Mohammad Qutub – Quran Tafseer al-Baqarah – When Death Approached Jacob

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The importance of death is lost, and the final decision is ultimately made. The message of Islam is to worship the God of the people, not the God of the people. The church's connections with the controller and the importance of belief and the mutirima of the forefathers are discussed. The church's founder is the uncle of the founder of the church, and following the message ofiers is essential. The importance of worshipping the God of the people and following the message ofiers is emphasized.

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			I praise Allah almighty, and I send prayers
		
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			and blessings upon prophet Muhammad salallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam, his noble family, righteous companions, and all
		
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			those that follow them with right guidance until
		
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			the day of judgment. Ameen.
		
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			Glory be to you, oh Allah. No knowledge
		
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			have we except that which you have taught
		
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			us. Indeed, you are the all knowing, the
		
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			all wise. My dear brothers and sisters, Assalamu
		
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			alaikum,
		
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			Hope everyone is doing well on this fine
		
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			night. And we continue with the tafsir of
		
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			Surat Al Baqarah.
		
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			And we got to the following verse.
		
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			This verse now
		
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			comes
		
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			after the verse that talks about how
		
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			Ibrahim
		
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			alayhi salam and Ya'aqub
		
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			both
		
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			advised
		
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			and recommended
		
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			to their
		
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			children, their sons,
		
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			the importance
		
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			of being firm on the deen. That Allah
		
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			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala chose the deen for them
		
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			and that they should not die except in
		
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			a state of Islam.
		
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			And we said this is something
		
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			that they
		
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			advised
		
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			their children
		
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			and sons
		
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			during their lives, so that they can live
		
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			with Islam,
		
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			and possibly also
		
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			upon their death, right before death.
		
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			And now this ayah is talking specifically about
		
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			the wasiyah of Ya'aqob alayhis salam
		
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			on his deathbed.
		
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			So he says,
		
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			Interestingly, the way the ayah is beginning, however,
		
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			it is
		
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			a criticism
		
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			for the Jews and the Christians
		
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			saying to them, Or were you witnesses?
		
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			In other words, the statement is clearly a
		
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			rejection of something that they said.
		
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			So that's why it starts out with
		
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			or were you witnesses? In other words, were
		
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			you witnesses there
		
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			when Yaqub alayhis salam was on his deathbed
		
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			advising
		
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			his sons, you were not there. So let
		
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			me tell you. Allah is going to tell
		
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			you
		
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			what happened
		
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			during that fateful moment.
		
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			Ya'qub alayhis salaam on his deathbed.
		
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			Or were you witnesses? You did not witness
		
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			it. Or were you witnesses?
		
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			When
		
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			death
		
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			approached Yaqub.
		
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			Yaqub is Jacob alaihis salam.
		
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			Habara,
		
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			that's why we talk about the person
		
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			when they are on their deathbed, we call
		
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			it the time of Ihtidar.
		
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			Right? When death comes to the person. Habara.
		
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			Notice
		
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			also for the Arabophiles,
		
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			Why? Because death came to
		
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			Yaqub.
		
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			So death here is the one,
		
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			the file
		
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			and Yaqub is the object because death came
		
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			to him.
		
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			So,
		
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			this is the time when Yaqub alaihis salam
		
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			was giving this very important,
		
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			last piece of advice
		
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			to his sons.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			When
		
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			you are on your deathbed,
		
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			imagine that moment. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			keep us firm on the deen and make
		
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			our best moments
		
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			during the end of our lives.
		
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			At that time,
		
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			his last words
		
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			to his sons,
		
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			subhanAllah, they were not about
		
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			his property
		
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			or anything worldly.
		
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			It was about their religion,
		
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			their faith,
		
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			their tawhid,
		
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			the true
		
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			legacy
		
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			that he leaves behind
		
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			as a prophet of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			This is
		
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			the ultimate advice.
		
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			Can you see yourself at that point
		
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			giving that kind of advice?
		
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			SubhanAllah.
		
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			We will talk about all kinds of things.
		
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			Do this, do that. Right? Concerning the property,
		
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			concerning your brothers and your sisters,
		
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			and all things that have to do with
		
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			the dunya.
		
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			Would we advise at that last moment? These
		
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			are your last words. That's it.
		
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			About the deen?
		
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			Not only that,
		
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			look at the wording.
		
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			To his
		
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			sons,
		
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			What will you worship after me? SubhanAllah.
		
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			Can you imagine yourself saying that? I don't
		
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			think anyone would say something like that.
		
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			What are you going to worship after me?
		
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			In the first one, this is possibly what
		
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			we expect more.
		
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			Allah chose the religion for you So do
		
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			not die except in a state of Islam.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			We can maybe see ourselves saying something like
		
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			that if we have
		
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			the firmness of deen
		
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			to give that kind of advice
		
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			as our last words. Right?
		
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			But here,
		
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			he's getting into the specifics of worship. What
		
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			will you worship after me?
		
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			How interesting.
		
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			The expression itself.
		
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			It seems to indicate, Wallahu Alam,
		
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			that Yaqub alayhis salam
		
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			wanted to be specific
		
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			there. And therefore, it was not just
		
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			be good Muslims,
		
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			worship Allah alone.
		
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			What will you worship? He wants them to
		
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			answer.
		
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			And he wants the answer
		
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			to start with, we will worship
		
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			Allah. We will worship
		
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			your God, whatever it may be.
		
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			He wants a firm affirmative
		
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			statement.
		
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			Furthermore,
		
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			when he says, What will you worship after
		
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			me? It seems to indicate, that
		
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			possibly he was afraid
		
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			of something.
		
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			He was afraid.
		
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			Again, if we look at ourselves,
		
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			if you know
		
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			that your sons,
		
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			your children
		
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			are practicing Muslims, would you ask them, What
		
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			are you going to worship after me? No.
		
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			You would just say,
		
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			Continue, fear Allah, be good Muslims.
		
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			But if you fear something
		
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			that maybe shirk,
		
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			some kind of
		
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			worship of someone other than Allah
		
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			may seep into them,
		
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			then maybe you will ask this question, What
		
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			are you gonna worship after me?
		
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			Maybe something happened
		
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			that made you fear and therefore you would
		
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			ask the question that way. Yeah? So you
		
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			would say,
		
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			What are you going to worship after me?
		
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			This is what he is asking them.
		
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			Could it be possible that
		
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			some of his sons
		
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			did something
		
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			other than the worship of Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala?
		
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			Fell into idolatry?
		
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			The Quran does not
		
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			mention any of anything of that.
		
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			The Quran,
		
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			just mentions
		
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			their
		
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			great sin
		
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			when they intended to kill their brother Yusuf
		
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			alaihis salam.
		
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			But he does not mention anything about shirk.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So it seems if there was something like
		
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			that, the Quran would have mentioned
		
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			it. And he's saying, What will you worship
		
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			after me?
		
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			Of course, their answer
		
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			is very clear
		
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			that they will worship none other than his,
		
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			God.
		
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			But
		
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			the question,
		
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			What will you worship after me?
		
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			He wants to make sure. He wants to
		
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			be comforted, right?
		
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			If we look at the Bible,
		
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			in the Old Testament, in the book of
		
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			Genesis,
		
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			it mentions
		
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			the advice of Jacob to his sons
		
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			but not on his deathbed,
		
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			during his life.
		
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			And it says that he gathered the people
		
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			of his household
		
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			and
		
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			others as well.
		
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			And
		
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			he said to them,
		
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			put away
		
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			the strange gods that you have amongst you.
		
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			SubhanAllah.
		
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			And then
		
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			later on,
		
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			the verse mentions
		
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			that they gave unto Jacob
		
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			the gods which were in
		
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			their hands.
		
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			So in other words,
		
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			the Old Testament is confirming
		
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			that
		
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			the people Jacob was advising, amongst whom are
		
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			his sons, had idols
		
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			in their hand
		
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			and they gave it
		
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			to their father, SubhanAllah.
		
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			The Quran does not confirm that.
		
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			But again, the indication,
		
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			What will you worship after
		
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			me? Maybe because he saw something, maybe something
		
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			happened.
		
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			Or the other answer may be,
		
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			if we say that, no, this did not
		
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			happen from them,
		
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			as is clear
		
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			from their reply,
		
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			their unequivocal reply that they will only worship
		
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			the God of Jacob,
		
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			as we will
		
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			see,
		
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			then we may say that Ya'aqob might have
		
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			been afraid because idolatry
		
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			was rampant at their time.
		
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			There was idol worship at his time.
		
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			And there were others who fell into idol
		
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			worship. So he wanted to be absolutely clear
		
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			and he said it in this way, what
		
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			will you worship after me?'
		
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			so that he can be absolutely
		
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			sure. And there would not be any possibility,
		
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			and there would not be any confusion. Their
		
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			reply, SubhanAllah,
		
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			They said,
		
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			We will worship
		
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			your God.
		
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			Another interesting reply.
		
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			They didn't say, We will worship Allah,
		
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			the one and only.
		
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			They said, We will worship your God, the
		
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			God of Jacob,
		
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			the God of our father,
		
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			and the God of your fathers, Ibrahim and
		
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			Ismail and Ishaq. Very interesting.
		
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			Here as well,
		
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			it seems what they are doing is putting
		
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			their father's
		
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			heart
		
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			at ease.
		
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			They are comforting their father
		
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			to say, We are gonna worship
		
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			your God, the God you taught us
		
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			to worship, the one and only God,
		
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			the God
		
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			that sent you
		
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			as a prophet,
		
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			the God
		
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			that you spent your life
		
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			calling to,
		
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			we will worship your God.
		
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			Not only that and the God of your
		
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			forefathers,
		
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			Ibrahim
		
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			Ismail Ishaq,
		
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			emphasizing
		
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			the unbreakable
		
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			connection
		
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			between
		
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			what? Between,
		
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			those 3
		
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			and Yaqub.
		
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			This chain
		
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			of great people, of prophets
		
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			and messengers,
		
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			it's an unbreakable connection.
		
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			We are going to worship your God and
		
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			the God of your fathers,
		
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			the same God.
		
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			Ibrahim Alaihi Salam gave similar advice.
		
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			Ismail seems to have given similar advice.
		
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			Ishaq as well,
		
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			and now
		
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			Yaqub.
		
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			So, they are emphasizing that connection. So, they
		
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			didn't only say, your God, your God, and
		
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			the God of Ibrahim,
		
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			Ishmael and Ishaq.
		
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			1 God.
		
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			We worship only 1 God. This is also
		
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			to emphasize
		
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			that this is not a reply
		
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			that is kind of an excuse
		
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			such as, Oh, we will worship your God.
		
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			They don't
		
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			want to name Him. No, that's not the
		
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			case.
		
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			1 God, none other. And we are submillers
		
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			to Him.
		
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			Submission.
		
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			This is Islam.
		
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			We are Muslims.
		
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			To Him, we are submillers
		
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			to Him. Subhanahu Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam.
		
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			They comforted
		
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			their father Yaqub
		
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			Alaihi Wasallam.
		
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			Let the Jews and the Christians learn from
		
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			this.
		
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			Let them
		
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			think about
		
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			this moment, this very emotional moment
		
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			where Yaqub alaihis salam is looking death in
		
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			the eye
		
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			and his 12 sons
		
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			are all in front of him.
		
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			And he's saying to them, what will you
		
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			worship after me?
		
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			And they're all saying together,
		
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			we will worship your God and the God
		
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			of your fathers, Ibrahim,
		
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			and Ishmael and Ishaq.
		
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			One God and we are submitters to Him.
		
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			This is the religion, the religion of Islam.
		
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			The religion of all of these people, all
		
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			of these great
		
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			role models is Islam and
		
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			Tawhid.
		
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			And this is what
		
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			Yaqub wants to hear on his deathbed. This
		
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			is the most important legacy.
		
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			And this is the way of the prophets,
		
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			peace be upon them all, because this is
		
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			what they were sent with. And this is
		
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			what they are worried about.
		
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			And we need to learn from them.
		
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			This is the legacy, my brothers and sisters.
		
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			This is what we leave behind.
		
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			The Jews and the Christians,
		
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			when they argue,
		
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			when they attribute themselves to the patriarchs,
		
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			they call them the patriarchs.
		
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			Ibrahim,
		
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			and Ishaq, and Yaqoob,
		
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			here you go. This is their religion. Is
		
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			this what you are worshiping? Are you on
		
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			their way? Are you on their path?
		
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			That's why he tells them or were you
		
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			witnesses? You were not.
		
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			Now you know.
		
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			So if you want to be on the
		
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			right path, this is their way.
		
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			If you attribute
		
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			yourselves to them and you claim you are
		
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			their descendants, this is their way.
		
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			So we say,
		
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			Yaqub alaihis salaam was a Muslim
		
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			and his
		
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			12 sons were Muslims and submitters.
		
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			Yusuf Alaihi Salam, the great prophet,
		
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			son of Yaqub,
		
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			was a Muslim.
		
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			His brother Benjamin was a Muslim.
		
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			Their brothers,
		
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			Reuben was a Muslim,
		
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			Simeon was a Muslim,
		
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			Levi was a Muslim,
		
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			Judah was a Muslim,
		
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			Ishakar was a Muslim,
		
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			Zebulun was a Muslim, Gad was a Muslim,
		
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			Dan was a Muslim,
		
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			Naftali was a Muslim, they were all Muslims.
		
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			They're all submitted to Allah SWT,
		
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			the one and only.
		
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			This is the way.
		
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			But here there's a very important question.
		
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			They said,
		
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			We worship
		
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			your God
		
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			and the God of your fathers, Ibrahim Ismail
		
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			and Ishaq.
		
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			When we talk about belief
		
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			and the Hakidah,
		
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			can we do imitation in this way?
		
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			Do we say
		
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			we believe in the God of our forefathers?
		
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			So many people nowadays
		
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			use that excuse.
		
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			Who do you follow? Who do you worship?
		
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			The God of our ancestors,
		
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			SubhanAllah.
		
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			Is this what the Quran teaches?
		
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			The Quran
		
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			categorically
		
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			rejects
		
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			imitation
		
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			of the forefathers
		
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			when it comes to belief.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			rebukes
		
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			those who said,
		
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			They said, we have found
		
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			our forefathers
		
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			upon a religion,
		
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			and we are upon their footsteps,
		
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			rightly guided.
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala rejected this.
		
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			And then
		
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			he tells us that in many nations,
		
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			the affluent,
		
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			mutrafuha,
		
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			would say exactly the same. We found our
		
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			forefathers upon a religion and we are in
		
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			their footsteps
		
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			following.
		
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			This is unacceptable.
		
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			This will not be acceptable.
		
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			This is not an acceptable excuse.
		
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			So
		
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			when they say, we follow
		
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			your God,
		
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			We worship your God? What do you think?
		
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			There's a clear difference, isn't there?
		
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			This is a prophet,
		
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			peace be upon him,
		
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			And everyone else mentioned
		
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			are prophets.
		
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			They are saying, We are on the way
		
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			of the prophets
		
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			of the great patriarchs.
		
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			We worship their God, the one and only
		
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			God.
		
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			They are the rightly guided.
		
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			This is the difference.
		
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			Not
		
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			that this is
		
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			somehow
		
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			permitting
		
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			imitation when it comes to belief.
		
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			To say, Oh, we are following and worshiping
		
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			the God that our forefathers and ancestors followed.
		
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			Not at all.
		
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			Not in this situation.
		
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			So the reason they mention that is just
		
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			to
		
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			clarify
		
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			that we are on your way.
		
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			We are following and worshiping the God that
		
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			you taught us to worship. They are messengers.
		
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			The Prophet alaihis salatu wa sallam wanted to
		
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			know at the end of his life,
		
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			have I delivered the message?
		
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			And they would all say, Yes. And he
		
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			would say, O Allah,
		
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			bear witness. I have delivered the message.
		
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			Yaqub wants to know this alaihis salaam.
		
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			And possibly
		
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			his fathers
		
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			as well on their deathbeds giving a similar
		
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			advice and recommendation.
		
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			Another interesting question,
		
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			they said,
		
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			your fathers
		
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			Ibrahim and Ishmael and Ishaq.
		
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			Yaqub is the son of Ishaq and Ishaq
		
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			is the son of
		
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			Ibrahim
		
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			alayhi wasalam.
		
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			But Ishmael
		
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			is not the father of Yaqub.
		
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			Ishaq is the father of Yaqub.
		
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			Ishmael alayhi wasalam is the
		
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			uncle of Yaqub alayhi salam.
		
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			This is why some scholars,
		
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			deduced
		
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			from this,
		
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			that the uncle is like a father.
		
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			And some said the grandfather as well because
		
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			Ibrahim
		
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			is the grandfather of Yaqub.
		
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			The grandfather is like a father.
		
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			And some
		
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			applied it also in terms of miraath,
		
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			in terms of the laws of inheritance.
		
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			That the uncle
		
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			and
		
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			the grandfather is like a father
		
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			based on this ayah
		
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			and other
		
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			evidence.
		
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			So they mentioned Ishmael.
		
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			They mentioned Ibrahim
		
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			as fathers,
		
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			alayhim salaam.
		
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			And it may also be very interestingly here
		
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			the sons of Yaqub,
		
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			the 12 tribes
		
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			of Israel,
		
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			or the leaders of the 12 tribes of
		
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			Israel
		
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			are mentioning Ishmael alayhi salam.
		
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			And we learned before
		
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			that Ismael
		
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			alaihis salam seems to be an afterthought
		
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			in the Bible.
		
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			Secondary.
		
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			Doesn't seem very important.
		
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			Here are
		
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			the 12 sons of Yaqub,
		
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			and they are
		
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			mentioning
		
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			Ishmael alaihis salam.
		
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			He's very important.
		
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			He's a prophet just like all of them.
		
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			And he said, Ibrahim
		
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			and they mentioned Ishmael before Ishaq as well.
		
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			The uncle before the father.
		
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			Possibly to emphasize that importance,
		
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			possibly because Ishmael is the older son.
		
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			Ibrahim
		
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			Then he says,
		
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			That was a nation that passed.
		
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			The ones you are talking about, they have
		
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			passed.
		
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			Now,
		
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			again,
		
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			this is an address
		
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			to the Jews and the Christians
		
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			at the time of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam.
		
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			This is a nation that passed.
		
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			To
		
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			them
		
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			or to it
		
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			is what they have earned, what it has
		
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			earned.
		
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			In other words,
		
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			this is a nation of the past.
		
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			There is no relationship between you and that
		
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			nation.
		
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			To it is what it earned,
		
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			and
		
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			for you is what you have earned.
		
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			And you will not be asked
		
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			about what they did.
		
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			So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			is teaching them and everyone a very important
		
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			lesson.
		
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			Number 1,
		
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			the Jews and the Christians, and especially the
		
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			Jews,
		
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			consistently
		
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			emphasize that they are the descendants
		
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			of Ibrahim
		
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			and Ishaq and Yaqoob.
		
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			And they are on their way.
		
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			And they consistently
		
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			talk about
		
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			their ancestors,
		
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			almost as if their ancestors are gonna save
		
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			them.
		
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			They are Israel.
		
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			They are the chosen nation.
		
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			They are the sons and daughters of these
		
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			great patriarchs.
		
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			Will that save them on the Day of
		
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			Judgment?
		
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			Allah said, no.
		
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			There is no connection.
		
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			They have earned what they have earned,
		
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			and you have earned what you have earned.
		
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			And of course, we saw
		
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			so many of them did not keep the
		
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			advice, did not heed
		
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			the wasiya
		
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			of Yaqub alaihis salam. They did very differently
		
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			than what the sons of Yaqub did.
		
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			So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			disconnected
		
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			between them.
		
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			This is a nation that passed.
		
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			To them is what they have done and
		
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			what you have done is something separate.
		
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			You will not be asked about what they
		
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			did on the day of judgment. Stop mentioning
		
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			them over and over
		
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			as if you are going to be asked
		
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			about what they did.
		
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			If you are truly their descendants,
		
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			then follow in their footsteps
		
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			and earn what they have earned
		
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			of obedience.
		
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			Another possibility, Wallahu 'alam,
		
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			the ayah before
		
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			seems to indicate
		
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			that
		
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			those familial connections
		
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			are important
		
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			and will benefit
		
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			on the day of judgment. So they said,
		
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			we worship your God and the God of
		
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			your fathers.
		
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			So someone might say, oh, look. You see
		
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			the Quran?
		
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			It is emphasizing this.
		
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			All you have to do is just
		
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			be on the way of your fathers.
		
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			Even if you haven't earned the same, I
		
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			am the son of Yaqub.
		
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			I am the son of Ibrahim.
		
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			I am of the descendants
		
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			of prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			That's all I need on the day of
		
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			judgment.
		
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			No.
		
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			If this is what you understood from the
		
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			previous ayah,
		
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			because they said, your God and the God
		
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			of your fathers, Allah tells them, no.
		
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			This is a nation that passed.
		
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			What they have earned
		
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			is completely separate
		
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			from what you have earned.
		
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			And you will not be asked
		
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			of what they did.
		
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			So stop
		
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			consistently
		
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			invoking
		
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			them
		
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			as if they are going to help you
		
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			or as if
		
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			you are going to be asked about
		
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			what they did or they will be asked
		
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			about what you
		
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			did. Neither is going to be the case.
		
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			What have you earned?
		
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			And some of them followed in their footsteps,
		
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			in the footsteps of their fathers,
		
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			and heeded
		
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			the advice
		
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			and will
		
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			of these great
		
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			prophets and messengers,
		
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			and many did not,
		
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			as we saw.
		
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			Any questions or