Johari Abdul-Malik – Time to Check Out Your Mind

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			Things should be okay.
		
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			And thanking Allah
		
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			for so many blessings that Allah has given
		
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			us.
		
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			Blessings
		
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			beyond which any number we cannot count them.
		
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			And bearing witness
		
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			that Allah
		
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			continued to send guides and prophets and messengers
		
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			throughout the millennia.
		
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			No people have been left without guidance.
		
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			That guidance culminated with the guidance of Muhammad
		
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			1435
		
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			years ago.
		
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			Culminated
		
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			with
		
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			the prophet
		
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			message.
		
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			And
		
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			from that message, Allah sent to us
		
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			a letter, a communication
		
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			to humankind
		
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			that we might be guided aright.
		
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			We thank Allah today for that guidance from
		
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			Muhammad.
		
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			We ask peace and blessings upon him and
		
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			his family and his companions,
		
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			and all of the and those who follow
		
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			Allah's.
		
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			The ultimate reality, the truth until the day
		
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			of judgment.
		
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			Today in the, I just want to share
		
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			with you just
		
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			a few thoughts, and
		
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			I want to tell you today,
		
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			I'm probably not alone
		
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			in having a heavy heart.
		
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			It seems in the world today when we
		
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			look at the news,
		
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			every piece of news, what Noah De Bele,
		
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			seems like it's bad news.
		
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			Even bad news used to be there used
		
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			to be a little good news.
		
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			Now it seems
		
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			every channel, every station, they're saying some kind
		
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			of thing. Maybe it's against Islam or or
		
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			it's against humanity, it's against something,
		
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			against morality. I
		
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			like, almost as if the whole world is
		
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			going crazy.
		
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			And we ask ourselves sometimes,
		
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			what can we do about it?
		
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			Perhaps it might be helpful
		
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			to think about the words of Imam Shafi'i,
		
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			Rahim Allah Alaik.
		
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			If there was nothing else re revealed of
		
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			the Quran except this,
		
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			he said it would have been enough to
		
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			guide all of humankind
		
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			to the straight path.
		
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			And Allah begins
		
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			that Surah
		
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			by swearing
		
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			by one of Allah's creations,
		
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			time.
		
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			We're lost.
		
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			And then Allah informs us about the nature
		
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			of human beings.
		
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			Everyone
		
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			is a loser.
		
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			And I love the fact that Allah is
		
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			very general
		
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			because you might think, well, that doesn't include
		
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			Muslims, do it?
		
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			And if you and the Christians say that
		
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			doesn't include Christian. Everybody else is a Lord
		
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			of Jews. They they all say somebody else,
		
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			not us. We're the chosen people.
		
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			Quran gives some definition.
		
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			If you have a connection with a loss
		
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			of Hanukkah, then
		
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			it is natural that out of that relationship
		
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			should flow
		
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			righteous deeds.
		
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			If you see a person who's intelligent, they
		
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			study, they learn, they know things.
		
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			When you see their behavior, you know how
		
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			they're going to behave. They're going to behave
		
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			like an intelligent person.
		
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			If you meet an ignorant person,
		
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			comprehension, they're not gonna get it.
		
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			So don't waste your time
		
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			arguing with them.
		
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			Out of the right relationship with Allah
		
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			flows.
		
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			If you teach your child good manners when
		
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			they're growing up at that time, when they
		
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			get older, they have them inculcated.
		
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			It's called habit.
		
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			A person who has this relationship with Allah
		
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			over time,
		
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			they develop the sensibilities
		
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			that when individuals try to call them to
		
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			something different than what Allah has,
		
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			they have a fortitude that they can withstand
		
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			it. The conditions.
		
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			You and I,
		
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			through the units of time, have an opportunity
		
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			to find out what Allah's Haqq is and
		
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			then talk to each other about it.
		
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			Don't keep it a secret.
		
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			I love the
		
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			Quran is coming to the Prophet
		
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			in the early days,
		
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			and then it stops.
		
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			And when the Quran stops coming to the
		
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			prophet, he
		
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			and his companions, although there were few, they
		
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			were concerned about why we are not receiving
		
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			this communication
		
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			from Allah.
		
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			And then Allah reveals to
		
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			him
		
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			and the last
		
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			Go and tell people.
		
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			Tell people about this message that Allah is
		
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			sending to you even though maybe because that
		
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			is not coming right now, you feel like
		
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			you might be dejected. You're not.
		
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			That verily Allah is with the people who
		
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			have Amin for Allah. They are connected to
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. In their salat, in
		
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			their zikr, they remember Allah. It affects their
		
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			behavior. It drives us.
		
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			What was so bizarre,
		
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			and that we patiently
		
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			persevere.
		
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			We don't give up.
		
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			Now I'm gonna tell you
		
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			part of what's bothering me today.
		
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			I believe that we have lost sense of
		
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			time
		
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			in our relationship
		
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			with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala so that we
		
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			are as a people, I mean globally,
		
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			so hooked on making something happen right now
		
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			that the notions of sabr,
		
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			even the reality of what is hot doesn't
		
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			matter. What matters is what I want to
		
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			see happen and where I want it to
		
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			happen now.
		
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			It creates an impatience in our young people,
		
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			almost to the degree that it drives them
		
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			mad.
		
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			They want to see the establishment
		
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			of Islam. They want to see justice,
		
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			but they're impatient.
		
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			If you were to think about
		
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			connecting
		
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			the way the companions connected with time,
		
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			the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam described that there's
		
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			forgiveness from 1 jumwa to the next jumwa,
		
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			From one salah to the next salah.
		
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			So if I am
		
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			living in the time sense of a Muslim,
		
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			when I see you and I say,
		
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			let's get together later. And you say, when?
		
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			You said, how about Badr salatul Asa?
		
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			Because my time frame is set
		
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			based on what Allah has set as the
		
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			times.
		
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			What time is is our gathering? Let's meet
		
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			after Maghrib,
		
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			not 6 o'clock, 7:30,
		
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			after Maghrib because my time sense is adjusted.
		
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			When my time sense become adjusted to Allah's
		
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			time, I become more patient.
		
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			And I don't feel guilty all the time
		
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			because I am focused in my salah, that
		
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			if I make salatul asr,
		
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			I ask Allah to forgive me for what
		
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			I did before I made salah.
		
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			And I make a pledge that when I
		
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			get up from the rug, I'm not gonna
		
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			make those mistakes again,
		
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			Inshallah,
		
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			between then and Maghrib.
		
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			Now I don't know about many of you,
		
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			but I I know there are many people.
		
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			They make salah, and they're going through the
		
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			motion.
		
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			Maybe sometimes, I guess even me, I I
		
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			I realized I I finished making salaam, I'm
		
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			like, was I really there?
		
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			I know all the words.
		
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			I know all the movement.
		
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			I'm I'm in every one of them, but
		
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			am I really there
		
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			in a way that I'm connecting with Allah,
		
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			that when I leave Salah, I'm empowered, I'm
		
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			energized!
		
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			The burden has been lifted from me!
		
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			My mental health condition is improved.
		
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			I'm not all stressed out
		
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			because
		
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			I know that that salah was filled with
		
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			makfirah.
		
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			And then I hope like a person who
		
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			plugs their cell phone in when the battery
		
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			gets low,
		
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			I'm charged up.
		
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			For some of us,
		
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			we let our battery run a long time,
		
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			and then you try to call the brother
		
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			and he doesn't respond. And you say, well,
		
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			brother, why didn't you pick up the phone
		
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			when I called you and said my battery
		
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			was dead?
		
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			Some of us, our spiritual battery dies because
		
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			we let it go too long before we
		
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			charge it up.
		
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			You know,
		
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			they come out with new devices all the
		
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			time and they people ask, well, is the
		
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			new iPhone gonna have a longer battery life
		
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			because
		
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			my battery dies all the time.
		
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			Allah gave us a formula for how
		
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			we could maintain
		
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			our battery's life.
		
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			We could maintain the connection with a line
		
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			by plugging in
		
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			5 times a day
		
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			before the battery dies.
		
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			So that we might be energized from our
		
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			salah.
		
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			Right now, we're about
		
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			to go through another time change.
		
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			This time change
		
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			into
		
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			the new year.
		
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			And
		
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			used to told me to remind you they
		
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			are calendars for sale in the office.
		
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			New year.
		
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			Forgiveness
		
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			from 1 Ramadan to the next Ramadan,
		
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			from one
		
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			period of our acknowledgment of the reality of
		
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			Allah. Me, I took Shahadah.
		
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			So I know the day that I said,
		
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			everything before that Allah forgave.
		
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			But then after that,
		
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			like a person the prophet said, if they
		
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			bathe in a river 5 times a day,
		
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			how much dirt could they get on them?
		
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			They said, you Rasoolah, no significant amount. He
		
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			says salah is like that.
		
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			But sometimes
		
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			you get some kind of stain on you.
		
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			That regular washing not gonna get it out.
		
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			Maybe even the wash that comes from Ramadan
		
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			not gonna get it out.
		
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			And so you need to go to the
		
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			high detergent
		
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			Hajj.
		
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			And I want to remind you,
		
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			those who jazz who returned recently,
		
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			make sure that you visit with them to
		
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			get some of the charge off of them
		
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			before it goes down.
		
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			Many of them will come back. Their souls
		
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			are light like a feather
		
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			because they're not carrying that emotional baggage,
		
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			sin that they had before that journey.
		
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			And although I was talking to a journalist
		
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			the other day, they asked me, ma'am, tell
		
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			us about Muharram
		
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			and the Muslim new year. I said, well,
		
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			the Muslim new year doesn't have any religious
		
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			significance for us.
		
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			The first of Muharram didn't have any religious
		
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			significance for us, but
		
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			I would like to remind your readers
		
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			that the time
		
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			mark for the Muslim era
		
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			didn't begin like the Christian, didn't begin with
		
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			the birth of the prophet.
		
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			The Muslim era didn't begin with the revelation
		
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			of the Quran.
		
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			The Muslim era begins in the year of
		
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			the Hijra
		
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			where people, because of their connection with Allah,
		
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			migrated to some place so that they could
		
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			be free to practice their religion.
		
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			And the Jews
		
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			in Yesr'ab
		
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			would be able to practice their religion.
		
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			And Sabians, another kind of monotheist, that they
		
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			would be able to practice their religion freely
		
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			in a place that Muslims established for the
		
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			worship of Allah.
		
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			That era begins with
		
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			the Hijra.
		
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			So for us, when we think about the
		
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			year 0, the companions of the prophet,
		
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			they were in the time since.
		
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			Everything before that, one era. Everything after that,
		
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			a new era.
		
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			And they didn't retrofit time.
		
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			Like, if you go to your calendar now
		
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			at work, you see on the calendar 2014.
		
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			How did it get to be 2014?
		
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			In the z in the year 0, was
		
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			anybody saying this is the year 0?
		
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			The reality is that the the Gregorian or
		
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			the Christian era or or
		
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			AD
		
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			was created
		
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			many, many, many years after that event.
		
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			But the companions of the prophet
		
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			in their time, they saw the hijrah as
		
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			that dividing line, so a companion would say,
		
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			yeah, Abdullah, when did such and such happen?
		
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			They would say, oh, that was 2 years
		
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			before we made hijrah.
		
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			Say, well, and and when was your son
		
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			born? Oh, he was born 2 years after
		
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			Hijra.
		
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			Because the migration to a place where they
		
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			were free to practice their faith
		
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			was the central
		
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			issue
		
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			in their time.
		
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			So I'm not asking you to celebrate
		
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			the new year, but I am asking you
		
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			to celebrate
		
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			to be in the era of Rasulullah
		
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			and the establishment of a.
		
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			And we might want to take a moment
		
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			to reflect
		
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			on our own time,
		
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			and how we set our own priorities,
		
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			and what we think is really important.
		
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			That Allah might bless us in this next
		
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			year, in this era
		
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			with benefit.
		
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			I wanna change subjects on you,
		
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			and I I apologize.
		
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			But right now, there's a lot going on
		
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			in our world.
		
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			The first I talk about because you
		
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			you might not hear about it later.
		
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			Over 4,000 people have died from the Ebola
		
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			crisis.
		
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			That's a 1,000 little more than a 1000
		
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			people more than died on the tragedy in
		
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			911.
		
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			Why is it that everybody's talking about
		
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			that tragedy
		
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			and they move quickly to memorialize it and
		
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			to spend 1,000,000 of dollars to do whatever?
		
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			And most of the people who are affected,
		
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			by the way, in the Ebola crisis,
		
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			most of them
		
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			are Muslim.
		
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			Most of them.
		
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			Yesterday, they had the first case in Mali.
		
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			The most the largest country in Africa
		
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			with Muslim population is Nigeria.
		
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			Nigeria is not Ebola free.
		
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			Senegal had a case they have resolved. They
		
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			issued and now have been determined
		
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			Ebola free.
		
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			Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea,
		
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			still they're struggling.
		
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			And I don't know about
		
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			you, but
		
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			I know that people who live in that
		
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			part of the world,
		
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			they don't get their fair share.
		
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			They've known about the Ebola disease for 35
		
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			years.
		
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			They're only rushing now to find a cure
		
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			because it might come over to the United
		
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			States or Europe.
		
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			I'm inviting you to become an advocate
		
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			for your brothers and sisters
		
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			and for humanity
		
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			to do something
		
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			to end this crisis. Make dua when you
		
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			see the news of the terrible outbreak.
		
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			Make dua.
		
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			There's a hashtag,
		
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			hashtag, look like number sign, end Ebola.
		
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			Go to Twitter
		
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			and see if you can follow what's going
		
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			on. Maybe you can do something to make
		
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			a difference. Let congress know
		
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			that this is important because it affects
		
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			all of humanity, but also because many, many
		
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			Muslims are dying.
		
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			The other part is to do what you
		
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			can.
		
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			Not fundraising today. I'm not asking you to
		
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			spend any money.
		
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			But if you have money, you know what
		
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			to do.
		
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			The other is
		
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			there are some issues and concerns,
		
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			not only about health,
		
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			but about mental health.
		
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			I know many of you have seen
		
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			the news lately
		
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			of individuals
		
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			who have been
		
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			claiming that they're going to fight
		
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			in Syria, in Iraq, etcetera.
		
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			Whatever you think about that, that's not my
		
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			subject.
		
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			I know that there are a lot of
		
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			Muslims who are killing other Muslims
		
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			every day. Today is, so if you just
		
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			look at the news, what happened in
		
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			any country in the region, Pakistan,
		
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			India,
		
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			Afghanistan,
		
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			you name it,
		
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			you're gonna find some Muslims killed other Muslims
		
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			today. Iraq, definitely.
		
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			And over what, I'm not really, really sure.
		
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			But they're all but they're fighting.
		
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			Syria, Lebanon, Jordan,
		
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			they they find each other. I I I
		
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			I can't figure it out. I'm from Brooklyn.
		
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			Maybe, you know, just because I'm not from
		
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			the region. I can't really get it.
		
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			When I accepted Islam,
		
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			the life of a Muslim was sacred.
		
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			I accepted Islam.
		
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			Life of a Muslim was sacred.
		
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			Now you have Muslims who go and they
		
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			kill it. I was in Sudan,
		
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			met with
		
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			one faction and another faction,
		
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			killing each other
		
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			after they make salah.
		
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			That's some kind of mental illness.
		
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			You can't be a rational Muslim.
		
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			The prophet
		
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			in his khutba wada, he said the life
		
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			of a Muslim is sacred.
		
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			You get up, make takfir
		
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			on the other Muslim,
		
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			then go kill him.
		
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			And while you're at it, you can kill
		
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			his wife and his children.
		
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			Something is going wrong.
		
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			Most
		
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			of them.
		
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			Because they feel that the sense of urgency
		
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			and time, we gotta do something, man.
		
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			What we gonna do?
		
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			I don't know what we gonna do,
		
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			but let's go get busy. At least I
		
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			can do that.
		
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			You're sick.
		
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			And I know
		
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			about
		
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			about
		
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			some of the young people who have gone
		
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			over and they get sick when they're over
		
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			there.
		
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			When they find out, oh,
		
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			we're selling dope to buy weapons because they
		
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			don't make no weapons.
		
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			All the weapons come from the United States,
		
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			from Israel, from the Soviet Union, Germany. They
		
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			all come from over there.
		
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			I'm sorry. I'm making some of you uncomfortable.
		
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			That's not what they they they don't the
		
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			people who are you doing the killing
		
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			of other Muslims, they don't make they don't
		
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			manufacture what maybe IED, but they don't manufacture
		
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			weapons.
		
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			When they talk about heavy weapons, ain't none
		
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			of them weapons made by Muslims.
		
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			So someone else is benefiting
		
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			from the bloodbath.
		
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			My advice to you,
		
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			Many of our young people
		
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			are so isolated,
		
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			and some of them, they don't have good
		
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			boys, don't have good relationship with their father,
		
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			father busy working all the time.
		
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			That love and compassion that the prophet
		
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			talks about
		
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			for your children,
		
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			not there. Their friends are on Facebook.
		
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			Their friend is on the Internet.
		
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			And then the next thing you know, they
		
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			find another friend on the Internet who says,
		
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			you know what, man?
		
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			I really love you,
		
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			and I really wanna see you do something
		
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			with your life.
		
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			So why don't you come and get busy
		
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			with us?
		
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			And then when you look at the profile
		
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			of that person, you say that's so unfortunate.
		
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			They were taken advantage of
		
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			because they they were mentally
		
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			unstable.
		
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			That's your job.
		
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			That's your job.
		
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			Your neighbor,
		
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			invite them. The youth in your neighborhood, get
		
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			get together with them.
		
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			If they look like something is going on
		
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			with them,
		
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			build a relationship. Maybe there's something going on
		
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			with their home. This boy in Ottawa, they
		
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			said he's from a broken home.
		
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			He was
		
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			homeless.
		
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			This is this
		
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			is right.
		
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			These people are right for the taking.
		
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			And I'm saying to you, Alhamdulillah,
		
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			the love of this deen,
		
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			the love of Allah, the love of Muslims
		
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			is something that we have to share with
		
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			them.
		
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			Before we lose them,
		
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			and then Allah will ask us what did
		
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			we do.
		
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			Did we share this Deen with them in
		
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			a way that they would not?
		
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			I know it's 2 o'clock,
		
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			and, we used to say back in the
		
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			in the seventies,
		
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			Alham, you gotta get back to your slave,
		
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			Back to work insha Allah.
		
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			But I wanna remind you, alhamdulillah,
		
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			if there are any health professionals
		
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			who are with us,
		
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			We're not just talking.
		
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			Darahedra has agreed to join the Interfaith Medical
		
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			Specialist Network,
		
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			And we're going to have a meeting
		
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			medical people, you don't even have to be
		
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			a doctor, you could be any kind of
		
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			medical person,
		
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			to join us here at Al Hajjara this
		
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			Wednesday night
		
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			at 6:30,
		
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			because we have to do something.
		
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			It's the mind, body, and the spirit
		
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			that if
		
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			we make it home,
		
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			then you'll have in your chest that lump
		
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			of flesh that the prophet
		
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			said, if it's good, the whole body is
		
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			good.
		
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			That's the anatomical heart
		
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			as well as this inshallah.
		
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			So I ask you
		
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			please to make dua.
		
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			For those
		
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			who are suffering under the stress and the
		
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			the the diseases of the society.
		
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			Oh Allah, guide us among those whom you
		
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			have guided.
		
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			Oh Allah, protect us and our children among
		
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			those whom you have protected.
		
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			Oh Allah, take us as a friend among
		
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			those whom you have taken as a friend.
		
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			Oh Allah, strengthen us that
		
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			we might have patience
		
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			Oh allah, that you might gather us together,
		
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			that
		
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			we might love one another.
		
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			Oh allah, help us
		
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			within the of Rasulullah
		
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			that we might love you, you allah, and
		
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			love your ummah. Oh Allah, we ask for
		
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			your mercy and your peace on the prophet
		
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			and on his family and on his companions.
		
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			And all of the m b I, you
		
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			allah, those who follow the way of your
		
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			until the day of judgment
		
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			end.
		
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			Allahu
		
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			Akbar.