Mohammad Elshinawy – Jumuah 06-09-2024

Mohammad Elshinawy
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The speakers discuss the importance of fearing one's Lord and staying committed to one's life to achieve success. They also emphasize the need for people to keep in touch with their success stories and not let anyone convince them to leave their success stories. They encourage people to focus on their success stories and not let anyone convince them to leave their success stories. They also highlight the success of Islam in helping people through their trauma and bringing people through their struggles.
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I bear witness

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that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah.

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Come to Prayer.

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Come to Prayer.

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Allah is the Greatest.

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Allah is the

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Greatest.

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All praise is due to Allah.

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We praise Him, ask His help and seek

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His forgiveness.

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We seek refuge in Allah from the evil

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of our souls and from the evil of

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our deeds.

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Whomsoever Allah guides, none can misguide him.

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Whomsoever He misguides, none can guide him.

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I bear witness that there is none worthy

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of worship except Allah, and that Muhammad is

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His Servant and Messenger.

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O you who believe!

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Fear Allah and say the truth.

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Your deeds will be righteous and your sins

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will be forgiven.

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Whosoever obeys Allah and His Messenger has won

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a great triumph.

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O you people!

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Fear your Lord, Who created you from a

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single soul, and from her created her wife,

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and spread among them many men and women.

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O you who believe!

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Fear Allah and ask His help and seek

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His forgiveness.

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Verily, Allah watches over you.

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And We have instructed those who were given

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the Scripture before you, that you should fear

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Allah.

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And after welcoming my brothers and sisters to

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the house of Allah, over the last 11

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months, brothers and sisters, it would be difficult

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to imagine that any one of us has

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not resisted the thought of, why is this

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taking so long?

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Ever since the events in Gaza have begun,

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almost everyone thought it would be like the

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5 or 4 previous wars on the people

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of Gaza.

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These massacres that take place over and over

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again.

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We never thought it would take this long.

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For better or for worse.

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And so people have reacted in a whole

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bunch of different ways.

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But I want to present you with a

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question.

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A challenge.

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What if it needs to take this long?

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Because Allah knows this is the only way

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for us to stay awake, to stay connected,

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to stay committed, to stay invested, to finally

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liberate Palestine.

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May Allah allow us to see it in

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our lifetime.

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May Allah allow us to see it in

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our lifetime.

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But how do we sustain?

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Where do you find stamina from?

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Because if we're also being very honest, we're

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losing steam.

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A lot of us at least.

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The vast majority of us.

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Why are we losing steam?

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We have to turn to our faith and

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remember that the help of Allah Azza wa

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Jal is almost near.

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And that He ﷺ said, يَضْحَكُ رَبُّنَا مِنْ

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قُنُوطِ عِبَادِهِ مَعَ قُرْبِ غِيَرِ That our Lord

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laughs in a manner befitting His Majesty from

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those who lose stamina, those who lose steam.

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Though His change that He's about to affect

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for the better is so close, the hadith

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says.

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And they said, Ya Rasulallah, our Lord laughs?

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He said, yes.

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They said, لَن نَعْدِمَ مِنْ رَبٍّ يَضْحَكُ خَيْرًا

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Then we will never miss out on a

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good outcome from a Lord who laughs.

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And you know, the verse in the Qur

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'an that ends with أَلَا إِنَّ نَصْرَ اللَّهِ

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قَرِيبٌ The help of Allah is near.

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What does this mean?

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It's important to revisit this for a second.

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It will give you stamina.

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Because it cannot mean that it's coming any

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minute.

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Coming any minute.

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What you get, what you want, any minute.

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Instant gratification.

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That's not this world.

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That's the next world.

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But you have to go through a test

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world to get to that world.

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In fact, that's exactly how the ayah begins.

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It says, أَمْ حَسِبَتُمْ أَن تَدْخُلُوا الْجَنَّةِ Do

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you think you'll just stroll into Jannah?

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وَلَمَّا يَأْتِكُمْ Before their first comes to you.

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مَثَلُوا الَّذِينَ خَلَوْا مِنْ قَبْلِكُمْ The likes of

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those who came before you.

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مَسَّتْهُمُ الْبَأْسَاءُ وَالضَّرَّاءُ وَزُلْزِلُوا They were afflicted with

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suffering and they were afflicted with poverty and

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they were stricken with so much until they

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were shaken to their core.

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حَتَّ يَقُولَ الرَّسُولُ وَالَّذِينَ آمَنُوا مَعَهُ Until the

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messenger and those that believed with him started

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saying, meaning to themselves, meaning resisting the thought

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that we were talking about earlier.

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Saying to themselves, مَتَى نَصْرُ اللَّهِ When is

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the help of Allah coming?

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That's when Allah said, أَلَا إِنَّ نَصْرَ اللَّهِ

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قَرِيبٌ Certainly the help of Allah is near,

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meaning it's not on your clock.

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Never doubt.

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Never let the doubt seep in.

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It will ruin you and ruin everything you're

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working on.

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Right?

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It will jeopardize your hereafter and you will

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not be a service to yourself or anyone

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around you in the dunya either.

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So it cannot mean near, meaning it's gonna

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happen in an instant.

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No.

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It means Allah can bring it in an

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instant.

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It means that Allah has already ordained that

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at a particular instant, the qadr has already

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passed, the pages have dried, the ink is

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set, that there is a moment He has

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already set when it will happen.

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And it also means that for those who

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believe in Him, He will help them through

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it.

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Bringing us back to the theme of stamina,

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the theme of going on.

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Because you know, let us talk about ourselves

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here.

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Many of us cannot watch the images anymore.

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Okay?

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You can't.

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And I think everyone you know has probably

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slowed down in the building of awareness and

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the shares and just the following altogether.

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I want to tell you, because it is

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good for you to know this, it's okay.

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It's actually very normal.

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It's actually very normal to find yourself unable

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to put up with all of this trauma

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day in and day out.

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In fact, the Prophet ﷺ, even though it

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was his brother, Ja'far ibn Abi Talib

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was considered his brother.

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Okay?

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And he was the one that was hearing

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the news of him being killed live.

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It was being live streamed to him ﷺ.

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You know the authentic hadith of Anas ﷺ

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that when the battle of Mu'tah took place,

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when the Muslims were facing what they faced

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in Jordan, 600 miles away, against the Byzantine

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Roman Empire, the Prophet ﷺ is standing on

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the minbar, on the pulpit, telling them, Zayd,

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his adopted son, has fallen.

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And Ja'far took the flag.

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And Ja'far has fallen.

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And Abdullah ibn Rawaha has taken the flag.

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He's saying this while the tears are flowing

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down his cheeks.

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Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.

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And Abdullah ibn Rawaha took it and he

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was taken down.

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And then one of the swords of Allah

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grabbed it, Khalid ibn Walid.

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And Allah will allow for victory at his

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hands.

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Allah supported the army through him.

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He saw it live.

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Yet he was the one that went to

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Ja'far's family and he said to them,

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or said to the people about them first,

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اصنعوا لآل جعفر طعاما فقد أتاهما يشغلهم Prepare

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some food and bring it over to the

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family of Ja'far because there has come

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to them what has preoccupied them.

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They're emotionally paralyzed.

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They have a right.

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They have a right to grieve.

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He validated their grief.

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He gave them room to recover.

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And then three days later, he visits them

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sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and he says to

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them, I don't want you to cry over

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أخي, my brother, after today.

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Meaning, let's try.

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We're not gonna be able to move past

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it, but let's try to start moving with

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it.

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We're not gonna forget it all together, but

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we're gonna move, right?

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And he brought his son, the son of

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Ja'far, Abdullah ibn Ja'far, he brought

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him over and he himself shaved his head.

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Meaning, we're not gonna sit here and act

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like we're angry at God.

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No, we're gonna move on.

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Life has to go on.

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There are things that must be done.

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And so he gave them room to grieve.

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And so I want to tell you as

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well, don't be too hard on yourself.

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The fact that you could not watch these

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images anymore.

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Some people are like the Prophet sallallahu alayhi

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wa sallam, right?

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They have it in them in the middle

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of the trauma to be supporting everybody else.

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And you know from the people of Gaza,

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people like this.

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His son is the one massacred and he's

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telling everyone, Allah has honored him, don't cry

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over my son, right?

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Some people are just like that.

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Late last year, an imam from New York

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City messaged me, very good friend of mine.

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He said to me, Muhammad, I have promised

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myself not to cry in front of the

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community.

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But when I'm home, when I'm alone, I'm

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not okay.

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That is already impressive.

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It's already impressive that you have enough certainty

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and enough serenity, your sakinah with Allah azza

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wa jal, that you can actually control yourself

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to a time where you're okay venting, right?

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Taking care of everybody else and then you

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go, you pour your tears out to Allah

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azza wa jal, or you speak to one

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of your friends in private.

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This is incredible.

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This resembles what the prophets showed us is

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possible.

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When Yaqub a.s. says, إِنَّمَا أَشْكُ بَثِّ

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وَحُزْنِ إِلَى اللَّهِ I don't complain of my

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bath.

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You know what bath is?

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You know satellite broadcasting, it's called bath mubashir,

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broadcast, right?

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So they say that bath is like when

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the emotions overload and they have to go

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somewhere.

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If I have to speak, I speak to

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Allah, right?

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The stuff that gets bottled up, I only

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give it to Allah azza wa jal.

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I don't need to speak to anyone else.

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That's very beautiful.

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And some people are like that, here and

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there.

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But other people, they should not be too

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tough on themselves.

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Don't live with this, they call it survivor's

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guilt, whatever you're gonna call it, right?

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Imposter syndrome, that I'm not a good person

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because I'm not following every single day.

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No, no, no.

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You are a believer and you are a

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person that Allah loves because you feel the

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pain.

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You have compassion in your heart.

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In fact, the Prophet ﷺ said, خَابَ عَبْدٌ

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وَخَسِرٌ مَنْ لَمْ يَجْعَلِ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى فِي قَلْبِهِ

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رَحْمَةً لِلْبَشَرِ The servant is lost, the servant

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is doomed.

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If Allah does not portion for him some

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compassion for all of humanity in his heart,

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then you are disqualified for Allah's mercy.

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There's no mercy in your heart.

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And so, take it easy on yourselves so

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that you can rejuvenate.

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You need to breathe, it's fine, to get

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back to work.

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We're not distracted from it, right?

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We're recovering for it.

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For the sake of, I'm not doing anyone

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a favor by burning out.

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I'm not doing anyone a favor by numbing.

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You force yourself to become numb with overexposure,

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brothers and sisters.

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This is the genius of our deen.

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This is why he said, give them room,

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let them let it out.

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And then we sort of get involved in

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proceeding with our lives.

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You know they even say, and I'm not

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going to speak too much to this, that

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the way Allah created your body, your heart

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and your mind know you're in trouble and

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they find a balance.

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They force you into a balance.

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It's a survival mechanism.

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Like when you're cold, the brain tells you

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you're cold, start shivering, right?

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So you heat up.

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When you're hot, the brain says to the

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body, you're hot, open up the pores, let

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some sweat out so you can cool down.

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It's going to bring you to a balance.

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Likewise, when you see these images, your brain,

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your heart knows it's not a movie.

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It knows.

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This is real.

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They are massacring our children in front of

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us.

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This is not easy.

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And so you will do one of two

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things.

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You will either become numb to it, right?

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You will become numb to it, or you

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will stop yourself from becoming numb to it

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by stepping away for the sake of the

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cause.

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Not for the sake of forgetting the cause

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and being self-centered, just going on with

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my little life.

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أقول قولي هذا واستغفر الله العظيم لي ولكم

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الحمد لله وحده والصلاة والسلام على من لا

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نبي بعد أشهد أن لا إله إلا الله

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وحده لا شريك له وأشهد أن محمداً عبده

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ونبيه ورسوله The second factor, though time will

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not allow me to elaborate much, brothers and

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sisters, that I want you to keep in

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mind because we're just getting started, right?

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I want you to keep in mind is

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one of the things that eats away at

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your determination.

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There's actually so many studies, you can see

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this in students in school, you can see

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this with anyone and everything.

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One of the things that eats away at

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your stamina, eats away at your determination is

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the sense of being incompetent, right?

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العجز, I can't do anything.

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So why do I want to keep involving

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myself in a dead end?

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If I can't help, then I don't want

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to know, I don't want to be involved.

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This is just natural, right?

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You don't like to feel like you're a

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failure.

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So if the threshold is too high, if

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there's no success there, why?

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Consciously or not, this is the way we

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operate.

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And so I want to tell you, do

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not let shaitan use that against you.

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You know, even like, I felt the Muslim

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community was becoming depressed.

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And so I did my own little experiment

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and I found that people that are in

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marketing know it far better.

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When you keep sharing these images, to build

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awareness, of course the intention is correct, of

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the atrocities and the genocide, people stop engaging

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them.

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And then you put a success story there,

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like the boycotts are working, or this university

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has divested.

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It goes everywhere.

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Which shows you the people are thirsty for

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a sense of competence.

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Oh, we can do something.

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And I'm telling you, wallahi, you are doing

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things.

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You just zoom out a little bit.

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Wallahi, you are doing things.

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The worst thing that can happen in this

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moment is for you to think there is

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no point.

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And that is why we need to continue

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to circulate among ourselves.

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Not just validating it's okay to grieve, it's

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okay to take a breather and come right

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back.

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But also this notion of there are success

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stories.

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You know, of course the people of Gaza

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are the ultimate success story.

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Yes or no?

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Ultimate success story.

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As one of the mashayikh said, they are

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being murdered by devils and received by angels.

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May Allah accept our martyrs.

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And honor their ranks.

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But even look at their resilience.

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Look at their defiance in the face of

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the whole world superpowers stacked up against them.

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Look at their resilience.

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What do you mean someone restored someone's blown

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off jaw?

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Perhaps you've seen the images using the wire,

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that tiny flimsy metal wire from a COVID

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face mask.

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She pulled out the wire and she reinstalled

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his jaw that had fallen off.

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And it healed.

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What do you mean you don't have tools

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and you made some makeshift homemade machine to

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get fresh water we can drink out of

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the salt water?

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Incredible.

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What do you mean you're charging your phone

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to give the world a little bit more

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coverage of exactly what's happening inside using the

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battery pack of a dynamite that didn't explode?

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And they charge their phone with it.

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And they've of course inspired the rest of

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the world.

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They've inspired all of us.

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And that inspiration has been a success that

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we're beginning to see.

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Brothers and sisters, whether you boycott Starbucks or

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not, the CEO was fired because of your

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boycotts.

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McDonald's was in a denial.

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No, it's not because of the boycott.

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They lost 7 billion dollars to date.

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And they admit that one of the largest

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reasons was because of the Muslim boycott, they

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said.

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Right?

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Samsung has pulled out its operation from Tel

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Aviv.

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Samsung next.

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Intel has halted a 15 billion dollar project

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there.

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American Airlines has shut down all flights till

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April.

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These university encampments that were spreading like wildfire.

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The universities that are divesting from arms deals

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and otherwise.

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Or research that works to that.

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Or corporations that indirectly contribute to it.

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Everywhere you go.

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And all of you as well.

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You know like in the middle of a

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war when the prime minister of the Zionist

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state is making phone calls like a madman.

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I need to talk to the owner of

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Facebook.

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I need to talk to the owner of

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Instagram.

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I need to talk to the owner of

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TikTok.

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I need to stop this.

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I need to stop that.

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You know why brothers and sisters?

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100 years ago, a union was established called

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the World Union of Jewish Students.

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Right?

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Connected to the World Zionist Organization.

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The first president of that union of Jewish

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students globally which was a Zionist project, was

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Albert Einstein.

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They knew that the path forward was the

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universities.

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Right?

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And it crumbled.

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Right in front of them in less than

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a year.

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They've lost all grip.

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The social media algorithms were fighting you, brothers

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and sisters.

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It was so hard to get engagement.

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That means you were putting in 10 times

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the amount of work to build awareness and

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people are starting to see it.

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Despite the shadow banning, despite the fighting, right?

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People are getting cracked.

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People are getting fired left and right.

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And people are getting reinstated left and right.

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Look at these lawyers, look at these students,

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look at these doctors.

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I lost track of the names.

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I wish we could compile them because we

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need this to know, oh, it's working.

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كيف تصبر على ما لم تحط به خبرة؟

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Allah Azzawajal says, How can you put up,

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how can you have perseverance when something you

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can't grasp?

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So I need you to grasp that you're

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okay for needing a breather.

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And I need you to grasp, brothers and

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sisters, that it is working.

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Don't stipulate results to get involved.

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You don't know how all the dots are

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going to connect.

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Allah will connect them.

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Stay invested, stay involved, do your part.

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Be honored that Allah has chosen you to

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revive this cause and it's revived.

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And as much as I would like to

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end with an ayah or a hadith, I

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cannot help but recall the very first prime

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minister of Israel.

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It is reported about him that he famously

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said, The elders will die and the youth

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will forget.

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And we have not forgotten.

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And we will not forget.

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And the memory is as alive as ever.

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How we raise our children.

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How we discipline ourselves upon Allah's great deen.

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How we mobilize because we are not outnumbered.

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We are out organized.

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How we put our petty, secondary differences aside.

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How we move forward will determine how much

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Allah honors us.

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And He has already shown us some of

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the fruit.

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Perhaps because He knows we need to see

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that.

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Perhaps He knows our weakness.

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So may Allah strengthen us out of weakness.

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And may Allah unite us out of division.

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And may Allah Azza wa Jal use us

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for His great cause and not replace us.

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Deem us worthy to be His servants.

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Worthy of His pleasure.

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Worthy to serve, play a role in the

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liberation of Al-Nasr al-Aqsa in Palestine.

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Allahumma ameen.

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And may Allah heal our wounds in every

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corner of the world.

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May Allah return this ummah to the Quran

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He sent for it.

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And may He honor the world with the

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Quran He sent in it.

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Thank you.

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