Hamzah Wald Maqbul – 29 1440 Ramadn Late Night Majlis Be Prepared 06022019

Hamzah Wald Maqbul
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The speaker advises not to rush into Jandrat parties and reminds people to pay bills and not give money to non-traditional people. They stress the importance of staying calm and not giving too much information, finding people who need money, praying for the people who need it, and learning from one's own experiences to carry out leadership. The speaker emphasizes the importance of learning from one's own experiences and finding people who need money. He also discusses the controversy surrounding hadiths and the need for younger people to prepare for events in the future. The importance of protecting one's behavior and shyness is not a praiseworthy quality, but rather a disapproval that stops people from acquiring knowledge.

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			That we reach this 29th,
		
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			night of Ramadan.
		
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			It's an odd night. It may be a
		
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			little Qadr,
		
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			so don't slow down and take your victory
		
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			lap yet.
		
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			That there are some people Allah frees them
		
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			from the fire in Ramadan, and that's every
		
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			night.
		
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			Even if the if it's tonight, then double,
		
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			don't slack. And if it's not, there's still
		
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			there's still some khair to be had in
		
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			this night, inshallah.
		
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			So don't don't start your pre Jandrat parties
		
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			just yet.
		
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			All of us
		
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			and a number of, I guess,
		
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			procedural notes. One is that
		
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			don't ask your imams and your mashaikh, is
		
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			it gonna be Eid
		
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			on the, on on Tuesday or Wednesday?
		
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			When they see the when they see the
		
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			moon, they'll they'll let you know. And part
		
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			of it is part of it is just
		
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			following the procedure.
		
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			It's just it's just following the procedure and
		
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			waiting,
		
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			not for Islam to happen on your schedule,
		
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			but to make your schedule conform to the
		
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			deen. And there's a lot of khair in
		
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			that. There's a lot of blessing in that.
		
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			And the the
		
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			oftentimes, the the desire to,
		
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			you know, the desire for to know these
		
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			things is not necessarily because a person doesn't
		
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			respect the Sharia, but it's because they're tense
		
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			in order to
		
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			do the good deeds,
		
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			that Allah has commanded them to do because
		
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			it's a burden, it's a responsibility, person wants
		
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			to discharge them and plan for them as
		
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			best as they can. But, Allah
		
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			in many places in the Quran even tells
		
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			Rasulullah,
		
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			you know,
		
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			don't don't try to
		
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			don't try to rush the process.
		
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			You know, it'll happen it'll happen in its
		
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			time.
		
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			And, having to have for that is itself
		
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			part of it's itself part of the deen,
		
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			and it it's a it burns. It's a
		
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			itself a type of,
		
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			but it's also there's in
		
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			it. And there's a saying amongst the Arabs
		
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			that,
		
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			that the person who,
		
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			who tries to make things happen before it's
		
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			their right time,
		
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			the punishment for that is that they'll they'll
		
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			be deprived of the thing that they want.
		
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			So don't don't, you know, don't,
		
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			don't don't don't don't don't try to rush
		
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			things, inshallah. Just be wait. Be patient. You
		
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			know, you can hit refresh on your
		
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			on your,
		
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			whatever,
		
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			your Twitter or your,
		
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			you know, your your web browser or whatever
		
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			on Chicago page.
		
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			And, you know, you can you can wait
		
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			for you can wait for it. It's okay.
		
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			And even people are, well, you know, you
		
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			know, one time they just announced after it
		
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			was over. It's like, okay. You read 20
		
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			extra rakas. Like, you you know, it's nobody's
		
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			house burned down or gonna die or, like,
		
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			it's not gonna kill anybody. It's actually good
		
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			for you, It's a nice thing. You read
		
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			more salat.
		
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			So, don't don't don't worry about it, and
		
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			don't fall in the trap either way because,
		
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			you know,
		
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			the astronomers are saying it's highly unlikely.
		
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			Well, if someone actually sees it, what are
		
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			you gonna do?
		
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			And on the flip side, you know,
		
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			if somebody didn't see it and, you know,
		
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			you you want it to happen really badly,
		
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			don't don't try to force it one way
		
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			or the other. There's kad in both of
		
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			them. The Sahaba
		
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			interestingly enough, they used to actually want it
		
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			to last 30 days And the messenger of
		
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			Allah had to,
		
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			had to tell them that the
		
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			that
		
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			the the
		
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			the the the the 2 months of the
		
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			2, they don't
		
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			they don't there there's no there's no deficiency
		
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			in them. Meaning that you'll get the prorated
		
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			30th day worth of anyway.
		
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			So, they they would want it not to
		
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			end.
		
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			For us, it's like, oh, lunch is so
		
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			nice.
		
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			So, you know, one way or the other,
		
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			just don't,
		
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			you know, just don't freak out. Just stay
		
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			calm. Stay calm. It's very difficult. Some of
		
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			us are very prone to freaking out. I
		
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			myself am very prone to freaking out.
		
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			You just gotta stay calm, get through it.
		
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			The same thing, Hajj, the same thing, everything
		
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			in life, your the of your children, that
		
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			every all these things people freak out about.
		
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			And, you know, everything is inshallah gonna be
		
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			just fine and if it's not freaking out,
		
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			it's not gonna help.
		
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			So, inshallah, make it easy for all of
		
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			us. The other procedural points which are a
		
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			reminder that people already know about from before,
		
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			make sure that you have paid your zakatul
		
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			fitter.
		
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			The
		
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			Maliki school, you can pay pay it up
		
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			to 3 days before Eid. And the zakatul
		
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			fitr in the Hanafi school, you're paid even
		
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			earlier than that. And, the zakatul fitr is
		
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			not discharged until it reaches the hand of
		
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			the of the poor recipient.
		
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			It does it's not discharged by putting it
		
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			in a mustard box,
		
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			and it's not discharged by,
		
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			you know, by by,
		
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			you know, just a transactional element of it
		
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			doesn't discharge discharge it. It's discharged when it
		
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			is reached in the hands of the poor
		
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			recipient,
		
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			the person who is a who
		
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			who's a recipient of it, whether they be
		
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			in your locality or around the world. So
		
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			make arrangements. If you haven't done so yet,
		
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			pay the money already.
		
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			And
		
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			optimum time for it to be paid is
		
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			in the on the morning of Eid,
		
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			after fajr and before the Eid salat.
		
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			And this is one of the things that
		
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			in the Muslim world, the beggars usually line
		
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			the the route to the
		
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			the and we don't have that over here.
		
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			You know? It's like a gift of protestantism.
		
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			They take poor people and they criminalize being
		
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			poor and they put them in stock and
		
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			pillory and beat them. And, you know, Rasoolullah
		
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			Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, allahu Alaihi Wasallam, allahu Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam,
		
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			so
		
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			that's something different about our society and our
		
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			our,
		
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			civilization.
		
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			So if someone ever asks you for money,
		
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			it's haram to say bad to them or
		
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			show them a bad face. If you don't
		
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			wanna give them money, you don't have money,
		
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			or you you if you have it and
		
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			you just don't wanna give it to them,
		
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			for whatever reason, just smile and say I'm
		
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			sorry, you know, or smile and give them
		
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			a dua, say Allah give you a halal
		
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			risk or something like that. And if they
		
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			make a face after that, that's their problem.
		
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			But,
		
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			you know, the the beggars used to line
		
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			their route to eat, then you could give
		
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			to them.
		
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			Obviously, we can't you know, many places we
		
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			live in, we can't do that anymore.
		
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			And it's not because poor people are not
		
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			there and that they don't need it, but,
		
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			we just, you know, made a crime out
		
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			of their poverty.
		
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			So find them and give them the money.
		
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			Or if someone collects it and distributes it,
		
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			then give it a couple of days early.
		
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			Don't just be like, oh, the it's best
		
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			to give it in the morning.
		
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			Know. That morning time is the best time
		
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			for it to reach their hand. It's not
		
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			the you know, if you can't get it
		
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			to them in that time, then don't, don't
		
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			delay it until then. And if nothing else
		
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			if you can't find someone directly to give
		
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			it to or you don't know someone directly
		
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			to give it to, then go online, Islamic
		
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			Relief or, another one of our dependable and
		
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			trustworthy,
		
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			Muslim organizations.
		
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			Pay it and pay, you know,
		
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			15, 20% extra on top of it, you
		
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			know, to cover their administrative charges.
		
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			Don't don't hound them while you take money
		
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			off the top. It's because they're doing something.
		
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			They're actually delivering it for you. And so
		
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			you don't have to go around, you know,
		
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			in the hood, like, in the middle of
		
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			the night asking, you know, who's Muslim and
		
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			how much do they make and that, you
		
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			know, you don't have to do those things,
		
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			you know, or you don't have to fly
		
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			over to a place where the the people
		
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			who need it are there. So just give
		
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			a little bit extra as well if if
		
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			if you send it through them.
		
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			Why? Because that is,
		
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			it is a purification for the one who
		
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			fasted in their fast from, Lahu and Rafa
		
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			from
		
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			idleness and from indecency
		
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			in the fast,
		
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			which makes it acceptable to Allah Ta'ala.
		
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			And it makes the for the poor as
		
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			well because,
		
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			this is,
		
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			a precept
		
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			that the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam taught us again and again, and he
		
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			himself will show it in the greatest way
		
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			on the day of judgment through his shafa'a,
		
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			through his intercession,
		
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			that if one of us makes it, we
		
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			all make it, and if one of us
		
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			is behind, then all of us are behind.
		
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			We we all lose. We all win, and
		
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			we all lose together.
		
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			And so
		
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			that that Eid should be Eid for them
		
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			as well. That Eid day should be the
		
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			poor and rich should all be rich on
		
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			that day.
		
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			Two narrations of about the zakat of fitr
		
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			that enriched them from have from the humiliation
		
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			of,
		
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			of having to ask or enrich them on
		
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			that day.
		
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			And then if you give that,
		
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			and then that night you spent it in
		
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			prayer,
		
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			for the brothers who are in.
		
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			Shame on you for listening to a band.
		
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			You should go back to, reading Quran or
		
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			making dua or praying. But if you are
		
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			gonna listen, then listen to this as well,
		
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			that it is a sunnah for whoever's HaTikaf
		
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			is connected to Eid, that they don't leave
		
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			when the moon is sighted. Rather, they stay
		
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			in their takaf until
		
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			the they pray the fajr prayer, and then
		
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			from there, they go straight to the
		
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			disheveled in a tikaf mode.
		
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			And this is a badge of honor for
		
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			you that is greater than the perfume of
		
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			the perfumed ones and the starched, kurtas of
		
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			the starched kurtas and the ironed suits and
		
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			ties and pants and, you know, $1,000
		
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			ouds,
		
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			of, pretentious middle class American Muslims because the
		
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			real oud is $10,000 total anyway. Anybody who
		
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			actually knows anything about oud knows that.
		
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			It's better than all of those things.
		
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			It's a badge of honor in front of
		
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			the Lord and those few disheveled and, disturbed
		
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			and sleepy,
		
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			ones
		
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			who gave up and made gave up their
		
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			comfort and made for the sake of the
		
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			lord in these days. When they show up
		
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			to the,
		
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			it's probably their, their that'll,
		
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			you know, make the day for all the
		
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			rest of us. So don't don't blow that.
		
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			Be one of those people because the rank
		
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			of those people is manifestly higher than that
		
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			of of the rest who benefit through them.
		
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			And, then you will be,
		
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			then you will be the manifestation, all of
		
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			us, them and us as well. All of
		
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			us, we we we will be the manifestation
		
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			of that
		
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			the person who purified has been successful, meaning
		
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			they paid their
		
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			and they went from their home,
		
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			saying the takbir
		
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			This is indeed you prefer the life of
		
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			this world even though the akhira is better
		
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			and it will last forever.
		
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			So we read a last excerpt, or possibly
		
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			second to last excerpt from this.
		
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			Under the subheading,
		
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			it is essential to know the etiquette and
		
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			principles of a position before ascending to it.
		
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			So we mentioned from before that
		
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			the love of leadership is itself a sickness
		
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			and a disease, whether it's the love of,
		
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			being imam in the salat or giving the
		
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			khutba or president of the masjid or political
		
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			leadership or, any any other type of leadership,
		
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			the coveting of it is is haram. And
		
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			we know that the actual leader leadership itself
		
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			is not haram because the Rasool was
		
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			the the the sovereign ruler and the sheikh
		
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			of this ummah. And after him said, Abu
		
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			Bakr Sadiq and after after him, the rest
		
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			of the and
		
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			a number of righteous people assumed,
		
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			all of those facets of leadership, some at
		
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			once and some in different parts. But the
		
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			the haram sin, which is haram like eating
		
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			pork and drinking alcohol, The sin is to
		
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			covet the leadership,
		
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			in your heart. And,
		
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			so
		
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			the the person who takes heed will, in
		
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			their heart, turn away from it. But, you
		
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			know, I'm part of the, and I'm not
		
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			absolved from its sicknesses.
		
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			And, I know my own sickness, and I
		
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			know the sicknesses of my people. This is
		
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			not enough. Nobody is going to take the
		
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			lesson from it. So if you have to
		
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			still covet being a big shot,
		
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			then,
		
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			you know, then know, these small pieces of
		
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			advice so that you don't damage yourself as
		
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			much as you would have otherwise. And who
		
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			knows, maybe will change something in the hearts
		
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			and, some will come to it both for
		
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			for for you and for the people that
		
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			you lead.
		
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			Every person wishes to ascend, to a certain,
		
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			rank, within the deen. That person must acquire
		
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			first the knowledge and etiquette and principles of
		
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			that rank. Said,
		
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			learn,
		
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			try to have understanding of the, of of
		
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			what you're going to do before you,
		
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			before you take a a position of leadership.
		
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			After a person becomes a leader or sends
		
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			to a lofty position,
		
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			shyness will prevent him from studying from anyone.
		
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			He will thus be deprived of acquiring knowledge.
		
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			And this is true. It's difficult once you're
		
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			in in control. If you say something
		
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			and any Tom, Dick, or Harry will come
		
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			up to you and correct you in front
		
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			of everybody,
		
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			it becomes a fitna then. Because if you
		
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			are not humble, then it's it should be
		
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			obvious to everyone why you're jerking. You're going
		
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			to drag yourself into the hellfire because you're
		
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			now being obstinate in what's wrong. But it's
		
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			difficult still because even if you want to
		
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			accept the correction from somebody,
		
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			the way political leadership works or the way
		
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			leadership works is that when you're,
		
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			the aura of invincibility that you have in
		
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			front of the people that you're leading is
		
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			compromised, then they're they're also they become lethargic
		
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			in listening to you afterward if they know
		
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			that you're a person who's gonna make mistakes
		
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			again and again.
		
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			And, a person who's really perceptive will see
		
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			if they see if a leader makes, you
		
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			know, like, accepts or admits a mistake
		
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			even,
		
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			though it costs them, like, some political position.
		
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			A perceptive person will actually know that this
		
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			person is doing it because of their honesty.
		
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			The problem is people are as perceptive as
		
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			a sack of doorknobs,
		
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			most of them, and you need the that
		
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			most of them to follow you in order
		
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			for your your leadership to be tenable.
		
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			Those few,
		
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			gems and,
		
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			rubies and diamonds and emeralds,
		
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			of people that are, like, perceptive enough to
		
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			know, who's honest and who's not,
		
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			you know,
		
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			they don't vote, you know, in as many
		
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			numbers as the people who elected Trump are
		
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			voting. So that's just you know? So you
		
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			have to learn beforehand because if you're gonna
		
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			learn on the job, you're gonna harm other
		
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			people through your stupidity, and your status itself
		
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			will, become a 5th night, will prevent you
		
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			from following the Haqq.
		
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			Subhanallah, what a valuable piece of advice given
		
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			to given by Sayedna Omar Radiallahu anhu. We
		
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			ought to embed it in our hearts. It
		
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			is related that he saw a person buying
		
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			and selling. So he asked him, did you
		
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			learn the rules and regulations of buying,
		
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			and selling? The person said no.
		
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			Said to him, first go learn the rules
		
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			and regulations,
		
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			then come to our marketplace.
		
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			And this is this is obviously you know,
		
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			this is a month, and it's not like
		
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			being imam or giving. This is just, like,
		
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			being a normal person, you know, learn the
		
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			etiquettes of being a normal person. Unfortunately, people
		
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			don't do that. So people would be like,
		
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			you know, on the tour you know, 27th
		
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			night of Ramadan, 29th night of Ramadan, Sheikh,
		
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			is it true if I marry someone that
		
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			I have to do this or my husband
		
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			has to do that or my wife has
		
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			to do this? And, you know, people have
		
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			been married, like, you know,
		
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			for years and they're asking these questions. Sheikh,
		
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			is it true that, you know you know,
		
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			whatever, this type of credit card transaction is
		
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			haram or not? And they ask after the
		
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			fact, we covered this in the 1st majalis
		
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			where we, went through the, went through the
		
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			Muftasir of Akhdarri. Ask haram to do anything
		
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			before you know the hookahum of it.
		
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			Uh-uh. So this doesn't, you know, when we
		
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			say leadership, I'm not just saying, like, if
		
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			you're a miral muminin, you should go take
		
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			Sheikohim that dar al Qasim. I'm saying you
		
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			should take Sheikohim that dar al Qasim. You
		
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			wanna be a normal person. If you wanna
		
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			be a real you probably, you know, you
		
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			probably need to cut the Netflix out and
		
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			and and learn a couple of things before
		
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			you before you, aspire to that. Or even
		
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			having your idea of the heart that you're
		
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			gonna be able to help anyone without knowing
		
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			that knowledge. So it applies to all departments
		
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			of life, including education and training,
		
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			establishing a bond with a Sheikh,
		
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			calling people to Allah and reminding the Muslims
		
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			about their deen.
		
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			The etiquette and rules of all of these
		
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			have to be learned first in order to
		
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			carry them out correctly.
		
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			Saidna Hisham
		
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			said my father
		
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			used to assemble the people and say to
		
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			them. So Hisham bin Hisham bin Urwa is
		
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			is one of the
		
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			great narrators of hadith. Arwa is Arwa Zubair.
		
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			He's one of the
		
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			of Medina. He's the younger brother of Abdullah
		
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			bin Zubair, but he was born after Rasulullah
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wa sallam passed through this world.
		
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			So his elder brother was a Sahabi, and
		
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			he's not a Sahabi.
		
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			And Hisham bin Arwa narrates from his father
		
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			what's the specialty of his father.
		
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			His
		
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			father, is a nephew of Saida Aisha. Right?
		
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			Because Saida Aisha,
		
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			her sister
		
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			was Asma bint Abi Bakr
		
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			was married to Zubair bin Awam. So is
		
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			her nephew, therefore her Maharam.
		
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			So she taught him Deen herself and she
		
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			taught him the hadith of the prophet sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam herself. And you know, Sidha
		
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			Aisha radiAllahu anha is one of the 4
		
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			one of the 4, hadith narrators that narrate
		
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			in a
		
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			hadith in a volume, that is disproportionately large
		
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			compared to the other hadith narrators because she
		
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			had such a long life after
		
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			Rasulullah and she saw him from so close,
		
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			and she saw those things about his life
		
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			that other people didn't see. And Hisham is
		
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			one of the one of the main narrators
		
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			from her. This is one of the reasons
		
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			that, you know, this whole thing about the
		
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			age of Sayeda Aisha
		
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			at the time she married the prophet sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam, she was 7, and when
		
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			the marriage was consummated, she was 9. Now
		
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			this is something people freak out about, and
		
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			I agree it's culturally, it's not it's not
		
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			normal where we we live.
		
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			But a couple of things. One, it was
		
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			culturally normal in that time, and nobody seemed
		
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			to have complained about it.
		
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			And,
		
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			Sayeda Aisha lived a long time after the
		
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			prophet
		
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			and she used to dissent with the opinions
		
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			of of of Sayida Umar and with her
		
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			own father too
		
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			after the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam left
		
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			this world.
		
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			So she had every chance to complain about
		
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			it, and she never uttered even a tangential
		
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			complaint.
		
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			Saying the Umrah, she would she would she
		
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			would
		
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			dissent with his opinion, and he would he
		
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			would not have the jur'a to say anything
		
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			to her.
		
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			And that Saidin Amr alayahu anhu.
		
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			And so, it's it's a fact. And even
		
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			the mushrikeen of Quraysh never said anything. They
		
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			objected a lot about a lot of things
		
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			the prophet
		
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			did, but this was something they never objected.
		
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			Like, they objected about his his marriage
		
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			to Zaynab bin to Jahsh after,
		
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			after Zayd bin Harifa, his adopted son, had
		
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			divorced her,
		
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			that the Messenger of Allah
		
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			married her
		
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			at the command of Allah ta'ala
		
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			through the nasa of the Quran
		
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			and not by his own doing.
		
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			And,
		
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			they they really they really objected to it.
		
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			They said, look, he's marrying his daughter. He's
		
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			he's he's he's marrying his daughter-in-law. He's married
		
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			his daughter-in-law.
		
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			Allah says, he's not his
		
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			daughter-in-law. Zayd was not his son. He was,
		
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			he was a
		
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			a a boy that he raised,
		
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			but he wasn't his biological son.
		
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			So they objected to that, but nobody ever
		
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			objected to say the high fat
		
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			And the reason this is something to bring
		
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			up
		
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			because a lot of people say, oh, look.
		
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			There's so many different opinions. I'll pick the
		
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			one that makes me happy. They you know,
		
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			this is like a methodology for for many
		
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			people in their fit as well, which is
		
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			not a rationally, it's not a very robust
		
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			methodology, although it is very convenient
		
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			or seemingly convenient at times. The problem is
		
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			what? Guess who narrates the the hadith about
		
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			the ages of the the
		
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			at the time of her marriage and consummation?
		
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			Well, she narrates it. Guess who narrates it
		
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			narrates it from her?
		
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			I don't know. Yeah. Orwa.
		
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			And Hisham narrates it from his father
		
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			in Bukhari.
		
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			So, basically, if if he doesn't understand the
		
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			hadith of
		
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			nobody does. So it's actually just a a
		
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			thought in the entire science of hadith.
		
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			And,
		
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			we don't need, you know, people to come
		
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			afterward and tell us, you know, that whether
		
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			our Aslaf knew what the prophet did or
		
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			said,
		
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			they they knew, hamdullah, just fine. It's us
		
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			that we're we're concerned with. So at any
		
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			rate, Hisham bin
		
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			said, my father,
		
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			he used to assemble us and say, oh
		
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			my children,
		
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			acquire knowledge because while you may be juniors
		
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			today, there will be a time when you
		
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			will be appointed as seniors and leaders.
		
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			He says, oh, my children,
		
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			acquire knowledge because while you may be juniors
		
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			today, there will be a time when you
		
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			will be appointed as seniors and leaders. Something
		
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			similar to this is reported about Said Abdallah
		
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			bin Abbas
		
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			as well, that he used to sit and
		
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			learn,
		
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			learn from the elders of the Sahaba
		
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			and people would be like, why, you know,
		
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			what's the point? You know, why are you
		
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			learning all of this stuff? All Abu Bakr
		
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			is still there, Umars, they're all still there
		
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			And and,
		
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			and that same person will say then, I
		
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			saw the day when all of them were
		
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			gone, and then the only one with their
		
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			knowledge is
		
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			Abbas. And this is funny. There was a
		
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			there was a there was a visitor once
		
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			came to us from Pakistan. Molana Tamim, Mufti
		
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			Abdullah, Molana Bilal, a number of us were
		
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			all together,
		
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			and,
		
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			he visited from Pakistan to, collect some money
		
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			for his madrasa,
		
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			back home. And so,
		
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			I you know, we were taking him around.
		
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			We were everyone was in town for, like,
		
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			a retreat or something like that. And,
		
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			so we were taking him around, and he's
		
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			like,
		
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			you know, you guys are you guys are
		
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			you know, one day you guys will be
		
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			like the akabir and the senior mashaikh of
		
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			this, you know, of this country.
		
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			And then, you know, like, stupidly, I'll, you
		
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			know, like, I'll speak for myself at a
		
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			near, like, no, Sheikh. We're not worthy. I
		
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			say, we're not worthy. We're not worthy. He's
		
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			like, no. No. I I understand that you're
		
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			not worthy. He goes, that's everyone knows that.
		
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			He goes, but whether you like it or
		
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			not, however worthy or unworthy you are, it's
		
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			still gonna happen anyway. You may as well
		
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			prepare for it.
		
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			And and that's the thing is, you know,
		
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			this is not I don't think this is
		
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			takavor. You know? Tomorrow, there's an eventuality.
		
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			Tomorrow is gonna happen,
		
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			and some of us may not live to
		
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			see it. But, you know, probably,
		
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			the younger ones will see it tomorrow that
		
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			the elders won't see.
		
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			So the ones who prepare for that that
		
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			day, not out of wish to put themselves
		
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			forward,
		
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			but just so that the knowledge and the
		
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			piety and the practice doesn't and the how,
		
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			the doesn't get snuffed out before that tomorrow
		
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			comes. That person has hoped that they'll receive
		
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			some reward for it. Not because they wanna
		
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			push themselves forward, but because they just want
		
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			to guard that thing, for for the eventuality
		
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			that that statistically speaking, the elders will probably
		
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			leave before the youngers will. And so the
		
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			people who are a little bit younger should
		
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			take from their elders.
		
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			You know, you should do these things. You
		
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			do your and connect it with the day
		
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			of Eid. Why? Because if you you know,
		
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			when the elders are gone, if you don't
		
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			do it, then nobody else is gonna do
		
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			it because nobody's gonna be impressed with it
		
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			today. But one day then, you know, the
		
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			kids are gonna look at you like, you
		
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			look at, you know, you look at all
		
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			the babas nowadays, and
		
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			that day, you know,
		
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			that's gonna be all we have as an
		
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			oomah, better or worse.
		
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			Just imagine how humiliated that sheikh and senior
		
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			will feel despite people revering him when he's
		
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			asked a question and he cannot give an
		
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			answer because of his ignorance.
		
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			Allah Allah forgive us and give us tofiq
		
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			still the benefit from our elders while we're
		
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			still there. Is here and our, Sheikh and
		
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			our other elders, they're all still here. We
		
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			can still travel to different parts of the
		
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			world and see our our and
		
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			and and,
		
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			see the, and the,
		
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			and we should take from them because the
		
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			day will come where, you know, our memories
		
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			will be the only thing left of them,
		
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			in the world,
		
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			if Allah gives us life till then.
		
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			Every leadership
		
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			every leadership that has no knowledge in it
		
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			has more humiliation in it than sitting in
		
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			garbage,
		
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			than sitting in Kanesa, than sitting in the
		
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			Kanesa.
		
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			The same word.
		
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			Right?
		
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			I find it I find it appropriate,
		
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			to quote an important subject
		
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			which was presented by,
		
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			Sheikh Muslikhul Ummah, the Sheikh of the the
		
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			the author.
		
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			He says, now that I've grown so old
		
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			and realized there's no time to acquire anything,
		
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			I've come to realize the thing the thing
		
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			that prevents man from acquiring excellence in everything
		
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			in anything is his pride.
		
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			After all, this is what prevents him from
		
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			humbling himself before an expert.
		
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			We get experts in every era, from whom
		
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			we can acquire
		
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			expertise. However, pride prevents people from humbling themselves
		
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			before such people.
		
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			Consequently, they will acquire nothing and remain totally
		
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			ignorant. When a person leaves aside his pride
		
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			and his haughtiness, he's able to acquire something.
		
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			The famous, saying is that water flows to
		
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			the low lying area. It flows from up
		
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			to down.
		
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			Imam Bukhari
		
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			writes under the chapter,
		
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			the chapter regarding shyness and and and and,
		
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			in knowledge.
		
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			A shy person and a proud person, those
		
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			are 2 people who will never be able
		
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			to acquire knowledge. The shy person will be
		
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			blocked by their shyness and their proud person
		
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			by their arrogance. Said the Aisha radiAllahu ta'ala
		
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			and has said, how excellent are the women
		
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			of the Ansar?
		
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			Their shyness did not prevent them from acquiring
		
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			understanding of the deen,
		
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			meaning that they would ask questions,
		
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			about personal things, like, you know, about the
		
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			menses, like, when does it start, when does
		
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			it end.
		
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			You guys are not
		
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			you know, or, like, you know, you you
		
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			probably even if you sat in a fit
		
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			class, it would go in one ear while
		
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			out the other. Then once you get married,
		
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			you're like, shit. Does the period start at
		
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			this time? Or that you
		
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			know?
		
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			But yeah. You know what I mean? But
		
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			but the the the ladies, you know, they
		
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			were not they were they were not shy
		
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			even though those are very personal questions, but
		
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			they were not shy. Why? Because it's part
		
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			of the deen to ask those questions. And
		
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			so the prophet would have said, Aisha,
		
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			answered them for her. And so she she
		
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			she praised them. She said, how wonderful are
		
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			the, are the women of deen? Their shyness
		
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			did not, prevent them from acquiring knowledge.
		
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			The statement of
		
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			is based on, absolute wisdom and insight.
		
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			It ought to spur,
		
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			women to study deen and acquire understanding of
		
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			it.
		
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			Men
		
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			too, Hamza adds. Women must set aside their
		
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			customary shyness and modesty and acquire knowledge of
		
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			deen while preserving their chastity and purity.
		
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			The objective of is
		
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			to show that modesty is undoubtedly a department,
		
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			or a branch of deen and of iman
		
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			in an excellent quality.
		
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			Nonetheless, it must not be resorted to in
		
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			situations which deprive a person from good. We
		
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			learn,
		
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			from the above that knowledge is not possible
		
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			in the presence of
		
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			a type of pride or, on the other
		
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			side, a type of shyness.
		
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			In, his course of, the course of his
		
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			Sahib Bukhari lessons, the Sheikh Muslihuddin Muslihull Uma
		
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			used to say, in such a situation, even,
		
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			shyness stems from pride, which is a very
		
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			deep and subtle point. So even in such
		
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			cases, even the shyness stems from pride and
		
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			thus prevents a person from humbling themselves before
		
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			the person who has the knowledge that they
		
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			need. In a case like this, shyness or
		
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			modesty will not be a praiseworthy quality. Instead,
		
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			it will be disparaged, and we seek, a
		
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			a refuge from Allah most
		
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			high. So inshallah, we will, end our reading
		
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			over here. This book has a really excellent
		
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			section that it kinda takes a tangent from
		
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			here with regards to the,
		
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			the the the
		
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			Deeni education and Tarbia,
		
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			Sufik Tarbia of our sisters.
		
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			How how how it should be given,
		
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			given adequate attention.
		
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			And,
		
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			you know, maybe sometime we'll go through that,
		
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			but not today. But it's worth worth noting
		
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			that
		
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			and his,
		
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			Khalifa,
		
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			they gave special,
		
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			attention to the Tarbia women in a time
		
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			when it wasn't being given in in,
		
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			in the Indian subcontinent.
		
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			There were individuals
		
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			who who definitely were exceptions to the rules,
		
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			but by and large, women were not being
		
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			taught to read. Women were not being taught,
		
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			the oolum.
		
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			And,
		
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			you know, part of the reason for that
		
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			was because of the protection of modesty and
		
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			which I think is important.
		
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			And nowadays, I think there's an because the
		
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			pendulum extremism is like a pendulum. If it
		
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			goes too far one way, it will go
		
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			necessarily really hard the other way.
		
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			And, that's what's happening now is that somehow,
		
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			like, Haya itself is being attacked as some
		
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			sort of, like, evil, and it's not like
		
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			that. But there is a special there's a
		
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			special tradition that we have,
		
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			in order to preserve the haya and the
		
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			honor,
		
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			and the spirituality
		
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			of, the interaction between brothers and sisters, which
		
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			is not an impediment to their
		
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			acquiring knowledge.
		
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			And it's not an impediment to their acquiring,
		
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			sufic tarbia, and it's not an impediment to,
		
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			them
		
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			acquiring a high maqam in the deen which
		
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			they,
		
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			which is also their haqq, like it is
		
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			for every brother. And he actually used to
		
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			say that Aisha
		
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			explores a number of different facets of her
		
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			her state and of her knowledge and of
		
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			her instructions and commandments,
		
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			in order to talk about that. And it's
		
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			worth learning maybe some other time when it's
		
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			more appropriate, when the majlis is more appropriate.
		
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			Inshallah, we'll read those
		
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			those excerpts as well. Allah
		
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			in
		
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			this, 29th last odd night of Ramadan, maybe
		
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			even last night of Ramadan,
		
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			give,
		
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			give the the and the decision of his
		
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			father to come down on this and
		
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			to
		
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			every good that it it does to accept
		
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			it and to increase it and to augment
		
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			it, and every evil that's,
		
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			that that's harming it, that he his and
		
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			his, his order comes down that it be
		
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			lifted.
		
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			And,
		
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			every,
		
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			every thing that he's unpleased with, that he
		
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			remove it, and everything he's pleased with, he
		
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			increased it and that he write, that all
		
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			of the people of even
		
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			people in a state like ours, that all
		
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			of us, Allah Ta'ala,
		
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			writes down his command from his and his
		
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			and
		
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			his
		
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			that, that he, that he accepts us and,
		
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			gives us a good destiny and a good
		
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			faith,
		
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			and our families and our loved ones, a
		
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			good destiny and a good faith in this
		
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			world and the hereafter.