Iqbal Gora – Friday Khutba True Faith Sheikh

Iqbal Gora
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The transcript discusses the loss of lives in Afghanistan and the need for people to be more aware of the situation. The importance of belief in Allah s.a.w. and the struggles of individuals achieving their beliefs are also discussed. The transcript highlights the importance of avoiding optimization and showing mercy and forgiveness. The transcript also touches on the reduction of a list of six people in Mecca to six people and the reduction of optimism and pessimism in society.
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Inna alhamdulillah Nahmadu wa nasta'eenu wa nastaghfiruh

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wa na'udhu billahi min shururi anfusina wa

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min sayyi'ati a'malina ma yahdihi allahu fa

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la mudhilla lah wa ma yudhlil fa la

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haadiya lah wa shahidu an la ilaha illa

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allah wahdahu la shariika lah wa shahidu anna

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muhammadan abduhu wa rasuluh ya ayyuha allatheena aamanu

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attaqu allaha haqqa tuqatih wa la tamutunna illa

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wa antum muslimun ya ayyuha an-naasu attaqu

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rabbakum allathee khalaqa qum min nafsin wahida wa

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khalaqa minha zawjaha wa battha minhuma rijalan kathiran

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wa nisa'a wa attaqu allaha allathee tasa

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'alun bihi wa al-urhaam inna allaha kana

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alaykum raqiba ya ayyuha allatheena aamanu attaqu allaha

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wa quluu qawlin sadida yuslih lakum a'malakum wa

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yaghfir lakum dhunubakum wa mayuta'illaha wa rasulahu

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faqada faaza fawzna azeema amma ba'd alhamdulillah wa

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salatu wassalamu ala rasulillah Allah subhanahu wa ta

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'ala's help will not come for the muslimin

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's help will not

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come for the muslimin we have seen that

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over the past year and especially within the

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past week we know that a village in

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Lebanon was blown up in its entirety there

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were over 40,000 people and this is

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a low number of people that were killed

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over the past year likely it is much

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higher than this and when we do an

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estimation and a calculation it's over 50 kids

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that have been killed every single day and

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many of us would have seen the images

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of that young brother the one that was

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a hafidh by the name of Shaaban Ahmed

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he was a young brother of ours, 19

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years old trying to become a software engineer

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and yet we see the images of him

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while he has an ivy attached to him

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burning up Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's help

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will not come for the muslimin now what

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is the proof of this?

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the proof of this is the Qur'an

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because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, what does

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he say in the Qur'an?

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he says wa kaana haqqan alayna nasrul mu'minin

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it is incumbent upon Allah subhanahu wa ta

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'ala that he helps the mu'min not the

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muslim and there's a distinction between these two

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categories of people and that will be part

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of the discussion of today's khutbah and the

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second aspect is having optimism and addressing those

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individuals that believe that Allah subhanahu wa ta

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'ala's help surely will not come because it

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is incumbent that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

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helps the mu'min now when it comes to

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the distinction between a mu'min and a muslim

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this is mentioned directly in the Qur'an

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in the end of surah al-hujurat Allah

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subhanahu wa ta'ala, he mentions a situation

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and a scenario in which a man came

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to an-nabi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and

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he was a bedouin man from the desert

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outskirt regions of Arabia he came to the

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prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and he said

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that I profess iman Allah subhanahu wa ta

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'ala instructs an-nabi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam

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to tell him that when this man came

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that when this man came and he professed

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that I have iman tell him that no,

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you don't yet have iman but rather you

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have submitted you have the external factors you

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might be one that is performing the five

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daily prayers giving the zakah, giving the charity

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fasting the month of Ramadan and going for

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hajj but these are external you don't yet

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have what is necessitated by this statement of

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being one who has iman and in fact

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when we go further into these ayat Allah

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subhanahu wa ta'ala thereafter he discusses the

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quality of one that truly professes iman the

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first and primary characteristic that he has an

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-nabi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam mentions in many

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ahadith about the qualities of a believer as

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well Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala he starts

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off by mentioning to us that the first

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quality that a person has is the one

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that believes, the one that truly professes iman

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and not just Islam is one that believes

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in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and the

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messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam then they have

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absolutely no doubt at all in this belief

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because there are some people that would say

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they would take what's called the Pascal's wager

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named after a French mathematician by the name

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of Pascal and he's talking from a Christian

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paradigm but the idea and concept still implies

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or still has a relevance to muslimin a

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person might say for example he's talking about

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a person that takes what's called the Pascal's

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wager they might say that there may be

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a jannah, there may be a jahannam there

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might be *, there might be heaven and

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this life is limited so in order to

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maximize my benefit I would rather opt for

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believing in the event that there might be

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a next life, there might be a heaven

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and there might be a * let me

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try my best just in case there is

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one to try to be as best as

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I can but this is not true yaqeen

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and that is not what is mentioned and

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meant by this ayah that and in fact

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many ahadith and Nabi s.a.w. would

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profess his belief in Allah s.a.w.

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for example when he would perform the tahajjud

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prayer one of those supplications that he would

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make is he would say Allahumma anta al

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haq wa wa'aduka al haq wa liqa

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'uka haq wa al jannahu haq wa al

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naru haq wa al sa'atu haq all

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of these things are true death, jahannam, jannah,

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the afterlife the promise of Allah s.a

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.w. this is true so this is the

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first part of having that level of iman

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and not simply iman not simply Islam another

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part of this is what happens we can

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discuss is when a person truly has this

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quality of believing in Allah s.a.w.

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firmly Allah s.a.w. tells us in

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the Quran about a good word alam tara

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kayfa daraba allahu mathalan kalimatan tayyibatan kashajaratin tayyiba

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asluha thabitun wa faru'uha fissama tu'ti ukuluha

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kulla heenin bi izni rabbiha Allah s.a

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.w. here in this set of verses is

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giving a parable of a good word and

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the mufassiroon say that this good word is

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the statement of la ilaha illallah muhammadun rasulullah

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when you have this within you asluha thabit

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you're someone who is firm someone whose roots

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are deep and fixed and Allah s.a

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.w. is comparing this to that of a

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good tree that this good word is like

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that of a good tree asluha thabit wa

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faru'uha fissama and its branches are in

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the sky tu'ti ukuluha kulla heenin bi izni

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rabbiha and it's producing fruits that if you

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truly have this iman the fruits of this

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iman will be seen on your limbs and

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on your tongue and in every aspect of

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how you are trying to be close to

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Allah s.a.w. in your good deeds

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you will see this and that is why

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al-Nabi s.a.w. in many ahadith

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he mentions the quality of a believer and

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what if a person truly believes they possess

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these qualities for example al-Nabi s.a

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.w. he mentions in a narration that man

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kaana yu'minu bi Allahi wal yawmul aakhir fal

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yaqul khayran awliyasmut the one that truly believes

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has iman, not just Islam in Allah s

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.a.w. in Allah and the day of

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judgment he will say that which is good

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or remain silent how many of us are

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Muslim but we say whatever we want we

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don't control our tongue al-Nabi s.a

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.w. he says man kaana yu'minu bi Allahi

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wal yawmul aakhir fal yaqul khayran awliyasmut fal

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yaqul khayran awliyasmut the one that believes has

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iman in Allah and the last day will

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not harm his neighbor how many Muslims harm

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their neighbors they don't have good relationships with

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their neighbors al-Nabi s.a.w. he

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says la yu'minu ahadukum hatta yuhibbu li aakhihi

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ma yuhibbu li nafsi none of you will

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love none of you will truly believe until

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you love for your brother what you love

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for yourself you might have had a cousin

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or a brother or a friend he goes

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on vacation or his children are doing good

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or he got a good house or a

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nice fast car or has all of these

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things or he got a position in society

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are you happy for him and his children

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just as you would be happy for yourself

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and your children or not and that is

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what is meant by this hadith of having

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this quality of ifar yu'thirun ala anfusihim walaw

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kaana bihim khasasa being one that wants more

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for other people even though you yourself are

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in need of that same very thing and

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nabi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he says that

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la yu'minu ahadukum hatta yakuna hawahu taba'an

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lima ji'ta bih that none of you will

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truly have iman until your desire is subjugated

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to that which I brought the prophet sallallahu

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alayhi wa sallam says don't get angry the

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prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he says wake

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up for salatul fajr the prophet sallallahu alayhi

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wa sallam he says lower your gaze all

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of these things you need to fight your

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desire you will not truly have iman until

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all of these things or all of the

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aspects which Allah swt commanded you to do

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they come first when you have your desire

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on one hand and the commandments of Allah

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swt on the other hand the mu'min the

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one that truly has iman is the one

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that goes with what Allah swt and his

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messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam commanded even if

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it goes against your nafs there are so

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many other narrations we can talk about this

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the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he says

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man kaana yu'minu billahi wal yawm al aakhir

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fala yajlis ala ma'idatin yudaru alayhi al

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khamr the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he

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says the one that believes in Allah on

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the last day should not sit at a

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table in which alcohol is being passed around

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because of perhaps networking or perhaps because of

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going to the company after party or going

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perhaps to the work after party or going

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in a situation where you might be sports

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after party or some of these networking events

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for wine and cheese so you can sit

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around and have a good time or your

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non-Muslim colleagues invited you to their house

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and alcohol is being placed on the table

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the one that truly has iman not just

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Islam, I'm just basically a Muslim but rather

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I'm a mu'min he will not sit on

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that table although it might cost him perhaps

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some opportunities of networking and things of the

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like he cannot get himself to sit on

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that table because he is one who professes

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that level of iman من كان يؤمن بالله

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واليوم الآخر فلا يجلس على مائتة يدار عليها

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الخمر there are so many other ahadith when

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you look at the Qur'an and the

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sunnah a person might look at those videos

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which they see of what is happening to

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our Muslim brothers and sisters in Gaza and

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they might be one that is burnt out

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by this they might be one that is

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tired and exhausted but remember the hadith of

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the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that he

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says the

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parable of not a Muslim but rather a

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believer, a mu'min when he sees this, it's

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like that of a body when one part

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of it is hurt the rest of the

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body is in a state of sleeplessness and

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fever so we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta

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'ala to grant us this level of iman

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this high level of iman which will be

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the means of victory for the Muslim ummah

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and another point that we can discuss with

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respect to this as well and this is

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a common question that a person would have

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is that if Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

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is able to do all things he is

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all-powerful, he is all-merciful as well

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then why does he not intervene and why

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does he continue to allow these calamities to

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exist a person he might have this question

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in fact if you were to ask your

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non-Muslim colleagues why they don't believe in

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Islam or a God this will likely be

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the number one answer they give the issue

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of theodicy, the problem of evil now to

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answer this we can answer it in a

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number of ways what does Allah subhanahu wa

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ta'ala want for us as believers through

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these calamities and trials whether it is for

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the ummah at a large or on an

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individual level Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala wants

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something for us and what is this thing

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that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala wants from

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us as believers we see that a certain

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thing happens to the mu'min to the Muslim,

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to the ummah of the Nabi sallallahu alayhi

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wa sallam when they are faced through trials

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and specifically trials in which people try to

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attack them another nation when they look at

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for example the F-16s and the F

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-35s and the Merkava tanks and the Abrams

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tanks and all of these people attacking them

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with all of their bombs and weaponry they

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would be afraid of all of this however

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when it comes to the ummah of the

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Nabi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam this ummah is

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something different and we see this from the

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Qur'an in that incident after the battle

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of Uhud where in Na'im ibn Mas

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'ud he came to the Nabi sallallahu alayhi

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wa sallam and he said that inna an

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-naasa qada jama'u lakum wa qala lahumu

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an-naas inna an-naasa qada jama'u

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lakum this first naas is referring to Na

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'im ibn Mas'ud he goes to the

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Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam wa qala an

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-naas Na'im ibn Mas'ud inna an

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-naasa qada jama'u lakum that people are

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gathering against us Abu Sufyan and his army

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are using they might use this as an

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opportunity this was the fear then that now

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that we have faced this defeat at Uhud

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they are going to go into Madinatul Munawwara

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and finish off the remaining Muslims while they

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are weak inna an-naasa qada jama'u

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lakum fakhshawhum so fear them fazaadahum imana but

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for a Muslim, for a mu'min your iman

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actually increases wa qalu hasbuna Allah wa ni'mal

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wakeel and we see that statement of the

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people of Gaza that Allah is sufficient for

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us when people are attacked when the Muslim

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ummah is attacked the iman of the ummah

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increases and really take an assessment of yourself

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from now as compared to one year ago

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you would find that the iman of the

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majority of the ummah is different that people

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are more spiritual they are coming closer to

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Allah subhana wa ta'ala people that are

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not even Muslim are becoming Muslim people that

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are not even Muslim are coming closer to

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perhaps becoming Muslim in the future and this

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is one of the goals that Allah subhana

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wa ta'ala has with trials and calamities

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happening to the ummah on a global level

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however on the individual level there is another

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point here as well is that whenever you

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are faced with trials and calamities in your

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life often times this becomes a means for

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you to come closer to Allah subhana wa

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ta'ala look at for example the masajid

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at salatul fajr a lot of the people

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that come for salatul fajr are those people

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that might have had some relationship issues or

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they might have had some financial issues or

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they might have had some health issues they

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come to the masjid sincerely calling out to

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Allah subhana wa ta'ala and raising their

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hands in dua because Allah subhana wa ta

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'ala says that this is how Allah subhana

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wa ta'ala created us from our fitrah

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that we know that there is a creator

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and we call out to him in our

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times of need as he mentions in the

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Quran that فَإِذَا رَكِبُوا فِي الْفُلْكِ دَعُوا اللَّهَ

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مُخْلِصِينَ لَهُ الدِّينَ فَلَمَّا نَجَّاهُمْ إِلَى الْبَدْرِ إِذَا

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هُمْ يُشْرِكُونَ if you are on a boat

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and you are facing the waves of the

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ocean and you think it's going to capsize

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this boat or you are on a plane

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and you feel the turbulence and you think

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that this plane might crash there is no

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atheist there there is no atheist on the

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sinking ship you are going to call out

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to Allah s.w.t. with sincerity in

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that moment of need and that is what

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Allah s.w.t. wants us to understand

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through these calamities whether we have it for

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ourselves or whether for the ummah at a

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large and we see that through these moments

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sometimes the worst of people can become the

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best of people and Nabi s.a.w.

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when talking about Amr ibn Hisham also known

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as Abu Jahl he says هذا فرعون أمتي

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this is the fir'aun of my ummah

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but the son of Abu Jahl his name

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is Ikrimah ibn Abi Jahl he has a

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different story Ikrimah when Abu Jahl was killed

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in the battle of Badr by Ibn Mas

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'ud r.a who dealt the final blow

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Ikrimah was one who fought against Nabi s

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.a.w. in this moment but when his

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father was killed his animosity towards the Prophet

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s.a.w. it increased even further it

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increased even further to the point that he

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fought against Nabi s.a.w. one flank

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in the battle of Uhud was by Ikrimah

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ibn Abu Jahl trying to fight the Prophet

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s.a.w. when Nabi s.a.w.

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entered into Makkah al-Mukarramah in the incident

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of Fath Makkah he granted a general amnesty

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to the entire people of Makkah al-Mukarramah

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despite the years of torture and torment he

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granted a general amnesty and when the Quraysh

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he asked them يا معشر القريش ماذا تظنون

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أني فاعل بكم اليوم O people of Quraysh

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what do you think I'm going to do

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to you today they say خير أخ كريم

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خير ابن أخ كريم you're going to do

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good to us our generous brother the son

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of our generous brother and the Prophet s

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.a.w. he says أنا أقول لكم ما

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قال يوسف لأخي I'm going to tell you

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what Yusuf a.s. said to his brothers

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لا تثريب عليكم اليوم there's no blame upon

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you today and Nabi s.a.w. he

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embodied what this deen is and we see

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that it was not about revenge and Nabi

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s.a.w. had every opportunity to take

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revenge but he did not do so that

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is not our principles as believers however we

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do enact justice and there were six people

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that the Prophet s.a.w. said that

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if you see these people hanging to the

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cloth of the Kaaba then they are to

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be killed one of them was Abdullah ibn

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Khatal one of those people that killed the

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Muslims he pretended to become a Muslim and

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then he ran away again because of his

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oppression as Muslims we need to establish justice

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it's not about revenge but it is about

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justice so the Prophet s.a.w. he

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had a list of six people but even

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this list of six out of all the

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people of Mecca was reduced to six people

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only that these people were not granted amnesty

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even this list of six as mentioned in

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one narration these six are mentioned in one

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narration this was reduced even further and one

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of those that was initially on the list

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was Ikrimah ibn Abi Jahl what happened was

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that his wife by the name of Ummu

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Hakim she pleaded with the Prophet s.a

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.w. after seeing his generosity kindness and forgiveness

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and she asked for her husband Ikrimah to

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be forgiven and the Prophet s.a.w.

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he says he will be safe so Ikrimah

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he had actually run away at this point

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he was going away to a place that

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he spent his childhood in a place called

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Tihana a place called Tihana which is on

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the coastal region of Yemen on the north

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part of Yemen so he took a ship

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there and he's trying to get away from

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the Muslims and he sees that even on

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this ship there are Muslims there and he

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faces the waves of the ocean and at

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this point the people on the ship they

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tell him that nobody is going to save

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you here except for Allah s.w.t

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so Ikrimah he makes a sincere dua and

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he asks Allah s.w.t that if

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you save me in this moment then I'll

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place my hand in the hand of the

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Prophet s.a.w. because I know him

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to be merciful, forgiving and a kind and

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generous man and thus Ikrimah ibn Abi Jahl

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became radiallahu anhu one who was pleased with

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Allah and Allah was pleased with him and

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later on he would take the Mus'haf

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the Quran and he would put it on

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his cheek and say while having tears rolling

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down his cheeks this was Ikrimah ibn Abi

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Jahl he was one that faced hardship and

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this hardship led him back to Allah s

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.w.t and this is the key point

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and the most important part of our life

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here in this dunya is for us to

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be connected with our creator going back to

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what we started today's khutbah with the statement

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that Allah s.w.t's help will not

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come for the Muslimin Allah s.w.t's

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help surely will not come for the Muslimin

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it will come for the Mu'mineen وكان حق

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علينا نصر المؤمنين however there are some people

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that have pessimism they are not people of

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optimism they look at what is happening around

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and they say that there's no point of

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even trying their militaries are too great nothing

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is going to change what's the point of

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even trying and bothering to do anything or

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speaking out let's just give up and for

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those people we need to understand that this

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is also problematic as an Ummah we are

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an Ummah of optimism and we see this

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throughout the Qur'an the stories of the

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Prophets and the life of An-Nabi s

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.a.w. in the battle of Uhud when

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Hamza s.a.w. not just anyone Asadullah

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the uncle of An-Nabi s.a.w.

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not just anyone is martyred and when Hamzala

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ibn Abi Amir Ghaseel al-Malaika is martyred

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and Musa ibn Umair is martyred and 70

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from among them are martyred and the Muslims

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are feeling weak Allah s.w.t. reveals

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the ayah وَلَا تَهِنُوا وَلَا تَحْزَنُوا وَأَنْتُمُ الْأَعْلَوْنَ

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إِنْ كُنْتُمْ مُؤْمِنِينَ we find that Dawood a

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.s. when he is confronted with the army

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of Jalut and people they say from his

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army who are part of the army they

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say قَالُوا لَا طَاقَةَ لَنَا الْيَوْمَ بِجَالُوتَ وَجُنُودَهِ

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we have no ability over Jalut and his

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army what do the people of Iman say

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قَالَ الَّذِينَ يَظُنُّونَ أَنَّهُمْ وَلَاقُوا اللَّهِ those that

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know with certainty they will meet Allah s

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.w.t كَمْ مِنْ فِئَةٍ قَلِيلَةٍ غَلَبَتْ فِئَةً

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كَثِيرَةً بِإِذْنِ اللَّهِ how many times does a

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small group overcome a larger group we find

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that when the Prophet s.a.w. is

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in the cave of Athawr and Abu Bakr

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s.a.w. he says that if the

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Quraysh look down they are going to see

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our feet what does the Prophet s.a

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.w. say مَا ظَنَّكَ يَا أَبَابَكَرِ بِإِذْنَانِ اللَّهُ

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فَالْيُثْهُمَا what do you think Abu Bakr about

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two people and Allah s.a.w. is

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the third we see that when Musa s

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.a.w. is with Bani Israel and the

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army of Firaun is behind him and the

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Red Sea is in front of him and

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the people of Bani Israel they say إِنَّا

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لَمُدْرَكُونَ it's over they caught us what does

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Allah s.a.w. respond the statement of

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Musa قَالَ كَلَّ إِنَّ مَعَيَ رَبِّي سَيَهْدِينَ that

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with us is a lord he will make

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a way out and Musa s.a.w.

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is commanded to split the Red Sea this

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ummah is an ummah of optimism and we

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need to understand and keep and hold fast

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to this principle of looking optimistically towards what

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we are seeing happening in fact when it

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comes to your dua as well some people

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they make dua and they are pessimistic they

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don't feel this dua anything is happening with

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it when it comes to us as believers

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we don't look towards bad omens and we

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don't believe in bad omens Friday the 13th

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a cat walking on their ladder this is

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against the teachings of an Nabi s.a

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.w. to believe in bad omens however for

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good omens an Nabi s.a.w. mentions

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in a narration he says يُعَجِبُنِي الفَأْلُ الصَّالِحِ

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I like a good omen I'm impressed with

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a good omen that you make dua you

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see a rainbow you make dua you see

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rain coming down you see moments of hope

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we should look towards these within our lives

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our personal lives as well as for the

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ummah as a whole and the proof of

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this is an Nabi s.a.w. himself

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an optimistic person that in the treaty of

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Hudaybiyyah this difficult negotiation Ikrimah he mentions and

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he narrates that جاء سُهَيل ابن عامر سُهَيل

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ابن عامر رضي الله عنه came when he

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approached this meeting that was taking place the

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contract of Hudaybiyyah and what does a Nabi

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s.a.w. say he says لَقَدَ سَهُلَ

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لَكُمْ أُمُورَكُمْ your matter will now become easy

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سُهَيل comes from the root word سَهُلَ which

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means to make easy and the Prophet s

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.a.w. he took his coming as a

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good sign as a moment of optimism and

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hope and that is what we need to

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have as believers to conclude the khutbah we

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ask Allah s.w.t. to make us

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from those who raise and elevate ourself from

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the level of Islam to the level of

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Iman because this is upon whom Allah s

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.w.t.'s help will come we ask Allah

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s.w.t. to make us from those

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that understand his wisdoms and through these trials

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and tribulations in our own life and for

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the Ummah he brings us back to Islam

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we ask Allah s.w.t. to make

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us an Ummah who is never pessimistic but

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rather always optimistic and look towards a brighter

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future and we ask Allah s.w.t.

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to grant this Ummah victory and success and

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we ask Allah s.w.t. to make

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it easy upon the Muslims that are facing

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hardship in the world today I say this

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and ask Allah s.w.t. to forgive

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the message of Muslims so ask Allah s

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.w.t. to forgive He is the Forgiver

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Surah Al-Baqarah

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Surah

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Al-Baqarah

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