Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Shaykh Hamzah Maqbul Competitive Spirit

Hamzah Wald Maqbul
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The importance of remembering Prophet's teachings during the Khutba's hour is discussed, along with the importance of shambling and not hesitating to do what's right. The speaker emphasizes the need for individuals to achieve their goals and the importance of real concessions and real struggles in achieving them. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to struggles with the community and the media, but the Prophet sends Khuzayfa to teach the whole MAC and affirms the need for volunteer volunteer. The speaker also discusses the use of a turban on a man named Sayyidina and the importance of not being caught in the back rank and not being caught with a sword.
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Our young friends from the school come forward.

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Come forward.

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Sit with the Muslims.

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You're one of them.

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Whoever is not injured or or aged or

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ill, come forward.

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Sit in the sufuf inshallah with the rest

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of the Muslims inshallah.

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All praises to Allah.

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All praises to Allah.

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All praises to Allah who guided us to

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this.

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Who guided us to Islam, and to iman,

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and to his Mubarik house, on this Mubarik

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hour, on this Mubarik day, and we were

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not to be guided, was it not that

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Allah had guided us?

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Oh Allah, to you is praise as is

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commensurate with the majesty of your countenance and

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the greatness of your authority.

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Oh Allah, we do not limit you with

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any praise. We can come up with ourselves,

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rather we admit that You are the only

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one who knows the true extent of Your

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praise worthiness.

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And may the peace and blessings of Allah

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subhanahu wa ta'ala be upon His servant and

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messenger,

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our master Saydna Muhammad salallahu alayhi wasalam.

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May the peace and blessings of Allah

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be upon him, and upon his

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noble companions, and upon

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his pure wives, and upon his Mubarak, and

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blessed family and progeny,

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and upon all of those who follow all

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of their way until the day of judgment.

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The Nabi

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his

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Sahaba radiAllahu ta'ala Anhum,

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he not only taught them how to recite

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the Qur'an and memorize the Quran,

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but he taught them how to live the

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Quran.

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This is a living tradition that's alive till

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this day.

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Many of us are not connected to it,

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because we don't choose to put in the

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time.

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We don't choose to

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put in the effort. We don't choose to

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put in the learning. We don't choose to

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put in the companionship that's required in order

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to inherit it from

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them,

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from those who preserved it from the Prophet

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and those who preserved it from them generation

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after generation.

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But there are such people. Even in our

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community, there are people who put in the

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time and the effort in order to preserve

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that tradition.

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So sometimes somebody will do something, it seems

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strange.

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It seems strange to the one who hasn't

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been familiarized with it, but the one who's

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familiarized with it, it will be something very,

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normal to them.

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I receive a number of questions.

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Why do you carry a stick?

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Next question. Are you going to hit me?

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Have I hit anybody yet?

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No. My, beloved,

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young brothers,

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from the Rockford School,

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it's

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not to speak during the Khutba because the

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Khutba is as if it's like the salah.

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So when the khatib during the Jumu Khutba

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ask a question, it's what they call it,

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rhetorical question. I mean it's more to get

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you to think, less to get you to

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talk. But despite that, the young man answered

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correctly, I haven't hit anybody with it yet.

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It's not what it's here for.

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It's what a sunnah of the

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Prophet

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We have several people in this congregation who

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have,

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attended

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seminary's of

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traditional Islamic learning. They've read the books of

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fiqh, and they've actually seen the do this.

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The Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, one of

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his sunan is that you don't, Hey, it's

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no flake. Bashir.

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Why are you writing stuff during the Khutba?

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Do you write stuff during salat, my friend?

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No.

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Right?

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So, kind of the the the the khutbah

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of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,

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it was

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one that is moved toward

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stillness and calmness.

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The Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was not

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a raging demagogue. He didn't use to gesticulate,

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or beat things, or hit things during his

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speech. Rather, his speech was very simple and

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very straightforward.

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And one of the hikmas, the wisdoms that

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the say about carrying something while you're giving

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the khutba is what? It keeps your hands

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still. It keeps your hands still from moving.

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There are other hikmas, but this is not

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a fit class, so we won't get into

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it right now. Suffice to say, it is

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a sunnah of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa

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sallam.

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There may be other sunan also that that

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that a person may implement.

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The best way to find out about why

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the imam does a certain thing is to

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ask. It's a hadith of the prophet sallallahu

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alaihi wasallam. Shifa'ul ayasualuka

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maqalalayhi

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wasallam.

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That the way to cure the disability of

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not knowing

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is what? Is to ask. Then you will

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know inshallah. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala increase all

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of us in knowledge. It's a command of

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Allah to the prophet then to the rest

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of the Ummah.

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And

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say and say and say, you Muhammad, and

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say, oh, Ummah Muhammad

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My Lord, increase me in knowledge. And knowledge

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is,

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1st and foremost, the knowledge of Allah and

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His Rasul

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because it's a knowledge it's a knowledge that

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doesn't die with this dunya, rather it lives

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forever.

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So continuing with the syllabus of Khutbaat that

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we've had thus far, the last

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time I was on the mimbar, on the

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pulpit, we spoke about what? About having courage,

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about not being a coward,

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about having courage that when you do what's

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right, Allah

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will

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help a person, and Allah

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will reward a person, and whatever a person

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thinks they may lose, they're probably not going

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to lose it, and if they do, Allah

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will give them something better in its place.

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Today we want to talk about what, almubadara.

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Not only doing what's right, but doing what's

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right quickly, not hesitating to do what's right.

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Not hesitating to do what's right, not being

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slow to do what's right, rather being people

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who, when asked to do something by Allah

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and his Rasul

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they move forward without hesitation.

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Allah ta'ala says in his book,

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And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says, (QS.

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3) He says what?

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In his book. He describes the people of

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highest rank as those people who are Sabaqa

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yasbikoo

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means to race with one another. The sabbath

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is the person who wins a race.

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Literally, he describes it as a race. That

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you compete with one another, you vie with

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one another in order to do good. You

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try to beat one another. The competition I

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know this is something that exists everywhere. There

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are certain people who have the stroke of,

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of competition in them. Shiddhatulmunafasa.

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It's part of the mundane nature of a

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person

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that when they're competing with somebody else,

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a new spirit or a new nature comes

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out in them, and they go for the

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gold, they go for the gusto, they do

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something that they're otherwise not able to do.

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I'm told that there's a very regular

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volleyball

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game that happens in this masjid, in which

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certain brothers, their their their,

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comes forth more than others, good for you.

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Good for you,

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Good for you. Compete with one another, but

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know that your competition is not saved for

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the

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game of volleyball or for the Super Bowl

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or for the stupid bowl or for any

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of these other

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games of the dunya, that your actual Puwatul

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Munafasa, it's something it's genetically wired into every

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animal. It's genetically wired into every living being

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that shuddhatalmunafasadhaqhuatalmunafasad.

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That

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that that, intensity when competing with one another,

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it's wired into every animal. It's just something

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that human beings have, and it's wired into

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every animal for a hikma, and the hikma

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is what? For survival. For survival. Because when

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a person needs to find something to eat,

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when a person needs to find some sort

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of basic necessity, when a person needs to,

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flee from, his enemies, like a a prey

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flees from a predator,

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at that time this,

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this

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and the

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this capacity and this intensity,

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it comes in very handy, and it saves

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a person's life time and time again, just

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like it saves the lives of animals, and

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it saves the lives of other living beings.

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Now, we are also

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So

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when

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So when an animal runs for its life,

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when the deer is running away from a

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lion or from a cheetah, what is it

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trying to do? It's trying to save its

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corporeal and its mundane life.

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When a person runs toward Allah

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when a person quickens to do good deeds,

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when a person runs away from bad deeds,

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when a person runs away from evil, this

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is there to save their spiritual life. Your

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human life in this world will last how

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long?

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20 years, 30 years, 40 years, 50 years,

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60 years, 70 years, 80, 90, a 100,

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a 110? How long are you going to

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last in this world? You're not gonna last

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much more than that. Even if you last

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10 times, or even if you live a

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1000 years, at the end of it, it's

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going to finish.

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So this shidhatulmunafasa,

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this khuatulmunafasa

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that that you have inside of you hardwired,

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and that I have inside of me hardwired.

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This is something that we should use to

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our advantage. This is something it's not a

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bad thing. Maybe we think the animalistic nature

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of a person is something that is, drives

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a person toward evil. We don't we don't

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believe that. We don't believe that everything of

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this dunya is evil. This is the,

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or that it's an illusion. These are the,

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the philosophies of many of the Christians and

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many of, Eastern religions respectively, that the dunya

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is evil, or that the dunya is

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illusory. We say it's not only not evil,

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it's what you make out of it. And

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it's definitely not illusory, it's real. If it's

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an illusion, then no one should mind if

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somebody borrows another person's wallet.

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This

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is something that Allah taps into in his

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book. What does he say?

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The people who win this race, the people

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who compete in this race, not of again,

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taking a ball and running,

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or throwing a ball at a hoop, or

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of hitting a ball with a racket, or

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any of these things that we spend all

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of our munafasa, and it's good to compete

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while you're playing sports, have fun, inshallah. It's

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only a game. This life is not a

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game, however.

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This is something Allah gave it to us

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so that we can

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maximize and we can,

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realize and actualize

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the reward Allah has prepared for, those who

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use the

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aqal, the the intellect that was given to

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them and walked the path of righteousness.

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And so that a person can preserve themselves

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and stay away from the enemy, from the

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predator, which will not just kill their life

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in this world, but which will kill their

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everlasting life in the hereafter.

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What does he say in his book? He

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says, Sarii'u,

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vie with one another for the forgiveness of

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Allah

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How many doors of Allah's forgiveness are open?

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The masjid is there, the Islamic school is

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there, The salat is there. The siam is

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there. You can fast on Mondays and,

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Thursdays. You can fast on the white days

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of every month. You can fast when you

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want to, if you want to. The only

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day it's haram to fast is on the

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days of days of Eid and the Ayam

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shirk, and there's even certain exceptions to that

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as well. And, you know, like, what are

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the doors of Allah for

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you to vie for his malfirah, for his

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forgiveness? You can work on yourself.

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You can work on your community. You can

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do service to Muslims. You can do service

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for non Muslims. You can do service for

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animals. You can do service for plants. You

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can do service for the earth. You can

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do so many things. There are so many

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doors open for the manfirah of

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for the forgiveness of Allah

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The only thing is for a person to

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move themselves, for a person to get that

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ability inside of themselves, to get moving in

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order to actualize that potential, in order to

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benefit from what Allah

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has laid forth for his creation, who believes

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in him and who trusts in him.

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Compete with one another. What's the prize? The

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magfirah, the forgiveness of Allah

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And such a jannah, such a paradise that

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its width is wider than the heavens and

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the earth. As wide as all of the

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heavens and the earth, wider than the heavens

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which is prepared for the people who fear

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Him, Jallahu Allah. Allah says in his book,

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he describes what? He describes Jannah.

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Such a drink, the seal of which is

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like musk, it's like a beautiful

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fragrance.

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The people who are going to compete with

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one another, let them compete for that. Now

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what did we start the Khutba by saying?

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We said that the Quran is a book,

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to us it's something that we read in

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order to get our ritual prayers out of

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the way, and we memorize in order to

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say that we are a hafid or in

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order to read the salatul Tawawih. But what

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is it to us? The Sahaba radiAllahu ta'ala

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anhu every ayah of it was a part

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of their life. Every ayah of it was

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a part of their life. The Nabi sallallahu

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alaihi wa sallam, so many occasions of his

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Usida tandrib and the training that he gave

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to the Sahaba radiAllahu ta'ala Anhum.

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Hudayfa ibnuliaman.

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He is

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with the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam

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and with the believers in Madinah Munawara

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during the siege of Khandaq.

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The siege that the Mushrikeen,

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who gathered a confederacy

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of of Arab tribes to form an army

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the likes of which the Arabian Peninsula

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has not seen anything greater than it before.

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He gathered such a large army, the likes

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of which the Arabian Peninsula had never seen

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an army greater than that before.

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Their intent per their intent and their sole

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purpose is to what? To siege Madinah Munawwara,

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to breach the siege of Madinah Munawwara, to

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massacre its inhabitants, to destroy its crops and

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livelihood,

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in order to,

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root out Islam.

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And they didn't have any,

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rage or anger or spite or bone to

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pick with them, except for those people believed

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in Allah

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Allah the most mighty and the most worthy

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of praise.

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And what happens? You see that the, Sahaba

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after giving,

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mashura, namely, giving

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mashura to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam, consulting

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with the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam, they decide

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that Madina is naturally protected

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by mountains and by lava tracks

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on three sides. And on the 4th side

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where it's open, they will dig a ditch,

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and they will use that ditch to impede

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the army of the Mushrikeen, the army of

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the Hazzab from entering into Madinah Munawwara.

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And they wait out this siege. They wait

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out this siege. It's not like, you know,

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the army corps of engineers come in helicopters,

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and they're equipped, and they know what they're

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doing, and it's something that's done, while the

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rest of America sits at home and, you

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know, watches watches TV. It's not like that.

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Every single one of the Ansar

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who are able to. Old people and children,

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even the Prophet

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they had to start digging right away, and

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quickly, and work hard. And they didn't have

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anything to eat. They already mentioned before that

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the Ansar weren't, super wealthy people, and there

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would be days, if not weeks that would

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go by, in which people would only have

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dates and water to eat and drink. And

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now you have a siege in which goods

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and services are no longer able to freely,

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come in and out of the city. So

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you have

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a type of economic panic,

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that happens in Madinah Munawwara,

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which results in what? Nothing to eat. And

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so what happens is that it's so difficult

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right now, it's so difficult that they're all

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digging,

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and the, Ansar are so hungry that they

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have to tie stones to their stomachs in

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order to suppress the pangs of hunger, in

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order to keep working. If they don't dig

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the ditch, when the mushrikeen come, they will

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breach the city, and it will be the

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end of everything. It will be the end

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of them, their property, their lives, their family,

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and more importantly, it will be the end

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of Islam. So they all dig. They come

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at some point and ask the Messenger of

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Allah

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You Rasoolullah,

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do something for us. We're hungry. We're hungry.

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We're so hungry that we have to tie

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stones to our stomachs in order to suppress

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the pangs of hunger. Nabi

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lifts his shirt and shows what? That he

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indeed doesn't have one stone, but 2 stones

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tied to his stomach while he's digging.

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This is real. This is not fake. This

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is not fairy tale Islam that you go

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watch a movie, you go watch American Sniper,

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and you feel like you did something for

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your country. This is an illusion.

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The the the the,

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benefit that any civilization receives, it's not from

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these things. It's not from watching a movie

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and crying for 2 minutes, and then going

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back to your comfort. It's by real sacrifice.

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It's by going through real difficulty.

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What happens

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is that the siege is there and it

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continues for several,

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days, it continues for weeks.

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Near the end of the siege, on a

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day, remember the Sahaba

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are tired and they're hungry. They're taking turns

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taking watch by day and night. It's cold.

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And the cold in the desert, a person

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doesn't think about the desert being a cold

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place, but for anyone who spent time in

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the Badia before, you know that the dry

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cold of the desert, it chills a person

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to the bone. It's something that it's it's

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very difficult to withstand, and because it's so

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dry, a person's skin cracks. I mean it's

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really a harsh type of cold. What happens

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is near the end of the,

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near the end of the siege, the Prophet

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sends Khuzayfa,

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he asked the the gathering of the sahaba

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radiAllahu anhu, I need somebody to breach the

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at nighttime, to breach

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the the the ditch, and go to the

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other side and spy on them, and see

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what are they talking about, what are they

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saying. Who's who's going to volunteer?

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Nobody volunteers.

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Nobody volunteers. The prophet

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says, Huzaifa.

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And he said, Now Huzaifa who

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says, You Rasulullah, yeah. He he affirms, he

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says, Yes. He says, I'm here. He says,

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Khudayfa is here, and he didn't volunteer on

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his own? And he says, No, I'm at

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your service, You RasulAllah. And he said, I

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didn't want to volunteer. It was cold. They're

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human beings. He said, I didn't want to

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go out there. It's dangerous enough. Imagine you're

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going to breach your fortification,

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and then afterward go into an enemy camp

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and see what they're talking about when there's

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only 1 of you and 10,000 of them?

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And on top of it, it's so cold

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that a person wouldn't even want to go

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out and walk to the gas station and

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buy a gallon of milk if they were

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asked to do so. But the Nabi sallallahu

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alaihi wasallam said so, and he went. He

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got up and he went. He said, wallahi,

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after the prophet

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sent me on this,

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on this task, he said that the coldness

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went from me. He said, I didn't feel

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cold again. And I went into the camp

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of the mushrikeen,

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and I overheard the people arguing with Abu

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Sufyan about what to do. And Abu Sufyan,

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who's the leader of the mushrikeen, he's their

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leader, he's supposed to inspire them. He himself

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was so dejected,

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he he,

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would refuse to listen to anybody who wanted

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to keep the siege on, and he himself

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got up and started packing his tent, and

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said, I'm leaving if any of you want

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to stay for the siege. That's your problem.

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And he came back and gave the good

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news to the Messenger of Allah

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What was the Prophet

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teaching them? He was teaching them what? Be

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the first one to volunteer. Don't be the

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person who hangs back until they're forced to

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do so, until the community is forced to

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do so, until the people from the school,

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or from the masjid get up and say,

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Well, we have this loan, and you see

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if we don't pay it on time, they're

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going to foreclose on some part of the

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masjid, and so for that reason, we haven't

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paid our salary of our employees for like

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the last,

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you know, 7 months, or something like that.

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These types of dramas that oftentimes end up

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happening in a lot of Don't wait for

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that point. If you know there's something that

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needs to be done, get up and do

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it. And so Sayyidina Hudayfa said what? The

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prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam volunteered me.

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Right? He volunteered me. And the barakah of

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that was what? A, I didn't feel cold,

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and b, what we saw was something completely

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we didn't expect.

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And these these Sahaba, radiallahu, and whom, 1

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by 1, they received this tarbia, this training

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from the Prophet

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You see after he leaves the world, they'll

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never hesitate from anything. There's a hadith of

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Sahih Bukhari in which the Nabi

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describes a group of people

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describes a group of people who on the

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yawmuktiyama,

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they will enter

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into jannah without having to give any hisab,

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without having to give any account. They'll just

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be let in without having to go through

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the formalities of the day of judgment, which

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will be harsh on everybody.

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They'll enter in without having to be judged.

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And the Prophet

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described them as the people

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who don't get afraid by evil omen. People

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say, Oh, that's bad luck. This is gonna

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happen to you, that's gonna happen to you.

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They say, Who cares what's gonna happen? If

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it's the command of Allah and His Rasul

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so be it. What happens, happens.

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They're the people who don't take evil omens,

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and they're the ones who don't depend on

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good luck charms, and they're the ones when

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they do something, they trust in Allah, they

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trust in their Lord.

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They're the ones who they trust in their

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Lord whenever they do something. Saying, Hearing

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this description,

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a person says, Woah. That's difficult. What am

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I going to do? How am I going

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to do that? How am I going to

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be a person who doesn't get phased when

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the specter

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of difficulty, or the specter of punishment, or

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the specter of financial or physical loss is

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looming in my face. How am I going

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to do that? Sayyidina Aqasha radiAllahu anhu didn't

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bat an eyelash, he says, You Rasool Allah,

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make du'a that I'm one of them. And

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the Nabi salallahu alayhi wa sallam makes dua

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for him. And then another one raises his

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hand and says, You Rasulullah, make dua for

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me too. He says, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,

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sabakakabihi

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okasha.

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Okasha beat you to it.

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You you you, hesitated?

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So this is not your, this is not

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your gig. This is not your thing. He

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already beat you to it. It's become a

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mithal, andal Arab. It's become a proverb amongst

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the Arabs. If

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you wanna do something, someone else beat you

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to it, they say that. They say, sabaka

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kabiha, or kasha. It's Ukasha already beat you

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to it, meaning that there was a time

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to do it, and you already missed it.

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This is a training he gave to them

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On the day of Uhud, the Prophet

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when his army

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is arrayed in front of the mushrikeen.

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This is an army again, facing a very

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large army for Arabian standards. 3,000 of the

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mushrikeen, well equipped, well armed, practicing training, and

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and whipped up in in fervor,

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in order to destroy the prophet

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and in order to destroy Islam. The Muslims

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are outnumbered by more than 3 to 1.

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And what happens when the army is arrayed

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in front of the and they're out to

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defend Madinah Munawara, because it's the same thing.

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They're going to be destroyed by the mushrikeen

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if they don't. They meet the, army of

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the, of the mushrikeen at Uhud. Badr is

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very far away from Madinah. Uhud is, like,

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literally walking distance. In the Ottoman times,

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the, Ottoman garrison, including the governor, they used

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to have a procession once a week where

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they would walk from the masjid of the

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Prophet

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to Uhud, in order to pray for the,

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for the souls of those people who gave

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their lives on

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the day of Uhud in the defense of

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Islam, because there are people that everyone who

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will say, La ilaha illallah, tell the day

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of judgment, owes them a debt of gratitude,

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and owes them that you should make du'a

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for them. It's that close though that you

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can walk. They walk to that point to

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where the battle of Uhud takes place. Their

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army is arrayed in front of them. It's

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an army that's 3 times their size, better

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equipped, better trained, and with a mission to

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destroy them. And the Nabi

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one of the things he does is he

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holds out a sword, he holds his hand

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out, and he offers a sword to the

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arrayed ranks of the believers, and he says

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to them,

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Who will take the sword from me? The

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hadith of Sahib Bukhari says that every single

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one of these sahabah

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they stretch their hand forward, they stretched literally

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stretched their hands forward. They said, I'll take

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it. I'll take it.

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Me, pick me, pick me.

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And then the Prophet

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said something very serious.

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He says, Who will take it with its

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haqq? Who will take it with its haqq?

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Who will take it with its haqq? Who

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will take it with its right?

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And all of them paused for a second.

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All of them paused for ajamal qaumu. All

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of them paused for just a split second,

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except for who? Except for Abu Dujana. He

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was one of the Ansar. He's not a

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nobleman of Quraysh. He's not a person you

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will hear many hadiths narrated from. He never

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became a

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governor of anything. He never became the,

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you know,

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a Mufti or an Alem from the ulama

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of the sahaba

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They never appointed him khalifa or even discussed

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it. He was a very normal person.

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Right? So, what happens is that this amsari,

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he

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puts his hand out, and he doesn't skip

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a beat. And he says, I'll take it

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with its hat You Rasulullah.

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And so the Prophet

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extends his hands out and gives it to

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him. He extends his hand out and he

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gives it to him. And so, Sayyidina,

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I believe Zubayr bin Awam, but I'm not

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sure right now. My my my head is

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blinking, inshallah. We can look it up and

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ask. But one of the great Sahaba, one

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of the ashalamu bashirin biljannah,

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they wonder, why did the Nabi salallahu alaihi

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wa sallam give it to him, not give

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it to me? Who is this person? There

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must be some reason, or some hikmah the

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Prophet

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gave him the sword.

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And so he said, I followed him then.

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When

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we broke rank

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and prepared for battle, he said, I followed

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him into the camp of the Ansar.

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And what happened is I heard the Ansar

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whispering.

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They said, oh, he took out the

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he took out the turban of death, and

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he took a red turban out. Red is

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an interesting color. Right? You notice that traditional

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Chinese weapons, they always have like a red

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streamer,

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attached to them. Their swords and their spears

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and things like that because it catches the

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eye. Which is very dangerous if you're in

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battle. If you're going to draw attention to

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yourself,

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that's usually

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a sign of almost recklessness. It's not something

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that a normal person would do. He takes

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out a red turban and he puts it

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on, and he psychs himself out, and he

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reads the following two lines of poetry. He

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says,

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He says, I am the one. I am

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the one that my Khalil, my friend, my

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beloved one, he took an oath from me

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once. He took an oath from me once

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when we were at the base of the

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mountain,

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under the shade of a palm tree. The

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oath that's being referenced is the

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and whom first pledged their allegiance to the

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Prophet

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Today we say,

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and we don't think about it. It is

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a pledge, it's an oath, it's a mithaq

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between you and between your Lord, that you

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won't worship anyone other than him, that you

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won't ever forget him for any instant of

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your life,

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Those people took that mithaq very seriously. He

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said, I am the one whom my khalil,

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my beloved one

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took an oath from him. When we were

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at the base of the mountain, underneath the

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shade of the palm tree, that

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no matter how long time lasts,

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no matter how long time lasts, He'll never

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catch me sitting in the back row.

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He'll never catch me in the back row.

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This is in the context of what? This

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is in the context of battle. He put

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the red turban on, and he's standing in

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the front line, and he says that, My

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Khaleel salallahu alaihi wa sallam will never catch

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me in the back row. Now tell me

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who amongst you are is going to? Do

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jihad fisabilillah.

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Nobody is going to go out like that.

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Nobody amongst you is going to risk your

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life intentionally.

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But what excuse do we have? We don't

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have the maqam of the sahabah radiAllahu anhu.

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What excuse do you have, and what excuse

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do I have? That the time for salaat

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comes, and we're sitting in the back of

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the masjid.

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Oh,

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oh, my Iqra school brothers,

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I'm talking to you. Why do you think

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I pick on you guys? Do you think

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I pick on you just because I wanna

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be like mean to you? No. This is

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what Islam is. This is a teaching of

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Islam. Look at those people, the sincerity, the

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sacrifice with which they propel themselves forward. They

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they they reminded themselves again and again. I'm

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the one that the rasul

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will never catch me hanging back in the

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back rank. I'm always the one if if

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I can, I'll be there in the front.

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I'll be there on time. I'm the one

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when someone is asked to do something, I'll

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be the first one to jump to my

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feet and say, Labbeg. I will be the

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first one to jump to my feet and

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offer whatever I can for the sake of

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Allah and for the sake of ir Rasul

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as long as I'm able. If I'm strong,

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I'll offer a lot, And if I'm weak,

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I'll offer what little I can, but I'm

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never one who's just gonna sit in the

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back for the sake of sitting in the

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back. It's something that's more valuable to me

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than this world, and what's in it. This

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wafaa is why Allah Ta'ala chose them to

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carry the message of Islam.

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Allah aqumu dahala filkayuli,

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that they'll never catch me. No one will

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ever catch me as long as time exists.

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No one will ever catch me hanging in

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the back rank. And when I strike, I'll

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strike with the sword of Allah and His

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Rasul

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May Allah

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give us all so much tafir. May Allah

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give such a feeling in all of our

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hearts, inshaAllah. Sometimes we forget, may Allah forgive

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us, and may Allah send us a reminder

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that we will benefit from,

00:31:04 --> 00:31:06

and and and and make us amongst those

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that that Allah and Hisr Rasulullah

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alaihi wa sallam will never catch us sitting

00:31:09 --> 00:31:11

in the back, will never catch us lagging

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behind. That we're always the first ones to

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say, I'll take it, I'll take it, You

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Rasulullah.

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I'll take it, You Allah. Whatever you ask

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of me, I'll do it insha Allah, and

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may the help of Allah be with the

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one who has such courage inside of their

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heart, and may Allah protect them in this

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world and the Hereafter.

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WassalaAllahu ta'ala Rasulihi Sayna Muhammad, Wallillahi lhamdulillahi

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wa salamajma'inallahuma

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