Mikaeel Smith – In His Footsteps – Class 29

Mikaeel Smith
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The history of Islam is discussed, including the implementation of Islam in Mecca and struggles with Muslims to overcome cultural differences. The success of Islam in bringing new Muslims to society and protecting them from negative influence is emphasized, along with the importance of working on one's spiritual journey and reforming Islam. The negative mentality of new Muslims is emphasized, including the need for bravery and reforming Islam, and the importance of showing proper clothing and money to avoid confusion. The success of Islam in bringing new Muslims to society and protecting them from negative influence is emphasized, along with the importance of not losing the bl corners of one's body and leaving the city. The success of Islam in bringing new Muslims to society and protecting them from negative influence is emphasized, along with the importance of gathering in order to read verses and receive qualities that will help shape their mentality and heal.
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We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to

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give us his love.

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We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to

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give us the love of the actions that

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will gain his love.

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And we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

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to give us the love of those people

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that he loves.

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We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala through

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this halaqa to give us the love of

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the Rasul sallallahu alayhi wasallam.

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In our last halaqa we were able to

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witness, as we talked about it, we could

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witness it, see it with our own eyes.

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This moment that the Rasul sallallahu alayhi wasallam

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had been waiting for for so long.

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This moment where he could come back to

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Mecca.

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He could come back to Mecca and free

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Mecca from the idolatry and all of the

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wrongs and shadows that had been happening in

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Mecca.

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And we looked at how the Prophet sallallahu

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alayhi wasallam elevated the status of Bilal radiyallahu

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ta'ala an.

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And how people were looking at Bilal and

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him being black and from Abyssinia.

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They couldn't deal with the social change that

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had happened due to this message.

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But nonetheless the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam he

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told Bilal when it was time for prayer

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the Prophet peace and blessings be upon him

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he said, oh Bilal go up on top

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of the Kaaba and call the Adhan.

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And it's so beautiful because the same Bilal

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was the one that 12 years prior he

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was being tortured in Mecca and he was

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being dragged around on the sand of Mecca.

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And they were torturing him just so that

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he could say I don't believe in Allah.

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And all he would say is Ahad, Ahad,

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there's only one God, there's only one God.

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And here he is the same person Bilal

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radiyallahu ta'ala an at the top of

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the Kaaba now calling out the call of

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the oneness of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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And we witness how the Prophet sallallahu alayhi

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wasallam he taught us that power doesn't have

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to corrupt.

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He taught us that if the heart is

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clean, the heart is pure, then when blessings

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come a person remains cognizant of Allah.

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The person remains aware of Allah's blessing upon

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them.

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And so as they elevate their humility elevates

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with them as well.

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And so when the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam

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came into Mecca on that day, the victor,

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the conqueror of Mecca, the freer of Mecca.

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On that day when he came in, he

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didn't come with his chest up and his

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head up, he came in with his head

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hanging low because he was witnessing God's blessing

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upon him.

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And whenever we see God's blessing upon any

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of us, it should make us humble.

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The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam remained in Mecca

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for the next 19 days.

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And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam, we would

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think that, oh this is the end of

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the story, everything is good.

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No, there's still more trials, there's still more

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mujahidah, there's still more struggle.

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There was a tribe, two tribes actually, that

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were neighboring Mecca.

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The tribe of Thaqif and Hawazin.

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And if you remember the tribe of Thaqif,

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they're from Ta'if.

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It's the same city that the Prophet sallallahu

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alayhi wasallam had went to to give da

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'wah and he was ruthlessly kicked out.

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The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam, he heard that

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the tribe of Hawazin has gathered 20,000

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troops because they saw what happened in Mecca

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and they think they're next.

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So they preemptively are setting out to attack

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us.

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Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam only had 19 days

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of enjoying the blessing of Allah before another

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trial came.

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And for me, that's a lesson that there

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will be ups, there will be downs, but

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we have to always keep struggling and striving

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because in the struggle is where we find

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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In the struggle.

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In the struggle.

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Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam, he talked to the

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Sahaba and they said, Ya Rasulullah, we shouldn't

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wait here, we should go out to them.

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So now only 18 days, 19 days after

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staying in Mecca, Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam says

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to all of the 10,000 soldiers that

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came with him, these 10,000 companions that

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came with him to Mecca, he says to

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them, we have to go forward now.

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But things were different.

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It was a little different now.

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And the reason it was different is because

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now there were new Muslims that joined the

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ranks from the people of Mecca.

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New Muslims who had never had any time

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with the believers whatsoever.

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And not only that, there were even some

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because Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam taught us, la

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ikraaha fid deen, there's no compulsion.

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So when Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam came into

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Mecca, he didn't make everyone accept Islam.

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There were still really high people in the

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society of Mecca that had not accepted Islam.

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So Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam, he allows 2

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,000 people.

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And these are new Muslims, new Muslims.

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And when I say new, they're not just

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new, but they actually saw the writing on

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the wall and converted.

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They saw the victory.

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They saw the success of Islam.

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Islam had created this culture, and they were

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like, well, we want to roll too.

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We want to roll with the Muslims.

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They're the ones that are victorious.

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Like my man, Fudala, y'all remember him?

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The one giving dawah to his friend on

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his way back?

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Yeah.

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The culture had changed, and now there were

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so many new Muslims, but a lot of

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them did not accept Islam because of what

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it meant.

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They accepted Islam because they saw the writing

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on the wall.

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And this is important because Allah subhanahu wa

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ta'ala says in Surah Al-Ujurat, قَالَتِ

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الْأَعْرَابُ آمَنَّا That the Bedouins now, they accepted

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Islam, they said, آمَنَّا.

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We believe, we're mu'mins.

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قُلْ لَمْ تُؤْمِنُوا Allah says to the Prophet,

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say to them, لَمْ تُؤْمِنُوا You're not a

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mu'min yet.

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وَلَكِنْ قُلُوا أَسْلَمْنَا You're Muslim, you took shahada.

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I was talking to a sheikh about this,

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I was like, how do we understand that?

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He said, look, Islam happens in a moment.

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You come, you say, أَشْهَدْ وَلَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا

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اللَّهُ But to be a mu'min, you gotta

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work on it every day.

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To be a mu'min, to be a believer,

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we're all, inshallah, all Muslims, right?

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Except for the one head in the room

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thinking about it right now, inshallah.

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Inshallah, you too, right?

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But to be a mu'min, a mu'min is

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a higher level, which we all strive for,

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and that takes work every day.

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So the Quran said, these people were coming

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and they were saying, yeah, we're mu'min.

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Allah said, O Muhammad, tell them, كُلَّمْ تُؤْمِنُوا

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وَلَكِنْ قُلُوا أَسْلَمْنَا وَلَمْ يَدْخُلُ الْإِيمَانُ فِي قُلُوبِكُمْ

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The iman hasn't yet come in.

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So, this is important, because as they became

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Muslim, it's important to understand, not everyone comes

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into Islam for the same reason.

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Imam Malik says this, this is profound, because

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a lot of us judge people based on

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why they accepted Islam, and what we learn

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from these people, it doesn't matter why you

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came in, it matters why you stay.

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It matters why you stay.

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Imam Malik, he used to say, دَخَلَ بَعْضُ

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النَّاسِ الْإِسْلَامَ مِنْ أَجْلِ هَذِهِ الدُّنْيَةِ Some people

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entered Islam due to the dunya.

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There was a dunya reason.

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Wanna get married, dude's like, I'm thinking about

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Islam, mashallah, mashallah.

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I remember a funny story, I'm trying not

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to joke too much today.

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I remember a funny story, we're in Buffalo,

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Buffalo's kind of hood, right?

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And the masjid was right in the hood,

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mashallah, that's the best place for masjids to

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be, because the first people to accept Islam

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are always the people who are underprivileged, because

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the upper class feels like, well, yeah, I'll

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think about it, after pickleball, you know what

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I mean, like, I'm just trolling, I play

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pickleball too, I'm just trolling, I'm just trolling.

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Masjid should be in the rough areas because

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that's where people need the spiritual upliftment and

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the social wellness and reform that Islam brings.

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So we were in the masjid and this

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young man comes in, and he's like, yeah,

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yo, I wanna be one of y'all,

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right, I wanna be one of y'all,

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and we're like, mashallah, we're used to it,

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we bring them in, we're talking to them,

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we're like, so what brings you, you know,

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we're waiting to hear, like, you know, the

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oneness of God is just my heart, I

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heard about the prophet, he goes, man, y

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'all's cars is nice.

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The parking lot is like, I wanna be

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like y'all.

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And he took his shahada, right, but if

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you look at him now, he's up there,

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Imam Malik, he says, there are some people

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that will accept Islam due to a dunya

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reason.

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He wanted to get married, so what, why

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are you hating?

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Allah wanted to bring that person into this

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deen by any means necessary.

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He wanted to pull him in or her

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in, and now they're here.

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But look what Imam Malik says next.

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ثُمَّ أَسْبَحَ الْإِسْلَامَ أَحَبَّ إِلَيْهِ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا وَمَا

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فِيهَا They enter Islam because of the dunya,

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but then Islam becomes more loved to them

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than anything in the dunya.

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And so these people became some of the

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greatest companions of the prophet ﷺ.

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We're mentioning them till today, so we don't

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have to focus so much on what brought

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you in.

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And I'll share something about my own life.

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When I first converted, I converted after September

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11th, where nothing, everything in the news was

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negative about Islam, completely negative.

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Nothing compared to now, it's way worse.

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But you know what was in me as

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a black man in America?

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My enemy's enemy is my friend.

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Y'all hate this Islam, it must be

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nice.

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Y'all hate Islam, must be something good

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over there.

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And I'll be real, maybe that first week

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or two or that beginning search, that beginning

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search had not the best motivation behind it.

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But as I sat with people like y

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'all and I learned more, I was like

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this is the most beautiful thing.

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Who cares how Allah brought me into this

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message, I'm here now.

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And so let us never judge people and

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how they came in.

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I'll tell you one more funny story.

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I told this many halaqas ago.

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There was this one brother who took shahada,

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he was like 25 years old.

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And he was preaching to his father who

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was like 65 years old.

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And he was giving dawah to his father

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constantly.

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And he was even teaching him stuff about

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Islam.

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So he taught him like, yo, dad, when

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I'm praying, just don't walk in front, you

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know, the angels don't like that.

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He taught him something crazy.

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So one day, they were in the living

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room.

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The father was sitting on the couch, and

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the brother was praying.

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And while the brother was praying, there was

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an ant crawling on the floor.

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Remember the story?

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There was an ant crawling on the floor.

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And as the ant was walking, right when

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it was about to cross the brother, the

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ant stopped and then went in a different

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direction.

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Okay, chill.

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So after the prayer, the younger brother, he

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looked at his dad and his dad said,

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yeah, I saw it too.

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Take me to the masjid.

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They're doing beautiful now.

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But an ant crawling on the floor was

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the reason that brought him into the masjid.

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And so we never judge, never, ever judge.

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A lot of people, they say, oh, you're

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marrying a Muslim, oh, so you want to

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take your conversion.

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Oh, that's why.

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And we start to think all of these

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things.

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La, Imam Malik says some people come into

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this deen because they want the dunya, and

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then this deen becomes more beloved to them

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than the entire dunya.

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But here's the thing.

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This army had 12,000 people with it.

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And 2,000 of them had just become

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Muslim in Mecca or they weren't even Muslim

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yet.

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And the Prophet, he knows they're new, but

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he's creating a community of inclusiveness.

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He's creating a community of inclusiveness where it

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doesn't matter if you just came in, you're

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going to roll with us.

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Come on.

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And so I want you to understand that

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a large number of this army that was

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going out to deal with another problem, many

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of them were new.

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And some of them weren't even Muslim.

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As they were going, a mentality started to

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creep up.

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Because up until now, brothers and sisters, this

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was the largest army that had ever fought

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under Muhammad, salallahu alayhi wasalam, 12,000 soldiers.

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This was the largest army ever.

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And so a feeling started to creep up.

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One of the new Muslims, he said, we

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can never lose today due to numbers.

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We can never lose today due to numbers.

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Now the deep believers understand something profound.

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We never win based on numbers.

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We never win based on material.

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You being pushed forward in life, the successes,

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the W's that you get in life was

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never based on material.

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It was only from Allah.

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And the deep believers, they knew this.

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This was embedded in their heart.

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But guess what?

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Because of the number of people that were

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new and even non-Muslims with them, this

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mentality started to spread.

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What mentality?

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We can't lose today.

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Look at our numbers.

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There's too many of us to lose today.

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And this is important to understand because I

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don't care how high you get in spiritual

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like ranks, I don't care how high you

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get, company will always affect you.

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Company will always affect you.

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And what's amazing is the Sahaba, the companions,

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they never said with their tongue, oh, we'll

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never lose because of numbers.

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But the mentality crept in.

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And what's crazy is because iman is all

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about having the right mentality.

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Iman is always, iman, deep iman is about

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the right mentality.

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And company is what shapes mentality.

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Company is what shapes mentality.

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Sit with somebody who's killing it in business

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for like two hours, bro, your YouTube stream

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gonna change like crazy.

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All of a sudden, it shifts.

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Company is not that company affects your actions.

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You're like, yo, whenever I'm around such and

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such, I still pray.

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I still do this.

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I still do that.

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But my question is, but do you think

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the same way?

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Do you think the same way?

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Because low key company, what it affects is

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thinking and thinking is iman.

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I was talking to a friend today and

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he called me and this friend, mashallah, man,

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he, mashallah.

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He was talking and he was like, I

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could feel like he was on some other

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level.

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Right.

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And he was like, bro, I was just

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chilling with Sheikh such and such.

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And life looks different now, yo.

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I was like, did you talk to him?

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He's like, no, I was just near him,

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bro.

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I was just around him.

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And he told me this today and I

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was preparing for the talk and it was

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just, it's just company shapes who you are.

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And these were sahaba.

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These were people that had spent 10 years

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with the best of company.

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But the, but having those mentalities around was

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very detrimental.

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So the sahaba never said it.

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And I'm going to share this hadith.

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The prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam, he said, al

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mar'u ala dini khalilihi, fal yanzur mayyu

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khalil.

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That a person will always be on the

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religion, the way of life, the mentality of

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the person that they are friends with.

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And then the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam said,

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fal yanzur, look closely at who you khalil,

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that you keep company with.

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You keep company with.

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So my, what I gained from this is,

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it doesn't matter how high you go in

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spirituality.

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You always have to watch the company because

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they shape how you think.

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So what happened?

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This mentality started to seep in, yo.

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Oh, we can't lose today.

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It's 12,000 of us.

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We won in Badr with 300.

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We won in the battle of Muta, which

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was 200,000 versus the numbers we had.

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We can't lose today.

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Company impacts us, how we think.

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So this mentality is creeping in.

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And they continue to travel.

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They're traveling to the place where they're going

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to confront the enemy.

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And on their way there, because there's a

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lot of new Muslims.

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They pass by a tree, and this was

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a big tree.

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And this was a tree that was, had

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different things hanging on it.

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And there was a superstition from the Arabs

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that if you wanted to get something done,

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you go hang a ribbon on it, you

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put a sword on it, you make a

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dua, you slaughter an animal, you do something

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like that near this tree, your prayers will

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be answered.

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We're Muslims, we don't do that.

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And we know that for many years.

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That's not how we roll.

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We want something, we turn to Allah subhanahu

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wa ta'ala, that's it.

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But we have new company with us.

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So they're passing by the tree and they

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look at the Rasul.

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And they say to Rasulullah, Ya Rasulullah, it

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would be nice in Islam if we could

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have a tree like this too.

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You know, a tree we hang stuff up.

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Rasulullah ﷺ, he gets angry, he gets upset.

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And he says, you're saying the exact same

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things.

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He says, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar.

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قُلْتُمْ وَالَّذِى نَفْسِ مُحَمَّد بِيَدِي He says, you're

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saying the same thing, I swear by God.

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You're saying the same exact words that the

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people of Moses said when Allah freed them.

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Real quick history lesson.

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Bani Israel was freed from servitude, slavehood and

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everything they were going, and oppression under Pharaoh.

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But the moment they got free, they said

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these words, اِجْعَلْ لَنَا اِلَٰهَا كَمَا لَهُمْ آلِهَا

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They saw these people worshipping something.

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They said, Moses, you should make something for

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us to worship too.

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You should make us something.

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And so the Prophet ﷺ in this moment,

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he gets angry and he says, والله, our

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ummah, and listen closely, our ummah will walk

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step by step in the same footprints of

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the previous ummahs before us.

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This is profound because it teaches you to

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study the history of the previous religions because

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the Prophet ﷺ is saying, these are cycles

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that the message goes through.

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And whatever the Jews went through, our ummah

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will go through too.

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Whatever the Christians went through, our ummah will

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go through too.

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Be on guard, be aware of that.

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Walk the straight path, but understand, we will

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follow through the same things that they went

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through.

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Study history.

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And here's the thing, they were new Muslims,

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they were stuck in an old mentality.

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They were stuck in this mental construct of

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shirk.

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Like this is what we do.

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And the Prophet ﷺ is saying, look, it's

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new now.

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You have to get rid of all that.

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You have to let go of that baggage

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and move forward.

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Get rid of what was behind you.

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The Prophet ﷺ, they arrive.

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They're getting close to the battlefield where they

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expect the tribe of Hawazin to be.

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And as we're getting closer, it's early morning.

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And in order to get to the battlefield,

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there's like this deep valley that they have

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to descend into.

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I want you to picture it because this

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is a very profound moment in the life

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of the Prophet ﷺ.

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They have to descend into this valley, the

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Muslims, this army of 12,000.

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And it's very steep, so it's difficult to

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go down.

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But in order to get to where they

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need to, they have to go through this

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valley.

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And so as they're going down into the

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valley and as everyone starts to get into

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the valley, all of a sudden, from the

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sides of the valley, from the front of

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the valley, the tribe of Hawazin attacks.

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This is different.

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They never experienced this type of surprise attack

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before.

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This never had happened before.

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Normally, the armies would line up.

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Two people would come out, fight each other

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first, and then the war would begin.

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This was completely different.

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And so the entire 20,000 soldiers that

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were against them attack them all at once.

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While they're in this valley, from above and

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from in front, they were caught off guard.

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In this moment, everyone starts to flee.

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Everyone.

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They all start to run.

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All of the new Muslims, they've just been

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Muslim 19 days.

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They've just been Muslim 19 days.

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They don't have Uhud under their belt.

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They don't have Badr under their belt.

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They don't have these things.

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They start to run.

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The mushrikeen, the non-Muslims who are with

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us, they've been dibbed.

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They've been dibbed.

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I didn't sign up for this.

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And they all start to flee.

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The Prophet ﷺ, he stands firm.

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This halaqa began by studying who he was,

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by looking at his character, how gentle he

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was, how soft he was, how loving he

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was, how compassionate he was, how brilliant he

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was ﷺ.

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But he wouldn't be complete if he didn't

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have the quality of bravery.

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He wouldn't be complete without the quality of

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bravery.

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And in this moment, the Prophet ﷺ, he's

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standing in this valley as arrows are showering

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down.

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And as the army in front is trying

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to push forward.

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And everyone is fleeing.

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There's only a small group.

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Abu Bakr, Umar, Ali.

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There's only a small group staying with the

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Prophet ﷺ.

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Abbas, Abu Sufyan.

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And the Prophet ﷺ, he calls out, إِلَيَّا

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يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسِ He says, come back, come

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back everyone.

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Come back.

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أنا رسول الله.

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I'm a Prophet of Allah.

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Why are y'all running?

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I'm a Prophet of Allah.

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Don't run.

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Come back.

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No one turned back.

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They keep running.

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Again, we notice something.

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The Sahaba never ran before, y'all.

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But when everybody else starts running, if you,

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like me, other black people do, like, what's

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going on over there?

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Nah, you run.

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Sorry, I had to.

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No, when everyone else around you is running,

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even those who are strong, they start to

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have, again, company affects mentality.

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And mentality affects actions.

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So everyone starts fleeing.

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The Prophet ﷺ in this moment, I want

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you to imagine this army in front of

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him.

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I want you to imagine the arrows coming

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down from every direction.

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I want you to imagine him seeing the

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companions in this massive army of theirs fleeing

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and running away.

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And in that moment, the Prophet ﷺ, he's

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on a mule.

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He's not on a camel or a horse.

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He's on a mule.

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And he's pushing forward.

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He's pushing forward.

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And as he's pushing forward, our Habib ﷺ,

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he's saying, أنا نبي لا كذب.

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أنا ابن عبد المطلب.

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He goes, I'm a prophet in the face

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of this fearful thing.

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He says, I'm a prophet.

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أنا نبي لا كذب.

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This isn't a lie.

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أنا ابن عبد المطلب.

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I'm the son of...

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You know what's crazy?

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What's crazy is, by him saying his name,

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he becomes a target more.

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Because he's the one they want.

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But he knows who he is.

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He's confident in the help of God.

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And so in this moment, with arrows flying

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past in every direction, Rasulullah ﷺ is sitting

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there chanting, I'm a prophet of Allah.

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لا كذب.

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I'm the son of Abdul Muttalib.

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And he's moving forward.

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And the scholars say, this is nothing but

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pure trust and tawakkul in Allah.

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And pure bravery.

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The Sahaba they say, when war used to

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get serious, we used to...

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We used to...

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We used to use his bravery as a

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shield.

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Sallallahu alayhi wasallam.

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So this same man who would be in

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the masjid rolling on the ground with his

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grandchildren, this is him.

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This same man that would go and hug

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people and cry, hold on one second.

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This is the man, sallallahu alayhi wasallam, who

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someone came to Medina looking for him.

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And they said, where is the guy who

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kisses his grandchildren at?

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He was so different because of his love

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and affection.

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But by no means was he scared.

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By no means was he soft.

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In this moment, he's pushing forward.

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Abbas is holding the reins of his mule.

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And Abu Sufyan is holding the back.

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And the Prophet is urging them forward, keep

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moving forward.

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He gets down from the mule.

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And as he's getting down, he makes a

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dua, O Allah, nazil nasrak.

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O Allah, give us your help.

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O Allah, give us your help.

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O Allah, if you want, you won't be

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worshipped anymore.

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Meaning, if you want to wipe us out,

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we'll be wiped out.

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But there'll be no more believers on this

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earth.

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And then the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam see

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this beautiful man.

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He began to fight with his sword.

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With everyone fleeing and running back except for

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a few, 10, 12, 15 people around him.

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He's fighting.

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يقاتلوا والصحابة الذين ثبتوا And those who stayed

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with him, they're next to him fighting as

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well.

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Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam, there's a man, his

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name is Shaybah.

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Shaybah bin Uthman.

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Shaybah bin Uthman came with the 12,000

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from Mecca.

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But he wasn't Muslim.

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And Shaybah bin Uthman, his father was killed

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in Badr.

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He has emotional trauma, deep emotional trauma.

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He said, I'm going to Hunayn, I'm going

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to this battle for one reason.

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I'm going to kill Muhammad when I get

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a chance.

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That's it.

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That's the only reason I'm going.

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He tells the story, it's a profound story.

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He says, اليوم اليوم أدرك ثأرة من محمد

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Today is the day that I get my

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revenge from Muhammad.

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A deep, deep emotional trauma.

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This man Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam is the

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cause for my father being dead.

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Everyone is freeing and he sees, he sees

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an opportunity.

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He goes, this is the perfect time.

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But when he looks, he sees Abu Bakr

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in front.

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He sees Umar on the side.

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He sees another Sahabi on the side.

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He sees someone else on the side.

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He sees that on every direction there's someone

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surrounding the Prophet while they fight.

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And he thinks and he says to himself,

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فَعَلِمْتُ أَنَّهُ مَمْنُوعٌ Ah, I knew in this

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moment this man was off guards to me.

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I couldn't get to him.

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And he says, while I was thinking this,

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it's in the middle of the battle and

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I'm thinking this.

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He says, التفت إلي رسول Rasul Sallallahu alayhi

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wasallam he didn't looked at me right in

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the eyes.

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والتفت إلي And he says, يا شيبه يا

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شيبه Middle of the battle, things are intense.

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He looks this man in the eyes.

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Who he never met before.

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And he calls him by his first name.

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يا شيبه يا شيبه ادنوا مني Come close

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to me.

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فَدَنَا He came close to the Rasul Sallallahu

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alayhi wasallam.

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Got through, got close to him.

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The Rasul Sallallahu alayhi wasallam touched him on

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his chest.

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Touched him.

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This man with emotional trauma.

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This man who has lost a father.

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This man with so much going on in

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his heart.

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Rasul Sallallahu alayhi wasallam understood something that till

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today we struggle to understand how powerful touch

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is.

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How powerful touch is.

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There's a shab in this room right now.

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Every time I see him, he gives me

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this hug.

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Wallahi, the hug is curing.

00:29:06 --> 00:29:08

Wallahi, and you probably know who he is

00:29:08 --> 00:29:09

because he hug you the same way.

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You get that hug, you're like, yeah, okay,

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alhamdulillah.

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Rasul Sallallahu alayhi wasallam understood the power of

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touch.

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He says, Shaybah, come here.

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I know you.

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I know what you're going through.

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You need someone to touch you.

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You need someone to let you know you're

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loved and things will be okay.

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And so he places his hand on Shaybah's

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chest.

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And he says, اللهم أذهب عنه الشيطان He

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says, oh Allah, take Shaytan away from this

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man.

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Shaytan has him trapped in that trauma.

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Let him out.

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Let him free himself from that trauma from

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years ago.

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Free him, ya Allah.

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Shaybah says, I, my head was, I was

00:29:49 --> 00:29:49

looking down.

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And he said, فرفعت بصري إلي He says,

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as he touched me and then said that,

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mind you, in the middle of a war,

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ya Allah.

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In the middle of the battle.

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This man is healing hearts.

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In the middle of a battle and you

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don't got time to pick up your friend's

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phone call.

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Your friend's having trauma, having some issues, needs

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someone to talk to.

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You see the call, you're like, nah, that's

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gonna be like 20 minutes right there.

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لَحَوْلَ وَلَا قُوَةَ إِلَى بِاللَّهِ Pick up that

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phone call.

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Pick up the phone call.

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Allah is helping you when you're helping someone

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else.

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Rasulullah ﷺ was in the middle of the

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battle, surrounded and fighting.

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He sees this man with trauma and issues

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inside.

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He says, Shaybah, come here.

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Shaybah says, how do you even know my

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name?

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He says, come here.

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Proximity.

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I need you close to me.

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I can't heal you from a distance.

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I need you close.

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Shaybah comes close.

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Rasulullah ﷺ touches him.

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He needed to be touched.

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He needed to be touched.

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The Arabs in that time, they didn't touch

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for affection.

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They didn't touch for affection.

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And that's why when they saw the Prophet

00:31:01 --> 00:31:04

hugging children, kissing children, they said, what's up

00:31:04 --> 00:31:04

with this dude?

00:31:05 --> 00:31:08

But he taught us something, the power of

00:31:08 --> 00:31:08

touch.

00:31:09 --> 00:31:11

And then he says, oh Allah, remove Shaytan

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from him.

00:31:12 --> 00:31:14

Meaning you can have trauma and trauma is

00:31:14 --> 00:31:14

real.

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Trauma is real.

00:31:17 --> 00:31:18

But Shaytan lets it stay.

00:31:19 --> 00:31:21

Shaytan keeps you focused on it.

00:31:21 --> 00:31:22

And you need someone to help you release

00:31:22 --> 00:31:23

that.

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He says, I was looking down.

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And then I lifted my eyes.

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فَرَفَعْتُ إِلَيْهِ بَصَرِ I lifted my eyes and

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looked at him.

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And he says, وَلَهُ أَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ مِن سَمِعِ

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وَبَصِرِ وَنَسْسِ He says, I looked him in

00:31:41 --> 00:31:42

the eyes.

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And in that moment, I loved him more.

00:31:44 --> 00:31:45

It's ajeeb.

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He goes, I loved him more than my

00:31:47 --> 00:31:48

hearing, my sight, and my own self.

00:31:50 --> 00:31:52

وَأَذْحَبَ اللَّهُ مَا كَانَ لِي And all the

00:31:52 --> 00:31:55

trauma that I was feeling, I was free.

00:31:56 --> 00:31:56

It was gone.

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The Prophet ﷺ looks at him.

00:32:01 --> 00:32:04

And he goes, ya Shaybah, go fight.

00:32:05 --> 00:32:08

We ain't got time for this right now.

00:32:08 --> 00:32:09

I just helped you.

00:32:10 --> 00:32:10

You're good.

00:32:11 --> 00:32:12

Can you help me fight?

00:32:13 --> 00:32:17

He says, ya Shaybah, فَاطِلَ الْكُفَار Go fight,

00:32:17 --> 00:32:17

bro.

00:32:19 --> 00:32:22

But look, subhanAllah, subhanAllah.

00:32:23 --> 00:32:25

Shaybah says, after the battle, we're still in

00:32:25 --> 00:32:27

the battle, but you got to see Shaybah's

00:32:27 --> 00:32:27

story.

00:32:28 --> 00:32:31

Shaybah goes, after the battle, I went to

00:32:31 --> 00:32:32

the Prophet's tent.

00:32:32 --> 00:32:33

So obviously we won.

00:32:33 --> 00:32:34

I mean, y'all already know we Muslim

00:32:34 --> 00:32:35

today, so you know we won.

00:32:36 --> 00:32:39

But if there was a cliffhanger, you know.

00:32:41 --> 00:32:43

So he goes, I went to the Prophet's

00:32:43 --> 00:32:47

tent after the battle because I just wanted

00:32:47 --> 00:32:48

to see his face again.

00:32:49 --> 00:32:52

He goes, he's not Muslim yet, y'all.

00:32:53 --> 00:32:55

In that moment, that whole thing, he didn't

00:32:55 --> 00:32:55

become Muslim.

00:32:56 --> 00:32:58

He didn't become Muslim.

00:32:59 --> 00:33:01

He goes, I just wanted to see that

00:33:01 --> 00:33:02

face, that face that helped me in my

00:33:02 --> 00:33:04

moment get over my trauma.

00:33:04 --> 00:33:06

I wanted to see that face again.

00:33:07 --> 00:33:09

He goes, I walked in the door and

00:33:09 --> 00:33:10

the Prophet looked at me.

00:33:10 --> 00:33:14

And he said, قَالَ He said, أَلَّذِي أَرَادَكَ

00:33:14 --> 00:33:18

بِكَ اللَّهُ خَيْرٌ مِّمَّا أَرَادَ مِنكَ النَّفْسُكَ He

00:33:18 --> 00:33:20

said, the thing that God wanted from you

00:33:20 --> 00:33:22

was better than what your nafs wanted from

00:33:22 --> 00:33:22

you.

00:33:23 --> 00:33:24

Like your nafs wanted something.

00:33:24 --> 00:33:25

It wanted to kill me.

00:33:25 --> 00:33:26

It wanted to do wrong.

00:33:27 --> 00:33:28

It wanted to dwell on the trauma and

00:33:28 --> 00:33:30

thinking that revenge would remove the trauma.

00:33:30 --> 00:33:33

But Allah wanted something better for you.

00:33:33 --> 00:33:36

In that moment, finally Shaibah goes, Can I

00:33:36 --> 00:33:37

take the shahada now?

00:33:38 --> 00:33:39

Can I become Muslim now?

00:33:40 --> 00:33:41

I've seen it all.

00:33:41 --> 00:33:41

I got it.

00:33:42 --> 00:33:44

And he takes shahada in that moment.

00:33:44 --> 00:33:46

He takes shahada in that moment.

00:33:47 --> 00:33:48

The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is fighting still,

00:33:48 --> 00:33:49

back to the battle.

00:33:50 --> 00:33:51

The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is in the

00:33:51 --> 00:33:51

thick of fighting.

00:33:53 --> 00:33:55

But the Sahaba, many of them have run

00:33:55 --> 00:33:55

away.

00:33:56 --> 00:33:58

Their flight instincts kicked in.

00:33:59 --> 00:34:02

Rasulullah tells Abbas, his uncle, who's holding on

00:34:02 --> 00:34:03

to his mule.

00:34:04 --> 00:34:06

He says, Abbas, Abbas had a very deep

00:34:06 --> 00:34:06

and loud voice.

00:34:07 --> 00:34:12

He says, Ya Abbas, call out, O people

00:34:12 --> 00:34:12

of the tree.

00:34:13 --> 00:34:15

Call out, O muhajireen.

00:34:16 --> 00:34:18

Call out, O ansar.

00:34:18 --> 00:34:19

Hold on one second.

00:34:19 --> 00:34:20

This is profound.

00:34:21 --> 00:34:22

The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, when he called,

00:34:22 --> 00:34:24

he said, Everyone come back.

00:34:24 --> 00:34:24

But no one came back.

00:34:25 --> 00:34:28

So the Prophet tells Abbas, I want you

00:34:28 --> 00:34:30

to call these people by a moment in

00:34:30 --> 00:34:31

their life that was profound.

00:34:32 --> 00:34:34

Ashab al-Shajarah are the people that took

00:34:34 --> 00:34:37

a pledge on the Prophet's hand, Bayat al

00:34:37 --> 00:34:38

-Ridwan.

00:34:38 --> 00:34:40

It was under the tree of Hudaybiyyah.

00:34:40 --> 00:34:41

They pledged that we'll fight for you no

00:34:41 --> 00:34:42

matter what.

00:34:43 --> 00:34:45

So instead of calling them generally, he calls

00:34:45 --> 00:34:47

them by a moment in their life that

00:34:47 --> 00:34:48

was transformative.

00:34:49 --> 00:34:51

So Abbas calls out, O people of the

00:34:51 --> 00:34:52

tree, come back.

00:34:52 --> 00:34:55

And then he calls out, O muhajireen, come

00:34:55 --> 00:34:55

back.

00:34:56 --> 00:34:57

O ansar, come back.

00:34:59 --> 00:35:01

They heard it and they started to turn.

00:35:02 --> 00:35:04

They started to turn and come back.

00:35:04 --> 00:35:06

Labayk, labayk, we're coming.

00:35:06 --> 00:35:09

One of the Sahaba says that the fighting

00:35:09 --> 00:35:11

was so intense that when I tried to

00:35:11 --> 00:35:14

turn my horse, my horse wouldn't turn because

00:35:14 --> 00:35:15

the horse is not going to go back.

00:35:15 --> 00:35:17

So he says that I grabbed my armor,

00:35:18 --> 00:35:19

I threw it on my shoulders, I jumped

00:35:19 --> 00:35:21

off the horse and I start running.

00:35:22 --> 00:35:26

Abbas says, the moment he says, فَوَاللَّهِ لَكَ

00:35:26 --> 00:35:30

أَنَّ الْأَطِفَهُمْ هِينَ سَمِعُوا صَوْتِي أَطِفَ الْبَقْرَ عَلَىٰ

00:35:30 --> 00:35:37

أَوْلَادِهَا He goes, when they heard me call

00:35:37 --> 00:35:40

them by this call, it was just like

00:35:40 --> 00:35:47

a cow who hears the bleating of its

00:35:47 --> 00:35:51

calf and how it just instinctively runs to

00:35:51 --> 00:35:51

it.

00:35:52 --> 00:35:53

See what's amazing?

00:35:55 --> 00:35:58

Their flight instincts made them run, but their

00:35:58 --> 00:35:59

ruh turned them around.

00:36:00 --> 00:36:03

Their soul, their ruh brought them back.

00:36:04 --> 00:36:05

And so they all start to come back.

00:36:06 --> 00:36:08

They were reminded, wait, wait, why are we

00:36:08 --> 00:36:09

running?

00:36:09 --> 00:36:10

We don't run.

00:36:11 --> 00:36:12

They all came back.

00:36:13 --> 00:36:15

As the Sahaba all come back.

00:36:16 --> 00:36:19

As the Sahaba, hold on, there's another side

00:36:19 --> 00:36:19

story.

00:36:20 --> 00:36:21

As I told you, there were a number

00:36:21 --> 00:36:22

of non-Muslims and many of them were

00:36:22 --> 00:36:24

leaders of the non-Muslims.

00:36:25 --> 00:36:27

When everyone fled, they kind of hit off

00:36:27 --> 00:36:28

in the cut.

00:36:28 --> 00:36:30

And they actually just started watching.

00:36:32 --> 00:36:35

Because they had just 19 days earlier been

00:36:35 --> 00:36:36

conquered.

00:36:37 --> 00:36:40

So they're talking like, oh, today they'll lose.

00:36:40 --> 00:36:41

Today it's over.

00:36:42 --> 00:36:44

Finally, all the magic of Muhammad is over

00:36:44 --> 00:36:45

today.

00:36:46 --> 00:36:47

Ikramah bin Abi Jahl.

00:36:48 --> 00:36:50

Ikramah, the son of Abu Jahl.

00:36:51 --> 00:36:53

Abu Jahl is the nemesis of the Rasul.

00:36:54 --> 00:36:57

He is the pharaoh of this ummah.

00:36:57 --> 00:37:00

His son is Muslim now, but he's only

00:37:00 --> 00:37:01

been Muslim for 19 days.

00:37:02 --> 00:37:04

But just because you just became Muslim doesn't

00:37:04 --> 00:37:06

mean your iman isn't through the roof already.

00:37:06 --> 00:37:08

He looks at them and he says, are

00:37:08 --> 00:37:08

y'all crazy?

00:37:09 --> 00:37:10

They're gonna win.

00:37:11 --> 00:37:12

They'll always win.

00:37:12 --> 00:37:13

Because they're fighting for Allah.

00:37:14 --> 00:37:16

Even if they lose, they'll come back and

00:37:16 --> 00:37:17

be victorious again.

00:37:17 --> 00:37:19

Because this isn't about Muhammad.

00:37:19 --> 00:37:20

It's not about Mecca.

00:37:20 --> 00:37:21

It's about Allah.

00:37:22 --> 00:37:25

I share that story because throughout the story

00:37:25 --> 00:37:26

we were saying, oh, the new Muslims cause

00:37:26 --> 00:37:28

this, the new Muslims cause this.

00:37:28 --> 00:37:29

This was a new Muslim.

00:37:29 --> 00:37:32

His iman was in 19 days.

00:37:32 --> 00:37:32

It was up here.

00:37:35 --> 00:37:39

So the Prophet ﷺ, everyone comes back.

00:37:40 --> 00:37:42

And this is one of my favorite moments

00:37:42 --> 00:37:44

of the Rasul ﷺ.

00:37:46 --> 00:37:47

The sahaba come back.

00:37:49 --> 00:37:51

And now the fighting intensifies.

00:37:53 --> 00:37:55

I don't know if you're able to appreciate

00:37:55 --> 00:37:55

it.

00:37:55 --> 00:37:56

Maybe I appreciate it differently.

00:37:58 --> 00:38:00

As all the sahaba came back and now

00:38:00 --> 00:38:01

the fighting actually begun.

00:38:03 --> 00:38:06

And it's intense, intense.

00:38:06 --> 00:38:11

The Prophet ﷺ stands in the stirrups of

00:38:11 --> 00:38:12

his mule.

00:38:12 --> 00:38:14

And he stands up.

00:38:14 --> 00:38:17

So he's looking over the entire battlefield.

00:38:18 --> 00:38:21

And he goes, الآن حمي الوطيس.

00:38:21 --> 00:38:23

He goes, now it's lit in here.

00:38:24 --> 00:38:25

Now it's going down.

00:38:26 --> 00:38:27

Now let's go.

00:38:28 --> 00:38:31

I don't know, for me, I get goosebumps,

00:38:32 --> 00:38:32

man.

00:38:33 --> 00:38:35

At who he was.

00:38:35 --> 00:38:37

So gentle but so strong.

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So compassionate but so, but so, but so

00:38:40 --> 00:38:42

firm when he needed to be firm.

00:38:42 --> 00:38:44

And so as the battle intensifies, where does

00:38:44 --> 00:38:45

he go?

00:38:45 --> 00:38:46

Oh, it's hot in here now.

00:38:46 --> 00:38:47

Let's go.

00:38:47 --> 00:38:48

It's go time.

00:38:49 --> 00:38:51

It's like you're playing ball and it gets

00:38:51 --> 00:38:51

like lit.

00:38:51 --> 00:38:52

No, whatever, yo.

00:38:54 --> 00:38:55

I need some pickleball examples.

00:38:55 --> 00:38:56

Y'all might get it or something.

00:38:57 --> 00:38:57

Oh no.

00:38:59 --> 00:39:01

The Prophet ﷺ, he comes down from his

00:39:01 --> 00:39:03

camel because he's hyped now.

00:39:03 --> 00:39:05

It's going down now.

00:39:05 --> 00:39:06

We're not running, we're fighting.

00:39:06 --> 00:39:08

We're standing up for لا إله إلا الله

00:39:08 --> 00:39:11

محمد رسول الله Everyone came back.

00:39:12 --> 00:39:14

The Prophet ﷺ, he picks up sand.

00:39:14 --> 00:39:16

This was a miracle of the Rasul.

00:39:17 --> 00:39:18

He did this multiple times in his life.

00:39:19 --> 00:39:20

He takes the sand and he throws it

00:39:20 --> 00:39:22

in the direction of the battle.

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And all of the kuffar after the battle,

00:39:24 --> 00:39:25

they say, all of our eyes.

00:39:26 --> 00:39:28

We immediately have to start rubbing our eyes

00:39:28 --> 00:39:30

because there's sand in our eyes while the

00:39:30 --> 00:39:31

sahaba continue to fight.

00:39:31 --> 00:39:34

رضي الله تعالى عنه He picks it up

00:39:34 --> 00:39:38

and he says, وَرَبِّ الْكَعْبَةِ Be defeated by

00:39:38 --> 00:39:39

the Lord of the Ka'bah.

00:39:39 --> 00:39:40

Be defeated by the Lord of the Ka

00:39:40 --> 00:39:40

'bah.

00:39:42 --> 00:39:48

Rasulullah ﷺ, the Quran tells us that after

00:39:48 --> 00:39:51

that, the angels were sent down to support

00:39:51 --> 00:39:53

and help and to assist the believers.

00:39:55 --> 00:39:57

The Hawazin, when they came for this battle,

00:39:59 --> 00:40:01

they brought a lot of spoils of war

00:40:01 --> 00:40:01

to this battle.

00:40:02 --> 00:40:04

More than had ever been seen before.

00:40:05 --> 00:40:07

And the leader actually brought it because he

00:40:07 --> 00:40:09

said, our soldiers will fight more if they

00:40:09 --> 00:40:11

see all of the money and their possessions.

00:40:11 --> 00:40:13

If they see it here, they'll fight more.

00:40:15 --> 00:40:21

And so Rasulullah ﷺ, the battle is over

00:40:22 --> 00:40:25

and Rasulullah ﷺ tells everyone, gather all of

00:40:25 --> 00:40:27

the spoils of war and take them over

00:40:27 --> 00:40:29

to a place called Jiarana and gather them

00:40:29 --> 00:40:30

there.

00:40:30 --> 00:40:30

We'll deal with it later.

00:40:30 --> 00:40:33

Before I go forward, I want to highlight

00:40:33 --> 00:40:35

what the Quran says.

00:40:37 --> 00:40:40

وَلَقَدْ نَصْرَكُمُ اللَّهُ فِي مَوَاتِنَ كَثِيرَ وَيَوْمَ هُنَيْنَ

00:40:41 --> 00:40:43

Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, there's only two

00:40:43 --> 00:40:44

battles mentioned in the Quran by name.

00:40:45 --> 00:40:47

The battle of Badr and the battle of

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this battle we just talked about.

00:40:49 --> 00:40:52

Badr was special because we dug deep.

00:40:54 --> 00:40:55

You know why this one was special?

00:40:56 --> 00:40:58

Because something happened to us that never happened

00:40:58 --> 00:40:59

before.

00:41:00 --> 00:41:00

Vanity.

00:41:01 --> 00:41:04

إِذْ أَعْجَبَتْكُمْ كَثَرَتُكُمْ Allah says, this is Quran.

00:41:05 --> 00:41:09

إِذْ أَعْجَبَتْكُمْ كَثَرَتُكُمْ The day when your numbers

00:41:09 --> 00:41:10

impressed you.

00:41:11 --> 00:41:13

In Arabic this is called Ujjab, vanity.

00:41:14 --> 00:41:16

And it's one of the most destructive, destructive

00:41:16 --> 00:41:19

spiritual diseases a person could develop in themselves.

00:41:20 --> 00:41:21

Yes, you have to be confident and know

00:41:21 --> 00:41:23

that Allah is blessing you.

00:41:24 --> 00:41:25

But here's the deal.

00:41:27 --> 00:41:31

Your wealth, your health, your job, all of

00:41:31 --> 00:41:33

that is from God.

00:41:34 --> 00:41:34

It's not you.

00:41:36 --> 00:41:37

What's the solution to Ujjab?

00:41:37 --> 00:41:38

You feel it creeping in.

00:41:38 --> 00:41:40

You start, you get in your car, you're

00:41:40 --> 00:41:41

like, yeah, you know, I'm kind of like,

00:41:41 --> 00:41:42

yeah, nah.

00:41:43 --> 00:41:44

How do you fight that?

00:41:45 --> 00:41:49

Number one, whatever blessings you have, Allah gave

00:41:49 --> 00:41:51

you blessing because He wants to see them

00:41:51 --> 00:41:51

on you.

00:41:51 --> 00:41:53

There was a man that one came, once

00:41:53 --> 00:41:54

came in front of the Prophet.

00:41:54 --> 00:41:55

So I said, you know this Hadith.

00:41:55 --> 00:41:56

He came in front of the Prophet and

00:41:56 --> 00:41:59

he wasn't like dressed in an appropriate way.

00:42:00 --> 00:42:01

And the Prophet, so I said to him,

00:42:01 --> 00:42:02

I said, do you have money?

00:42:03 --> 00:42:05

And the man goes, yeah, I have money.

00:42:05 --> 00:42:06

He said, what type of money?

00:42:06 --> 00:42:08

He says, I got all types of assets.

00:42:09 --> 00:42:10

No, seriously.

00:42:10 --> 00:42:12

He goes, I got cows, I got camels,

00:42:12 --> 00:42:16

I got like, he says, Allah loves to

00:42:16 --> 00:42:18

see the sign of His blessing on the

00:42:18 --> 00:42:18

servant.

00:42:20 --> 00:42:21

Now all y'all gonna get new cars.

00:42:23 --> 00:42:25

So I'm worried about sharing these Hadith.

00:42:26 --> 00:42:29

He said, Allah loves to see His blessing

00:42:29 --> 00:42:29

on you.

00:42:31 --> 00:42:33

Allah loves to see His blessing on you.

00:42:33 --> 00:42:35

There was a Sahabi who came to Rasul

00:42:35 --> 00:42:39

Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and he said, he wanted

00:42:39 --> 00:42:41

some nice sandals, kicks, right?

00:42:42 --> 00:42:45

And he said, is it okay that I

00:42:45 --> 00:42:46

get this?

00:42:47 --> 00:42:49

Rasul Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, إِنَّ اللَّهَ جَمِيلٌ

00:42:49 --> 00:42:52

يُحِبُّ الْجِمَالِ Allah is beautiful and loves beauty.

00:42:52 --> 00:42:53

Rock the kicks.

00:42:54 --> 00:42:55

He didn't say rock the kicks.

00:42:56 --> 00:42:59

He said, Allah is beautiful and loves beauty.

00:43:00 --> 00:43:01

But here's the deal.

00:43:02 --> 00:43:04

What happens is, listen closely.

00:43:04 --> 00:43:06

When you start to look at the blessing

00:43:06 --> 00:43:09

too much, you start to forget the blesser.

00:43:09 --> 00:43:10

That's it.

00:43:11 --> 00:43:12

When you start to look at the car

00:43:12 --> 00:43:14

too much, you forget who gave it to

00:43:14 --> 00:43:14

you.

00:43:14 --> 00:43:16

You look at the job too much, you

00:43:16 --> 00:43:18

forget who put you through school, who gave

00:43:18 --> 00:43:19

you that intellect.

00:43:19 --> 00:43:20

You look at your beauty too much, some

00:43:20 --> 00:43:21

of y'all think y'all fine.

00:43:24 --> 00:43:25

Every time you look in the mirror, you

00:43:25 --> 00:43:26

walk through, you stop.

00:43:26 --> 00:43:30

You know, you be walking, you like...

00:43:30 --> 00:43:30

Right?

00:43:32 --> 00:43:33

You know what's funny?

00:43:33 --> 00:43:35

We're laughing because everybody does it.

00:43:36 --> 00:43:38

You walk past the mirror, come back.

00:43:38 --> 00:43:39

Like, why you coming back, bro?

00:43:41 --> 00:43:43

Like, Allah blessed you with beauty.

00:43:43 --> 00:43:44

Alhamdulillah.

00:43:45 --> 00:43:46

We look at the blessing too much, forget

00:43:46 --> 00:43:47

the blesser.

00:43:48 --> 00:43:51

And so the lesson in this moment and

00:43:51 --> 00:43:53

what was the cause of the temporary loss,

00:43:54 --> 00:43:55

it was a loss in the beginning.

00:43:56 --> 00:43:56

Everyone fleed.

00:43:57 --> 00:43:58

They fled.

00:43:58 --> 00:43:59

Why?

00:43:59 --> 00:44:04

Allah said, إِذْ أَعْجَبَتْكُمْ كَثَرَتُكُمْ And my other

00:44:04 --> 00:44:08

advice around ujjab, vanity, surround yourself with people

00:44:09 --> 00:44:12

that will motivate you, but keep you grounded

00:44:12 --> 00:44:14

by reminding you it's from Allah.

00:44:15 --> 00:44:16

You don't need haters.

00:44:16 --> 00:44:17

Who needs haters?

00:44:17 --> 00:44:19

You need people that love you for the

00:44:19 --> 00:44:20

sake of Allah.

00:44:20 --> 00:44:22

They'll motivate you, but the moment you start

00:44:22 --> 00:44:22

to get...

00:44:28 --> 00:44:30

That's what you need in your life.

00:44:30 --> 00:44:31

That's the people that you need around you.

00:44:32 --> 00:44:35

So this was the lesson that was being

00:44:35 --> 00:44:39

taught in the battle of Hunayn.

00:44:40 --> 00:44:42

Before we conclude, I want to share one

00:44:42 --> 00:44:47

more beautiful thing that happened right after Fatih

00:44:47 --> 00:44:47

Mecca.

00:44:49 --> 00:44:52

When the Prophet, the Prophet ﷺ, he grew

00:44:52 --> 00:44:52

up in Mecca.

00:44:53 --> 00:44:55

He loves Mecca more than anything, right?

00:44:55 --> 00:44:57

When he left for Hijrah, he looked back

00:44:57 --> 00:44:59

at the city and he said, How pure

00:44:59 --> 00:45:00

are you?

00:45:00 --> 00:45:02

Speaking to the city, he said, How pure

00:45:02 --> 00:45:02

are you?

00:45:03 --> 00:45:04

Wallahi, I would never leave you if they

00:45:04 --> 00:45:05

didn't make me leave you.

00:45:05 --> 00:45:07

He loved Mecca more than anything.

00:45:08 --> 00:45:10

Now when he comes back to Mecca and

00:45:10 --> 00:45:13

they conquer Mecca, some of the Ansar from

00:45:13 --> 00:45:17

Medina, the youngins, they started to say some

00:45:17 --> 00:45:18

stuff.

00:45:19 --> 00:45:21

They started to say, You know, do y

00:45:21 --> 00:45:22

'all think he gonna stay here now?

00:45:23 --> 00:45:25

You think he's gonna, he's gonna stay here

00:45:25 --> 00:45:27

and not come back with us?

00:45:28 --> 00:45:30

I mean, I mean, Mecca's conquered, his home.

00:45:30 --> 00:45:31

He can come back here now.

00:45:31 --> 00:45:32

This is his home.

00:45:33 --> 00:45:35

And words started to spread a little bit

00:45:35 --> 00:45:39

like the Prophet ﷺ called the Sahaba, called

00:45:39 --> 00:45:39

them together.

00:45:41 --> 00:45:43

And he said, I heard what you guys

00:45:43 --> 00:45:43

were saying.

00:45:44 --> 00:45:48

He said, My place of death is your

00:45:48 --> 00:45:49

place of death.

00:45:50 --> 00:45:52

My life is your life.

00:45:52 --> 00:45:54

I live with you, I'll die with you.

00:45:54 --> 00:45:56

I'm staying with you no matter what.

00:45:56 --> 00:45:57

I'm not going anywhere.

00:45:59 --> 00:46:00

They said by the time the Prophet was

00:46:00 --> 00:46:02

done speaking, they had tears in their eyes.

00:46:03 --> 00:46:04

Had tears in their eyes.

00:46:05 --> 00:46:09

After Hunayn, the soldiers that were fighting us,

00:46:09 --> 00:46:09

they fled.

00:46:10 --> 00:46:11

And they went different places.

00:46:12 --> 00:46:13

But the primary place they went was Ta

00:46:13 --> 00:46:14

'if.

00:46:15 --> 00:46:16

Now y'all gotta remember what Ta'if

00:46:16 --> 00:46:16

is.

00:46:17 --> 00:46:21

Ta'if was the hardest day in the

00:46:21 --> 00:46:23

life of Rasulullah ﷺ.

00:46:24 --> 00:46:27

It was the day he went with no

00:46:27 --> 00:46:30

support after his wife had died, Khadijah.

00:46:30 --> 00:46:32

And after Abu Talib had died, his uncle.

00:46:33 --> 00:46:35

He went to Ta'if looking for support,

00:46:35 --> 00:46:36

looking for someone.

00:46:37 --> 00:46:38

And not only did they not give him

00:46:38 --> 00:46:41

the hospitality that was customary for all Arabs,

00:46:41 --> 00:46:43

they kicked him out of the city stoning

00:46:43 --> 00:46:43

him.

00:46:44 --> 00:46:47

With his foster son right next to him.

00:46:49 --> 00:46:51

So the Prophet ﷺ, he moves all of

00:46:51 --> 00:46:52

the soldiers to Ta'if.

00:46:54 --> 00:46:56

Ta'if was a major city.

00:46:56 --> 00:46:58

It was surrounded by a fortress.

00:46:58 --> 00:47:00

There was no way to enter.

00:47:00 --> 00:47:02

The people of Ta'if had food for

00:47:02 --> 00:47:03

a year inside.

00:47:04 --> 00:47:04

Food for a year.

00:47:06 --> 00:47:08

The Prophet ﷺ stays there for 15 or

00:47:08 --> 00:47:11

16 days trying to conquer Ta'if to

00:47:11 --> 00:47:12

get them to come out.

00:47:12 --> 00:47:13

And there's no success.

00:47:16 --> 00:47:18

A few things happened in that moment.

00:47:18 --> 00:47:19

Ta'if, subhanAllah.

00:47:20 --> 00:47:23

Ta'if also in the tribe in between

00:47:23 --> 00:47:28

these two cities, there was a tribe that

00:47:28 --> 00:47:30

may be familiar to us called Banu Sa'd.

00:47:32 --> 00:47:34

If it doesn't ring a bell, it's the

00:47:34 --> 00:47:36

tribe that he was suckled as a baby

00:47:36 --> 00:47:37

in by Halima.

00:47:38 --> 00:47:40

And it was in these days that he

00:47:40 --> 00:47:42

was in front of Ta'if that lo

00:47:42 --> 00:47:44

and behold, two people show up to meet

00:47:44 --> 00:47:46

him and take shahada.

00:47:47 --> 00:47:50

His mother Halima who raised him at the

00:47:50 --> 00:47:52

age of four to seven to eight.

00:47:53 --> 00:47:54

She raised him.

00:47:54 --> 00:47:55

She took care of him.

00:47:56 --> 00:47:57

She called him son.

00:47:58 --> 00:48:00

She comes, she's taking shahada.

00:48:01 --> 00:48:02

But first, who comes first?

00:48:05 --> 00:48:06

Halima's daughter, Shayma.

00:48:08 --> 00:48:09

Because in order for her to be a

00:48:09 --> 00:48:10

wet nurse, she has to have milk, meaning

00:48:10 --> 00:48:11

she has to have a baby, right?

00:48:12 --> 00:48:15

So she had a daughter named Shayma.

00:48:16 --> 00:48:17

And Shayma comes.

00:48:18 --> 00:48:19

And she goes, do you know who I

00:48:19 --> 00:48:19

am?

00:48:20 --> 00:48:22

And this is 40, 50 years later.

00:48:24 --> 00:48:29

And she shows a mark on her neck

00:48:29 --> 00:48:29

up here.

00:48:30 --> 00:48:32

Or on the shoulder, I can't remember exactly.

00:48:33 --> 00:48:34

And he remembers.

00:48:35 --> 00:48:37

When he was a baby, he bit her

00:48:37 --> 00:48:38

while they were playing.

00:48:40 --> 00:48:44

So Halima, she comes and she takes shahada.

00:48:45 --> 00:48:48

Shayma, she comes and she takes shahada.

00:48:49 --> 00:48:53

Rasulullah salallahu alayhi wasalam, after a few days,

00:48:53 --> 00:48:55

there was no way to get into Ta

00:48:55 --> 00:48:55

'if.

00:48:56 --> 00:48:58

So Rasulullah salallahu alayhi wasalam said, let's leave

00:48:58 --> 00:48:58

Ta'if.

00:48:58 --> 00:48:59

They tried, they tried.

00:48:59 --> 00:49:00

They tried very hard.

00:49:01 --> 00:49:02

They were leaving Ta'if.

00:49:02 --> 00:49:06

And the people, they said, ya Rasulullah, make

00:49:06 --> 00:49:07

dua against them.

00:49:07 --> 00:49:09

Because at the end of the day, if

00:49:09 --> 00:49:10

we can't win, we have a prophet of

00:49:10 --> 00:49:10

Allah.

00:49:11 --> 00:49:13

So like, more jizas, miracles can happen here.

00:49:14 --> 00:49:15

So they're leaving.

00:49:15 --> 00:49:16

And they say, ya Rasulullah, just make dua

00:49:16 --> 00:49:17

against them.

00:49:18 --> 00:49:19

Make dua against these people.

00:49:20 --> 00:49:23

This is the second time in his life

00:49:23 --> 00:49:26

he's being given the opportunity to make dua

00:49:26 --> 00:49:27

against these people.

00:49:27 --> 00:49:28

What do you think he's going to say

00:49:28 --> 00:49:29

now?

00:49:30 --> 00:49:32

He raises his hands.

00:49:32 --> 00:49:34

They think it's about to come down.

00:49:35 --> 00:49:37

He raises his hands.

00:49:38 --> 00:49:40

And he says, oh Allah, bring them with

00:49:40 --> 00:49:41

mercy and guide them, ya Allah.

00:49:42 --> 00:49:44

Bring them with mercy and guide them.

00:49:45 --> 00:49:46

Bring them to me guided, ya Allah.

00:49:47 --> 00:49:52

The prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, they head back

00:49:52 --> 00:49:53

to Ja'rana.

00:49:58 --> 00:50:01

When they get to Ja'rana, you have

00:50:01 --> 00:50:03

to understand, as I said before, there are

00:50:03 --> 00:50:09

thousands of new Muslims and hundreds of non

00:50:09 --> 00:50:10

-Muslims that were just in this army.

00:50:11 --> 00:50:13

And it comes time for the prophet to

00:50:13 --> 00:50:16

distribute all of the spoils of war to

00:50:16 --> 00:50:17

everyone who participated.

00:50:18 --> 00:50:19

This is a big moment.

00:50:20 --> 00:50:21

I know we only have a few moments

00:50:21 --> 00:50:21

left.

00:50:23 --> 00:50:28

So the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, the amount

00:50:28 --> 00:50:30

of spoils in this battle were unprecedented.

00:50:31 --> 00:50:33

Nothing like this had ever come before.

00:50:33 --> 00:50:35

So what does the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam

00:50:35 --> 00:50:36

begin to do?

00:50:36 --> 00:50:41

He begins to give thousands, hundreds of things

00:50:41 --> 00:50:42

to individual people.

00:50:43 --> 00:50:47

So he calls one person, Oyeyna.

00:50:47 --> 00:50:49

He calls him and he says, لك ألف

00:50:49 --> 00:50:49

جبل.

00:50:49 --> 00:50:52

He calls Abu Sufyan, for you a thousand

00:50:52 --> 00:50:54

camels, for you a thousand this, a thousand

00:50:54 --> 00:50:54

that.

00:50:54 --> 00:50:57

And so he's giving all of this massive

00:50:57 --> 00:50:59

amount of wealth to people who are either

00:50:59 --> 00:51:02

not Muslim yet or just had converted.

00:51:04 --> 00:51:06

And they're all coming and they're saying this

00:51:06 --> 00:51:09

man gives like someone who doesn't fear poverty.

00:51:10 --> 00:51:13

This man is different and he's giving and

00:51:13 --> 00:51:14

he's giving and he's giving.

00:51:15 --> 00:51:16

Now I want you to imagine something.

00:51:17 --> 00:51:18

We'll conclude with this.

00:51:18 --> 00:51:21

You've been grinding with the prophet salallahu alayhi

00:51:21 --> 00:51:25

wasalam for the last 18, 20 years.

00:51:26 --> 00:51:29

And now my man who just took shahada

00:51:29 --> 00:51:34

20 days ago just got 50 grand, just

00:51:34 --> 00:51:38

got a thousand camels, which till today is

00:51:38 --> 00:51:38

worth a lot.

00:51:40 --> 00:51:42

He's just giving and giving and giving.

00:51:44 --> 00:51:48

So just like you thought, the young Sahaba

00:51:48 --> 00:51:52

from Ansar, they start thinking the same thing.

00:51:53 --> 00:51:56

They go, he's given to them and he's

00:51:56 --> 00:51:57

going to be back with his people.

00:51:57 --> 00:51:59

He's not coming back with us.

00:51:59 --> 00:52:01

He's giving to these people.

00:52:03 --> 00:52:07

They're young and they start spreading it around.

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I'm going to conclude.

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They start spreading this around.

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The prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam gets word.

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Sa'd bin Ubadah comes and he says, Ya

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Rasulullah, the Ansar are saying this.

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The prophet looks at him and he says,

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What do you say?

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He goes, I'm one of my people.

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You know what I mean?

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Like, I can't understand why you're giving these

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people so much either.

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20 days ago we were fighting against them.

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Today you're giving them everything.

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The prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam said, Please gather

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all the Ansar in one room and tell

00:52:40 --> 00:52:40

me when they're all there.

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Listen closely.

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They come, they say, Ya Rasulullah, the Ansar

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are all gathered together.

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The prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, he comes into

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the room and he says, Is there anyone

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who's not an Ansar in here?

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They go, No, we're all from Ansar.

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And the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, he says,

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You supported me when no one supported me.

00:53:06 --> 00:53:08

You believed in me when the whole world

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disbelieved in me.

00:53:10 --> 00:53:12

You gave me a home when I was

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homeless.

00:53:13 --> 00:53:14

I had nothing.

00:53:15 --> 00:53:17

You gave me everything and if you told

00:53:17 --> 00:53:19

me that you gave me everything, I would

00:53:19 --> 00:53:21

confirm it in front of the entire world

00:53:21 --> 00:53:23

that you supported me when no one was

00:53:23 --> 00:53:23

there.

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And he says, What is this that you're

00:53:27 --> 00:53:28

saying?

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Are you angry at me that I give

00:53:30 --> 00:53:35

people sheep and goats so that their Iman

00:53:35 --> 00:53:39

gets stronger, so that they get stronger in

00:53:39 --> 00:53:41

faith, so that they say, Oh, Islam is

00:53:41 --> 00:53:42

so nice, look how rich I got.

00:53:43 --> 00:53:45

Are you angry with me that I gave

00:53:45 --> 00:53:48

them things of this dunya to make their

00:53:48 --> 00:53:50

Iman stronger?

00:53:51 --> 00:53:54

He's like, and this is the part and

00:53:54 --> 00:53:54

we'll end.

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He says, Does it not please you that

00:53:59 --> 00:54:02

they go home with sheep and camel and

00:54:02 --> 00:54:04

you go home with me?

00:54:07 --> 00:54:08

Does it not please you?

00:54:10 --> 00:54:12

All of them, they said, We're happy, Ya

00:54:12 --> 00:54:13

Rasulullah.

00:54:13 --> 00:54:16

He said, I trust that your Iman was

00:54:16 --> 00:54:16

strong.

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I gave them all these things because they

00:54:18 --> 00:54:19

were weak.

00:54:20 --> 00:54:21

You're strong.

00:54:21 --> 00:54:23

You don't need goats and sheep to stay

00:54:23 --> 00:54:23

Muslim.

00:54:24 --> 00:54:25

You don't need money.

00:54:26 --> 00:54:27

You got me.

00:54:28 --> 00:54:29

But these people are new.

00:54:30 --> 00:54:32

We got to win their hearts over.

00:54:34 --> 00:54:37

And after that, the entire room was weeping.

00:54:38 --> 00:54:41

And they said, We're happy, Ya Rasulullah.

00:54:41 --> 00:54:42

We're happy, Ya Rasulullah.

00:54:42 --> 00:54:44

We misunderstood, Ya Rasulullah.

00:54:45 --> 00:54:46

We misunderstood, Ya Rasulullah.

00:54:46 --> 00:54:49

So this was a major moment in the

00:54:49 --> 00:54:51

life of the Rasul, salallahu alayhi wasalam.

00:54:52 --> 00:54:57

We gather to appreciate the beauty, the strength,

00:54:58 --> 00:55:00

the qualities that the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam,

00:55:00 --> 00:55:00

had.

00:55:01 --> 00:55:03

We gather in order to read these verses

00:55:03 --> 00:55:06

of Quran that remind us about these spiritual

00:55:06 --> 00:55:07

diseases.

00:55:08 --> 00:55:10

And we hope and we beg and we

00:55:10 --> 00:55:12

ask Allah to give us these qualities in

00:55:12 --> 00:55:14

our hearts that make us more like him,

00:55:14 --> 00:55:16

salallahu alayhi wasalam.

00:55:16 --> 00:55:18

We ask Allah to give us company that

00:55:18 --> 00:55:21

helps shape our mentality in a prophetic way.

00:55:22 --> 00:55:23

We ask Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, to

00:55:23 --> 00:55:27

protect us from the company that will negatively

00:55:27 --> 00:55:29

influence our mentality and our thinking.

00:55:29 --> 00:55:31

We ask Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, to

00:55:31 --> 00:55:33

place in our lives people that will touch

00:55:33 --> 00:55:36

us and help us heal the same way

00:55:36 --> 00:55:39

Shaybah was touched and healed by Rasulullah, salallahu

00:55:39 --> 00:55:40

alayhi wasalam.

00:55:40 --> 00:55:42

Subhanak Allahumma wa bihamdik.

00:55:42 --> 00:55:44

Nashhadu la ilaha illa anta.

00:55:44 --> 00:55:46

Nastaghfiru wa tubu ilayk.

00:55:46 --> 00:55:48

Subhanarabbika rabbil-izzati amma yasifoon.

00:55:49 --> 00:55:50

Wassalamu ala al-mursaleen.

00:55:51 --> 00:55:53

Walhamdulillahi rabbil-alameen.

00:55:53 --> 00:55:54

Jazakumullahu khair.

00:55:54 --> 00:55:55

May Allah accept from us, inshallah.

00:55:56 --> 00:55:59

This masjid prays at 8.45, inshallah ta

00:55:59 --> 00:55:59

'ala.

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May Allah accept.

00:56:01 --> 00:56:02

Assalamu alaykum.

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