Hamzah Wald Maqbul – 1439 Ramadn Late Night Majlis 3 Tazkirah MashyikhiChisht Boycott 05192018

Hamzah Wald Maqbul
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The importance of praying responsibly and reciting the Quran is discussed, as well as the upcoming persecution of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. The Herib of Abi Talib attempted to put the Sheib of Abi Talib into effect, but were not allowed to emerge from the valley. The discussion highlights the struggles and struggles of the Islamist movement, including the deceptivion of the document of excommunication and the actions of the messenger of Allah. The importance of praying for the um Asset and praising the holy month is emphasized, as well as the importance of the um principal's actions and the beauty of the um principal's actions in the um principal's actions. The act of worship is emphasized as a means of achieving rewards and the importance of praying for the um Asset and the beauty of the um Asset in the um principal's actions.
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Your fasting and your prayers and your recitation

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of the Quran

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and your zikr of the divine name in

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and the other Masnun Azkar

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and your sadaqat and all of your good

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deeds with Barakah in this small Barak month.

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Please,

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don't be from the people who

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slacks off and waste time

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on Twitter and television

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and Facebook and,

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you know, reading the news and all of

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these other things,

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that only to be the one who says

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at the end of the month, oh, look

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how fast Ramadan passed by. If a person

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is cognizant of their every breath,

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which is one of the barakat of

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praying punctually and making vicar

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regularly.

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If a person is

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is aware of the passing of every breath

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and trying to use it,

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in order to better themselves, then they will

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find so much Barakah in this month that

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it will feel like it never ends.

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Every day will feel like it it never

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ends.

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They will have more mindfulness

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in

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the time,

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from prayer to prayer than other people may

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have an entire

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week or a month or some people even

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in their entire lives.

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So,

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while it's good to listen to,

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even these recordings and things like that as

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a,

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a rest and a respite from,

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the rigors of prayer and,

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the difficulties of fasting

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and,

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the rigor of

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reciting the Quran constantly and making dhikr constantly.

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Let let, you know, let all of us

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make Amal on,

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and practice on.

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That when you're, when you're

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free

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from the prayer or from from your

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difficulties and the the work that you're putting

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Mujahaha, their struggles,

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then find respite in the prayer

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and,

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unto your Lord,

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let your desire and your

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goal

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be. Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala give all of

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us so much Tawfiq.

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So we continue

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with

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the recounting of the Mubarak life of the

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Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam or some small part

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of it.

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After having

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talked about the immigration of the Sahaba radiAllahu

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ta'ala and whom to Abyssinia.

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Afterward, Hazrat Sheikr radiAllahu ta'ala continues,

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While the Sahaba radiAllahu anhu were allowed to

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migrate,

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the

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Messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam remained behind

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in Maqam Karama,

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undergoing the severest of trials and persecution for

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a full 6 years, after the first of

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the Sahaba left to Abyssinia.

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On the first of Muharram and the 7th

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year of of of prophethood,

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the Kuffar of Mecca schemed a new plan

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of persecution.

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The messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam along

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with his entire family.

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And here what's meant by the entire family

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is not the immediate family of the Messenger

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of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, rather all of

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Banu Hashim. The Messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi

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Wasallam is Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, the son

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of Abdullah,

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the son of

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Abdul Muttalib,

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the son of Hashim.

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So Hashem,

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all of the descendants of Hashem,

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were were put under a new plan of

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persecution.

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The Messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and

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his entire clan were imprisoned in a valley.

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The Sheib of Abi Talib,

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and a total boycott was put into effect.

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They were not allowed to emerge from the

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valley, neither were they permitted to procure any

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food from outside,

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nor was anyone permitted to enter the valley

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with any provisions.

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After a short while,

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while,

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after a short while, when their little food

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and rations were depleted,

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a period of starvation followed one after the

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other.

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Women and children were in dire straits as

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a result of the starvation. And this happens

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in crisis zones everywhere, that those who are

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physically most vulnerable,

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women, children, the sick, the elderly,

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especially women who are pregnant,

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Those people who,

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who are in the most precarious of situations

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with regards to the their health, they're the

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ones who suffer the most, and they're the

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ones who succumb to

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starvation,

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first. And it's it's interesting actually

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just to add

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a note that it's interesting.

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When this happened,

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there was 2 shows.

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One was a supreme show of Wafaa, of

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loyalty,

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which is a trait that seems to be

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gone from,

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a great number of people nowadays. And people

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used to have the human trait of loyalty.

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Now people have the corporate trait of, of

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of a fiduciary responsibility to look after themselves.

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They've kind of

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donned,

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the selfishness

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in

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the garb of some sort of pseudo,

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some sort of pseudo,

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virtue of the fiduciary

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responsibility of every person to look after themselves.

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And indeed, a person does have the duty

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to look after themselves,

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in the sense that they shouldn't make themselves

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in need of others, but it doesn't give

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them the right

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or the privilege or the the, you know,

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to look positively on selling out other people.

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And, sometimes,

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responsibility, the responsibility of being a human being

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and of having honor and having wafaa, loyalty,

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which is

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a cardinal virtue in Jahiliya, which was upheld

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by Islam.

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Sometimes,

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that, you know, a person gets,

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you know, gets their their hand called in

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terms of their humanity to see how much

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humanity they have. And so

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there was a member of the Banu Hashim,

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Abu Lahab,

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who is the paternal uncle of the Messenger

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of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.

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Had he

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had he chosen to stand by the Prophet

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Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he would have been revered

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as a member of the Ahlul Bayt, but

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he chose to sell out.

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He chose to sell out. And so when

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this, boycott pact

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of Banu Hashim was made, of the Prophet,

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sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, was made Banu Hashim

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to a man, they all stood,

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in defense of

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of their kinsmen,

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even though many of them were not Muslims

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yet. And they paid the consequence for that.

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They said he's a good man, and, he

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doesn't lie, he doesn't cheat, he helps the

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poor, he helps the widow, he helps the

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orphan,

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and he's a man of

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of chivalric virtue.

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And we will not sell him out, to

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you just because you don't like the fact

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that he's commanding to virtue.

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And so even the the mushrikeen from Banu

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Hashim at that time that had not accepted

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Islam,

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to a man they stood with the messenger

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of Allah, except for this, Abu Lahab,

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except for this, unclean, inwardly and outwardly

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individual, this Chabeeth individual

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who,

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you know, like we mentioned before, there's literally

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a surah lampooning him in the Quran, and

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he deserves it.

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And so he sold out, he sold out

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his nephew and his kinsmen,

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against,

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any, virtue of Islam and against even any,

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tribal Arab tribal virtue,

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or chivalric virtue of of of the tribal

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Arabs, even of Jahiliya.

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He was just a straight sellout. And so

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he went in front of, all of the

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rest of the mushrikeen of Quraysh, and he

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said that I have nothing to do with

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him. He has nothing to do with me.

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And, that's actually become a legal ruling now

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that Abu Lahab is not considered legally in

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the Sharia, the sacred law of Islam,

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to be from Banu Hashim.

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He is not the family of the prophet

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sallallahu alaihi wasallam and his descendants,

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if any of them are are still alive,

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which is a great possibility. And I don't

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think anyone's gonna go around and say, hey,

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look, I'm, you know, Allahabi, I'm descended from

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Abu Lahab. So those people, even if they

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are alive and around and they accepted

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Islam,

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you know, they're

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probably unknown, but none of them can claim,

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claim the kinsmanship of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi

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Wasallam. And then look on the other side

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that

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Hashim,

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the great grandfather of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi

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Wasallam,

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his brother,

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Al Muttalib,

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who is the one who brought Abdul Muttalib

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to Makkamukarama.

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Al Muttalib,

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he he

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went to Madinah Munawwara to get his

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nephew, Sheba,

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who was the son of his brother

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and a boy of much virtue and and

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talent and potential.

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And he,

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brought him from where his mother lived in

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Yathrib, which was the old, pre Hijra name

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of Madinah Munawara,

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and brought him to, Makkumu Karamal to take

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his rightful place as a chieftain of Quresh.

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And so

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when, the people saw Al Mu'taleib bringing this,

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young man, handsome young man into Makkumukarama, they

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wondered who is he? And so people thought,

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oh, this Al Mu'tallib must have purchased a

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slave,

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and he must be bringing his new slave

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into Maqamukarama. So the nickname Abdul Mu'tallib stuck

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with the grandfather of the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi

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Wasallam. But look at Masha'Allah how

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how,

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Hashim's brother Al Muttalib had

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he had love for his brother and,

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love for his nephew. And he brought him

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and literally set him up that he could

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become the chieftain of Quresh and the people

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of Quresh honored and revered revered Abdul Muttalib.

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And so when the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam

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was boycotted by the mushrikeen of Quresh, the

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clan of, of Muttalib,

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which is a brother clan to Hashim.

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Just as Hashim was a brother to Al

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Muttalib, the clan of Al Muttalib said whatever

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whatever you do whatever you do to our

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brothers,

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you do to us as well.

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And they, they were because of standing firm

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with

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Messenger of Allah again, many of them were

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still mushrikeen, but just out of their sense

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of humanity

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for standing with their kinsmen because it was

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unfair and unjust what was being done with

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them, they were also subjected to this boycott,

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which had horrible,

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effects.

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And,

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Allah knows

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best, and Allah knows best, and he's the

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one who gives reward to the one who,

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shows honor to his Messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam.

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But from one of the many honors that

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Banu Muttalib has is that Imam al Shafi'i

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is from amongst their ranks.

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And,

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if there's any lineage that is next and

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kin to the lineage of Banu Hashim and

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has the right to claim some sort of,

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affinity to the Ahlulbayt of the prophet

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Indeed, it's,

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that of Banu Mutaleb.

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It's an opinion reported

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from Imam al Shafi'i that also they they

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don't take and consume the money of zakat.

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And, with regards to the Shafi'i fiqh, inshallah,

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you can ask a Shafi'i fiqh about the

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details, but that that is something that that,

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we we read about

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in different books of, and again, the details

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you can get from them.

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The pledge which the Kufar had made with

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regards to the imprisonment and embargo

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was not a verbal one, nor was it

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the plan of just a few. In fact,

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all the chiefs of Mecca had signed the

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document imposing the embargo and imprisonment.

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The scribe of this document was 1 Mansur

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ibnu Ekrima al Abdari,

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The punishment of all that Allah most high

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inflicted on him was that after he,

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after he wrote out that document, both of

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his hands were paralyzed,

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for the rest of his life.

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And again,

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you know, people

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if you stand with the Haqq, a time

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will come when a great number of people,

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authority figures,

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and, people, that are looked up to. You

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may see that they behave badly, Allah will

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expose the the the the uncleanness which is

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inside of their hearts and inside of their

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ba'atin.

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After 3 years

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of patient suffering and endurance in the prison

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of the valley, Allah, most high, by his

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limitless mercy, inspired some people of Quraysh to

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violate the pledge. Some persons amongst the Kufar

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and Mushrikeen developed a pity for the Muslims.

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While discussion on the issue had become topical,

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Allah most high revealed to the messenger of

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Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam that the document

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of excommunication

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had disintegrated

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and that

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only a piece of the paper, that piece

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on which, Allah's name was written had remained

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intact.

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On this occasion, Abu Talib notified the chiefs

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of the Quraysh that Mohammed sallallahu alaihi wasallam

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had informed him of the disintegration of the

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document. He added that if it was true,

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then they should refrain from this action and

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lift the embargo.

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The Arabs were people who used to take

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omens from and signs from things, so something

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like that would have affected them,

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quite quite deeply.

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When it was discovered that the document had

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truly disintegrated, those who were initially opposed opposed

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to the boycott were further emboldened to violate

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the pledge. Thus, the Messenger of Allah salallahu

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alayhi wasalam and his family gained their freedom

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from the prison of the valley.

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However, two grave events soon took place. His

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uncle Abu Talib died. His presence had restrained

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the kuffar of Makkah on many an occasion,

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and also his beloved and devoted wife, Seyda

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Khadija Umul Mumineen

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had passed away.

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This year, in which these events transpired was

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known amongst the Muslims as Amul Khuzn, the

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year of sorrow.

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This material support in the worldly form was

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thus also taken away. However, in spite of

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the multitude of difficulties,

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hardships, and sorrows,

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nothing could detract the prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam

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from his devotion to Allah most high and

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the propagation of this deen. Although the Kufar

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of Mecca perpetually mocked him and hurled at

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him a variety of epithets

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such as sorcerer, magician, fortune teller, and madman,

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the messenger of Allah

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constantly supplicated for their guidance to become for

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them to become Muslim and for their betterment.

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This was his prime concern. When he finally

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despaired as a result of their intransigence,

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he commenced his,

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his

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calling to the dean,

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for those who lived in the area surrounding

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Makkamukarama.

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He approached every tribe with the message of

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the oneness of Allah. However, they all rebuffed

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and mocked him. In Ta'if,

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when he attempted to carry out his mission,

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the chiefs had not only mocked him and

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jeered him. Ta'if is a

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a city that's up at some,

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elevation.

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It's very near Makkumukarama,

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and it has very pleasant weather,

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compared to the rest of the Arabian Peninsula

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during the, summertime.

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And the people who lived and thought if

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Banu Thaqif,

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they considered themselves to be peers and equals

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to,

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the Quresh.

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And many of the noblemen of Quresh actually

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used to, vacation in Taif as well. So

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there was some,

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back and forth between them, and there was

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some some connection between them even in the

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days of Jahiliya.

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In Ta'if, when he attempted to carry out

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his mission, the chiefs not only mocked him

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and jeered him, but organized street urchins and

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other vagabonds to stone him.

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Imagine that the Rasul, salallahu alayhi wa sallam,

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they they unleashed people to throw stones at

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him even though he only brought them the

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message of La ilaha illallah.

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In consequence

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of the shower of stones which rained on

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him, his shoes were dyed red with his

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blood,

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salallahu alaihi wa sallam.

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Returning from Ta'i, he sat on one place

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grief stricken

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and made the following dua.

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Oh, Allah, with You alone do I register

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the complaint of my weakness

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and my forloneness

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and my disgrace amongst people.

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O Allah who is most merciful,

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you are the Lord of the weak and

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you are my Lord.

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Toward whom have you assigned me?

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Have you handed me to an alien who

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detests me or to some enemy in whose

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control you have placed me?

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Oh, Allah, as long as you are not

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displeased with me, then I care for not

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care not.

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Your protection suffices me. I seek refuge with

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the Nur of your face,

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which brightens all darkness and on which all

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affairs of this world and the hereafter are

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rectified.

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And from your wrath settling on me, or

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from your anger descending on me, remove your

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anger from me that you become pleased.

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There is no strength nor power but with

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you.

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Allah ta'ala bestows his favour according to the

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degree of the struggle.

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The fruits of success are

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in proportion to the sacrifices offered in the

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path of Allah

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The episode of Ta'if was indeed a great

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struggle and sacrifice.

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The fruit of this noble sacrifice was the

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highest proximity to Allah Most High in the

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form of the Mi'raj,

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the Ascension, which happened on the heels of

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the Isra, the night journey.

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No one ever attained such a divine proximity.

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The greatest and most wonderful gift bestowed upon

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the Ummah on the occasion of the Mi'raj

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is the 5 daily prayers which were ordained

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as obligatory.

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Salat is a medium for communing with Allah

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Most High. At the same time, it is

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the most important act of worship.

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Alas, the plight of those who turn their

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faces away from divine proximity by refraining from

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the prayers is most lamentable.

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And the pursuit of a few coins, and

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for the proximity of the powerful,

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just for a few moments, they sacrificed their

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lives and even their deen.

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In spite of the great

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significance for the Muslims, the episode of Mi'raj

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has become a

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target of mockery from the kuffar. It provided

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them with additional excuse for jeering and reviling

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the Muslims.

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The,

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Mi'raj the Israan and Mi'raj of the prophet

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sallallahu alaihi wasalam was

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an event that Azar Sheikh mentioned we mentioned

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earlier in in one of the previous darshas

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that,

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it was an occasion on which the, angels

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took the heart of

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prophet from his chest and washed it in

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the

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the

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the the water of Zamzam

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and

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charged it with the,

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light and the,

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Nur of Iman,

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in order for him to be able to

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receive even more,

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in terms of the divine,

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blessing and the, providential

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favor from Allah

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during his his Mi'raj.

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And, the prayer literally is, you know, for

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people who want to look at Islam as

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the law, you know, you can look at

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the prayer through the lens of fiqh. And

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that's definitely one aspect of it, and it's

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important aspect of it an important aspect of

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it. But even the fuqaha they talk about,

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they talk about with an act that there

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are different there are different

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things that you look look through different lenses

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in order to understand.

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One is, is the act,

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the responsibility

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for it, is it fulfilled, the Bara'at Avima.

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And another,

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separate issue is, is it going to receive

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reward?

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So a person may pray the reward in

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a play way that's legally valid. So the

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Adi or the judge or the Mufti is

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not gonna say you are legally obliged to

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repeat it, but it may be devoid of

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it may be devoid of any sort of

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reward.

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And another issue, a separate issue is whether

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it's accepted or not. And so if you

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want to look at the prayer from the

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angle of the law, there are a number

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of issues that come up, and they're important

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issues.

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But to look at the prayer from the

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angle of,

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its Sufic virtue,

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then know that whoever has a thikr that

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they do, or whoever has a wird that

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they do,

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a daily,

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a collection of Hizb or a a wird,

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a collection of adhqar that they do, by

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which they feel like they're, Masha'Allah, some sort

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of 2 point o Muslim or better than

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anyone else. Know that the greatest of the

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urad is,

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the 5 daily prayers. Nothing comes even close

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to it. The greatest recitation of the Quran

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is the recitation that a person does inside

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of the prayer and the greatest of the

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adkar of Allah ta'ala or the that a

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person does inside of the prayer. The maqam

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of the Sahaba radiAllahu on whom all of

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it was bestowed to them by,

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by and through this salat,

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which is Allah Ta'ala opening the door of

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his divine to

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us,

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every day

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so many times, and it's a great blessing.

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And, it's it's something that is

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a large portion and the greater portion of

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the help of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that

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this Ummah had, without which it would not

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have made it. The prophet

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would not have been able to surmount the

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challenges that were in front of, in front

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of him that are described in this reading.

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And the Sahaba radiAllahu Anhu would not have

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had the power and the help from Allah

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Ta'ala that they needed

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to trample the unjust and tyrannical

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empires of the ancient world underneath their feet

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and liberate the people to,

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from from the slavery of the creation to

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the the the slave hood of the creator,

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and to liberate people from the, darkness of

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Jahiliyyah.

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And without it, we also

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we cannot make it. We don't have anything

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without this salat.

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It's sufficient if a person knows how to

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pray their 5 daily prayers,

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for them to rectify the

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the the

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affairs of this world and the hereafter. And

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many people, you know, they see it as

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like, oh, it's just empty ritual. It's just

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empty ritual. I don't even understand Arabic. You

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know? If you're the slave of Allah to

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Allah, does the slave is the slave paid

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to think or is he paid to obey?

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The slave the slave is

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his only function is when the master calls

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the person's the slave says.

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And in that sense, if a person doesn't

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understand Arabic,

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and they say the prayer,

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this is

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in itself a a beautiful station of slavehood.

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And I might even say that it's more

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perfect,

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manifestation of the slavehood of a person in

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front of the Lord, except for Allah is

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the one who commanded us to seek knowledge.

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And so because of that,

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because of that, there are maqamat that are

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higher than than not understanding the prayer. But

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even if a person doesn't understand it, there's

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a beauty,

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therein.

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And doesn't it, doesn't it,

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suffice you to know that this salat is

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literally an imitation of the angels?

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There is no other animal

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that we know of that was given the

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salat,

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that was given to the Messenger of Allah

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sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.

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Rather that salat is purely for the mankind

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and for the jinn

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in imitation of the angels. Other than us,

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the only other than this ummah, the only

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people who have this salat is who?

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Is is the the Malaika.

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And this is

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a great honor for us that despite being

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shackled with corporeal bodies and despite having an

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animalistic

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nature, that Allah

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should give us the chance that we should

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be lifted out of that that state

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for,

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for for a couple of minutes,

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you know, after

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after after,

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you know, different stretches and spans of the

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day.

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And it is a respite that a person

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should wash their sins away from themselves,

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in their in their and

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they should be granted,

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audience to stand in front of the Lord,

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jallahu Allah, in in order to make sajdah

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in front of Allah. And we take it

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for granted because a person has something they

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don't appreciate it. Ask that person who has

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a heart filled with sin and filled with

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regret and nobody to make Tawbah to. Ask

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that person whose forehead is,

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been stuck in the air through their arrogance,

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and it's killing them inside. And they they

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they don't know, you know, they don't know

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what they can do about it. And the

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people of this Ummah, not only Allah has

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given us,

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the knowledge of what we can do to

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dispel the

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evil effects of sin from our heart, because

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it's not like we don't sin, and it's

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not even like we sin less than other

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people. Many of us, astaghfirullah,

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Allah knows our how inwardly and outwardly,

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The miskeen who's reading this,

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reading this book is the first in that

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list. Allah knows how much we,

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we disobey him.

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But look at so much honor and nobility

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that we know what to do, and we

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have the tawfiq to do it, that, that

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we have the tafik to put our our

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our forehead on the ground in front of

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the Rub Tabarak wa Ta'ala 5 times a

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day in the Masjid and in the darkness

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of our own rooms and our own houses

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when nobody else is around,

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when there is intimacy between the

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the the the the the slave and the

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Lord, The slave who is a Aship of

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the Lord.

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Because the Lord is worthy of being loved.

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Because

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Allah

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adorned his entire creation with his mercy.

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Inwardly and outwardly.

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So who wouldn't love him?

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And despite our ingratitude for that, he gave

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us the opportunity to make Sajdah in front

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of him.

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And uh-uh

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that's that's a great that's a great gift

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from Allah to Allah.

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And look at what the occasion in the

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world of causes and effects was for that

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gift. That the messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi

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Wasallam literally he had to see his family

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starved to death in front of him. He

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had to see said the Khadija

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and Anha in her old age,

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bear,

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bear the the the pain and suffering, and

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his children bear the pain and suffering, and

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his family and relatives and cousins bear it

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on his behalf,

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sallallahu alaihiwasallam,

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despite not being burdened with the burden of

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of nubuwa.

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That on the heels of all of that,

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on the heels of years, 3 years,

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in which it's mentioned that the only food

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that would get in is that say Sayid

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Nabila

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who is himself himself a slave. So you

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can imagine that he was himself emaciated.

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So just the depression inside of his armpit,

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he would,

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fill it with whatever food stuff he could

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bring in,

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and he would

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hold his arm against his body,

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and so that there was nothing for, the

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mushrikeen who would stand watch over that valley,

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where the Banu Hashim and Banu Muttalib were

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imprisoned.

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And that's the only food that they saw

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for so long,

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was what he would smuggle in inside of

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his armpit, radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu, that the Prophet

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Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam the idea itself doesn't sound

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appetizing. Nobody would want to eat something like

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that, but that was the only thing that

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they would have. And even that little amount,

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they would spread it and divide it up

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amongst people,

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that through that

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sacrifice, Allah gave us this salat,

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which is the highest medium and mechanism for

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earning the love of Allah Ta'ala and garnering

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the help of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and

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attracting the aid and divine assistance of Allah

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Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to make things that are

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otherwise impossible possible,

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both for a person in this world and

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the hereafter. That through the salat,

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entire nations of people will be saved from

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the hellfire. And through the salat, entire nations

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of people will be,

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forgiven for their sins. Through the salat, the

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empire of the Persians and the Romans was

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trampled underfoot.

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Through the salat,

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so much mercy was distributed to,

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mankind. And through the salat,

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it's not just the Ottoman Empire and the

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caliphate and all this other

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conquest of Roman Persia through the salat.

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You, my brothers, and my sisters, and me,

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all of us, our our our work will

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be completed.

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All of our

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and our needs will be fulfilled. All of

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our desires,

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with regards to our eternal life will be

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fulfilled.

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All of our, all of our griefs will

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be,

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sufficed from us. All of these things will

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be,

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taken care of through the salat, and it's

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just there. It's just waiting for us. Sometimes

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we just need to remind one another and

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remind ourselves about what the the the benefit

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of that salat is, that it truly is

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the greatest

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and the most,

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luminous and,

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the most bountiful and the most filled with

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grace from all the urad and all the

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acts of worship that were prescribed to that

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were prescribed to the the Ummah of Sayedna

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Muhammad sallallahu

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alaihi wa sallam.

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It was from the inception,

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of Islam that the practice of the Messenger

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of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,

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was to

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was to propagate Islam to outsiders who entered

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into Maqamukarama.

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This practice was the cause for the establishment

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of an Islamic presence in Yathrib, which would

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then later on become Medina after the,

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after the,

00:29:09 --> 00:29:12

Hijra, the the Hijra of the prophet sallallahu

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alaihi wasallam. And it start this presence of

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Islam in in in Madinah was

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initiated in the 11th year of the prophethood

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of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.

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The inhabitants of Madinah Munawala while visiting Makkah,

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for

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various needs or trade or for Hajj,

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those people would embrace Islam and then return

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back to their city. The Muhajirim,

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from Mecca further augmented the numbers of Muslims

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in Medina. And so people also, once there's

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a friendly,

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outpost established in Yathrib, the Muslims, started to

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move there as well.

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There was thus a substantial number of Muslims

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now in in Yathrib.

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They all desired that the Messenger of Allah

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sallallahu alaihi wa sallam settle permanently

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in Madinah Munawala. However, he would repeatedly inform

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them that Allah most high had not yet

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commanded him to migrate.

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Thus he waited in Maqamukaram

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in anticipation of Allah's command,

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spending, day and night in in in the

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worship of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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Inshallah, we'll continue, we'll continue when we next

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get an opportunity.

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Allah,

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give us tawfeeth to,

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to appreciate,

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the sacrifices of the Messenger of Allah, salallahu

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alayhi wa sallam.

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And through that appreciation,

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through our salat and salaam on the prophet

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Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam in remembering and recounting his

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struggles that frankly are beyond our capacity in

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order to,

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in order

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to witness much less go through ourselves.

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That

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Allah also harden our resolve

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and give us strength in order to

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get to

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the that we need to in order to

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achieve whatever station in Maqam,

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we need to in this life,

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so that Allah may be pleased with us

00:31:01 --> 00:31:03

and that he may love us and that

00:31:03 --> 00:31:04

we should meet him in that state,

00:31:05 --> 00:31:07

and that we should have one day. It's

00:31:07 --> 00:31:09

struggle. It's difficult, but we should have one

00:31:09 --> 00:31:11

day, the tofich, that we,

00:31:12 --> 00:31:13

turn our back on,

00:31:14 --> 00:31:16

on sin and turn our back on

00:31:17 --> 00:31:19

selfishness and carnal desire and arrogance and all

00:31:19 --> 00:31:23

of those things that that are, deadly poison

00:31:23 --> 00:31:24

that kill us, and that we hate so

00:31:24 --> 00:31:26

much, but we have so much difficulty giving

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up. That that love one day be,

00:31:29 --> 00:31:31

what gives us and garners for us from

00:31:31 --> 00:31:34

Allah the strength in order to to turn

00:31:34 --> 00:31:36

our back on those things that destroy us

00:31:36 --> 00:31:38

and to walk the path of righteousness,

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in such a way that we never leave

00:31:40 --> 00:31:43

it ever again. Allah give us dawfiq that

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we

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we, we we love the salat

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and that we,

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use the salat and that we benefit from

00:31:50 --> 00:31:52

the salat. And through it, Allah

00:31:53 --> 00:31:54

crown us with,

00:31:54 --> 00:31:55

his help,

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without which there's no, there's no

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makzid or

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

objective or aim of this world or the

00:32:02 --> 00:32:03

hereafter,

00:32:04 --> 00:32:05

that that we're we're going to be able

00:32:05 --> 00:32:07

to fulfill for ourselves.

00:32:07 --> 00:32:10

Without which there is nothing except for,

00:32:11 --> 00:32:13

pain and suffering in this world, and that

00:32:13 --> 00:32:15

thing which we think is an enjoyment or

00:32:15 --> 00:32:16

happiness or success,

00:32:17 --> 00:32:19

it will only be a cause for more

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

grief on the day of judgement. Allah taught

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

give us from the salat what he gave

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

the ones that he loves and gives us

00:32:25 --> 00:32:26

the give us the salat of the ones

00:32:26 --> 00:32:28

that he loves and accept from us, from

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his father and his karm and his minna.

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