Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Riyad Al Salihin Preaching[1]

Hamzah Wald Maqbul
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The speaker discusses the importance of moderate preaching, including the use of "hasith" in relation to preaching, and the importance of giving people a wild and entertaining speech to convince them of something better or change. They also emphasize the importance of preaching and giving a "hasith" in relation to the length of prayer. The speaker also discusses the use of "soothsayer" and "soothsayer of" in the language of Islam, and emphasizes the importance of not visit people and not visit them.

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			Allah
		
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			said that the prophet
		
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			speech
		
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			was
		
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			separated.
		
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			So that everybody who heard it would understand
		
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			it. Separated meaning that he didn't slur his
		
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			speech. His enunciated
		
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			whatever he would enunciate very clearly,
		
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			and he would
		
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			space out words in such a way that
		
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			it was very clear to understand what he
		
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			was saying, which is a good idea.
		
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			It's one of the many annoyances of the
		
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			age we live in that nobody learns how
		
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			to speak anything properly.
		
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			Nobody learns English properly. Nobody learns Urdu proper
		
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			properly. Nobody learns Arabic properly. Nobody learns Persian
		
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			properly.
		
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			So you have a generated generation of people
		
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			that are highly sophisticated in whatever field they
		
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			have, but they don't know how to speak
		
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			anything properly.
		
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			And, that's kind of the opposite. And old
		
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			old people, anyone who's hung out with, like,
		
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			elders, you know, from a different time and
		
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			different age, they're very particular that things should
		
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			be read properly,
		
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			and things should be said properly.
		
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			The chapter regarding
		
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			listening.
		
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			If you're sitting with somebody to listen with
		
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			to the one that you're sitting with
		
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			as long as they're not speaking haram.
		
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			And the chapter regarding seeking the the chapter
		
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			regarding an alim
		
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			or a preacher, a scholar or a preacher
		
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			seeking the attention of those who are present
		
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			in his majlis, that that's something that should
		
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			happen, that attention should be sought. Before speaking,
		
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			you should make sure that everybody is quiet,
		
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			or paying attention somewhat.
		
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			As we've, like, seen this masjid is some,
		
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			you know, sometimes has a little bit of
		
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			improvement that we could do with this issue.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And sometimes maybe
		
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			some of us may be kind of at
		
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			fault for that.
		
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			So maybe we shouldn't try that.
		
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			There's like, you know, the, like,
		
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			the Jummah Khutba. How long is it?
		
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			Like, 20:25 minutes. 25 minutes? Minutes? Yeah. 30
		
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			minutes. Maybe some guy is like crazy and
		
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			he goes over. It's like 40 minutes max.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Whenever you know, like, they have, like, these
		
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			groups, like, from other interfaith groups, like churches
		
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			and stuff like that that come and, like,
		
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			speak or, like, you know, kids that have
		
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			to observe, like, the for a religious class,
		
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			the the
		
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			the congregational
		
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			worship of another religion for, like, a class
		
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			project.
		
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			And consistently, all of them are always, like,
		
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			amazed at how short the Jum'ah is.
		
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			Because if you go to church or if
		
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			you if you go to synagogue,
		
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			it's like long. Right?
		
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			Different churches are even longer than others,
		
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			Like,
		
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			the
		
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			the Latin mass that they used to they
		
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			used to celebrate, even the Catholics have stopped
		
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			celebrating it, or the mass in Greek that
		
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			the Orthodox celebrate.
		
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			It's it literally the entire mass is in
		
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			Greek and it's like 2 and a half
		
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			hours long, and it's pin drop silence for
		
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			the entire thing.
		
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			And so people come to this, and they're
		
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			like, oh, this is awesome. It's like so
		
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			short. I'm like, why? I thought maybe he
		
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			liked the speech. Maybe he wants to become
		
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			Muslim. Maybe he wants to. They're like, no.
		
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			It's like less than half as long as,
		
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			like, what they do at my synagogue.
		
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			I was like, oh, okay. Cool.
		
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			We'll get to that actually. We'll get to
		
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			that.
		
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			That that hadith is coming up.
		
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			Yeah. So that's that's like, you know, so
		
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			it's
		
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			it's short. It's like maximum the entire
		
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			ceremony from the beginning of, beginning of like
		
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			the imam getting on the member and calling
		
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			the adhan and tell us salaamu alaykum wa
		
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			rahmatullahi.
		
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			It's not more than 45 minutes. It's really
		
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			it's actually really short and you're actually doing
		
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			stuff in the middle. You're not even sitting
		
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			for the whole time.
		
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			So, you know, I don't know what to
		
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			do, what to say,
		
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			except for,
		
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			you know, I I don't know what to
		
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			say because we have, like, a lot of
		
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			people there. Under the under the law of
		
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			the Sharia, they're adults. You're an adult by
		
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			the time you hit the age of puberty
		
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			and people still talking and people listening. Some
		
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			kids, I've had to harass them, like,
		
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			to great great lengths
		
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			And some of them, to be to be
		
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			fair, after yelling at them, like, 5 or
		
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			6 times, then I noticed, like, they actually
		
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			start paying attention. But, like, it shouldn't be
		
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			that way. It should be it's not like
		
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			it's not a me thing. You know? It's
		
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			like it's for everyone's benefit. You know? We
		
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			should be like that. And then sometimes there's
		
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			adults who do that.
		
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			And what are you gonna do? You know
		
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			this person if you yell at them for
		
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			an entire lifetime, they're not gonna change so
		
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			you just gotta write them off. But at
		
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			least the youth you guys should be you
		
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			guys should be, you know, on top of
		
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			that. InshaAllah. I mean, obviously, it's haram to
		
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			say anything during the so if someone next
		
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			to you is talking it's even haram to
		
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			tell them don't talk. Right? But you know
		
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			you can always have a talk with them.
		
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			You know, maybe across the street from the
		
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			masjid after
		
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			after salat, you know, more instructive,
		
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			constructive criticism,
		
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			you know,
		
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			regarding the staying quiet in this clippus situation.
		
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			You know what I mean? And,
		
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			yeah.
		
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			Obviously.
		
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			Yeah.
		
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			So that's that's that's the the heading of
		
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			this chapter.
		
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			He said that the messenger of Allah Sallallahu
		
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			Alaihi Wasallam said during the
		
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			which is the Hajj that the prophet salallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam made in the last year
		
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			of his life,
		
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			and it was the farewell Hajj.
		
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			He said to the the prophet sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wasallam said to Jari' bin Abdullah,
		
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			tell the people, tell the people to stay
		
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			silent and to, you know, to listen and
		
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			to pay attention.
		
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			So he did that. That was a function
		
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			that he served is that he silenced the
		
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			people. It's the sunnah of the prophet sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			And but that was
		
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			mind you, that was a gathering of, almost
		
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			a 100000 people.
		
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			That was a very large gathering in in
		
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			the days when there's no microphone or speakers
		
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			or whatnot.
		
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			So he tell he told Jari bin Abdul
		
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			not to tell the people to listen.
		
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			Then he delivered his famous speech that that
		
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			he quotes a piece of. He says that
		
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			don't return after me as ungrateful people. Don't
		
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			return after I'm gone,
		
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			to the state of
		
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			and ungratefulness.
		
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			One of the meanings of is disbelief and
		
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			one of the meanings is ungratefulness.
		
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			Don't be so ungrateful after I leave. Don't
		
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			be so ungrateful to Allah after I leave
		
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			that you enter such a state that some
		
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			of you kill each other,
		
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			which is unfortunately the case of many places
		
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			in in in in in the Muslim world
		
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			and many parts of the Ummah. You have
		
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			people fighting each other and killing each other
		
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			and thinking that it's permissible for a for
		
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			a Muslim to harm another Muslim. And, you
		
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			know, sometimes another Muslim can be very annoying.
		
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			You know, I'd be lying if I said
		
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			it wasn't the case, but you still, you
		
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			know, you can do a lot. You you
		
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			you just you don't have the right to
		
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			kill another person
		
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			except for very extraordinary circumstances.
		
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			A chapter regarding preaching
		
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			and being moderate in your preaching,
		
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			not going overboard.
		
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			And there are many there are many preachers
		
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			that are overboard.
		
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			Preachers make their living by going overboard.
		
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			And there are 2 types of preachers that
		
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			go overboard that are excessive.
		
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			Right? One of them are a type of
		
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			preacher
		
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			whatever, those types of creatures. Much of it
		
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			is because of the,
		
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			the very, advanced,
		
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			state of law enforcement in our country, which
		
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			is, you know, in many ways a blessing,
		
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			although it's also abused sometimes. And part of
		
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			it is also because there's not that many
		
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			people who have command over the English language.
		
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			And the English language itself is not, you
		
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			know, it's not that kind of it doesn't
		
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			seem to be that kind of a language
		
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			at least from what Muslim preachers are able
		
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			to do with it yet.
		
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			But they they riled people up by saying
		
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			excessive things, by saying excessive things, and playing
		
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			on people's emotions and like manipulating them through
		
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			their speech and like, you know, yelling and
		
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			screaming and kind of drama, Kuzchevs type like
		
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			banging your shoe on the desk type of
		
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			nonsense, you know. Generally, our massages are free
		
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			from people like that. In fact, I would
		
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			probably say that if there is anyone close
		
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			to anything like that when they speak
		
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			for American purposes, it's probably me. You probably
		
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			haven't heard many people come to the masjid
		
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			and yell and scream more than I have.
		
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			So I'm, you know but it's not I
		
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			mean, trust me, it goes much further than
		
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			this. Those of our elders who have spent
		
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			significant parts of our life in the Muslim
		
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			world know that there are some some orators.
		
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			Literally, I've heard people say that I've heard
		
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			so and so speaker,
		
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			and he started speaking. And then after we
		
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			we heard the and we didn't even know
		
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			where the time went. There are people like
		
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			that, but I don't see many of them
		
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			speak in the English language.
		
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			At any rate,
		
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			you you should be you should be moderate
		
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			in your in your preaching. Obviously, moderate doesn't
		
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			mean that you hold back from the hap,
		
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			but it's in the style of your preaching.
		
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			The other the other type of extreme preacher
		
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			is something that we have a lot of
		
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			actually in the Muslim world. Something that we
		
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			have a lot of in America. It's been
		
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			particularly in America
		
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			and they call them what I call them
		
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			is like televangelists.
		
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			People are very good at saying things people
		
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			wanna hear and avoiding things that people don't
		
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			wanna hear. So So as a speaker, people
		
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			are like, oh, this speaker is really good
		
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			and he's great and he may be good
		
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			and he may be great, but the problem
		
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			is is that that person is not the
		
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			the the purpose of. What is?
		
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			Is,
		
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			preaching but it means to to try to
		
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			compel or try to convince somebody to change
		
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			what they're doing to something better
		
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			or to convince someone of something. Even if
		
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			you don't convince them to change, at least
		
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			you convince them to stay the same, but
		
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			convince them of something.
		
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			And that's one of the that's one of
		
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			the
		
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			one of the the integral parts of the
		
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			that it has to be wild. It cannot
		
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			be merely informative. You can't just get up
		
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			on the pulpit and give a history lesson.
		
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			You have to be telling people, encouraging people
		
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			to do good and to do better than
		
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			what they are doing already and to fear
		
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			Allah
		
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			and to stay away from bad and to
		
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			do good.
		
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			And so what what what, you know, this
		
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			kind of televangelist preacher that we have a
		
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			lot of in America in the Muslim community,
		
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			There are people who are they're they're not
		
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			trying to
		
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			try to convince you to change to something
		
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			better or change away from something bad. Rather
		
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			they're they're people who have studied what you
		
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			wanna hear, and they're telling you what you
		
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			wanna hear in a very entertaining fashion. Very
		
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			carefully skirting,
		
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			quote, unquote, controversial issues and and and things
		
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			that, you know, involve,
		
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			bringing people face to face with their shortcomings.
		
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			And this is a much more subtle
		
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			type of, of of extremism in speech.
		
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			And, I consider it to be a treachery.
		
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			I consider it to be a khiyana with
		
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			people not to tell them the haqq because
		
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			that's what the
		
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			the the ulama specifically
		
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			were charged to do is to tell people
		
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			to tell people what the hap is and
		
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			what the truth is for their own benefit
		
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			and for their own good. So don't,
		
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			you know, don't be the type of person
		
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			who, only listens to the one that says
		
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			sweet things to them,
		
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			and don't be the, type of person that,
		
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			you know, doesn't give the amount of the
		
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			truth to people.
		
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			But, at any rate, there's a
		
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			the chapter begins.
		
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			It says,
		
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			Allah
		
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			commands, the believers to call to the path
		
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			of your lord with wisdom and with a
		
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			righteous exhortation.
		
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			Meaning, do try to convince people to do
		
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			the right thing and try to convince them
		
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			in a good way.
		
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			A tabri in one of the residents of
		
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			Kufa.
		
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			He said that Sayidna Abdullah bin Mas'ud was
		
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			again a very close companion of the Messenger
		
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			of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. 1 of the
		
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			huffal, the one who used to carry the
		
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			slippers of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, the
		
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			one who used to pour the water for
		
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			the Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and he would
		
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			make.
		
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			He was the one who killed Abu Jahl
		
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			on the battlefield in Badr
		
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			or at least struck struck him with the
		
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			mortal blow.
		
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			He was a close
		
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			companion of the Messenger of Allah and a
		
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			person of great.
		
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			So when the Sahaba radiya wa ta'ala anhu,
		
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			they established the metropolis of Kufa outside of
		
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			Madan,
		
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			the ancient Persian imperial capital,
		
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			which would rapidly become a bigger city than
		
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			Mecca and Medina and become the biggest city
		
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			in in the Muslim world. Kufa was the
		
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			biggest city in the Muslim world for several
		
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			centuries.
		
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			Baghdad is essentially a suburb of Kufa that
		
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			just got bigger than Kufa later on, but
		
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			it's essentially more or less the same
		
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			metropolis. They're just across the river from each
		
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			other.
		
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			The first teacher that was sent to teach
		
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			the people their deen and Kufa was said
		
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			and
		
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			so he used to teach people, he used
		
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			to teach the Awam and the Hawas. He
		
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			would teach the public and he would also
		
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			have his own small set of private students
		
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			that he would teach that were more advanced.
		
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			And so one of his public
		
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			classes or lessons that he had is that
		
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			he would give a what we call a
		
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			bayan or a sermon on Thursdays.
		
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			People would come and he would just preach
		
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			to them, about about different things and, you
		
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			know, tell them about, you know, what they
		
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			needed to hear as a society and as
		
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			a people.
		
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			And, they enjoyed it. The people of Kufa
		
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			enjoyed it.
		
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			They listened wrapped with attention.
		
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			And so someone once came to say,
		
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			and, he said, oh, Abu Abdul Rahman, which
		
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			was his,
		
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			even though he didn't have any sons.
		
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			I wish I wish that you could,
		
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			I wish that you could
		
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			preach to us every day instead of just
		
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			preaching,
		
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			preach preaching to us once a week.
		
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			And so he said,
		
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			he said in response to him, he says
		
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			that nothing prevents me from,
		
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			from doing that except for I dislike to
		
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			bore you.
		
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			And, verily I I set for you I
		
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			set with you a, you know, just one
		
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			time in the week in order for me
		
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			to preach to you,
		
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			because that's the system that the messenger Allah
		
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			used to use.
		
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			That he used to set specific times that
		
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			he would preach preach to the public
		
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			so that it would be easy for them
		
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			to attend and also,
		
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			it would,
		
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			be easy for them to attend and it
		
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			wouldn't become,
		
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			like dreary for them and boring and they
		
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			have to drag themselves in. Not everybody has
		
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			the ability to do that.
		
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			So whoever preaches shouldn't preach too much.
		
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			This is the hadith that was alluded to
		
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			by Doctor. Khala just a minute ago
		
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			narrated by Sayna Abu Yaqdhan, Ammar ibn Yasser
		
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			Radi'allahu Alaihi wa Salam who
		
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			said, I heard the Messenger of Allah Sallallahu
		
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			Alaihi Wasallam say,
		
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			indeed having a long prayer,
		
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			a man leading a long prayer and giving
		
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			a short khutba
		
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			is a sign that points to that person
		
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			having a good understanding of the deen.
		
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			So lengthen your prayers
		
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			and shorten your khutbas.
		
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			It's a hadith narrated by Sahih Muslim.
		
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			Lengthen your prayers
		
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			and shorten your.
		
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			And why is it considered to be a
		
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			sign of the the fiqh, the sign of
		
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			the fakaha, the sign of the understanding of
		
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			the the the, the person to have a
		
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			long prayer and a short chutba?
		
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			It's because
		
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			the prayer is the more important part of
		
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			the two
		
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			things that happen.
		
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			The congregational
		
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			prayer is the more important. It's the main
		
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			event and the khutba is something that is
		
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			tacked onto that. And this is very contrary
		
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			to what people's understanding is nowadays. Many people
		
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			nowadays, they think that the Khutba is the
		
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			most important
		
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			part of the event and they they they
		
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			consider it to be so.
		
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			And that's a misunderstanding
		
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			that's a misunderstanding regarding the way the the
		
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			way
		
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			the
		
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			should work. Now there's a problem. What's the
		
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			problem?
		
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			You know, where is the place? Who's been
		
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			here before to a place that the salat
		
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			is longer than the, ever.
		
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			Never. Yeah.
		
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			I've been I've been to a number of
		
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			places.
		
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			I told you, remember, I spent Ramadan with
		
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			with one of my, and his master, the
		
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			Khutba, is extremely short.
		
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			And there's no there's nothing. There's no
		
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			or anything There's just a short you just
		
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			you show up
		
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			in Arabic, very short,
		
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			and that's it. You pray and you're done.
		
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			Many people are,
		
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			many people are,
		
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			very taken aback by that.
		
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			And,
		
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			really, there shouldn't be a need to. This
		
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			is a hadith. It's not like an obscure
		
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			hadith or a hadith. This is a hadith
		
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			of Muslim. It's
		
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			very it's very well known. And there's another
		
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			hadith that's worded almost sim almost the same
		
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			as it that's narrated in Bukhary as well.
		
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			One of the ways that the ulama have,
		
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			I guess, tried to deal with this issue.
		
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			There's problems in the Ummah. There's so many
		
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			problems in the Ummah. And one of the
		
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			many problems of the Ummah is that
		
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			how do you come to the Masjid? You
		
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			come to the Masjid 5 times a day.
		
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			That's how a Muslim comes to the Masjid.
		
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			Okay. Maybe you're gone somewhere 4 times, 3
		
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			times, at least once a day. Right? If
		
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			you look statistically at the people in,
		
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			you will know that a vast majority, more
		
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			than 80% of them don't
		
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			come to the masjid once a day. Okay?
		
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			And upon even more scrutiny and analysis,
		
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			you'll
		
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			realize that there's a great number of them,
		
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			a large fraction of them, that don't even
		
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			come every week.
		
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			That don't even come Every week. Every week.
		
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			So there's there's some gross breach of of
		
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			of of of of duty over there. This
		
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			is one of the reasons this is one
		
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			of the reasons that a person should be
		
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			very careful in juman, like not to jostle
		
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			people too much. And people who give the
		
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			jumah should be careful not to say things
		
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			that are too,
		
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			enveloped in, like, you know, like just that
		
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			that are not problems that deal with the
		
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			entire. They should keep the message very general
		
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			and keep the message very easy to digest
		
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			and give it with a lot of because
		
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			there are people imagine if a person's only
		
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			come to the masjid once a month and
		
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			then you come in and say something to
		
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			them that they completely don't understand and are
		
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			not able to appreciate at all. Right?
		
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			What will happen? They'll stop coming once a
		
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			month even.
		
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			And for many people that can be the
		
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			difference between their Islam and their kufr or
		
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			and
		
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			aside from the other problem, okay? It's a
		
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			problem that people come to the Masjid
		
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			so rarely.
		
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			Right? It's a problem that people come to
		
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			the Masjid so rarely,
		
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			and that has to be dealt with.
		
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			That's a completely another topic. Right? The Jamaat
		
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			Tablih going out 40 days and calling people,
		
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			knocking on people's doors and things like that.
		
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			This is one way of dealing with it.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			I mentioned this just to say that this
		
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			is a legitimate way of dealing with it.
		
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			This is a this there's been a lot
		
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			of good effect of it. It doesn't mean
		
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			that every single person who goes with Jarmakah
		
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			bleeding bodies,
		
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			the properties of a die properly.
		
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			No. Unfortunately, there are many people who go
		
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			on to believe that don't do a very
		
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			good job at it, and that's another set
		
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			of problems that we're also not gonna talk
		
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			about. But in general in general, it's a
		
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			good thing, but that's again, that's that's another
		
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			set of issues.
		
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			What what is it what is it that
		
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			makes people and imams and leaders compelled to
		
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			give very long Khutubaat? Right? The hadith of
		
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			the Messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
		
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			that, for every,
		
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			that you practice,
		
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			a commensurate amount of the sunnah will also
		
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			be taken away from you as well.
		
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			For every bida'ah that you practice,
		
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			the same amount of sunnah that that was
		
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			being practiced, also that will Allah will take
		
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			that away from you as well as a
		
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			punishment.
		
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			Means there's like a double for
		
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			for, implementing an innovation
		
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			in your life,
		
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			of the deen.
		
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			There will be there's a double there's a
		
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			double,
		
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			deficiency. One is that
		
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			itself, the harm of it you'll face and
		
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			also the benefit from a commensurate amount of
		
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			sunnah that also will be taken away from
		
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			you. Okay? And so what is a bida
		
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			in the deed of people nowadays? It's very
		
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			subtle but what is a The idea you
		
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			don't have to come to the masjid 5
		
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			times a day. The idea that you don't
		
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			have to come to the masjid 5 times
		
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			a day, this is a This is a
		
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			misunderstanding.
		
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			It's a problem in a person's aqidah and
		
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			it's a problem in a person's practice of
		
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			hibadah
		
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			because this is something that people before us
		
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			understood that you have to do it. The
		
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			worst people were who? The ones who come
		
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			in, like, late.
		
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			They they come in, like, late. They'll they'll
		
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			come in, like, at, like, the
		
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			telling the people and when I know that
		
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			Yeah. I mean, it's not compulsory, but it's
		
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			We are not promoting that. Yeah.
		
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			Yeah. We and and we should be.
		
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			We should be. And so
		
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			the yeah. So this is a to think
		
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			that it's like somehow okay. You know, it's
		
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			like a that they come to the prayer
		
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			mosque 5 times a day. You know? A
		
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			person shouldn't
		
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			choose,
		
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			you know, let's say, of their own choosing.
		
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			This person shouldn't choose to live far from
		
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			the Masjid. A person should try as much
		
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			as they're able to. If they're able to,
		
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			they should live as close to the Masjid
		
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			as they can just in order to get
		
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			the to get the reward of coming. So,
		
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			there's this, right? So, we were talking about
		
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			whoever practices a Okay. This hadith of the
		
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			prophet that a commensurate amount of the sunnah
		
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			will be taken away from them as well.
		
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			So this is one of the of not
		
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			coming to the masjid.
		
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			And one of the parts of the sunnah
		
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			that was taken away is that, you know,
		
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			the part of this that used to come
		
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			to the masjid as Muslims, Their used to
		
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			be the of
		
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			Muslims,
		
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			which is what? Very short and then go.
		
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			Right? You're coming 5 times a day. You
		
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			have
		
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			hour. You read and you leave.
		
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			But now we come to the Masjid like
		
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			Christians and Jews.
		
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			Once a week. And so now we have
		
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			to suffer the of the Christians and Jews
		
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			as well,
		
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			which is a long.
		
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			Okay? It's a long and it's difficult for
		
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			people to get that much time off of
		
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			work and to make that, you know it
		
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			becomes an imposition. It becomes a difficulty on
		
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			them. Now it's farth to be there from
		
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			the beginning of the until the end of
		
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			the. You understand what I'm saying? So coming
		
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			late to the coming late to the Jumaa,
		
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			you're missing some you're missing some part of
		
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			the fard. And if you are late, you
		
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			know, if you're late and you were able
		
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			to have come on time, it's actually a
		
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			sin. Everything you do during that time that
		
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			you need to to get to the khutbah
		
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			instead of getting to the khutbah, all of
		
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			that is a sin. All of that will
		
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			be counted against the person.
		
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			Means not just like go. It doesn't mean
		
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			it means do everything you can to get
		
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			there as soon as possible. And it's a
		
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			direct commandment of the Quran. There are very
		
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			few things that are,
		
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			so clearly,
		
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			commanded in the Quran.
		
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			But this is very clearly commanded in the
		
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			Quran. So what happens, you have to go
		
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			there. There was a time that this ummah
		
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			used to have ulama, people of piety and
		
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			taqwa and of knowledge. So if you have
		
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			to sit through through through half an hour
		
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			of them talking, at least you'll benefit from
		
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			them. Right?
		
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			Now we're like double stuck.
		
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			Why? Because the majority of the masadas in
		
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			America,
		
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			they have people who have neither knowledge nor
		
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			piety. Right? There are a lot of people
		
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			outside the Muslim community, and it seems like
		
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			a particular amount in the Muslim community that
		
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			like to have their voice be heard. They
		
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			like to talk
		
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			even if they don't have anything useful to
		
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			say. Now they realized something a long time
		
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			ago, ma'am. These imams have a good fraud
		
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			going because they can get up on the
		
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			member and people because of deen have to
		
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			listen to these guys, whereas nobody wants to
		
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			listen to me. Right? So how can I
		
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			have people listen to me? They realize they
		
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			figured this out is that if we can
		
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			get up on the member also, we can
		
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			use the fear of Allah to make people
		
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			listen to whatever nonsense we have to say.
		
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			I heard that
		
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			have absolutely nothing to do with deen whatsoever
		
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			ever before. I kid you not. Right? The
		
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			one one I heard,
		
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			one I heard was
		
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			about how we should, you know,
		
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			respect that weddings are very important.
		
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			And, like, you know, next time we go
		
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			to a wedding, you should like just instead
		
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			of just eating the food and going home,
		
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			you should respect that 2 people are giving
		
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			their
		
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			commitment to live their life together with each
		
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			other, brothers. And I'm like thinking like,
		
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			I heard I was in 1 Muslim country.
		
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			I heard a Khutba
		
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			speaking, about the virtues of the ruler of
		
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			that country,
		
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			you know,
		
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			and I just got up and left, you
		
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			know. I mean, you hear these kind of
		
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			weird
		
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			and you're stuck now. You're stuck because this
		
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			has become normal for giving this long and
		
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			weird
		
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			and very few places, you know, do we
		
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			even support ulama anymore. So even that, there's
		
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			no in it. There's no benefit in it
		
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			even then.
		
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			In most places, in many places. And really
		
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			it's a fitna.
		
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			I see some people, some khatibs are boring.
		
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			Why are they boring? Because the important thing
		
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			I think more important than the words that
		
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			the katib says is the how that's inside
		
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			of his heart. If he believes what he's
		
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			saying, then it will captivate and it'll capture
		
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			the audience that he's talking about. If he
		
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			himself doesn't believe it, he's sleeping himself in
		
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			his heart and he's putting everybody else's heart
		
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			to sleep as well. Some people literally, like,
		
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			it's like the kind of professor. It reminds
		
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			you of, like, community college. Like, they're just,
		
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			like, you know, like, you could see them,
		
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			like, unconsciously trying to switch slides on you
		
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			know, it's there's no
		
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			wildling at all whatsoever. Right? So this is
		
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			what happens is that we come now like
		
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			to
		
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			the masjid, and it's a situation we have
		
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			to deal with.
		
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			And so one of the one of the
		
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			ways that have tried to circumvent this problem
		
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			because the problem is that you have to
		
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			say something to the people. Otherwise, this is
		
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			the only they're gonna hear about Deen in
		
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			the entire week. Sometimes, if you don't say
		
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			a good word to them in right in
		
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			in the right time, they may even leave
		
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			Islam. But the problem is now in order
		
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			to open the door for this one small
		
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			good or one one important good thing, you
		
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			open the door to, like, 7 other, like,
		
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			problems. Right? So one of the ways that
		
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			ulama will get to you, inshallah. One of
		
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			the ways that ulama dealt with this is
		
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			what?
		
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			We did this, like, once or twice before
		
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			in this masjid also for different reasons,
		
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			is that they separate the the ritual hutba
		
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			from
		
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			from,
		
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			just a speech that happens before the salat.
		
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			Now what's the benefit of doing that? What's
		
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			the benefit of doing that? There's a number
		
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			of benefits. The primary benefit I see is
		
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			that it's a way of preserving the sunnah
		
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			of having a short and
		
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			having a relatively longer salat because the is
		
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			shorter.
		
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			Have a short Khutba in the Arabic language,
		
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			and it's very brief, and it's to the
		
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			point, and it has nothing, you know, anyone
		
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			would disagree with. And anyone who understands the
		
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			Arabic will understand it's mostly from the Quran
		
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			and from the sunnah of the prophet anyway.
		
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			You go, you do it. The main event
		
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			is what?
		
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			The salat.
		
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			Right? And you have a short and then
		
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			the the the salat starts. So you preserve
		
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			this this sunnah. The second benefit of it
		
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			is what? The second benefit is there's a
		
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			hadith of the prophet that
		
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			when the angels come
		
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			when the when it's the day of Jum'ah,
		
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			the angels stand at the doors of the
		
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			Masjid, and they write down the names of
		
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			the people attending.
		
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			Okay? For for the purposes of reward.
		
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			Once the adhan is called, once the adhan
		
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			is called, okay?
		
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			The angels then close-up their their their their,
		
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			their records.
		
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			And then they come in and they attend
		
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			the.
		
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			Okay? How many because I have to be
		
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			here on time, otherwise, you know, I mean,
		
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			I'd like to say because I'm pious. Hopefully,
		
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			that's why it is, but, you know, part
		
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			of it is also to be honest with
		
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			you. I'll get fired if I don't because
		
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			I have to give the. Right? So I'm
		
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			here on time anyway, and I can see
		
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			everybody. I mean, there's, like, the blind spot
		
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			just over here and over here. Right? But
		
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			most everybody I can see. How many people
		
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			with a nice beard and with a nice
		
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			and with a turban and with God knows
		
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			all the paraphernalia that's associated with jum'ah. How
		
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			many people walk in the door after the
		
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			footba has started? 70%.
		
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			70%, 80%,
		
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			sometimes even more than that,
		
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			And it's sad. It breaks your heart. You're
		
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			like, oh, man. I wish this person had
		
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			received the entire reward of Jum'ah
		
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			for having attended. Right? So it doesn't mean
		
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			that your jul'ah is not valid. It means
		
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			that you won't be punished for missing it,
		
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			but you won't receive the reward for attending
		
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			either. Right? So if the Khutbah is short,
		
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			right, and it's and it's a little bit
		
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			later, then there's a larger number of people
		
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			that will receive the reward for the Khutba
		
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			as well. Okay?
		
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			And, thirdly, there's a difference of opinion amongst
		
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			the ulema as to whether or not delivering
		
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			the khutba in.
		
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			Language other than Arabic is valid or not,
		
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			or is it makru or what is it?
		
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			And the for that is what? Is that
		
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			the is
		
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			mentioned in the, in the Quran
		
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			as a come with all haste to the
		
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			remembrance of Allah Ta'ala and leave
		
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			leave trade, leave leave your businesses at that
		
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			time.
		
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			And so the zikr of Allah Ta'ala, it's
		
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			a ritual practice. It should be in Arabic.
		
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			There's no,
		
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			there's no evidence from the
		
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			prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam or the sahaba
		
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			or the or the
		
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			from any of the salafs that they ever
		
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			gave a kutba in other than Arabic. Despite
		
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			the fact that after
		
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			the after the,
		
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			after the conquest,
		
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			they they ruled lands in which majority of
		
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			the people were not Arabic speakers.
		
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			So they would give the in Arabic also.
		
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			The would be short, but they would give
		
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			the in Arabic also. There's no record of
		
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			them giving it in any other any other
		
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			language. This is in and of itself not
		
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			a decisive proof that that the has to
		
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			be in Arabic, but it's it's a heavy
		
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			proof that at any rate, at least it's
		
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			a sunnah. It's the way of our aslaf.
		
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			It's something at least. It's.
		
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			But, you know, this is maybe like I
		
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			think 2 or 3 times in the past
		
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			I've done it mostly when we have guest
		
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			speakers.
		
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			Because
		
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			the guest speakers are travelers, And so there's
		
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			a difference of opinion as to whether the
		
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			of a traveler is invalid or not. And
		
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			so I let the guest speakers speak because
		
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			the crowd is here.
		
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			And then we'll we'll I'll read the chutba
		
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			briefly in Arabic. And sometimes people have, like,
		
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			a little bit of a like, you know,
		
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			there's a little afterward people like, woah.
		
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			Someone so and so said that he ruined
		
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			the, or why is he doing this? This
		
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			is weird. I never saw it before. Blah,
		
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			blah, blah.
		
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			It's based in the, you know, it's the
		
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			hadith of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			To be honest with you, I would like
		
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			to actually switch the the khutba over to
		
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			that as well.
		
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			But, you know, I don't wanna, like, you
		
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			know, burn the house down all in one
		
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			day. Inshallah, we have a lot of
		
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			a lot of work to do. There's only,
		
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			like, what, 15 people here right now to
		
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			hear this. The rest of them, they're not
		
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			gonna hear. Maybe another 15 will listen on
		
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			SoundCloud.
		
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			You know? Probably 3 of them will be
		
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			in Ukraine,
		
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			We love you.
		
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			No. Because you get the stats you get
		
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			the stats from, like, who all the hits,
		
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			where they come from. Some of them are
		
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			from kind of type places. I assume it's
		
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			probably some sort of, like, ad bot or
		
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			something like that that's accessing it, but you
		
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			never know. I mean, the Internet is the
		
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			Internet. Right?
		
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			So, so that's that's yeah. But at any
		
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			rate, it's it's a sunnah that the should
		
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			be
		
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			that the should be short and the should
		
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			be long.
		
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			You know, I don't wanna belabor the point,
		
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			but,
		
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			you know, I I before I went to
		
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			Madrasa, I was
		
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			the president of the MSA in our university.
		
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			Did I ever tell you that? Yeah. I
		
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			was president of MSA, and we had our
		
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			own masjid, actually. The oldest masjid in all
		
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			of Seattle, the original jum'ah of the city
		
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			of Seattle is actually a house that the
		
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			MSA kids bought.
		
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			And the house is worth like 1,000,000 now.
		
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			But they bought it relatively cheap, like way
		
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			back in the '70s.
		
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			And it was I mean, it's the ownership
		
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			of the MSA. The deed is held in
		
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			trust, I think, by Nate, which is ISNA's
		
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			like
		
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			a holding arm or whatever. Yeah. But I
		
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			mean, it's the beneficiary of it is the
		
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			MSA. And so I gave there before I
		
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			went to Madrasa, which is probably not a
		
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			great thing. But, one of the things I
		
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			remember I heard the I read this hadith
		
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			before. So That's what we do at least
		
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			in Ramadan. We have a very short kutbah,
		
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			like, read or something like very you know,
		
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			much longer during the.
		
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			If I just put that over here, I
		
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			think,
		
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			you know, I think we should we should
		
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			just do it inshallah. When they come to
		
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			kill me, you guys can
		
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			very very make sure that, like, my, you
		
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			know, text works properly or whatever. But, I
		
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			mean, that's
		
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			it comes in the hadith of the prophet.
		
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			There's 2 sets of sunan for the recitation
		
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			of of of.
		
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			Right? One is the one is a Surat
		
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			which many people do.
		
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			The other one that's rigorously
		
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			narrated,
		
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			an authentic hadith is,
		
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			which is a bit it's a bit longer.
		
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			It's more than double the recitation of of
		
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			of and
		
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			the sunnah is not necessarily those specific surahs
		
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			alone. All of those specific surahs are sunnah
		
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			as well, but that amount of recitation.
		
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			But again, people will become fidgety and they'll
		
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			start to say my lunch break and You
		
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			should tell me the rewards. This hadith. Yeah.
		
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			But the problem is when I'm saying the
		
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			rewards, none of them are there.
		
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			So, I mean, that's good. That's it's good
		
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			that you guys you guys are here for
		
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			and we're going through all of these things.
		
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			You know, you start these things 1 person
		
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			at a time.
		
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			We're we're is this is this like the
		
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			most number of people we've had for the
		
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			whole 10 day I take off in Rockford
		
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			or has there been in the past years
		
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			that we've had more than We never have.
		
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			The the the the the the the the
		
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			the the the
		
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			the
		
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			the the the the the the the the
		
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			the the the the the the the the
		
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			the the the the the the the the
		
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			the the the
		
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			So see, you learned the sunnah and he
		
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			was practicing it. They practiced it at the
		
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			wrong time.
		
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			He didn't know that. Right? So he says,
		
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			all of the all of the people and
		
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			you know, in the Masjid kind of like
		
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			threw a a a harsh look at me.
		
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			And then then afterward, he's he got he
		
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			got vexed. Why did they why did they
		
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			do that to him? So he says,
		
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			he says, he says,
		
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			a figure of speech in Arabic, right? Like,
		
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			what? Like, what did it, what happened? Did
		
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			I just die or something? Why are you
		
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			guys freaking out right now? So what
		
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			why are you looking at me like this?
		
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			So he said, and they're all like this.
		
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			And then he's like, why are you all
		
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			looking at me? Like in the prayer, you
		
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			know? He's like new Muslim. This happens sometimes
		
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			people are new to Islam and stuff like
		
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			that. It happens in the Masjid, you know.
		
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			And so he said everybody started to slap
		
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			their their,
		
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			their thigh to try to tell them to
		
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			be quiet.
		
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			He said, I didn't even know that they're
		
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			what they're trying to communicate to me, but
		
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			I just I became quiet. I didn't have
		
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			anything else to say, but But I didn't
		
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			know they were later I realized, okay, they're
		
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			trying to get me to be quiet.
		
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			But I I was quiet anyway. I fell
		
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			silent anyway.
		
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			And so he said that when the
		
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			was done praying, he says, I swear by
		
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			my mother, by my father, and by mother,
		
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			my mother, that I never saw a better
		
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			teacher
		
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			that was more beautiful in the way he
		
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			taught than the prophet sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			For wallahi,
		
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			he didn't he didn't chastise me, nor did
		
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			he hit me, nor did he curse me.
		
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			Right? This is kind of this happens, you
		
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			know, a little bit yeah.
		
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			Yeah. Anyway, he didn't do any of that
		
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			stuff. Right? He didn't do any of that
		
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			stuff. Rather, he said to him
		
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			said, indeed, this salat,
		
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			it's not,
		
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			it's not correct in the salat to speak
		
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			about anything with people.
		
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			Rather, the salat is to say
		
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			or to say
		
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			or to, read Quran. So this you don't
		
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			speak, communicate with one another, react, or do
		
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			anything in that sense sense. With one another.
		
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			It's only with Allah.
		
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			And so he said that to him. Now,
		
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			one of the, you know, one of the
		
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			things people do is they see hadiths like
		
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			this. They're like, oh, why why
		
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			people? You know, didn't he see the hadith,
		
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			this, that, and the other thing. People should
		
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			see look at the hadith also.
		
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			The the person one time that prophet told
		
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			him that he remembered for his whole life.
		
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			He even narrated the hadith about it. I
		
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			mean, the hadith, he didn't narrate it just
		
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			like the next day, like it's a,
		
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			you know,
		
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			like a like a reality TV show or
		
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			something. You know what I mean?
		
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			He he remembered his whole life and he
		
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			would tell people this is something important happened
		
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			that the prophet told me one time and
		
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			that's it. For the rest of his life,
		
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			he understood. Right?
		
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			So, you know, it goes it goes both
		
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			ways. It doesn't mean that imams and stuff
		
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			like that should be like and teachers should
		
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			be like really horrible and rough with people,
		
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			but
		
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			sometimes, you know, when the student is again,
		
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			unless you gotta crank it up a couple
		
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			of notches as well. So everyone should be
		
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			considerate
		
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			of the other, I guess,
		
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			in order for the system to work.
		
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			Says, so he says so he told me,
		
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			he said that the we don't speak in
		
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			the prayer. It's not correct to speak in
		
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			the prayer with people. Rather, it's
		
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			reading Quran.
		
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			So he said he said something to that
		
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			effect.
		
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			I said to him then afterward, oh messenger
		
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			of Allah, now that now that he's talking
		
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			to him, he said, well, I asked him
		
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			a couple of questions. He said that I'm
		
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			I'm new from Jahiliya. It's not, I've not
		
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			been a Muslim for a very long time.
		
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			And
		
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			Allah brought us Islam.
		
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			And I had a question
		
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			that there are some some people amongst us
		
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			that go to,
		
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			What is a is a is a is
		
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			a of
		
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			is like a soothsayer.
		
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			Right? Somebody who, like, claims to have knowledge
		
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			of the
		
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			have knowledge of the.
		
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			So they're, you know, like oracles and things
		
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			like that. They used to have these amongst
		
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			the Arabs. Right?
		
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			Like the oracle at Delphi, the Greeks, something,
		
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			you know, they used to have these things
		
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			or pagan people have these things.
		
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			No. There's something else that our fortune tellers
		
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			are.
		
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			I'll I'll I'll tell you about that also.
		
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			So, is the difference between
		
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			and is the claims to have
		
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			knowledge of the
		
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			completely.
		
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			Like, he knows, like, talks to the dead
		
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			and, like, knows what's going on in other
		
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			places and he knows what's inside of your
		
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			heart and he, you know, whatever. He's a
		
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			more complete. A is more complete
		
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			type of,
		
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			soothsayer.
		
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			Whereas,
		
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			the fortune teller, is somebody who,
		
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			just tells you, like,
		
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			individual pieces of information.
		
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			So the kahin is the one that they
		
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			would go to to make muchura about important
		
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			things in life. The is the one they
		
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			would go to like, oh, I lost my
		
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			phone. Where is it? You know?
		
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			That's literally that's what they did in the
		
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			shop there. They wrote the the difference between
		
00:43:13 --> 00:43:15
			them. Right? So So he said that their
		
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			people go to. Right? This word is a
		
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			strange word. It's something they accuse the prophet
		
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			of being a as well. Right?
		
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			And as far as I can tell, the
		
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			best etymology I've read for kahin is
		
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			is that,
		
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			has anyone ever, like, known a Jewish person
		
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			by the last name Cohen?
		
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			Yeah. Right? So Cohen is the is is
		
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			the word that they used to use in
		
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			Jakhaniyah for priests as well,
		
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			Semitic speaking people. Right?
		
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			So it must be it must be
		
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			something like that. That that one of the
		
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			word that they use in in Hebrew for
		
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			priest is
		
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			the one who does the temple sacrifices and
		
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			things like that. And so somehow in the
		
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			language, either the original meaning is the soothsayer
		
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			meaning and they say, okay, this is the
		
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			soothsayer of or
		
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			it's the flip side that the like the
		
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			Arabs and the people from around saw them
		
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			doing the sacrifices and these weird things and
		
00:44:05 --> 00:44:07
			thought that, okay, this is, you know, became
		
00:44:07 --> 00:44:09
			like a metaphor for
		
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			for a suit there. Allah knows best.
		
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			So he said, there are some some people
		
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			still amongst us,
		
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			meaning the people like me who just became
		
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			Muslim, that I see that they're going to
		
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			these soothsayers to ask about knowledge about the.
		
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			The prophet said to him, don't go to
		
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			them.
		
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			He said he said, even if people go,
		
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			don't go.
		
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			Don't don't visit them.
		
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			And he said that there are also amongst
		
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			us some people who
		
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			they they they are afraid of bad omen.
		
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			Right? Bad omen is what? Like, you go
		
00:44:40 --> 00:44:42
			out from your house and you see, like,
		
00:44:42 --> 00:44:44
			there's a rain cloud or a black cat
		
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			or god knows all these other things that
		
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			people, you know, people think as think of
		
00:44:48 --> 00:44:51
			as bad omens. Right? Literally, a right?
		
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			Is is a bad omen.
		
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			And right? That we take a bad that's
		
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			what the the the of so many said
		
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			to them.
		
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			That that said, we take a bad omen
		
00:45:02 --> 00:45:04
			from you. You're like a you're you're being
		
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			here is like a sign of bad luck.
		
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			And
		
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			so keep your bad omen to yourself. This
		
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			is nonsense. This is not like a logical
		
00:45:12 --> 00:45:13
			thing to say.
		
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			The word in Arabic for a bad omen
		
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			it comes from the, the
		
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			root, means in Arabic,
		
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			a bird.
		
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			And so how the Arabs used to do
		
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			the the the the
		
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			they take omens, they would say, okay, should
		
00:45:28 --> 00:45:29
			I do this or should I not do
		
00:45:29 --> 00:45:30
			this? You know, I think someone's stupid, they
		
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			shake the 8 ball or something down like
		
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			that and flip a coin. Right?
		
00:45:33 --> 00:45:36
			Right? The Arab version, because they didn't make
		
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			their own coins, I guess. Right? Not everyone
		
00:45:37 --> 00:45:39
			had a coin, I guess. Right? So what
		
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			they would do is they would go in
		
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			the desert to a flock of birds and
		
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			they'd run after it. And if the birds
		
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			would go to the right, they would they
		
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			would take a a human, a good sign
		
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			from it. And if the bird would go
		
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			to the left,
		
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			it's considered a bad omen.
		
00:45:52 --> 00:45:55
			Right? And so the process, I guess, because
		
00:45:55 --> 00:45:57
			of negativity, the process itself
		
00:45:59 --> 00:46:01
			of of taking omens is the same word
		
00:46:01 --> 00:46:02
			they use for a bad omen.
		
00:46:03 --> 00:46:05
			It's kind of like a negative outlook. Like,
		
00:46:05 --> 00:46:07
			yeah, it's probably gonna be bad, but what
		
00:46:07 --> 00:46:08
			the heck? Let's just try it out, you
		
00:46:08 --> 00:46:10
			know. So this is completely haram. Right? The
		
00:46:10 --> 00:46:12
			way you judge what you're gonna do, you
		
00:46:12 --> 00:46:14
			don't judge it based on omens. You judge
		
00:46:14 --> 00:46:16
			it based on does it make sense? Is
		
00:46:16 --> 00:46:18
			it a good thing? You know, use your
		
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			brain and use your use the in
		
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			order to find is it something righteous? Is
		
00:46:22 --> 00:46:24
			it something upright? Is it something worth doing?
		
00:46:24 --> 00:46:26
			Is it something moral? Or is it something
		
00:46:26 --> 00:46:28
			that's gonna benefit me or benefit other people?
		
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			That's what you do. And even if you
		
00:46:30 --> 00:46:32
			see every bad omen, you still go through
		
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			with it. And even if you, even if
		
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			you, see every good omen to do something
		
00:46:37 --> 00:46:38
			bad, you still don't do it. You still
		
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			don't do it. And, this is one of
		
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			the hadith of Sahib of the prophet he
		
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			he was shown some tens of thousands of
		
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			people from his
		
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			on the day of judgment. They will enter
		
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			into Jannah without being asked or having to
		
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			give any account.
		
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			And,
		
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			because,
		
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			because they, they don't take bad omens and
		
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			they don't take charms and amulets
		
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			and they trust in Allah to Allah. They
		
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			trust in their Lord whenever they do anything.
		
00:47:06 --> 00:47:07
			Meaning that even if, like, you know, a
		
00:47:07 --> 00:47:09
			100 black cats walk by, you know, in
		
00:47:09 --> 00:47:10
			front of their door. If they're gonna do
		
00:47:10 --> 00:47:12
			what's the hack, they're gonna do it. They
		
00:47:12 --> 00:47:14
			don't care. They trust in Allah. They're not
		
00:47:14 --> 00:47:15
			concerned with the black cat.
		
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			So he asked that there are some people
		
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			still that get get creeped out by bad
		
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			omens amongst us as well. And the messenger
		
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			of Allah
		
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			said to him, he said that that's something
		
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			that happens. Sometimes you see something,
		
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			and you find in your heart some, like,
		
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			demotivation
		
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			because it happened to do what's right. Said
		
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			he said that that the fact that you
		
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			feel the the or you feel creeped out
		
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			by something happening
		
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			is not the problem. The problem is if
		
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			you use that as an excuse not to
		
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			do what's
		
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			right. So if you see something like that,
		
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			just keep doing what you need to do
		
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			and and and you should be okay.