Mohammad Elshinawy – Lessons From Surat Al-Alaq

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The importance of beginning a surah and reciting Prophet's words in the beginning is discussed, as it is difficult but necessary. Pranksters and misogynists use the paragon of the beast being a clot of blood to influence people's faith and pray in public. The importance of praying for one's health and blessings in life is emphasized, and caution is given against praying for anyone who is not doing the right thing. The segment also touches on the return of the beast and the use of praying for Islam, as it is important to be mindful of one's words and remember to focus on them.

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			In the name of Allah, all
		
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			praise and glory be to Allah and may
		
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			his finest peace and blessings be upon his
		
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			messenger Muhammad and his family and his companions
		
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			and all those who adhere to his guidance
		
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			while asking him to make us among the
		
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			best of those who adhere to his guidance.
		
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			Allahumma ameen.
		
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			The mercy of Allah descends in their midst
		
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			and they are enveloped, they are covered in
		
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			tranquility from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and
		
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			the angels surround them and Allah mentions them
		
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			with those that are with him, mentions them
		
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			in a higher gathering, in the highest gatherings,
		
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			mentions them in the heavens.
		
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			And of course we continue to study the
		
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			book of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala because
		
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			it is the surest and the truest fuel
		
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			for the heart in the journey to Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			As we journey through the world, through the
		
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			dark world, we draw light in the dark
		
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			world through these sit-downs, through these gatherings
		
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			where we rehearse the book of Allah azzawajal
		
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			that teaches us that which we don't know
		
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			and reminds us of that which we've forgotten.
		
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			And we've been going surah by surah.
		
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			A surah is a chapter, right?
		
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			We've said this prior, it's good to rehearse,
		
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			yeah, review.
		
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			A surah comes from the same root as
		
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			the word sur, which is a fence or
		
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			a gate.
		
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			And so every surah is a set of
		
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			verses that Allah fences off from another set
		
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			of verses, right?
		
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			They're distinguished from each other because they are
		
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			self-contained.
		
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			They are a set of themes that we
		
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			are to explore, to look for.
		
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			And this particular surah we're studying tonight, which
		
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			is surat al-alaq, which means the clinging
		
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			clot or the clot, is the first surah
		
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			to ever come down of the Qur'an
		
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			as we know.
		
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			And this is why the scholars paid special
		
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			attention to this surah because beginnings are important.
		
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			It is unlikely that you get a good
		
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			outcome with a bad beginning.
		
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			Not impossible, but unlikely, right?
		
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			So beginnings are huge.
		
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			If the foundation is not set correctly, it
		
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			is hard to build on a crooked or
		
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			an unstable Iraqi foundation.
		
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			So this surah, as we will see inshallah,
		
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			surat al-alaq, sets the most important foundations.
		
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			It speaks about the nature of God.
		
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			It speaks about the nature of man.
		
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			It speaks about the nature of the tension
		
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			between good and evil in the world, right?
		
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			These foundational concepts.
		
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			And the context of this surah descending, as
		
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			many of you I'm sure know, is that
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ started at the age of
		
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			40 seeing true dreams that would unfold as
		
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			soon as he awoke, he awakened.
		
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			And then he started to separate himself from
		
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			the city.
		
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			He became averse to many of the vices
		
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			of the town of Mecca, right?
		
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			Pagan Arabia, pre-Islamic Arabia.
		
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			And so he would spend nights and days
		
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			at a time in a cave called Hira
		
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			until ultimately the angel came to him.
		
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			The angel came to him in the dark
		
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			and he did not know what an angel
		
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			was.
		
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			And he said to him, recite.
		
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			He said, I cannot recite.
		
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			He said, recite, I cannot recite.
		
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			And each time he would squeeze him fiercely
		
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			until at the third time he began to
		
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			feed him the words of the Qur'an,
		
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			instill in him the words of the Creator.
		
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			He said to him, recite in the name
		
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			of your Lord, right?
		
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			And he created the human being from a
		
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			clinging clot.
		
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			So that's the word that the surah is
		
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			named after, this clinging clot.
		
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			اقرأ وربك الأكرم Recite, and your Lord is
		
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			the most generous.
		
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			الذي علم بالقلم Who taught the usage of
		
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			the pen.
		
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			He taught human beings to write, to read
		
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			and write.
		
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			الذي علم بالقلم علم الإنسان ما لم يعلم
		
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			He taught the human being that which he
		
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			does not know, meaning all of that which
		
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			he does not know.
		
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			Okay, so what do we take from the
		
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			first verse of the first revelation ever?
		
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			اقرأ Recite, بسم ربك in the name of
		
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			your Lord.
		
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			Well, first of all, the importance of knowledge,
		
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			right?
		
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			The relationship with Allah must be defined by
		
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			what you find in the Qur'an.
		
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			You can't assume to know who Allah is
		
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			and how to have a meaningful relationship with
		
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			Him.
		
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			Who Allah is and what He wants of
		
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			moral conduct from us.
		
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			This must begin.
		
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			It is defined for us by Allah.
		
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			It must start with the Qur'an.
		
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			You must believe that you are in the
		
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			dark without it.
		
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			Inevitably, without the Qur'an, you're in the
		
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			dark.
		
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			You know, also the scholars point out that
		
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			the very first mention in this surah is
		
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			اقرأ Recite.
		
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			And the very last mention in this surah,
		
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			maybe I should have mentioned this at the
		
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			end, but here it is, is وَسْجُد and
		
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			prostrate, right?
		
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			And there's a lot there that they discussed
		
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			of it is that they are both commands.
		
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			This surah begins and ends with commands, which
		
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			means what?
		
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			There's work to be done.
		
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			There's instructions.
		
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			You know, some people don't like to be
		
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			told what to do.
		
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			Many people like to be told what to
		
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			do, right?
		
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			You just wish you can have some Islam
		
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			that matches your preferences, your convenience, what you're
		
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			used to, your habits, right?
		
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			So you got to work.
		
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			You got to put in the work.
		
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			And, you know, beginnings are hard.
		
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			And that's why you need to be told
		
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			up front from the beginning that there's work
		
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			to be done.
		
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			You know, the Prophet ﷺ said that Allah
		
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			عز و جل said that whomever takes a
		
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			hand span, whomever comes closer to me by
		
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			a hand span, I come closer to him
		
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			by an arm's length, right?
		
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			And whomever comes to me walking, I come
		
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			to them running.
		
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			However, however, the hand span is harder than
		
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			the arm's length.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because that's your job.
		
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			The arm's length is more distance, but you're
		
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			not the one covering it.
		
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			And that is why beginnings are hard, because
		
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			that hand span is on you.
		
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			That walk, beginning the walk is on you.
		
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			And so the beginning is difficult, but it
		
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			must be done.
		
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			It must be embraced.
		
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			And, you know, think also of the fact
		
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			that the Prophet ﷺ is being commanded to
		
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			do something, not just do something.
		
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			Do something he does not know how to
		
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			do, right?
		
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			Think about the notion of, oh, I don't
		
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			know how to pray.
		
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			I'm not into reading.
		
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			I'm not the reading type.
		
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			People say this stuff all the time, right?
		
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			I'm not into this.
		
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			I'm not into that.
		
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			I don't do that.
		
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			The Prophet ﷺ is told before anything, do
		
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			what you can't do.
		
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			He's an illiterate man, never taught to read
		
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			and write.
		
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			The first thing Allah tells him is read.
		
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			And so there's no way around.
		
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			Also, the importance of reading is because there's
		
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			no way around reading.
		
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			You know, they say that what are the
		
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			three pillars of an upright Muslim?
		
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			Were the first three commands given to the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ, or the first three surahs given
		
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			to the Prophet ﷺ?
		
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			Which was iqra, read.
		
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			Then the other surah was what?
		
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			Qum illayla illa qaleela, pray.
		
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			Get up and pray at night.
		
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			Then the third surah was what?
		
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			Qum fa'andil, get up and warn.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So if you're not reading this Qur'an,
		
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			taking your worldview from it, you're not going
		
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			to be able to stand in front of
		
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			Allah at night.
		
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			Or you might, by the way, but it
		
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			won't be proper.
		
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			Like, you know, some people stand up at
		
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			night to tell themselves they're great people.
		
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			But how are you going to be humbled
		
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			without first reciting, internalizing the Book of Allah
		
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			so that your night prayers are fruitful, so
		
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			that your night prayers are useful, right?
		
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			And how are you going to call to
		
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			Allah عز و جل, invite people to the
		
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			faith, be proactive without knowledge?
		
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			So these are like the three pillars you
		
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			need.
		
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			But the first of the three is what?
		
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			Is iqra, the importance of knowledge.
		
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			And if you are not the reading type,
		
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			neither was the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم.
		
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			And so Allah سبحانه وتعالى made it easy
		
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			by telling him, recite in my name.
		
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			Just say, Bismillah, and I will facilitate it
		
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			for you, right?
		
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			As the prophetic du'a and the famous
		
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			du'a of the Prophet صلى الله عليه
		
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			وسلم that was reported from him, he used
		
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			to say, اللهم لا سهل إلا ما جعلته
		
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			سهلا و أنت تجعل الحزن صعب إذا ما
		
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			شئت سهلا.
		
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			Oh Allah, nothing is easy except what you
		
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			make easy.
		
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			And you are the one that makes the
		
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			most difficult things easy.
		
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			Who is the one that can make that
		
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			possible?
		
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			It is Allah سبحانه وتعالى.
		
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			And so that is why we begin every
		
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			recitation of the Qur'an with what?
		
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			With Bismillah, in the name of Allah.
		
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			So Allah may facilitate for us our reading,
		
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			facilitate for us our understanding of the Qur
		
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			'an.
		
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			But notice also he doesn't say, اقرأ بسم
		
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			الله الرحمن الرحيم.
		
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			Recite in the name of Allah.
		
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			In this context it's what?
		
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			اقرأ بسم ربك.
		
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			Recite in the name of your Lord.
		
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			Because Lord here or رب here means caretaker.
		
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			رب, Lord, also carries the connotation of a
		
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			caretaker.
		
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			Someone that grows something in a healthy way.
		
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			And we covered this in previous weeks as
		
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			well.
		
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			رب or ربى or ربى, bad connotation with
		
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			ربى, interest.
		
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			But it's all from the same root.
		
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			It means to grow in a healthy way.
		
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			So who is the one that raised you?
		
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			Who is the one that developed you?
		
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			It was Allah سبحانه وتعالى.
		
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			You are dependent on Him.
		
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			He is the one that grew you.
		
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			He is the one that created you in
		
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			the first place.
		
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			بِرَبِّكَ الَّذِي خَلَقَ.
		
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			He is the one who created everything.
		
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			And causes it to expand.
		
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			Causes it to evolve.
		
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			Causes it to develop.
		
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			You know, even the universe.
		
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			When Allah سبحانه وتعالى says, The heavens, we
		
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			have constructed them.
		
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			وَإِنَّا لَمُوسِعُونَ We are the expander of the
		
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			heavens, right?
		
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			The universe is constantly expanding.
		
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			Allah is the رب of the universe that
		
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			caused it to expand.
		
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			Likewise the human being.
		
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			Recite in the name of your رب who
		
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			created.
		
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			And then He says, خَلَقَ الْإِنسَانِ.
		
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			Created man or created the human being من
		
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			عَلَق.
		
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			From a clinging clot.
		
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			You know, just basically in the wall of
		
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			the womb.
		
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			When the pregnancy begins, right?
		
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			The fetus or what will be the fetus
		
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			sort of is implanted into the wall of
		
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			the womb.
		
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			And it clings onto there, right?
		
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			Allah عز و جل created.
		
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			Recite in the name of your Lord who
		
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			created.
		
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			He develops everything that needs to be developed.
		
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			You rely on Him, not on yourself.
		
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			But then He says, He created the human
		
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			being.
		
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			Which means there was special care for the
		
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			human being.
		
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			Just like the verses that say, وَنَفَخْتُ فِيهِ
		
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			مِنْ رُوحِي.
		
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			I blew into it a very special spirit
		
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			of mine.
		
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			By the way, we don't believe that a
		
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			part of God is in us, right?
		
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			What does it mean, my spirit?
		
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			I'm talking too much.
		
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			I gotta start asking questions now.
		
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			So you guys don't lose me.
		
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			What does my spirit mean?
		
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			The soul.
		
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			What is my, this attribution to God is
		
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			what?
		
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			This is sort of an honorific.
		
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			Like when you say the Kaaba is Allah's
		
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			house.
		
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			It doesn't mean, he lives inside, right?
		
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			When you say the soul is Allah's soul,
		
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			even though He created everything.
		
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			It's meaning it has a special connection with
		
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			Allah.
		
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			It was specially awarded to the human being.
		
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			There is something special about the human soul.
		
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			It is His trophy creation.
		
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			سُبْحَانَهُ وَ تَعَالَى.
		
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			And so that's why it says, recite in
		
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			the name of your Lord who created, and
		
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			especially created the human being.
		
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			خَلَقَ الْإِنسَانِ مِنْ عَلَقٍ Created the human being
		
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			from this clinging clot of congealed blood.
		
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			That's a very verbose, long-winded way to
		
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			say, just a clot of blood, right?
		
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			خَلَقَ الْإِنسَانَ مِنْ عَلَقٍ اقْرَأْ وَرَبُّكَ الْأَكْرَمُ Recite,
		
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			and your Lord is the most generous.
		
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			الَّذِي عَلَّمَ بِالْقَلَمِ The one who taught by
		
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			the pen, taught the usage of the pen.
		
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			Why is the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam being
		
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			told Allah taught the usage of the pen
		
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			when he doesn't use the pen, when he
		
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			was illiterate Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam?
		
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			What's the meaning here?
		
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			What is the relevance of mentioning the pen
		
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			here?
		
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			The gift of being able to pen things.
		
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			Yeah, the one who taught humanity how to
		
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			use a pen can teach you without a
		
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			pen to recite this book.
		
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			It's not like it's an inherent function of
		
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			humanity to have knowledge or to have penmanship
		
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			or to have the ability to script things.
		
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			Can I read this?
		
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			Jazakallahu khairan.
		
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			And so Allah teaches.
		
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			He is the one who teaches.
		
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			You know, subhanAllah, you think about the fact
		
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			that especially in secular times, Dr. Yaqub Ahmed,
		
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			the historian when he was here, he was
		
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			talking about this.
		
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			We are not permitted, we are not permitted
		
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			in sort of the secular norms to insert
		
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			God into the domain of knowledge, right?
		
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			Like knowledge is material knowledge.
		
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			No such thing as any unseen factors.
		
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			So the one who taught us how to
		
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			think, the one who gave us the ability
		
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			to think, you are not allowed to mention
		
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			him, right?
		
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			You can't say God taught me, right?
		
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			God opened my eyes to this.
		
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			And that makes it extra important for us
		
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			to continue to do that so that we
		
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			don't get conditioned into this, right?
		
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			You have to constantly say Allah taught me,
		
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			what God showed me.
		
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			Allah opened my eyes to this.
		
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			Allah reminded me, yes?
		
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			This has to be part of the vernacular
		
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			of the Muslim because how you speak is
		
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			a reflection of how you think.
		
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			And so removing God from public life is
		
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			a challenge for every Muslim.
		
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			You have to maintain the presence, the relevance
		
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			of God in private life or else He'll
		
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			actually be gone.
		
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			He won't be part of your life anymore.
		
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			What's left?
		
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			And so this is our job.
		
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			الَّذِي عَلَّمَ بِالْقَلَمِ The one who taught the
		
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			usage of the pen.
		
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			عَلَّمَ الْإِنسَانَ مَا لَمْ يَعْلَمْ Taught al-insan,
		
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			the human being, all that he does not
		
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			know.
		
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			Okay, now, the next verses say what?
		
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			These next verses, the second set of verses
		
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			in this surah.
		
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			These first five verses were from the first
		
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			encounter with the Prophet ﷺ and the angel.
		
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			The scholars mentioned the rest of the surah
		
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			came about regarding the, sort of the abusive,
		
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			oppressive nature of people like Abu Jahl.
		
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			Abu Jahl is one of the archenemies of
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ, one of the leading pagans
		
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			of Mecca.
		
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			He lived and died a pagan and he
		
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			was sort of one of the most hostile
		
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			of the opponents of the Prophet ﷺ to
		
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			him, Abu Jahl.
		
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			So the next verses continue to say, كَلَّ
		
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			إِنَّ الْإِنسَانَ لَيَطْغَ كَلَّ is an emphatic no.
		
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			Throughout the Qur'an, you should remember.
		
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			كَلَّ means no, absolutely not.
		
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			It's no exclamation.
		
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			That's what it is.
		
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			كَلَّ.
		
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			لا means no.
		
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			كَلَّ is an emphatic no.
		
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			إِنَّ الْإِنسَانَ لَيَطْغَ The human being transgresses.
		
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			The human being transgresses means he constantly transgresses.
		
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			He more often than not transgresses.
		
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			يَطْغَ When does a human being transgress?
		
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			It says, أَنْ رَآهُ اسْتَغْنَ When he sees
		
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			himself unneedy.
		
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			استَغْنَ from غِنَ which means sufficiency or like
		
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			riches or غِنَ, right?
		
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			When he sees himself as independent, sees himself
		
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			as sufficient, self-sufficient.
		
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			He doesn't have any needs.
		
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			He transgresses his bounds.
		
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			In other words, when he forgets that he
		
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			was created by God and taught by God,
		
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			right?
		
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			And he's nothing really in reality but a
		
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			clinging substance.
		
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			He thinks because he has become an adult
		
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			now, no longer a fetus, and he has
		
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			some strength.
		
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			Or he thinks because he has some money
		
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			now.
		
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			Or he thinks because he has a degree
		
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			now.
		
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			Or he thinks because he has some sort
		
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			of reputation now.
		
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			He thinks he's less dependent on his Lord,
		
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			and so he violates.
		
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			He crosses bounds against his Lord.
		
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			This is the meaning.
		
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			Allah taught to human beings what they know
		
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			not.
		
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			He created them, taught them, and all of
		
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			this.
		
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			No, that's not how most people see it.
		
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			No, that's not how most people operate.
		
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			They transgress.
		
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			Why do they transgress?
		
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			اَمْ رَأَاهُ اسْتَغْنَا Because he sees himself as
		
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			self-sufficient, right?
		
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			He stops recognizing that he is no less
		
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			independent than the cloth of blood in the
		
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			side of the wall.
		
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			You're no different.
		
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			You're no different than, you know that sort
		
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			of image of a person like stuck in
		
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			a flood and everything, and he's just trying
		
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			to grab something.
		
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			He's trying to cling to something, grabbing a
		
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			twig on the side of the river, right?
		
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			That's every human being at every moment.
		
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			We're all like that.
		
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			The more you forget that, the more prone
		
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			you are to transgress.
		
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			That's the idea.
		
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			You know, during the space race, there was
		
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			a meme.
		
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			I don't know if it's true, but I
		
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			mean all memes are true, so there's probably
		
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			some truth to it.
		
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			During the space race between U.S. and
		
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			Russia, who's going to get to outer space
		
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			first?
		
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			I forget his name.
		
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			There's a famous Russian astronaut.
		
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			He famously said, I don't see any God
		
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			up here, right?
		
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			We've sort of broken the bounds of the
		
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			whatever it is, right?
		
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			The stratosphere and we got out and all
		
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			this.
		
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			So they had like a meme of him
		
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			saying, I don't see any God up here.
		
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			And then on the other side was Mufti
		
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			Menk.
		
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			And Mufti Menk, a famous Muslim scholar.
		
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			And he was saying, wait till your oxygen
		
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			runs out.
		
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			You just wait till your oxygen runs out,
		
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			then you'll see God.
		
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			But it will be too late at that
		
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			point.
		
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			But this is sort of the ugliness of
		
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			man when he thinks he can do something,
		
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			right?
		
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			You know, we understand this as like, most
		
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			of us here are parents, right?
		
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			Like the notion of the parent that feels
		
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			stabbed in the back.
		
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			It's not the perfect analogy.
		
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			There's never a perfect analogy for Allah Azza
		
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			wa Jal, right?
		
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			But the parent that sort of like stayed
		
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			up at night and bought diapers for the
		
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			kid and sort of like did these midnight
		
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			runs to the emergency rooms and like, you
		
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			know, went to work groggy the next day
		
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			and spent money and bought you shoes.
		
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			And then you kept breaking your glasses and
		
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			like you had to go replace their glasses
		
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			for them.
		
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			And I'm venting here.
		
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			I'm venting here, right?
		
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			And every time there's a cut or a
		
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			bruise or a fever, right?
		
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			You're sort of at the service of your
		
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			child.
		
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			And then all of a sudden your child
		
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			doesn't speak to you anymore, right?
		
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			Your child sort of like feels independent.
		
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			They're arguing with you.
		
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			This is sort of the dilemma, the conundrum
		
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			of the human being with his Lord Subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala.
		
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			Allah Azza wa Jal says in Surah Yasin,
		
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			أَوَلَمْ يَرَى الْإِنسَانُ أَنَّا خَلَقْنَاهُ مِنْ نُطُفَةٍ فَإِذَا
		
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			هُوَ خَصِيمٌ مُبِينٌ Has the human being not
		
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			seen that We created him from a measly
		
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			fluid, this sort of like flimsy drop of
		
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			*, right?
		
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			This flimsy fluid.
		
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			And all of a sudden he is خَصِيمٌ
		
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			مُبِينٌ a clear adversary, clear disputant.
		
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			I don't know if there's a God.
		
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			Why does God say that anyway?
		
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			Why does He make us do these things?
		
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			Why does He want us to worship Him,
		
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			right?
		
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			Clear adversary, all of a sudden.
		
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			It is because this sense of independence.
		
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			And you know, even the mushrik, even the
		
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			pagan, the Quran tells us throughout, the polytheist
		
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			who like devotes himself to multiple gods, when
		
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			he's stuck between a rock and a hard
		
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			place, he says, يَا رَبِّ He's sincere and
		
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			says, Oh, God, save me, right?
		
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			There's no atheist in a foxhole or on
		
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			a sinking ship, right?
		
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			You just...
		
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			The lies incinerate, they evaporate.
		
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			And you just say, يَا الله And why
		
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			am I saying this?
		
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			Because the believer needs to understand that's a
		
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			given.
		
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			We all go back to Allah, recognize our
		
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			dependency on Him when we're stuck.
		
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			The believer is expected to do better before
		
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			you get stuck.
		
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			You're supposed to be a person that is
		
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			regularly refining your recognition of your utter dependency
		
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			on Him.
		
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			You know, مُوَرَّخَ الْعَجْلِ رحمه الله He has
		
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			a nice statement where he says, I could
		
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			not find a better example for a believer
		
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			that a human being holding on to a
		
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			log in the middle of the ocean saying,
		
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			يَا رَبِّ يَا رَبِّ My Lord, my Lord,
		
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			right?
		
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			So that perhaps His Lord may save him.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Feeling the utter dependency at all moments.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Insecurity without Allah SWT.
		
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			Only finding my peace with Him.
		
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			And that is through coming to the Quran
		
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			over and over and over again.
		
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			And it is also taking from the Quran
		
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			this treasure of a clue.
		
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			Like when do I start going in this
		
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			direction, the other direction?
		
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			When I start, things start going my way.
		
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			Right?
		
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			When I start accumulating.
		
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			Like think about it.
		
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			As one Shaykh was saying that, like forget
		
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			once we leave the hospital.
		
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			You know, may Allah give cure to all
		
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			those who are sick and keep us out
		
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			of the hospitals.
		
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			But like as soon as you like, you
		
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			start sitting up in the hospital bed.
		
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			Things start changing.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Like the promise becomes half a promise.
		
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			Because you start, you're getting your breath now.
		
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			So the more capable you become, the more
		
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			prone you are to transgress.
		
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			And so you need the anchor.
		
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			Right?
		
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			You need the refresh.
		
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			That's what the Quran came to do.
		
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			So how do you make sure?
		
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			How do you offset it?
		
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			What's the serum?
		
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			What is the cure?
		
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			It's in the next verse.
		
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			إِنَّ الْإِنسَانَ لَيَتْغَىٰ The human being transgresses.
		
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			أَنْ رَآهُ اسْتَغْنَىٰ When he sees himself as
		
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			self-sufficient.
		
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			إِنَّ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ الرُّجْعَةِ Certainly to your Lord
		
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			is the return.
		
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			That's how you stop it.
		
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			I came from nothing.
		
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			Right?
		
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			A clot of blood.
		
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			And I will return to nothing.
		
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			إِنَّ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ الرُّجْعَةِ And then my soul
		
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			will go back to Allah.
		
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			He will ask me about everything.
		
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			سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى إِنَّ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ الرُّجْعَةِ Certainly to
		
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			your Lord is the return.
		
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			Then the verses proceed to reprimand Abu Jahl.
		
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			Abu Jahl was taunting the Prophet ﷺ and
		
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			he was threatening the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			And so Allah عز و جل says, أَرَأَيْتَ
		
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			الَّذِي يَنْهَى عَبِدًا إِذَا صَلَّ Have you seen
		
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			the one who forbids a servant when he
		
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			prays?
		
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			The one who forbids here is Abu Jahl,
		
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			the enemy of the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			The one who prays is the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			Foundational components, right?
		
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			Nature of God, nature of man, the nature
		
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			of the tension.
		
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			Remember we said that?
		
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			From the very first surah, Allah is telling
		
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			you how it's going to be.
		
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			Not even you're doing da'wah, you're calling
		
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			to Islam.
		
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			You praying is going to bother some people,
		
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			right?
		
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			You simply praying, it's like you're under a
		
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			staircase somewhere, right?
		
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			In your cubicle, it's going to bother some
		
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			people.
		
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			Some people are going to be bothered by
		
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			this, right?
		
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			From day one, this is captured in this
		
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			surah.
		
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			People will not even let you pray in
		
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			peace.
		
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			You know the story of Zayd ibn Daghinnah
		
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			when Abu Bakr as-Siddiq, the right hand
		
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			man of the Prophet ﷺ and his greatest
		
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			companion, when he was leaving Mecca, he was
		
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			going to migrate away from Mecca due to
		
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			all the persecution.
		
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			He said to him, مِثْلُكَ لَا يَخْرُجْ وَلَا
		
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			يُخْرَجْ People like you cannot be driven out
		
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			of a town, nor can they be permitted
		
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			to leave a town.
		
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			Meaning like you're too valuable.
		
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			Come back and you are under my protection.
		
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			So he went out and he declared, and
		
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			sort of the tribal culture in Arabia was
		
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			one that you do not violate someone's declared
		
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			protection, someone's asylum, right?
		
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			That they grant someone.
		
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			So he had a strong family and he
		
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			said, don't mess with Abu Bakr, he's under
		
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			my family's protection.
		
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			So Abu Bakr as-Siddiq, he used to
		
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			pray at night and watching Abu Bakr pray
		
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			at night was like an event.
		
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			He was sort of like a brittle hearted
		
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			man that would not ever read the Quran
		
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			and without getting emotional, and he would live
		
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			with the verses.
		
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			And so it was like a theater at
		
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			night.
		
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			Every time he would pray in sort of
		
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			the outskirts of the property, he would pray
		
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			out like under the moon.
		
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			The women, the children, people are coming and
		
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			they're watching him pray.
		
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			Like it's just like, what is this?
		
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			And so this was causing a big problem.
		
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			This is bad PR for the other side.
		
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			And so they said to Zayd ibn Daghinnah,
		
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			the man who had granted him this protection,
		
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			you either retract or else we are going
		
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			to violate the protection.
		
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			We're willing to go to war with your
		
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			family.
		
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			And so he went to Abu Bakr, he
		
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			said, Abu Bakr, listen, can you just pray
		
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			inside?
		
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			Just do me a favor because it's going
		
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			to get ugly and it's really not worth
		
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			it.
		
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			And I thought that they would honor it
		
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			and they're not honoring it.
		
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			And he said, no, I will not pray
		
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			inside.
		
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			I will not go underground with my prayers.
		
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			You can have your protection back and I
		
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			will suffice with the protection of Allah, with
		
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			the Jawar of Allah.
		
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			And so this also happened to the Prophet
		
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			Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam that Uqba ibn Abi Mu
		
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			'ayt and Abu Jahl, Abu Jahl came to
		
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			the people at the Kaaba.
		
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			The Kaaba was there since the time of
		
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			Abraham, peace be upon him, but around there
		
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			was 360 idols.
		
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			But still this is sort of Allah's house.
		
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			So the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam used to
		
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			pray at the Kaaba, Abu Jahl would come
		
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			and say, you guys are letting, you guys
		
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			are a bunch of cowards.
		
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			You let Muhammad pray at the Kaaba, right?
		
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			These are fellow pagans.
		
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			He said, if I see him praying one
		
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			more time, dirtying his face in the ground,
		
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			that's how he put it, one more time
		
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			I'll stomp on his neck.
		
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			And so he in fact attempted to do
		
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			that.
		
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			And as he got close to the Prophet
		
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			Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, everyone saw him sort of
		
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			fall back on the ground.
		
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			It was a very weird reaction that happened.
		
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			And they said, what's wrong?
		
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			He said, you didn't see it?
		
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			There was like a huge ditch between me
		
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			and Muhammad.
		
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			There was like flames and there was wings
		
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			and things like this.
		
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			I told him, are you crazy?
		
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			Like nothing, none of this happened.
		
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			And so the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam confirmed.
		
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			And he said, لَوْدَنَا مِنِّي لَقْتَطَفَتْهُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ عُضْوًا
		
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			عُضْوًا Had he gotten any closer, the angels
		
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			would have pulled him apart limb from limb.
		
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			Of course, also it's from the great wisdom
		
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			of Allah that this didn't happen, subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala.
		
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			Because then we're going to pray in public
		
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			and someone might bother us and no angel
		
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			is going to sort of defend us for
		
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			the most part, right?
		
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			And so the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was
		
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			actually attacked at times in the prayer.
		
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			And he kept praying, right?
		
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			When Uqba ibn Abi Mu'ayth came and
		
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			he dumped the entrails of a camel on
		
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			top of the Prophet's back while he was
		
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			praying.
		
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			So there was a camel off to the
		
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			side that was slaughtered.
		
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			The blood, the guts are all off the
		
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			side.
		
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			The meat is being distributed elsewhere, right?
		
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			He took all of this and when the
		
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			Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam went into prostration, he
		
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			dumped everything on top of his head.
		
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			And he remained in prostration.
		
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			He completed his sujood, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
		
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			And so Allah Azza wa Jalla is telling
		
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			us that this comes with the package.
		
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			You know, maybe the last thing I'll say
		
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			here before proceeding.
		
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			There is no prosperity doctrine in Islam.
		
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			Sometimes even Muslim preachers do this and they
		
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			really shouldn't.
		
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			So I guarantee you, you sort of like
		
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			start praying your five and your debts will
		
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			be repaid in a month.
		
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			Like they might, but you have no right
		
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			to promise that, right?
		
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			You have no right to promise that.
		
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			Allah may do that.
		
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			But in general, we do what we do
		
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			for the hereafter, not for this world to
		
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			become paradise, right?
		
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			You will have more blessing in your life.
		
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			Life will not get easier.
		
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			Actually, it would likely get harder, but you
		
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			will become stronger.
		
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			This is the blessing, the strength, the inspiration,
		
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			the inner peace.
		
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			You'll get stronger.
		
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			Life will not necessarily get easier.
		
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			More often than not, it won't get easier.
		
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			But you will just be more formidable, more
		
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			resilient, more at peace, right?
		
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			More fulfilled than those that don't have what
		
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			you have.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			أَرَأَيْتَ الَّذِي يَنْهَى عَبْدًا إِذَا صَلَّى Have you
		
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			seen the one who prohibits the servant as
		
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			he prays?
		
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			That's Abu Jahl with the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			أَرَأَيْتَ إِن كَانَ عَلَى الْهُدَى Have you seen,
		
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			meaning have you considered, if he is upon
		
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			guidance?
		
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			Who is this referring to?
		
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			This is speaking to Abu Jahl in the
		
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			most gentle way, like teaching us how to
		
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			sort of give da'wah, invite people to
		
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			the faith, give them one final chance.
		
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			It's saying to Abu Jahl in the most
		
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			gentle terms, have you thought about this?
		
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			Like maybe, what if maybe he's right?
		
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			This man who's praying that you're bothering.
		
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			Maybe he's upon guidance?
		
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			Just give it a chance, think about it.
		
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			Like what in the world is the matter
		
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			with you if you're actually bothering someone who
		
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			is just praying?
		
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			And what if he's doing the right thing
		
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			and you're the one doing the wrong thing?
		
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			How much worse does that make you?
		
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			How much worse does that make you?
		
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			And then the next verse says, أَرَأَيْتَ إِن
		
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			كَذَّبَ وَتَوَلَّى Have you seen, meaning what do
		
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			you think the case would be, if he
		
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			denies and turns away?
		
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			If he denies and turns away.
		
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			This is about Abu Jahl.
		
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			أَلَمْ يَعْلَمْ بِأَنَّ اللَّهَ يَرَى Does he not
		
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			know that Allah sees?
		
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			Sees all things.
		
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			So this is like a final threat for
		
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			the tyrannical abusive Abu Jahl.
		
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			Does he not know that Allah sees?
		
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			You know this statement though is like solace
		
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			for every victim, not just a threat for
		
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			every abuser.
		
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			Allah sees.
		
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			وَمَا كَانَ رَبُّكَ نَسِيًّا Your Lord is never
		
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			forgetful.
		
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			None of this will be forgotten.
		
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			And it is not just a threat for
		
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			every tyrant.
		
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			This is also a mentality.
		
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			A God-fearing mentality is so healthy.
		
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			You know one of the early Muslims he
		
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			used to say, إِن كُنْتَ تَعْتَقِدْ أَنَّ اللَّهَ
		
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			لَا يَرَاكْ فَالْخَلُّ فِي إِمَانِكَ If you believe
		
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			Allah does not see you, then that is
		
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			a void or a defect in your faith.
		
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			Like you're basically not even Muslim if you
		
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			say like, God doesn't see me, right?
		
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			You're not Muslim.
		
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			He says, وَإِن كُنْتَ تَعْتَقِدْ أَنَّهُ يَرَاكْ فَكَيْفَ
		
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			تَجْعَلُهُ أَهْوَنَ النَّظِرِينَ إِلَيْكَ If you do believe
		
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			God sees you, then how could you consider
		
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			Him the most insignificant of those who see
		
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			you?
		
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			Meaning like if there was a kid there,
		
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			you would have put the cigarette away.
		
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			If there was a surveillance camera there, you
		
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			would have taken your boss into consideration.
		
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			So you're saying you believe Allah sees you,
		
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			why does that not impact your behavior in
		
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			any way?
		
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			أَلَمْ يَعْلَمْ بِأَنَّ اللَّهَ يَرَىٰ Does he not
		
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			know that Allah sees him?
		
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			This is sort of a mentality.
		
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			The mentality the believer is supposed to lock
		
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			in on.
		
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			And also a threat for every oppressive person.
		
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			Okay, then Allah says to conclude the surah,
		
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			كَلَّا لَئِنْ لَمْ يَنْتَهِي لَنَسْفَعَمْ بِالنَّاصِيَةِ كَلَّا لَئِنْ
		
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			لَمْ يَنْتَهِي If he does not desist, Abu
		
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			Jahl does not stop.
		
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			People like him don't stop.
		
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			لَنَسْفَعَمْ بِالنَّاصِيَةِ We will grab them.
		
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			نَسْفَعَمْ بِالنَّاصِيَةِ We will * them by their
		
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			nausea.
		
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			The nausea is the forehead, like the front
		
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			of the head, right?
		
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			This is sort of like, you know, your
		
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			most honorable part.
		
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			And that's why we lower it in prostration,
		
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			right?
		
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			And also like when you want to grab
		
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			someone by the front of the head, it's
		
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			humiliating if they have hair to be grabbed.
		
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			But that's the idea, right?
		
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			We're going to * him.
		
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			You know, some have asked me and sort
		
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			of it's a common discussion on this verse.
		
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			Maybe there's sort of like a scientific element
		
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			here.
		
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			Some say like the prefrontal lobe is where
		
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			decision-making happens.
		
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			And so these liars, like they deliberately mask
		
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			the truth and maybe, sure, fine.
		
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			But there has to have, there needs to
		
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			be like a basic meaning, a fundamental meaning
		
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			that still made sense even before neuroscans.
		
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			That's always important, right?
		
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			Like the ayah was not lacking a meaning
		
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			until we x-rayed, right?
		
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			We always have to think about it that
		
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			way.
		
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			So, لَنَسْفَعَنْ بِالنَّاصِيَةِ We will grab him by
		
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			his nausea.
		
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			نَاصِيَةٍ كَذِبَةٍ خَاطِئَةٍ A lying sinful forelock.
		
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			In other words, Allah will come to the
		
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			defense of the believers, right?
		
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			إِنَّ اللَّهَ يُدَافِعَ عَنْ لَذِينَ أَمَانُوا Allah has
		
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			sworn to defend those who have believed.
		
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			A lying sinful forelock.
		
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			فَلْيَدْعُوا نَادِيَةٍ Let him go call his supporters.
		
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			Your nadi is like your club.
		
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			People used to sit in like fraternities, in
		
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			clubs.
		
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			The rich with the rich, and the poor
		
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			with the poor, and the slave class with
		
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			the slave class.
		
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			So, he used to brag and say, مَنْ
		
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			أَشْرَفُ مِنِّي نَادِيًا Who has a more honorable
		
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			sort of class, socioeconomic class than me.
		
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			Abu Jahl would say that, right?
		
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			And so he said, Allah says, فَلْيَدْعُوا نَادِيَةٍ
		
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			Let him go call his supporters.
		
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			سَنَدْعُوا الزَّبَانِيَةِ We're gonna call the zabaniya.
		
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			We're gonna call the angels of *.
		
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			The angels of * await you.
		
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			Once again, the angels did not pull him
		
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			apart in this world.
		
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			Keep that in mind.
		
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			Allah says the angels await him.
		
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			The angels await him meaning upon the plucking
		
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			of his soul.
		
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			And so in conclusion, this surah says if
		
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			you choose to take the path of Abu
		
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			Jahl, you choose to oppose Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam, أَلَمْ يَعْلَمْ بِأَنَّ اللَّهَ يَرَى You need
		
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			to know that Allah sees you, and that
		
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			no matter how strong you are, how strong
		
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			you think you are, you are still what?
		
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			You're hanging by a string.
		
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			You're a alaq.
		
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			Beginning of the surah.
		
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			You're just a alaq, right?
		
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			You just wait and see.
		
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			And on the other hand, if you're taking
		
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			the path of the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam, then just keep doing what you're doing.
		
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			Because it says, سَنَدْعُوا الزَّبَانِيَةِ We will call
		
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			the angels of *.
		
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			كَلَّا لَا تُطِعْهُ وَاسْجُدْ وَاقْتَرِبْ No, O Muhammad,
		
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			don't listen to him.
		
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			Don't listen to his threats.
		
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			وَاسْجُدْ And continue to prostrate.
		
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			That's the final command.
		
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			وَاقْتَرِبْ And draw nearness to us.
		
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			Of course, the believer knows that the only
		
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			way up is down, right?
		
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			And the closest the person is to Allah
		
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			is in prostration.
		
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			The hadith says that.
		
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			أَقْرَبُ مَا يَكُونُ الْعَبْدُ مِنْ رَبِّهِ وَهُوَ سَاجِدْ
		
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			فَأَكْثِرُ الدُّعَاءِ The closest a servant is to
		
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			his Lord is when he's in prostration.
		
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			So make plentiful supplication.
		
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			Pray a lot in your prostrated state with
		
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			your face on the ground.
		
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			Say everything that's in your heart in whatever
		
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			language, right?
		
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			Just speak to Allah Azza wa Jal there.
		
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			So if you take the path of Abu
		
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			Jahl, here's what you need to know.
		
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			He sees you, you think you're independent, that's
		
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			why you're crossing bounds.
		
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			You need to know that you're just a
		
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			alaqa.
		
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			You never stop being a alaqa, right?
		
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			And if you're taking the path of the
		
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			Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, Allah says to him,
		
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			ignore what they're saying and keep prostrating.
		
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			Keep praying to us.
		
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			Keep focusing on us.
		
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			Don't get distracted by a alaqa.
		
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			Don't get distracted by some powerless creature that
		
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			I created and I can render irrelevant.
		
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			That's all.
		
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			We're going to stop here inshallah ta'ala.
		
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			Are there any questions on the surah?
		
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			I know this is a longer surah and
		
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			now we're moving into like the medium-sized
		
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			surahs and so maybe we should start putting
		
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			them up on the screen.
		
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			With the shorter ones that we did the
		
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			past 12 weeks or so, I knew that
		
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			you all memorized them and so I was
		
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			working through them under that premise.