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			Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem.
		
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			Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen.
		
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			Wa salatu wa salamu ala sharafil anbiya wal
		
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			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 khumma ba'du.
		
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			My brothers and sisters, this is the concluding
		
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			session on Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, Siddiq al
		
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			-Akbar, radhiyallahu anhu, warda.
		
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			Truly, anybody, somebody like me cannot do justice
		
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			to Sayyidina Abu Bakr al-Siddiq radhiyallahu anhu.
		
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			I cannot be just in describing him, his
		
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			contribution, because he is the one about whom
		
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			Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said, I have
		
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			repaid the favours that I owed to everybody
		
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			in my life, except Abu Bakr, radhiyallahu anhu.
		
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			And he said that the favour that I
		
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			owe to Abu Bakr, radhiyallahu anhu, Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala will repay that on my
		
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			behalf.
		
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			I cannot do justice to the greatness and
		
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			to the karamat and to the fadail of
		
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			Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, radhiyallahu anhu, who is
		
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			a man about whom Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam said, that if the weight of the
		
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			faith, of the iman, of all the Muslims,
		
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			from the first to the last, is placed
		
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			on one pan of the scale, and the
		
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			faith of Abu Bakr, radhiyallahu anhu, is placed
		
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			on the other hand, the faith of Abu
		
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			Bakr will outweigh, will be heavier in the
		
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			sight of Allah, than the faith of all
		
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			Muslims, until the end of time.
		
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			Abu Bakr, radhiyallahu anhu, is the one about
		
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			whom Imam Malik Rahatullahi, he said that Abu
		
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			Bakr, radhiyallahu anhu, Imam Malik Rahatullahi actually mentioned,
		
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			he said that, he mentioned some other sahaba,
		
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			and he said so-and-so and so
		
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			-and-so died shaheed, fi sabihillah, and he
		
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			said so-and-so, so-and-so used
		
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			to pray all night, and so forth, he
		
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			mentioned a long list.
		
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			And then he said, however, the faith and
		
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			the position of Abu Bakr, radhiyallahu anhu, far
		
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			exceeds any and all of them, not because
		
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			he died a shaheed, because he died in
		
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			his bed, not because he prayed all night,
		
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			because he did not pray all night, he
		
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			prayed as much as he prayed, he said,
		
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			but because of something that settled in his
		
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			heart, and that something was his connection with
		
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			Allah and his Rasul, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
		
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			that something was the essence of Islam, khashyatullah,
		
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			wa hubb of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
		
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			and his Rasul, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			This is what distinguishes Abu Bakr as-Siddiq,
		
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			radhiyallahu anhu, from anyone and everyone else.
		
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			So therefore I seek your forgiveness and I
		
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			ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to forgive
		
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			me, for even attempting to talk about him,
		
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			but this is something that has to be
		
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			done, because it is very important for us
		
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			to remember our past, and by our past
		
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			I don't mean my past as in my
		
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			lineage, which Alhamdulillah Allah has given me nothing
		
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			to complain about there either, but our true
		
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			lineage as Muslims that we share with every
		
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			other Muslim on the face of the planet,
		
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			irrespective of their race and creed, and irrespective
		
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			of their, not creed, colour, their race and
		
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			colour and their nationality and their geographic position
		
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			and location and origin, and that legacy is
		
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			the legacy of our Salafus Salihin, of our
		
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			predecessors in Islam, the pious predecessors in Islam,
		
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			the first of them are the Sahaba, the
		
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			companions of Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa ala alihi
		
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			wa sahbihi wa sallam.
		
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			So though Abu Bakr as-Siddiq radhiyallahu anhu
		
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			remained as the Khalifa of Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wa alaihi wa sallam for only two years
		
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			after he sallallahu alaihi wa sallam passed away,
		
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			his impact on Islam and the Muslims globally
		
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			and until the end of time is more
		
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			than the impact of anybody else.
		
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			After the passing away of Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam, Abu Bakr as-Siddiq radhiyallahu anhu
		
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			was unanimously accepted as the Khalifa, although
		
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			he faced many crises after becoming the Khalifa.
		
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			Imam al-Zahabi, he says, when the news
		
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			of the death of Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam spread, many groups of people among the
		
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			Arabs objected, they apostatized, they left Islam, they
		
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			objected to paying Zakat, and Abu Bakr as
		
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			-Siddiq radhiyallahu anhu decided to fight them, he
		
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			sent out Saraya, he sent out battalions to
		
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			go and collect Zakat from those people, and
		
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			he said if they don't give them, we
		
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			fight them, and he himself participated in that,
		
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			he himself left Madinah and he participated, obviously
		
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			at the risk of his life, in this
		
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			collection of Zakat.
		
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			Sayyidina Umar radhiyallahu anhu and others, they even
		
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			tried to argue with him, and they said
		
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			two things, they said, how will you fight
		
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			Muslims, these are Muslims.
		
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			Abu Bakr as-Siddiq radhiyallahu anhu said, Rasulullah
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said, that the one
		
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			who separates the Salah from the Zakat has
		
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			left Islam.
		
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			He is not a Muslim anymore, and this
		
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			is in reference to the demand that the
		
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			people of Taif made, which Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam rejected, when they came to him
		
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			in Madinah, they said, we will accept Islam,
		
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			but we will not pay Zakat, we will
		
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			pray, we accept Islam, we accept you as
		
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			the Rasul of Allah, and we will pray,
		
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			but we will not give Zakat.
		
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			Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said, the one
		
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			who separates the Salah from the Zakat, has
		
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			left Islam, it's not acceptable.
		
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			The Sahaba at that, some of the Sahaba
		
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			at that time also tried to tell Rasulullah
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, they tried to persuade
		
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			him and say, look, this is a big
		
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			tribe, Banu Saqif, accept them, let them come
		
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			into Islam, after that we can, you know,
		
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			they will come, gradually they will pay Zakat
		
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			and so on.
		
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			Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said, no, there
		
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			is no conditionality in accepting of Islam.
		
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			You accept Islam unconditionally or Allah does not
		
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			need you.
		
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			As simple as that.
		
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			And obviously this makes, obviously it makes eminent
		
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			sense because if somebody is speaking and choosing
		
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			what they will obey from the Rasulullah sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam and what they will not
		
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			obey, then this is not, this goes against
		
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			the very spirit of Islam because Islam is
		
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			Taslim.
		
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			Islam is to accept, Islam is to bow
		
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			in submission before Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			And you cannot say that you are submitting
		
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			when that submission is conditional.
		
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			Selective obedience is disobedience because when you are
		
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			selecting that you will obey this and you
		
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			will not obey that, then there is, where
		
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			is the obedience in that?
		
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			There is no obedience.
		
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			And so, Abu Bakr as-Siddiq r.a
		
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			said, by Allah, if they refuse to pay
		
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			even a rope of the camel, which is
		
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			due in Zakat, which they used to pay
		
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			at the time of Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam, I will fight them for withholding it.
		
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			Then they tried to tell him, you don't
		
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			leave Madinah, let the troops go, you stay
		
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			here because, you know, your safety is paramount.
		
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			He said, how can Abu Bakr stay in
		
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			safety in Madinah when the religion of Muhammad
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is in danger.
		
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			So, just think about this, think about what
		
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			kind of people these were.
		
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			That's the reason I began by saying that
		
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			it is critically important, it is very important
		
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			for us to study the Seerah of Rasulullah
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and the Seerah of
		
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			the Sahaba Ridwanullahi alaihi wa jamain because only
		
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			then can we understand the value of Islam.
		
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			Today for a lot of people Islam is
		
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			a convenience.
		
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			We do what we feel like doing, we
		
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			do what looks nice, we do what we
		
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			enjoy doing, we do what we can do
		
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			easily and conveniently and the moment it comes
		
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			to something which may be inconvenient, we push
		
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			it aside and we run behind the dunya,
		
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			whatever that dunya might be.
		
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			This is the principal difference and this is
		
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			the reason why we have the kinds of
		
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			problems that we have in our lives which
		
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			the Sahaba didn't have.
		
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			And that reason is because the Sahaba Ridwanullahi
		
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			alaihi wa jamain, the companions of Rasulullah sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam, they made the deen muqaddam,
		
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			they made the deen central, they made Islam
		
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			central to their lives and everything else in
		
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			their lives, they changed it, they modified it,
		
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			they made it compatible with Islam and if
		
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			it could not be made compatible, they left
		
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			it.
		
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			It is very simple.
		
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			Islam is not to be tampered with, Islam
		
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			is not to be tampered with, Islam is
		
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			not to be re-engineered.
		
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			The deen, this came from Allah and it
		
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			came, Allah sent us and told us, told
		
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			us to obey Him.
		
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			Atiullaha wa atiurrasula faqad fa'adha fa'udha
		
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			nazima.
		
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			The one who mayuti illaha wa rasulahu faqad
		
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			fa'adha fa'udha nazima.
		
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			Allah said atiullaha wa atiurrasula, obey Allah and
		
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			obey the Rasul and He said the one
		
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			who obeys Allah and His Rasul, only that
		
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			person is finally successful.
		
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			No compromise in that.
		
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			Allah did not say the one who obeys
		
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			Allah and the Rasul in any way that
		
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			he sees fit.
		
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			The one who obeys Allah and His Rasul
		
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			sometimes, the one who obeys Allah and His
		
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			Rasul only on Fridays or only inside the
		
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			Masjid, or only when he is in an
		
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			Islamic gathering, right, how many times do you
		
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			see this?
		
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			Our sisters, may Allah bless them, they go
		
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			all over the place, right, they go to
		
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			shopping malls and this and that and the
		
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			other and do, you know, whatever they do
		
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			in their lives, and no hijab, nothing, their
		
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			hair floating around in a halo around their
		
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			heads.
		
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			But when they come to an Islamic gathering,
		
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			when they come to the Masjid, then they
		
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			gracefully drape a dupatta partially over their head.
		
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			Why?
		
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			For what?
		
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			We don't have double standards in Islam.
		
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			We don't have one standard for Allah and
		
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			another standard for the people.
		
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			There are Muslims who come to pray only
		
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			in Ramadan.
		
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			We are coming close to Ramadan now.
		
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			Suddenly a Masjid will fill up.
		
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			Why?
		
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			The Masjid was there all the time.
		
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			You are a Muslim all the time.
		
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			What prevented you from coming to the Masjid?
		
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			So, when Ramadan comes, you come to the
		
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			Masjid.
		
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			Last day of Ramadan, 29th or 30th, after
		
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			that, first day of Shawwal, which is the
		
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			day of Eid, Masjid is empty.
		
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			I have said this many times.
		
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			I said if Masjid had a voice, and
		
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			of course they have a voice with Allah
		
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			SWT, what we call the day of Eid
		
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			ul-Fitr, the day of rejoicing for us,
		
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			the Masjid will call this a day of
		
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			mourning, a day of sadness, because it's empty.
		
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			Convenience.
		
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			The Sahaba did not do this.
		
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			For the Sahaba, it was the opposite.
		
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			They made their lives subject to Islam.
		
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			And that is why Allah SWT then gave
		
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			them the world.
		
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			If you read history, if you think about
		
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			this and read history, it's a completely unimaginable
		
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			thing, how a bunch of Arabs, who were
		
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			nomadic people, some of them were traders.
		
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			These were not people with a standing army.
		
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			These were not people with a tradition and
		
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			history of warfare.
		
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			These were not people who knew how to
		
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			run campaigns and to have legions in the
		
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			field with long supply chains and supply lines
		
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			and so on.
		
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			They were not people like the Romans who
		
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			marched 25 miles a day and then built
		
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			a fort at the end of each day.
		
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			These were not people with command structures, right?
		
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			These were people not even with one king.
		
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			And historically, for thousands of years, all the
		
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			way back to where the Arabs originated in
		
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			Yemen, they were not people like this.
		
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			The Romans were.
		
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			The Persians were.
		
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			The Egyptians were.
		
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			The Mesopotamians were.
		
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			The Parthians were.
		
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			The people of Babylon, they were.
		
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			These were, the Greeks were, you know, under
		
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			Alexander.
		
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			These were warring nations.
		
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			These were nations with standing armies and with,
		
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			you know, all that comes and goes with
		
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			all that, maintaining an army and training and
		
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			all kinds of things.
		
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			These were the people.
		
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			Yet, these Arabs, who came out of nowhere,
		
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			out of the desert, they conquered not just
		
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			anyone, they conquered the two superpowers of the
		
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			time, who had been in power for over
		
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			a thousand years each.
		
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			The Persian Empire, the Sassadians for even longer.
		
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			Massive empires, with huge armies, with history of
		
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			warfare, a history of victory in warfare, out
		
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			of the blue.
		
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			That blue was the glow of Islam.
		
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			When they entered Islam and they submitted themselves
		
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			to the will of Allah, then Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala gave them the world.
		
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			And they became the superpower, not just of
		
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			that time, but they remained a superpower for
		
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			another thousand years.
		
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			And at various levels, they were not a
		
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			superpower all the time, but they were a
		
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			powerful people.
		
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			The Muslims were a powerful people from that
		
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			time, from the 7th century, all the way
		
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			to 1926.
		
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			And if you read that whole history, even
		
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			if you read the decline, it is directly
		
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			linked to what I mentioned before, which is,
		
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			when the Muslims inverted this equation, the equation
		
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			of Allah first, and they inverted that to
		
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			me first, I first.
		
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			When they worked and they lived their lives
		
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			on the equation, that whatever Allah commanded will
		
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			be obeyed, at any cost.
		
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			My life will be altered, my life will
		
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			be changed, my time will be altered, my
		
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			time will be changed, nothing will come in
		
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			the way of obeying Allah.
		
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			When this was inverted, to say that I
		
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			will obey Allah, but only when it suits
		
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			me, only when it is convenient for me,
		
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			only when it is painless for me, only
		
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			when it does not interfere with my schedules.
		
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			Think about that, today we have Muslims, people
		
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			who claim to be Muslims, people who have
		
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			Muslim names, who come from Muslim families, whose
		
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			parents are Muslims, who do not pray because
		
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			it is not convenient, the time is not
		
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			convenient.
		
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			Who do not fast in Ramadan, because I
		
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			go to the gym, it interferes with my
		
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			gym schedule.
		
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			Innalillahi wa innalaha raju.
		
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			What kind of Islam is this?
		
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			This is not the Islam which any of
		
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			the Sahaba would recognise, believe me.
		
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			This is not Islam at all in the
		
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			first place.
		
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			And this is what Abu Bakr as-Siddiq
		
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			established on day one.
		
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			So therefore, his qidmah, his service to Islam
		
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			is that after Rasulullah s.a.w. passed
		
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			away immediately, there was severe danger to Islam.
		
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			In the sense that people were leaving Islam,
		
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			and they were leaving not because they didn't
		
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			like the theology of Islam, they were leaving
		
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			because of money.
		
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			They said, we will not pay zakat.
		
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			You are paying zakat to Muhammad s.a
		
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			.w., he is dead, he has passed away,
		
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			so we will not give zakat.
		
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			Abu Bakr as-Siddiq r.a. said, no,
		
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			you are paying zakat to the institution that
		
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			Rasulullah s.a.w. left behind.
		
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			The institution of the state.
		
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			The institution of the community.
		
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			And therefore, that remains.
		
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			And you must pay.
		
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			Zakat is a personal fard on you as
		
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			an individual.
		
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			Irrespective of who is the leader of the
		
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			community, whether it is the Prophet or whether
		
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			it is his Khalifa.
		
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			And that is why Rasulullah, Abu Bakr as
		
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			-Siddiq r.a. was the only one with
		
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			the title Khalifatul Rasulullah, the Khalifa of Rasulullah
		
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			s.a.w. After him and Sayyidina Umar
		
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			ibn al-Khattab r.a. came to power,
		
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			that is when the title of Amirul Momineen
		
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			came to being and that remained until the
		
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			Khilafa itself was abolished.
		
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			So Sayyidina Umar ibn al-Khattab r.a.
		
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			again, he kind of, not objected, but he
		
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			put in his alternate view about fighting Muslims
		
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			and he said, how can you fight with
		
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			these people because these people are Muslims?
		
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			And Abu Bakr as-Siddiq r.a. said
		
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			that Rasulullah s.a.w. said, I have
		
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			been ordered by Allah to fight the people
		
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			till they say none has the right to
		
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			be worshipped but Allah.
		
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			And whoever said it, then he will save
		
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			his life and property from me except on
		
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			trespassing the law and his account will be
		
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			with Allah.
		
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			And Abu Bakr as-Siddiq r.a. reiterated
		
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			and he said, by Allah I will fight
		
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			those who differentiate between Salah and Zakat because
		
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			Zakat is a compulsory right to be taken
		
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			from the property according to Allah's orders.
		
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			Then Umar ibn al-Khattab r.a. said,
		
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			by Allah, it was nothing but Allah brought
		
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			relief to Abu Bakr r.a. toward the
		
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			decision to fight and I came to know
		
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			that this decision was right.
		
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			That decision was the reason why the Muslim
		
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			community did not disintegrate and that Islam remained
		
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			and remained strong.
		
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			Abu Bakr r.a. raised the banner of
		
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			war on all fronts.
		
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			The desert of the Hijaz never witnessed even
		
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			in the time of Rasulullah s.a.w.
		
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			such battles, grinding battles as those that occurred.
		
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			And Abu Bakr r.a. as I mentioned
		
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			to you, himself took part in them.
		
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			But the men that were trained by Muhammad
		
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			s.a.w. upon the recognition of the
		
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			truth and total submission to Allah s.w
		
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			.t. and complete sincerity in their deeds, they
		
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			fought for the sake of Islam and they
		
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			defeated this whole trend towards apostasy.
		
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			And Islam was saved from the brink of
		
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			disaster.
		
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			Another one of the greatest achievements of Abu
		
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			Bakr s.a.w. was the compilation of
		
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			the Quran al-Karim, putting it all together
		
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			in one form.
		
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			As we know, the Quran was revealed to
		
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			Rasulullah s.a.w. over a period of
		
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			23 years and the order of the compilation
		
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			is not in the order of revelation.
		
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			The order of revelation is different from the
		
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			order of compilation.
		
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			And the order of revelation, it was revealed
		
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			as it was needed.
		
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			But the compilation was something which Allah s
		
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			.w.t. commanded and guided.
		
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			And Jibreel s.a.w. taught Rasulullah s
		
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			.a.w. the order of compilation.
		
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			And in the last year of his life,
		
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			in the month of Ramadan, Jibreel s.a
		
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			.w. listened to the Quran in the voice
		
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			of Rasulullah s.a.w. twice, two khatmas.
		
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			Rasulullah s.a.w. used to recite the
		
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			entire Quran to Jibreel s.a.w. in
		
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			every Ramadan, but in the last Ramadan of
		
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			his life, he recited it two times.
		
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			So, this compilation, this order of the surahs,
		
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			starting from Suratul Fatiha, ending in Suratul Nas,
		
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			this was well known to the sahaba.
		
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			But the Quran had been written.
		
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			So, it was, the entire Quran was also
		
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			written down.
		
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			But it was in, and this was written
		
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			down during the life of Rasulullah s.a
		
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			.w. and people would write the Quran and
		
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			they would recite it back to him and
		
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			he would correct it.
		
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			And that is how it was compiled.
		
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			That is how they actually, on a side
		
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			note, that's how the hadiths, the teachings of
		
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			Rasulullah s.a.w. were also compiled in
		
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			his lifetime.
		
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			That people wrote them down and they recited
		
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			them back to him and they said, Ya
		
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			Rasulullah, you said such and such.
		
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			And he said, yes, I said such and
		
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			such.
		
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			Where this was not the case, he said,
		
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			no, not this.
		
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			This is how I said it.
		
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			And they corrected it.
		
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			And so, anyone who claims that the hadiths
		
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			were only written down a century or two
		
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			after Rasulullah s.a.w. passed away, he
		
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			is talking through his hat, he doesn't know
		
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			what he is saying.
		
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			They were written down in his lifetime and
		
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			he corrected and he confirmed that.
		
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			They were collected together in the different collections
		
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			that we have, which we know as Bukhari
		
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			and Muslim and Nasai and Abu Dawood and
		
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			Tirmidhi and so forth.
		
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			All of this was done later, but obviously,
		
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			if you say Imam Bukhari collected the hadith,
		
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			he could not have collected something that did
		
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			not exist.
		
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			So, when you say collected, it means that
		
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			automatically it existed.
		
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			How did it exist?
		
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			Because some Sahabi wrote it down and kept
		
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			it with him.
		
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			And through the body of knowledge which is
		
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			called Ilmur Rijal, we have the actual chain
		
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			of preservation and recording all the way back
		
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			to Rasulullah s.a.w. for every single
		
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			one of the hadiths, alhamdulillah.
		
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			So, the Quran was written down and people
		
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			knew the order, but it had not been
		
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			compiled in a book form.
		
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			Now, its memorization, again it was something which
		
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			happened from day one.
		
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			Rasulullah s.a.w. himself was the Hafidh
		
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			of the Quran and so were all the
		
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			great Sahaba around him.
		
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			Not every Sahabi was a Hafidh, but many
		
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			of them were.
		
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			Men and women, Sayyidina Aisha Siddique was a
		
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			Hafidh of the Quran and many of the
		
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			Azwajatul Mutahrat, Ummahatul Mumineen and so forth.
		
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			So, it was memorized and this memorization was
		
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			perfect and that's how to this day it
		
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			is checked from the Qari.
		
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			If there is a doubt about a particular
		
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			ayah which is the way it's written down,
		
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			you go to a Qari and say, please
		
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			recite this and when he recites, you correct
		
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			it.
		
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			So, alhamdulillah, the book was preserved in memory.
		
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			It was also preserved in writing, but these
		
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			were with different people and it was not
		
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			in the form of one book.
		
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			Now, over the years, from the time of
		
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			Nabi s.a.w., from the terrible, tragic
		
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			incident of Bir Ma'una and other times
		
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			in different battles and so on, a number
		
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			of the memorizers, a number of the qurra,
		
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			a number of the hufadh of the Quran,
		
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			they passed away, they were killed.
		
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			And therefore, Syedna Umar r.a. decided and
		
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			he thought that steps should be taken to
		
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			preserve the Quran intact in its original form
		
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			against any kind of risk.
		
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			And he said, he saw that this was,
		
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			it was not prudent to depend exclusively on
		
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			those who had memorized it because people die
		
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			and therefore, if they die, then the book
		
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			is lost.
		
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			Therefore, he urged Avvakaar of this, Siddiq r
		
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			.a. to have it written down in the
		
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			form of a book.
		
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			Avvakaar nabi s.a.w. was very very
		
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			particular about doing only what Nabi s.a
		
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			.w. did.
		
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			So, initially, he hesitated because he said Rasulullah
		
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			s.a.w. had not done it.
		
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			However, after some debate on the subject, he
		
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			agreed and he appointed Zaid bin Thabit r
		
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			.a. for this work.
		
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			And Zaid bin Thabit also was one of
		
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			the people, he eventually headed a group of
		
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			people who did this, compiled the Quran.
		
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			He also was head of the group of
		
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			people who used to compile the Ahadith of
		
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			Prophet Muhammad s.a.w. Now, he also
		
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			hesitated initially at the thought of undertaking this
		
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			enormous task, but then he started doing it
		
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			and of course, he was one of the
		
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			most competent and capable of the companions of
		
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			Rasulullah s.a.w. who had directly learned
		
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			the Quran from Rasulullah s.a.w. Therefore,
		
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			he was the best person and he compiled
		
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			and he had a group of helpers.
		
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			Now, after he compiled this into one book,
		
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			he submitted the precious collection of this book
		
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			to Sayyidina Avvakaar r.a. who kept it
		
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			in his possession until the end of his
		
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			life.
		
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			Now, during the Khilafah of Umar ibn al
		
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			-Khattab r.a, it was placed in the
		
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			custody of Hafsa bint Umar ibn al-Khattab,
		
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			his daughter and the wife of Rasulullah s
		
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			.a.w. Finally, in Sayyidina Uthman bin Affan
		
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			r.a's time, when different readers in different
		
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			parts of the world, because by now the
		
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			Khilafah had expanded and gone all the way
		
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			up to up to Sham, up to Syria,
		
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			Iraq, Iran, what is now Iran which is
		
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			Persia and so forth.
		
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			So, people were reciting in different dialects and
		
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			different forms.
		
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			So, Sayyidina Uthman bin Affan r.a, this
		
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			was his great contribution.
		
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			He had copies of this original Musaf made
		
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			and he had them distributed to different parts
		
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			of the Muslim world, of the empire as
		
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			the standard to be followed in reciting and
		
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			reading the Quran.
		
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			The modern edition what we read of the
		
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			Musaf is the Uthman copy which is the
		
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			copy that Uthman s.a.w. had and
		
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			this is considered the standard to which every
		
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			other copy of the Quran should confirm.
		
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			Sayyidina Thabit r.a said, by Allah if
		
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			Abu Bakr r.a had ordered me to
		
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			shift one of the mountains from its place,
		
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			it would not have been harder for me
		
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			than what he ordered me concerning the collection
		
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			of the Quran.
		
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			And he continued and he said that I
		
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			started locating Quranic material and collecting it from
		
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			parchment, from scapula which is, you know, flat
		
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			bone, from leaf stalks of dead palms and
		
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			from the memories of people.
		
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			Finally, I want to end with a quote
		
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			by none other than Ali bin Abi Talib
		
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			r.a who said, the one who has
		
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			the greatest reward among the people is Abu
		
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			Bakr because he was unique in compiling the
		
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			Quran al-Karim.
		
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			This is the quote of Ali bin Abi
		
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			Talib r.a. We ask Allah s.w
		
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			.t. to help us to appreciate the value
		
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			of the Quran al-Karim and to use
		
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			it in the way that Allah s.w
		
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			.t. wanted us to use it, which is
		
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			to read it, to memorize it, to live
		
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			by it.
		
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			The Quran al-Karim came to be lived
		
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			by and that is what we need to
		
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			remind ourselves and do.