Mirza Yawar Baig – Sahaba The Gold Standard #09

Mirza Yawar Baig
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The speakers discuss the history and importance of Islam, including its importance in building strength and knowledge of Islam to achieve their goals. They also touch upon the importance of learning and being prepared for the future, as well as the need for students to practice Islam in a proper way. The speakers emphasize the importance of learning to control their actions and desires to survive and become successful. They also mention the difficulty of learning Islam in schools and the importance of practicing it in a proper way.

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			Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem.
		
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			Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen.
		
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			Wa salatu wa salamu ala sharafi l-anbiyai
		
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			wa l-mursaleen.
		
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			Muhammadur Rasulullahi sallallahu alaihi wa ala alihi wa
		
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			sahbihi wa sallam.
		
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			Tasliman kathiran kathiran.
		
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			Fahum min ba'du.
		
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			My brothers and sisters, as I mentioned before,
		
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			we continue with our classes on the first
		
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			generation of Muslims, the Sahaba of Rasulullahi sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam, his companions, his blessed companions
		
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			who are the gold standard for Islam until
		
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			the end of time.
		
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			And we continue with that story.
		
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			I remind myself that the first victims of
		
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			pagan aggression, anti-Muslim aggression, were those Muslims
		
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			who had no tribal affiliation in Mecca.
		
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			Yasir bin Amr and his wife Sumayya bin
		
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			Khayyat and their son Ammar had no tribal
		
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			affiliation in Mecca.
		
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			They were foreigners and there was no one
		
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			to protect them.
		
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			Those Muslims who were killed in the battle
		
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			of Badr and Uhud, they had an army
		
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			to defend and support them because they were
		
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			part of that army in battle.
		
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			But Yasir and his blessed wife Sumayya bin
		
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			Khayyat had no one to defend them.
		
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			They bore no arms.
		
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			They were not warriors.
		
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			They were the most defenseless of all the
		
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			martyrs of Islam, of all the shuhada of
		
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			Islam.
		
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			By sacrificing their lives, by giving their lives,
		
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			by investing their lives, they highlighted the truth
		
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			of Islam and they built strength into its
		
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			structure.
		
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			They made the tradition of investing our lives,
		
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			the tradition of sacrificing our lives and martyrdom
		
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			as an integral part of the ethos of
		
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			Islam.
		
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			Another one who came to Islam in the
		
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			first days of Rasulullah's migration to Medina was
		
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			the great Jewish scholar and rabbi Abdullah bin
		
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			Salam from the Jewish tribe of Banu Qaynuqa
		
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			claiming descent from Yusuf a.s. He was
		
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			widely respected and honored by the people of
		
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			the city, even those who were not Jewish.
		
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			He was known for his piety and goodness
		
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			and his upright conduct and his truthfulness.
		
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			Abdullah bin Salam lived a peaceful and gentle
		
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			life, but he was serious, purposeful and organized
		
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			in the way that he spent his time.
		
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			For a fixed period each day, he would
		
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			worship, teach and preach in the synagogue.
		
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			Then he would spend some time in his
		
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			orchard looking after his dead palms and pruning
		
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			and pollinating and doing whatever was required for
		
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			the season.
		
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			Thereafter, to increase his understanding and knowledge of
		
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			his religion, he would devote himself to the
		
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			study of the Torah.
		
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			In this study, it is said that he
		
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			was particularly struck by some of the verses
		
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			of the ayat of the Torah which dealt
		
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			with the coming of a prophet who would
		
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			complete the message of previous prophets.
		
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			In 622, Muhammad s.a.w. left Mecca
		
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			for Medina.
		
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			When he reached Medina and stopped at Quba,
		
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			a man came rushing into the city, calling
		
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			out to the people and announcing the arrival
		
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			of Rasulullah s.a.w. On hearing the
		
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			news, Abdullah bin Salam exclaimed the Shahada.
		
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			He said, ashhadu an la ilaha illallah wa
		
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			ashhadu anna Muhammadur Rasulullah and he told his
		
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			aunt who was sitting nearby.
		
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			He said, O my aunt, he is really
		
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			by Allah, the brother of Musa a.s.
		
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			and follows his religion.
		
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			And this is recorded in his own words
		
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			as follows.
		
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			Abdullah bin Salam s.a.w. said, When
		
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			I heard of the appearance of the Messenger
		
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			of Allah, of Rasulullah s.a.w., I
		
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			began to make enquiries about his name, his
		
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			genealogy, his characteristics, his time and place and
		
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			I began to compare this information with what
		
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			is contained in our books.
		
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			From these enquiries, I became convinced about the
		
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			authenticity of his prophethood and I affirmed the
		
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			truth of his mission.
		
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			So, he accepted Islam himself.
		
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			However, I concealed my conclusion from my people
		
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			and I held my tongue.
		
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			Then came the day when the Prophet of
		
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			Mecca, Rasulullah s.a.w., So, this happened
		
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			while he was, while Nabi s.a.w.
		
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			was still in Mecca and had not yet
		
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			come to Madinah, before Hijrah.
		
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			Then he says, then came the day when
		
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			the Prophet s.a.w. left Mecca and
		
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			headed for Yathrib.
		
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			When he reached Yathrib and stopped at Quba,
		
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			a man came rushing into the city, calling
		
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			out to people and announcing the arrival of
		
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			the Prophet s.a.w. At that moment,
		
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			he says, Abdullah bin Salam Abdullah Anubh, he
		
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			says, At that moment, I was at the
		
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			top of a palm tree doing my work,
		
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			so, you know, pollinating and cleaning the fronds
		
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			and what not.
		
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			He said, my aunt Khalida bint al-Harith
		
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			was sitting under the tree.
		
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			On hearing the news, I shouted, Allahu Akbar,
		
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			Allahu Akbar.
		
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			When my aunt heard me, she demonstrated with
		
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			me, meaning she, she sort of told him,
		
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			just keep quiet.
		
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			And said, may Allah frustrate you by Allah,
		
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			if you had heard that Musa a.s.
		
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			was coming, you would not have been more
		
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			enthusiastic.
		
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			To which he says, I replied, Aunty, he
		
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			is really by Allah, the brother of Musa
		
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			a.s. and follows his religion.
		
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			He was sent with the same mission as
		
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			Musa a.s. He says, my aunt was
		
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			silent for a while and then he said,
		
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			is he the Prophet about whom you spoke
		
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			to us, who would be sent to confirm
		
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			the truth preached by previous Prophets and complete
		
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			the message of his Rabb?
		
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			Yes, I replied, without any delay.
		
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			Abdullah bin Salam says that, then without any
		
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			delay or hesitation, he says, I went to
		
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			meet Rasulallah s.a.w. where he was
		
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			in Quba.
		
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			He said, he saw crowds of people at
		
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			the door of Rasulallah s.a.w. He
		
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			said, I moved about in the crowds until
		
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			I reached a place close to the door
		
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			and close to him.
		
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			And the first words I heard him say
		
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			were, O people, share peace, spread the peace,
		
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			share food, feed the people.
		
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			And he said, pray during the night while
		
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			people sleep and you will enter paradise, you
		
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			will enter Jannah in peace.
		
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			This whole issue in Islam of being good
		
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			to people by spreading Salam, which means smile
		
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			at people, be kind to people, be good
		
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			to people, greet people, greet people first, don't
		
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			wait for them to greet you because you
		
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			think you are so holy and superior.
		
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			Do that, this whole, and then feed people,
		
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			so help people, feed people, and then the
		
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			position of Qiyamul Layl.
		
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			Position of Qiyamul Layl.
		
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			Throughout, from Rasulallah s.a.w. through the
		
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			Sahaba, through the Tabi'een, the importance of
		
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			Qiyamul Layl is so, so critical that I
		
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			cannot possibly overemphasize it.
		
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			These are things that are the fundamental, imagine
		
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			this is the first message that Rasulallah s
		
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			.a.w. is giving to the people.
		
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			Abdullah bin Salam r.a says, I looked
		
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			at him closely, I scrutinized him and was
		
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			convinced that his face was not that of
		
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			an impostor.
		
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			His face was not that of someone who
		
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			is pretending.
		
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			His face was not that of somebody who
		
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			tells lies.
		
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			I went closer to him and made the
		
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			declaration of faith, La ilaha illallah Muhammadur Rasulallah.
		
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			Rasulallah s.a.w. turned to me, he
		
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			says, and said, what is your name?
		
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			I said, it is Al Hussain Ibn Salam.
		
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			Rasulallah s.a.w. said, instead, it is
		
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			now Abdullah Ibn Salam.
		
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			He said, give me a new name.
		
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			And I agreed.
		
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			Abdullah Ibn Salam it shall be.
		
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			By him who has sent you with the
		
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			truth, I do not wish to have any
		
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			other name after this day.
		
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			He says, I returned home and introduced Islam
		
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			to my wife and my children and the
		
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			rest of my household.
		
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			Now the Qur'an Al Kareem implicitly mentions
		
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			Abdullah Ibn Salam r.a. Allah said, Qul
		
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			ara'aytum in kana min indi Allahi wa
		
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			kafartum bihi wa shahida shahidun min bani Israela
		
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			ala mithlihi fa amana wa istagbartum inna Allaha
		
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			la yahdi al qawma al zalimeen.
		
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			Allah said, tell me, say, he is saying
		
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			to Rasulallah s.a.w., he says, say
		
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			to them, if this Qur'an, tell me
		
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			if this Qur'an is from Allah, and
		
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			you deny it.
		
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			And a witness from among the bani Israel,
		
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			the children of Israel, who is in this
		
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			case Abdullah Ibn Salam, testifies that the Qur
		
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			'an is from Allah, like the Torah.
		
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			So he believed, embraced Islam, while you were
		
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			too proud to believe.
		
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			Verily Allah s.w.t. does not guide
		
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			the people who are zalimun, the people who
		
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			are transgressors, who are rebellious, and who are
		
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			sinners.
		
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			When Abdullah Ibn Salam accepted Islam, he said
		
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			to Rasulallah s.a.w., he said, please
		
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			call my people and present Islam to them.
		
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			Then ask them about me.
		
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			He said, I will hide behind a curtain
		
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			and listen to them.
		
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			Then when they have said whatever they wish
		
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			to say, you please tell them that I
		
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			have accepted Islam, and let us see what
		
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			they will say or do.
		
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			Rasulallah s.a.w. agreed, and he invited
		
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			the Banu Qaynuqa for a meeting.
		
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			When they came, Rasulallah s.a.w. presented
		
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			Islam to them, which they listened to and
		
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			then ignored.
		
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			Then Rasulallah s.a.w. asked them, what
		
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			do you know about Hussain bin Salam?
		
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			They asked, our leader and rabbi?
		
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			Rasulallah s.a.w. said, yes.
		
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			They said, he is the best of us.
		
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			He is our leader.
		
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			He is the son of our leader and
		
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			teacher.
		
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			He is the most learned among us and
		
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			the most honoured.
		
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			Rasulallah s.a.w. then said to them,
		
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			Hussain bin Salam has accepted Islam.
		
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			They immediately started arguing and refused to believe
		
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			it.
		
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			But when Rasulallah s.a.w. assured them
		
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			that it was true, they said, he is
		
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			the worst of us.
		
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			He is the most ignorant and the least
		
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			honoured among us.
		
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			Now this shows the tendency of some people
		
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			to reject something beneficial to themselves just because
		
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			it comes from someone they don't like.
		
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			Abdullah bin Salam r.a. was the first
		
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			Muslim that was promised Jannah while he was
		
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			still alive.
		
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			In a hadith it is reported that Muhammad
		
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			s.a.w. that one day while Rasulallah
		
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			s.a.w. was sitting with the best
		
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			of his companions he said, do you want
		
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			to see a man walking on earth and
		
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			in Jannah?
		
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			Do you want to see a man walking
		
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			on earth and in Jannah?
		
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			Each one of the Sahaba looked in silence
		
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			towards Rasulallah s.a.w. hoping that he
		
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			would mention their name.
		
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			Rasulallah s.a.w. pointed in the distance
		
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			and the companions saw, the Sahaba saw that
		
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			he was looking towards Abdullah bin Salam r
		
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			.a. Allah s.w.t honours those who
		
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			are faithful and may Allah s.w.t
		
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			make us among those who are faithful.
		
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			My brothers and sisters, the purpose of remembering
		
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			the Sahaba is not simply to learn some
		
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			history or for the fact that these are
		
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			interesting stories or even to listen to them
		
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			and shed a few tears for people who
		
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			suffered in ways that we cannot even imagine
		
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			today.
		
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			The purpose of listening to these stories is
		
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			to reflect on them, to take courage from
		
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			them and to compare ourselves with their stories
		
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			and ask, what am I, what am I
		
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			willing to give for the sake of Islam
		
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			today?
		
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			The way to do that is to understand
		
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			that you don't give anything.
		
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			Right?
		
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			It's not a question of giving.
		
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			It doesn't go from anywhere.
		
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			We are really investing in our own akhirah.
		
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			When I give something for the sake of
		
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			Islam, it looks like giving but I am
		
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			actually investing in my own akhirah.
		
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			It's like taking some money, some cash to
		
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			the bank and depositing it in your account.
		
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			So, if somebody is taking a video, they
		
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			will see you taking cash out of your
		
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			pocket and giving it, handing it over to
		
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			the teller.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So, it will look like you are giving
		
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			something.
		
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			But you are not giving anything.
		
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			It's your cash, which was in your pocket,
		
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			which you gave to the teller, which goes
		
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			into your account.
		
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			So, when you come back, now you can
		
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			collect the cash from the bank.
		
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			In the case of the bank, the interest
		
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			that they give you is haram.
		
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			In the case of Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala, you will get, for Allah said, that
		
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			the one who brings one good deal, right?
		
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			man jaa bil hasanati falahu ashroo amthaliha.
		
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			The one who brings one good deal, Allah
		
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			will give him ten like it.
		
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			Ten likewise.
		
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			So, it's not a question of interest, it's
		
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			a question of the reward from Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is promising one
		
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			is to ten, which is 1000% if
		
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			you want to express that in percentages.
		
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			So, this whole concept of giving, we have
		
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			to understand it in its true sense.
		
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			There is no giving.
		
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			There is no sacrifice.
		
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			Because something for which you are getting a
		
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			minimum of 1000% return, how can you
		
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			call it a sacrifice?
		
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			A sacrifice is something which you give and
		
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			you get nothing, zero in return.
		
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			No return of any kind.
		
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			That is a sacrifice.
		
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			But if there is a return, whatever the
		
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			return may be, in cash, in kind, in
		
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			reputation, in influence and so on.
		
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			For example, people make big donations to universities,
		
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			right?
		
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			The university doesn't pay them money back.
		
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			They don't pay them interest on that money.
		
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			It's donation gone to the university.
		
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			But because of that donation, they will put
		
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			their name on some building or maybe they
		
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			will invite, depending on how big the donation
		
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			is, maybe they will invite them to be
		
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			on an advisory board or the actual governing
		
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			board of the university or something and that's
		
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			the reason why the donation is made.
		
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			It's not a cash, they have not lost
		
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			anything.
		
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			They have the money, now they want respectability
		
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			in society.
		
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			Now they want to be, to walk in
		
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			the corridors of power.
		
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			Now they want to become decision makers in
		
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			society itself.
		
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			So, what do they do?
		
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			They invest.
		
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			They invest from their funds because they have
		
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			got a lot of money.
		
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			They invest in that so that now they
		
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			have positions of power.
		
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			We can see this around the world, right?
		
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			Here was somebody who was just a billionaire
		
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			or what not and you know, all he
		
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			had was money and some luxuries in life
		
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			and then because of making donations, strategic donations
		
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			to, in the right places, now the person
		
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			is sitting on boards, now the person is
		
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			sitting as a decision maker in parliaments and
		
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			congress and what not.
		
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			This is what we are doing.
		
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			When we say we give in the path
		
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			of Allah, we are not giving anything.
		
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			We are investing in ourselves.
		
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			And the reward of that is not some
		
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			temporary seat in some place in this world,
		
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			but darajat with Allah.
		
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			Levels of honour with Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala.
		
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			So, the question to ask is this, what
		
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			am I willing to invest for the sake
		
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			of Allah?
		
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			Now think about that, we are looking at
		
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			people who were killed because they were Muslim.
		
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			There is no other reason.
		
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			Because they said la ilaha illallah.
		
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			And people like this are, they exist in
		
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			today's world as well.
		
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			They are being killed for no reason other
		
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			than that they are Muslim.
		
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			But Alhamdulillah we are not among them.
		
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			We live in security and comfort with wealth
		
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			and health and our property and family and
		
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			positions intact.
		
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			Yet we have no hesitation in disobeying Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala for the slightest thing.
		
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			To satisfy our egos and our friends or
		
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			our haram customs and traditions that have nothing
		
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			to do with Islam.
		
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			How do you think this will look when
		
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			we are compared with the likes of Yasir
		
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			bin Amr r.a and Sumayya bin Khayyat
		
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			r.a?
		
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			When we and they meet our Rabb jalla
		
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			jalaluhu on the day when there will be
		
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			no king except the real king.
		
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			Ta'ala Allahul Malikul Haqq la ilaha illa
		
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			huwa Rabbul Arshil Kareem.
		
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			What will be our excuse when we are
		
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			asked why we did not resist temptation?
		
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			And why we did not fight shaitan?
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, Inna shaitana
		
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			aduwwun fattakhizuhu ahduwa.
		
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			Shaitan is your enemy and you become his
		
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			enemy.
		
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			But instead we become his followers.
		
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			And we refuse to, and Allah will ask,
		
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			Why did you not refuse to disobey Allah?
		
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			Or why did you not refuse to go
		
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			against the sunnah?
		
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			Let us prepare our answers and hope that
		
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			we remember them when we stand before Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala's position.
		
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			The Sahaba's position with Islam and Islamic learning,
		
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			the point I am coming to here is
		
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			that, we like to learn and so on,
		
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			alhamdulillah, this is a good thing.
		
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			I strongly, you know, encourage that.
		
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			And today, learning has become easy.
		
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			Right?
		
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			It has become very convenient, it has become
		
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			very easy.
		
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			And of course this is a good thing.
		
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			I mean there is no doubt about that.
		
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			It is a good thing that knowledge and
		
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			so forth has become easy.
		
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			But one of the problems of this is,
		
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			is that it seems to have lost its,
		
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			the grandeur which is, which has to go
		
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			with the knowledge.
		
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			So that's where we had in the traditional
		
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			ways of learning, we had the adab of
		
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			how we approach knowledge.
		
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			Where, for example, starting from the fact that
		
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			students in traditional madaris, they sat on the
		
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			floor.
		
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			They did not sit on chairs and they
		
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			didn't have, they didn't read off tables.
		
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			That's not because chairs and tables had not
		
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			been invented.
		
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			I mean you get this, understand this thing.
		
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			And it was not because they were poor.
		
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			They were looking at, you know, the biggest
		
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			and the most affluent Islamic universities in the
		
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			world.
		
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			Which were in many cases, which were supported
		
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			by the rulers of the time.
		
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			There was no shortage of funds.
		
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			This was our traditional methodology of learning which
		
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			brought us down to earth quite literally.
		
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			So you sat on the floor with your
		
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			legs folded under you.
		
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			You didn't sit on a chair with your
		
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			legs hanging down.
		
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			You didn't sit on the floor with your
		
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			legs, you know, stretched out pointing at the
		
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			face of the teacher.
		
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			La halwa la quwata illa billah inna lillahi
		
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			wa inna ilayhi rajyo.
		
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			We learnt with respect.
		
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			You came there dressed in proper Islamic attire,
		
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			which doesn't mean mishla and stuff like what
		
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			I am wearing.
		
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			It just means clothing which fully covered your
		
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			body.
		
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			You didn't turn up to school in shorts
		
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			and t-shirts like people do today in
		
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			schools and colleges.
		
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			You came with your head covered, boy or
		
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			girl, man or woman, as a mark of
		
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			respect.
		
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			And those who Allah gave tawfiq to came
		
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			with wudhu, because you are learning the kitab
		
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			of Allah subhana wa ta'ala.
		
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			You are learning the hadith of Rasulullah sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			You came with proper purification.
		
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			And then you approached the deen of Allah
		
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			subhana wa ta'ala.
		
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			You approached the teachings of Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam.
		
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			In a way that was appropriate for that,
		
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			which is that, you know, you did that
		
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			with adab.
		
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			Now all of this was not just tradition,
		
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			it was the requirement for benefit to come
		
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			from that knowledge.
		
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			If you think and I think that we
		
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			can derive benefit from the knowledge of Islam
		
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			without the adab of Islam, then we are
		
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			grossly mistaken and grossly, you know, we are
		
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			way off.
		
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			Now the Sahabas' position with Islam was very
		
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			interesting and very important for us to understand.
		
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			Their position with Islam and Islamic learning was
		
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			the position that they had pledged to Allah
		
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			subhana wa ta'ala.
		
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			Now I mentioned this in the beginning of
		
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			this series, when I mentioned the azbab an
		
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			-nuzul, the circumstances of revelation of the last
		
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			two ayat of Surah al-Baqarah, when they
		
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			said, sami'ana wa ata'na, gufranaka rabbana
		
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			wa ilayka al-maseer.
		
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			And let me repeat that for the sake
		
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			of those who may not have attended that
		
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			class, but alhamdulillah there is benefit in the
		
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			reminder.
		
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			Inna al-dhikra tanfur mu'mineen.
		
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			When Allah subhana wa ta'ala revealed the
		
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			ayat of Surah al-Baqarah, when Allah subhana
		
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			wa ta'ala said, lillahi ma fi samamati
		
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			wa ma fi al-ard wa in tuhdu
		
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			ma fi anfusikum wa hu tughfuhu yuhasibukum bihil
		
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			laa fayaghfiru liman yasha'u wa yu'adhibu
		
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			man yasha'u wa Allahu ala kulli shayin
		
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			qadeer.
		
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			Allah said to Allah alone belongs whatever is
		
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			in the heavens and whatever is on the
		
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			earth, whether you reveal what is in your
		
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			hearts or conceal it, Allah subhana wa ta
		
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			'ala will call you to account for it.
		
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			He forgives whoever He wills and He punishes
		
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			whoever He wills and Allah subhana wa ta
		
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			'ala is most capable of everything.
		
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			Now when Allah subhana wa ta'ala revealed
		
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			these ayat, this ayat of the Quran, the
		
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			mufassireen, they have said that the sahaba went
		
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			to Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and they
		
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			have named the sahaba and it includes all
		
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			the big sahaba, Abu Bakr as-Siddiq, Sayyidina
		
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			Umar and others, and literally they fell down
		
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			on their knees before Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam.
		
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			They did not make sajdah to him, they
		
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			just fell down on their knees before Rasulullah
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and they said Ya
		
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			Rasulullah, Allah subhana wa ta'ala has revealed
		
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			this ayat which is so heavy on us.
		
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			They said Ya Rasulullah, Allah subhana wa ta
		
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			'ala commanded us to pray, we pray.
		
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			He commanded us to give zakat, we give
		
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			zakat.
		
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			We have control over our tongues and our
		
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			actions and we try to keep these in
		
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			obedience to Allah subhana wa ta'ala but
		
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			we do not have control over our thoughts
		
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			and our emotions and our desires and if
		
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			Allah subhana wa ta'ala is going to
		
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			hold us accountable for our thoughts and our
		
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			desires, then how will we survive?
		
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			We will be destroyed.
		
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			And see the reaction of Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam because if you think about what
		
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			the sahaba asked him, it sounds reasonable, doesn't
		
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			it?
		
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			It sounds reasonable.
		
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			I mean I am being held accountable for
		
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			something over which I have no control.
		
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			My desire will go here and there, my
		
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			thoughts will be here and there.
		
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			My actions and my speech, yes I can
		
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			control that, I can say what is correct
		
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			and not say what is not correct, but
		
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			my thoughts and my desires, sounds reasonable.
		
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			But Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam's reaction was
		
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			his face, his blessed face became red with
		
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			anger.
		
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			And he said, are you going to be
		
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			like those who said, samayna wa asayna, we
		
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			hear but we will not obey.
		
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			He said, kul, say, samayna wa ata'na,
		
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			gufranaka rabbana wa ilaykal masir.
		
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			He said, say, we hear and we obey.
		
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			We seek your forgiveness, oh our Rabb, and
		
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			to you is our final return.
		
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			Now see the reaction of the sahaba.
		
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			They did not say, oh no, no, no,
		
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			Rasulullah, you misunderstood us, we didn't really mean
		
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			that, no.
		
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			They came with a grievance which they considered
		
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			to be genuine, but when Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam rejected that, and he told them,
		
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			say, samayna wa ata'na, we hear and
		
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			we obey.
		
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			Gufranaka rabbana wa ilaykal masir.
		
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			We seek your forgiveness, oh our Rabb, and
		
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			to you alone is our final return.
		
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			When they said that, the moment Rasulullah sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam ordered them to do that,
		
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			they said it.
		
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			Now this position of samayna wa ata'na,
		
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			we hear and we obey, is the position
		
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			of the Muslim till the last day.
		
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			People confuse and they say, they say, laa
		
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			ikraha fi deen.
		
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			Laa ikraha fi deen is for the non
		
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			-Muslims.
		
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			Laa ikraha fi deen is people who have
		
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			not yet entered Islam.
		
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			See, there is no compulsion on them.
		
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			Nobody can force them.
		
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			Islam does not spread by the sword.
		
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			Islam does not preach that Islam should be
		
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			spread by the sword or by any other
		
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			means.
		
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			We don't bribe people to become Muslim.
		
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			We don't force them to become Muslim.
		
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			In any case, it is impossible because what
		
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			is in the heart cannot be forced.
		
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			But once a person has accepted Islam, then
		
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			the person has no option other than to
		
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			obey Allah.
		
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			A Muslim cannot say, well, Allah may have
		
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			said that, but I am going to give
		
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			it some thought.
		
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			I am going to sleep over it.
		
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			I am going to, you know, give you
		
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			my opinion.
		
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			The Quran may say this, but in my
		
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			opinion, in my opinion is the door to
		
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			jahannam.
		
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			Please understand this.
		
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			So, the Sahaba said, samayana wa ataana ghufranaka
		
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			rabbana wa ilayka al-masjid.
		
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			Now, what do you think happened?
		
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			Think about this.
		
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			What do you think happened?
		
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			The, the azbab al-muzoor, the historians who
		
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			record the circumstances of revelation, they say that
		
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			nothing happened.
		
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			Sayyidna Aisha Sindhiqa r.a., in a hadith
		
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			mentioned, where she mentioned, she said that nothing
		
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			happened for 12 months.
		
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			Nothing happened for 12 months.
		
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			For 12 months the Sahaba lived under this
		
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			fear that they will be held accountable even
		
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			for their thoughts and for their desires, emotions.
		
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			12 months.
		
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			And after 12 months, Allah subhana wa ta
		
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			'ala revealed, amanal rasoolu bima unzila ilayhi min
		
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			rabbihi wal mu'minoon, kullun amana billahi wa malaikatihi
		
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			wa kutubihi wa rusulihi, la nufarriq bayna ahadin
		
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			min rusulihi, wa qalu samayana wa ataana ghufranaka
		
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			rabbana wa ilayka al-masjid.
		
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			Allah said, after 12 months, Allah subhana wa
		
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			ta'ala honoured the Sahaba and honoured Rasulullah
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wa sallam by sending back the
		
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			words of Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, which
		
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			the Sahaba then immediately responded and they copied
		
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			his words and they obeyed him.
		
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			Allah honoured them by returning those very same
		
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			words as his words, as his kalam, to
		
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			be recited in salah until the last day.
		
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			With very special position for these two ayat
		
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			of Suratul Baqarah, where Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam said, whoever recites them in the night,
		
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			they will protect him and be sufficient for
		
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			him until the morning, and whoever recites them
		
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			in the morning, they will protect him or
		
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			her and be sufficient for them until the
		
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			night.
		
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			Allah said, the messenger, Rasul, the messenger firmly
		
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			believes in what has been revealed to him
		
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			from his Rabb, and so do the believers.
		
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			Allah subhana wa ta'ala is bearing witness
		
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			that the Sahaba are true Muslims.
		
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			They all believe in Allah and his malaika,
		
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			his angels, his books and his messengers, and
		
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			they proclaim, they say, we make no distinction
		
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			between any of his messengers, and they say,
		
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			we hear and we obey and we seek
		
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			your forgiveness, O our Lord, O our Rabb,
		
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			and to you alone is our final return.
		
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			And then Allah subhana wa ta'ala gave
		
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			them his blessing, his inam, and he removed
		
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			the thing which was troubling them.
		
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			And then Allah subhana wa ta'ala gave
		
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			them relief.
		
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			Allah said, la yukallifullahu nafsanillahu sa'aha.
		
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			Laha ma kasabat wa alaiha maktasabat.
		
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			And then Allah subhana wa ta'ala taught
		
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			them dua.
		
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			Imagine, what is the power and what is
		
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			the value of dua which is being taught
		
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			by the one to whom it must be
		
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			made and who is going to accept it.
		
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			Right, I can call on Allah subhana wa
		
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			ta'ala in my own words, and inshaAllah
		
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			we ask Allah to accept that, but there
		
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			is no comparison between my words and what
		
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			words Allah subhana wa ta'ala himself taught
		
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			us and through the sahaba, through the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ, to ask him in those words, because
		
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			those words have no comparison.
		
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			They are the words of Allah, taught by
		
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			Allah, to be made to Allah, to be
		
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			said to Allah, for Allah to accept.
		
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			So Allah said, la yukallifullahu nafsanillahu sa'aha.
		
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			Laha ma kasabat wa alaiha maktasabat.
		
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			Allah does not require and does not burden
		
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			any person, any soul more than they can
		
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			bear, more than they can afford.
		
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			All good will be for its own benefit
		
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			and all evil will be to its own
		
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			loss.
		
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			And then Allah subhana wa ta'ala taught
		
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			us how to make dua, as I mentioned.
		
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			Allah subhana wa ta'ala said, Rabbana la
		
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			tuwaqidna in naseena aw akhta'na.
		
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			Rabbana wa la tahmil alayna isran kama hamaltahu
		
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			ala allatheena min qablina.
		
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			Rabbana wa la tuhammilna ma la tuwaqatalana bih.
		
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			Wa af'alna wa ghfir lana wa rahamna.
		
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			Anta mawlana fa nsurna ala alqawm alkafirin.
		
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			Allah subhana wa ta'ala said, the believers
		
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			pray, O our Rabb, do not punish us
		
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			if we forget or make a mistake.
		
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			O our Rabb, do not place a burden
		
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			on us like the one You placed on
		
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			those before us.
		
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			O our Rabb, do not burden us with
		
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			what we cannot bear.
		
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			Pardon us, forgive us, and have mercy on
		
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			us.
		
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			Wa af'alna wa ghfir lana wa rahamna.
		
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			Afu is to completely wipe out even the
		
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			memory of what happened.
		
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			Totally, completely, as if it never happened.
		
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			And to forgive, wa ghfir lana, or Allah
		
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			forgive us, is to forgive.
		
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			And not to hold that against us.
		
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			Wa rahamna is rahma, is mercy.
		
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			It is the root of all forgiveness.
		
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			Wa af'alna wa ghfir lana wa rahamna.
		
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			Anta mawlana fa nsurna ala alqawm alkafirin.
		
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			You are our only guardian.
		
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			You are our only helper.
		
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			And so grant us victory over our enemies.
		
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			Over those who don't believe in You and
		
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			who fight us and kill us because we
		
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			are Muslims.
		
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			This is the beautiful dua of the Quran.
		
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			As I mentioned to you, it has great
		
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			value and benefit.
		
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			It is something which Allah subhana wa ta
		
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			'ala has, Allah has blessed us with.
		
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			And therefore I remind myself and you, let
		
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			us make this dua all the time and
		
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			we ask Allah to help us in every
		
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			way.
		
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			Because for the day one, we will meet
		
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			Allah subhana wa ta'ala jalla jalaluhu.
		
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			Wa sallallahu ala nabiyyil kareem wa ala alihi
		
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			wa sahbihi ajma'in.
		
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			Bi rahmatik ya rahman rahim.