Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Khutbah Why Sunn Darussalam 03092018

Hamzah Wald Maqbul
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The transcript discusses the definition of Islam, including the use of the " admit" meaning "has been" and the historical context behind it. It also touches on the deification of Islam, including the deification of the "naive" meaning and the deification of the "naive" meaning. The deity is a group of people who believe in it in their heart and not based on nationality or race. The deity is a deity of a group of people who believe in it in their heart and not a place for everyone to live. The deity is a chain of chains and is a deity of a group of people. The deity is a deity of a group of people who believe in it in their heart and do not want to live in a world based on narratives.

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			All praises to Allah
		
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			and may his peace and blessings be upon
		
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			his servant and messenger, Sayyidina Muhammad
		
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			Islam is a very wide circle.
		
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			If a person commits a sin,
		
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			or even if they have, to a certain
		
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			degree,
		
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			incorrectness in their belief,
		
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			the person is not cast outside of the
		
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			pail of Islam.
		
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			Rather,
		
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			imam or faith
		
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			has
		
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			a credal definition,
		
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			which is that you have to believe the
		
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			right things inside of your heart, and it
		
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			has a spiritual definition.
		
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			Meaning that it is a condition inside of
		
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			the heart that is described in the world
		
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			of the unseen,
		
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			in the world of intangible things, in the
		
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			world of meaning.
		
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			Rasulullah described the
		
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			the the kefir and the condition of iman
		
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			in spiritual world, and the hadith in which
		
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			he mentions
		
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			that every son of Adam is born with
		
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			a black spot on their heart. Every time
		
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			they commit a sin or some disobedience of
		
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			Allah
		
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			that black spot will grow.
		
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			And every time a person
		
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			makes tawbah and repents to Allah
		
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			it will get smaller.
		
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			This is a disease that affects the heart,
		
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			but not the physical heart. It affects the
		
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			spiritual heart,
		
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			which is the seed of intention
		
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			and the seed of conviction inside of
		
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			every human being. That is what is referred
		
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			to in the hadith of the prophet
		
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			that there's a morsel of flesh inside of
		
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			the heart. If it is rectified, the entire
		
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			body is rectified.
		
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			And if it is,
		
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			fastened, if it's spoiled,
		
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			then the entire
		
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			body is spoiled.
		
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			Nay, verily indeed, it is the heart. And
		
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			the mention of the morsel of flesh
		
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			isn't what the heart is, but it's what
		
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			the locus of the heart is because the
		
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			spiritual heart is located in the same place
		
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			as the physical heart.
		
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			So this is the the the the life
		
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			of the heart. This is the spiritual definition
		
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			of what iman is, what faith is.
		
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			So it's possible that somebody's heart is 99%
		
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			dead and blackened.
		
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			But if there's even
		
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			1%
		
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			or a fraction of 1%,
		
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			If there's even a minute,
		
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			minuscule,
		
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			infinitesimal
		
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			amount of iman in that heart, that iman
		
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			that heart will be eligible for salvation on
		
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			the day of judgment.
		
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			However,
		
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			when we, as Muslims, practice our deen, our
		
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			goal is not to be one of those
		
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			bare minimum people who slide by. Rather, Rasulullah
		
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			salallahu alaihi wa sallam commanded the people of
		
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			this,
		
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			and said that al Firdos is the
		
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			the center of Jannah in the highest the
		
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			apex of Jannah.
		
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			Just like
		
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			Chicago people know that the Sears Tower I
		
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			don't even remember what they call it now,
		
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			but they call it something else. The Sears
		
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			Tower is like the the the center of
		
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			downtown, and it's the highest part of downtown.
		
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			This is it. That that that al Firdaus
		
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			is the center of Jannah, of paradise and
		
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			it's the highest part of paradise. So if
		
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			you ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for something,
		
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			ask him for Al Firdaus.
		
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			Meaning what? You shouldn't shoot for the bare
		
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			minimum. You should shoot for the best.
		
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			This iman,
		
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			even though it lives in the hearts of
		
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			a great number of people.
		
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			Even though it lives in the hearts of
		
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			a great number of people and were strictly
		
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			prohibited
		
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			and forbidden by Allah ta'ala alaihis rasoolallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam
		
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			of accusing a person of not having iman,
		
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			of accusing a person of kufr, of disbelief,
		
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			until and unless it has become rationally impossible
		
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			for that person
		
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			to have faith. Meaning, someone says, I believe
		
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			in a nabi after the prophet sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam.
		
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			Somebody says that, I believe in 2 gods
		
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			or 3 or more.
		
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			Somebody says that, I believe that, you know,
		
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			all of the Quran is correct except for
		
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			this part of it. At that point, it
		
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			is rationally impossible for that person to be
		
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			a Muslim.
		
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			You can have a suspicion, for example, that
		
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			a person prays and fasts but they are
		
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			doing it insincerely,
		
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			But it's possible that you're wrong. The benefit
		
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			of the doubt is given to all people
		
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			with regards to faith.
		
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			This is the way of the ahlesunu janaa.
		
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			It is haram to what? Accuse another person
		
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			of kufr. This doesn't mean
		
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			that every person who has faith is a
		
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			person that should be looked up to or
		
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			emulated in regards to Marj al Din. And
		
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			so if you read the aqidah of the
		
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			'arsunu al Jamaa, they have
		
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			a kind of like a chart. If you
		
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			conceive of it with me like a circle.
		
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			The widest circle is what they call the
		
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			alul tibla. Alul Tibla for our, masha'Allah,
		
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			young and budding students of knowledge who are
		
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			learning Arabic literally means the people of the
		
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			Tibla, but it has nothing to do with
		
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			I mean, it has it
		
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			has nothing to do with the tibla,
		
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			at least in its entirety.
		
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			It's a technical term.
		
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			It's a technical term that's used to describe
		
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			all of those people who meet a very
		
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			bare minimum definition of Islam, even if they
		
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			face the wrong qidla.
		
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			The
		
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			are what? Those people, you know, that that
		
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			are good, those people that are bad in
		
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			their Islam, those people that are ugly, but
		
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			they need some sort of bare minimum definition
		
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			of iman. Even if they don't pray, even
		
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			if they don't fast, even if they're, you
		
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			know,
		
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			not people who ever bothered to learn Arabic
		
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			or Tajweed or any of these things.
		
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			There's a lot of people inside of that
		
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			definition.
		
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			That's the periphery of the circle. In the
		
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			center of the circle is the target, those
		
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			people who are on their deen,
		
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			those people who are practicing their deen, those
		
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			people who conceive of the deen properly.
		
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			And so that group of people in the
		
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			center, and then there's it gets tighter and
		
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			tighter in the middle, but that group of
		
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			people in the center, that's what we refer
		
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			to as the alhusunu al Jama'a.
		
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			Alhusunu al Jama'a, the sunnah people know what
		
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			it means. What does sunnah mean?
		
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			Means the practice of rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam.
		
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			People don't understand what the word means.
		
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			Jama'a doesn't mean because it means literally in
		
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			Arabic language, it means like a congregation or
		
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			a gathering of people. Many people assume that
		
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			Jama'a means some sort of democratic majority.
		
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			That we follow the sunnah and we follow
		
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			the majority of Muslims. And it so happens
		
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			that throughout the history of Islam, the majority
		
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			of people who claimed Islam
		
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			always belong to the
		
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			at least in their conception of deen.
		
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			But the word doesn't mean the majority of
		
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			people. The word jama'a also, just like ahlutiblah,
		
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			has a very specific technical meaning. The word
		
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			jama'a also has a very specific technical meaning.
		
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			It means who, the sahaba radiAllahu ta'ala anhu,
		
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			and those people in every generation who follow
		
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			their way.
		
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			So if you read the history of Islam,
		
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			which unfortunately very few people read the history
		
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			of Islam, if you read the history of
		
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			Islam, you'll see the first heresy within Islam.
		
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			The first misguidance in matters of creed,
		
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			within the Ummah was that of the Khawarij.
		
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			And it actually happened during the lifetime of
		
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			the younger generation of the sahaba radiya wa
		
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			ta'ala Anhu. They were a group of fanatical,
		
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			homicidal maniacs.
		
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			When we say fanatical, we don't mean that
		
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			their faith was very strong. That's what fanaticism
		
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			means to the kuffar. Anyone who believes their
		
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			faith is really strong, this is so and
		
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			so is a fanatic, is a fundamentalist, is
		
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			an extremist.
		
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			If the faith is in Allah Ta'ala and
		
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			it's what makes you eligible for salvation and
		
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			what makes Allah Ta'ala love you, then there's
		
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			nothing wrong with having faith. There's nothing wrong
		
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			with imam. The more imam a person has,
		
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			the better they are.
		
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			They're fanatical. Why?
		
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			Because they twisted those beliefs that were handed
		
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			down by Allah Hisr Rasul huallahu alaihi wasallam
		
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			to the companions of the Messenger of Allah
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wasallam, and they made their own
		
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			interpretations,
		
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			like a person who commits a sin becomes
		
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			a non Muslim.
		
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			And that person, once they become a non
		
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			Muslim, they're an apostate. And once they're an
		
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			apostate, you kill them, and then you take
		
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			their,
		
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			their property, and then you enslave their family,
		
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			and do all sorts of other heinous and
		
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			horrendous things. And if you think that this
		
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			is something irrelevant to you, there are people
		
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			who think like this even to this day,
		
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			and they actually do these things even to
		
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			this day. And they're scourging the blight on
		
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			the ummah, whoever opposes them, Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala will reward them. Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam prophesies the coming of the the
		
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			to his Sahaba radiAllahu alhum. To say, no
		
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			Umar and say, no Ali radiAllahu ta'ala alhum.
		
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			He said that these people will come and
		
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			he described them, that they look really pious
		
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			and they look very fierce, and they'll be
		
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			hard people to fight in battle. And he
		
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			said that wherever you find them, you should
		
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			oppose them because they are the worst of
		
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			Allah Ta'al's creation underneath the cover of the
		
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			heavens.
		
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			At any rate, those khawarij,
		
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			that fitna actually was a
		
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			strong political force in the Ummah
		
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			in the early times of Islam,
		
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			probably for about a century almost, until the
		
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			rough riding,
		
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			tough general,
		
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			al Muhallab al Abi Sufra,
		
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			essentially decimated them in battle one time after
		
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			the other.
		
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			But Alumayyah did a lot of service for
		
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			Islam even though their tariq wasn't perfect. But
		
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			a person who has an isaf will accept
		
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			the good and will,
		
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			reject the bad.
		
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			At any rate, al Muhammed ibn Abi Sufra,
		
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			he basically decimated them as a political force.
		
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			But those people were still around while the
		
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			sahaba were there, which is the point I
		
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			wanted to make.
		
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			They're still around while the sahaba were there.
		
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			They used to meet with the sahaba radiAllahu
		
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			anhu in the Haram
		
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			sharif. Those people who rode in with the
		
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			army of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
		
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			in the Fath of Makkah, and by their
		
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			own hands cleansed the Kaaba and the Masjid
		
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			Al Haram from idols
		
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			and brought it back into the the the
		
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			condition it was during the life of Sayidina
		
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			Ibrahim alaihi salatu salaam.
		
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			They would argue with them that you don't
		
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			understand the Quran. You don't understand the deen.
		
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			This is what this ayah really means. This
		
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			is what Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam really
		
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			meant by this ayah.
		
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			What did they do? They co opted the
		
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			interpretation of the Quran. From who? From the
		
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			sahaba radiAllahu anhu. And tell the yawmutiyama,
		
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			anyone who does so, that person, it's a
		
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			sign of their misguidance.
		
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			If you tell them that this is the
		
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			maslak and this is the the way of
		
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			the companions of the messenger of Allah salallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam, and they say, who are
		
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			the companions of the messenger of Allah? Why
		
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			should we care about the companions of the
		
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			messenger of Allah? This is the madal, this
		
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			is the standard by which we measure if
		
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			a person is on guidance or misguidance. What
		
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			does the ahusunu janaa mean? They didn't say
		
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			ahusunu was sahabah because
		
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			the they passed away.
		
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			They're gone. They no longer are alive in
		
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			this world,
		
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			in the in the conventional sense.
		
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			We don't say
		
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			because
		
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			if that was what we are, then that's
		
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			done. That doesn't exist anymore. We say jama'a.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because
		
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			the sahaba were the first of that jama'ah,
		
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			of that congregation.
		
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			And then from the tabriim, from the generation
		
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			after them, those people who accepted their way
		
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			as authoritative, learned it from them, and then
		
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			transmitted them, they're part of that jama'a.
		
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			And then, in the next generation,
		
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			those people who took that message from
		
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			those tabi'im,
		
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			right, they're the ones who are the jama'a.
		
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			In every successive generation, there are a group
		
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			of people who belong to that jama'a.
		
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			Now, because the majority of the Muslims for
		
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			the entire history of Islam
		
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			subscribe to this methodology and subscribe to this
		
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			ideology,
		
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			Generally speaking, whoever is in the Muslim world,
		
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			whether that person knows how to pray or
		
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			not, whether that person
		
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			you know, knows anything about fasting, anything about
		
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			aqidah. Whether that person is a pious person
		
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			or an impious person, a righteous person, or
		
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			a not righteous person, we say that so
		
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			and so is what? A sunni. When we
		
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			say sunni, what do we mean?
		
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			We mean that that person is
		
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			adhering to the creed of the Ahl Sunnal
		
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			Jamah.
		
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			But the fact of the matter is that
		
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			this is you know, you're not Sunni because
		
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			of the country you're from.
		
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			You're not you're not part of the because
		
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			of the,
		
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			the the the family you're from, or the
		
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			race that you're born into, or the part
		
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			of the world that you're born in, or
		
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			the citizenship that you have. The deen is
		
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			not like that.
		
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			Hinduism has a caste system.
		
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			The ancient religion of the Israelites,
		
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			it had a caste system. Certain people were
		
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			from the priestly castes. Certain people weren't.
		
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			We don't, in Islam, we don't have a
		
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			caste system.
		
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			This is not based on nationality. It's based
		
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			on what? The person is a Muslim who
		
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			says
		
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			the time and they believe the belief in
		
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			it in their heart.
		
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			And this al al sunnah
		
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			someone says, well, why are you dividing everybody
		
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			by saying sunni and this and that and
		
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			this
		
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			blah blah blah. Why can't we just all
		
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			say we're Muslims?
		
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			The reason is we are all Muslims.
		
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			However, the preservation of guidance in this ummah,
		
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			which was the task that the messenger of
		
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			Allah salallahu alaihi wa sallam informed us would
		
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			be
		
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			upheld and discharged
		
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			by the ulema and specific by the ummah
		
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			in general.
		
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			That is a duty that we cannot shirk.
		
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			And there are certain people in the ummah
		
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			that have shirk this duty. They have turned
		
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			their back on this duty. They've ignored it.
		
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			Some people have even opposed it. And the
		
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			deen that was taught to us by Rasulullah
		
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			salallahu alaihi wa sallam tells us what? Because
		
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			the deen of samaha,
		
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			of what? Of of of forbearance with people.
		
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			I will send you the most forbearance the
		
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			most forbearance
		
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			way and the most forbearance,
		
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			way of following the truth.
		
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			Sometimes religious people become fanatical and they become
		
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			real angry and they get upset about it.
		
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			Rasoolallah
		
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			says that's not what I was sent with.
		
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			What I was sent with is what? That
		
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			forbearance way of following the truth.
		
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			Because of that, a person can still be
		
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			a Muslim but the person is not a
		
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			person of guidance.
		
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			They can be spreading all sorts of weird
		
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			ideas that are diametrically opposed to what Rasulullah
		
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			salallahu alaihi wa sallam said. And they can
		
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			be doing weird things
		
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			that are opposed to what Rasulullah salallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam was sent with. They can be
		
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			harming the other Muslims. Still the messenger of
		
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			Allah salallahu alaihi wa sallam forbid us from
		
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			saying you're not a Muslim.
		
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			Forbid us from saying you're a kathir. Forbid
		
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			us from saying you're a munafiq. You're a
		
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			hypocrite. Forbid us from kicking people out of
		
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			the pail of the deen. That if that
		
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			person, that same person, who's the most disgusting
		
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			person you can think
		
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			of, transacts in riba, you know, sells alcohol,
		
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			sells drugs, kills people, harms people, has a
		
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			foul tongue, whatever. If that person were to
		
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			walk into the masjid,
		
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			forget about pray the pray the salat in
		
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			the congregation.
		
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			If that person were to walk into the
		
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			masjid and leave the salat, there's no mufti
		
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			that would say that the salat was invalid.
		
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			Why? This is from the samaha of the
		
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			deen.
		
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			Because things that happened in the dunya,
		
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			none of them have any any sort of
		
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			comparison with the spiritual reality of faith that's
		
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			inside of the heart. This is our belief
		
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			as well.
		
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			That no matter what your opinion about a
		
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			person is, yomabdiya wa zuhadeep rasoolallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam narrates that a person will
		
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			come with so many sins that they fill
		
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			99 scrolls when unfrilled,
		
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			Go as far as the eye can see.
		
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			And there are some people who have a
		
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			bent toward literalism in this ummah. So if
		
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			you wanna be literal about that, although literalism
		
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			is not a
		
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			robust interpretive methodology,
		
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			it doesn't really work. And the ummah's, you
		
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			know, it came up at some point in
		
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			its history and the ummah abandoned it quite
		
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			quickly.
		
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			But if you haven't been toward literalism, then
		
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			know that your eyes can see like the
		
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			sun, they can see different galaxies.
		
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			It's a lot of sins.
		
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			99 scrolls, went unfurl,
		
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			will be filled with sins as far as
		
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			the eye can see, went unfurl.
		
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			And the angel will bring a small card,
		
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			literally the word is It's the word in
		
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			the modern language for, like, a business card
		
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			or for, like, a driver's license or something.
		
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			Right? That they'll put it will have written
		
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			on it and it will be put in
		
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			the other scale panel and it will outweigh
		
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			them. Which means what? You may not like
		
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			that person, but Allah loves them. So that's
		
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			your problem.
		
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			You may not like that person. You may
		
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			look at the ummah of the prophet
		
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			and say, who are these people? They don't
		
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			speak English properly. They don't have good degrees.
		
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			They smell weird. Their streets are messy and
		
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			they're filled with garbage.
		
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			They're horrible people. They, their marketplaces
		
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			are chaotic and unruly.
		
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			They don't know how to stand in line.
		
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			People say silly things like that, don't they?
		
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			They say, oh, look. We have Muslims in
		
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			America. But we have Muslims in the Muslim
		
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			country. But Islam is
		
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			in the Western European countries. Why? Because they
		
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			know how to stand in line. Allah ta'ala
		
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			sallam, his Rasool Allahu alaihi wa sallam to
		
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			teach people how to stand in line.
		
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			There are people who'll be standing in line
		
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			in this world with great order.
		
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			They're also gonna be standing in the line
		
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			to go go to Jahannam. Do you know
		
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			that? Otherwise, if standing in line and orderliness
		
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			was a virtue, then there would be the
		
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			would have come down about the Nazi party.
		
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			Because they're very orderly people. You see how
		
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			they march and salute, and it's completely a
		
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			a a spectacle. It's a big show.
		
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			Brothers and
		
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			sisters, the samaha of the deen
		
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			means that the circle of people that is
		
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			considered to have a valid iman is very
		
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			wide. It's even wider than people think.
		
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			And we are not allowed to transgress or
		
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			throw somebody out of that circle. Run last
		
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			week, run afoul of Allah to Allah who
		
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			brought those people into it.
		
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			However, that doesn't mean that all of those
		
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			people are on guidance and you want to
		
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			follow the way of all of those people
		
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			and you want to take your deen from
		
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			all of those people. This system is not
		
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			a system of sectarianism.
		
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			This system is a system that shows that
		
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			Allah ta'ala's mercy,
		
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			it outstrips the rules that Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala laid down for his creation.
		
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			The commandment of the prophet salallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam is not to try to be one
		
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			of the people on the outskirts of that
		
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			system. The commandment of Rasool Allah salallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam is what? Is that you should
		
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			try to be in this dead center. You
		
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			should hit the target,
		
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			in the in the dead center. You should
		
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			hit the bullseye.
		
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			That Allah
		
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			will show you in front of all of
		
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			His creation on the day of judgment as
		
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			somebody He's proud of, somebody He's pleased with,
		
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			somebody who's the first to enter into Jannah,
		
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			Somebody who did what they were supposed to
		
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			do and even better in this world.
		
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			What is the goal of Islam? The goal
		
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			of Islam is not to establish a caliphate
		
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			so that there's a policeman who write people
		
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			tickets for not going to salat al Asr.
		
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			The goal of Islam is not to what?
		
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			Build wonderful buildings.
		
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			The goal of Islam is not to what?
		
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			Make wonderful clothing. The goal of Islam is
		
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			not to make you someone that everybody loves
		
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			and wants to be your friend. If that
		
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			was the goal, even rasool Allah sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam failed in it. Even though he
		
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			was the nicest
		
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			person that was ever created, the nicest of
		
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			Allah Ta'ala's creation, the most beautiful and the
		
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			most lovable of Allah Ta'ala's creation. People still
		
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			opposed him because of
		
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			His sahaba radiAllahu anhu after him, they weren't
		
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			opposed by the mushrikeen.
		
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			The ones who lived long enough, they're actually
		
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			opposed by the umna itself.
		
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			Saidan al Khasayin radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, the grandson
		
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			of the prophet
		
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			Said, na Abu Lahiri Allahu Ta'ala Anhu, was
		
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			he assassinated by non Muslim? Absolutely not.
		
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			It's not about something in this dunya. It's
		
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			about what? It's about making it on the
		
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			other side. It's about when the angels open
		
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			the gates of Jannah. That same Abu Bakr
		
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			as Siddiq, the 8 gates of Jannah are
		
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			opened and he's called from each and every
		
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			one of them. That Allah ta'ala out of
		
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			his iqram for him, out of his honor
		
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			for him says, enter from
		
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			every any one of the gates that you
		
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			wish. This is your choice on this day.
		
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			In the dunya, you did everything not from
		
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			your choice but from my choice. On this
		
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			day, you enter the gate of Jannah that
		
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			you choose for yourself.
		
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			That process is preserved by a set of
		
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			people.
		
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			Those people are the
		
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			This is not a sectarian pronouncement.
		
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			This is also part of the deen. This
		
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			understanding that the two groups are are overlapping
		
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			but they're separate.
		
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			They're overlapping but they're separate in their definition.
		
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			This is also part of the deen. And
		
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			Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam told us that
		
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			the best of his ummah,
		
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			is is is my generation.
		
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			Then after that, the one who comes after
		
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			then then the ones who after that who
		
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			come after them. And he said
		
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			that there are people who will be given
		
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			victory by Allah
		
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			Why? Because amongst them is a nabi.
		
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			And there are people who will be given
		
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			victory by Allah because amongst them is somebody
		
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			who met a nabi.
		
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			And there are people who will be given
		
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			victory by Allah because amongst them is someone
		
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			who met someone, who met a nabi of
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			This group is still here with us. The
		
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			reason the hadith ends
		
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			is because what? A person who has intelligence
		
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			in their mind will know that this sinus'ah,
		
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			this chain keeps continuing.
		
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			However, look at us nowadays.
		
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			We have no idea
		
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			where did this beam come from. We think
		
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			that the Quran started in, like,
		
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			a print shop in Madinah Munawala or in
		
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			Damascus or in Cairo.
		
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			We don't know the person who you know,
		
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			the masahas are written by hand. You know
		
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			that. They're not written by, like, you know,
		
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			someone typed up and says,
		
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			space bar
		
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			enter. You
		
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			know, these things, they're written by hand. There's
		
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			an entire salaw with just the writing of
		
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			of of of the musa. There's an entire
		
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			salat for the the ayat,
		
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			the numbering of the ayat. There are different
		
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			qira'at of the book of Allah. This is
		
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			just the mushad itself.
		
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			The entire deen is transmitted by sunnah. Almost
		
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			none of us know where it came from.
		
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			Almost none of us know where it came
		
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			from. Now, we live in we live in
		
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			the United States. You know, the the constitution
		
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			was a revolutionary document in the history of
		
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			mankind.
		
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			It provided Western Europe, which at that point
		
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			had become the most efficient civilization in the
		
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			history of mankind of killing people, it provided
		
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			them with some sort of restraint and reasonability
		
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			so that they don't cancerously just consume their
		
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			own their own nations as well.
		
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			To run run groups
		
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			of people that have different ideas that will
		
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			bring them to blows and fighting with one
		
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			another so that they can function as a
		
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			cohesive group without cancerously killing, destroying one another.
		
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			This is actually a large achievement in the
		
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			history of mankind.
		
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			That constitution, however, wasn't perfect. You know, in
		
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			the original constitution,
		
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			people of, of of African origin,
		
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			they're considered to be what? They're considered to
		
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			be 3 5ths of a human being.
		
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			Is that is that African American 3 5ths
		
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			of a human being?
		
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			This
		
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			is
		
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			an abomination
		
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			unto the Lord,
		
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			which is worse than many of the things
		
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			we consider to be sins. To say that
		
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			or believe that.
		
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			What did they do to those people in
		
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			order to keep them enslaved? It's that they
		
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			convinced them that you're not really a human
		
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			being.
		
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			They did a number of things, chained them,
		
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			shackle them, beat them. One of the things
		
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			they did is they made it illegal to
		
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			teach them how to read.
		
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			Now, if they're already intellectually inferior, which is
		
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			what the claim was, one of the justifications
		
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			for enslaving one race and saving another, which,
		
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			by the way, never existed Islam. Islam had
		
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			slavery, but it never had this thing that
		
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			we have over here in in this country
		
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			where one race is considered inferior to another.
		
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			It was a completely qualitatively different institution. All
		
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			they do is share the name, just like
		
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			the federal government and Federal Express are 2
		
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			different things. Right?
		
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			However, what did they do? They said they're
		
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			morally, sorry, intellectually inferior.
		
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			And then they say, what? It's illegal to
		
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			teach them how to read. If they're inferior,
		
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			you don't have to pass a law about
		
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			it, do you? You don't have to punish
		
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			people for doing something that's not possible in
		
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			the first place. It's all a lie. What
		
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			is one of the things that they did
		
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			to them?
		
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			They changed the names of the slaves,
		
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			and when the slave was born, they would
		
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			as a child, they would separate the the
		
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			baby from the mother, the husband from the
		
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			the mother and father, husband and wife. They
		
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			separate the families from one another, so that
		
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			child grew up as a stranger.
		
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			So that child There are African Americans in
		
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			this country. You can see them and you
		
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			can see this is a this person bears
		
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			a resemblance with the Mandinka tribe in West
		
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			Africa or this person bears a resemblance with
		
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			the Hausa tribe. This person bears a resemblance
		
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			with the Bangarra tribe. They have no idea
		
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			which tribe they came from nor do they
		
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			even know what the names of their forefathers
		
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			were.
		
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			What was their excuse? Their excuse, they were
		
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			shackled.
		
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			They were abducted at gunkka and shackled to
		
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			ships and brought them the hull of packed
		
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			ships to America and then separated generation after
		
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			generation who separated from each other.
		
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			You don't even know what the the name
		
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			of the person who brought the Quran to
		
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			you or who brought the 5th to you
		
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			that you pray every day 5 times a
		
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			day with. You don't even know what the,
		
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			the name of the person who, brought the
		
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			the the adidas and its sanath. You have
		
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			no idea the names of any of these
		
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			people.
		
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			They have their excuse. What's your excuse?
		
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			It is perhaps because we're disconnected with that
		
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			chain that we also not behave like slaves.
		
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			This is something that we have no excuse
		
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			for because all of those names are preserved.
		
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			We know exactly who all of those people
		
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			are. However, we think that everything came without
		
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			any sort of context and that I'm gonna
		
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			go and wiki something. You have no idea
		
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			which Adriani or which, orientalist wrote the article
		
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			in the Wikipedia, but you're gonna send it
		
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			to everybody. And then afterward, you're going to
		
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			wonder why is that we have this mentality,
		
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			this mindset that makes us like slaves?
		
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			Brothers and sisters, there's no reason for this.
		
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			There's no reason for this. There are a
		
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			group of people who are in power,
		
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			culturally, both in this country and back home,
		
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			politically, economically,
		
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			that don't like the teachings of the Ahmussun
		
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			al Jama'a. They're placed in the places that
		
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			they are through,
		
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			very intentional
		
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			means by people who don't follow this deen
		
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			or people who don't love this deen. We
		
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			like to blame Western countries and powers. Really,
		
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			it's not their fault. It hasn't been their
		
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			fault for quite some time,
		
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			if ever.
		
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			There are people from amongst us that have
		
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			this mindset.
		
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			And what do we do as the rank
		
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			and file, pious people who pay their zakat
		
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			to fast every Ramadan and come to the
		
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			Masjid on Friday? We follow without thinking, we
		
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			follow without questioning. This is also our duty.
		
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			Part of the preservation of the deen is
		
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			what? Just like you go to Hajj just
		
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			like you fast in Ramadan, part of the
		
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			preservation of the deen is what? Is that
		
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			we should learn what those names are. We
		
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			should learn who those people are. We should
		
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			learn what their path is. And there's no
		
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			age in which this is more sorely needed
		
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			than the age that we're in right now,
		
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			where every everyone,
		
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			says whatever they want to.
		
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			Abdulladin
		
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			Mubarak, he's a
		
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			hadith kamendi, the the 6 books of hadith.
		
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			You know, the Muhaddithin were very cutthroat in
		
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			who they narrated from. You know, Imam Bukhari,
		
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			one of his masha'is, Ahmed bin Hambal. He
		
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			doesn't narrate one hadith from him in Sahih
		
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			Bukhari. Why? Because all the hadith that Imam
		
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			Ahmed had, which is like over a 100000,
		
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			Bukhari found from somebody else who has a
		
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			higher chain of narration.
		
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			So the fact that someone is narrated from
		
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			in the books of hadith means that there's
		
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			nowhere else to go but that person. For
		
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			them to be in all 6 books, there's
		
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			very few individuals that are that are that
		
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			are of that caliber.
		
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			He said something very beautiful. He said, al
		
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			Ismail ibn Ad Din. That this chain of
		
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			narration, knowing where your information came with the
		
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			unbroken chain back to mess the messenger of
		
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			Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			Walola isnadu laqalam manshaah manshaah.
		
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			If it wasn't for this chain of narration,
		
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			whoever would have wanted to say anything about
		
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			the deen would have said whatever they wanted
		
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			to say about the deen. So if somebody,
		
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			Abdul bin Mubarak, continues, if somebody says to
		
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			you or asks you the question, this piece
		
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			of information, where did you get it from?
		
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			Don't be upset. Be happy because it's a
		
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			sign that this is not still alive in
		
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			the ummah of the prophet
		
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			We're in an age of fake news.
		
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			Like, literally, there's, like, quantitative studies that show,
		
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			without any doubt, that fake news spreads faster
		
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			than real news does.
		
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			Everybody loves to hear something fantastic.
		
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			Very few people have a natural inclination toward
		
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			hearing the truth.
		
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			Brothers and sisters, there's no time and age
		
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			in which the need for this was more
		
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			than now. Authentic teachings with regards to the
		
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			deen. Authentic teachings with regards to,
		
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			Islam.
		
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			Not only in knowing what you know,
		
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			but knowing how you know it so that
		
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			you can trust in that knowledge.
		
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			Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, give all of us
		
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			so much tawfiq to be connected with our
		
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			elders and with our masha'if, that we, learn
		
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			their knowledge and we have love for them
		
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			in this world, and that love saves us
		
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			on the day of judgment. It's not an
		
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			exaggeration.
		
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			Nonetheless. Rasool Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
		
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			a
		
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			man will be with the one that he
		
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			loves. How are you going to enter into
		
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			Jannah with those people you don't even know
		
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			who their names are? They're more important than
		
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			our our parents, our mother and father. Allah,
		
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			remove us from this state of self imposed,
		
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			orphanage that we put ourselves into.
		
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			Allah give Allah Tawfiq wa sallallahu ta'ala a
		
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			larsulhi sayyidin Muhammadin wa'ala alahi wsa'bihajmani.