Mirza Yawar Baig – Sahaba – The Gold Standard #14

Mirza Yawar Baig
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The transcript describes a group of people traveling to Afghanistan to migrate to their new country using camels and money to cover their travels. They plan to kill their cousin, Muhammad S.A.W., and convince their tribe to leave their culture. The group also discusses the loss of their values and trust in their cousin, Ali, and their plan to convince their tribe to leave their culture. They plan to give a prize of 100 camels on each of them and pass them on to all the people who belong to the Ghar [
the valuables of Shaitan Ali, r.a.W. and Shaitan Ali, r.a.W. They announced a prize of 100 camels on each of them, and they passed them on to all those people who these valuables of Shaitan Ali, r.a.W. They announced a prize of]]

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			Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim, alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen,
		
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			wa salatu wa salamu ala sharafi al-anbiyai
		
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			wal mursaleen, Muhammadur Rasulullahi sallallahu alaihi wa ala
		
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			alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam, tasliman kathiran kathiran.
		
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			Faman ba'du.
		
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			May we continue with our reminder and lesson
		
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			on Abu Bakr as-Siddiq.
		
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			His title was As-Siddiq, the truthful.
		
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			Now, As-Siddiq comes from the root word,
		
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			from the word Sidq, which means truthfulness.
		
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			Therefore, the word As-Siddiq means a person
		
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			who is constantly truthful or who constantly believes
		
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			in the truthfulness of someone or something.
		
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			In the case of Abu Bakr as-Siddiq,
		
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			both were true.
		
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			He was himself truthful and he believed in
		
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			the truthfulness of Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			And this title was given to him by
		
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			Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			It's a very interesting story about him and
		
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			his truthfulness and the way he believed in
		
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			Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			When Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam went in
		
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			the celestial journey of Al-Isra wal-Mi
		
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			'raj, when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala took
		
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			him from Mecca to Jerusalem and then from
		
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			Jerusalem up into the seven heavens and Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala showed him whatever He
		
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			wanted to show him, Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala mentioned this in the Quran, the first
		
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			ayat of Surah Bani Israel or Surah Al
		
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			-Isra, Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala mentioned this, then when
		
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			Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam came back and
		
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			he narrated this story of Al-Isra wal
		
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			-Mi'raj to the people of Mecca, there
		
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			was a huge uproar.
		
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			Abu Jahl came, he heard about this story
		
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			and he came to Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam and he said, tell me what is
		
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			this thing you are saying.
		
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			Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam told him, he
		
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			said, Allah took me last night from here,
		
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			from Masjid al-Haram to Masjid al-Aqsa
		
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			and then he narrated to him all the
		
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			things that happened and of the stories and
		
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			Abu Jahl said, tell me something, let me
		
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			call other people, I want other people to
		
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			listen to you.
		
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			Will you change your story?
		
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			Will you say the same thing?
		
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			Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was thinking that
		
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			maybe this is the time when Abu Jahl
		
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			changes his mind and that maybe Iman is
		
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			entering him.
		
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			He said, no, I will not change, I
		
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			will not change my story.
		
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			This is the truth.
		
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			I mean, what is there to change?
		
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			So, Abu Jahl gathered a whole bunch of
		
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			people and he said, now, ya Muhammad sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam, tell them your story.
		
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			And when Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam told
		
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			his story, there was huge laughing and mocking
		
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			and jubilation and people following all over themselves
		
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			and saying, Abu Jahl said, well, you know,
		
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			he has destroyed his own reputation.
		
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			He is a liar.
		
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			People have said, people can see that he
		
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			is telling lies, na'udhu billah, na'udhu
		
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			billah, na'udhu billah.
		
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			Even though Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam gave
		
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			them all kinds of evidences, all of which
		
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			were true, they knew it was true because
		
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			he described Jerusalem and Masjid al-Aqsa in
		
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			such detail and people who had been there
		
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			and seen it and he had never been
		
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			there, he had never seen it except in
		
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			this journey and they could not deny that.
		
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			He said to them, a caravan is coming
		
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			from Jerusalem to, from Sham to Makkah and
		
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			in this caravan, one of the camels got
		
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			lost and they don't know where it is.
		
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			And I, this is where the camel is,
		
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			I told them that.
		
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			So, while he was travelling, he called out
		
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			and they heard him and then they found
		
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			the camel.
		
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			He said, they have, they are carrying water
		
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			on their panniers and I drank from that
		
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			and you can see the evidence of that.
		
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			They sent a fast horse, they sent a
		
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			fast rider to catch up with the caravan
		
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			and asked them and they said, yes, this
		
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			is true.
		
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			We heard the voice and we found the
		
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			camel which was lost and we didn't know
		
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			and we also saw the signs that somebody
		
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			had drunk from our panniers of water.
		
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			But none of this convinced any of those
		
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			people, including some of the Muslims who because
		
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			of this, the test was so severe and
		
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			may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala save us
		
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			from all tests, they left Islam.
		
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			At that time, Abu Bakr Siddiq R.A.
		
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			was not there.
		
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			So, somebody went to him and they said,
		
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			you know what your friend is saying?
		
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			And Abu Bakr Siddiq R.A. asked him,
		
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			he said, what is he saying?
		
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			They said, this is what he is saying.
		
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			All of these things he is saying.
		
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			And what do you say, do you believe
		
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			that?
		
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			Do you believe what he is saying?
		
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			Abu Bakr Siddiq R.A. said, if he
		
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			said that, I believe it.
		
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			If he said that, I believe it.
		
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			Now, this fantastic statement of Abu Bakr Siddiq
		
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			R.A. has become the criterion, the methodology
		
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			of authentication of hadith.
		
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			If he said it, we believe it.
		
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			So, our muhaddithun, may Allah grant them the
		
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			best of the best, people who have preserved
		
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			the deen and who do all their best
		
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			to preserve the deen, they employ this methodology,
		
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			which is, they authenticate their narrative.
		
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			Right?
		
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			They don't say, does this make sense?
		
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			Is it logical, not logical?
		
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			No.
		
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			They say, did he say this?
		
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			If he said it, it is true.
		
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			It's very important to keep this basic fundamental
		
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			principle in mind.
		
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			Why is it that we focus on that?
		
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			Why is it that we focus on, you
		
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			know, whether Rasulullah s.a.w. said something
		
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			or not?
		
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			Why don't we go into, is it logical,
		
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			not logical, and all of those things, which
		
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			is very important because, to understand, because the
		
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			intellect, the akal, is not a source of
		
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			knowledge.
		
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			Right?
		
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			It's a processor of information, which is fed
		
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			into it very much like a computer.
		
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			So, if you take a new computer and
		
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			open the box, and I am not talking
		
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			about the pre-loaded stuff that comes in
		
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			nowadays, imagine that, and we have seen days
		
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			when none of this stuff came, everything had
		
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			to be loaded onto it.
		
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			So, if you just take it out, here
		
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			is the computer, everything is fine, nothing wrong
		
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			with it, but it will do nothing.
		
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			It cannot operate at all because there is
		
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			no operating system on it, it has no
		
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			software loaded on it, it doesn't have your
		
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			data on it, it doesn't have access to
		
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			the cloud and so on.
		
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			So, this machine is, will be useless.
		
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			Even though it has the power to do
		
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			a lot of good, the machine can work,
		
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			it has the capacity, but it cannot actually
		
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			perform the operations because it is lacking in
		
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			that information which needs to be loaded onto
		
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			it.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Imagine Allah s.w.t. said to Adam
		
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			s.a.w., said about Adam s.a
		
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			.w., Allah s.w.t. taught Adam s
		
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			.a.w., He gave him the knowledge of
		
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			all that is in the creation and whatever
		
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			that means in the words of Allah s
		
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			.w.t. Before, he told the malaika, now
		
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			question him.
		
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			So, if they had just questioned him, obviously
		
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			Adam s.a.w. was created, when he
		
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			was created, he was created perfect, he was
		
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			created complete, and therefore, he had a brain,
		
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			he had intellect, he had intelligence, but it
		
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			was raw, it was new, nothing had been
		
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			loaded onto it.
		
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			There is a way, the brain is not
		
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			a source of information, the brain is a
		
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			processor of information.
		
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			What is the source of information?
		
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			There are two.
		
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			One is tajribah, it is our own personal
		
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			experience.
		
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			So, we see something, something happens to us,
		
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			we listen to something and so forth, using
		
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			our senses.
		
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			Using our senses, we have experiences.
		
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			And these experiences become the source, this is
		
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			the input, the data that gets inputted into
		
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			our system, and then based on that, based
		
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			on that information which is now being inputted
		
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			from the external world, the brain, the intellect
		
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			operates, and then it draws conclusions and it
		
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			forms relationships and it gives us decisions and
		
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			so on and so forth.
		
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			The second source of information or knowledge is
		
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			the wahi from Allah s.w.t. Because
		
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			there are, there is a lot in life
		
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			that we can learn from our own experience,
		
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			but there is a lot of other stuff
		
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			which we need to know, but we can
		
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			never arrive at that knowledge by experience alone.
		
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			And that is everything to do with the
		
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			ghayb, with the unperceivable.
		
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			We do not know what is in the
		
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			qabar, we don't know what will happen to
		
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			us when we go into our graves.
		
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			We don't know what will happen when we
		
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			are resurrected on the Day of Judgment.
		
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			We don't know what will happen in the
		
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			maidan of the field of hashar when we
		
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			are gathered before Allah s.w.t. and
		
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			so on and so on.
		
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			We don't know this.
		
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			The only way we will know this is
		
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			if we get this knowledge from the one
		
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			who knows.
		
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			And that is Allah s.w.t. And
		
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			that is where the Quran al-karim comes
		
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			in.
		
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			This is where Rasulullah s.a.w. comes
		
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			in, where Allah s.w.t. sent him
		
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			with his kalam and with another body of
		
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			knowledge which we know as the sunnah, which
		
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			is to help to interpret the kalam.
		
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			This is very very important because this relates
		
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			pertinently to all of those disputes which is,
		
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			you know, theological wrangling.
		
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			Because people want to rationally understand every reality.
		
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			Even when they do not have the ability
		
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			to comprehend it.
		
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			We should be on our guard against this
		
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			spirit of human overconfidence in which we seek.
		
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			It is utter delusion to rationally understand every
		
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			divine truth, whether theological or indeed even legal.
		
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			We cannot do that.
		
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			There is no way we can do that.
		
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			We don't do this with other bodies of
		
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			knowledge, for example, right?
		
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			For example, you will not say, I will
		
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			logically operate on you and remove your appendix.
		
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			Because it's not a matter of logic.
		
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			It's a matter of do you know, do
		
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			you have that body of information which is
		
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			called anatomy and physiology and so on and
		
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			so forth?
		
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			And have you learned surgery?
		
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			Have you studied it?
		
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			Have you studied under somebody?
		
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			Has somebody guided you?
		
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			Do you know what you are doing?
		
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			All of this has nothing to do with
		
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			rational thought or with deductive reasoning or something.
		
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			You can't say, well, you know, this thing
		
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			looks like it is connected here.
		
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			Let me cut it.
		
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			No!
		
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			It doesn't work like that.
		
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			Right?
		
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			You need all of that.
		
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			Now, based on all of that, now when
		
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			you are performing the operation, now when you
		
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			are performing that particular action, some new thing
		
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			happens or some, you know, thing takes place
		
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			there.
		
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			Now you are able to use your rationale,
		
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			rational thought and your logical reasoning based on
		
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			the information which you got because of your
		
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			training and your education and come to a
		
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			hopefully correct solution.
		
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			Right?
		
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			We cannot, we do not, we cannot do
		
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			this issue of saying, I will only do
		
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			what rationally makes sense and I will just
		
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			operate with my rationality with any body of
		
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			knowledge.
		
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			Except for Islam.
		
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			In Islam we think that we are the
		
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			last world without any training or any study
		
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			or any preparation.
		
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			This is a really, truly it is, I
		
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			think, an indication of how really important we
		
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			think Islam is.
		
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			Right?
		
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			As far as we are concerned, for a
		
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			lot of us, it's just lip service we
		
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			pay and we say, oh, Islam is so
		
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			important, the most important, but we don't want
		
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			to spend time and energy studying it.
		
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			We don't want to take the pains to
		
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			experience the concepts and we just want to
		
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			pontificate in it from a position of complete
		
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			ignorance.
		
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			I warn myself and I warn you, don't
		
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			fall into this trap of shaitan, one of
		
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			the biggest traps of shaitan because it makes
		
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			you feel, oh, you are so intelligent.
		
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			If you were intelligent, you would not be
		
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			talking such garbage.
		
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			Please understand this.
		
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			If you were intelligent, you would not be
		
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			talking this garbage.
		
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			You would not be saying that logically everything.
		
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			How can you understand logically when you want
		
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			to deny and stay away from the external
		
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			input that you need in order to process?
		
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			Makes absolutely no sense.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So, please.
		
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			Now, Avvakara Dalanu decided to leave Mecca because
		
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			the persecution of Muslims became so high that
		
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			he decided to leave Mecca and go to
		
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			Abyssinia.
		
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			Now, when he reached Barqal Qimat, which is
		
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			about five days travelling distance from Mecca, he
		
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			met a man and his name was Ibn
		
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			Abu Dughara.
		
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			He was the chief of the Al-Qara
		
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			tribe which is a subdivision of the Banu
		
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			Hawam Ibn Khuzayma tribe.
		
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			You don't need to remember all these names.
		
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			I am just narrating to you from the
		
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			text which I am using as a research
		
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			base to understand all this.
		
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			So, but it's important to have these names
		
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			and so on.
		
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			So, Ibn Abu Dughara, he asked him, he
		
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			said, where are you going?
		
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			Yeah, Avvakara.
		
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			Because he was very well known.
		
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			Avvakara Siddiq Dalanu was a famous man.
		
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			So, he said, my people are, they have
		
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			forced me to leave Mecca.
		
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			So, I want to travel freely on the
		
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			earth and I want to worship my Rab
		
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			without anyone, you know, harassing me unnecessarily.
		
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			All I want to do is pray to
		
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			Allah subhana wa ta'ala and they got
		
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			a problem with that.
		
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			So, I will leave then and I will
		
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			go away and I will worship my Rab
		
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			Jalla Jalaluhu.
		
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			Now, Ibn Abu Dughara, he said, someone of
		
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			your rank and your character and your eminence
		
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			in the society, you cannot leave.
		
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			You don't leave and you should not be
		
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			forced to leave.
		
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			This is very, very, very bad and foolish
		
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			of your people because indeed you provide for
		
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			the needy, you join ties with people of
		
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			family relations, you support the weak people, right?
		
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			You do, Avvakara Siddiq Dalanu was famous for
		
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			the good that he did to others and
		
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			you help others to come up in life.
		
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			He said, no, I will provide you protection.
		
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			I will give you protection so you return
		
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			and you worship your Rab in your homeland.
		
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			So, Avvakara Siddiq Dalanu returned and Ibn Dughana
		
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			accompanied him.
		
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			He got his sons to come with him.
		
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			All of them were dressed in their armour
		
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			and with their weapons and so on.
		
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			And when they arrived in Mecca, Abu Dughana
		
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			spent the entire night visiting the various noblemen
		
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			of Quraish and to each one of them
		
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			he said, very least someone of Avvakara's ranking
		
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			and character does not leave his homeland and
		
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			should not be forced to leave.
		
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			Will you expel from Mecca a man who
		
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			provides for the needy and joins ties of
		
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			family and kinship and he supports the weak,
		
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			he honors his guests and he helps others
		
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			to rise above the difficulties of life and
		
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			so on.
		
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			The Quraish leaders, they said, okay, we accept
		
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			your guarantee of protection.
		
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			But they said, tell him to worship his
		
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			Rab inside his house.
		
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			To pray in his home and to recite
		
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			whatever he wants to recite in his home.
		
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			He said, he must not harm us.
		
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			I imagine the words he used.
		
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			He said, he must not harm us by
		
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			doing those acts in public and performing them
		
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			openly because we fear that our women and
		
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			children will become Muslim when they listen to
		
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			him.
		
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			He said, they will be put to trial.
		
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			Now Abu Dughana conveyed his, this message and
		
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			he conveyed their stipulations and their conditions and
		
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			Abu Bakr Siddiq R.A. began to worship
		
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			Allah SWT inside his house.
		
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			Now he didn't recite Quran in front of
		
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			anyone and he prayed inside his house, not
		
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			in front of anyone.
		
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			And then Abu Bakr Siddiq R.A. had
		
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			an idea.
		
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			So he built a place of worship in
		
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			the courtyard in front of his house.
		
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			A little sort of small Musalla he built
		
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			there.
		
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			Now inside that he would pray and he
		
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			would recite Quran.
		
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			Now this was outside the house but it
		
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			was still covered but it was, you know,
		
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			more accessible.
		
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			So people would gather around them and they
		
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			would simply watch him and they would observe
		
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			him and they would listen to the Quran
		
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			which he was reciting.
		
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			Now Abu Bakr Siddiq R.A. was a
		
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			man also who cried frequently.
		
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			So when he was reciting Quran, his, you
		
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			know, his eyes were well up with tears
		
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			and he would cry.
		
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			On a side note once, Sayyidina Abu Bakr
		
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			Siddiq R.A. who didn't cry that much
		
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			but he also cried a great deal in
		
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			Salah.
		
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			He read the ayah, he said Allah is
		
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			describing the believers and he said they weep
		
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			before Allah S.W.T. in Sajdah.
		
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			So Sayyidina Abu Bakr Siddiq R.A. who
		
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			was telling himself, he said we make Sajdah
		
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			but where are the tears?
		
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			He says where are the tears?
		
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			SubhanAllah and this is from people who were
		
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			so connected with Allah S.W.T. So
		
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			anyway the leaders of Quraysh now started to
		
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			panic because they find that these women and
		
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			children and others who were gathering around this
		
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			Musalla of Abu Bakr Siddiq R.A. They
		
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			look like they are inclined towards Islam and
		
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			so they called Ibn Ad-Dughna and they
		
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			said to him see we guaranteed you the
		
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			safety of Abu Bakr based on your guarantee
		
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			of protection and based on the condition that
		
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			he would not worship his Rabb outside, that
		
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			he would worship him only inside his house.
		
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			However now he is worshipping outside and he
		
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			has built a place of worship in the
		
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			courtyard of his house and there he prays
		
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			and recites Quran which is visible and audible
		
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			to our people.
		
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			So you tell him to stop that, go
		
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			back inside the house and if he agrees
		
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			to the limits of that of his worship
		
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			in the house then that is fine.
		
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			But if he refuses and is determined to
		
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			openly practice his faith then tell him that
		
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			you will take back your guarantee of protection.
		
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			Because we do not want to deceive you
		
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			by violating your guarantee of safety which you
		
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			gave him.
		
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			But at the same time we will not
		
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			allow Abu Bakr R.A. to openly practice
		
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			his faith.
		
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			Ibn Ad-Dughna went to Abu Bakr R
		
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			.A. and he said you know what we
		
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			agreed upon that you will limit your religious
		
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			activities, you will limit your prayers and so
		
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			on to inside your home.
		
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			So if you follow that agreement then that
		
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			is good.
		
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			Otherwise you have to return to me my
		
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			protection because I don't want the other Arabs
		
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			to find out that my guarantee for a
		
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			man was ignored and violated.
		
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			Because if they kill you or something then
		
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			it means that my guarantee was violated.
		
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			So it will be a shame upon me.
		
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			Abu Bakr R.A. said to him I
		
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			then in that case I return to you
		
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			your guarantee of safety and Alhamdulillah I am
		
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			satisfied and pleased with the protection of Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala jalla jalaluhu wal hayyul
		
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			kayyum and he is the one who is
		
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			the possessor of might and majesty.
		
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			So this is the, you know, one of
		
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			the stories which tells us about the, not
		
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			just about the level of Iman and Yaqeen
		
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			and the level of courage of Abu Bakr
		
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			Siddiq R.A. but also a big lesson
		
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			for us in terms of where should we
		
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			look to, towards whom should we look for
		
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			safety, for protection, for support and so on
		
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			and so forth in a world which may
		
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			be hostile to us.
		
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			Today we are living in times which are,
		
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			which seem to be extremely hostile to the
		
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			Muslims.
		
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			Where do we look for protection?
		
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			Right?
		
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			Now people are afraid, people are tense and
		
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			so on.
		
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			But why?
		
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			Because Alhamdulillah Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is
		
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			there.
		
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			And if our connection with Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala is correct then Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala will turn our enemies into our
		
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			friends.
		
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			Somebody asked me a question the other day,
		
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			they said, you know, are you not afraid?
		
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			Are your people afraid?
		
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			Meaning, my masjids and my musallis.
		
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			He said, are they not afraid?
		
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			Are they not tense?
		
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			I said, no, nobody is tense.
		
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			I am not tense.
		
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			They are not tense.
		
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			He said, why?
		
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			I said, because, I said to them, this
		
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			was a Jewish rabbi who asked me, so
		
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			I said to him, I said, tell me,
		
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			who raised Musa A.S.? Who raised Musa
		
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			A.S.? He said, the pharaoh.
		
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			I said, exactly.
		
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			The pharaoh raised Musa A.S. Why?
		
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			Because Musa A.S.'s connection with Allah was
		
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			correct.
		
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			So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala caused the
		
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			one who was the declared enemy of Musa
		
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			A.S. Who had slaughtered on his orders
		
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			70,000 children of the Bani Israel had
		
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			been slaughtered for nothing.
		
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			But when they found Musa A.S., the
		
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			pharaoh himself became his guardian.
		
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			He became, he himself became the one who
		
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			raised Musa A.S. and protected him.
		
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			So, I said, the connection with Allah is
		
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			what is important.
		
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			Not anything else.
		
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			Now, migration to Medina, when Rasulullah S.A
		
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			.W. and his Sahaba suffered immensely from the
		
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			harm of the Quraish, Rasulullah S.A.W.
		
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			commanded his companions to migrate to Medina.
		
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			Now, Aisha Siddique, R.A., narrates this beautiful
		
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			story as narrated by her, our mother and
		
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			his, Abu Bakr Siddique, R.A.'s daughter.
		
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			She said that Rasulullah S.A.W. said
		
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			to the Muslims, I have a, I have
		
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			had a vision in which I have been
		
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			shown the place to which you will migrate.
		
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			It's a land of palm trees between two
		
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			mountains and two stony tracts of land.
		
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			Thus, some of the Muslims migrated to Medina.
		
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			And most of those who had left before
		
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			for Messenia, which is currently Ethiopia, they'd also
		
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			return to Medina in the next few years.
		
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			Abu Bakr Siddique, R.A., planned and he
		
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			prepared to leave for Medina also.
		
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			But Rasulullah S.A.W. said to him,
		
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			wait a little.
		
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			Because I hope to be permitted also to
		
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			migrate as well.
		
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			Now, Abu Bakr Siddique, R.A., was delighted
		
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			absolutely.
		
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			He was, you know, his heart was bursting
		
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			with joy.
		
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			And he said, do you expect that, Rasulullah?
		
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			May my parents be redeemed for you.
		
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			SubhanAllah, may my parents be sacrificed for you.
		
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			And Rasulullah S.A.W. said, yes.
		
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			So, Abu Bakr Siddique, R.A., did not
		
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			migrate in order to remain with Rasulullah S
		
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			.A.W. in Mecca.
		
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			He, however, prepared two camels and he fed
		
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			them well for four months to use them
		
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			in the long journey that was to come.
		
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			The people of Mecca noticed that Rasulullah S
		
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			.A.W. had got adherents and supporters in
		
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			another place and they noticed the migration of
		
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			his companions fearing the departure of Muhammad S
		
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			.A.W. from Mecca.
		
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			Because then they said, if he goes from
		
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			Mecca, then he will be completely out of
		
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			our control and then his religion will spread
		
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			even more.
		
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			So, Alhamdulillah, this is what actually happened.
		
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			So, they planned to kill him.
		
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			Then, at that time, Jibreel S.A.W.
		
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			came with the hukum to Rasulullah S.A
		
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			.W. to migrate, to leave Mecca and to
		
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			migrate to Medina.
		
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			Rasulullah S.A.W. left his house.
		
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			The Quraysh, what they did was, they said,
		
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			look, if any of us individually kills him,
		
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			Rasulullah S.A.W., then the Banu Hashim,
		
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			Banu Abdul Muttalib, they will become our enemies
		
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			and we will have to fight the whole
		
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			tribe because this was their culture.
		
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			So, instead of that, what we will do,
		
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			somebody gave them this idea.
		
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			Shaitan gave the idea that, they said, pick
		
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			one young man from each of the tribes.
		
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			And all of them together go and kill
		
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			Muhammad S.A.W. so that now the
		
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			blame is on all the tribes.
		
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			Now, obviously, the Banu Hashim cannot fight all
		
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			the tribes.
		
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			So, then, they will come to an agreement
		
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			of payment in lieu of death, which is
		
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			blood money and a diya and therefore, he
		
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			said, that can be paid.
		
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			There is no problem.
		
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			Paying the money is not an issue.
		
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			We will pay the money and the matter
		
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			is over.
		
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			We will not start a new blood feud.
		
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			So, this was the great advice that Shaitan
		
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			gave them.
		
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			And that's what they did.
		
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			The whole group of people went.
		
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			But when they came there, they found that
		
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			in the bed of Rasulullah S.A.W.
		
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			was his cousin, Ali ibn Abi Talib, r
		
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			.a, who took the place of Rasulullah S
		
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			.A.W. on his instructions.
		
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			Rasulullah S.A.W. told him to sleep
		
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			there.
		
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			And he also had, even at that time,
		
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			see the character of the Nabi Ali S
		
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			.A.W. These people, many of them who
		
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			did not believe in him, who resisted him,
		
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			who even maybe opposed him in different ways.
		
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			However, they trusted him to such an extent
		
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			that they left their valuables in his care.
		
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			They gave the valuables to him and they
		
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			said, you keep this in trust.
		
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			And that's what he did.
		
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			He kept those in trust.
		
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			So, he said, here are the trusts of
		
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			various people.
		
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			He gave Shaitan Ali, r.a, the details
		
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			of that and he said, pass them on
		
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			to all those people who these things belong
		
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			to.
		
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			And Shaitan Ali resembled Rasulullah S.A.W.
		
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			in his demeanor, in his face, in his,
		
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			you know, in almost every way.
		
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			So, he was in the bed.
		
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			Of course, these people, they knew that they
		
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			had missed Rasulullah S.A.W. and Shaitan
		
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			Ali, r.a, was safe.
		
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			As soon as they discovered that the besieging
		
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			swordsman, as soon as they discovered that they
		
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			had been tricked and that Rasulullah S.A
		
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			.W. had actually escaped, they went out in
		
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			search of Abu Bakr S.A.W. and
		
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			Rasulullah S.A.W. They announced a prize
		
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			of 100 camels on each of them.
		
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			And this was announced to, announced for anyone
		
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			who could find them and say, you know,
		
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			dead or alive, 100 camels each.
		
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			And that's a huge amount of money.
		
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			Even today it is, in those days it
		
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			was like a fortune, literally.
		
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			So, they announced this.
		
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			So, this was, these two, the most beautiful
		
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			people on the face of the planet, they
		
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			actually had to leave Makkah with a prize
		
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			on their heads.
		
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			Then they spent three days in the Ghar
		
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			-e-Thawr, in a cave, Ghar-e-Thawr.
		
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			And Allah S.W.T. caused them to
		
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			be saved.
		
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			A spider spun a nest on the mouth
		
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			of the cave and a pigeon built its
		
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			nest right at the foot there.
		
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			And, but, and this is the khudrat of
		
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			Allah S.W.T., Allah S.W.T.,
		
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			you know, caused the swordsmen, the hunters from
		
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			Khureish to actually go right up to the
		
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			mouth of the cave.
		
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			Abu Bakr S.A.W. is looking up
		
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			like this and he says, Ya Rasulullah, if
		
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			they look down, they will see us.
		
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			But, you know, this is the khudrat of
		
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			Allah.
		
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			Nobody can look up down anywhere without the
		
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			permission of Allah S.W.T. And eventually
		
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			the swordsmen, they saw the intact web and
		
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			they saw the pigeon and so on.
		
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			And they left.
		
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			And they said, well, you know, there is
		
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			no point in pursuing them more than this.
		
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			They have actually escaped.
		
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			Abu Bakr S.A.W. he says, when
		
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			I was with the Prophet S.A.W.,
		
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			when I was with Rasulullah S.A.W.
		
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			in the cave, I raised my head, I
		
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			saw the feet of the people and he
		
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			says, the people who were chasing them, he
		
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			said, Ya Rasulullah, if anyone of them just
		
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			looks down at his feet, they will see
		
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			us.
		
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			And Nabi S.A.W. said, Ya Abu
		
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			Bakr, what do you think of two people,
		
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			the third of them is Allah.
		
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			What do you think of two people, the
		
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			third of them is Allah.
		
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			Now the incident is described in the Quran
		
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			Al-Kareem, in Surah At-Tawbah, Allah S
		
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			.W.T. said, Allah
		
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			S.W.T. mentioned this ayah and Allah
		
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			S.W.T. said, if you do not
		
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			aid the Prophet S.A.W. Allah has
		
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			already aided him.
		
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			If you don't help him, Allah has already
		
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			helped him.
		
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			When those who disbelieved had driven him out
		
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			of Makkah as one of two.
		
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			When they were in the cave and he
		
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			said to his companion, and this is Abu
		
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			Bakr S.A.W., do not grieve, indeed
		
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			Allah is with us.
		
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			This is one of the many fazail and
		
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			honours of Abu Bakr S.A.W. that
		
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			Allah S.W.T. gave him.
		
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			That he mentioned him also in the Quran
		
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			and mentioned this incident.
		
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			In closing, I want to say that Abu
		
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			Bakr S.A.W. many years later, when
		
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			he was facing the Ridda, facing the apostasy,
		
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			the wars of apostasy, the people, the tribes
		
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			which were apostating, when Nabi S.A.W.
		
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			had passed away, people were afraid.
		
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			The people of Madinah, they thought, many of
		
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			them they thought that Madinah itself will be
		
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			attacked and so then there will be chaos
		
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			and bloodshed.
		
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			Also they were afraid for Islam.
		
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			It looks like this is the end of
		
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			Islam.
		
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			And Abu Bakr S.A.W. seemed to
		
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			be completely calm and behaving with great equanimity.
		
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			So they said to him, you are not
		
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			afraid of anything?
		
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			How come you are not tense?
		
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			How come you are not worried?
		
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			He said, from the day that Allah S
		
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			.W.T., when I was with Nabi S
		
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			.A.W. in the cave, in the cave,
		
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			the cave of Thawr, when Allah S.W
		
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			.T. mentioned this, la tahzan inna Allah ma
		
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			'ana, when Nabi S.A.W. said this,
		
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			la tahzan inna Allah ma'ana, he said,
		
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			my, the sukoon that Allah sent to me,
		
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			this sukoon, this tranquility, this peace, this harmony
		
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			in my heart, he said, this has, I
		
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			have never felt fear after that.
		
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			Imagine Nabi S.A.W.'s, the words la
		
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			tahzan inna Allah ma'ana were the words
		
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			of Nabi S.A.W. Allah S.W
		
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			.T. returned them back as his karam to
		
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			be recited until the Day of Judgment.
		
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			I remind myself and you, let us appreciate
		
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			this beautiful deen.
		
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			Let us appreciate what Allah S.W.T.
		
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			has given us.
		
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			And let us appreciate the fact that Allah
		
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			S.W.T. has caused us to, to
		
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			accept this deen and to be in this
		
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			deen.
		
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			And to treat it with the, with the,
		
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			with the, with the, with the, with the
		
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			value that it deserves.
		
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			Wa sallallahu ala nabiyyil kareem wa ala alihi
		
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			wa sahbihi ajma'in bi rahmatil kahf wa
		
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			barakatuhu.