Hamzah Wald Maqbul – 16 Ramadan 1442 Late Night Majlis Don’t Be A Hater Addison

Hamzah Wald Maqbul
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The speakers discuss the upcoming MAC Beyond event and the importance of rethinking priorities and avoiding becoming a clown. They also touch on declining Islam's values and cloakical rivalries, as well as the rise of the segmentalist movement and political rivalries. The importance of remaining humble and respecting while harming others is emphasized, along with the need to address past mistakes and be willing to treat guests of the houses of Islam with passengers. The speakers also emphasize the importance of teaching children not to take advantage of others' actions and leaving them behind.

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			We reached the Mubarak 16th night of Ramadan.
		
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			The first half of Ramadan is over. May
		
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			Allah
		
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			accept it from us and forgive us our
		
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			shortcomings in it and make what's left of
		
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			this month, Mubarak for us, and give us,
		
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			from it that which we need in terms
		
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			of
		
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			prayers and good deeds and fasting
		
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			and tarbia,
		
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			and from his Fafl in all ways that
		
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			only he knows big and small. And may
		
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			Allah
		
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			change us for the better and make what's
		
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			left of our Ramadan and what's left of
		
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			our life better than what passed. So yesterday,
		
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			we were talking about
		
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			the,
		
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			the scene in the Muslim world on the
		
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			eve of the Mongol desolation of the the
		
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			Islamic heartlands.
		
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			So we talked about some of the degeneracy
		
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			that was rife
		
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			in society as well as, amongst the leaders
		
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			and rulers of the Muslims
		
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			and, in particular, the,
		
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			Abbasi Filafah, which was basically about to be
		
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			destroyed.
		
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			And we were reflecting on how,
		
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			you know, those tendencies
		
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			are there in our society today as well.
		
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			And about how oftentimes we sometimes lament and,
		
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			you know, feel sorry for ourselves as if
		
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			we are at the bit you know, the
		
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			pit in the bottom of
		
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			of
		
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			our possible condition in front of,
		
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			the world
		
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			and about how,
		
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			you know, we're, you know, somehow because we're
		
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			not in the heyday and golden age of
		
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			Islam that we're somehow,
		
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			worthy of pity or or worthy of every
		
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			single
		
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			dispensation in the book
		
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			and how people like that
		
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			mimic and resemble those people who
		
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			it was on their watch and at their
		
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			hands,
		
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			the desolation of the Muslim world happened.
		
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			And about how there are people we read
		
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			about also
		
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			who were people who also lived in those
		
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			times in those days of desolation,
		
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			those long years months
		
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			of desolation and of
		
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			utter heart wrenching and gut wrenching,
		
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			types of pain and suffering,
		
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			and how they dug down hard, and they
		
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			found barakah, and they found fadl from Allah
		
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			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, and they found Allah Ta'ala's
		
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			aid and help. And Allah
		
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			manifested great things at their hands, and it
		
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			definitely wasn't because they tried the first time
		
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			and it all worked out.
		
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			Rather, it was because they tried and tried
		
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			again, and they made their Ikhlas,
		
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			with Allah,
		
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			their sincerity with Allah,
		
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			and
		
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			Allah gave them,
		
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			tafik despite
		
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			overwhelming
		
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			and soul crushing,
		
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			circumstances and overwhelming odds.
		
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			And so we should also take a lesson
		
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			that there are different types of people. We
		
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			should choose which one we wanna be like,
		
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			and, we should choose the right ones. And
		
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			we should not think that just because we,
		
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			are Muslims that everything is going to be
		
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			okay, or just because we live in modernity,
		
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			somehow everything is waved off. Things can get
		
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			a lot better and things can get a
		
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			lot a lot worse. And they will get
		
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			a lot better if we follow the path
		
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			of the people who make them better
		
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			in the past, and they will get a
		
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			lot worse if we keep following the path
		
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			of the people who make things worse. I
		
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			mean, Allahu'l make us people who are
		
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			not obsessed with frivolity and with, you know,
		
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			stupid human tricks and with, you know, merry
		
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			making and singing and dancing and
		
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			not not obsessed with showing off shiny things.
		
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			Marsau, monkeys like shiny things. They're like, oh,
		
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			shiny thing. Oh, oh, ah. Right? Don't don't
		
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			don't be the monkey. Don't be the ape.
		
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			You know, there are some things that shine
		
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			physically, and they're
		
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			fascinating to to to the apes.
		
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			And there are some things that shine spiritually,
		
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			and they're fascinating to the angels.
		
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			Get in touch with your angelic self.
		
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			It's
		
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			not impossible.
		
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			People have done it before us. People who
		
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			are not as educated as as us and
		
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			people who are not as learned as us,
		
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			they've done it in the past. You can
		
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			do so as well. This Ramadan fast is
		
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			a good way of doing so.
		
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			And,
		
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			you know, see those things, be
		
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			fascinated, and be captivated,
		
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			and
		
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			be,
		
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			enthralled by those things that are
		
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			inside the heart,
		
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			and stop chasing those trinkets that other apes
		
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			chase,
		
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			lest you, and I end up destroying ourselves
		
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			and our families, and going down the path
		
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			that other apes have gone.
		
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			Protect us all.
		
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			Otherwise,
		
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			you know, your team winning,
		
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			some sort of
		
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			football match or baseball match or basketball match
		
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			or whatever.
		
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			It may be fun and entertaining, I admit
		
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			that. And it may not even really be
		
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			haram, but if it's a real source of
		
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			happiness for you, you need to, like, reevaluate
		
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			your priorities. All of us have dumb habits
		
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			including me.
		
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			I I watched way too much Star Trek
		
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			in my,
		
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			for you know, teenage years and whatever. We
		
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			all have dumb habits, but most of us,
		
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			you know, learn to not define ourselves by
		
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			those things.
		
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			And it's time that we get serious and
		
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			we define ourselves through serious things and, whatever
		
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			stupid things we do on our, in our
		
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			past times. If it's a habit, that's fine.
		
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			You know, you do it on on the
		
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			side. It's not, I mean, it's not especially
		
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			if it's not haram,
		
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			you know, you do it on the side,
		
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			but it's not it shouldn't take up a
		
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			a significant portion of your
		
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			mind and your identity and your expenditure
		
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			and whatnot,
		
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			lest we turn into, we turn into those
		
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			same, clowns that
		
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			literally, courted,
		
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			fell in love with, courted, and, gave themselves
		
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			over to destruction,
		
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			because that's a horrible that's a horrible,
		
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			horrible partner to end up with.
		
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			So Moana continues. He writes that in 642
		
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			of the Hijri age, a man by the
		
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			name of, Al Muayyaduddin
		
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			or Muayyaduddin
		
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			Afwan,
		
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			Mohammed bin Al Kami
		
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			was appointed prime minister by the Khalifa,
		
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			Mustasim.
		
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			Disorder and disturbances were a source of constant
		
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			trouble in Baghdad, especially when the Sunnis and
		
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			Shias quarreled in 655.
		
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			It is reported that in these riots, the
		
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			Shia quarters, including those of the relatives of
		
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			Ibn Al Kami, were plundered, which led him
		
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			to seek revenge from the Sunnis.
		
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			Although the danger of the Mongol invasion,
		
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			was hovering over Baghdad, a great reduction was
		
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			made in the armed forces. On the advice
		
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			of Ibn Al Kami,
		
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			the number of cavalry was reduced to a
		
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			mere 10,000.
		
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			Their allowances and promotions withheld.
		
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			The disbanded soldiers were directed to take up
		
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			trade and has husbandry, meaning to,
		
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			to,
		
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			herd,
		
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			sheep, and animals.
		
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			And,
		
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			with the results that many of them were
		
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			later seen begging
		
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			alms in the bazaars and in front of
		
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			the mosques.
		
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			Islam was reduced to the state of imbecility,
		
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			which left many poets to compose elegies to
		
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			lament the helplessness of the Muslims.
		
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			And, you know, this whole the whole sectarian,
		
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			the whole sectarian
		
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			issue, part of it was sectarian, and part
		
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			of it was political and economic.
		
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			Like we had mentioned, I believe yesterday,
		
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			the
		
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			ruling class,
		
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			many of them were basically
		
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			Persianized elites,
		
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			and, many of them were
		
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			people of heterodoxy. And the reason for that
		
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			is that from the educated people of the
		
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			Ahlus Sunnah, most of them went on went
		
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			on to be fuqaha and went on to
		
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			be
		
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			went on to be,
		
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			judges and went on to be Muhaddithun and
		
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			teachers, etcetera.
		
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			And so if you wanted somebody who was
		
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			like a brain for hire, somebody who would
		
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			basically do whatever you tell them to as
		
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			long as you pay them money,
		
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			then you had to hire a
		
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			a person of heterodoxy,
		
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			a person of bidda, or you had to
		
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			hire a a non Muslim. You had to
		
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			hire a Jew or Christian who was just
		
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			there to do what they're told and, you
		
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			know, make money and kinda look after look
		
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			after themselves that doesn't have a stake invested
		
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			in the greater welfare of society.
		
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			By and large, the majority of the populace
		
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			was always Sunni, as it continues to be
		
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			to this day.
		
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			And, it was the the Mu'tazila
		
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			and the, the,
		
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			who are kind of kinda like the, the
		
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			younger brother of the Khawarij,
		
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			and then it was the Arauwafid and the
		
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			Hulat and,
		
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			other, minorities who really don't have a stake
		
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			in the project of Islam or society at
		
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			large.
		
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			People amongst them that were clever and well
		
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			educated, well read, oftentimes received government jobs
		
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			by,
		
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			less scrupulous rulers precisely because they would do
		
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			what they were told without scruple and without
		
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			worry about what is gonna happen in the
		
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			Akhirah or what is gonna happen to society
		
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			at at large.
		
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			They really didn't care. And so what happened
		
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			is that you have this kind of, like,
		
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			enfranchised
		
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			class of society,
		
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			that, you know, is economically
		
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			privileged
		
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			and,
		
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			that are, you know, people in positions of
		
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			rulership, and they
		
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			obviously are not going to look down at
		
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			the masses with any sort of,
		
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			with any sort of sympathy.
		
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			Rather, the masses are just another problem in
		
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			their way that they have to tend to
		
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			and they have to kind of deal with.
		
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			And this will make
		
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			a lot of kind of class warfare type
		
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			issues,
		
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			some of which are cloaked in sectarian,
		
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			sectarian rivalries, and, some of which actually were
		
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			based in sectarian rivalries, but many of which
		
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			weren't. They were just, they were
		
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			sectarian rivalries, but many of which weren't.
		
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			They were just, they were just like political
		
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			machinations and wrangling
		
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			Machiavellian
		
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			or Marxian even,
		
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			when it came to class, and economic class,
		
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			and social class, etcetera.
		
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			And Mustap and Mustapism was personally a man
		
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			of unimpeachable character. He also wanted to reform,
		
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			administration and bring peace and prosperity in his
		
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			realm. But unfortunately, he lacked the courage, zeal,
		
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			and ability of the founders of empires, which
		
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			alone could have saved the situation by infusing
		
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			a breath of new life in the then
		
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			rotting society and administration.
		
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			It has happened more than once that the
		
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			last monarch of any ruling dynasty was just
		
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			and wise, virtuous, and humane.
		
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			But the degeneration of social and political order
		
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			had reached the point in his time where,
		
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			its only natural outcome was the final decane
		
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			crumbling down of the dynasty.
		
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			This was the case with Mu'tasam II, who
		
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			providence, Yani, the Pudra of Allah Ta'ala, had
		
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			chosen,
		
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			for the badge of infamy. Although he was
		
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			better than most of his predecessors and also
		
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			had a desire to set right the falsely
		
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			deteriorating situation.
		
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			One can probably say the same thing about,
		
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			the Khalifa,
		
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			and, Sultan,
		
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			Abdulhamid al Kinji the second Sultan Mohammed the
		
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			second.
		
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			Allah
		
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			have mercy on him.
		
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			Very,
		
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			brilliant politician
		
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			and very pious man,
		
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			not a man, whose reign was free from,
		
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			problematic issues, but by and large,
		
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			a person
		
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			at whose hands Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala,
		
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			warded off the destruction of colonialism
		
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			and warded off the
		
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			complete implosion of Muslim civilization,
		
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			for quite some time and allowed him, even
		
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			when he was,
		
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			dislodged, to have prepared
		
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			certain institutions in, the Muslim lands in order
		
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			to and certain people in the Muslim lands
		
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			that were able to, mitigate that implosion and
		
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			that destruction,
		
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			so that, you know, and Taqwa and Salah
		
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			and,
		
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			Deen
		
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			can, live to see another day. Allah
		
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			have mercy on them.
		
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			It is undoubtedly true that a group of
		
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			people, pure in spirit and righteous in conduct,
		
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			were their teaching and preaching
		
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			in the mosques and seminaries of Baghdad. But
		
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			the affluent
		
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			and those in authority had become so corrupt
		
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			that an analyst of the age, Abu Hassan
		
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			Khazraji, had to describe the conditions prevailing in
		
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			his times in these words.
		
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			The desire to acquire estates in effect has
		
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			become a craze with these people who never
		
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			think of the community's welfare.
		
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			They are so engrossed in feathering their own
		
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			nests that it can never be deemed a
		
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			rightful course. The officials of the government are
		
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			all tyrants who are obsessed with the idea
		
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			of amassing as much wealth as possible.
		
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			This is the most dangerous state of affairs
		
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			for the government can coexist with apostasy, but
		
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			never with tyranny.
		
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			And this is a very, you know, this
		
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			is a very interesting,
		
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			and very insightful thing he says. The government
		
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			can coexist with apostasy,
		
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			but never with tyranny. Meaning that if your,
		
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			you know, rulers are not Muslims,
		
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			still society can function.
		
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			And obviously, something is very wrong and, something
		
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			is very problematic, but it's not gonna cause
		
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			as much damage in the long run because
		
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			you can fix that. You can replace one
		
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			ruler with another.
		
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			But when you have injustice, you cause certain
		
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			fissures and breaks in society to happen, that
		
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			even when you have a good,
		
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			ruler come in afterward,
		
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			the cycle of vengeance and the cycle of
		
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			problems that are caused by these breaks and
		
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			rifts,
		
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			you know, they they'll take a very long
		
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			time to heal. And this is why it's
		
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			such a horrible thing for, one person to,
		
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			to make Zulm against another,
		
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			and it's such a horrible thing for especially
		
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			amongst the types of Mavalim for one person
		
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			to kill another.
		
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			Those feuds don't die quickly.
		
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			Even if people make the intention for Tawba,
		
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			how can you make right a situation
		
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			which is the destruction of something so precious
		
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			with Allah and so unique even with mankind
		
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			that, we all acknowledge it's irreplaceable?
		
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			And, you know, it's something really important that,
		
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			you know, we should keep in mind. Obviously,
		
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			it doesn't mean that apostasy is not a
		
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			big deal, but we should all keep in
		
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			mind before making vumm against another person, no
		
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			matter how angry you are, you gotta take
		
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			a deep breath and not not violate another
		
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			person's trust, not violate another person's rights. Rather,
		
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			render rights to people and ask your rights
		
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			to Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And if in
		
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			seeking your rights, you're gonna end up destroying
		
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			other people's rights, then know the Sunnah is
		
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			too in such a situation
		
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			to render other people's rights to them and
		
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			to,
		
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			and to ask for your rights from Allah.
		
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			If we all do this as individuals,
		
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			one of us, at some point or another,
		
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			will be in charge of something and will
		
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			rule something. If we have a society where
		
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			this is the norm, then our rulers will
		
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			also have this norm. However, if we have
		
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			a society where people are used to,
		
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			where people are used to just
		
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			harming one another
		
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			and, trying to get away with it with
		
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			lying and cheating people. Even if you steal
		
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			a napkin from, your local store or your
		
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			local restaurant that you're supposed to pay for,
		
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			or you stole a ketchup that you're supposed
		
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			to pay 10¢ for, anything. What is this
		
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			gonna do? Obviously, it's not gonna cause a
		
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			Sunnishia ride in medieval Baghdad.
		
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			But what happens is that if you have
		
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			a society of those 10¢ ketchup stealers, one
		
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			of them is going to become prime minister
		
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			one day, and they are going to cause
		
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			the riot. They will be the the the
		
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			sub above the riot, and everybody who,
		
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			you know, made the society where that was
		
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			considered okay or not a big deal,
		
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			they're they all participate in it somehow or
		
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			another. And the rifts that happen once people
		
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			shed blood against each other, they're not easily
		
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			healed.
		
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			They're not easily healed.
		
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			So that was the end of the quote.
		
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			Mullana Abu Hassan al Nadi continues. In the
		
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			eastern part of the Islamic world, the kingdom
		
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			of Khalazam
		
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			raised toward the end of 5th century, of
		
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			the Muslim era on the ruins of the
		
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			Seljuk Empire,
		
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			held sway over almost the entire, Islamic territory,
		
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			excluding the principalities
		
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			of the Seljuk Sultans over parts of Egypt,
		
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			Syria, Iraq, Hejaz, Asia Minor, and that of
		
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			the Khorees in Afghanistan.
		
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			Sultan Alauddin Mohammed Khorasan Shah,
		
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			who lived from 596,
		
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			Hijra to 6 17 was one of the
		
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			most powerful Muslim monarchs
		
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			or perhaps the greatest sovereign of his day.
		
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			Harold Lamb, the historian, writes in his famous
		
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			book, Genghis Khan,
		
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			in the center of Islam, Mohammed Shah of
		
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			Khorasan had
		
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			enthroned himself as warlord.
		
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			His domain extended from India to Baghdad
		
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			and from,
		
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			the sea of Aral
		
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			Aral dingus, to the Persian Gulf, or what
		
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			they call Khaleel al Arabi in Arabic,
		
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			except for the Seljuk Turk Turks' victors over,
		
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			the Crusaders
		
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			and the rising Mamluk dynasty in Egypt, his
		
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			authority was supreme.
		
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			He was the emperor and the,
		
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			he was the emperor and the caliph who
		
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			quarreled with him, but might not deny him
		
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			was restricted to spiritual authority like a pope.
		
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			Meaning, what? That he would quarrel with the
		
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			Khalifa and the but the Khalifa knew to
		
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			keep himself in check because,
		
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			he wasn't able to actually you know, if
		
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			the gloves came off and it came to
		
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			blows, he would not have been able to,
		
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			to to to to dance with, the Khorasan
		
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			Shah.
		
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			Muslim history so that's the end of the
		
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			quote.
		
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			Muslim historians have not mentioned any noticeable personal
		
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			laxity in the character or moral behavior of
		
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			Khorasan Shah.
		
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			On the other hand, they speak of him
		
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			as a brave and chivalrous ruler, just and
		
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			pious. But there's no denying the fact that
		
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			he spent his prowess and capability in subjugating
		
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			the Muslim kingdoms around his dominions.
		
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			In the northwest of his territory, he forced
		
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			the Seljuks to retreat to the farthest end
		
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			while he restrained the westward ambitions of the
		
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			Khorees by subjugating Khorasan,
		
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			and Mazandaran,
		
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			Kirman,
		
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			Ghazni, and trans,
		
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			trans Aksiana.
		
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			These unending wars of the Khorasan Shah had
		
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			nevertheless worn out his troops who had to
		
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			strain every nerve in achieving the conquest that
		
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			they had,
		
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			done so far.
		
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			Apart from the war phobia normally created by
		
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			the continuous warfare over a long period of
		
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			time, the conquest of the most fertile and
		
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			industrially developed areas had brought the capital of
		
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			Khwarazm Shah all that toil and labor could
		
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			produce,
		
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			along with attendant vices of opulence and luxury.
		
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			It is difficult to find any detailed account
		
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			of these social ills in the annals of
		
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			the time, which are mostly concerned with the
		
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			descriptions of kings and emperors.
		
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			Unfortunately, however, the treatises, and sermons, and monographs,
		
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			and discourses of the saints and preachers, which,
		
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			would have thrown a lurid light on the
		
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			subject were all destroyed by the Mongolian avalanche.
		
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			There's hardly, any reason for attributing the following
		
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			statement of of Harold Lam to his religious
		
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			prejudice or exaggeration.
		
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			He says, quote,
		
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			it was the, martial world
		
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			appreciative of song,
		
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			with an ear not unmusical.
		
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			A world beset by inward throws, slave ridden,
		
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			wealth gathering,
		
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			and more than a little addicted to vice
		
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			and intrigue.
		
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			It left the management of its affairs to
		
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			extortioners
		
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			and its women to the custody of eunuchs,
		
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			and its conscious,
		
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			to the keeping of Allah.
		
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			And, obviously, Harold Lam is probably not saying
		
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			that in a nice way, but, it's just
		
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			a way of him mocking, insulting stupidity that
		
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			he,
		
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			attributes to religion.
		
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			The sultans of Khorasan made the same fatal
		
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			mistake which was committed by the Moors of
		
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			Spain.
		
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			An unpardonable blunder under the divine law of
		
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			retribution governing the historical process.
		
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			They set about body,
		
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			and soul to extend and strengthen their, bounds
		
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			of their domain,
		
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			and subjugate their enemies, but they never tried
		
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			to diffuse the message of God and enlist
		
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			adherence,
		
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			to it from the neighboring lands which constituted
		
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			a world different from their own. Quite apart
		
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			from the religious fervor which should have diverted
		
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			their energies toward this imperative task, common sense
		
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			as well as political foresight too dictated the
		
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			same course,
		
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			which would have won over a vast but
		
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			hostile population to their side, and thus saved
		
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			themselves
		
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			as well as other Muslims from the tragic
		
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			fate which, was soon to engulf them. Such
		
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			were the conditions when the Mongols issued forth
		
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			from the steppes of Mongolia under Genghis Khan,
		
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			and swooped down upon Iran and Turkestan,
		
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			the eastern part of the Islamic world, like
		
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			a scourge of God.
		
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			By 656,
		
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			Hijri
		
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			Mongols had reached the center of Islam, Baghdad,
		
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			converting it into a shamble, fulfilling the Qur'anic
		
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			dictum,
		
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			and guard yourselves against the chastisement
		
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			which cannot fall exclusively
		
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			on those, of you who were wrongdoers and
		
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			know that Allah is severe in punishment.
		
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			May Allah
		
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			protect us all. And so one of the
		
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			things that Mawana brings to light is also,
		
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			another interesting,
		
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			I guess, point, which is that,
		
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			you know, people have this thing where their
		
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			jealousy between them causes them to be way
		
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			more severe on on on those people that
		
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			they, see as like them than,
		
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			those from the outside.
		
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			And one of the and this is not
		
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			a Sifa. This is not an attribute of
		
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			the people of Iman. Allah,
		
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			in his own book, he describes,
		
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			you know, the people he loves as being,
		
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			Izzah Al Kafirina wa Avila,
		
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			on the believers that they are they show
		
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			their might and their dignity,
		
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			to those antagonists of disbelief,
		
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			and they show humility and softness, meekness to
		
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			the people of belief.
		
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			But what happens is we have this, you
		
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			know, really messed up and really defeatist,
		
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			mentality that a lot of us have, which
		
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			is that if a non Muslim comes to
		
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			the Masjid, we will treat them better than
		
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			we will our own brothers and sisters, and
		
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			we will marshal and sally forth for them
		
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			a type of,
		
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			kind of, you know, twisted super hospitality,
		
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			which kinda,
		
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			like, comes to the verge of almost like
		
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			worship.
		
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			Whereas if a Muslim, you know, commits some
		
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			sort of error inside the Masjid, we'll never
		
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			forgive them, and we'll look at them with
		
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			disgust as if these people are rats or
		
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			termites or whatever.
		
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			And my point is not necessarily to treat
		
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			the guests of the Masjid from other religions
		
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			badly, but,
		
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			you know, when you look at them and
		
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			say, well, they're a guest and they don't
		
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			know better, so is a Muslim. And so
		
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			you should at least be able to sally
		
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			forth,
		
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			some similarity in terms of treating, guests in
		
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			the house of Allah Ta'ala with dignity.
		
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			And, when it comes to comparing Islam and
		
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			comparing Kufr,
		
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			how can you how can you,
		
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			compare somebody who says La ilaha illallah and
		
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			who Allah Ta'ala has put on a path
		
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			toward his eternal,
		
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			love with somebody who is, just they're out
		
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			of some sort of neighborly or political curiosity.
		
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			And, you know, it's good to treat them
		
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			well as guests of the house of Allah
		
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			ta'ala and explain Islam to them. But if
		
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			somehow you're able to find for them,
		
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			some sort of patience, and some sort of,
		
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			tolerance, and some sort of, almost,
		
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			love and hope, then why can't you do
		
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			that for your own, brothers and sisters? This
		
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			is very problematic. This is very problematic. And
		
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			so,
		
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			this same or some similar
		
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			sentiment to
		
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			this, also kinda takes over the hearts and
		
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			minds of kings and princes and people who
		
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			are in positions of authority,
		
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			where they start to see other Muslims, Masjid,
		
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			you know, Masjid administrators start to see other
		
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			Masjids as their biggest rivals, and put, you
		
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			know, mosque little, you know, too bit pathetic
		
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			mosque politics.
		
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			You know, mosque board members start to see
		
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			other,
		
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			you know,
		
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			important people in their community as their chief
		
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			rivals and
		
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			and as the chief cause of fitna for
		
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			them, and they fight over the votes for
		
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			of the same members. And don't you know
		
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			there's an entire Masha'allah,
		
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			population and his Rasool, sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam? Every mosque, board member can
		
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			go and open their own Masjid, you know,
		
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			based on their preaching of La ilaha illallah,
		
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			to the people, and none of them have
		
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			to fight over,
		
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			over a flock or over donations ever. But
		
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			what do they do? They they fight over
		
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			those things that are there,
		
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			and they look inward with their enmity and
		
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			their spite, and they look outward with their
		
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			love, which is really really messed up and
		
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			really problematic.
		
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			And sadly, this is actually what happens in
		
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			the Muslim world at various times. So Mawlana
		
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			is disgusted with, the Khorasan Shah's,
		
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			warring and feuding with with who? With the
		
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			Seljuks and with, the,
		
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			the Ghori's and with the the different, Muslim
		
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			states of that time.
		
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			And
		
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			his lack of concern with
		
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			improving people's deen.
		
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			And
		
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			that's something that's a state of affairs that's
		
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			there in the Muslim world right now.
		
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			Literally, there are countries why do I have
		
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			to take names? People are gonna say, oh,
		
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			look, you know, you're part of this side
		
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			or you're part of that. Allah is witness.
		
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			I'm not part of any of any of
		
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			these sides. I'm not with anyone. If someone
		
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			does something right and that one thing that's
		
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			right, I'm with them even if a thousand
		
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			other things they do are wrong. And if
		
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			somebody, does something wrong, I'm against them even
		
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			if they do a thousand other things that
		
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			are right. I have no lot cast in
		
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			with any government whatsoever.
		
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			But the idea is that we see this
		
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			as a general trend that, Ilhamasha'Allah,
		
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			the Muslim governments, they have this kind of
		
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			spite toward each other, and they treat each
		
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			other with, you know, this horrendous,
		
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			type of hatred. And even
		
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			the the enemies that despise them the most,
		
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			they're more happy to make peace with them,
		
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			and more happy to embrace them, and more
		
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			happy to bend over backwards in order to
		
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			kiss their,
		
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			kiss their feet and lick the boot,
		
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			than they would be in just forgiving even
		
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			the slightest,
		
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			slight real or perceived from their from their
		
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			brothers. And on the flip side, if you
		
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			look at Muslim history,
		
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			where is the Barakah that the Ottomans had?
		
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			One of the the the causes of Barakah
		
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			that the Ottoman Empire had was that they
		
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			were just a small Seljuk
		
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			vassal. They don't call, like, the, you know,
		
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			the Ottoman Empire is the the
		
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			Ghazi He's literally not called Sultan.
		
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			He's Usman Ghazi. And his,
		
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			son is Orhan Ghazi. They don't take the
		
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			title of Sultan until
		
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			later.
		
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			And they don't take the title of Khalifa
		
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			until many generations later.
		
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			They're what? Razi. Why? Because they were one
		
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			small principality amongst the Seljuks in Anatolia,
		
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			where where all of them were constantly warring
		
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			and fighting with each other. And for whatever
		
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			reason, Allahu Ta'ala put it in his heart,
		
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			Allahu Ta'ala reward him and have mercy on
		
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			him, that I will not fight under other
		
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			Muslims anymore.
		
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			I will
		
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			expand. If I'm gonna push my territories, I'm
		
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			gonna push my territory outward to where people
		
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			don't know who is Allah and who is
		
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			Rasool sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. And they don't
		
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			transact with any sort of justice, and they
		
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			don't have any sort of,
		
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			legal code by which people can live in
		
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			safety and aman and aman, and I'm going
		
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			to bring that to them.
		
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			And,
		
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			you know, people forget the fact that that,
		
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			that noble house,
		
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			it was a union of 2 people, of
		
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			Usman Ghazi and, his wife who was the
		
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			daughter of his sheikh,
		
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			Adebali,
		
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			Allah Ta'ala have mercy on all of them
		
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			and raise all of their rank.
		
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			And that's important. That really literally made all
		
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			the difference. And until
		
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			Sultan, Yavuz Salim, will
		
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			conquer,
		
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			the, Sham in
		
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			Egypt from the Mamalik,
		
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			they the majority of the
		
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			population of the Ottoman Empire was
		
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			non Muslims, and they were actually quite prosperous.
		
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			They were very happy. People would immigrate to
		
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			Istanbul. People,
		
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			people would immigrate to the Ottoman lands because
		
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			of the justice that was,
		
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			known therein, and the fair shake that people
		
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			would get there in. Some modern,
		
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			nationalist Turkish historic Turkish historians, this actually, they
		
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			hold this against the Ottomans, that why is
		
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			it that the Armenians
		
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			are making so much money, and this minority
		
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			is making so much money, and this minority
		
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			is making so much money in the Ottoman
		
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			Empire? I said, because this is the way
		
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			Allah and His Rasool decreed it that you're
		
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			gonna give justice to people no matter what
		
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			their religion is. That when they enter into
		
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			an agreement with the state, that the dhimi
		
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			has rights inside the state,
		
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			and protections that they have by
		
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			nodding the cap to the suzerainty of the
		
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			Sharia and the justice of the Sharia, and
		
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			that's the way it's supposed to be. So
		
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			if you have a problem with it, you
		
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			kinda have a problem with the,
		
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			We don't have the right to take away
		
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			people's property,
		
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			just because we don't like them or we
		
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			don't like where they came from. That would
		
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			not be justice.
		
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			And, similarly,
		
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			you know, in
		
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			in West Africa,
		
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			it was the same that, the the tribes
		
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			of our Mashaikh at some point or another,
		
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			they,
		
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			they took
		
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			an oath and a covenant with one another
		
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			that they'll never involve themselves with,
		
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			any sort of blood feud between Muslims. That
		
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			if there's any strife between the Muslims, they
		
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			won't pick up arms against another Muslim. Rather,
		
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			they'll try their best in order to settle
		
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			those things peacefully, but they're not gonna shed
		
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			the blood of another Muslim. These things, they
		
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			make a lot of difference. They make a
		
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			lot of difference. Now sitting here in Lombard,
		
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			you know, it's easy for us to say.
		
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			But,
		
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			unfortunately and fortunately,
		
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			you see Muslims are taking up arms against
		
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			each other in different places in the world.
		
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			Muslims are ready to beat each other. Muslims
		
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			are ready to kill each other. Muslims are,
		
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			you know, ready to talk about each other
		
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			in genocidal
		
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			terms, and it's really,
		
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			problematic.
		
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			It's really problematic.
		
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			And, this is something that we also have
		
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			to adopt into our mentality. We have to
		
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			teach this to our kids that when somebody
		
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			has La ilaha illallah inside of their hearts,
		
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			there are certain limits that you cannot cross
		
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			with them. Not with your tongue, not with
		
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			your hand, and not in your heart. And
		
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			no matter how egregious they behave and how
		
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			badly they are,
		
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			you know,
		
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			instead of
		
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			focusing on your hate for them and focusing
		
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			on your desire for their destruction,
		
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			just turn around and do something else.
		
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			Don't spend your your your time trying to
		
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			harm and destroy people. Yes. There are some
		
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			people who
		
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			who will be exemplary cases, and, we ask
		
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			Allah to Allah to save us from them.
		
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			And there are exemplary cases of nifaq and
		
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			exemplary cases of
		
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			of of treachery. And we ask Allah to
		
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			save us from them, and we ask Allah
		
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			to find a way for them to be
		
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			dealt with so that we don't have to,
		
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			stain and poison our tongues, with
		
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			speaking ill about them, and we don't have
		
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			to stain and poison our hands by, you
		
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			know, fighting them,
		
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			or by opposing them,
		
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			whether, for the word fight here is
		
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			real or metaphorical. And for us in America,
		
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			it's definitely metaphorical. Don't do ever do anything
		
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			that's
		
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			banned by state, local, or federal regulations.
		
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			I plead with you. But the point is
		
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			is what? The point is is that that
		
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			this is an honor to
		
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			treat other Muslims with forbearance
		
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			and to leave their hisaab to Allah ta'ala.
		
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			And if you think you're too good to
		
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			do that, people better than you did it.
		
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			The companions radhiallahu anhu.
		
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			The companions the Ansar and the Mujahidun used
		
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			to sit and hear the baqaas,
		
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			the complete baqaas and nonsense, khutbas of Hajjaz
		
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			bin Yusuf,
		
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			and they would be patient.
		
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			They saw the rule of Islam leave their
		
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			hands. They're the ones who fought in Badr.
		
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			They're the ones who fought in Uhud. They
		
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			saw the rule of Islam leave their hands.
		
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			It doesn't matter if you don't like your
		
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			local Masjid president or if you don't like
		
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			your, you know, whatever little small time Muslim
		
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			warlord, ruler of, like, a little statelet somewhere
		
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			or another.
		
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			The populace are Muslims, and all of these
		
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			akhawal will pass. If you don't like their
		
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			government, don't take a job with them, and
		
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			don't don't,
		
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			you know, spend your extra and,
		
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			your voluntary time in their support, do something
		
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			else.
		
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			But don't, let the hatred of another person
		
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			of consume your heart to the point where
		
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			you
		
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			see this hatred as something that overrides,
		
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			all your other senses
		
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			and,
		
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			and overrides all bounds.
		
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			Truly, it's a sickness. We ask Allah to
		
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			protect it from us, and this nafs is,
		
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			this nafs is a kutish. It's a dog.
		
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			If you let her take control of you,
		
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			she will ruin your entire din in a
		
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			in a orgy in an * of of
		
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			hate and of negativity,
		
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			such a destruction
		
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			that in just minutes and seconds, you will
		
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			destroy the entire deen and the entire effort
		
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			you did to make your heart, enlightened in
		
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			Munawar,
		
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			for so long. We ask Allah's protection, and
		
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			we ask Allah
		
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			and we ask him to be on the
		
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			straight path,
		
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			the path of those who he loved,
		
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			and not those who,
		
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			he was angry with nor those he,
		
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			let go astray.