
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			And the most perfect thing a person can
		
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			do is take the imperfection and do their
		
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			best in it. That's what perfection in this
		
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			world is.
		
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			The person who does their best. Look at
		
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			the
		
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			the reason we love him
		
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			is not because he had one really good
		
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			day and we just talk about it again
		
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			and again. Rather every single day of his
		
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			was filled with difficulties of so many different
		
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			types, And he just he still got through
		
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			it so beautifully. It just so everything. Someone
		
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			was bad to him. Someone fought him. Someone
		
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			spoke ill of him. Someone lied about him.
		
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			Someone cheated him. Whatever it is. But he
		
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			would just
		
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			take the the the imperfect circumstance and just
		
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			do something beautiful out of it to the
		
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			point where the ages will marvel,
		
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			and the people of knowledge will be spellbound,
		
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			and the, eloquent ones will be unable to
		
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			describe with their eloquence how beautiful it was
		
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			that he always did his best,
		
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			no matter what the circumstances were. And there
		
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			are people like that also in this that
		
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			are like that.
		
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			If you meet them, may Allah
		
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			give you,
		
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			the gift of laying eyes on them and
		
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			they lay eyes on you,
		
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			that, they do that in every situation, whatever
		
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			it is. Sometimes situations are really ugly. You
		
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			know?
		
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			But
		
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			they just do the best, and they just
		
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			bring that best to whatever it is,
		
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			that they do. Okay. Now back to you
		
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			and me.
		
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			It's not gonna be perfect. Just
		
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			get your get yourself in the car. Lug
		
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			yourself over into the bus, in the subway,
		
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			you know, start walking, you know, lug yourself
		
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			over to whatever you need to be there,
		
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			in the best way that you can for
		
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			however much you can. If you gotta tap
		
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			out before, you know, you know, 20 is
		
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			over or you gotta tap out and get
		
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			some more rest or whatever, do so. And
		
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			then when you wake up again and you
		
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			have a little bit more energy, then go
		
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			at it again,
		
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			as best as you can. And, even if
		
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			it's a if it's a slug,
		
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			because
		
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			the slaves slugging it out for the sake
		
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			of the Lord is beautiful.
		
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			And that's where the barakah happens, and that's
		
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			when
		
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			the decrees are,
		
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			read out to the angels in the higher
		
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			realm. But this is the one that I
		
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			love. And then from there, they will filter
		
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			down through the creation,
		
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			and they will,
		
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			show whether a person likes it or not,
		
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			sooner or later. Sometimes sooner, sometimes later, sometimes
		
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			much later. But one day and when they
		
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			do get shown, they're shown forever, they'll be
		
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			shown to the entire creation how beautiful it
		
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			was that that that that person tried, that
		
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			they struggled,
		
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			and that it wasn't, like Nicholson said, self
		
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			mortification,
		
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			but it was really just
		
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			just a good effort, which is, like, the
		
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			most, like, beautiful thing in the world. Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala. You know, we may belittle
		
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			each other's efforts, but to Allah our efforts
		
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			are
		
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			are are really really like something nice and
		
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			something worthy of being loved. May Allah
		
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			give us from his love, Amin.
		
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			So this being the second of
		
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			Ramadan,
		
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			I wanted to shift gears and go back
		
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			to a book that we
		
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			read from last Ramadan, which is Mawlana Saeed,
		
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			Abu Hasan Ali and Nadui's
		
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			saviors of the Islamic spirit,
		
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			which was published in Arabic as,
		
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			the men of,
		
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			reflection and, who called,
		
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			people toward Islam. And in
		
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			Urdu,
		
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			published under the name,
		
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			The History
		
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			of calling, to Islam
		
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			and a firm resolve.
		
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			And it's really interesting. There are actually 2
		
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			different titles.
		
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			And, both books, the Arabic and the Urdu,
		
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			were written by
		
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			Mohan Abu Hasan Ali Naddui,
		
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			himself.
		
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			And the English translation was
		
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			compiled under his supervision.
		
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			And, it's interesting also because the first volume
		
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			of this book it's an amazing book. It's
		
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			a a book people should read. It's not
		
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			hard to read. It's not a technical work
		
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			of the or whatever,
		
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			but a very inspirational,
		
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			book that it is,
		
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			interesting that,
		
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			Mufti Abdulrahman
		
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			in London, Mangera,
		
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			he kind of rendered the English of this
		
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			old English translation into a more readable English.
		
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			But,
		
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			and, it's it's a great book, and you
		
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			should you should buy it. You should read
		
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			it. You should benefit from it. I kinda
		
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			like the original,
		
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			despite its
		
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			somewhat peculiar
		
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			diction.
		
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			Because, first of all, it was something
		
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			looked at or at least approved out directly
		
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			by Moana Abu Hasan Ali Nadui,
		
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			who is sheikh al mashaikh in so many
		
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			ways.
		
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			He's the he's a sheikh al mashaikh in
		
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			so many ways.
		
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			Our grand sheikh,
		
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			sheikh, Moana,
		
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			Sha'abdokadir,
		
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			Raipuri
		
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			said about him, whose Khalifa he was.
		
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			He said about him that this this man
		
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			is like the
		
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			the duas of so many masha'if and the
		
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			Mujahadah of Sayed Ahmad Shaheed and the Talim
		
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			and Tarbia of, the
		
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			and then,
		
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			you know, the fiqhir of,
		
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			of, Mujadid al Afsani, Sheikh Ahmed Sarhindi, and,
		
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			you know, etcetera. All of them,
		
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			basically, their duas were to make a man
		
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			like this. And, really, he was a beautiful
		
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			person.
		
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			Maybe one day we can talk about him
		
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			a little bit more in-depth. He himself passed
		
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			away on a Friday. This is the night
		
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			of Friday. He passed away on a Friday,
		
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			having
		
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			read,
		
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			in the hour that the was gonna be
		
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			read
		
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			and waiting,
		
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			to, go out,
		
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			into the Masjid.
		
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			And so he had a couple of minutes
		
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			left, and he then chose to start Surah
		
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			Yaseen.
		
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			And when he got to the words of
		
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			Allah
		
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			and
		
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			give them glad tidings
		
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			of forgiveness
		
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			and a great reward.
		
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			Decreed
		
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			that he should,
		
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			leave,
		
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			this world
		
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			and,
		
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			progress in his journey.
		
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			And,
		
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			it's a wonderful book.
		
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			Is also there in the book,
		
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			as is that of the before him. People
		
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			don't know this.
		
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			Before before,
		
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			Shah Abdelkader.
		
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			He was also the murid of
		
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			the chef,
		
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			Moana Ahmed Ali Lahori
		
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			or.
		
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			He was originally from Delhi,
		
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			the British.
		
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			Because he
		
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			was a threat to them,
		
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			they imprisoned him and then exiled him to
		
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			Lahore.
		
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			And he said that they threw me out
		
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			of the leaf from my home and from
		
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			anyone I knew
		
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			and, threw me out into Lahore thinking that,
		
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			by exiling me, from all of my connections
		
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			and my power base, that maybe I would
		
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			wander from street to street and die broke
		
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			and not have any Himma or any courage
		
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			or any means to resist them. I said,
		
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			don't they know that I carry the book
		
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			of Allah inside of my heart?
		
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			So
		
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			he's a very well known, scholar. Many of
		
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			the great from the previous generation actually,
		
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			actually,
		
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			read the tafsir of Quran from him.
		
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			Our own sheikh that we read,
		
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			that we read
		
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			the sunnun of Imam Nasai and the Muwata
		
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			of Imam Malik and Ibn Maja from
		
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			he mentions, my father,
		
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			was one of his as well. His father
		
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			read a hadith from.
		
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			And, he said that after his sheikh died,
		
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			I said I he didn't really
		
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			feel
		
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			any sort of attachment to anyone,
		
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			after that. And, he just he said all
		
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			I remember about my father is that from
		
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			from then on until he died, he would
		
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			wake up and make the and make and
		
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			then the last moments before
		
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			the break of the dawn,
		
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			he would,
		
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			read the salat and salam and the prophet
		
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			sallallahu alayhi wasallam.
		
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			As if he was saying salaam in the
		
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			road of Mubarakah. He said that none of
		
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			us saw anything but and we never dared
		
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			even to ask him but it's as if
		
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			he was speaking to the prophet
		
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			directly and Allah knows best.
		
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			But,
		
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			he himself,
		
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			one of the things that, even after coming
		
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			to Lahore and rebuilding his,
		
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			his his for
		
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			khidma of the uloom, a service of of
		
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			the knowledge of the Quran.
		
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			He
		
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			he was arrested by the British and harassed
		
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			by them, and, one of the things that
		
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			they did was they ordered that he be
		
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			chained to a block of ice in order
		
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			to torture him.
		
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			And, they took him off when,
		
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			he was basically pushed to the end. Because
		
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			the point if you kill somebody like that,
		
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			it's gonna cause unrest in the city.
		
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			So they took him down. The point is
		
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			just to harass him and to break his
		
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			spirit.
		
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			And they said, what do you think now,
		
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			Molina Saab?
		
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			And he said the body is freezing, but
		
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			the iman is still burning hot. So
		
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			I figured it's it's a good book to
		
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			read.
		
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			So we read we start from the, chapter
		
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			number 11
		
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			of, a very,
		
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			a very inspirational figure,
		
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			Sheikh Islam,
		
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			with infused with the color and the
		
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			the dye that,
		
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			is given to us by the through
		
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			the,
		
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			Abu Hassan Ali, Nadui, and his
		
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			chain also.
		
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			The heroic endeavors of Saladin who had set
		
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			himself to work in the most earnest fashion
		
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			with the reintroduction of orthodox creed
		
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			in the place of the Shiite creed, which
		
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			had,
		
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			usurped the land of Egypt.
		
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			And, again, the Shiite creed here, I'll add,
		
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			is not it's not strictly speaking the same
		
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			thing as what's in Iran nowadays, but the
		
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			botany creed of the,
		
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			Fatima Ismailis.
		
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			With it, the chain of educational
		
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			institutions started for the purpose,
		
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			of, the reintroduction
		
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			of Muslim creed
		
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			spread
		
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			all over his wide realm. And above all,
		
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			the personal example set by him and some
		
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			of the Muslim rulers in following the religious
		
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			precepts and code of moral conduct redirected the
		
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			energies of the people toward learning and teaching
		
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			religious sciences.
		
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			As a result thereof, we find
		
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			several erudite scholars during the 7th century.
		
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			This is the 7th century after Hijra, of
		
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			course. During the 7th, we have we obviously
		
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			find many Erudite scholars in 7th century of
		
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			the common era, but because those are the
		
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			companions of the prophet
		
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			this is the 7th century after Hijra,
		
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			who had devoted themselves, body, and soul to
		
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			the dissemination of Islamic teachings amongst their compatriots.
		
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			The most outstanding personage amongst these savants
		
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			were,
		
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			the sheikh of Islam, Izzudine
		
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			ibn Abdulsalam,
		
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			who passed away in 660
		
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			of the common air 660 after hijra.
		
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			He was reputed for profound learning, piety, and
		
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			courage. He never compromised with the corrupting influences
		
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			of his time and the degenerate ways of
		
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			the then rulers.
		
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			So this is after
		
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			much after the the passing of,
		
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			a couple of generations afterward.
		
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			So the irredition of Izzudine.
		
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			Izzudine ibn Abdul Salam was born in Damascus
		
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			in 578 after Hijra. He had the honor
		
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			of being a student of several eminent scholars,
		
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			of those days such as Fakhruddin Ibnu Asakir,
		
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			the great Muhandith,
		
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			Seifuddin
		
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			Ahmedi, and,
		
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			Abu sorry.
		
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			Ahmedi,
		
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			and Hafiz Abu Muhammad Al Qasim.
		
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			According to certain analysts,
		
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			he analyst not like like a analyst, like
		
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			forecaster,
		
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			like, for analytics, but, analyst as in historians,
		
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			a n n a l I s t
		
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			s. According to certain analysts, he started education
		
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			quite late, but he soon acquired such a
		
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			proficiency
		
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			in the dense sciences that his contemporaries
		
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			paid,
		
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			glowing tributes to his deep learning and brilliance
		
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			of mind.
		
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			Ibn
		
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			called him the sultan of Olam, sultan, Sultan
		
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			Al Ulamah and some of his works. Who
		
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			is Ibn Takht ek al-'Aid? Ibn Takht ek
		
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			al-'Aid was one of the foremost,
		
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			Maliki scholars of his,
		
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			of his era,
		
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			in Cairo.
		
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			And, he was a companion of
		
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			who was a Shafiri. He loved him so
		
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			much that he, switched from,
		
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			from the Maliki, Madhab to the Shafiri Madhab,
		
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			because of his,
		
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			because of his love of, of him.
		
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			And if it was for any other reason
		
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			than love, perhaps,
		
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			the Malekis would be crossed, but who can
		
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			never blame a person for that? That's the
		
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			thing that binds us all together, in the
		
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			first place.
		
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			When
		
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			migrated to Egypt in 639,
		
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			Hafiz,
		
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			Abdul Adhim al Mundiri,
		
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			the writer of Tarib and Tarib, suspended giving
		
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			Fatwa, giving legal opinions, which is a big
		
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			deal. Hafez Munvari is a great not only
		
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			Muhandid, but he's considered to be
		
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			a a who chose to make Taqleid of
		
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			Shafari.
		
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			But he he was
		
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			a man himself at the very height of
		
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			learning.
		
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			When he was asked the reason for it,
		
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			he said it does not be who have
		
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			any jurist to give legal opinion where is
		
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			a deen happens to be present.
		
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			Another scholar, Sheikh Jamaluddin ibn Hajib, was he
		
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			was of the opinion that,
		
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			the fiqh of
		
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			of Azadeem excelled even Imam Ghazali.
		
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			The great, and
		
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			compiler of the,
		
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			one of the greatest
		
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			biographical works,
		
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			of the Olamag Biographical Encyclopedia. It's a really
		
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			wonderful work. Don't ask if it's translated or
		
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			not. Learn Arabic and read it.
		
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			Hafiz, writes in his,
		
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			in his knowledge of devotion to religion and
		
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			awe of Allah he had attained,
		
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			that degree of perfection which makes one capable
		
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			of
		
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			of interpreting,
		
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			the revealed law of god and deducing new
		
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			laws from it.
		
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			And so these are heavy hitters. These are
		
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			not people who
		
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			give compliments easily, and they're not small people,
		
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			in in the intellectual tradition themselves.
		
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			Rather, their,
		
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			testimony,
		
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			is to be taken as
		
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			as as something that is a
		
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			fact,
		
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			and Allah
		
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			knows best. There's not small names in the
		
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			history of of Islam.
		
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			And, again, this is also a tribute to
		
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			our tradition that the greatest minds
		
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			and the greatest people in it,
		
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			as
		
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			acute as their vision was
		
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			and how sometimes hair splitting they would get,
		
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			in dealing with things. What we would consider
		
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			hair splitting based on lack of understanding, it
		
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			just meant that there are people of precision
		
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			in their in their reasoning,
		
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			in a way that, you know, lay people
		
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			cannot appreciate.
		
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			But
		
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			as much as that was there, they weren't
		
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			people who were,
		
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			dogged
		
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			and dogmatic,
		
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			sectarians
		
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			or people who are demagogues that are just
		
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			trying to call people to their own personality
		
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			cults or whatever. There is a method to
		
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			what they did, a system to what they
		
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			did, why they agreed, why they disagreed, when
		
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			they put their differences aside. And they did
		
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			have a greater goal, and you'll see in
		
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			in in things like this that they they
		
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			actually did have
		
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			overall
		
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			arching goals that were for the benefit of
		
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			the Muhammad
		
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			Izzadine occupied the chair of professor for a
		
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			fairly long period in the Madras Azzawi Ghazali
		
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			of Damascus
		
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			along with holding,
		
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			the offices of Khatib and Imam and the
		
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			principal mosque, of the city, called the Umayyad
		
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			Mosque. The the,
		
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			masjid of, Bal Umayyah in
		
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			in Damascus.
		
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			Sheikh Shehabuddin
		
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			Abu Shama,
		
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			relates that Izzidine vehemently opposed
		
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			the innovations in later day,
		
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			accretions
		
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			like salatul ravaib
		
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			and the special prayers of
		
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			which had become popular
		
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			in his time,
		
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			that,
		
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			several scholars of note thought it prudent to
		
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			keep keep silent about these issues.
		
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			And to this very day, if you criticize
		
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			a practice which is un Islamic, but people
		
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			like it,
		
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			be, be prepared to, get shot down,
		
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			from every half weighted armchair critic on Twitter
		
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			or on
		
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			Facebook,
		
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			and, be prepared to get canceled.
		
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			But, you know, the shift, you know, the
		
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			and this is not, you know, the wish
		
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			to avoid those quote, unquote inconveniences. It's not
		
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			new. Even amongst the olamah, sheikh was not
		
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			a person who shied away from speaking the
		
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			Haqq, and he didn't care what was gonna
		
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			happen afterward.
		
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			Al Malik Al Kamil.
		
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			Al Malik Al Kamil is one of the
		
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			rulers from the Ayyubid dynasty,
		
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			descended from Sahadin Ayubi and his family.
		
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			Al Malik al Kamil insisted on Izzidine,
		
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			for accepting the office of Qadi,
		
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			of the chief judge of Damascus. And the
		
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			office of Qadi is given to
		
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			the person who's renowned to be the greatest
		
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			of in a place,
		
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			for two reasons. 1 is because you need
		
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			fit in order to give legal judgments properly,
		
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			and the second is you need to have
		
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			renowned and authority and respect in order for
		
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			your judgments to be taken seriously.
		
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			Melico Campbell insisted on is the dean for
		
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			accepting the office of Adi in Damascus, which
		
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			he accepted reluctantly after imposing a number of
		
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			conditions.
		
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			During the same period, al Malik al Kamil
		
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			appointed him as his envoy to the court
		
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			of the
		
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			then
		
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			Abbasid Caliphate
		
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			Abbasid Caliph. The Khalifa Abbas in those days,
		
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			was,
		
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			a
		
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			a figure that had very little,
		
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			political authority, but
		
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			showing,
		
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			deference to him was a way of winning
		
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			legitimacy amongst the the rank and file Muslims
		
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			because
		
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			people understood that this is part of Islam,
		
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			that there is a Khalifa, and that the
		
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			Khalifa needs to be respected in order to
		
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			show some sort of unity for Islam, which
		
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			is definitely the case even though
		
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			many people who have modern sensibility may speak
		
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			against it but it's definitely the case.
		
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			The righteousness of Izzaddin.
		
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			Amongst the religious scholars of Syria, Izzaddin was
		
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			held in such a high esteem that he
		
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			was received by the then king with the
		
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			most honorable marks of distinction.
		
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			On his own part, however, Izzedine never visited
		
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			the king unless he was requested to do
		
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			so.
		
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			Being dignified,
		
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			straightforward, and self respecting, he did not like
		
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			to curry favor with the king. Instead, he
		
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			insisted always upon the king,
		
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			following, the course beneficial
		
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			Principality of Alapo Halab.
		
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			Allah free it from,
		
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			the occupation of,
		
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			usurpers.
		
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			Al Malik al Ashraf, who held the Principality
		
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			of Aleppo after the after the death of
		
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			his father, Al Malik al Adir,
		
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			sent for Azadeen.
		
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			Earlier, the sultan had some misunderstandings
		
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			with the sheikh on account of certain views
		
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			held by the latter, but the same were
		
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			removed as a result of their meeting. The
		
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			sultan,
		
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			requested the sheikh to forgive him for his
		
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			mistake and also to let him have a
		
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			word of advice.
		
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			Quote, so far as the request for pardon
		
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			is concerned, replied to Izzedine,
		
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			I forgive everyone with whom I happen to
		
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			be displeased, for I will never allow the
		
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			sun to go down
		
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			upon my enemies against anybody.
		
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			Instead of seeking my recompense from human beings,
		
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			I desire it from God and God alone.
		
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			For the Lord has said, but whoever pardons
		
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			and, amends his wage,
		
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			is,
		
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			the affair of Allah. Meaning, it's Allah's responsibility
		
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			to reward that person.
		
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			As for my benedictions for you added as
		
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			a deen,
		
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			I very often pray to God for the
		
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			well-being of the Sultan.
		
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			For this is also a means for the
		
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			welfare of Islam and of the Muslims. God
		
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			may grant the Sultan insight and understanding of
		
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			the matters which may have,
		
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			which may be helpful to him in the
		
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			life to come.
		
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			Now coming to the advice,
		
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			it is my bound and duty to enjoin
		
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			the right course since the sultan has asked
		
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			for it. I know that the sultan is
		
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			reputed for his valor and the brilliant victories
		
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			he has won. But
		
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			he has won. But the Tatars, meaning the
		
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			Mongols, are making
		
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			inroads into
		
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			Islamic territories.
		
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			They have been emboldened by the fact that
		
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			the sultan has pitched his arms against Malik
		
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			al Kamal and thus,
		
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			would not have time to face the enemies
		
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			of God. Because there's a
		
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			civil war between the family of,
		
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			of the
		
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			Eubias.
		
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			And so he said that you guys are
		
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			so busy fighting each other that the Mongols
		
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			know that you guys are gonna be easy
		
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			pickings.
		
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			He said that they have been emboldened by
		
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			the fact that the Sultan has pitched his
		
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			arms against Al Malik Al Kamil, and thus
		
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			he would not have time to face the
		
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			enemies of God and the persecutors of the
		
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			Muslims.
		
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			Al Malik Al Kamil is, however, the elder
		
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			brother of the Sultan, and therefore, I would
		
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			request that the Sultan give up the idea
		
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			of fighting his own brother.
		
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			This is a
		
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			speech that could be given to anyone of
		
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			the Muslim leaders that are there nowadays. They
		
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			give up fighting against your brother. There's other
		
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			things going on.
		
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			Instead, I would advise him to turn his
		
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			forces against the enemies of Islam.
		
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			The sultan should make up his mind in
		
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			these critical days of his illness to fight
		
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			for the sake of Allah alone and for
		
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			restoring the supremacy of his faith.
		
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			We hope to overcome,
		
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			the disbelievers
		
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			with the help of the Sultan if God
		
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			restores his health. This would verily be a
		
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			great achievement, but if God had willed otherwise,
		
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			the Sultan would undoubtedly be recompensed for his
		
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			intention, at least to come to the rescue
		
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			of
		
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			Islam. Thanks is a dean for his sincere
		
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			advice and immediately issued orders redirecting his forces
		
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			to face the Mongols instead of.
		
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			As soon as the, orders of the sultan
		
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			were communicated to the commander of his army,
		
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			he retreated,
		
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			to Kasira,
		
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			on
		
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			further request to counsel him something more.
		
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			Asked that the sultan is bedridden, but his
		
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			chiefs and officials are having rounds of pleasure.
		
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			They are reveling in wine and wickedness while
		
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			the Muslims are being burdened with new taxes
		
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			and tithes.
		
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			The most valuable presentation that the sultan can
		
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			offer to god
		
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			is that the cesspool of corruption is cleansed.
		
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			Illegal imposts when taxes are abolished,
		
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			tyranny is stopped, and justice is made available
		
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			to the people.
		
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			Al Malik al Ashraf not only acted on
		
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			the advice of Izzaddin, but profusely thanked him
		
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			saying, may God give you a goodly reward
		
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			for
		
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			performing the duty enjoyed
		
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			by religion on behalf of all the Muslims,
		
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			whose well wisher you undoubtedly are.
		
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			He said, sorry. Allow me to be your
		
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			companion in paradise.
		
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			The sultan also presented 1,000 Egyptian gold mohrs
		
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			to,
		
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			but he refused to accept them saying, I
		
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			met you only for the sake of Allah,
		
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			and I do not want any worldly temptation
		
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			to be made an additional,
		
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			reason for it.
		
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			Have mercy on our elders. May
		
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			have mercy on the
		
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			and those who followed and took up their
		
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			way.
		
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			And, may Allah
		
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			have mercy on the of the prophet
		
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			people who are suffering in the east and
		
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			in the west because of the corruption and
		
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			stupidities of those who are in power as
		
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			well as those people from the masses who
		
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			should know better, who cast their lot with
		
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			the people who have money and who have
		
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			power
		
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			and, who love indulgent merrymaking
		
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			for this dunya, which is a cesspit, which
		
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			is going to come to an end soon.
		
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			All of us are going to turn into
		
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			dust.
		
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			Allah
		
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			give people
		
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			whatever position they are in in society,
		
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			you know, prominent or or humble,
		
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			the
		
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			of choosing something better.
		
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			So that, the mercy of Allah can be
		
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			easily distributed amongst the people because of their
		
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			having
		
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			chosen something better and a better way of
		
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			living.
		
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			And Allah
		
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			also give us the
		
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			companionship of the,
		
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			in this world and in in in Jannah
		
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			with his father. Allah
		
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			give us all tawfeeq,