Ibrahim Negm – May 23 2019 Tarawih Reflections

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The Surah S of the Quran highlights the importance of not being fearful and not getting worried about the situation, citing the Surah's message to make leaders of Israel leaders and deliver them from the dictatorship of pharaoh. The importance of faith and testing one's faith is also emphasized, with a focus on risk and sacrificing for faith to achieve the better place in Jannat al Qaeda. The speaker emphasizes the need to sacrifice for our faith in order to achieve the better place.

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			Also
		
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			a portion of.
		
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			Those of you who are opening,
		
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			their smartphones,
		
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			I have an important message for you
		
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			tonight.
		
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			Extremely important.
		
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			I have to start by saying that which
		
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			is chapter number 28
		
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			of the Quran
		
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			is one of my personal
		
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			favorite Surah s of the Quran and all
		
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			the Surah s and all the verses are
		
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			beautiful.
		
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			But especially this one
		
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			has a relevant
		
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			message for us in this
		
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			difficult days.
		
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			Surah Al Kasas first of all was revealed
		
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			to our beloved prophet at
		
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			difficult times.
		
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			When when he was
		
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			migrating from his hometown,
		
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			his beloved town, Mecca,
		
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			to Madina, to Yeshrib.
		
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			So you could imagine
		
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			and the prophet himself
		
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			he
		
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			when he looked back at his hometown
		
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			leaving his hometown,
		
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			he actually
		
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			shed tears
		
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			until
		
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			his blessed beard
		
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			got wet.
		
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			And he was
		
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			actually calling his blessed town Mecca.
		
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			Saying that your Mecca
		
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			Allah will drove me away
		
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			from you. I would not have left you
		
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			whatsoever.
		
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			So you could imagine
		
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			the sadness and the agony and the
		
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			the feeling of our beloved
		
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			prophet
		
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			So
		
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			around these difficult times, this Surah was revealed
		
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			to give him
		
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			strong hope in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			And that's why
		
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			this as I shared with you, this is
		
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			one of my favorite Surah s of the
		
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			Quran along with the
		
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			and the and
		
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			the
		
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			Al Wakah.
		
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			So this one, this particular one is
		
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			a message of hope for us. How?
		
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			Now I really, literally, I could
		
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			stand here and talk to you about this
		
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			Surah for hours and hours. But
		
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			in 2, 3 minutes,
		
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			I would like to just focus on 2
		
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			insights and 2 message.
		
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			Two messages
		
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			from this blessed Surah.
		
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			And especially sisters
		
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			pay attention to me because it is something
		
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			relevant
		
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			and Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala talks about
		
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			a story of the earlier prophets.
		
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			There is a focus, a concentration,
		
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			a perspective, certain
		
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			perspective
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			wants to emphasize. So what is the focus
		
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			or perspective
		
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			of this Surah? It
		
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			it's basically the early
		
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			stage or the early formation
		
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			of Saidna
		
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			Musa Alaihi Salam.
		
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			His early
		
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			stage
		
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			when he was a a baby, when he
		
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			was
		
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			a child, when he grew up.
		
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			So it is basically his
		
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			life cycle, especially the early cycle. This is
		
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			the focus of this Surah.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala started, I said, just
		
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			2 insights and 2 messages
		
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			from this Surah. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala started
		
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			by talking about how
		
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			horrible
		
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			pharaoh was,
		
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			a dictator.
		
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			He actually
		
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			killed
		
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			an entire generation
		
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			of males,
		
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			the children of Israel.
		
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			He was a dictator.
		
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			He claimed to be the lord.
		
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			So he usurped
		
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			something that is only
		
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			he is the lord. I am the lord.
		
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			Told us and here is the
		
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			insight
		
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			that he
		
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			wanted to bless the children of Israel and
		
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			to make them leaders. And the question is
		
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			how? How Allah
		
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			affected
		
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			his will, his
		
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			how
		
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			if you read those of you who are
		
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			have the Quran with you, if you read
		
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			just verse number 7,
		
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			this is how Allah
		
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			affected his his will
		
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			to make the children of Israel leaders
		
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			and to live to deliver them from the
		
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			agony of pharaoh. How?
		
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			The verse reads
		
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			and listen carefully sisters.
		
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			And
		
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			our the first step how Allah is will
		
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			to make the children of Israel leaders and
		
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			to deliver them from
		
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			the dictatorship
		
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			of pharaoh. How
		
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			we inspired
		
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			into the
		
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			so my dear brothers and sisters, especially sisters,
		
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			to make
		
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			an entire community leaders.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala started by talking about
		
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			about
		
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			the woman,
		
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			the mother of Sayedna Musa Alaihi Salam.
		
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			See how Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			implemented
		
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			his will
		
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			By first talking to
		
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			a poor woman
		
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			telling her
		
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			to breastfeed
		
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			Sayidna Musa Alaihi Salam, the baby.
		
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			And if you are worried about him,
		
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			the logic says,
		
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			be overprotective
		
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			of your baby. But Allah tells her,
		
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			throw him into the river.
		
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			Throw him into the river. How could a
		
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			mother throw her baby into the river? There
		
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			is a promise here.
		
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			Don't get worried.
		
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			Don't be fearful.
		
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			We shall
		
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			return him to you,
		
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			And we shall make him
		
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			one of the messengers.
		
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			And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			he made 2 promises.
		
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			We shall return him to you.
		
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			Did it happen?
		
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			Yes.
		
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			And we shall grant women,
		
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			women,
		
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			sisters,
		
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			mothers,
		
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			this is actually the leaders of the community.
		
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			And if we draw
		
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			parallel to our beloved prophet
		
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			how was crucial?
		
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			How was
		
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			woman being crucial in the life of our
		
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			beloved
		
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			prophet Sayedna Muhammad
		
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			His mother died when he was
		
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			6.
		
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			56.
		
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			Okay. And then he got breastfed
		
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			by Sayidah Halima.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			And then
		
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			used to take care of him with his
		
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			beloved uncle, Sayeda.
		
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			And then he got married to
		
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			first to Khadija.
		
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			Okay? And then later one of his favorite
		
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			wives said
		
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			Aisha
		
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			When Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala give him the
		
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			revelation, where did he go?
		
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			Did he go to the coffee shop or,
		
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			you know, with his friends
		
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			hanging out? No. He went to his Wife.
		
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			Wife. He went to home to his wife.
		
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			And the wife, our beloved business
		
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			women
		
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			in the entire Mecca.
		
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			She devoted all of her wealth to support
		
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			him and to support his dua.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			About the said Aisha, do you know that
		
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			the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam told us
		
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			the Ummah of Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
		
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			take half of your faith
		
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			from this woman.
		
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			Half of the faith
		
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			is transmitted
		
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			through
		
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			or the on the authority of 1 woman,
		
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			Sayda Sayda Isha Rabia Marwan.
		
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			Take half of your faith
		
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			from a woman,
		
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			from this woman, referring to a Sayda Isha
		
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			Radiallahu an.
		
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			So
		
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			woman
		
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			actually
		
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			gives birth to half of the community. Right?
		
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			And she brings up the other half.
		
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			So she is everything.
		
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			So that's the first insight.
		
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			The second insight,
		
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			it's verse number 80
		
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			you know my dear, the life span of
		
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			any one of us.
		
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			Maybe 80, 85 years, 90,
		
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			100,
		
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			120,
		
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			you
		
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			know.
		
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			With this time and age,
		
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			and,
		
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			it's very difficult. And if we are healthy,
		
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			you know, and we when we get 70
		
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			or 80, this is a blessing.
		
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			This life is full of tests.
		
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			Sickness is a test. Wealth is a test.
		
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			Children is a test. Everything is a test.
		
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			And then
		
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			we get
		
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			to ask ourselves,
		
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			how are we going to pass this test?
		
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			When is it going to end?
		
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			Allah answers
		
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			in verse number 83. So again chapter
		
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			28 verse
		
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			83.
		
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			Where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us
		
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			the good end shall be for the righteous.
		
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			The good end shall be for the righteous.
		
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			No matter how difficult life is,
		
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			but remain righteous, my dear brothers and sisters.
		
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			Remain pile of
		
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			has big houses or
		
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			fancy cars or
		
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			attractive
		
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			bank accounts.
		
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			The one who is successful is the one
		
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			who will make it to paradise
		
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			and Allah will save him from the torment
		
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			of * fire.
		
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			Allah is telling us this, the good end
		
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			shall be for the righteous.
		
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			We need to sacrifice
		
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			we need to sacrifice for the sake of
		
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			our faith.
		
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			Our faith did not come to us on
		
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			a silver platter, my dear brothers and sisters.
		
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			It came through many sacrifices.
		
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			In the early
		
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			days, Sayidna Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Salam, Sayidna Abu
		
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			Bakr Radiallahu Anha,
		
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			Sayidna Ali, Sayidna Osman, Sayidna Abu Bakr, and
		
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			many many others.
		
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			You know Sayidna Abu Bakr Sadiq
		
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			who is one of the wealthiest
		
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			businessmen
		
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			in Mecca.
		
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			But he
		
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			actually
		
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			he spent all of his cash flow
		
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			to support the dawah of Sayidna Muhammad He
		
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			freed
		
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			slaves
		
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			among whom was Sayidna
		
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			Bilal
		
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			our faith to sacrifice
		
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			for this world so that we could earn
		
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			the better place
		
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			in Jannat al Firdausil
		
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			Allah with our beloved prophet
		
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			yourself.
		
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			So again, the two insights.
		
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			Sisters,
		
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			you are so crucial
		
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			in our life and in the life of
		
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			Islam.
		
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			Number 2,
		
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			the good end shall be for the righteous
		
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			people.