Mikaeel Smith – In His Footsteps #26

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Theills of praising Allah's actions and taking precautions in the face of peace are emphasized, with a focus on trusting in God and taking small small precautions. The importance of image in people's perception is also discussed, with a brief description of the act being a beautiful moment to show how the prophet sallua alaihi wa sallam is fighting propaganda. The importance of praying and not just praying is emphasized, as well as the importance of acceptance of Islam and forgiveness. The transcript describes a scene where a prophet sallua Alaihi waessala gives a speech to a Muslim man on his way to the prophet's house, and a woman who was a good carpenter and was given a member of the prophet's house. The speaker also announces a halakah after Maghrib's insha'.

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			We ask Allah
		
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			to make this a gathering by which we
		
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			increase our love of Allah, a gathering in
		
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			which we increase our appreciation for the beautiful
		
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			characteristics
		
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			of Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
		
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			In our last session,
		
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			2 sessions ago, we talked about this epic
		
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			moment in the life of the prophet and
		
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			in the life of all the Sahaba where
		
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			they set out to go for umrah. And
		
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			they were on their way to go do
		
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			this umrah and if you remember, they got
		
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			stopped. They couldn't do it. And it was
		
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			a moment that showed us that sometimes when
		
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			it looks like we're taking a l, we're
		
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			not really taking a l. We're not taking
		
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			a loss. But in reality, Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala is opening up so many doors for
		
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			us. But in the moment, it's very hard
		
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			to see that. And so when we're going
		
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			through those moments, we have to have people
		
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			around us that are constantly reminding us that
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is in charge and
		
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			that everything is by the plan of Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			And so,
		
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			this year, we're in the 7th year of
		
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			Hijra right now. And it's time. It's reached
		
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			that time of the year where it's time
		
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			to fulfill
		
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			the umrah or the the pilgrimage that we
		
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			were going to do. And so this is
		
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			called umrah tul Qadha. It's the umrah that
		
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			we were making up from the umrah that
		
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			we were stopped from before.
		
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			So the month of Dhul Qadha comes and
		
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			the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam announces that
		
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			everyone who was with us in the previous
		
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			one were going for Umrah again.
		
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			Everyone get ready. Now, before we go into
		
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			this, we have to understand that the people
		
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			of Mecca, they had put some stipulations
		
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			down. And one of the stipulations that they
		
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			put, they said, You can come back next
		
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			year. You can't come this year. You can
		
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			come back next year. And when you come
		
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			back, number 1, you can't bring any,
		
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			weapons of war.
		
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			You know, you can carry your little,
		
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			like, side joint, you know? No? Okay. Alright.
		
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			It's Texas. Right? You could carry your little
		
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			travel
		
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			weapon,
		
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			but you can't carry the things that are
		
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			for for war. You can't carry those.
		
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			And because it's a peaceful time now.
		
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			And so the Arabs had a custom. They
		
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			would always travel with a small weapon that
		
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			they could protect themselves from anything in the
		
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			moment, but they weren't gonna take any weapons
		
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			for for fighting because it's a time of
		
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			peace.
		
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			And the other condition was when you come,
		
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			you can only come for 3 days and
		
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			you gotta go. That's it. That's it. 3
		
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			days and you gotta go back.
		
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			So,
		
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			he tells everyone,
		
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			you know, let's get ready. We're going. And
		
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			there were about 1400
		
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			people that had went for that umrah with
		
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			us when we got stopped, but now there's
		
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			2,000 people. There's 2,000 people. We're all going
		
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			for umrah and there's no doubt in everyone's
		
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			mind that we're gonna go and make this
		
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			umrah.
		
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			But the prophet
		
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			does something very different.
		
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			He makes sure
		
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			that along the journey,
		
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			he takes all of the weapons of war
		
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			along on the journey.
		
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			And so when the Quraysh heard that the
		
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			prophet
		
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			was on his way to Mecca, they're like,
		
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			okay, Adi, this is normal. He's supposed to
		
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			come. No big deal. But when they heard
		
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			he was bringing weapons,
		
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			they're like, what's going on?
		
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			And so they sent a man to go
		
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			and talk to the prophet
		
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			His name was Mikras.
		
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			And so as they got close, you gotta
		
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			understand it's a it's a it's a 10
		
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			day walk, it's a 12 day walk and
		
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			with a caravan it might even take 2
		
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			weeks.
		
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			And so he's traveling with all of these
		
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			weapons
		
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			and but his plan wasn't to take them
		
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			in. His plan was these have to be
		
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			nearest
		
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			just in case the Qurays try to do
		
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			something.
		
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			And so, as they get close to to
		
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			Mecca, the prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam takes a
		
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			group of people and he says, here, put
		
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			all the weapons here and I want you
		
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			guys to stay right near these weapons and
		
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			watch them. If they try to do anything
		
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			to us, we're ready in that situation. And
		
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			this is important because
		
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			the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he taught
		
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			us this concept of tawakkul
		
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			which is reliance on god.
		
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			Complete, complete reliance on God. And if you
		
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			study his life as we have been, you'll
		
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			see every moment he's trusting in God. But
		
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			trusting in God doesn't mean don't take precautions.
		
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			And so what the prophet
		
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			was doing is he was making sure that
		
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			just in case
		
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			the Quraysh tries something,
		
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			we're ready for them. So they send Mikras.
		
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			Mikras was from the Quraysh. His job was
		
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			like, find out why they're coming with weapons.
		
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			And so he says he says, Yeah, Muhammad.
		
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			SubhanAllah. They used to say things that you
		
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			would wonder why haven't you accepted Islam. He
		
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			says, oh Muhammad, salallahu alayhi wasalam.
		
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			He's like,
		
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			you have never in your life since you
		
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			were young or old been known to be
		
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			to be to cheat anyone.
		
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			Why are you bringing weapons? Are you going
		
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			to bring weapons into the Haram?
		
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			And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he
		
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			says,
		
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			He goes, no. No. We're not bringing any
		
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			weapons into the Haram. And then Mikras, he
		
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			says,
		
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			this is exactly how we knew you to
		
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			be. I found this amazing
		
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			because it's a testimony on their tongue to
		
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			how truthful he always was.
		
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			Meaning, even his enemies, salallahu alaihi wa sallam,
		
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			even those who are at war against him,
		
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			they're like, this man never lies. He never
		
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			breaks his promise.
		
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			But but the idea
		
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			is the prophet
		
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			is teaching us that we have to take
		
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			precautions. We always have to take your precautions
		
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			and still trust in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			And so, they come
		
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			and,
		
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			they're approaching Mecca.
		
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			The weapons are set up outside of Mecca
		
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			but everyone still has their small travel, Yemeni
		
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			style,
		
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			knife or sword or whatever they would keep.
		
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			And,
		
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			rumors had spread.
		
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			So you have to understand the backdrop.
		
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			The people in Mecca are
		
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			are very
		
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			angry or upset, salty.
		
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			They don't want to see us happy.
		
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			They don't want to see us in a
		
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			good state.
		
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			And so
		
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			they they started spreading rumors about us.
		
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			And the rumors they spread is they said,
		
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			that that
		
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			these Muslims that are coming
		
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			to,
		
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			to do Umrah,
		
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			they got sick in Medina
		
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			and they're all weak and scrawny now.
		
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			See, a little backdrop.
		
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			Medina was always known to be a place
		
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			that when people traveled through it, they would
		
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			get sick.
		
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			And and even the Sahaba, when they first
		
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			got to Medina 7 years ago, many of
		
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			them got sick right away.
		
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			And so rumors started to spread that these
		
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			these Muslims,
		
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			watch when they come, you'll see them, they'll
		
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			be very weak,
		
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			they'll be very lethargic,
		
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			they'll be very skinny
		
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			because they've gotten weak from being in Medina
		
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			too long.
		
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			This was the propaganda.
		
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			See, we couldn't fight them in the battle,
		
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			so now they're fighting the battle of propaganda.
		
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			Let's just spread. The reason why that's so
		
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			clutch is because it's
		
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			people in the Arabian Peninsula are choosing sides
		
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			at this point. Are they gonna be with
		
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			the Muslims or are they gonna be with
		
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			the Quraysh?
		
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			And as much as they could spread evil
		
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			about us, as much as they could bat
		
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			make our name bad, that was better for
		
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			them.
		
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			So when the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
		
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			he was the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
		
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			was informed by Jibrael
		
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			that the Quraysh are saying this about you.
		
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			The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he does
		
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			something absolutely amazing.
		
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			The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam cared about
		
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			our image.
		
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			And as we as a ummah are going
		
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			through what we're going through,
		
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			internationally,
		
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			an image is so important how we're perceived.
		
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			The prophet said, this lesson from the prophet
		
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			speaks so much to us. So the prophet
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he said in this
		
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			moment
		
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			when he heard about this.
		
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			They said, Oh, these people are weak. They
		
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			won't even be able to do tawaf around
		
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			the kaaba because they'll be too weak.
		
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			So the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he
		
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			says these words. He says to the sahaba,
		
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			2,000 of them, men, women, children.
		
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			He says,
		
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			may Allah have mercy. Speaking to the believers.
		
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			May Allah have mercy on the person amongst
		
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			us
		
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			who shows them our strength today.
		
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			Typically the prophet taught us to be humble.
		
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			But humility has a time and place.
		
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			Humility has a time and place.
		
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			One day, Abu Jujana in the Battle of,
		
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			of Badr,
		
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			he was a he was a fighter as
		
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			though it was a war.
		
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			And he puts on his red bandana
		
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			and he starts to strut like like with
		
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			swagger
		
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			in front of the enemy. And the prophet
		
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			looked at him and he said, this is
		
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			a gate that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala doesn't
		
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			like except in this situation.
		
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			Meaning, in this moment, we're not to be
		
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			humble. In this moment, we're to be proud,
		
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			we're to be strong.
		
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			And so the prophet
		
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			teaches us something in this moment that sticks
		
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			with this ummah until today.
		
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			He says, all the men If you ever
		
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			seen men in Umrah and and Ihram, you
		
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			know what it is. It's it's the towel
		
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			on the bottom and the towel on the
		
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			top. And typically, when we wear the towel,
		
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			you know, we're humble people. Masha'Allah. We have
		
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			hayah. So you cover your shoulders.
		
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			But the prophet
		
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			he said, no, no, no. Hold up. We're
		
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			gonna switch things up today. He said, I
		
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			want everyone to do something called Iftlibah.
		
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			He says, all the men, I want you
		
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			to take out your right arm
		
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			and take the cloth and put it over
		
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			your left, but your right arm is out.
		
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			For what reason?
		
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			To flex.
		
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			That was it. There was no other reason.
		
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			Literally, every scholar This isn't my interpretation, this
		
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			is every single scholar says, the only reason
		
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			why till today Muslims do umrah and put
		
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			their arm out is because word had spread
		
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			that we were weak. And the prophet is
		
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			like, I don't want anyone thinking this ummah
		
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			is weak.
		
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			The prophet said, the strong believer is better
		
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			than the weak believer.
		
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			Some say that's about faith in iman,
		
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			but
		
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			So, Rasulullah said to him, he says, I
		
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			want the men to take out their right
		
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			arm.
		
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			Their right arm. And not only that not
		
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			only that, he said, I don't want anyone
		
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			walking
		
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			in the in the tawaf.
		
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			I want the men to jog.
		
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			To jog.
		
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			And and subhanAllah,
		
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			it was such a performative
		
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			act
		
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			that when the Quraysh were watching us, right,
		
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			I want you to imagine the Kaaba, the
		
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			most of the Quraysh were on one side
		
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			of the Kaaba watching us. There was another
		
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			side where there was no one at. None
		
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			of the Quraysh were there. This was such
		
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			a performative act that when we got to
		
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			the other side, the prophet was like, just
		
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			walk right here.
		
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			Like, why we going to raise energy for?
		
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			So whenever we would get to the other
		
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			side of the Kaaba, you walk. But the
		
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			moment you turn the corner, start running again.
		
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			Just to show that we're strong.
		
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			And subhanAllah, it's just such a beautiful moment
		
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			to show how the prophet was
		
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			fighting against propaganda
		
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			and keeping the image of the Muslim that
		
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			something is always something strong. Even though a
		
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			year ago, we just took a compromise that
		
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			made us look weak, the prophet sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wasallam is like, no, this ummah always has
		
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			to look strong and I'm going to SubhanAllah.
		
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			You wonder why we do it till today.
		
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			Like like there's no Quraysh around the Kaaba
		
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			watching us.
		
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			But it's the Sahaba, Umrah ibn Abbas, he
		
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			said, once the prophet made it sunnah, I'm
		
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			never we should never leave something that the
		
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			prophet made sunnah.
		
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			And so till today, when you go for
		
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			Umrah,
		
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			brothers finally like, yeah, I get to show
		
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			off. You know? And they take the right
		
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			arm out and they start to jog around
		
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			the Kaaba and it's all because of that
		
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			image that had been created about the Muslims.
		
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			And the prophet was like, no. We are
		
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			a strong ummah. We must always know we're
		
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			strong and we must always show our strength.
		
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			The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam is now coming
		
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			into Mecca.
		
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			This is an epic moment.
		
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			Most of the Quraysh, they left Mecca and
		
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			they went off into the mountains.
		
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			And the reason is they just don't wanna
		
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			see us happy.
		
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			They just don't wanna see us in our
		
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			moment happy. So many of the Quresh they
		
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			left, one of them was Khaled bin Walid.
		
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			We'll talk about him inshallah.
		
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			They left.
		
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			The rest of them, they stayed and they
		
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			watched the Muslims.
		
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			As the prophet
		
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			is is coming into,
		
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			into Mecca,
		
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			the Sahaba,
		
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			they have their swords out, the small swords.
		
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			We left the big stuff back at the
		
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			camp.
		
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			And they're surrounding the prophet.
		
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			On every side, in front, around, from every
		
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			angle.
		
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			They have their ihram on, but they're also
		
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			holding a sword. Why? Because we don't want
		
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			anyone to do anything to this man.
		
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			Some of the youngsters, some of the hotheads
		
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			from Quresh.
		
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			So, they're surrounding the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam the entire time. And subhanAllah, I want
		
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			you to see the image. They're all doing
		
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			Just doing the
		
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			surrounding the prophet.
		
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			Guys, brothers and sisters, we haven't been at
		
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			the Kaaba. We haven't been here as a
		
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			ummah in the last 7 to 8 years.
		
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			This was what they wanted more than anything.
		
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			And so, they're there.
		
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			They're there.
		
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			And,
		
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			the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he stays
		
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			there 3 days
		
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			and most of the leaders of Quresh, they
		
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			left.
		
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			They didn't want us to see them see
		
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			us happy.
		
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			So, they left.
		
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			And
		
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			the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam had a
		
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			very special quality
		
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			and it's something that me and you need
		
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			to develop within ourselves.
		
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			The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam as they
		
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			describe him, they say,
		
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			That the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
		
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			he was connected to every person in a
		
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			gathering
		
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			and he would miss people when they were
		
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			absent.
		
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			If you spent time with him
		
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			and you didn't pull up
		
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			and you weren't there,
		
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			he'd be like, where's Fulan?
		
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			Where's such and such?
		
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			So in this moment, something amazing happens.
		
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			Walid bin Walid.
		
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			Walid bin Walid. He's a Muslim
		
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			and he's the brother
		
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			of none other than Khaled bin Walid.
		
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			Now, I'm going to pause for a moment
		
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			so we understand who this man I'm about
		
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			to talk about is before we truly appreciate
		
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			what's about to happen.
		
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			Khaled bin Walid
		
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			is brawn and brain.
		
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			Khaled bin Walid
		
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			is the most strategic
		
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			man of war there is.
		
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			He was there at Badr, he was there
		
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			at Uhud, he was there at Hudaybi, he
		
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			was there at every moment
		
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			And he was brilliant at war.
		
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			But this moment
		
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			was big, so he left.
		
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			He left.
		
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			And so the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
		
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			as I said, his quality.
		
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			There's there's so many people there. He looks
		
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			over to Waleed bin Waleed, Khaled's brother.
		
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			And he says, Aina Khaled.
		
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			He says, Where's Khaled?
		
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			Where's Khaled?
		
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			Now, now this is heavy. I want you
		
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			to understand, this is a sunnah. There was
		
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			once a woman, her name was Umme Mahjan.
		
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			She was a black woman. She used to
		
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			clean the masjid. She was from the poor
		
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			people of Medina,
		
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			meaning she had no clan.
		
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			But she had Rasulullah
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wasallam. She used to clean the
		
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			masjid everyday.
		
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			One day, the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam comes
		
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			out fajr.
		
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			He goes, where's Umme Mahjan?
		
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			The Sahaba, they say, You Rasulullah, she passed
		
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			away last night.
		
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			The prophet broke down.
		
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			He said, why didn't you tell me?
		
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			Why didn't you tell me?
		
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			How are you just gonna bury it? Why
		
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			didn't you tell me? It was the middle
		
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			of the night, You Rasulullah. You were asleep.
		
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			We didn't want to bother you. He said,
		
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			Take me to her grave.
		
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			And he went and he prayed the janazah
		
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			on the grave.
		
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			But he missed her.
		
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			He missed her.
		
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			That's the key that that changes people's hearts.
		
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			And I I wanna I'm talking about this
		
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			because when we look at this moment of
		
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			Khaled bin Walid,
		
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			the prophet missed them and he said, where's
		
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			Khaled by name?
		
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			There was another person we'll read maybe in
		
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			next week
		
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			and or the week after. His name was
		
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			Ka'a bin Malik.
		
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			There were 3,000 soldiers and we went to
		
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			go fight the Roman Empire.
		
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			Amongst
		
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			not 3,000, 30,000.
		
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			And amongst 30,000 when we get there, the
		
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			prophet looks around, it's 30,000 people. He goes,
		
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			where's Kaab?
		
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			Where's Kaab at?
		
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			He noticed people and he noticed when they
		
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			were gone.
		
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			So so subhanallah, it's a beautiful moment.
		
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			Khaled bin Walid, these are his words. It's
		
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			such a beautiful story.
		
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			Khaled bin Walid, he says,
		
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			when when the prophet
		
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			came to Mecca
		
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			to perform this umrah, I disappeared.
		
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			And I didn't want to see him enter
		
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			the city.
		
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			But my brother was Muslim.
		
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			My brother was Muslim.
		
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			And he came with the prophet sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam.
		
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			And my brother was looking for me,
		
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			but he couldn't find me.
		
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			But he wrote a letter for me and
		
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			he left the letter with someone. And this
		
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			is what the letter said,
		
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			He says he's writing to his brother,
		
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			He goes, I don't know anything stranger than
		
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			your intellect not seeing the beauty of Islam.
		
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			When your intellect is as high as your
		
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			intellect is.
		
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			Someone like you should not be ignorant to
		
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			what the beauty of Islam is.
		
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			And look what he says next,
		
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			And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam asked
		
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			me about you.
		
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			He said, Where is Khaled?
		
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			Where is Khaled?
		
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			Can you imagine
		
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			being the one
		
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			who caused
		
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			Hamza's death and mutilation?
		
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			That was Khaled.
		
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			Can you imagine being the one that caused
		
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			the tooth of the prophet to be chipped
		
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			in the battle of Uhud?
		
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			That was Khaled when he turned around the
		
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			corner and attacked the Muslims.
		
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			But to have this man, Muhammad sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam amongst all of the people of
		
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			Mecca,
		
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			lean over to your brother and go,
		
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			where's Khaled at?
		
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			Imagine how it hit him.
		
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			Imagine how it touched him.
		
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			So what happens?
		
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			The brother says in the letter,
		
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			I said,
		
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			Allah will bring him, You Rasool Allah.
		
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			Allah will bring him.
		
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			A lot of us have family members, we
		
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			want to take shahada and those words Allah
		
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			will bring him,
		
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			those are what we're saying all the time.
		
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			Allah will bring him inshallah.
		
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			Then the prophet said
		
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			in the letter he's writing what the prophet
		
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			said.
		
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			Islam. Somebody as smart as him won't miss
		
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			out on the beauty of Islam.
		
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			And then he says, the prophet's saying, but
		
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			the brother's writing, he goes, if he would
		
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			only use his strengths for this deen instead
		
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			of against the deen.
		
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			Brothers and sisters, there are so many people
		
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			in our country right now that have strengths.
		
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			They have voice.
		
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			They have influence.
		
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			And the prophet is saying sometimes the ones
		
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			who are your staunch enemies are the ones
		
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			that will be the best in Islam. There's
		
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			a hadith and I want you to remember
		
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			it. The prophet
		
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			said,
		
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			People are like mines of gold and silver.
		
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			Islam. The ones who are good in Jahiliya
		
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			will be good in Islam when they learn
		
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			the deen. Meaning, you could take everything from
		
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			your Jahili period,
		
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			sift it through the beautiful sieve of Islam
		
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			and what comes out is this amazing individual
		
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			that could work for the deen, that could
		
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			help Allah's deen.
		
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			So he says,
		
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			he says, and if he comes,
		
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			I'm going to put him up front.
		
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			What does he say? In the 7th year,
		
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			if he comes,
		
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			we'll put him in the front.
		
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			This is important.
		
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			The prophet
		
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			is saying,
		
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			Treat people according to their rank.
		
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			If Khalid becomes Muslim, what, he goes to
		
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			the back of the lines of the war?
		
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			No.
		
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			He's a top notch general.
		
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			He's a top notch person of strategy
		
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			in war. The prophet
		
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			says, Man, if he comes, he's gonna be
		
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			right in the front. He's not gonna start
		
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			over fresh, he's gonna be right in the
		
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			front.
		
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			So the brother ends the the letter's ending.
		
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			So the brother says,
		
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			Yo, come on, you gotta make up for
		
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			a lot of he says, you missed a
		
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			lot of
		
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			important moments.
		
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			You've missed you missed Badr on the right
		
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			side. You missed Uhud on the right side.
		
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			You missed
		
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			on the right side. You've missed a lot.
		
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			Come on, man. You gotta join us.
		
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			You missed a lot of good moments.
		
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			It says,
		
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			When I got the letter in my hand,
		
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			I got excited. I was like, I gotta
		
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			go.
		
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			I gotta go.
		
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			I wanna drop back a little bit what's
		
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			going on in his heart for a minute.
		
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			Khaled tells us
		
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			he says that,
		
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			I noticed that every time I tried to
		
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			beat him in war,
		
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			he was always a step ahead of me.
		
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			Who? The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			He says, Every time I tried to get
		
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			him, he was always ahead. Think of Uhud,
		
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			He had already set up the archers.
		
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			We were ready.
		
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			But people slipped up.
		
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			In Hudaybiyah, which we spoke about 2 weeks
		
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			ago I didn't bring it up but it's
		
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			important.
		
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			Khaled tried to attack us in Hudaybiyah.
		
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			And Khaled goes, listen. He has a group
		
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			of 200 soldiers.
		
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			He goes, listen. They're about to pray this
		
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			prayer called like Asr prayer,
		
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			and they love prayer more than they love
		
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			anything.
		
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			The moment they start praying, we'll attack them.
		
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			Everyone's like, great plan, Khaled, let's do it.
		
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			Do you know what was revealed right between
		
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			Dor and Asr?
		
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			It's called salatul Khaf,
		
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			the prayer of war.
		
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			So right when Khaled is like, we got
		
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			them,
		
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			the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam through Revelation
		
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			is one step ahead. Khaled says, when I
		
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			saw him pray salatul Khuf Let me explain
		
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			real quick. Salatul Khuf is a prayer
		
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			that in the battlefield,
		
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			prayer isn't you still pray,
		
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			but it's just different.
		
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			The one group stands in front and protects
		
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			and then they pray. It's complex.
		
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			But the point is, Khadid is like, oh,
		
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			don't worry, they're about to pray this prayer,
		
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			they put all their heads off the ground,
		
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			at one time we attack.
		
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			In between,
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala through Gabriel reveals salatul
		
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			khoof.
		
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			The prophet they're about to pray, he's like,
		
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			listen prayer is different for usr.
		
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			He recites the verses of Quran.
		
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			Khaled says, when I saw him pray that,
		
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			I said, Arrojul mumnoor. This man can't be
		
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			touched.
		
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			I'm on the wrong side.
		
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			I'm on the wrong side. He says, this
		
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			was in my heart since Hudaybiyah that I'm
		
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			on the wrong side.
		
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			And then I get this letter a year
		
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			later
		
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			in which the prophet spoke to me specifically.
		
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			He said, so I got the letter in
		
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			my hand.
		
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			I was like
		
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			I was invigorated to go to Medina.
		
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			Let's do it. I'm gonna go.
		
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			And then he goes, I was hesitant
		
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			and then I saw a dream.
		
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			I went to sleep that night and I
		
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			saw a dream.
		
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			He said, I saw this dream that I
		
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			was in this land that was very constrained.
		
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			I felt claustrophobic
		
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			and it was dry.
		
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			And then I
		
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			left that land and I went to a
		
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			land that was green, lush and open.
		
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			He said, I woke up and I said,
		
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			this is this is it.
		
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			Allah is telling me something through this dream.
		
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			There's something here.
		
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			Later when he gets to Medina,
		
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			later on,
		
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			he asks Abu Bakr to interpret the dream.
		
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			Abu Bakr says, The tight and constricted land
		
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			was your life disconnected from God.
		
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			And the land that was open wide, the
		
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			freedom,
		
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			that was when you submit to Allah.
		
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			See, the scholars, they say
		
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			Islam
		
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			frees you from your nafs when the world
		
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			wants to free your nafs.
		
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			The world wants to free your nafs, but
		
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			we see what happens when we free the
		
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			nafs. Addiction, drugs, alcohol, gambling, that's what happens
		
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			when you free the nafs. What does Islam
		
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			do? Free you from the nafs.
		
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			Because everyone's a slave of something, I'd just
		
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			rather be a slave of Allah.
		
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			Everyone's a slave of something, I just would
		
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			rather be a slave
		
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			of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			So he saw this dream
		
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			and he says, I got to go.
		
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			I made up my mind to go.
		
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			For Ajima to Khuruj, I'm going to leave.
		
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			I'm going to go see the prophet sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam. This is a huge moment.
		
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			This is the hymn of hymn of
		
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			Mecca saying, I'm going to Medina.
		
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			But then he said,
		
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			Men Usahib Illa Muhammad. I need somebody to
		
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			roll with me.
		
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			This is amazing.
		
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			How many of y'all in this room came
		
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			with someone else?
		
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			How many of us came No one? Then
		
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			y'all came by y'all's house? We ain't got
		
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			parking like that.
		
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			How many times you say to someone, Y'all,
		
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			I'm a go to the halloween, pull up.
		
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			You're like, Alright, cool, I'm coming.
		
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			We need people to do good and righteousness.
		
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			We need other people.
		
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			Even the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam, when it
		
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			was time for hijrah, Abu Bakr as Siddiq
		
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			was like, you Rasulullah, it's getting really bad.
		
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			I'm about to leave. The prophet sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wasallam said, Abu Bakr, can you wait a
		
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			day or 2?
		
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			Abu Bakr said, why?
		
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			Why? Come on, what's going on?
		
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			He said, maybe Allah will give you a
		
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			partner.
		
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			And he said, Asawba?
		
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			We could go together?
		
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			SubhanAllah,
		
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			Khadid bin Walid,
		
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			strongest man you can imagine, courageous man you
		
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			can imagine, but he's about to walk into
		
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			a masjid for the first time. Can you
		
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			come with me?
		
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			Can you come with me?
		
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			I need somebody to come.
		
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			So Khadid bin Walid, subhanAllah, such a beautiful
		
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			moment. He says, Who will go with me?
		
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			I need someone to go with me. I
		
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			can't go by myself.
		
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			So he goes to
		
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			3,
		
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			like, leaders of Quraysh.
		
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			This first one, Safwan bin Umayyah. He goes
		
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			up to him, he says,
		
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			listen, I know you see what I see.
		
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			I don't know why we're on the wrong
		
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			side of history.
		
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			We need to switch sides.
		
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			Can you come with me to Medina and
		
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			we become Muslim?
		
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			Safwan rejects
		
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			it. No way. If there was nothing left
		
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			on the earth, I wouldn't go there. He
		
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			rejects it.
		
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			Khaled says, this man's
		
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			family and brothers were killed in Uhud
		
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			and Badr.
		
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			He's got emotional blockage.
		
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			He's got blockage. You know what? Forget it.
		
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			Then he goes to Ikram Abin Abi Jahal,
		
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			Abu Jahal's son.
		
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			He says, Yo, Ikram, Ikram,
		
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			I'm about to go to Medina.
		
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			You want to come with me?
		
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			Ikram responds the same way his father was
		
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			killed by the Muslims.
		
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			He goes, No, I'm not going. I would
		
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			never go. What are you talking about? Go
		
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			on your own.
		
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			Khaled hasn't given up hope. He's like, I
		
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			need someone to roll with me. I can't
		
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			go by myself.
		
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			We all need companionship.
		
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			We all need someone to be with us.
		
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			We all need someone to be with us.
		
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			So he finally goes to another man by
		
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			the name of Uthman bin Talha.
		
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			Uthman bin Talha,
		
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			he talked to him
		
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			and Uthman says, I'll go with you. Let's
		
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			go. I want to become Muslim too.
		
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			Now I want to say something.
		
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			Uthman bin Talha isn't really that well known
		
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			in the history for a lot of stuff,
		
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			but there's one thing he's really known for.
		
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			Back in the early days of Hejira,
		
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			Salama got trapped in Mecca. She couldn't leave.
		
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			And she needed someone to escort her to
		
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			Medina. She started walking
		
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			by herself with her child, a 2 year
		
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			old child. She started walking from Mecca to
		
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			Medina.
		
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			Uthman Bintella is not a Muslim, but he
		
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			sees this woman. He sees this woman and
		
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			he goes, where are you going? She goes,
		
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			I'm going to my husband. She he goes,
		
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			who's with you?
		
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			She goes, no one.
		
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			He says, I'm going to take you. He
		
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			puts her and the baby onto the camel.
		
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			He walks them all the way to Medina
		
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			and walks back.
		
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			And she said, I've never met someone that
		
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			was more chivalrous and honorable than him.
		
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			The good characters we have impact
		
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			the blessings that Allah will give us later
		
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			in life.
		
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			Osman bin Talha, what does he say? Let's
		
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			go.
		
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			I'll go with you.
		
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			They started they said, okay, in the morning
		
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			time, we'll meet at this place. If I
		
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			get there first, wait for me. If you
		
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			get there first, you you you wait for
		
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			me.
		
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			And then we'll go together.
		
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			So the next morning, they meet up at
		
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			the place.
		
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			Neither of them get stopped. They're able to
		
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			leave.
		
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			But I need to change.
		
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			I got a letter
		
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			from a prophet who asked about me.
		
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			So they're on their way.
		
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			And as they're on their way, they bump
		
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			into Amr bin Az, who's one of the
		
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			leaders of Quraysh too.
		
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			So
		
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			they meet each other, this one guy and
		
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			the two.
		
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			And Khale looks at Amr, he's like,
		
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			where are you going?
		
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			Amr is like,
		
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			where are you going?
		
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			So Khaleh just lets it out. I'm going
		
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			to become Muslim. Amar was like, yo, low
		
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			key that's what I was about to go
		
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			do too.
		
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			And so now they're together.
		
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			Three people, they're on their way to accept
		
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			Islam. And Amar bin Az, he's a story
		
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			on his own
		
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			and, it's beautiful.
		
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			So he says,
		
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			He goes, that's why I'm here too. Let's
		
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			go.
		
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			Goes, come on. We'll go together.
		
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			They reach outside of Medina.
		
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			You could think of where Masjid Khuba is
		
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			today.
		
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			They reach outside of Madinah.
		
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			All the way in Madinah. Now today, for
		
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			us, from the masjid to Khuba is a
		
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			is a short bus ride. But for them,
		
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			that was outside the city. That was like
		
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			Denton. No. I'm just joking.
		
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			Isn't that the joke these days, Denton? That
		
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			was like Denton.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So so they stopped out way out in
		
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			Denton.
		
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			They stopped way out there and look what
		
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			happens.
		
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			The prophet shalayhi wa sallam was told word
		
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			traveled. Khaled and Amr are here to accept
		
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			Islam.
		
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			The prophet got happy.
		
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			Got happy.
		
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			Khaled says I took out my baggage luggage
		
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			and I put my best clothes on.
		
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			I'm about to start a new life. He
		
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			says, I put my best clothes on.
		
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			And I'm going towards the prophet sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam. You can imagine his anxiety, his
		
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			worry,
		
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			his knowledge of himself.
		
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			A lot of times, what's stopping us from
		
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			those changes is what we know about ourselves.
		
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			And how will people judge me? How will
		
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			people look at me?
		
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			So he's
		
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			he's on his way,
		
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			My brother met me on my way in.
		
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			My brother who's been Muslim for years
		
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			met me on my way to the prophet
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			And my brother says to me, Asre,
		
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			hurry up. Come on, bro. Hurry up.
		
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			The prophet shalaihi wasalam heard you're coming.
		
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			Like, hurry up. Do you know what that
		
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			Hurry up. Come on, bro. I've been waiting
		
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			for you to accept Islam for so long.
		
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			And here you are on your way.
		
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			He met him halfway and as he met
		
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			him, he's like, hurry up. Isra. Isra. Come
		
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			on.
		
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			What does he say? He
		
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			goes, hurry up. The prophet knows you're coming.
		
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			He's so happy that you're coming.
		
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			He's waiting for you.
		
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			We started walking quick.
		
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			He says, and from a distance I saw
		
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			Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			I want you to picture the moment, this
		
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			man who has been at war against Muslims
		
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			for the last 7 years of his life.
		
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			Every ounce of his brain and mind and
		
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			strength has been towards against this man.
		
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			And now he's walking and he sees him
		
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			from a distance.
		
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			And he says,
		
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			I looked at him.
		
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			He just kept smiling at me as I
		
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			got closer and closer.
		
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			Meaning the same smile that had a chipped
		
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			tooth because of him was the same smile
		
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			now looking at him, happy at him.
		
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			That's our Habib salallahu alaihi wasallam.
		
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			That's Muhammad salallahu alaihi wasallam.
		
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			Who cares about my pain? You're gonna be
		
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			in jannah now. You're taking shahada.
		
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			For me, when I read this story, I'm
		
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			like the little bro, Waleed bin Waleed.
		
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			Because the number of family members that I
		
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			want to take shahada
		
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			Hurry up, come on, man.
		
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			So the prophet is smiling.
		
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			He says, Then I stood right in front
		
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			of him.
		
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			And I said, 'Assalamu Alaikum.'
		
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			He learned the code word
		
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			on the way.
		
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			Assalamu Alaikum.
		
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			The prophet smiling. He says, Wa alaikum assalamu
		
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			rahmatullahi.
		
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			But he he says, Bewajin
		
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			talukim. He gave a salam with a smiling
		
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			face.
		
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			No conversation. He goes,
		
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			No conversation.
		
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			Why are you here? What No.
		
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			All praise to Allah who has guided you.
		
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			I saw how smart you were and I
		
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			had hoped that you would accept this deen
		
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			and see the beauty of it.
		
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			See that we all have those demons inside,
		
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			those those things, skeletons in the closet that
		
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			we're worried about.
		
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			But this this shahada removes that.
		
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			I have done
		
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			so many things against you.
		
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			I have been on battlefields against you.
		
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			Please ask Allah to forgive me.
		
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			Faqal the Prophet said, don't you know
		
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			Islam wipes away everything before it?
		
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			Thummaqad. But but, you know, when you did
		
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			a lot of that,
		
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			you're like, yeah, that's for everyone. What about
		
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			me? I need a special one.
		
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			So then the prophet raises his hand and
		
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			he gives a special. He's already forgiven. If
		
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			you think about it, there's no reason for
		
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			this next dua.
		
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			But some of us, it's like, no, I
		
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			need that special
		
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			I need that special forgiveness.
		
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			So the prophet says, Allahu,
		
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			Oh Allah, forgive Khaled
		
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			for everything that he did against us in
		
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			the path of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			Khalid bin Walid from this moment goes on
		
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			to be one of the greatest
		
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			aids, one of the greatest
		
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			spreaders of Islam.
		
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			Fighting using all of his strength
		
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			and military
		
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			understanding
		
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			to protect the deen.
		
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			So many battles are gonna come and we'll
		
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			talk about it.
		
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			He was given the nickname, the sword of
		
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			Allah by the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			The sword of God.
		
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			The sword of God was his nickname.
		
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			But do you know how he died?
		
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			He died on a dead on his deathbed.
		
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			No wounds, not a battlefield.
		
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			He died on his bed.
		
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			And you know what he said?
		
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			He was passing away and he said,
		
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			He said, I looked for death on the
		
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			battlefield as much as I could.
		
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			He was a soldier.
		
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			That's what he is.
		
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			I looked for death on the battlefield
		
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			but Allah only wrote for me to die
		
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			on this bed.
		
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			You know what the scholars say though?
		
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			They say that the sword of God couldn't
		
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			be broken. It had to be sheathed.
		
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			It couldn't be broken. He couldn't. Once the
		
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			prophet gave him the name sword of Allah,
		
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			it was impossible for him to die on
		
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			the battlefield.
		
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			The sword of Allah had to be sheathed.
		
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			Beautiful moment
		
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			in which we see the prophet sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam
		
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			remembering a person,
		
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			connecting to a person, and realizing the goodness
		
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			in a person and that person thereafter
		
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			living a life so beautiful afterward,
		
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			so beautiful afterward,
		
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			filled with with and goodness. And the the
		
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			beginning of that
		
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			was one question.
		
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			Where's Kalid at?
		
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			That touched his heart more than anything. This
		
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			man asked about me after everything I've done
		
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			against him. This is who our Rasool Sallallahu
		
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			Alaihi Wasallam was.
		
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			This was the 7th year. There was one
		
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			more thing that happened in the 7th year.
		
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			I have 3 minutes,
		
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			and I wanna share this.
		
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			Up until now you,
		
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			when the prophet would give a Khutba,
		
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			he would stand next to a tree that
		
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			was in the Masjid.
		
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			There was a date palm tree in the
		
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			masjid.
		
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			And the prophet, said was, would stand next
		
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			to the tree and give Khutba and he
		
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			would lean against the tree, you know, just
		
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			to relax a little bit.
		
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			There was a woman from the Ansar, she
		
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			had a servant that was a good carpenter.
		
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			So she came to the prophet, sallaihi sallam,
		
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			in the 7th year, 3 years before he
		
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			passes, she goes, You Rasool Allah, why don't
		
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			we make a member for you? Like, something
		
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			elevated for you to stand on. He says,
		
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			oh, that would be nice. See, we were
		
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			so busy spreading this deen. We didn't worry
		
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			about the
		
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			the extra stuff.
		
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			So,
		
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			after a week or so, a few days,
		
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			the member was built and it was put
		
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			in the masjid.
		
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			And the prophet
		
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			goes to give his first khutba. Masjid is
		
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			packed.
		
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			First khutba with a new sound system. You
		
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			know,
		
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			like everybody pulling up.
		
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			The prophet stands on the new member and
		
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			he's about to give the khutba.
		
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			This is documented by 100 of Sahaba.
		
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			They say he was standing on the member
		
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			and all of a sudden, we start to
		
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			hear some crying.
		
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			Like the sound of a of a child
		
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			crying.
		
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			But there wasn't there was no child crying.
		
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			There were children in the prophet's masjid, right?
		
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			But But there were no children crying and
		
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			everyone is looking around. Where is that coming
		
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			from? Whole Masjid is hearing it.
		
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			Habibullah
		
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			Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he comes down the member
		
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			and he goes and he touches the tree.
		
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			And everyone realises where the sound was coming
		
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			from.
		
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			And they say that the tree started you
		
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			know when you was crying really bad?
		
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			You remember that?
		
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			Ya'll remember that? Mhmm.
		
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			Yeah. I wasn't the only one.
		
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			They say that's what we heard the tree,
		
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			but he he held the tree.
		
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			He held the tree.
		
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			And he he began to talk to the
		
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			tree.
		
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			And later he tells us that he said,
		
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			you can either stay in the masjid and
		
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			I'll be here next to you for the
		
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			rest of your life,
		
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			or we can dig you up, bury you,
		
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			you'll be my tree in Jannah.
		
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			He said, the tree chose me in Jannah.
		
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			They dug up the tree and they buried
		
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			the tree. The entire masjid, they say, we
		
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			heard that tree cry as clear as we
		
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			heard a baby cry
		
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			because of its distance. The scholars used to
		
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			say, oh, Ummatil Muslims.
		
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			They used to say, oh, Muslims,
		
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			a tree cries. Where's your heart crying?
		
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			A tree cries from its separation. How come
		
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			our hearts are so hard?
		
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			That happened in the 7th year this year
		
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			that we're studying right now. May Allah give
		
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			us a love of the Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam,
		
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			a deep love for him. May Allah give
		
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			us of his qualities,
		
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			qualities that will inspire change in other people.
		
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			May Allah accept
		
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			this gathering. May Allah accept the shuhada of
		
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			Gaza. May Allah accept the shuhada of Gaza.
		
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			May Allah alleviate their suffering and raise their
		
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			ranks, You Rabbil Alamin.
		
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			So just two quick announcements. From next week,
		
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			we'll be doing the halakah after Maghrib inshaAllah.
		
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			Maghrib keeps pushing forward. By next week, Magrib
		
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			should be around 32. So we'll do the
		
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			halakah after Magrib inshallah to add. Right? So
		
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			we could go for 2 hours if we
		
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			want. No.
		
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			And also, I wanted to announce
		
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			for the old heads, I mean, the OGs,
		
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			I should say.
		
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			We did a series called sufficient answer back
		
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			in the Arlington days.
		
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			We're gonna have an intensive October 11th 12th
		
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			here. Here, inshallah.
		
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			I'll be doing that intensive what?
		
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			October 11th 12th inshallah.
		
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			I gotta announce all these things? Okay. Okay.
		
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			So a lot of time is gonna change.
		
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			What's the time? Okay.
		
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			Okay. Okay. Here's it. We have a convert
		
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			program
		
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			at 9:30
		
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			AM.
		
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			What day? What's the day, bro?
		
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			Sunday, convert program. Extremely important. Pull up. It'll
		
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			be amazing. It'll be in roots, Alhamdulillah, 9
		
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			o'clock on Sunday, Insha'Allah,
		
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			and also on September 15th,
		
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			Rabi'il Awal, a month of loving the prophet
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
		
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			at 5:30 PM, we'll be having a program.
		
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			It's all on our social medias Insha'Allah Ta'ala.
		
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			May Allah
		
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			accept. May Allah accept.
		
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			Next week after Magrib inshallah. Assalamu alaikum.