Kamil Ahmad – Parables of the Quran #5

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The importance of unity and disunity in Islam is discussed, as it links everything from strength to wealth and success. The speaker emphasizes the importance of holding onto the QVC and parable of Islam, as it provides blessings for individuals. The importance of remaining united and avoiding danger of being disunited is also emphasized. The importance of avoiding harm and avoiding confusion for others is also discussed, as it is used to save money. The parable of the Kuffar spending in the war against Islam is also discussed, and how it affects psychological and military spending.

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			Surah Ali Imran has many different themes and
		
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			one of those themes is the importance of
		
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			unity and the dangers of disunity.
		
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			And so Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala starts
		
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			by saying, يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا تَقُوا اللَّهَ
		
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			حَقَّ تُقَاتِهِ وَلَا تَمُوتُنَّ إِلَّا وَأَنْتُمْ مُسْلِمُونَ O
		
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			you who believe, fear Allah, the fear that
		
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			he deserves, and do not die except as
		
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			Muslims.
		
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			Do not die except as Muslims.
		
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			Then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, وَاعْتَصِمُوا
		
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			بِحَبْلِ اللَّهِ جَمِيعًا وَلَا تَفَرَّقُوا وَاذْكُرُوا نِعْمَةَ اللَّهِ
		
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			عَلَيْكُمْ إِذْ كُنْتُمْ أَعْدَاءً فَأَلَّفَ بَيْنَ قُلُوبِكُمْ فَأَصْبَحْتُمْ
		
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			بِنِعْمَتِهِ إِخْوَانًا وَكُنْتُمْ عَلَى شَفَعْ حُفْرَةٍ مِّنَ النَّارِ
		
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			فَأَنْقَدَكُمْ مِّنْهَا كَذَٰلِكَ يَبَيِّنُوا اللَّهُ لَكُمْ آيَاتِهِ
		
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			لَعَلَّكُمْ تَحْتَجُوا Allah says, and hold on to
		
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			the rope of Allah, all of you together,
		
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			and do not become divided.
		
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			And remember the favor, the blessing of Allah
		
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			upon you.
		
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			When you used to be enemies, and He
		
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			brought your hearts together.
		
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			And you became, by the favor of Allah,
		
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			you became brothers.
		
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			And you were on the edge of a
		
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			fire.
		
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			And He saved you from it.
		
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			This is how Allah makes His ayaat clear
		
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			to you, so that you may be guided.
		
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			So, in this ayah, and in this parable,
		
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			Allah describes our condition as Muslims when we
		
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			are not united.
		
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			But before that, Allah commands us to do
		
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			what?
		
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			To unite.
		
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			How?
		
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			Or unite and hold on to what?
		
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			His rope.
		
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			بِحَبْلِ اللَّهِ Hold on to the rope of
		
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			Allah.
		
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			So the question is, what is the rope
		
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			of Allah?
		
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			What is the rope of Allah that Allah
		
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			is referring to here?
		
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			Allah says, all of us should hold on
		
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			to the rope of Allah.
		
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			What is the rope of Allah?
		
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			The Qur'an?
		
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			Anyone else?
		
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			Tawheed?
		
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			Salah?
		
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			The Sunnah of the Prophet ﷺ?
		
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			Islam?
		
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			Basically, all of these answers are correct.
		
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			So some scholars said it refers to the
		
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			Qur'an.
		
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			Others said it refers to the Deen of
		
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			Allah, Islam.
		
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			Others said it refers to obedience to Allah.
		
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			And holding on to the commandments of Allah.
		
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			Ibn Taymiyyah says it refers to all of
		
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			this.
		
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			It refers to all of this.
		
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			However, the strongest view is that it refers
		
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			to the Qur'an.
		
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			That's because we have a hadith in which
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ says, كِتَابُ اللَّهِ حَبْلٌ مَمْدُودٌ
		
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			مِنَ السَّمَاءِ إِلَى الْأَرْضِ The book of Allah
		
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			is a rope.
		
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			It is a rope that is stretching from
		
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			the heavens to the earth.
		
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			So our connection to Allah is through the
		
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			Qur'an.
		
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			But as Ibn Taymiyyah says, all of these
		
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			things, because if you think about it, the
		
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			Qur'an encompasses all of these things.
		
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			So whoever holds on to the Qur'an,
		
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			then he is going to adhere to the
		
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			commandments of Allah and the obedience of Allah.
		
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			And he's going to hold on to Islam.
		
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			And he's going to follow the sunnah and
		
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			so on and so forth.
		
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			Now, why describe a rope specifically and not
		
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			anything else?
		
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			As being what we should hold on to?
		
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			Okay.
		
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			So basically, Allah refers to us holding on
		
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			to the Qur'an as us holding on
		
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			to a rope because a rope leads to
		
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			something.
		
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			Right?
		
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			A rope, it leads to something.
		
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			Just like if you want to get water
		
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			from a well, you send down a rope.
		
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			Right?
		
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			If you want to save someone who is
		
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			drowning, you throw to him a rope.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And the Qur'an is our savior.
		
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			Right?
		
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			It is what Allah has sent down to
		
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			us to hold on to, to be saved
		
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			from His punishment.
		
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			So this rope, it resembles the unity that
		
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			we must have as believers.
		
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			But unity upon what?
		
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			Unity, as we said, upon the Qur'an.
		
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			How to hold on to the rope of
		
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			Allah, the Qur'an?
		
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			By referring to the Qur'an in all
		
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			of our matters.
		
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			Right?
		
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			In all of our disputes, making the Qur
		
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			'an our reference point.
		
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			Now, after that, we have the parable that
		
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			Allah gives us here.
		
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			And basically, what we have is, the comparison
		
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			here is, being saved from disunity, being saved
		
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			from disunity, this blessing of being saved from
		
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			disunity, Allah compares it, He compares it to,
		
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			you know, a people who are on the
		
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			edge of a fire.
		
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			And they're saved.
		
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			Someone comes and saves them.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So imagine there are people who are on
		
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			the pit of a fire, and they're fighting
		
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			with each other.
		
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			There's a good chance that they'll end up
		
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			falling into the fire, right?
		
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			And then someone comes and saves them.
		
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			This is a blessing.
		
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			And so that's what Allah tells us in
		
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			this parable.
		
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			So after Allah commanded the believers to hold
		
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			fast to the rope of Allah, and forbade
		
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			them from disunity, He reminds them of this
		
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			blessing that He blessed them with.
		
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			Bringing their hearts together, right?
		
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			After they were enemies, they were bitter enemies.
		
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			Such a blessing that even the Prophet ﷺ
		
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			could not have done, even if he was
		
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			to spend everything in the world and all
		
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			the effort to try to do on his
		
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			own.
		
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			What's the proof for that?
		
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			Allah says in Surah Al-Anfat, Allah ﷻ
		
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			says, هو الذي أيدك بنصره وبالمؤمنين.
		
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			He is the one Allah ﷻ who gave
		
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			you victory.
		
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			وألف بين قلوبهم.
		
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			And Allah is the one who brought together
		
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			the hearts.
		
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			And then Allah says to the Prophet ﷺ,
		
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			لَوْ أَنفَقْتَ مَا فِي الْأَرْضِ جَمِيعًا مَا أَلَّفْتَ
		
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			بَيْنَ قُلُوبِهِمْ وَلَكِنَّ اللَّهَ أَلَّفَ بَيْنَكُمْ He says
		
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			to the Prophet ﷺ, if you, O Muhammad,
		
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			were to spend everything on earth to try
		
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			to bring their hearts together, you would not
		
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			have been able to do so, but rather
		
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			Allah is the one who did so.
		
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			Now this ayah, it is said that it
		
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			was revealed when some of the Jews of
		
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			Medina tried to disunite the Muslims.
		
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			And so there was an old Jewish man,
		
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			his name was Shas ibn Qais.
		
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			He had so much hatred for the Muslims.
		
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			Basically, he is someone who saw how Al
		
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			-Aws and Al-Khazraj, who are the two
		
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			main tribes who accepted Islam, these two tribes,
		
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			Al-Aws and Al-Khazraj, made up, after
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ came to Medina, they made
		
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			up what is known as the Ansar.
		
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			Prior to the Prophet ﷺ coming to Medina,
		
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			they were two main tribes, and they were
		
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			bitter enemies.
		
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			They had fought wars for years and centuries.
		
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			They had rivalries.
		
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			So now when the Prophet ﷺ comes and
		
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			unites them, this Jew, he has this envy,
		
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			and he doesn't like it.
		
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			So he thought that they would sit together,
		
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			they would socialize together, when just yesterday they
		
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			were bitter enemies.
		
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			And so he wasn't happy to see this.
		
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			So what did he do?
		
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			He said, Al-Aws and Al-Khazraj have
		
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			united in this land in which we live
		
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			in, and we have no place here as
		
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			long as they are united.
		
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			Meaning that it was an advantage to them
		
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			when Al-Aws and Al-Khazraj were always
		
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			fighting among one another.
		
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			Now that they're united, it's a threat to
		
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			the Jews.
		
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			So he says, our survival as Jews in
		
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			Medina is based on the disunity of the
		
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			Arabs.
		
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			And as long as they are united, we
		
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			are at risk.
		
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			So he goes and tells a young Jewish
		
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			man who was sitting in a gathering of
		
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			the Ansar.
		
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			He says, I want you to go and
		
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			try to do something.
		
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			So he went and he started reminding the
		
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			Ansar about their past.
		
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			He would bring up the wars and the
		
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			enmity that took place before Islam, the battles
		
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			that they had fought against one another, how
		
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			so-and-so killed so-and-so.
		
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			And that's it.
		
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			Now they started to remember that past, and
		
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			it led to bitter feelings in the hearts
		
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			of the Sahaba.
		
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			And now they started fighting verbally, and
		
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			it led to them deciding that that's it.
		
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			We're going to fight physically.
		
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			They said, tomorrow we're going to meet at
		
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			such and such place, and we're going to
		
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			settle it once and for all.
		
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			So a war was about to ignite all
		
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			over again.
		
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			The news of this reaches Rasool Allah ﷺ.
		
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			He comes rushing, and he addresses them, and
		
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			he says, O Muslims, fear Allah.
		
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			Are you going to resume the enmity of
		
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			the days of Jahiliyyah when I am still
		
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			here among you?
		
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			Did you forget the blessing of Allah?
		
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			Did you forget about the blessing of Allah
		
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			as He saved you from that Jahiliyyah and
		
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			that kufr, and planted love and friendliness in
		
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			your hearts instead of hostility?
		
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			So basically, the Prophet ﷺ was saying, how
		
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			can you do this while I am among
		
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			you?
		
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			And then he reminded them that this unity
		
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			that you have today is a blessing from
		
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			Allah.
		
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			So don't turn your backs on it.
		
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			And so these words of the Prophet ﷺ,
		
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			they had a huge impact on them, and
		
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			as a result, they started hugging one another,
		
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			and they basically forgot about what they were
		
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			about to do.
		
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			And then it's said that these ayahs were
		
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			revealed.
		
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			So here Allah ﷻ compares their state, the
		
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			state of the Ansar when they were enemies,
		
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			before when they were enemies, to that of
		
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			a group of people who are fighting one
		
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			another on the edge of a cliff.
		
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			At the bottom there's fire.
		
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			So imagine a cliff and at the bottom
		
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			you have this pit of fire.
		
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			If you're fighting on the edge, there's a
		
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			good chance you're going to fall into the
		
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			fire.
		
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			So if no one came and saved them,
		
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			and we're talking about the Aus and the
		
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			Khazraj, if Allah had not sent His Prophet
		
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			ﷺ, that's it, they would have fought each
		
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			other, and they would have been doomed and
		
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			they would have been done and over with.
		
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			And they had reached the peak of their
		
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			wars before the Prophet ﷺ came.
		
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			There was a major war prior to the
		
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			coming of the Prophet ﷺ known as Yawm
		
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			Bu'ath.
		
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			It was such a huge war between the
		
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			Aus and the Khazraj, that basically all of
		
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			their elders and their leaders had died in
		
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			that war.
		
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			And now you had just the young left.
		
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			And it is mentioned that that was one
		
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			of the reasons why they were very open
		
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			to accepting the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			Because many of the other tribes, they had
		
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			elders among them, and elders are very stubborn,
		
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			that's number one.
		
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			Elders are very stubborn, and they want to
		
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			hold on to their customs and their traditions
		
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			and their power and their leadership.
		
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			And number two, because these people need a
		
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			leader now to come and unite them.
		
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			So when they met the Prophet ﷺ in
		
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			Hajj, they were very open to accepting him.
		
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			They had their pledge the first year and
		
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			then they came back the next year and
		
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			had the second pledge.
		
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			And then after that, the following year, the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ made hijrah to Madinah.
		
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			And so when we look at each other
		
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			as Muslims, we find such a variety of
		
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			people from all kinds of different backgrounds and
		
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			ethnicities and races.
		
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			We should ask ourselves, who is it that
		
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			united us and brought us together like this?
		
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			It's Allah ﷻ.
		
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			And Allah is reminding us that it is
		
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			He who blessed us with this unity, showing
		
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			us the importance of remaining united and the
		
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			danger of being disunited.
		
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			Alright, some of the lessons that we learned
		
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			from this parable.
		
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			Number one, if it wasn't for Allah's blessing
		
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			of saving us, we would all be heading
		
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			for the hellfire.
		
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			This is something we really, really need to
		
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			understand.
		
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			Allah ﷻ says, وَإِمْ مِنكُمْ إِلَّا وَارِدْوَاهُ كَانَ
		
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			عَلَىٰ رَبِّكَ حَتْمًا مَقَضُيًّا Every single one of
		
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			you are going to be made to come
		
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			to it.
		
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			Come to what?
		
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			The hellfire.
		
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			Every single one of us is going to
		
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			be made to come to it, meaning the
		
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			hellfire.
		
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			Every single one of us is going to
		
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			be made to cross it, as we know,
		
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			over the Sirat.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And Allah tells us in Surah Al-Asr,
		
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			إِنَّ الْإِنْسَانَ لَذِي خُسْرٌ Man is indeed bound
		
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			to destruction, to loss.
		
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			Al-Khusr in the Qur'an, when it's
		
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			used, it refers to the Akhirah.
		
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			Meaning, all of us are bound for the
		
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			punishment of Allah.
		
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			But then Allah makes an exception for qualities
		
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			you need to be saved.
		
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			إِلَّا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا Except those who believe وَعَمِلُوا
		
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			الصَّالِحَاتِ And do righteous good deeds.
		
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			وَتَوَاصَوْا بِالْحَقِّ And they advise each other upon
		
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			the truth, Meaning, they give da'wah to
		
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			one another, وَتَوَاصَوْا بِالصَّبْرِ And they advise one
		
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			another to remain patient.
		
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			Otherwise, we're all bound for, you know, the
		
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			punishment of Allah.
		
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			So when we understand that, and then we
		
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			understand that Allah saved us from that, You
		
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			know, we understand how huge of a blessing
		
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			this is.
		
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			And that's why the people of Jannah, What
		
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			will they say when they enter Jannah?
		
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			They won't attribute entering Jannah to themselves, to
		
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			their own efforts.
		
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			That, oh, we are the ones who made
		
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			it, we're the ones who did this.
		
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			وَقَالُوا الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي هَدَانَ وَمَا كُنَّ بِنَهْتَدِيَ
		
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			لَوْ لَأَنْ هَدَانَ اللَّهِ They'll say, alhamdulillah, the
		
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			one who guided us to this.
		
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			If it was not for him guiding us
		
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			to this, we would not have been guided
		
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			to it.
		
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			If it wasn't for Allah guiding us to
		
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			this, to Jannah, we would not have been
		
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			guided.
		
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			Number two, there are two main ingredients that
		
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			must be present to save us from the
		
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			hellfire.
		
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			And that is mentioned in the first ayah.
		
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			يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اتَّقُوا اللَّهَ حَقَّ تُقَاتِهِ
		
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			وَلَا تَمُوتُنَّ إِلَّا وَأَنْتُمْ مُسْلِيمًا O you who
		
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			believe, have taqwa of Allah, the taqwa that
		
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			He deserves, and do not die except as
		
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			Muslim.
		
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			Or the first ingredient is mentioned here, taqwa.
		
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			And the second ingredient is mentioned in the
		
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			next ayah, and that is unity.
		
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			So if we want to be saved from
		
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			the hellfire, then we need to have these
		
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			two things.
		
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			The taqwa of Allah, and as Muslims we
		
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			need to be united.
		
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			Now, how do we execute this successfully
		
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			in the ummah?
		
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			Let's look at the next ayah.
		
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			It's very important when we read the Qur
		
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			'an to always put everything in perspective and
		
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			in context.
		
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			The ayahs, they're coming one after the other.
		
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			What is the next ayah?
		
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			Allah says, وَلْتَكُمْ مِنْكُمْ أُمَّةٌ يَدْعُونَ إِلَى الْخَيْرِ
		
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			وَيَأْمُرُونَ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَيَنْهَوْنَ عَنِ الْمُنكَرِ وَأُولَٰئِكَ هُمُ
		
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			الْمُسْلِحُونَ They are the successful ones.
		
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			Who?
		
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			Allah says, let there be among you, among
		
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			you Muslims, a group who will give da
		
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			'wah.
		
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			يَدْعُونَ إِلَى الْخَيْرِ Who will call people to
		
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			what is good.
		
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			Give da'wah.
		
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			And the second thing, command the good and
		
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			forbid the evil.
		
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			Command the good and forbid the evil.
		
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			And they are the successful ones.
		
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			And so if we want to achieve unity
		
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			among the Muslims, this is how to do
		
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			it.
		
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			And then look at how Allah ends all
		
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			of these ayat by showing us the importance
		
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			of da'wah and the importance of remaining
		
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			united.
		
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			Allah says, وَلَا تَكُونُوا كَالَّذِينَ تَفَرَّقُوا وَاخْتَلَفُوا مِن
		
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			بَعْدِ مَا جَاءَهُمُ الْبَيِّنَاتِ And do not be
		
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			like those who disunited and they differed after
		
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			the clear ayat came to them.
		
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			As if Allah is saying, if you don't
		
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			do these two things, da'wah and commanding
		
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			the good and forbidding the evil, then you're
		
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			gonna remain divided.
		
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			Then you're gonna remain divided.
		
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			Because look at how Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta
		
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			'ala is putting the two together.
		
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			Talking about unity and talking about giving da
		
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			'wah and commanding the good and forbidding the
		
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			evil.
		
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			And I say this because many people think
		
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			that the only way for Muslims to unite
		
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			today is by forgetting about our differences.
		
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			Let's all unite and forget about our differences.
		
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			We're talking about differences related to the deen.
		
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			We're not talking about differences in terms of
		
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			your ethnic background, what country you come from.
		
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			Yes, of course, that's obvious.
		
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			We have to forget about those differences.
		
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			But in order to achieve unity, you can't
		
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			say, oh well, we have to forget about
		
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			our differences in terms of interpreting Islam.
		
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			Let's come back to the ayat.
		
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			What does Allah say?
		
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			Command the good and forbid the evil.
		
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			We can't be passive.
		
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			We can't be like, practice Islam however you
		
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			want.
		
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			The main thing is unity.
		
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			It doesn't work that way.
		
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			Allah tells us the importance.
		
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			In these same ayat, He talks about the
		
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			importance of da'wah and commanding the good
		
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			and forbidding the evil.
		
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			And finally, we can say that this ayah
		
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			shows us the importance of the bond of
		
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			Islam.
		
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			And so, if Islam is not made the
		
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			greatest bond between us, between us Muslims, then
		
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			the other bonds, the bonds of tribalism and
		
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			ethnicity and in today's day and age, nation
		
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			states, that will tear us apart.
		
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			And then what will happen?
		
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			Our enemy will exploit our differences and then
		
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			make us legitimate targets.
		
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			And then, we won't come to support one
		
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			another.
		
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			And this is exactly what we are seeing
		
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			today.
		
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			This is what we have been seeing for
		
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			the last maybe 100-200 years.
		
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			When we become divided, as they say, divide
		
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			and conquer.
		
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			And that's exactly what the enemies of Islam
		
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			did.
		
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			And so, just like that Jew said in
		
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			Medina.
		
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			He said, as long as the Muslims are
		
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			united, then our survival is at risk.
		
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			But let's divide them and then we'll be
		
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			fine.
		
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			And so, a Muslim who may be from
		
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			a different ethnic background as you, is closer
		
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			to you than your own blood relations if
		
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			they don't have Iman.
		
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			If they don't have Iman.
		
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			And this is what we saw among the
		
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			Sahaba.
		
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			We saw this clearly, very clearly in the
		
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			lives of the Sahaba.
		
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			How they held on to this bond of
		
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			brotherhood, Islamic brotherhood.
		
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			Even at the cost of their own parents
		
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			and fathers and brothers and uncles.
		
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			Alright, we move on next to the next
		
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			parable.
		
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			With this parable, we will complete the parables
		
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			of Surah Ali'Imran.
		
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			This parable is the spending of the Kuffar.
		
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			The Kuffar and their expenditure.
		
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			What they spend of money.
		
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			Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la tells
		
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			us about Ahlul Kitab.
		
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			That they're not all the same.
		
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			لَيْسُ سَوَاءً They're not all the same.
		
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			مِنْ أَهْلِ الْكِتَابِ أُمَّةٌ قَائِمَةٌ يَتْلُونَ آيَاتِ اللَّهِ
		
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			آنَا أَنْ لَيْلِ وَمِنْ يَسْجُدُونَ That among Ahlul
		
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			Kitab are good people.
		
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			Those who recite the verses of Allah all
		
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			night and they make sujood.
		
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			And then Allah mentions that they believe in
		
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			Allah in the last day and they command
		
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			the good and they forbid the evil, etc.
		
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			And then after mentioning all of that Allah
		
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			says, وَمَا يَفْعَلُوا مِنْ خَيْرٍ فَلَنْ يُكْثَرُوا Whatever
		
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			good that they do, they won't be denied
		
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			of its reward.
		
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			وَاللَّهُ عَلِيمُ بِالْمُنْتَقِينَ And Allah is well aware
		
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			of the people of taqwa.
		
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			Now these ayat are talking about those Ahlul
		
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			Kitab who accept Islam.
		
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			Those among Ahlul Kitab who accept Islam.
		
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			And we had many of them in the
		
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			time of the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			Allah is telling them that Allah will not
		
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			deprive them of their rewards for their good
		
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			deeds.
		
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			Because of their iman.
		
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			That's the condition.
		
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			Then after that Allah tells us of the
		
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			other group.
		
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			إِنَّ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا لَنْ تُغْنِيَ عَنْهُمْ أَمَالُهُمْ وَلَا
		
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			أَوْلَادُهُمْ مِنَ اللَّهِ شَيْئًا وَأُولَيْكَ أَصْحَابُ النَّارِ هُمْ
		
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			فِيهَا خَالِدُونَ Neither the wealth nor the children
		
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			of the kuffar will be of any benefit
		
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			to them against Allah.
		
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			They are the people of the fire to
		
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			be in there forever.
		
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			Why does Allah mention the wealth and the
		
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			children of the kuffar won't be of any
		
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			benefit to them?
		
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			Yes, anyone else?
		
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			Their main focus is that.
		
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			Okay, that's close.
		
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			Think about it the other way.
		
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			Don't be impressed by their wealth and their
		
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			children.
		
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			Now, especially in those days, but even today.
		
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			If someone gets in trouble, how can he
		
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			get himself out of that trouble?
		
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			Let's say you go to jail.
		
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			How do you get out?
		
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			Bail, right?
		
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			Bail requires money.
		
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			In those days, your children, you would ransom
		
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			your children.
		
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			This is called ransom.
		
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			Allah is telling us, the kuffar, neither their
		
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			wealth nor their children will benefit them against
		
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			Allah, meaning on the Day of Judgment.
		
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			They are going to be in trouble.
		
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			In the dunya, you can escape.
		
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			You get in trouble, you can escape.
		
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			But in front of Allah, there is no
		
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			escape.
		
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			Bring all your children, bring all your wealth.
		
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			You cannot ransom yourself from the punishment of
		
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			Allah.
		
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			In fact, some of them even said this.
		
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			Abu Jahl or someone else said.
		
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			When he would hear these ayats of the
		
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			hellfire, he would say, I'm going to ransom
		
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			myself with my children, with my wealth.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So anyways, we have two groups of Ahlul
		
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			Kitab here.
		
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			The first group, they believed in Allah in
		
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			the last day.
		
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			And so they benefited from their good deeds.
		
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			They will benefit from them in the Akhirah,
		
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			while the second group did not.
		
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			And so, they will not benefit from their
		
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			good deeds.
		
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			No, they accepted Islam.
		
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			Or it could be talking about those before
		
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			the coming of Muhammad ﷺ.
		
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			When there was no Prophet.
		
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			But, anywhere in the Qur'an, if Allah
		
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			praises Ahlul Kitab with such praise, mentioning that
		
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			they are people in Jannah, for example, then
		
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			it refers to those among them who accept
		
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			Islam.
		
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			Those among them who accept Islam.
		
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			Alright, then Allah gives us the parable.
		
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			Right after this ayah, Allah gives us the
		
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			parable.
		
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			مَثَلُ مَا يُنفِقُونَ فِي هَٰذِهِ الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا كَمَثَلِ
		
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			رِيحٍ فِيهَا سُرٌّ أَصَابَتْ حَرْثَ قَوْمٍ ظَلَمُوا أَنفُسَهُمْ
		
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			فَأَهْلَكَتْ وَمَا ظَلَمَهُمُ اللَّهُ وَلَكِنْ أَنفُسَهُمْ يَظْلِمُونَ Allah
		
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			says the example, the parable, of what day
		
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			the Kuffar spend in this worldly life, is
		
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			like that of a bitter wind with frost
		
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			or fire that strikes the harvest, the crops
		
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			of a people who have wronged themselves and
		
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			destroys it.
		
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			And Allah did not wrong them, but they
		
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			wronged themselves.
		
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			Allah did not do them any injustice, they
		
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			did injustice to themselves.
		
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			So here, in this ayah, Allah compares the
		
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			spending of the Kuffar, when they spend money,
		
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			Allah compares it to a destroyed farm, crops
		
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			that are destroyed.
		
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			So imagine someone, he has a farm, he
		
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			has crops, vegetables, and at the time when
		
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			it's time to pick the fruit, and basically
		
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			it's time for harvest, it's all gone.
		
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			It's all destroyed.
		
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			And so when the Kuffar spend, they spend
		
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			for other than the sake of Allah.
		
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			They spend purely for worldly reasons.
		
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			They spend purely for worldly reasons.
		
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			We can say this ayah is referring to
		
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			three kinds of spending of the Kuffar.
		
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			Number one, what they spend out of their
		
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			desires, lavishly, just to fulfill their desires.
		
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			You see how they spend lavishly for the
		
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			luxuries of the dunya.
		
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			That's number one.
		
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			Number two, whatever they spend in terms of
		
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			charity.
		
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			Whatever they spend in terms of charity, they
		
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			may give in the hundreds of thousands to
		
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			charitable causes.
		
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			Number three, them spending against Islam.
		
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			Them spending to ward people away from Islam.
		
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			And when we look at the massive amounts
		
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			that are spent for this purpose, and we're
		
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			talking about in the millions and the billions,
		
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			it's mind-boggling how much they spend in
		
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			their war against Islam.
		
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			So Allah tells us that their expenditure in
		
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			this dunya is like, a fierce storm that
		
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			comes and hits this farm.
		
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			Destroying it and burning it and depriving its
		
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			owners of what they needed at the time
		
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			that they needed it the most.
		
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			And the reason was their own wrongdoing.
		
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			The reason was their own wrongdoing.
		
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			That's what Allah says at the end of
		
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			the ayah.
		
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			Allah says, Allah did not do any injustice
		
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			to them.
		
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			Allah did not wrong them, but they wronged
		
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			themselves.
		
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			They wronged themselves by what?
		
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			By kufr.
		
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			They wronged themselves by their kufr.
		
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			And we mentioned a similar parable previously.
		
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			Who remembers it?
		
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			Very similar to this.
		
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			In Surah Al-Baqarah.
		
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			Very very similar to this.
		
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			No?
		
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			Yeah, yeah.
		
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			No, no, that one.
		
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			Would one of you like to have a
		
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			garden that has fruits and grapes, and then
		
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			the owner, he's old, he has weak children,
		
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			and then it's all gone.
		
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			It's all gone.
		
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			A storm comes and hits it.
		
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			And it's all gone.
		
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			And we mentioned that was the good deeds
		
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			of the kufr going to waste.
		
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			So this ayah is very similar to that.
		
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			And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says about
		
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			the kufr and their spending, إِنَّ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا
		
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			يُنفِقُونَ أَمْوَالَهُمْ لِيَصُدُّوا عَنْ سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ Those who
		
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			disbelieve, the kuffar, the enemies of Allah and
		
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			the enemies of Islam, they spend.
		
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			Allah says they will spend to ward people
		
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			away from the path of Allah.
		
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			فَسَيُنفِقُونَهَا ثُمَّ تَكُونُ عَلَيْهِمْ حَسْرَةٌ ثُمَّ يُغْلَبُونَ They
		
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			will spend it and then they will continue
		
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			to spend it to the point of regret.
		
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			And then they will be defeated.
		
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			When you look at how much they spend
		
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			in the millions and the billions to ward
		
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			people away from Islam.
		
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			But what happens?
		
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			Instead of less people accepting Islam, it goes
		
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			up, it increases.
		
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			This is what Allah is talking about here.
		
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			Also in their military wars that they wage.
		
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			How many times have they sent their armies,
		
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			fought for years, decades.
		
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			In the end, the Muslims are victorious.
		
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			So all of that money is going to
		
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			waste.
		
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			So this is one way of looking at
		
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			it, that when they spend to wage their
		
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			wars against Islam, both psychological and military, it's
		
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			all going to waste.
		
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			And what does Allah say about this?
		
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			يُرِيدُونَ أَن يُطْفِعُوا نُورَ اللَّهِ بِأَحْوَاهِهِمْ They want
		
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			to extinguish the light of Allah, which is
		
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			Islam, with their mouths.
		
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			With their money and also with their mouths,
		
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			with their words.
		
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			وَيَقْضَ اللَّهُ إِلَّا أَن يُطِمَّ نُورَهُ وَلَوْ كَرِهَا
		
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			الْكَافِرُونَ And Allah refuses, except that His light
		
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			will become even stronger.
		
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			Even if the disbelievers may dislike it.
		
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			So this is one way of looking at
		
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			it.
		
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			Another way of looking at it is that,
		
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			this refers to their spending in terms of,
		
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			as we said, charity.
		
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			They spend in a lot of charitable causes.
		
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			They hope that they will see the fruit
		
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			of that on the Day of Judgment.
		
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			But Allah destroys all of their rewards of
		
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			their good deeds because of their kufr.
		
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			Because of their kufr, not that Allah dealt
		
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			with them unjustly.
		
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			Some of the lessons from this parable.
		
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			Number one, we should never fall into despair
		
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			when we see how the enemies of Islam,
		
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			they spend in their war against Islam.
		
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			We should always remember that all of their
		
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			investments and all of this money that they
		
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			spend, is going to waste, as Allah says
		
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			here.