Mohammed Faqih – Virtues of Sham

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The history and legends of the Hospital for the Delos region, including its significance to the spiritual world and its significance to modern day culture, are discussed. The importance of shaving for mothers and motherhood is emphasized, as it is the source of Islam's guidance. The region was dismantled after a military campaign, and the war was not complete, leading to a loss of control and the region was eventually occupied by French and British armies. The importance of the Analion of the message is emphasized, as it is the source of Islam's guidance.

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			I have a question.
		
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			The three verses you mentioned, they are two
		
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			of God.
		
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			Are they what?
		
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			Hundred?
		
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			Hundred and one?
		
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			Hundred and nine?
		
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			Hundred and one?
		
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			Or a hundred, hundred and one, hundred and
		
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			two?
		
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			Oh, yeah.
		
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			I'll look it up, inshallah.
		
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			Okay, inshallah.
		
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			وَاجْعَلْنَا مِنَ الَّذِينَ اِسْتَمِعُونَ الْقَوْلَ فِيَتَّبِعُونَ أَحْسَنَةًۭ
		
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			اللَّهُمَّ إِنَّا نَسْأَلُكَ خَيْرًا هَذِي لَيْلًا وَخَيْرًا مَا
		
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			فِيهَا وَخَيْرًا مَا بَعْدَهَا وَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنْ شَرِّي
		
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			هَذِي لَيْلًا وَشَرِّي مَا فِيهَا وَشَرِّي مَا بَعْدَهَا
		
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			Insha'Allah I'll give 10 seconds insha'Allah
		
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			for those who need to make their way
		
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			out, who are talking and not allowing other
		
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			people to hear anything, to step out insha
		
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			'Allah ta'ala.
		
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			Unless you want to remain.
		
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			Shabab, Ikhwanah, Assalamu alaikum.
		
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			Keep it down.
		
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			Tayyib, first of all I want you to
		
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			remember in your dua insha'Allah ta'ala,
		
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			multiple individuals.
		
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			Number one, Terahji Yusuf, 9 year old at
		
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			Labaner with very serious critical, in
		
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			a very serious and critical state.
		
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			So may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala ease
		
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			her pain and suffering.
		
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			And the other person that I was told
		
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			about is brother Firas Aish Abu Nasr, who
		
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			is also in a critical stage with one
		
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			lung completely failing and the other lung having
		
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			severe pneumonia.
		
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			So please make dua for both of them
		
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			insha'Allah ta'ala.
		
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			May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala ease their
		
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			pain and their suffering.
		
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			And may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala reward
		
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			them and may Allah strengthen them.
		
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			Allahumma rabb al-naas adhibu anhumu al-baas
		
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			wa shafima anta al-shaafi la shifa illa
		
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			shifauk.
		
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			Allahumma khaffif anhum wa ta'ata al-maradi
		
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			ya rabb al-alameen.
		
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			Allahumma khudbi aydihim.
		
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			Allahumma albishuma libas al-afia wa msah alihima
		
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			biyadika al-shaafia.
		
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			And then of course continue to pray for
		
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			our ummah insha'Allah ta'ala.
		
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			Especially for the heroes and the heroines of
		
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			Gaza, who are still, it ain't over by
		
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			the way.
		
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			It's not over until it's over.
		
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			It's not over.
		
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			People are still dying.
		
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			And amazing stories are coming out from Gaza.
		
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			One of these stories that actually really broke
		
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			my heart today.
		
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			It's very inspiring.
		
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			On one hand, the story is very inspiring.
		
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			On the other hand, it's really heartbreaking.
		
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			It's of a brother who is in the
		
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			resistance.
		
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			May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala bless them.
		
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			Who, for the past 460 days, ever since
		
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			the beginning of the aggression and the genocide,
		
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			he has been fasting.
		
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			Every day he fasts.
		
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			Just in case he is killed, he wanted
		
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			to die in a state of what?
		
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			While he is fasting.
		
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			Subhanallah.
		
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			Yesterday, half an hour before breaking his fast,
		
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			before Maghrib, after 460 days, he was killed.
		
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			Rahimahullah.
		
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			Wa radiallahu anhu.
		
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			Wa taqabbalahu fis shuhada'i wal salihin.
		
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			See, you cannot fake this.
		
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			You can't.
		
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			This level of commitment is...
		
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			A young man.
		
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			This has been his commitment to Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala.
		
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			460 days on his record.
		
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			Standing his ground.
		
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			Defending.
		
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			And when everyone thought it was all over,
		
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			it was all over.
		
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			Fahami'allah.
		
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			Wa taqabbalahu fis shuhada'i.
		
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			What a glorious life.
		
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			What a glorious ending.
		
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			What a glorious year for this hero.
		
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			Rahimahullah.
		
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			Rahmatan wasi'ah.
		
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			So...
		
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			How does this tie in with what we
		
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			are talking about tonight?
		
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			Many people have been asking questions about this
		
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			very interesting region.
		
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			And all the different dynamics.
		
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			And I am not going to talk about
		
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			the geopolitics.
		
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			This is not what I want to focus
		
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			on.
		
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			My focus tonight is what we find in
		
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			our tradition regarding this very special place.
		
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			And why we should all as Muslims really
		
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			care about what is happening in the Sham
		
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			region.
		
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			Or what has happened in the Sham region.
		
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			And as I mentioned the other day in
		
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			the intro, the Sham region concerns every Muslim
		
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			on the face of this planet.
		
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			Every Muslim.
		
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			You should care about the Sham region.
		
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			And every Muslim is somehow tied to this
		
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			region.
		
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			You don't have to be originally from there.
		
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			You don't have to have been born there.
		
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			You don't have to have your roots from
		
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			there.
		
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			You don't have to be ethnically from there.
		
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			As a Muslim, by default, you have some
		
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			connection to that region.
		
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			Just like as a Muslim, you have some
		
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			connection to what?
		
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			To Mecca and Medina.
		
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			And as a Muslim, by the way, you
		
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			have also as a Muslim, you have a
		
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			connection to Habesha, for instance, being the first
		
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			home for the Muslim community.
		
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			Especially for those of us living here in
		
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			the West.
		
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			There are a lot of parallels and a
		
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			lot of connections and ties between the experience
		
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			of the early Muslims in Abyssinia and those
		
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			of us, especially the African American Muslims who
		
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			first came here and formed communities.
		
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			So there is a connection.
		
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			So these historical regions are much more important
		
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			and significant to be studied than just for
		
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			those of us who specialize in the study
		
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			of history or research or like to read
		
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			about Sirah should be concerned with.
		
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			As a Muslim, generally speaking, you should feel
		
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			that any place that has that would be
		
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			considered Balad al-Islam the land of Islam,
		
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			one of the lands of Islam, you should
		
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			consider that place to be something that belongs
		
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			to you and you belong to it.
		
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			You know, Subhanallah.
		
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			My father, whenever, for instance, someone mentions, you
		
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			know, sometimes when someone says Pakistan, my father
		
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			used to say Balad al-Islam the land
		
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			of Islam.
		
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			Just the land of Islam.
		
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			You have some regions that were founded like
		
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			the Islamic culture, Islamic values are deeply rooted
		
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			in the culture of those places.
		
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			And those who come from such regions or
		
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			places specifically whose cultures and history is founded,
		
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			deeply rooted into the religion of Islam, understand
		
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			and appreciate this more than those who don't
		
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			really, who cannot relate to this.
		
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			Some of us have connection to places because
		
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			we were born there and we think it's
		
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			the best place ever because you're used to
		
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			it.
		
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			But at the end of the day it's
		
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			Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala who can designate
		
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			or assign a place to be a sacred
		
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			place, a special place.
		
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			So there is a reason why Allah Subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala chose Mecca.
		
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			There is a reason why Allah chose Medina.
		
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			There is a reason why Allah Subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala chose Masjid al-Aqsa, Bayt al
		
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			-Maqdis in particular, in the Sham region.
		
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			So tonight we're going to just go over
		
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			some of these some of these narrations.
		
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			First of all there is more than a
		
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			thousand hadith regarding the virtue of Sham.
		
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			So in order to, just for us to
		
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			appreciate what was said about this place.
		
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			Now, it is very important to mention that
		
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			most of these narrations and hadith are either
		
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			weak or fabricated.
		
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			They're not authentic, most of them.
		
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			The vast majority.
		
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			But the very few or the compared to
		
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			the large number of hadith those few hadith
		
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			that can be traced back authentically to the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ are enough and they're significant.
		
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			And guess what is more important and what
		
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			would be enough to show the significance of
		
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			that place?
		
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			The ayah that we started the salah with.
		
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			When I recited in salah, سُبْحَانَا الَّذِي أَسْرَى
		
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			بِعَبْدِهِ لَيْنَ مِنَ الْمَسْجِدِ الْحَرَامِ إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ الْأَقْصَةِ
		
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			الَّذِي بَارَكْنَا حَوْلَهُ Allah ﷻ talks about Masjid
		
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			al-Aqsa in Jerusalem.
		
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			And Allah says which we have blessed is
		
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			surrounding.
		
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			And the vast majority of the scholars are
		
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			of the opinion that the surrounding of Masjid
		
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			al-Aqsa is what?
		
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			The Sham region.
		
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			So how far does the Sham region extend?
		
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			When we say Sham, what are we talking
		
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			about?
		
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			Are we talking about Damascus?
		
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			Are we talking about modern-day Syria?
		
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			What are we talking about?
		
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			Sham region, as I mentioned the other day,
		
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			extends from the Euphrates in what we today
		
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			call Iraq, from the Euphrates all the way
		
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			to the Mediterranean Sea and down south to
		
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			Sinai.
		
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			And from the south, the northern parts of
		
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			Arabia are part of the northern parts of
		
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			modern-day Saudi Arabia are also part of
		
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			Sham region.
		
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			All the way to the southern borders or
		
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			regions of Turkey, modern-day Turkey.
		
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			This whole area, this vast place is called
		
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			Sham.
		
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			And Imam al-Nawawi, rahimahullah, and many other
		
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			scholars, they say there is a reason why
		
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			it's the muhajir, it is the destination or
		
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			the refuge of most prophets, the most noble
		
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			of prophets and messengers from Ibrahim and onward.
		
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			So when Ibrahim alayhi salam made hijrah from
		
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			Babylon, he chose to make hijrah into the
		
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			Sham region and specifically into modern-day Palestine.
		
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			And he stopped along the way.
		
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			Ibrahim alayhi salam went all the way to
		
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			Egypt.
		
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			And Egypt has some beautiful places and it's
		
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			a special place.
		
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			But he retreated back to the Sham region.
		
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			So did Jesus alayhi salam, Isa ibn Maryam.
		
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			And he retreated back to the Sham region.
		
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			So did Musa alayhi salam.
		
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			He used to actually, he was Musa had
		
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			ties to Egypt.
		
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			He was born there, he lived there.
		
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			Yet, he migrated alayhi salam to Egypt.
		
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			So far I mentioned three out of the
		
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			five prophets and messengers.
		
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			And many historians also believe that when Nuh
		
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			alayhi salam settled, when his ship finally settled,
		
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			it settled where?
		
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			In that region as well.
		
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			Nobody knows for sure.
		
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			But some historians believe that that's where it
		
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			settled.
		
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			And then our prophet Muhammad salallahu alayhi wasalam
		
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			traveled to Sham region for sure.
		
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			We don't know if he traveled to Yemen.
		
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			But we know that he traveled to the
		
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			Sham region before in his youth, salallahu alayhi
		
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			salam.
		
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			In his adulthood or after he became a
		
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			prophet, he never traveled anywhere outside the Arabian
		
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			Peninsula.
		
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			Except to the southern borders when he went
		
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			for Tabuk.
		
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			But other than that, there is no record
		
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			of the prophet salallahu alayhi salam going into
		
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			that Sham region.
		
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			Except on one occasion.
		
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			One amazing, and some people consider it to
		
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			be mysterious.
		
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			It's not mysterious.
		
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			One amazing occasion on a very blessed night
		
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			which Allah refers to in Surah Al-Isra.
		
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			And after that journey, after that kind of
		
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			journey, you don't need to make any other
		
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			journey.
		
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			That's it.
		
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			Where the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam traveled from
		
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			Al-Masjid Al-Haram from Mecca to Jerusalem.
		
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			And there, again, within the Sham region, Allah
		
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			resurrected and gathered all 124,000 prophets and
		
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			messengers in the greatest conference or convention the
		
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			world has ever witnessed.
		
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			And they all gathered and the prophet salallahu
		
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			alayhi wasalam led them in Salah.
		
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			So that is the region Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala chose to be the place of
		
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			the gathering of all the prophets and the
		
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			messengers.
		
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			And by the way, there will be a
		
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			second gathering to all these prophets and messengers,
		
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			but this time with all of their followers.
		
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			Those who followed them and those who didn't
		
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			follow them on the Day of Judgment.
		
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			So it's almost agreed upon amongst the scholars
		
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			that Sham is Ard Al-Mahshar, is where
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is going to
		
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			gather all humans once again to be held
		
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			accountable before the day or on the Day
		
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			of Judgment.
		
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			So what did the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam
		
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			say about this region?
		
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			The hadith that we mentioned the other day,
		
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			the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam prayed, he said
		
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			Allahumma barik lana fee shamina Allahumma barik lana
		
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			fee yamanina Qalu ya rasool Allah wa fee
		
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			najdina So Abdullah ibn Umar says that the
		
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			prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam said, O Allah, bless
		
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			our Sham.
		
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			And the vast majority of the scholars believe,
		
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			they interpret this as the Sham region.
		
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			Some scholars say the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam
		
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			was praying for the northern region from Medina
		
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			or wherever he made this dua.
		
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			And the southern region, the south and the
		
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			north.
		
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			But it is the understanding of most scholars
		
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			that the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam was specifically
		
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			talking about the Sham region.
		
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			O Allah, bless our Sham.
		
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			O Allah, bless our Yemen.
		
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			So some people said O messenger of Allah,
		
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			how about our Najd?
		
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			Najd is the central part of the Arabian
		
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			Peninsula.
		
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			So the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam said, again
		
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			Allahumma barik lana fee shamina Allahumma barik lana
		
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			fee yamanina O Allah, bless our Sham.
		
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			O Allah, bless our Yemen.
		
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			So some people said, wa fee najdina and
		
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			how about our Najd, messenger of Allah?
		
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			The prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam said, Allahumma barik
		
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			lana fee shamina Allahumma barik lana fee yamanina.
		
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			And this is a very common, I would
		
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			say practice of the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam.
		
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			When he wants to put emphasis on something,
		
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			he would actually repeat it three times.
		
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			When he wants to show something is better
		
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			than something else, he would repeat three times.
		
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			For instance, for those people who go for
		
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			Hajj and Umrah, we tell them, if you
		
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			can shave, shave.
		
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			Shave your hair.
		
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			Because the prophet made dua for those who
		
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			shaved three times.
		
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			Each time the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam made
		
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			dua for those who shaved, those who shortened
		
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			their hair or trimmed.
		
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			They said, how about those who trimmed, messenger
		
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			of Allah?
		
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			The prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam made dua again
		
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			for those who shaved.
		
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			They said, how about those who trimmed, shortened
		
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			their hair?
		
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			The prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam made dua again
		
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			for those who shaved.
		
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			So they knew there's something special about it.
		
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			And then the fourth time when they asked,
		
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			he said, and for those who shortened their
		
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			hair as well.
		
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			After the fourth.
		
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			A man comes to the prophet salallahu alayhi
		
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			wasalam, he says, who deserves the best of
		
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			my treatment?
		
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			He said, your mother.
		
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			He said, and then who?
		
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			He said, your mother.
		
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			And he said, and then who?
		
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			He said, your mother, three times.
		
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			And then the fourth time, he said, and
		
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			then who?
		
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			He said, your father.
		
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			So that shows the significance or the status
		
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			of mothers and motherhood.
		
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			So the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam here to
		
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			show the status that the virtue of Sham
		
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			and Yemen, the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam made
		
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			dua three times.
		
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			But when they asked him about why he's
		
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			not including Najd, he said, هنالك الزلازل والفتن
		
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			وبها يطلع قرن الشيطان He said, there will
		
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			be earthquakes and tribulations, fitna, coming from that
		
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			direction.
		
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			And there will appear the horn of Satan.
		
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			What that means, we don't know.
		
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			Has that happened?
		
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			We don't know.
		
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			Was he talking about Musaylimah, Al-Kaddhab, the
		
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			imposter, who came, who appeared.
		
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			Allahu alam.
		
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			We don't know.
		
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			Whether the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam whatever he
		
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			was referring to happened or will happen.
		
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			The prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam is talking about
		
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			what will happen on the day of judgment.
		
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			And that's why he refrained.
		
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			The prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam only Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala knows.
		
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			No need to speculate or read too much
		
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			into it.
		
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			What we take from hadith, what I wanted
		
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			to take from this hadith is obviously the
		
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			virtue of Yemen and Sham, but we're focusing
		
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			today on the region of Hisham.
		
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			From this hadith, the companions or the ulama,
		
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			the scholars, deduced two things.
		
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			Number one, the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam made
		
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			dua to that place.
		
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			And the prophets wouldn't make a dua for
		
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			a place unless it is worthy of that
		
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			dua.
		
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			Number two, the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam said
		
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			bless.
		
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			So the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam made dua
		
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			that Allah would bless it.
		
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			And we know for sure if the prophet
		
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			salallahu alayhi wasalam prays for someone or for
		
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			something, Allah will answer him.
		
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			So if the prophet said, Oh Allah bless
		
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			our Hisham, that means Allah has blessed the
		
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			Hisham.
		
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			Number three, the fact that the prophet salallahu
		
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			alayhi wasalam said our Hisham.
		
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			Our Hisham.
		
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			And when the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam was
		
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			saying our Hisham, he wasn't speaking as an
		
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			Arab.
		
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			He wasn't speaking as someone from Quraysh because
		
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			Quraysh are not from Hisham.
		
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			He wasn't speaking our when the prophet salallahu
		
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			alayhi wasalam says our, he's speaking of himself
		
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			as Muslim.
		
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			We as believers and as Muslims, this place
		
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			belongs to us and we belong to it.
		
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			It belongs to us and we belong to
		
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			it.
		
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			And mind you, when the prophet salallahu alayhi
		
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			wasalam made this dua, the Hisham region was
		
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			not under the Muslim rule.
		
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			What is the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam telling
		
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			them?
		
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			We are going to liberate that land.
		
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			We are going to conquer that place.
		
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			We are going to rule that place.
		
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			Not only that, but we're going to spread
		
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			the light of guidance and the light of
		
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			Islam from that place.
		
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			That's exactly what happened within two decades of
		
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			the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam making that dua.
		
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			He told them that once they reach, they
		
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			conquer Hisham and Iraq and those lands, especially
		
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			Hisham.
		
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			The prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam said, I don't
		
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			fear poverty or scarcity of resources for you.
		
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			Once you get Hisham, you're going to be
		
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			blessed with an abundant amount of wealth and
		
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			resources.
		
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			And the prophet used to tell the Prophet
		
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			salallahu alayhi wasalam, and I fear for you
		
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			that because dunya is going to open up
		
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			for you.
		
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			So the Hisham region was the gate to
		
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			prosperity.
		
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			And that's what happened.
		
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			So in a way, those of us who
		
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			received Islam or our ancestors received Islam from
		
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			expeditions and from campaigns that actually were deployed
		
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			from that region, we owe that to that
		
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			region, to the people of that region, and
		
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			to the dua of the prophet salallahu alayhi
		
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			wasalam.
		
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			And as I mentioned the other day, Muhammad
		
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			ibn al-Qasim who made it all the
		
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			way to the subcontinent, he came from where?
		
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			He was deployed by the Umayyads who used
		
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			to rule the Hisham region.
		
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			Through Iraq, his Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf his
		
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			cousin was the ruler of Iraq at that
		
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			time.
		
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			And he's the one that deployed him to
		
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			go and deliver Islam to that region.
		
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			And the same thing with northern Africa and
		
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			all the way to Indonesia, it was those
		
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			who came from Hisham that carried that.
		
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			And again, as the scholars say, when we
		
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			say Hisham, we're not talking about Shamis.
		
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			We're talking about anyone that used to reside
		
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			there or settled there, including many Sahaba from
		
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			Mecca and Medina.
		
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			They settled and they lived there and they
		
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			died and they were buried there.
		
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			And many great scholars who may not have
		
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			been originally from that region, but yet they
		
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			went and they settled there because they believed
		
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			in the blessed nature of those regions, or
		
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			that particular region.
		
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			The other amazing hadith that we find that
		
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			al-Bani, rahimahullah, considered to be authentic, is
		
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			a hadith that we find in the collection
		
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			of Abu Dawood.
		
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			Where the Prophet ﷺ is reported to have
		
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			said, ...
		
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			...
		
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			...
		
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			...
		
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			The narrator of the hadith, Abdullah ibn Hawala,
		
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			he said, ...
		
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			...
		
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			...
		
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			...
		
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			...
		
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			...
		
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			...
		
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			...
		
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			...
		
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			...
		
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			...
		
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			فَإِنْ أَبَيْتُمْ فَعَلَيْكُمْ بِيَمَنِكُمْ وَاسْقُوا مَنْ غَدَرَكُمْ فَإِنَّ
		
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			اللَّهَ تَوَكَّلَ لِي بِالشَّامِ وَأَهْلِهِ The most important
		
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			part is the fact that he said عَلَيْكَ
		
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			بِالشَّامِ فَإِنَّهَا خِيْرَةُ اللَّهِ مِنْ أَرْضِهِ This is
		
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			a very interesting hadith Again, as I mentioned,
		
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			al-Bani consider this hadith to be authentic
		
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			So Abdullah ibn Hawala, he said The Messenger
		
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			of Allah ﷺ told them A time will
		
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			come, and by the way this والله تعالى
		
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			أعلم As far as I know, this is
		
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			something that happened During the time of the
		
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			Sahaba After the death of the Prophet He
		
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			told them, the matter will turn out to
		
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			be Things will progress And a time will
		
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			come When To the point where you will
		
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			be divided Into three armies You're going to
		
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			have three divisions You're going to have armies
		
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			or different fronts In different places One in
		
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			the Sham region One in Yemen, and one
		
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			in Iraq There will be different campaigns Different
		
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			fronts, you're going to be part of So
		
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			Abdullah ibn Hawala said to the Prophet ﷺ
		
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			Oh Messenger of Allah, choose for me Where
		
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			should I go if I live to see
		
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			that?
		
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			So the Prophet ﷺ said to him, go
		
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			to Sham Join the expedition or the campaign
		
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			of Sham And here's the point For it
		
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			is Allah's chosen land Where He gathers His
		
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			best servants And Allah already has done that
		
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			With the Prophets and the Messengers And this
		
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			is the point He said, if you refuse,
		
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			if you decline If you don't want to
		
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			do that, then go to Yemen Go to
		
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			Yemen And he told him And drink from
		
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			its wells Or from its waters I guess
		
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			there is something blessed about it And then
		
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			the hadith concludes by saying Allah has taken
		
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			responsibility Allah has promised me To take care
		
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			of Sham and its people So this is
		
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			another hadith And wallahu ta'ala a'lam,
		
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			this happened This happened And part of the
		
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			blessings of Allah Upon the Sahaba Who actually
		
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			went on those campaigns To the Sham region
		
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			If you read the history of the Sham
		
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			region The conquests there If you try to
		
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			understand These military campaigns And these victories From
		
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			today's If you try to understand and analyze
		
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			them You will be amazed As to how
		
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			they were able to dismantle One of the
		
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			greatest Most sophisticated Armies In the world The
		
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			world has ever witnessed The Roman legions And
		
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			the Roman armies And the Romans were not
		
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			fighting by themselves They had allies Some of
		
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			these battles Almost every single battle The Muslims
		
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			fought And they were fighting two fronts Simultaneously
		
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			Two fronts One in the Iraq region Against
		
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			the other superpower The Persian Empire And the
		
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			other one was Against the Roman Empire And
		
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			the Sahaba had very I mean They had
		
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			iman They had strong iman But it was
		
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			very primitive They were fighting against You know
		
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			Against serious forces Serious forces And when you
		
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			look at the numbers Or when you look
		
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			at the statistics You will see that The
		
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			Muslims were always outnumbered Huge margin They were
		
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			always outnumbered As a matter of fact One
		
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			of these battles Is taught In military schools
		
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			until this day Actually more than one Two
		
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			of them One is Mu'tah And the other
		
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			one is Yarmouk Because The genius of the
		
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			Sahaba Especially Khalid bin Walid What they did
		
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			was Imperilant And I believe that Obviously the
		
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			help of Allah They had divine intervention No
		
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			doubt in my mind And in no time
		
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			Not only were they able to conquer the
		
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			land They were able to secure it Forever
		
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			They never lost The Muslims never lost The
		
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			bulk of the Sham region Jerusalem And some
		
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			of the You know Portions of Palestine And
		
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			Lebanon and all of that Yes the crusaders
		
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			came and took over And then the Muslims
		
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			liberated again And now we see But the
		
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			Sham itself This whole thing about From the
		
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			River to the sea It ain't gonna happen
		
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			It's not gonna happen Meaning no Muslims will
		
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			rule The bulk of that area will always
		
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			Be under the rule of Muslims This is
		
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			the promise of Allah and his messenger And
		
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			it will never fail And Alhamdulillah Ghazans Showed
		
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			us that they can't even take over Gaza,
		
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			they want to take over that whole region
		
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			Just to see to what extent Media has
		
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			Deceived us And played with our minds Let
		
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			alone the minds of The masses in the
		
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			Middle East Who believe that this is Nothing
		
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			Nothing And as some people say Inshallah Okay
		
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			I'll just share one more Hadith Inshallah And
		
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			we'll conclude with this And Abu Darda It's
		
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			very interesting Because Abu Darda Actually Decided to
		
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			live where?
		
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			In the Sham region Him and Umm Darda
		
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			They both migrated to Jerusalem And they lived
		
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			in the Sham region Not only that but
		
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			as I told you before He invited his
		
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			best friend Salman Al-Farisi To leave Iraq
		
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			And to come where?
		
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			To Jerusalem And he said to him Come
		
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			to the Sacred or to the Holy Land
		
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			So Abu Darda relates to the Prophet Hadith
		
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			And the Hadith is also very similar Hadith
		
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			is collected by Abdullah So I will relate
		
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			to you both Together I will just Where
		
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			the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Talks about a
		
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			dream that he had The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam Said I saw the pillar of the
		
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			book Being removed From under my pillow So
		
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			he says He sees a book being Taken
		
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			away from under The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
		
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			His own pillow And we know that the
		
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			dreams Of the Messengers or the Prophets Is
		
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			what?
		
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			A form of Wahi Allah Subh'anaHu Wa
		
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			Ta-A'la He said He said It
		
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			was taken from under my pillow So I
		
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			knew it was being Taken somewhere so I
		
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			kept Staring at it and looking at it
		
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			So it was taken all the way to
		
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			the Sham region And placed there What is
		
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			the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Interpretation of this
		
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			dream?
		
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			He mentions it in the Hadith He says
		
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			So the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says Indeed
		
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			Faith or Iman Will be placed in the
		
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			Sham region During times of tribulations Iman You'll
		
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			find Iman there You'll find the renewal of
		
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			Iman there And that's what we see Subh
		
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			'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la Every time the
		
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			Sham region gets exposed to Fitna and becomes
		
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			No matter how Bad or how much people
		
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			Deviate away from the path of Allah Subh
		
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			'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la Under Colonialism Or
		
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			under secularism Or under socialism Or under any
		
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			of these things No matter how much people
		
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			deviate away from The path of Allah in
		
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			the Sham region There will always be people
		
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			Who restore that Iman Eventually Fitna, tribulations Death
		
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			and destruction Brings people back to Iman And
		
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			once they Have their Iman, their faith in
		
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			Allah Restored Breakthrough And we just witnessed one
		
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			You know there are some people who talk
		
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			to us About things that happened Tens of
		
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			years ago Long time ago Before you know
		
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			And how the people of That region were
		
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			able to defeat The French And not too
		
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			far from there The British Armies and all
		
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			of that And before that We were told
		
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			about the Crusaders And before that we were
		
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			told about the Mongols And before that we
		
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			were told about the Romans And the Byzantines
		
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			We were told That the people of that
		
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			region You know were able to gather Muslims
		
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			from everywhere and they were able to Defeat
		
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			them by the power of their Iman And
		
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			before that the Sahaba Now we witness one
		
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			I have no doubt Someone might come to
		
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			me And say hey you're being too hasty
		
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			As usual, no I'm not We witness This
		
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			is something different This is something very special
		
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			And time will show us And that is
		
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			why It is important For all of us
		
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			to really understand The virtue and the special
		
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			nature of this place And my advice to
		
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			you Only Allah knows Is that if you
		
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			can in any way or fashion If you
		
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			can Learn And know more about that region
		
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			And visit And Contribute to the prosperity Of
		
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			that region And if you can invest in
		
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			that region And if you can even If
		
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			you have long term plans That's where you
		
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			That's where you should Your mindset should be
		
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			Even if it's not you You should think
		
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			That I want my children one day to
		
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			settle there I want them to be there
		
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			Because that's That's the place of That's the
		
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			place of That's a blessed place That's a
		
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			place All Muslims should really Have their eyes
		
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			on And as I said For those who
		
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			are still You know Depressed about the situation
		
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			In Palestine The gate to Palestine Goes through
		
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			Damascus And the enemies of this Ummah They
		
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			know this very well And someone might say
		
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			But if they know this very well They're
		
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			not going to let that happen Well Good
		
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			thing is that they're not in charge Allah
		
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			is They're not in charge كان غيرهم أشطر
		
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			As Egyptians say There was a time where
		
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			people thought The Roman Empire is not going
		
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			to allow Such and such And there was
		
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			a time where The Persian Emperor Laughed At
		
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			the messenger of the Prophet The emissaries that
		
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			came You think we're going to let you
		
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			We're going to let you live They laughed
		
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			At them But at the end of the
		
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			day It is Allah's will And whatever Allah's
		
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			will Will happen And so far none of
		
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			the prophecies And the promises of the Prophet
		
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			Have failed Every single one of them He
		
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			told the Sahaba they're going to conquer Sham
		
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			They conquered Sham He told the Sahaba they're
		
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			going to conquer Iraq They conquered Iraq He
		
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			told Muslims Will conquer Constantinople They conquered Constantinople
		
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			And no one was able to ever Kick
		
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			them out Any place the Prophet said By
		
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			the way take this as a rule Any
		
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			place the Prophet said You're going to conquer
		
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			We will never lose We conquered different places
		
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			Right But they were taken away But a
		
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			place the Prophet said You're going to conquer
		
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			Once the Muslims conquer it will always be
		
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			theirs So rest assured Every prophecy the Prophet
		
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			Gave will happen The question is what kind
		
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			of people conquer And what kind of people
		
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			are worthy of it And what is it
		
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			that they do What their agenda should be
		
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			Allah Azzawajal told us in the Qur'an
		
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			Something that we should be engaged in Even
		
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			in this little community of ours that we
		
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			have here Those whom if we were to
		
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			give them Authority or power On the land
		
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			They will establish Salah They will give charity
		
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			And they will enjoy what is good and
		
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			forbid what is evil And that is something
		
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			within our capacity as a community We should
		
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			practice this here Until Allah gives us permission
		
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			To go to Wherever we belong May Allah
		
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			bless Muslim lands May Allah bless The Sham
		
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			region May Allah grant them Stability and prosperity
		
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			May Allah honor The beloved Ummah of our
		
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			beloved Prophet Muhammad Peace be upon him If
		
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			you have any questions You can ask me
		
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			We will just keep it casual I will
		
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			be around for anyone who wants to comment
		
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			Or ask any question Peace be upon you