Mirza Yawar Baig – Give not take

Mirza Yawar Baig
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The importance of deciding which country one is from is discussed, along with the need to determine one's success and influence. The speakers stress the importance of not giving up one's professional life to achieve wealth and success, rather focusing on their own values and living life to the fullest. The Muslims face issues of disunity and dis peace in the Muslim Um Qaeda, which is a problem of the Muslim umroom. The speakers emphasize the need to not give up one's professional life to achieve wealth and success, rather focusing on their own values and living life to the fullest.
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Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen, Wasalatu wassalamu

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ala ashrafil anbiya wal mursaleen, Muhammadur Rasulullahi sallallahu

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alaihi wa ala alihi wasallam, tasliman katheeran katheera,

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Fama wabado.

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My brothers and sisters, let me begin by

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asking you a question.

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Which country are you from?

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You?

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Pakistan?

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And you?

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Syria?

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And you?

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Palestine?

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And you?

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Sudan?

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And you?

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America?

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And you?

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Somalia?

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MashaAllah, therein lies the answer.

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For many of you, you were born here,

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you grew up here, you went to school

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and college here, you got or want to

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get a job here, you value your status,

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meaning your immigration status, but when I ask

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where you are from, you name some other

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country.

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As if you are there, as if you

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are here only temporarily, waiting to return to

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your real home.

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That shows that you are living in your

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own house as a tenant, not as the

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owner.

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That will therefore define your sense of investment,

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responsibility, gain or loss.

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It will define your behavior.

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And in the end, it will define your

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influence.

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We need to decide if we are owners

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or tenants.

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It is essential to decide this because there

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is a very big difference in roles and

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responsibilities, in profit and loss.

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If you own your home, then its well

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-being, repair, maintenance, decoration or modification are your

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responsibility because the property belongs to you.

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You take the rent, you benefit from any

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increase in property value, you can sell the

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property or use it for anything you wish.

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It is yours, but if you are only

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a tenant, then you are here today, but

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gone tomorrow.

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So though you may suffer some inconvenience if

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the property is not maintained well, it really

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doesn't bother you too much because you are

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not the owner.

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I submit to you, please wake up.

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This is your country and you are American.

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No matter what you imagine, you can't last

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one week in the country you think you

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belong to.

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If you don't believe me, ask your parents

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or grandparents what their childhood was like.

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Yes, listen to your parents, listen to their

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stories and take notes.

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If nothing, it will do wonders for your

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relationship.

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But you are raised in a culture where

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you are told that you are the best,

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smartest, cutest gift to mankind since plastics, and

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you believe it.

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So you lose the free wisdom that is

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yours for the asking from your parents and

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elders.

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But you won't listen to them.

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You don't sit with them.

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And if you are questioned, you say something

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totally stupid like, Dad says he walked 10

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miles barefoot to the school because he had

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no shoes and there was no bus, so

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what?

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What good is that to me?

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Why should I listen to this boring story?

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I say to you that you are right

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because you only see the heat and the

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dust and the sweat on the bare feet.

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You are too stupid to see beyond to

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the determination, the ambition, the dreams, the grit

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to take the pain without complaint to make

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something of his life, to be able to

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have a son who thinks his dad is

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a fool.

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And so you get to learn things unnecessarily

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the hard way, your call.

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Remember, you can only change what you own.

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You can live in a rented house and

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complain until you die about all that is

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wrong with that house and what needs to

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be done.

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You will be totally right but totally helpless

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because you don't own the house.

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Same thing with the society you live in.

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Until you start thinking of it as your

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society, you cannot change anything.

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For example, ask how many people complain about

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the political system in this country and then

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ask how many of them register and go

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to vote.

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Ask how many complain about schools and then

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ask how many stand for elections to school

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boards.

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All you need to do is just stand

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up and they will take you but you

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won't do that.

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Ask how many complain about local administration.

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Ask how many volunteer on committees.

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Ask how many volunteer to work in the

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fire service and the police.

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Ask how many complain about the genocide in

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Gaza or the invasion of Lebanon.

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Ask how many Muslims are in the protests,

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picket lines, student camps.

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Ask who is getting doxxed and losing job

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offers.

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Ask if they are stupid or are they

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owners.

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Ask how many complain about Muslim refugee children

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coming through Christian and Jewish refugee assistance programs

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which are state-funded and then go into

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non-Muslim foster homes.

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Ask why there is no Muslim family service

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organization and why Muslims don't volunteer as foster

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parents for Muslim and other children.

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Ask how many people talk about the problem

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of disunity in the Muslim Ummah and then

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ask how many want a world that is

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free of Shias or Sunnis or Salafis or

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Sufis or whatever depending on who you are.

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How then are we going to be united?

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So do we really want unity or is

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it a joke?

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Complain to Allah alone in the night and

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in the morning act, invest, sweat and work

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yourself to a standstill if you want change.

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That is the law.

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The difference between owners and tenants is the

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difference between contributors and consumers.

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Power depends on territory or power comes with

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territory.

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Contribution defines territory.

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Consumers are manipulated, they are used.

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Contributors are respected and they call the shots.

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Consumers at best may win a game.

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Contributors own the game.

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They can never lose unless they stop contributing.

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Read the history of the Muslims and you

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will see that the decline started when we

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switched from being contributors and became consumers.

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If you want power, start contributing.

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It's like a tweet by someone who was

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against BDS and the boycott campaign.

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The tweet said, I want to boycott everything

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made by Muslims.

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Can someone please send out a list?

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What's the answer to that?

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I remind myself that the battle of Qadisiyah

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was fought in 636-637 AD near a

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place called Al-Hira, which is in present

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day Iraq.

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And this was between the army of the

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Sasanian king, the Sasanian Persian king Yazdegerd III,

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and commanded by his general Rustam Farrukhzad, and

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the army of the Rashidun Khilafa of Sayyidina

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Awar ibn al-Khattab, commanded by Sa'd ibn

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Abi Waqas.

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Rustam Farrukhzad sent a message to Sa'd ibn

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Abi Waqas, asking him to send a representative

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for him to question.

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Sa'd ibn Abi Waqas sent Rabi'a ibn

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Awar, a Sahabi, who was only mentioned in

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this one incident, and had it not been

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for this incident, he may never have been

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mentioned.

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They tried to disarm Rabi'a ibn Awar,

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but he refused to give up his arms.

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He said, you invited me, leave me as

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I am, or I will return.

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Now Rustam asked him why the Muslims had

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come.

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He offered every soldier and the Muslim army

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gold, if they returned without fighting.

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Rabi'a ibn Awar refused the gold, and

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he said, we have not come to take

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anything from you.

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Rustam asked, then why have you come?

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Rabi'a ibn Awar's answer is the answer

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for all Muslims.

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He said, Ibn

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Awar said, He said, From

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the worship of the slaves, and take you

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to the worship of the creator of humanity,

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the creator of the slaves.

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From the confusion, constriction, the arguments and noise,

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of different religions, towards the justice of Islam.

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From the constriction, the stress, the problems of

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the life of this world, to the expanse,

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the freedom, from stress of the life of

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this world and the hereafter.

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This is the beauty of Islam, that Islam

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invites us to a beauty of this life

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and the hereafter.

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The problem is that we have forgotten that

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we came to give, we didn't come to

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take.

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But instead of giving, we are now taking

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from everywhere.

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala sent us, sent

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his Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, with a

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game plan, with a whole way of life,

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meant for us, to learn and to teach

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others.

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Instead of that, we forgot the Nabi sallallahu

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alaihi wa sallam, we forgot the plan, we

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forgot his teachings, and now we are running,

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like ignorant people behind others, and trying to

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live our lives like theirs, even though we

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see that their lives are so full of

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stress, and so full of pain and suffering

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and confusion, but we run behind them, and

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we think that somehow we are going to

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have a beautiful life.

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I remind myself and you, let us own

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responsibility for ourselves, own responsibility for our families,

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own responsibility for our society, environment, own responsibility

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for our country, and say, whichever country you

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live in, if you are living there, do

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something for the country, do something for the

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nation, do something which makes you stand out

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as a contributor, to the nation that you

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live in, because you are taking from that

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nation.

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We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to

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make us net contributors, that we give back

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more than we take.

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