Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Khutbah The Ark of Nuh alayhimussalam.mp4

Hamzah Wald Maqbul
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The segment discusses the importance of the book of Allah Ta'ala and the difficulty of court battles, as well as the importance of learning from the Bible and Sun- Messala's teachings. The segment also touches on the misunderstandings of shams and the "water well" program of Islam, which involves building a technological masterpiece and sending gifts specifically for the speaker. The segment emphasizes the importance of being honest and being a fullest imagineer.

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			Before we start the kutva,
		
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			unless you're
		
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			over the age of 70
		
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			or disabled
		
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			or injured,
		
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			Come forward.
		
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			So the description of the munafiqeen in the
		
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			Quran,
		
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			It's like they're just wood stacked on wood.
		
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			So you see, like, people's wood sheds, there's
		
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			wood stacked back against the wall. Of course,
		
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			if people are not able to sit up,
		
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			that's fine. But for those who are able
		
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			to, please come forward.
		
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			Alhamdulillahi
		
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			rabbilalamin,
		
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			was salatuas salamu ala Surihi Sayedina Muhammad
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			in the Quran only mentions the Nabi Sallallahu
		
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			Alaihi wa sallam's Mubarak name four times. You
		
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			only find the mention of the Nabi Sallallahu
		
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			sallallahu alaihi sallam's name, Muhammad
		
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			alaihi salatu as salam
		
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			4 times.
		
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			This is something that is strange and surprising
		
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			to many people, Muslim and people of other
		
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			faiths alike.
		
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			Why? Because they assume the entire book is
		
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			about him, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, and in some
		
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			way or another, it is, but that's a
		
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			different discussion
		
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			for a different time in a different place.
		
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			Rather the
		
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			who are named in the book of Allah
		
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			Ta'ala, the prophets who are named in the
		
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			book of Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala,
		
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			are mainly the prophets that people are familiar
		
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			with from the stories of the Bible. The
		
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			most mentioned prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam by name
		
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			is Sayidam Musa. May the peace and blessings
		
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			of Allah ta'ala be upon him.
		
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			He is mentioned the most
		
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			out of all of the Mbeyah, alayhi, musalatu
		
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			al salam, and there's a hikma in that.
		
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			There's a hikma in that. Why? Because Musa,
		
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			alayhi, salalatu al salam,
		
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			his story in his mithal is the mithal
		
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			of a nabi and of a qaum, and
		
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			of a people, a nation of people who
		
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			are completely
		
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			overwhelmed by a
		
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			materialistic
		
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			and merciless tyrannical enemy.
		
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			And our prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam is the
		
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			nabi of Aker Usaman.
		
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			He is the prophet of the end of
		
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			times. He is the last prophet, no prophet
		
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			will come after him. And there's a hikmah
		
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			in that because as the end of times
		
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			approach,
		
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			this is what the
		
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			state of the believers will be. That all
		
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			of the hard work, and all of the
		
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			construction, and all of the
		
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			building of institutions,
		
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			spiritual, physical, political, social, economical,
		
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			all of these institutions
		
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			Nabi alaihi salatu wa salam gave instructions for
		
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			the Sahaba, radiAllahu ta'ala, anhum, personally built. With
		
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			time, all of these institutions will be dismantled.
		
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			Some of them piece by piece, some of
		
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			them in one shock, some of them through
		
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			decay, some of them through our fault, some
		
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			of them through the planning of others. They'll
		
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			be dismantled. And the prophet
		
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			says this in his that
		
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			when the Dajjal comes,
		
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			it's going to be such a state where
		
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			he will overpower the people to the point
		
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			where the one who believes will will will
		
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			will go hungry, and the one who disbelieves
		
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			will eat. The one who disbelieves will have
		
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			a job, the one who disbelieves will enjoy
		
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			a quiet and peaceful life, and the one
		
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			who believes in Allah and His Rasulullah
		
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			alaihi wa sallam will be tortured and will
		
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			be not left with any respite at all,
		
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			not left with any respite at all. Rather,
		
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			they will be
		
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			of such people that when they pass by
		
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			the graves, they will look at the inmates
		
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			of the graves and say,
		
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			woe is me. I wish that I was
		
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			already in the grave. Life will have lost
		
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			its sweetness for those people. That's the type
		
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			of
		
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			difficulty and the type of test and trial
		
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			that'll be put through. May Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala vouchsafe us that we never see such
		
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			days, and if we're forced to see such
		
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			days, may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala give us
		
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			and give us firmness in our iman, that
		
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			that difficulty and that trial and tribulation be
		
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			a source of reward for us in the
		
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			hereafter,
		
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			and not something that steals our iman away
		
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			from us at gunpoint.
		
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			But we talk about Sayid Musa Alaihi Salatu
		
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			Asam al Firaun, and how they dealt with
		
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			each other, what the coping tactics were, and
		
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			the coping mechanisms that Saydul Musa had with,
		
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			with the overwhelming tyrannical force of Firaun at
		
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			a later time.
		
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			Because Ramadan is coming. Yes. Ramadan is coming.
		
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			You say Ramadan is coming, it's several months
		
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			away. It's coming.
		
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			A person who is going to do well
		
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			in Ramadan is the one who practices and
		
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			who prepares from today. Right now the month
		
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			of jamadulullah
		
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			or sorry. Jamadul Gukra
		
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			is is is well underway after it is
		
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			going to be the sacred month of Rajab,
		
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			which is sacred month. It's a sunnah of
		
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			the Prophet
		
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			to fast and increase one's good deeds in
		
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			the sacred months. The month after that, Shaban.
		
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			Say that,
		
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			she narrates that she never saw the messenger
		
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			of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
		
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			fast an entire month
		
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			outside of Ramadan other than Shaban.
		
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			This is how the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
		
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			and his companions used to prepare.
		
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			So we prepare also by looking at themes
		
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			of the Quran because Ramadan is the
		
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			from amongst those people of hard determination,
		
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			from the Anbiya alayhi muslim,
		
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			whose determination is an inspiration to us, is
		
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			what? Sayyidina Nuh alaihis salatu alsalam, who is
		
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			mentioned in several surahs of the Quran, and
		
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			who also receives a surah that he is
		
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			himself named after. And we derive several lessons
		
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			from his. Example,
		
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			alayhi
		
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			salam.
		
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			Who is referred to in the English language
		
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			as Noah.
		
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			The story is very simple, and many people,
		
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			because of the simplicity of the story,
		
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			they gloss over it without paying too much
		
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			attention.
		
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			They said, yes. He came, he told people
		
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			to enter the din, they didn't. He built
		
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			a ship, a flood came in, wiped everybody
		
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			out, and he survived. In fact, the story
		
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			seems almost a bit comical to many people.
		
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			Why? Because it's
		
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			almost unbelievable.
		
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			It's almost unbelievable.
		
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			But the story of my friends is something
		
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			that is deep, and is something that has
		
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			much benefit that you and I will learn
		
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			from. Why? Because it's something that occurs again
		
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			and again in our lifetimes.
		
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			The reason that Sayyidina Nuh
		
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			story seems fantastic is because it occurs on,
		
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			or seemingly occurs on a world level.
		
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			That some someone comes and makes a claim,
		
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			and that claim is true, and nobody follows
		
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			it, and the entire world is destroyed because
		
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			of that. Now, as a side note, the
		
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			mufasirreen
		
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			of the Quran, the people who
		
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			make tafsir of the Quran and people who
		
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			interpret the Quran, they say that there's no
		
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			part of our aqeedah which requires a person
		
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			to believe that the flood of say say,
		
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			Saytanou alaihis salatu wa sama is a world
		
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			flood.
		
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			It's possible that it was local and it
		
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			just wiped out his palm, and that there
		
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			are other places in the world where people
		
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			didn't even hear about it or know about
		
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			it. This is a possibility. There's nothing
		
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			that suggest that that that a person who
		
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			doesn't believe that flood was a world flood
		
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			is not a Muslim. And further than that,
		
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			there are certain that may suggest that. But
		
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			by and large, the overwhelming majority of the
		
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			ulama
		
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			seem to, at very at the very minimum,
		
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			lean toward the flood being a world flood
		
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			that destroyed everybody other than sayt Anu and
		
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			those he carried with him on his ark.
		
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			And the story is, something that's amazing, it's
		
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			something that's epic. Right? There's
		
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			movies made about these things, by the way,
		
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			as a side note. To watch those movies
		
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			is completely haram. Islam, first of all, forbids
		
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			the physical depiction of any,
		
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			any of the Anbiya
		
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			to Islam,
		
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			and Islam also forbids the depiction of a
		
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			Muslim as a kafir, or a kafir as
		
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			a Muslim.
		
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			So what would it be to have a
		
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			kafir play a nabi?
		
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			It's completely,
		
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			it's something completely
		
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			far fetched, and something that's almost a blasphemy
		
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			in our, in our faith. And what's more
		
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			than that, if you're going to go and
		
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			learn your deen from, Hollywood,
		
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			Because everything a nebbi does is infallible. It's
		
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			everything a nebbi does, it's an that all
		
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			you're doing is putting your own iman into
		
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			fitna. All you're doing is putting your own
		
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			iman into a trial and tribulation.
		
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			Because you'll see things that are not true
		
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			on that screen, and then afterward you'll associate
		
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			them. Either you'll associate true untrue things with
		
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			a nabi of Allah
		
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			which
		
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			is a a a grave sin. In some
		
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			cases, it could be kufr. It can steal
		
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			your iman from you. And on the flip
		
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			side, something may be true, and you say,
		
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			oh, it's just a movie, and you don't
		
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			have tahdig, and that's also
		
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			an equal peril.
		
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			But forgetting the movie and coming back to
		
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			what? The book of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
		
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			the sunnah of the Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
		
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			In the Quran, it comes that say, Nanu
		
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			called his people
		
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			toward
		
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			toward what? Toward the worship of 1 God
		
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			for over
		
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			950 years. For 950 years, he is message,
		
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			he was sent, he lived a life after
		
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			that,
		
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			he was sent as a messenger for 950
		
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			years to his people. He lived a life
		
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			after that, and he lived a life before
		
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			that.
		
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			Knows best. But
		
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			it seems from the siak of the Quran,
		
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			the majority of the,
		
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			Sahaba radiAllahu ta'ala Anhum, not the Sahaba radiAllahu
		
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			a majority of them received their nabuh. They
		
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			received their prophethood when? At the age of
		
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			40 or something close to that. They received
		
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			their nabuh when they became grown men, not
		
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			when, not not before that. So you have
		
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			950
		
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			plus 40 plus some amount of life that
		
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			Sayyidina
		
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			Muhammad must have lived afterward. So he has
		
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			an extremely long life. But what we wanna
		
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			focus on is what? The 950 years of
		
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			work that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala put upon
		
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			him. Now anybody who has gone to a
		
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			gathering of family, or a gathering of
		
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			of friends or a gathering of relatives
		
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			and tried to do something simple.
		
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			There are some of us who are blessed
		
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			with very pious families. May Allah
		
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			increase
		
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			them in goodness and in in in in
		
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			in piety.
		
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			The rest of us, the majority of us
		
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			maybe, the rest of us, if anyone has
		
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			gone to a gathering of relatives
		
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			and tried to say, Hey, you know, it's
		
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			it's time for
		
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			Why don't we pray? Only to be disappointed
		
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			that you're the only one who prays, or
		
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			2 or 3 people come with you and
		
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			pray, the rest of the people say, Oh
		
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			yeah, I'll pray at home when I get
		
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			home. As if this is an excuse to
		
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			skip the jama'at, at least for the men,
		
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			Right? Anyone who has experienced small frustrations like
		
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			this, knows how difficult it is to call
		
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			the people toward the truth.
		
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			And the people of Nuh
		
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			comes to the athaar that their shirk was
		
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			what? Their shirk and their worshiping of other
		
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			than Allah was
		
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			what?
		
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			Inshallah, in the back, in the back. This
		
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			is the It's haram to talk. If you
		
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			wanna talk, you can leave the masjid
		
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			Just if you want to enter the masjid,
		
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			listen to the khutba, sit down and face
		
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			forward
		
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			If you want to talk, you can talk
		
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			outside. The salat is like the
		
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			the is like the salat. Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala says in his book,
		
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			Right? When the Quran is read then
		
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			listen to it and stay quiet so that
		
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			Allah may have mercy on you.
		
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			The tafsir of this ayah is what? Right?
		
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			Is when the Quran is being read in
		
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			the salat. Is
		
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			for when the Quran is being read in
		
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			the khutbah. It's a commandment of the book
		
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			of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. If a person
		
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			has a need, and there should be no
		
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			need, just like there's no need a person
		
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			should have that while they're praying. You know,
		
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			they need to take their phone call and
		
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			go outside,
		
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			just like that. I mean, fine. If somebody
		
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			is dying, then go and save their life.
		
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			Okay? If it's something less than that, it
		
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			can wait.
		
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			It can wait.
		
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			And just like that, the is
		
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			is similarly to be accorded with
		
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			with respect. It's to be accorded with respect.
		
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			The rahma of Allah ta'ala comes to you,
		
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			and it comes to me for it. It's
		
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			not for the benefit of anyone else, brothers
		
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			and sisters.
		
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			So Sayyidhanu alaihi sallam, the shirk of his
		
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			people was what?
		
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			Was that they used to have pious elders.
		
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			They used to have pious elders that used
		
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			to make the dhikr of Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala. They used to make dua. They used
		
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			to make salat. There were people people could
		
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			trust and come to benefit from their piety,
		
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			benefit from their hikmah, benefit from their guidance,
		
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			benefit from their
		
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			from their good manners and their good character,
		
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			benefit from their knowledge. The people could benefit
		
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			from them. And when these pious elders died,
		
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			what they did was in order to remember
		
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			them, they made they made statues, they chiseled
		
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			statues that are of the same face, in
		
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			the same form, in the same body as
		
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			these pious elders in order to remember them.
		
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			In order to remember them. And this is
		
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			before in our Ummah, the Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam,
		
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			he says in,
		
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			in in in in Sahih al Hadith, that
		
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			in this ummah, whoever makes a picture, whoever
		
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			makes a picture of somebody or an image
		
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			of somebody, the ulama have a difference of
		
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			opinion about what the particular meaning is. Is
		
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			it the meaning for a three-dimensional object, or
		
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			does it include 2 dimensional objects of animate
		
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			life as well? Right? But whoever makes a
		
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			picture of something, Allah
		
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			will, on the day of judgment,
		
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			task that person with putting a ruh inside
		
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			of that picture.
		
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			Just as if the person by making the
		
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			picture, as if they're irrigating the right of
		
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			the creator, and making a sort of mock
		
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			creation,
		
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			And Allah
		
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			is not pleased with that. And so they'll
		
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			be put in jahannam and asked to put
		
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			a rur into that into that picture, into
		
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			that image
		
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			that that that they made. And if they're
		
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			not able to, they won't be able to
		
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			leave jahannam, and they'll never be able to.
		
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			Who of us has the ability to create
		
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			a ruah from nothing?
		
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			And this is a mercy on this ummah.
		
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			This is why people shouldn't be too gung
		
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			ho about taking pictures of everything.
		
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			There's difference of opinion amongst the ulama, yes.
		
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			Malik considered the 2 dimensional pictures, 2 dimensional
		
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			images not to be what's meant by this
		
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			hadith. The Hanafi is considered to my knowledge,
		
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			we have Hanafi You can ask them as
		
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			well. But a great number of them, they
		
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			considered no, even 2 dimensional objects, even photographs
		
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			are. Some of them considered them to be
		
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			part of it.
		
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			But leaving the realm of discussion of the
		
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			fukaha
		
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			as a cultural matter, we should not keep
		
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			pictures up on the wall. We should not
		
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			keep If you wanna have a picture, have
		
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			it folded up. And it comes in the
		
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			hadith of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, that
		
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			the angels of mercy that protect the iman
		
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			of the believers, they won't enter into a
		
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			room in which a picture is up. Why
		
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			is this a mercy on our ummah? The
		
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			mercy is for the same reason that the
		
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			home of Nuh alaihi wasalam was destroyed. What
		
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			happened? They used to keep these pictures of
		
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			these pious people in their
		
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			in their places where those pious people used
		
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			to sit. Those places where those pious people
		
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			used to sit, and where these images, and
		
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			where these statues used to be, they became
		
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			now temples and places of worship. People used
		
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			to come and remember them, and then because
		
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			of that remember Allah. One generation melts into
		
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			the next one, and then what ends up
		
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			happening is,
		
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			eventually the people will come and and and
		
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			ask the statues themselves for help. If you
		
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			think this is something far fetched, these types
		
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			of things happen in the Muslim world. By
		
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			Allah's father, He's protected us. We have many
		
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			problems as a Muslim community in America. By
		
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			and large, this is not one of our
		
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			problems, and we thank Allah
		
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			But what happened was little by little, they
		
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			did this, they did this until this turned
		
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			into what? It turned into shirk. It turned
		
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			into something that they would revere these idols
		
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			and these objects,
		
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			to the point of worship and they became
		
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			shirk. And when Saydna Nuh alaihis salatu wa
		
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			sama because look at how shaitan works. Right?
		
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			A person is not going to just say,
		
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			look stone. I'm gonna start asking it for
		
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			stuff. Because if that were the case, that
		
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			the stone were able to give you things,
		
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			then a person would have asked any stone.
		
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			Why is a particular stone worshiped and another
		
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			one isn't? There's no logic or rationality to
		
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			it. It's a trick of shaitan that shaitan
		
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			makes a fool out of certain people
		
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			through certain things,
		
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			with certain things to the exclusion of others.
		
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			And so what happens is, when Sayyidina Nuh
		
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			comes and says to the people, don't worship
		
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			these statues, don't worship these gods. The names
		
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			of which are actually transmitted in the Quran.
		
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			Right? When he tells them to not worship
		
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			them anymore. Even though they originally were pious
		
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			people, those names were pious, the names of
		
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			pious people.
		
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			What happens? They say, Who are you? Who
		
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			are you to tell us what to do?
		
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			Our forefathers, we found them venerating and worshiping
		
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			these Gods before before you. They were more
		
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			pious than you were. They were better than
		
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			you were. They were closer to Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala than you were. You're jealous, you're
		
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			this, you're that. Shaitan messes with people's mind.
		
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			Right? Why? Because people fixate on details, they
		
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			don't fixate on principles.
		
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			The principle is what? That Allah is 1.
		
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			The principle is what? That they themselves worship
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. But the detail is
		
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			what? The little details are they were very
		
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			pious people. That doesn't mean that they were
		
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			just because they're close to Allah, doesn't mean
		
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			that they're Allah. And the thing is that
		
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			this sat in the hearts of these people
		
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			in such a bizarre way.
		
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			Right? There's a story, a small story. We
		
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			may have told it before, it's worth telling
		
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			again. A story of a village. There's a
		
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			village of people, this has probably happened not
		
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			once, happened countless number of times in the
		
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			history of mankind.
		
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			A small village of people that only have
		
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			one water source, one well, and, a dog
		
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			or some other animal trips and falls into
		
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			the well and dies in it.
		
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			And,
		
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			the you know, it happens in the maybe
		
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			mother of time, and the carcass by the
		
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			time the day rises and the next day
		
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			starts to bloat. So they say, oh, what
		
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			are we supposed to do? This is our,
		
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			you know, water we cook with, we drink
		
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			from, we make wudu from, we do all
		
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			these things. So, okay, we'll go ask the
		
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			imam. He seems like a relatively
		
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			intelligent
		
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			and and and and seditious figure. We'll ask
		
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			him, what what should we do? What should
		
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			we do about this issue? Imam says, what?
		
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			Right? Go read mukhtas al purduri. Take a
		
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			100 buckets of water out of the well.
		
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			Right? That's what just common sense. The water
		
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			ground water source will flow in and the
		
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			well will, by and large, clean itself out.
		
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			So they take a 100 buckets of water
		
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			out of the well. The well still smells
		
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			bad. Okay. We'll take another 100 buckets out.
		
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			Okay. They do it, the well still smells
		
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			bad.
		
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			Keep taking the buckets out, nothing is happening.
		
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			And then eventually the Imam asked, Did you
		
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			take the dog out yet? Oh no, you
		
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			didn't tell us to do that. Okay. Take
		
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			the dog out first, then take a 100
		
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			buckets out of the well.
		
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			Right? That dog,
		
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			that dog, it rots inside the well of
		
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			every one of our hearts. We shouldn't laugh
		
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			at them, say all stupid villagers. That dog
		
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			rots inside the well of every one of
		
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			our hearts.
		
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			It rots inside And once Allah gives tawfiq
		
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			for a person too,
		
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			Once Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gives one of
		
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			us a tawfiq to take it out, then
		
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			it's a whole new world. Then you see
		
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			all sorts of things and understand, all sorts
		
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			of things that yesterday were impossible for you
		
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			to understand.
		
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			This was the dog that was rotting inside
		
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			the well of the hearts of
		
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			the Khawm of Saydhanu Right? 950 years, they
		
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			couldn't take it out. 900 years, they couldn't
		
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			take it out. 50 years, 9 they couldn't
		
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			take it out. Nobody followed him except for
		
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			very few people.
		
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			And so when the hukm of Allah
		
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			comes down that nobody is gonna follow you,
		
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			nobody is going to listen to you,
		
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			they're all going to be destroyed. They're all
		
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			going to be destroyed. Why? 950 years, people
		
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			have children, their children have children, even the
		
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			children and the children's children, all of them
		
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			are. You know, shaitan has them set so
		
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			tight on this program of kufr, that even
		
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			the children, there's no hope from them. Whether,
		
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			be our protection, that our young people can't
		
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			learn from the mistakes of the elders.
		
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			What happens
		
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			what happens is Allah says that these people
		
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			are going to be destroyed.
		
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			You make this ark. Right? This is a
		
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			very strange commandment, isn't it? You make this
		
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			ark, they're going to be swept up by
		
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			a flood. You make this ark, take pairs
		
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			of animals that you're going to need or
		
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			find useful with you. Take the people who
		
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			believe with you, who are just a couple
		
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			of people, very few people with you.
		
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			Take all of these people with you and
		
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			start building the ark.
		
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			Now, Sayna Nuh alaihi salatu wa sasam, if
		
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			he's going to build a ship that he's
		
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			gonna take animals with him and whatnot, And
		
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			the ship is a large ship. It's a
		
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			technological
		
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			marvel. It's a technological masterpiece. There are many
		
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			pieces of technology
		
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			or many inventions that we have, including language
		
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			and including many other things. We believe that
		
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			somehow the theory of evolution and blah blah
		
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			blah that we invented them, they're not invented
		
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			by us. They're gifts Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			gave us. These are things that come from
		
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			Jannah that are sent down to us, to
		
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			our species that no other species is privy
		
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			to. Even though other species, many of them
		
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			are are are are stronger than us and
		
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			faster than us, and some of them even
		
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			have bigger brains than we do. Allah send
		
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			these gifts specifically for us. Just like that
		
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			through
		
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			through revelation, Allah showed, say, how am I
		
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			gonna make this ship, which is a technological
		
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			masterpiece for the age that they live in.
		
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			So he's, you know, taking the particular kind
		
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			of wood, he's sawing it down in a
		
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			particular way, he's joining the planks in a
		
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			particular way, he's putting it together. It's a
		
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			long project.
		
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			It's a long project. We're building like a
		
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			small expansion to the,
		
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			Iqra School. It doesn't happen overnight.
		
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			It takes some time when the masjid was
		
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			being built. It took several years.
		
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			You can imagine that this thing, this is
		
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			a technological masterpiece, and saying the noor is
		
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			not a carpenter.
		
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			Right? This thing is going to take years
		
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			to make. It's gonna take what? Years to
		
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			make. And Allah Ta'ala says in his book,
		
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			every time the mushrikeen
		
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			would pass by him building the ship, they
		
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			would laugh at him.
		
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			Every time they would pass by him building
		
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			the ship, they would laugh at him.
		
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			Years, they would laugh at him. And what
		
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			would he say? He says, this day you're
		
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			laughing at me, one day I'll be laughing
		
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			at you. This day you're laughing at me,
		
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			one day I'll be laughing at you. Now
		
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			this is not a just an interesting story
		
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			that Hollywood can make a blockbuster out of
		
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			and then we go home and back to
		
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			work again on Monday. This is for you
		
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			and this is for me. Every time you
		
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			had pain because you're the only one who
		
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			prayed.
		
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			Every time you had difficulty because you're the
		
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			only one who is concerned about what you
		
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			eat and drink. Every time you had difficulty
		
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			and frustration because you're the only one who
		
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			stayed after to clean up in the event
		
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			no one else did. You're the one who
		
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			donates, and you know everybody else doesn't even
		
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			though everyone uses the masjid equally. Every time
		
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			you do something right, and you feel frustration
		
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			about it.
		
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			Think of what your frustration is, and what
		
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			the superlative frustration of the,
		
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			prophets were.
		
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			What the superlative frustration of Sayyidun Nuh was.
		
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			Allah Ta'ala says in his book that we
		
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			reveal to you the stories of the other
		
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			Prophets, so that we can make firm your
		
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			heart. Right? So we can make firm your
		
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			heart.
		
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			Think about what that must have meant. That
		
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			probably decades he was building this ship, and
		
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			they were making fun of him. Now tell
		
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			me something, if you know the flood is
		
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			coming, and some
		
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			ignorant person is making fun of you for
		
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			building the ship, what does it mean to
		
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			you? What should it mean to you? It
		
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			should mean nothing. If you're a person of
		
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			sound intellect, and person of sound it should
		
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			mean nothing to you. Say, man, this guy,
		
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			this cat is out of his mind. He's
		
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			making fun of me right now. That flood
		
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			is gonna come, it's gonna kill everybody. It's
		
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			gonna destroy their crops, it's going to destroy
		
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			their businesses, it's going to destroy everyone. If
		
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			he doesn't understand,
		
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			if she doesn't understand
		
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			why this arc is being built and why
		
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			the ship is being built, that is is
		
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			his problem. That is her problem.
		
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			Sayedna Imam Malik Rahimuallahu
		
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			ta'ala said that the sunnah of the Nabi
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is for the people
		
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			of this Ummah, like the ark of Sayidna
		
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			Nuh alaihi salatu as salam was for his
		
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			people.
		
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			The sunnah of Sayidna Nabi Muhammad sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wasallam,
		
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			is for the people of this Ummah, like
		
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			the ark was for Sayna Nuh alaihi wasallam
		
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			because the flood will come and the flood
		
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			will not be the one that takes lives
		
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			or not be the one that destroys property,
		
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			rather the flood will be the one that
		
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			destroys hearts and the one that destroys the
		
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			arwah, the souls and the spirits of people.
		
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			And this is it's something
		
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			again and again, something born witness to again
		
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			and again. A young man came to me
		
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			who,
		
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			later on became a relatively dedicated student of
		
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			mine in a city that I used to
		
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			live in before.
		
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			He said to me, he said he said
		
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			he said, Sheikh, I have a problem. I
		
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			wanna talk to you privately about it. I
		
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			said, okay.
		
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			He said, we'll make a time. We'll talk
		
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			to him about it. He said he says
		
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			that, Sheikh, I have this problem. I go
		
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			to I go to college
		
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			and, girls give me a lot of attention.
		
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			He's handsome young man.
		
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			Right? So he said, girls give me a
		
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			lot of attention. Okay. What's your problem, man?
		
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			He said, no, no, no. You don't understand.
		
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			They give me a lot of attention, and
		
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			then they'll whisper things in my ear. They'll
		
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			write me a note that they want to
		
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			do something fash with me. And at first,
		
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			I used to appreciate the attention, and now
		
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			I'm scared because my father never committed Zina
		
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			before me, and and I never committed zina,
		
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			and I don't want to be a person
		
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			like that. I don't wanna be one of
		
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			those people.
		
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			I said,
		
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			this is an interesting problem. Most young men
		
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			probably would dream about having this
		
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			problem, but this is a problem. I barbeled
		
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			at the sincerity of the young man, that
		
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			how many people would come like this and
		
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			and ask for advice.
		
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			I said Allah, look at your sincerity. May
		
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			he look at your sincerity and accept from
		
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			you, your dua to keep you chaste and
		
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			keep you clean.
		
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			And so I told them, what what should
		
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			you do? Listen carefully. If you want to
		
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			solve this whole issue very quickly, listen carefully.
		
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			The sunnah of the Nabi sallallahu alaihi wasallam
		
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			is to grow a beard, not just a
		
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			goatee or whatever. That's the sunnah of French
		
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			people. Right? Unless that's the way it grows
		
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			on your face. That's how Allah created you.
		
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			But the sunnah is to leave the beard,
		
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			to let it go. Right?
		
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			There's so many different
		
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			that come in the hadith of the prophet
		
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			sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
		
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			And leave the beard, let it grow at
		
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			least until it's a fist length, and do
		
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			do me another favor. It's a it's a
		
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			a a a a a shial of the
		
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			pious people that they that they they they
		
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			cover their heads as well. Right? Some people
		
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			say, Oh brother, how can you tell me
		
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			about hijab? You know. I said, Okay. The
		
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			reason one of the reasons I feel comfortable
		
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			saying something is what? Because I myself have
		
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			not left my house without my head covered
		
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			since I was 18, except for probably 3
		
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			or 4 times at the max. And those
		
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			are out of necessity.
		
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			Once I did it, I once I did
		
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			it, I remember my older sister, she yelled
		
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			at me. She yelled at me. She said,
		
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			what is this? You pretend to be religious
		
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			and you leave your your your head bare
		
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			when you leave the house? I said, okay,
		
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			khalas, you know. She's she's a lawyer. She's
		
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			not even a student of knowledge. That's it.
		
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			The khalas. Right? I said, wear cover your
		
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			head when you go outside so people can
		
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			know that you're a person of deen.
		
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			Right? Cover your head so people can know
		
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			that you're a person of deen, and keep
		
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			a beard on your face. I promise you
		
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			people will stop writing you fahesh things and
		
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			saying fahesh things to you.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			He did it. He didn't grow the he
		
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			grew a small beard. He didn't grow the
		
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			beard to the fist length like I'd asked
		
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			him to, but he and he didn't cover
		
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			his head. But he said, what? He said,
		
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			I grew he calls me a month later,
		
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			he said, I grew a beard, people stop
		
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			talking to me. He said, Alhamdulillah, the girls
		
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			are not gonna be interested in me anymore.
		
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			I said, that's not the case, son. He
		
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			said, there's a different type of girl who'll
		
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			be interested in you now. A better type.
		
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			One that's better for you and that you'll
		
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			be happier with inshallah.
		
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			And that's what happened. Actually within
		
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			probably 4 months of that that first conversation,
		
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			he was married. He has beautiful children
		
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			Allah keep him, and people like him happy.
		
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			What's the point? Saytanu
		
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			built the ark, people made fun of him.
		
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			Who cares if they make fun of you?
		
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			It's your own najat you have to worry
		
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			about, your own salvation, because it's not funny
		
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			to drown,
		
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			spiritually or literally.
		
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			They made fun of him. The sunnah of
		
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			the Messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
		
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			is the ark of the people of this
		
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			ummah. It will save them. It will save
		
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			them in this world, and it will save
		
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			them in the hereafter. The number
		
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			of of of of of likenesses and similar
		
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			truths and examples for this are something that
		
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			we don't have time. We've already exhausted the
		
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			time for our khutba today. But there there's
		
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			so many. The point that we think about
		
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			is what? Next time you do what's right
		
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			and people say something stupid to you, say
		
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			what? Say what? Say the Nuhadayasawl
		
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			listened to it for 950 years. And when
		
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			the flood came, it wasn't funny. When the
		
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			flood came, the people who wrote the ark
		
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			were saved and the people who didn't were
		
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			destroyed. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make the
		
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			ark of the sunnah of the Messenger of
		
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			Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam an ark for
		
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			us and save us. Even if we cannot
		
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			follow it completely, even if we have just
		
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			a small amount that we can hold firm
		
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			to. May Allah make it our none of
		
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			our if not our arc, at least our
		
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			life jacket that bails us out in this
		
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			world and the hereafter. May Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala give us nisba with thee.
		
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			That
		
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			follow-up their way from this ummah. May Allah
		
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			make us people of understanding and patience and
		
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			insulate us from what the opinions of others
		
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			are, and open us and expose us to
		
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			what the what the what the commandment and
		
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			how Allah feels about us, and make that
		
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			the most important thing in our lives. May
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala give all of us
		
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			so much.