Morad Awad – Awad Khutbah

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The importance of Islam is highlighted, including the protection of individual and their spouse, children and their families, and the importance of not dying in the state of Islam. The speaker emphasizes the need for everyone to relent and not die in the state of Islam, as it is crucial for everyone to avoid having any faulty behavior and to be mindful of others' faults. The importance of empowering youth to carry the message of Islam and to be a part of the next generation is also emphasized. The speaker reminds attendees to donate and register for upcoming events and fundraiser, and reminds them to be on a lookout for the early voting and absentee voting.

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			We praise Allah
		
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			We laud him.
		
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			We laud him.
		
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			We praise him.
		
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			The Sustainer,
		
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			the Maintainer,
		
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			the Giver, the All Merciful, the All Forgiving.
		
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			And we bear witness that there is no
		
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			deity worthy of worship and truth except for
		
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			Him alone,
		
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			with no partners,
		
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			as He is the one who gave us
		
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			everything we have,
		
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			owns us, our lives and everything around us,
		
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			and to him we will return.
		
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			Allah
		
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			said in the noble Quran,
		
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			O you who believe,
		
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			fear Allah.
		
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			The way he should be feared in truth.
		
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			And do not die except in the state
		
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			of submission to him, in the state of
		
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			Islam. We ask Allah
		
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			that we die
		
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			in the state of Islam.
		
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			Say, Amin.
		
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			Allah
		
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			created mankind from 1 soul
		
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			And from this one soul,
		
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			his spouse.
		
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			And from this one soul and his spouse,
		
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			countless men and women that will continue to
		
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			live until the day of judgement
		
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			and then will be resurrected
		
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			to the hereafter to be judged for their
		
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			actions.
		
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			If good, then good.
		
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			And if bad,
		
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			then to it
		
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			is their ending. We ask Allah
		
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			to make our ending in
		
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			Allah
		
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			revealed to us
		
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			the Quran
		
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			and guided us
		
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			to this blessed message of Islam
		
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			and to the guidance and the teachings of
		
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			our blessed and noble prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam.
		
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			And through this guidance
		
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			we were taught that we were brothers and
		
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			sisters.
		
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			Allah
		
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			made us brothers and sisters
		
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			in Islam
		
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			to show us that
		
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			we were not called Muslims in vain, but
		
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			we were called Muslims because
		
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			we have certain rights upon one another.
		
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			Just like our own family has rights upon
		
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			us,
		
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			our Muslim brothers and sisters have rights upon
		
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			us as well. These rights begin
		
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			when when the Muslim is born.
		
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			And these rights end when the Muslim dies
		
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			and perhaps continue
		
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			even after the death of this Muslim.
		
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			They do not stop at the death but
		
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			they continue afterwards.
		
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			As soon as a Muslim is born,
		
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			their right upon us is to do what?
		
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			To do their with their parents
		
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			and to go and visit them to make
		
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			dua if we are their friends or their
		
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			brothers and sisters in Islam.
		
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			We go to them. We make dua for
		
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			them. We gift them. They automatically
		
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			have a right upon us as soon as
		
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			they are
		
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			born. And throughout their life they have rights
		
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			upon us to visit them if they are
		
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			sick, to help them if they are in
		
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			need, to assist them if they need assistance.
		
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			And when they die, their right upon us
		
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			is to pray janazah on them, and to
		
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			make dua' for them, and to be there
		
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			for their family.
		
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			And after their death to continue to make
		
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			du'a for them, either in general by making
		
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			du'a for forgiveness and mercy for all of
		
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			the Muslim
		
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			or to make dua for them specifically
		
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			if they were your family, they were your
		
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			friends, or they were someone in your community.
		
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			So our rights,
		
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			the rights we have upon ourselves
		
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			are very very
		
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			noble
		
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			and honoring,
		
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			and great rights
		
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			that fortify the bonds of brother and sisterhood
		
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			in the community.
		
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			And this is
		
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			by the divine wisdom of Allah
		
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			So because of this,
		
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			I chose to live with one of the
		
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			noble, profound, prophetic sayings of Muhammad
		
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			May Allah
		
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			open our minds,
		
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			our eyes, our ears, and our hearts to
		
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			this noble hadith
		
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			as the rest of the will be an
		
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			explanation of it.
		
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			The prophet
		
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			said
		
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			in the hadith in Sahih Muslim
		
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			narrated on the authority of Abu Ureyra radhiallahu
		
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			ta'ala Anhu
		
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			that he sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
		
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			The prophet
		
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			said in the translation of this noble profound
		
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			prophetic saying, he said,
		
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			whoever does
		
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			whoever
		
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			relieves
		
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			or relinquishes
		
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			the pressure, the pain, the agony, the hardship
		
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			of a Muslim
		
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			brother or sister, then Allah will relieve them
		
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			and relinquish them and ease the hardships on
		
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			them.
		
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			And
		
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			in Arabic is it's like
		
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			releasing the pressure of.
		
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			When we say it's releasing the pressure of,
		
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			Meaning it's not complete eradication
		
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			of the problem.
		
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			Many Muslims have problems, brothers and sisters in
		
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			Islam.
		
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			Eradicating the problem
		
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			might be of difficulty to many of us.
		
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			But in this hadith,
		
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			all the prophet
		
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			is telling us is to do what? 10
		
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			feasts.
		
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			Relieve them of some of the pressure that
		
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			they may have.
		
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			For the people who do tafrij, they have
		
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			their ajr, which is completely relinquishing.
		
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			For the people who do
		
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			and relieving them, alleviating some of the pressure
		
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			that is on them because of the hardships
		
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			they are going through,
		
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			then for them is the ajer. What will
		
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			Allah
		
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			give them?
		
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			He will give
		
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			them So what they give
		
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			is what they get.
		
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			And this is something that we see throughout
		
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			the hadith.
		
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			And this is a principle
		
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			that we should all remember
		
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			and memorize
		
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			because
		
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			this is something we see every day of
		
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			our lives, brothers and sisters.
		
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			The principle we extract from this hadith is
		
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			what?
		
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			What you give is what you get.
		
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			Perfect
		
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			justice.
		
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			Perfect
		
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			justice.
		
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			What you do to people in this dunya
		
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			is what is done to you in this
		
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			dunya and in the akhirah. The
		
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			prophet
		
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			alluded to this principle in many other ahadith.
		
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			For example, the hadith of
		
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			The people who have mercy, Allah has mercy
		
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			on them on the day of judgement.
		
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			Have mercy on the people in this dunya
		
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			and the one in the hereafter
		
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			which is Allah
		
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			will have mercy on you.
		
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			Allah will have mercy on you when?
		
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			In the
		
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			The prophet
		
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			also alluded to this in another hadith. He
		
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			said,
		
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			Indeed Allah will punish those who punish people,
		
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			of course unjustly in this dunya.
		
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			Those who inflict punishment on others, Allah will
		
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			punish them.
		
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			What you give is what you get.
		
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			What you do to people in this dunya
		
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			is what is done to you in the
		
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			akhirah. If it's good,
		
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			by Allah you will find it on the
		
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			day of judgement. And if it is bad,
		
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			then by Allah you will find it in
		
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			the day of judgement. And the Quran and
		
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			the sunnah is full filled with examples of
		
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			this. But we don't have time in this
		
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			khutba to mention
		
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			many examples. So in the first part
		
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			of the hadith
		
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			we said
		
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			And in the second part
		
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			Whoever does taisir
		
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			who makes it easy for a person who
		
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			is in debt,
		
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			then Allah
		
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			will make their debt easy on the Day
		
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			of Judgement. Do people have debt on the
		
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			day of judgement?
		
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			Yes, brothers and sisters in Islam.
		
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			People will be resurrected
		
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			on this day, the day of judgment with
		
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			debt.
		
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			And the only way to repay this debt
		
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			is by making it easy
		
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			on people who are indebted to you or
		
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			paying the debt of others
		
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			to relinquish them of the burden of debt.
		
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			And Allah
		
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			with this will relieve you of the debt
		
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			of the day of judgement. We ask Allah
		
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			to relieve us of this the debt on
		
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			that day.
		
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			The third part is
		
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			Whoever conceals and covers
		
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			the faults of a Muslim, Allah will cover
		
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			their faults on the day of judgement.
		
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			We ask Allah to cover our faults on
		
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			the Day of Judgement.
		
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			Brothers and sisters,
		
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			some people think
		
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			that mentioning the faults of others
		
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			is a way of helping them. Oh, you
		
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			know,
		
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			be careful from him. Oh, you know what
		
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			he did? Oh, you know what she did?
		
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			You know what I saw her doing? You
		
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			know what I saw him doing?
		
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			That type of talk is what will bring
		
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			our exposure on the day of judgement.
		
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			The more you expose people's faults in this
		
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			dunya,
		
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			the more Allah
		
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			will expose you in this dunya
		
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			and in the akhirah.
		
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			And we seek refuge in Allah from this.
		
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			No one wants their faults concealed. So the
		
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			only way
		
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			to conceal our faults
		
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			is to know of other people's faults
		
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			and to not speak of them, to conceal
		
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			them, to preserve them, to advise them privately,
		
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			not to expose them, brothers and sisters, in
		
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			Islam.
		
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			And the last part of this hadith and
		
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			this profound prophetic saying, the prophet
		
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			said,
		
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			Indeed Allah
		
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			is with
		
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			and in the assistance of a servant
		
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			so long as the servant
		
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			is in the assistance
		
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			of others. And this is the general principle
		
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			we extracted in the beginning.
		
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			In another hadith,
		
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			on Abi Saeed al Khudri
		
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			the prophet
		
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			said
		
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			that on the day of judgment,
		
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			the people
		
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			will be hungry,
		
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			and they will be thirsty,
		
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			and they will be tired.
		
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			The people who fed in this dunya
		
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			will be fed who fed others in this
		
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			dunya, who fed people who needed to be
		
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			fed, the people who provided
		
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			the people who who didn't hesitate
		
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			to feed someone who was hungry on the
		
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			street. These people, what does Allah
		
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			compensate them with on the day of judgment?
		
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			He said, The people who feed,
		
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			who fed in this dunya
		
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			will be fed from the fruits of jannah
		
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			on yomulkiyama.
		
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			A day when
		
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			everyone is hungry.
		
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			No one has anything to eat but these
		
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			people are eating from the fruits of jannah.
		
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			Because of what? Because of what they fed
		
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			others in this dunya.
		
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			May Allah
		
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			make us from them.
		
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			And everyone
		
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			will be thirsty on yawmul qiyama.
		
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			They'll be thirsty to their throats. Imagine.
		
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			Thirst
		
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			after sweat,
		
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			after tires of years,
		
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			perhaps not finding anything to drink.
		
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			Thirsty.
		
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			But Allah
		
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			will quench the thirst of who?
		
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			The thirst of people
		
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			who gave others something to drink, who were
		
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			thirsty in this dunya.
		
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			People who didn't hesitate to provide water to
		
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			the masjid,
		
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			or to the community, or to poor people
		
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			in general,
		
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			These people will be given what to drink?
		
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			Sealed nectar
		
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			from Jannatul Firdaus. Imagine this.
		
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			They will drink from sealed nectar, not from
		
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			the water of Jannah,
		
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			but from the sealed nectar, from the fruits
		
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			of Jannah. We ask Allah
		
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			to give us this sealed nectar
		
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			on
		
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			the And everyone
		
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			will be tired
		
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			and will be distressed on the day of
		
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			judgement. Except for who?
		
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			Those who pardoned others
		
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			in the dunya.
		
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			Those who could have took the haqq. They
		
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			had the ability to take their right.
		
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			Someone
		
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			didn't treat them well. Someone
		
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			didn't give them their due rights. What do
		
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			they do in return? What they do is
		
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			they pardon them. Allah
		
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			will relieve them of the distress of
		
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			May Allah relieve us of this distress.
		
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			Narrated
		
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			Abdullah Masood
		
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			said, he said, the people on Yawmul Qiyamah
		
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			will be as naked as they have ever
		
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			been,
		
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			and hungrier than they have ever been,
		
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			thirstier than they have ever been, and more
		
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			distressed than they have ever been.
		
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			He said, whoever,
		
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			whoever
		
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			clothed someone for the sake of Allah will
		
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			be clothed, and whomever
		
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			fed will be fed, and whomever
		
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			gave something to drink will be
		
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			given something to drink, and whomever pardoned will
		
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			be pardoned on this day. May Allah pardon
		
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			us all.
		
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			Brothers
		
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			and sisters in Islam, not everyone in the
		
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			dunya is from
		
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			Not everyone in this dunya
		
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			lives through hardship. Some people live through
		
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			Nam. Allah
		
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			bestowed their blessings upon them. We ask Allah
		
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			to continue to bestow His blessings upon us.
		
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			We live in peace,
		
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			we live in security,
		
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			we live in safety
		
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			These are some of the greatest nam that
		
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			Allah can give us.
		
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			If you're not hungry, you're not thirsty,
		
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			and you feel secure,
		
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			you don't feel like injustice will
		
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			be will be forced upon you, you don't
		
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			feel like someone will take one of your
		
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			rights away,
		
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			then
		
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			you own the dunya and everything in it.
		
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			Everything in this dunya was given to you
		
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			because there are people that don't have this
		
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			around the world.
		
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			So these people,
		
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			these people who live through hardships,
		
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			tests, trials and tribulations,
		
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			we should look for them
		
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			and we should try to relinquish them of
		
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			their stresses,
		
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			of their hardships.
		
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			Live with them in their trials. Be with
		
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			them. Have a smile on your face. Give
		
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			salaams.
		
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			Be kind. Be nice. If it's a child,
		
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			pat on his head. If it's someone who
		
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			is older, kiss his forehead.
		
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			Be respectful.
		
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			Anything
		
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			you do
		
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			in this dunya will be given to you,
		
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			in equal, on the day of judgment.
		
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			Indeed Allah will never lose
		
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			the ajr, the good deeds. The person who
		
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			performs good in this dunya
		
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			will always find it on the day of
		
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			judgement. We ask Allah
		
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			to make us from the people of good
		
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			deeds and righteous actions, and we ask Allah
		
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			to allow us to reap the benefits of
		
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			everything good we do in this dunya in
		
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			the and to make us from
		
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			Brothers
		
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			and sisters in the time that we live
		
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			in today,
		
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			and for those who don't know, I serve
		
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			as a youth director here
		
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			in epic Masjid.
		
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			The things
		
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			that I see
		
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			and I have seen since I served as
		
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			a youth director
		
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			made
		
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			me grow some white hairs on my beard.
		
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			And
		
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			the job isn't as easy
		
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			as some may think.
		
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			It is fun.
		
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			It is something
		
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			I truly enjoy and have a passion for.
		
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			But when you hear
		
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			what these youth have in their hearts and
		
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			in their minds,
		
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			and when they spill
		
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			out what's deep down inside, what not even
		
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			their parents hear,
		
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			it is really scary, brothers and sisters.
		
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			It's scary because
		
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			these people of hardship,
		
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			these people of tests and trials and tribulations
		
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			are amongst us today
		
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			and live amongst us and perhaps look like
		
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			the happiest people around us.
		
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			But in reality they are fighting.
		
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			There's a battle going on in their hearts.
		
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			There's a battle going on in their minds
		
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			that we are totally oblivious to.
		
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			We have no idea. The prophet
		
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			said,
		
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			And I remember
		
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			when I read this hadith, I said, Allahu
		
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			Akbar.
		
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			The prophet
		
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			said that the trials
		
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			will befall upon you. This is in the
		
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			end of times,
		
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			like the mats that we pray on.
		
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			1 string at a time, meaning they're stuck
		
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			together.
		
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			They're stuck together.
		
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			That's how close
		
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			these
		
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			fit and are to each other. And I
		
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			never imagined,
		
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			almak, subhanAllah, when I grew up,
		
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			I was young, we had and perhaps,
		
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			let's let's just think of someone a 100
		
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			years ago.
		
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			They would have 1 major trial, 2 major
		
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			trials in their life, some
		
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			a hard time throughout the year,
		
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			one shubha, something, you know, that they couldn't
		
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			digest.
		
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			One shahwa,
		
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			there's someone who they got to know and,
		
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			you know, an illegitimate relationship and they had
		
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			to overcome it and they had to be
		
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			patient and persevere.
		
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			But today, ikhwan,
		
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			today it is exactly the way the Prophet
		
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			described it.
		
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			Through social media,
		
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			when a person, when one of our youth,
		
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			who is still
		
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			trying to understand the world around them, who
		
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			still doesn't have a complete understanding of what's
		
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			going on in the world, who's still formulating
		
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			their perception of everything around them,
		
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			what is
		
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			making them formulate? The social media.
		
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			They go to Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat,
		
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			Twitter,
		
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			and it's fitan after fitan after fitan.
		
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			One thing at a time. One is a
		
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			shahuwah. They have to say, astaghfirullah, udubilarshtarajeem.
		
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			Next, it's a shubha.
		
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			Somebody
		
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			is is
		
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			spreading misconceptions about Islam. The one after it,
		
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			another shahua. The one after it, something that
		
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			strikes an emotional chord, something that strikes
		
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			and it's fitan upon fitan upon fitan.
		
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			And then,
		
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			they have all of this bottled up inside
		
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			of them.
		
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			And when we work as mentors
		
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			and advisors
		
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			to the youth, we hear a lot of
		
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			the things that the parents do not hear.
		
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			Brothers
		
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			and sisters,
		
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			what we are doing here in the masjid,
		
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			And not all masjid have this, by the
		
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			way, and not all masjid
		
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			are in tune with what the youth are
		
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			going through.
		
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			We really really
		
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			have to go back and think
		
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			of what the role of the masjid truly
		
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			is.
		
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			And we have to understand
		
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			that
		
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			the next generation of the masjid
		
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			is the generation that will
		
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			carry it on their backs. The
		
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			foundations of the masjid
		
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			are upon the shoulders of those who donated
		
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			and built this beautiful and amazing facility. May
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala reward everyone who contributed
		
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			towards it.
		
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			But the mission continues and it goes on,
		
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			and what is to come is a lot
		
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			more difficult.
		
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			And the way to do this,
		
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			the way to overcome this, the way to
		
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			combat what is to come
		
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			is by facilitating this in the masjid and
		
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			aiding, assisting
		
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			every single cause that we can that helps
		
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			the youth.
		
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			Everything that you give,
		
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			everything you give for the masjid
		
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			will go towards building the next generation that
		
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			will carry the message of Islam.
		
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			Grow the ummah, fortify it, strengthen
		
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			the iman of our youth. We ask Allah
		
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			to make us reasons for it.
		
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			We ask Allah
		
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			to use us for his sake and to
		
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			make us from the people
		
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			that build the masajid of Allah upon taqwa,
		
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			that build the masajid of Allah upon taqwa.
		
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			We ask Allah
		
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			to make us conscious
		
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			of ourselves,
		
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			our children, our families, and the youth of
		
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			our communities.
		
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			We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to give
		
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			us the best of the duniya and the
		
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			ikhira. We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
		
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			forgive us, have mercy on us. We ask
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to relinquish us of
		
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			the hardships of this
		
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			So, to do?
		
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			Just a quick announcement.
		
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			Just some quick announcements, inshallah, brothers and sisters.
		
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			First, inshallah, ta'ala, as you all know, tomorrow
		
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			we have the community dinner and fundraiser
		
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			We can see you all there
		
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			See these bright faces that I'm looking at
		
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			right now.
		
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			The next is I want
		
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			to remind you to donate for the masjid
		
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			as you're leaving. The second, the third,
		
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			the umrah trip for Sheikh Nadeem, inshallah.
		
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			You must register and put your thing in.
		
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			If you intend to go to umrah with
		
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			Sheikh Nadeem's group, inshallah, March 13th to March
		
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			22nd.
		
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			Please register and put in all your documents.
		
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			Number 4, Hajj with Ustadh Bajur. InshaAllah, they
		
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			they began to register for Hajj this year,
		
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			InshaAllah. So
		
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			if you do intend to go to Hajj,
		
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			visit the desk and,
		
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			inquire about that so you can submit your
		
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			documents and prepare early.
		
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			Number 5,
		
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			as you all know, we have
		
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			soon we have youth programs coming up. So
		
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			I just want to ask the families
		
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			of of the youth, the father the parents
		
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			of the youth, mothers and fathers,
		
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			to please stay tuned, inshallah, to any
		
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			activities that are going to be posted, sent
		
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			by email,
		
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			or posted on any of the social media
		
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			platforms, inshallah ta'ala.
		
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			I'm getting settled in right now, but soon,
		
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			inshallah, expect to get,
		
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			some more some more, posts. So just be
		
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			be tuned and be prepared. Jazakamalahir.
		
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			And an announcement.
		
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			Did you
		
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			This is your brother Harun Saeed from election
		
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			commission for the upcoming board elections for EPIC.
		
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			Quick announcements.
		
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			Firstly, for the meet and greet which is
		
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			inshallah on Sunday 12th January between Maghrib and
		
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			Isha. It will be in the multipurpose all
		
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			and it will be for members only. So,
		
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			again, a reminder if you are if you
		
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			want to become, you know, be a part
		
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			of that, event and if you're not a
		
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			member, registered member, so you can go ahead
		
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			and member. You just have to be a
		
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			member, not a voting member at this moment
		
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			so that, you know, your concerns are addressed
		
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			by the candidates.
		
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			And, to keep it simple, we have opened
		
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			up, the forum in which you can email
		
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			us the questions if you are unable to
		
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			make it to the event and the election
		
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			commission
		
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			will ask you questions on behalf of the
		
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			committee.
		
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			And for the people who are going to
		
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			be present in the event inshallah,
		
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			the, you know, you will be given, opportunity
		
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			to to write down your questions but no
		
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			verbal questions will be allowed and the questions
		
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			will be monitored by the election commission so
		
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			that it is in the best interest of
		
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			the,
		
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			you know, community and for the candidates.
		
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			And the next two important things is be
		
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			on a lookout because of the election date
		
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			is next Sunday which is January 19th. Not
		
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			this Sunday. The coming Sunday after that. That
		
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			is the election date. So, inshallah, before that
		
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			we will be having early voting
		
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			and absentee voting, open as well for the
		
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			community and the instructions will be mailed out.
		
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			So keep an eye open on your inbox.
		
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			If you're traveling and if you're unable to
		
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			make it, you know, just be on the
		
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			lookout for the email and, we'll give the
		
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			time inshallah.