Mohammad Elshinawy – Divine Parables #09 Spiderwebs – The Shambles Of Shirk 29-41

Mohammad Elshinawy
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The speaker discusses the parables of the Quran and their implications for personal life, emphasizing the "will" of Allah's power and actions. They stress the importance of recognizing and following the "will" of Allah's actions to avoid disappointment and crumble. The speaker also touches on the danger of false entities and the "will" of sh appointed people, emphasizing the importance of testing one's actions and understanding the dynamics of power within the world. The "will" of sh appointed people is a factor in achieving unity of humanity, and the potential collapse of society and sh pattern are factors in achieving unity of humanity.
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Bismillah Alhamdulillah.

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Wassalaatu wa salamu ala rasulillahahu

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alaahi wa sahabijmainu.

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Be in the name of Allah. All praise

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and glory be to Allah. May His finest

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peace and blessings be upon his messenger Muhammad,

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and his family, and his companions, and all

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those who adhere to his guidance.

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Brothers and sisters, before I begin,

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I need to tell you that I cannot

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describe how much I have personally

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fallen in love with the study of the

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parables of the Quran in this month, and

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I hope you're benefiting as well. But I

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cannot tell you how much I have. And

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I hope that our benefit is not just

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hearing and listening,

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and being fascinated, and being entertained. And I

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hope I'm not the last to benefit from

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my words, but just know that and know

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that it is extra difficult for me to

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decide every night what I'm not gonna share.

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Because it's just so amazing and so endless.

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In any case, may Allah

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bless our time and our decisions.

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Tonight's parable is in Surah Al Ankabut, the

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surah of the spider, 29th chapter of the

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Quran. And it is about the namesake of

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the surah, the Ankabut itself, the spider.

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And ultimately this is a parable regarding

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the inherent

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perfect might and power of Allah,

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and the inherent

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powerlessness

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of everything else.

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And by extension, the wisdom and the correctness

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of tawhid, of singling him out as the

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ultimate source of power,

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and

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the futile,

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pointless,

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preposterous notion of shirk of setting equals to

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Allah

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subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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Allah says the example of those who equate

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others with him, deem others as equivalent to

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him.

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Is like the example

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of the spider

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beta

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when it constructs its house.

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And certainly the weakest of houses

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is the house of the spider

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If only they would realize.

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So this parable is to help us realize

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the reality check

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of Allah's great power

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and the utter powerlessness

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of everything else.

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Think about it. What is the house of

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the spider? Obviously the house of the spider

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is the spider web. What is the the

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house of the spider? It is flimsy threads.

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It does not

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offer any shelter

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from an enemy attacking.

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It does not offer any protection from the

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elements, the cold, the wind, the heat, nothing

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at all. Right?

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Therefore, it doesn't even deserve to be called

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a home. The supposed home or house of

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the spider is not a home at all.

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It's just a name that it is that

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it that is undeserved.

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And likewise throughout the Quran, Allah azza wa

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Jal says, all of these false entities you

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rely on in here

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It is nothing but asma, names, labels that

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you called that you and your forefathers.

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So in reality, you're just worshiping the label.

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It's imaginary.

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It's not actually providing you with anything. It

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is flimsy, it is weak, It is unreliable.

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It is like as Ibn Al Qayyim said,

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you take the skin of the onion, you

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know, the onion peeled, the very thin, almost

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see through skin of the onion, and you

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call it meat. It will not nourish you.

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Changing the name won't do anything.

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And so this is the first thing that

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all of the idols or the ideas, the

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presumed power of anything else is pathetic and

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vulnerable and unstable,

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and bound to disappoint and crumble.

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The second reflection

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that we can perhaps stop at is that

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the house of the spider is not just

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unqualified to be called a house,

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it is actually a trap,

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isn't it? You know they say that the

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spider doesn't even necessarily

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live on the web. It goes to more

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reliable areas like between 2 rocks or something,

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and it has like a trap line. Now

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we know this from like modern observation and

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stuff. When the fly lands, the fly gets

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trapped. It feels the vibration it runs to

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eat it. Right? It's it looks like a

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but it's a trap.

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Likewise with shirk.

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Shirk has this false promise

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of security,

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of refuge, of sanctuary, of fulfillment.

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You will never have security outside away from

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Allah

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You will never have inner peace distant from

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Him

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It's actually a horrific experience

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to get caught in the trap

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of the spider web and await for the

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spider to get to you and eat you

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alive.

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Similarly, like the other ayah that says,

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whomever sets equals with Allah confuses Allah with

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others,

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It's like they fell from the sky. Horrific

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experience. You might die from a heart attack,

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a love forbid, on the way down before

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you actually crash.

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You can't And you will not really have

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much chance at survival through shirk. Right? The

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same way you don't have much survival and

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you fall for the trap, or you fall

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out without a

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a parachute or something. Yes?

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So it is a trap. And recognizing it

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as a trap is a great favor from

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Allah azaawajal

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for us.

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This this you know illusion of power,

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what can and can't we share here?

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You know,

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our job, our test in life is what?

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To make sure we never allow anything to

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crowd the uppermost station in our heart. Tawhid.

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Yes?

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Because then you are not differentiating

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between

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your firmest hand hold

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and between a flimsy thread. You know elsewhere

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in the Quran, Allah said that openly. He

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said,

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Whomever rejects all

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other supposed entities, supposed sources of power, and

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believes in Allah. What makes a mummin so

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resilient, so strong, so stable? It's not that

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you believe in Allah.

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It's not even that you worship Allah. It

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is that you've rejected all else but Allah.

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It's that sword of yours where you say,

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Because you know if you only worship Allah,

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but you still believe there are others that

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are inherently powerful out there, you will always

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be haunted

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by what if I'm not pleasing the other

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god right now? Whether they're my boss or

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some supernatural being. Right? That is the problem.

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That is the trap.

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And so

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our test in life is to differentiate

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always between the flimsy thread and the firmest

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hand hold. That's our job.

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You know, why is it that Allah subhanahu

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wa ta'ala

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allowed for illusions

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of power to exist, so that this test

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would be a real test. Do you know

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Surat Al Ankabut, the chapter of the spider

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begins with what? A hasib an nasu and

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yutaraku. The people think they're gonna be left

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alone to say, We believe in the one

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true God. And they will not be tested.

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No. We're gonna test you.

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Then it speaks about the illusion of power.

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And are you gonna push through and never

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fall short of seeing through that? And the

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surah ends with saying what,

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If you keep those that strive to do

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this, strive in our path, strive for our

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sake, we will guide them. You know this

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just like the in Surat Muhammad which is

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also the Surat Khitaal of combats and fighting.

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Allah says, Dalik, walawyasha

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Allahu lantasaraminhim

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minhum.

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That will be sort of the the dynamic,

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believers, disbelievers, shayateen,

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all of these. Right?

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And if Allah wished, He could've defeated them

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all.

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But He wants to test you one with

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another.

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So this is our test in life, to

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separate between the flimsy thread, the pathetic,

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to see through it all, and to hold

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on to Allah

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no

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matter what.

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It's all about to collapse,

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to see it that way. You know, interestingly,

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I was reflecting just today on

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think of

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the Zionist project

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For how long they've been weaving their web

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of allies,

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and lies, and conspiracies,

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and networking,

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and it is all collapsing right in front

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of them, and they're making in their scrambles

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one uncalculated

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sort of mistake after another. May Allah accelerate

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the collapse.

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But think about it. They're getting caught completely

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off guard.

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Or even look in your own personal life.

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Shaitan is casting web after web of temptations

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on us all year round,

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shackling us with these things and in an

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instant,

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Allah chains him up and says, Start over

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in Ramadan.

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This is Allah

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The last thing I will say very quickly

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or else I'm going to be all over

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the place tonight,

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is that some of the scholars said

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that

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the

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spider

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very rarely

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lives in a colony. It is imaginable.

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They may have colonies, but in general, spiders

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build their webs alone away from the rest,

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and they're solitary creatures.

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And likewise with shirk.

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With shirk, when everyone sort of making up

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their own false god, they're going to sort

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of build their

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allegiance and their enmity based on whether you

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agree with my god. So this is why

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without the unity of Allah,

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you will never have the unity of humanity.

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Through shirk,

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even humanity, the social fabric, the camaraderie, the

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fraternity, the will be in shambles as well.

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Not just the individual,

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not just his strength, not just his psychology,

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not just his spiritual purity. The relationships

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will never work without tawhid.

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They will never be.

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And so, you know, Malcolm

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used to always say this. He used to

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say that

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Malcolm X, Malik Shabazz

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when he went to war with the racism

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problem. He said, The Americans need to understand

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that nothing has the solution to racism,

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except what?

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Islam. Nothing.

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Because you know, what are all the turf

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wars, the territorialness of all human? What is

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it? It is because you are your own

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inherent God. You're imagining yourself, your the illusion

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of you being God. So everyone's gotta be

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like me, and everyone's pulling in their own

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direction. But when we all submit to Allah,

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one creator on this one planet, we are

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one family, only through that can the ego

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sort of be reeled in, and the unity

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of humanity be realized.

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