Muaadth Allie – The curse of interesting times

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The speakers discuss the lack of pride in the support of bleeding in Muslim countries and the potential for local protests and debate. They stress the importance of showing loyalty to Islam and not reacting to pro or anti statements. The speaker also discusses the use of Facebook and the media to promote Islam, the default law of Islam, and the importance of protecting one's information and beliefs. They emphasize the need for local control and avoiding false accusations. The conversation also touches on the fallout of the Iranian-led conflict in Iraq and the potential for ISIS to develop into a nationalist movement.

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			Beloved brothers, sisters, and elders in Islam,
		
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			I've begun many a jumah with these words,
		
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			but it is
		
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			no more apt than today.
		
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			The Chinese, they have a curse.
		
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			And the curse says, may you love in
		
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			interesting times.
		
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			May you love
		
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			in interesting times.
		
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			And, surely, we couldn't be living
		
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			in more interesting times than these very days.
		
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			This much is obvious
		
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			when we study the media,
		
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			and we are faced
		
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			and we are bombarded daily
		
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			with public beheadings.
		
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			Muslim fighting Muslim,
		
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			the toppling
		
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			of governments,
		
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			and on the other side, the complete dormancy
		
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			and the fajah of Muslim governments
		
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			in the face of Muslim suffering,
		
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			in the face of Palestinians on the borders
		
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			of their country
		
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			dying,
		
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			but still refusal
		
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			to open the borders.
		
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			What about local events?
		
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			Was it the right to march in support
		
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			of the Palestinians,
		
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			or should we have followed the fatwa of
		
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			the Mufti of Makkah
		
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			who proclaimed that such masses are un Islamic
		
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			and are to be avoided
		
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			even when devoid of destruction of property
		
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			and other such un Islamic practices.
		
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			What about the boycott of Pick n Pay
		
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			and Woolworths?
		
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			But no boycott of any other company
		
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			that are or that that is clearly also
		
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			in cahoots with Israel
		
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			and that they are selling Israeli products
		
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			or producing weapons
		
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			for
		
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			Israel
		
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			or the like for the Israeli government,
		
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			or they are sending supplies and finances, the
		
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			owners of these companies, to Israel.
		
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			On the one hand, we have the certainty
		
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			of knowing, as Muslims,
		
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			people that are actually loving Islam,
		
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			tasting Islam,
		
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			knowing what it really is. We have the
		
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			certainty
		
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			that Islam is a beautiful religion
		
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			with the solutions to the problems of humanity.
		
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			But on the other hand,
		
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			we face the fact that the human expression
		
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			of Islam has strayed so far
		
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			from the from the theoretical ideal
		
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			as to be considered alien to it.
		
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			What does the conscientious Muslim do in our
		
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			times?
		
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			What does he or she
		
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			do when they are asked about Islam and
		
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			they are asked about these beheadings?
		
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			Do we engage anyone and everyone
		
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			and on every platform that is available, Facebook
		
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			and WhatsApp,
		
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			on any topic related to Muslims?
		
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			Or does this conscientious Muslim limit himself or
		
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			herself
		
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			to those topics that they have sufficient knowledge
		
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			on to warrant the discussion
		
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			And on platforms
		
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			where we can expect sensible discussion and debate
		
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			and avoid other platforms
		
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			that are clearly just to raise and rent
		
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			and go
		
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			crazy
		
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			as many people are into in these times.
		
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			I've decided in this jumah
		
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			to address some of the local concerns
		
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			and to leave some of the international issues
		
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			to an international figure
		
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			whom I will quote verbatim, and I will
		
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			expose who he or she is later on.
		
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			1st and foremost, with regards to the march,
		
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			here you need to understand that marching in
		
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			support of the Palestinians had numerous legitimate aims.
		
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			Of all the legitimate aims,
		
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			there was one that was closest to my
		
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			heart,
		
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			closest
		
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			to my heart. And what would that be?
		
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			My dear brother and sister,
		
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			it is not exactly the same to die
		
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			alone,
		
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			even if for the right cause,
		
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			and to die in the company of others.
		
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			Somehow, to know
		
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			that my death is felt by another human
		
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			out there.
		
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			Somehow, to know that somebody will cry when
		
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			I die.
		
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			And somebody will see the value
		
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			of my death.
		
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			Somehow that makes the death
		
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			all the more bearable.
		
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			Somehow the pain that I suffer
		
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			is all the more bearable to know that
		
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			I have Muslim brothers out there and sisters
		
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			that see the value.
		
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			So the first thing,
		
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			the reason
		
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			that I am proud of the march and
		
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			any marching the like of it,
		
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			is that if our Muslim governments will not
		
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			rise up and support
		
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			our Muslim brothers and sisters, at least we
		
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			will show
		
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			that we stand with you.
		
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			We feel with you,
		
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			and your death is not an unknown death.
		
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			Your death is not an unborn
		
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			death.
		
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			And Allah knows best.
		
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			As to the fatwa of that particular scholar,
		
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			though it has a certain degree of merit,
		
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			if the march is contrary to the teachings
		
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			of Islam, it has teaching
		
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			elements that is contrary to the teachings of
		
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			Islam. What if the march is a peaceful
		
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			march? This is the bulk of the marches.
		
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			There's been peaceful marches.
		
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			There's been
		
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			no disruption
		
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			of,
		
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			lawful affairs. There's been no destruction
		
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			of property
		
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			and the like. What then?
		
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			To me, it's Max Moore that the particular
		
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			Mufti
		
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			is in the pocket of the Saudi government.
		
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			That's to be honest now. To me, it
		
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			sounds that a particular Mufti is in the
		
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			pocket of the Saudi government,
		
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			and he fears that the like of the
		
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			uprisings in Egypt and Syria and other places
		
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			will come to Saudi.
		
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			With his wife, we speak to the general
		
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			Saudi on the floor, and they go out
		
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			and they wait to show you we're not
		
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			like the people of Syria, and we're not
		
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			like the people of Egypt.
		
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			We are a loyal people.
		
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			But many that live in the country are
		
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			aware that when the uprising started,
		
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			the government started dishing out money.
		
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			The government started dishing out a few 1,000,
		
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			rials
		
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			to citizens, and they started giving other people
		
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			also, you said there isn't a rial, which
		
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			in the end turned out to be a
		
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			few million.
		
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			For what? Why did the government do that?
		
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			Just to oil the idea
		
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			of you being a loyal nation.
		
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			Let's oil your loyalty,
		
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			and Allah knows best.
		
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			This is the times that we live in.
		
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			But either way, I won't go into that
		
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			too much.
		
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			I just want to say
		
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			that the local marches
		
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			received the sanction of local ulema.
		
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			And in fact, the local ulema were not
		
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			absent. They participated in the local
		
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			marches. And let that be sufficient with regards
		
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			to that.
		
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			On the issue of boycotting,
		
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			yes,
		
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			the idea of the boycotting is not without
		
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			its flaws.
		
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			But this time,
		
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			we have learned from mistakes that we have
		
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			made in the past, and we have decided
		
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			to have a concentrated
		
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			boycotting,
		
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			not a general boycott.
		
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			In a general boycott,
		
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			in which we boycott everybody that we consider
		
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			in cahoots with Israel, there's a few problems
		
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			that arise.
		
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			Problem number 1,
		
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			the power of the boycott is dispersed
		
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			and not focused.
		
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			So companies suffer losses, but small insignificant losses
		
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			that doesn't really matter to them. So
		
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			boycott.
		
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			That's basically the attitude.
		
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			Boycott.
		
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			So we basically get ignored,
		
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			though we are involved in a boycott.
		
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			Also,
		
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			if we ask the average Muslim
		
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			to avoid all the companies,
		
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			then the difficulty experienced by the average Muslim
		
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			and the discomfort occasioned by the boycott itself
		
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			becomes
		
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			very quickly unbearable
		
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			to the boycotters themselves. And the boycott ends
		
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			early
		
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			and suddenly, as a result, without having achieved
		
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			its objectives.
		
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			With concentrated boycotting, however, like, we're focusing only
		
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			on 2 companies or 3 companies,
		
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			the companies boycotted
		
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			truly feel the loss of Muslim patronage
		
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			and come to discover the true value of
		
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			Muslim economic participation.
		
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			If I'm working for pick and pay, just
		
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			opposite the right.
		
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			You understand? Like, for example, in Mall,
		
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			And I'm in. And I look in this
		
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			direction.
		
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			And I look in that direction. Full.
		
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			Muslims can't mark.
		
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			You understand? Then I have a sense
		
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			of Muslim
		
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			buying power.
		
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			And at the end of the month, when
		
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			money
		
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			wages
		
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			certain the realities of having a business,
		
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			then the punch of Muslim buying power,
		
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			then it is felt
		
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			And don't think that is setting it is.
		
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			The Muslims
		
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			knows what is happening next. What is the
		
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			next stage?
		
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			The next stage is when we finish what
		
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			what what what what Pick N Pay, we're
		
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			coming for you.
		
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			So at this moment in time, they're enjoying
		
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			the extra bucks that is flowing their way,
		
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			but they know very soon we're coming in
		
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			this direction.
		
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			So, frequently, what is gonna happen even before
		
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			we get to them or, really, they're gonna
		
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			take the products
		
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			of the. So we don't need to even
		
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			boycott them. And as our one of my
		
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			close friends likes to say, has to quote
		
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			an eye of the Quran when such things
		
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			happen.
		
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			Allah suffices the Muslims, they don't even need
		
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			to fight.
		
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			Allah did such a manner,
		
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			Such a victory that there wasn't even need
		
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			to fight.
		
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			You understand? We fought over here. Went to
		
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			Marcus for Allah Bank.
		
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			You understand? And Allah knows
		
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			best. Allah knows best.
		
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			And then with regards to the Muslim public
		
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			and under inter other interested parties,
		
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			they're only required to work with 2 companies.
		
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			So the discomfort suffered
		
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			by not going to Pick N Pay, by
		
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			not going to Woolworths
		
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			is greatly reduced, and it might even be
		
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			absent for certain people that never bought by
		
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			Pick n Pay in the 1st place. So
		
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			there's so many other options that you can
		
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			go to. You hardly feel the boycott. So
		
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			the boycott is extremely manageable, and it can
		
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			be extended indefinitely
		
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			if required
		
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			if required.
		
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			And as I said, with regards to the
		
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			other companies, they are taking note of what
		
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			is happening to Woolworths. They are taking note
		
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			of what is happening to Pick n Pay.
		
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			So frequently, they will change their laws and
		
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			their ways of operation
		
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			before we even
		
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			get to them, and Allah knows best.
		
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			And, yeah, I want to bring in a
		
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			third element,
		
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			the element of Elight and Coca Cola.
		
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			You must have
		
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			heard that Elite has removed all of its
		
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			Coke products from its racks.
		
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			And very soon after Elite did this,
		
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			there was a lot of pro statements, a
		
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			lot of anti statements.
		
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			Some people were saying there's still some co
		
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			products on there. Like, Coca Cola is also
		
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			producing bottled water,
		
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			and it appears they're still selling the bottled
		
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			water. I don't know. Allah knows best.
		
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			Praise for Eli came in.
		
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			Is coming
		
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			from social media platforms
		
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			and the like.
		
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			To me, the case of Eliud and Tukwakola
		
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			is a perfect example of what to do
		
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			and what not to do for Muslims.
		
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			When a Muslim
		
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			tries to act in accordance with his conscience,
		
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			then first and foremost,
		
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			you mustn't attack him for the for the
		
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			for the deficiency in his action.
		
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			You must first applaud this niyyah.
		
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			First, applaud this
		
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			and applaud the sacrifice that he makes.
		
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			If there is room for improvement,
		
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			then, yes, please do inform
		
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			him of the room for improvement.
		
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			But do not inform him of the room
		
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			of of of for improvement. I see. But
		
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			there's a criticism
		
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			of why he did it in the first
		
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			place. And then instead of speaking to him,
		
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			you're speaking to a 1000000 other people.
		
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			A 1000000 other people. One of the wrote
		
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			a book,
		
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			and the title of the book is
		
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			What is the difference between giving somebody good
		
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			advice
		
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			and basically ridiculing them?
		
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			And in the book, he says, one of
		
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			the differences
		
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			is if you do it in private and
		
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			you do it in public.
		
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			If you have good advice to give to
		
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			your fellow Muslim, if you do it in
		
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			private, then that is advice.
		
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			But if you are telling it to him
		
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			in public, then you are not advising him.
		
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			Then you are ridiculing him.
		
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			You are detuning him. Like, one day, for
		
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			example, I was in a hospital, and this
		
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			one lady thought herself to be pious. And
		
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			she rebuked the lady next to her for
		
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			being impious and drinking hamar and the like.
		
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			Not a Muslim. I won't say which religion.
		
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			It's irrelevant.
		
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			But as she was rebuking the lady,
		
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			I noticed that she was looking behind her.
		
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			Like,
		
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			You understand? So you're not really you don't
		
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			really have for that individual.
		
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			You're scoring
		
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			points amongst the other people that are present.
		
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			You're making it well known to the world
		
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			that you are pious, and this one is
		
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			impious.
		
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			You understand? That is what we are doing.
		
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			If you want to give somebody then
		
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			one of the laws is that you give
		
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			them
		
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			privately.
		
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			Privately.
		
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			You understand? And the chances of your being
		
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			accepted is greater also if it is done
		
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			privately. Because the the the individual can then
		
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			immediately sense that my interest is at the
		
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			heart of this fellow Muslim brother, and Allah
		
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			knows best.
		
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			So why didn't people approach
		
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			the owners of Elat or the managers of
		
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			Elat, etcetera? Why did they rather go and
		
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			do it on Facebook?
		
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			Because we got our Facebook Muftis these days,
		
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			and it's a Facebook jihad.
		
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			You understand? But not against the kufa,
		
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			not against that which is Dalala.
		
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			The the jihad is Muslim against Muslim. Allahu
		
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			Akbar. And every little thing and difference that
		
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			Muslims have with one another now must must
		
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			be argued and debated on Facebook. And the
		
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			Kufar are sitting in there looking
		
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			at
		
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			the. Assess the Muslims.
		
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			So is that how you want to go
		
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			down in history? The Muslims of 2014 of
		
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			Cape Town.
		
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			So let's pause a moment.
		
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			Let's pause a moment. Let's think.
		
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			Let's think.
		
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			These public rantings and ravings,
		
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			they serve the purposes of shaitan.
		
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			They don't serve the purposes of Islam.
		
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			As such, I want to make use of
		
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			the member today,
		
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			and I want to personally commend the owners
		
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			and managers of Elat for the decision.
		
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			And never again will I look at Elite
		
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			in the same light ever again.
		
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			That they have said that they have suffered
		
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			for the sake of Allah. For the sake
		
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			of Allah, even if it is merely removing
		
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			the flagship product of Coca Cola, which is
		
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			tuk.
		
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			Even if they just tuk tuk away,
		
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			you need to understand that Eli suffered
		
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			financially
		
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			as a result.
		
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			And being prepared to suffer where it counts.
		
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			But your money,
		
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			that is something.
		
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			Because we've realized something. We've realized something. 1
		
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			of my teachers, Mufti Aker Hussain,
		
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			he said, if you want to become the
		
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			friend of Allah, then enter business
		
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			and do business that is Islamically proper because
		
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			very few people are able to do that.
		
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			Even people who are in the mosque 5
		
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			times a day. Even people are regularly giving
		
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			their zakat. People who are regularly fasting. People
		
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			are regularly for Hajj when it comes to
		
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			their business dealings, and then they con and
		
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			they rob the fellow Muslim.
		
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			What nice little tricks? Footstewards.
		
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			As footstewards.
		
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			If you know there's a defect in the
		
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			car in the house, you can't tell, very
		
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			well, footstewards.
		
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			You understand?
		
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			You must first inform of the defect. And
		
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			then you say, as for the defects I
		
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			don't know, well, footstewards.
		
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			You understand? While the default law in Islam
		
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			is any defect that existed at the moment
		
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			of contract, whether known or not known, if
		
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			it can be proven that it existed at
		
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			the moment of contract,
		
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			well, you must either fix the defect or
		
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			you must take your product back.
		
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			That is the default law in Islam. And
		
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			I'll tell you that there's the default law
		
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			that if you know there's a defect, then
		
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			you must expose the defect. If you do
		
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			not expose the defect, then what type of
		
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			a Muslim are you? You are supposed to
		
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			have for
		
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			your fellow Muslim, for your fellow men. You
		
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			must have his interest in heart. And do
		
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			you have his interest in heart when you
		
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			know the engine is broken and you're still
		
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			selling him the car? He thinks it's a
		
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			BMW,
		
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			and it turns out to be a.
		
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			He thinks he's buying BMW,
		
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			but he's buying another acronym.
		
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			So somehow, when it comes to the money,
		
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			many Muslims are not able to come up
		
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			to the table. And
		
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			yeah, I can commend the people of Ilah.
		
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			At least you were able to do that.
		
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			I don't know if it's true what else
		
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			they are saying.
		
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			That did you take all the Coca Cola
		
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			products away? Didn't you? Didn't you? Are you
		
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			keeping the water? I don't know. But even
		
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			if it is merely true that you took
		
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			Coke away,
		
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			then Allahu Akbar
		
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			Allahu Akbar, you are better than me.
		
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			You are better than me. I look up
		
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			to you, and I make it my law
		
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			that from this day forward, I am gonna
		
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			buy my elect.
		
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			And I want Allah to make it so
		
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			that I am the suburb, that I am
		
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			the means, that Allah rewards them for their
		
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			sacrifice.
		
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			That Allah makes up the deficiency
		
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			that has entered into their wealth due to
		
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			that brave decision that Allah uses me to
		
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			make up that deficiency.
		
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			Now you have a sports for a moment
		
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			because suddenly some of us are thinking,
		
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			the man in the elite family,
		
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			It is Satan, my brother.
		
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			I don't know who owns elite. I don't
		
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			know who runs elite. I score nothing in
		
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			the sense of finance.
		
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			You understand?
		
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			I'm just trying to explain something with regards
		
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			to the laws
		
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			of Allah and his Rasul and how we
		
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			should be behaving.
		
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			If our Muslim brother is doing something for
		
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			the sake of Allah and his Rasul,
		
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			tell me how deficient it is. Let us
		
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			see the in it.
		
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			And if it is deficient and we have
		
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			to give,
		
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			give the in accordance with the teachings of
		
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			Islam.
		
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			There's no such such law as
		
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			It doesn't work like that. Even when you
		
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			are right, then the rest of the laws
		
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			of Islam still apply to you. There's no
		
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			such law that suddenly when I'm right, then
		
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			the rest of the laws of Islam don't
		
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			apply to me. When you became Muslim, then
		
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			the remedy didn't apply to you?
		
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			You suddenly started to float?
		
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			Or gravity still applied to you?
		
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			So that is not where the Islam lies
		
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			in the natural laws,
		
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			etcetera.
		
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			The Islam lies in obedience to Allah and
		
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			being able to see beyond the natural laws.
		
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			Being able to see that it is not
		
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			the law of gravity, it is the law
		
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			of Allah.
		
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			That is where the Islamness of an individual
		
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			lies,
		
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			and Allah knows best. So I say it
		
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			again. Masha'Allah.
		
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			May Allah reward you. May Allah reward your
		
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			families. May Allah reward your employees. May Allah
		
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			grant you.
		
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			And I just wanted to mention, by the
		
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			way, I forgot to mention this point. If
		
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			somehow you work for one of the companies
		
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			that is boycotted Pick N Pay
		
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			or Woolworths,
		
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			don't give up your job.
		
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			The aim is not to crush Pick N
		
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			Pay. The aim is not to crush Woolworths.
		
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			And, inshallah, there are good companies in numerous
		
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			other ways.
		
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			The aim is just to prove this one
		
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			point and to get them to disassociate
		
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			from Israel.
		
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			That is the aim. So we need you
		
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			to still be there, and Allah knows best.
		
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			And this brings me to the second part
		
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			of the jumah.
		
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			Inshallah,
		
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			I've given you some things to think about
		
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			with regards to local efforts to support Islam
		
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			and the Muslims. You don't need to agree
		
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			with me, but let's argue it in accordance
		
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			with the laws of Islam.
		
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			The second part of my jum'ah
		
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			is a statement that was issued by Evonriddly,
		
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			a statement that was issued by Yvonne Ridley.
		
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			Now who is Yvonne Ridley?
		
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			Yvonne Ridley
		
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			is a British journalist
		
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			that
		
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			was kidnapped by the Taliban back in the
		
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			day.
		
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			And
		
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			2 years after being kidnapped by them and
		
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			being released
		
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			by them, she didn't embrace Islam.
		
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			She didn't embrace Islam. And she wrote a
		
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			book on it and the period that she
		
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			was
		
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			held captive by them and how they treated
		
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			her with honor and dignity.
		
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			And there was no fear of being raped,
		
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			which commonly happens during times of war,
		
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			and being physically hurt by the Taliban.
		
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			She actually indicates that she feared more that
		
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			certain other western
		
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			enemies of the Taliban would assassinate her and
		
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			blame the Taliban for it than actually fearing
		
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			the Taliban.
		
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			But, anyway,
		
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			she's become a very outspoken individual speaking
		
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			in favor of Islam, speaking on Islamic affairs,
		
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			and and so forth. A particular article, which
		
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			I'm gonna read to you verbatim,
		
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			is found on the site, Middle East Monitor
		
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			dot com.
		
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			Middle East Monitor
		
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			dot com. It is also found in the
		
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			Cape Town on the Cape Town site, Cape
		
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			Town muslims.c0.zeda.
		
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			Who is behind ISIS?
		
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			Yvonne Ridley.
		
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			Already from the title, who is behind ISIS,
		
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			you get an idea of what direction we
		
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			are gonna go into.
		
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			So I've been asked repeatedly, who is ISIS?
		
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			The acronym ISIS stands for the Islamic State
		
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			of Iraq and Syria.
		
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			Right? That is the name that they run
		
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			under. The leader is called Abu Bakr
		
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			al Baghdadi.
		
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			And he has suddenly come into power and
		
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			he's slain vast regions of Iraq,
		
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			and he now says that he's the Khalifa
		
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			of the time, and he's commanding the Muslims
		
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			of the world now to embrace his Khalifa
		
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			and to support him. Already in Cape Town,
		
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			there's big with
		
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			regards to the return of the khilafa and
		
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			the fact that we have to subject ourselves
		
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			to khilafa.
		
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			The very idea of firafa and how it
		
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			works, we'll discuss that in a separate jum'ah,
		
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			Insha'Allah.
		
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			But let's have a look at the general
		
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			idea of who ISIS is. How would I,
		
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			as a Muslim, respond on the ground? What
		
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			is true? What is not true? Did they
		
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			behead the journalist now recently?
		
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			Did they have reason to behead them?
		
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			Right? Allah knows best. So the article goes
		
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			as follows. It says,
		
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			I have no idea
		
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			where ISIS
		
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			or whatever name it uses come from,
		
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			and I'm just as baffled by the roots
		
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			of its violent ideology.
		
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			While I never pretend to speak for the
		
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			diverse community of Muslims living in Britain today,
		
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			I reckon my views on this will be
		
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			echoed by the majority who have watched with
		
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			growing concern the unprecedented rise of this group.
		
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			However,
		
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			just as unprecedented is the child is invective,
		
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			being spewed out by Islamophobes,
		
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			racists,
		
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			and other so called terrorism experts
		
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			encouraged by some * sections of the British
		
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			media. They have not yelled at all.
		
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			While I've blocked most of the jet booted
		
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			trolls
		
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			who patrol Twitter land,
		
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			demanding that anyone who is or even looks
		
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			like a Muslim
		
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			should launch an immediate protest mask against ISIS.
		
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			I'm amazed that similar rhetoric has been pushed
		
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			by the elements of the media.
		
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			There are many reasons why I've not spoken
		
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			out against ISIS.
		
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			Now the reason I'm using Yvonne Ridley as
		
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			an example
		
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			is that what she is saying matters exactly
		
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			what I believe and what I'm practicing at
		
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			this moment in time.
		
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			While the same time,
		
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			she is part and parcel of the British
		
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			media, and she's a woman.
		
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			You understand? And to me,
		
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			we need to hear
		
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			the female voice amongst our Muslims as well.
		
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			You understand? There's a wisdom sometimes
		
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			that might not be found amongst men or
		
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			a way of saying it, and Allah knows
		
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			best. And in our times, especially,
		
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			we need to focus on that.
		
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			There are many reasons why I've not spoken
		
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			out against ISIS for a start. I'm not
		
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			sure who it is, where it came from,
		
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			or how it was funded.
		
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			I've not seen such a militarily and strategically
		
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			savvy fighting force
		
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			emerge in the Middle East before
		
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			other than the highly disciplined in.
		
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			I, like many others, want to know a
		
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			little bit more about ISIS before making public
		
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			comments.
		
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			Secondly,
		
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			why should I organize a march against ISIS?
		
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			I'm not responsible for its actions.
		
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			Just as my Jewish friends, the pious Jews
		
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			now, are not responsible
		
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			nor should they be for for the actions
		
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			of that other group of violent cycles in
		
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			the Middle East, the Israeli military.
		
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			While ISIS enforces
		
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			enforces wield head and limb chopping knives,
		
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			Israel draws bombs called daisy cutters,
		
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			which also decapitate and maim anyone caught in
		
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			the fallout.
		
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			Thirdly,
		
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			my silence of ISIS does not mean that
		
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			I support the group even if some fools
		
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			take my silence as a sign that I
		
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			do.
		
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			Only when I ask some male tweeters to
		
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			apologize on behalf of rapists
		
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			on the grounds that every * is a
		
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			man.
		
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			So they must all be somehow culpable.
		
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			Does the penny drop?
		
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			Occasionally, I get a muffled apology.
		
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			Why must I apologize for the *? Just
		
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			because I'm a man.
		
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			So why must I apologize if another Muslim
		
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			disappears?
		
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			Did I ask you to apologize for Hitler?
		
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			Well known person?
		
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			Did I ask you?
		
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			Do am I asking you to apologize for
		
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			Netanyahu
		
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			if you're a Jew? No. I focused only
		
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			Netanyahu.
		
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			I focused only Hitler. So why are you
		
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			focused on me?
		
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			And Allah knows best.
		
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			And, finally, even if I jump down jumped
		
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			up and down and declared that ISIS is
		
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			the scum of the earth,
		
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			exactly what did that achieve anyway? If we
		
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			march against ISIS, what would it achieve?
		
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			Like, I've given you an angle of what
		
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			it would achieve in March in support of
		
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			Palestine
		
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			and anti Israel, for example, the certain legitimate
		
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			objective that is achieved, what will it achieve
		
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			in a march against ISIS?
		
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			I hardly think its leader, Barack Obama, is
		
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			going to lose lose sleep
		
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			over Evon Redley's views
		
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			or anybody from Cape Town Oh, he says
		
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			too
		
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			much. He's not interested.
		
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			There are few certainties in the chaos chaos
		
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			that is now the Middle East.
		
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			However, what I can say with authority
		
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			is that the world would have never heard
		
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			of ISIS
		
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			and widowmakers
		
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			George W. Bush and Tony Blair not launched
		
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			the illegal war in Iraq in 2003.
		
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			And, yeah, I just want to remind you,
		
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			in today's time, you are not allowed to
		
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			fight a legitimate war against another country by
		
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			without first petitioning the UN
		
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			for the war.
		
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			And, yeah, I want to remind you that
		
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			America is one of the veto countries in
		
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			the UN.
		
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			Their vote is more powerful than anybody else's
		
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			vote, and they have the ability to buy
		
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			you from a war they they vote against
		
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			it. But when it came to the Iraqi
		
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			war,
		
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			the rest of the United Nations voted against
		
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			America.
		
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			They declared the war illegal,
		
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			yet America and England still fought the war.
		
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			And up till today, America has not received
		
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			even that.
		
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			Yours total, I think.
		
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			Everyone.
		
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			Not even that.
		
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			Up till
		
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			today, after killing thousands of human beings in
		
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			an illegal war, they have not received
		
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			even that.
		
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			In Britain, there has been some fallout. Yes.
		
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			In Britain, because the democracy in Britain is
		
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			somewhat stronger than what it is in America.
		
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			But in America, there has been no equal
		
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			fallout.
		
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			And Allah knows best.
		
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			The problem is that that war
		
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			created the necessary springboard
		
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			for what roams the earth in Iraq now,
		
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			and Allah knows this.
		
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			The world would also have never seen ISIS
		
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			develop into the full blown monster that it
		
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			is
		
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			if the west, at the very least, introduced
		
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			a no fly zone in Syria
		
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			after the chemical weapons were unleashed on civilians
		
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			by Bashar Al Assad's forces
		
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			exactly a year ago this week.
		
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			The question to ask is this,
		
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			who really benefits from the unfolding ISIS spectacle?
		
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			The big winners are sitting within the Assad
		
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			regime.
		
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			It is that regime which which was, by
		
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			the way,
		
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			suspected of capturing US journalist James Foley with
		
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			Massey in North Missouri on 12 November 2012.
		
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			How on earth did he slip out of
		
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			the Syrian government's hands into those of the
		
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			murderers, head chopping maniacs of ISIS?
		
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			The former head of the British Army says
		
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			that the west should sit down and negotiate
		
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			with Assad to get rid of ISIS. But
		
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			what if ISIS was created by Assad and
		
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			his ally Iran,
		
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			which has members of the elite republican guard
		
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			in parts of Syria?
		
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			As crazy as it sounds,
		
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			that would explain why Muriel Malik's Iraq army
		
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			fell away so easily in the face of
		
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			ISIS,
		
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			leaving behind a massive arsenal of weapons for
		
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			the militia to use.
		
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			It is virtually inconceivable for a trained fighting
		
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			force to leave all of its kid behind
		
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			before doing a runner.
		
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			Just as it's virtually inconceivable that the crack
		
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			fighting force like ISIS could emerge from a
		
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			ragtag bunch of ill disciplined rebel fighters,
		
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			Boy it up by disaffected youngsters from Europe
		
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			and beyond.
		
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			Maximum, how many Europeans are there?
		
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			Maximum.
		
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			Probably 30 or 40.
		
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			30 or 40 is gonna be like a
		
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			a skilled army,
		
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			and Allah knows best. Make no mistake.
		
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			ISIS's * of Iraq
		
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			is nothing short of breathtaking.
		
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			It has achieved in a matter of weeks
		
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			what the US and its allies failed to
		
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			do in 10 years of occupation.
		
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			How can that be done by ragtag individuals?
		
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			This hasn't happened by accident.
		
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			Military victories in the state will take strategic
		
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			planning and inside the out.
		
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			So who exactly
		
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			is behind ISIS?
		
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			Who exactly
		
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			is behind
		
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			ISIS?
		
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			I want to finish this
		
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			by just quoting a number of a hadith
		
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			and giving a brief translation.
		
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			Right?
		
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			The aim and intent is that you got
		
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			some things from the lecture itself that you
		
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			can take home with
		
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			and that you can use in your personal
		
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			arguments,
		
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			that you can use also to understand what
		
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			is happening in our time. But if not,
		
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			let's look at the eternal words of the
		
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			prophet Muhammad.
		
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			Please be upon him. So the prophet says,
		
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			the hadith comes in Bukhari, and I've only
		
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			selected the hadith from Bukhari and Muslim. The
		
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			prophet says,
		
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			Soon, knowledge will be taken away from the
		
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			people.
		
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			And ignorance will become the order of the
		
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			day.
		
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			And there will be lots of temptations
		
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			to cause you to want to be non
		
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			Muslim and the like.
		
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			And
		
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			will be in large amount.
		
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			What is Harush?
		
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			And he did this with his hand
		
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			keeping it at an angle.
		
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			As if he was trying to say, there'll
		
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			be a lot of killing
		
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			in the end of times.
		
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			In the second hadith, the prophet says,
		
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			there will be many times of trials and
		
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			tribulations
		
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			in the end of days.
		
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			The one who sits
		
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			when the time comes is better than the
		
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			one that stands.
		
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			And the one who stands
		
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			will be better than the one that walks.
		
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			And the one that walks at that time
		
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			will be better than the one that runs.
		
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			So what is the prophet Wala telling you?
		
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			The less you get involved,
		
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			the better.
		
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			The less you get involved,
		
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			the better.
		
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			You raise his head to look at it.
		
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			Will find that he looks back at him.
		
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			Strange and wonder is why you're saying it.
		
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			I want to look at the fitna,
		
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			and then the fitna is looking back at
		
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			me.
		
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			In areas like Park,
		
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			frequently innocent bystanders are shot.
		
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			But what many people actually forget
		
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			is that if you are in Hanover Park
		
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			and you hear the the the shooting, you
		
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			will notice that many of the bystanders actually
		
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			run towards the sound,
		
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			not away from it.
		
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			Amazing phenomenon.
		
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			When you're actually in Menowalk and Menowalk Park,
		
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			when it happens, you'll notice that many people
		
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			actually run towards it.
		
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			So the innocent bystander is not so innocent,
		
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			it would appear.
		
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			And Allah knows best. And here the prophet
		
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			says it in a beautiful way. He who
		
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			raises. He said to look at it. We'll
		
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			find that the fitna will look back.
		
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			So you want to look at the fitna?
		
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			The fitna looks back. Oh, yeah. It's okay.
		
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			Yeah. It's okay.
		
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			Alright.
		
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			Whosoever can find a place of safety
		
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			or even of safety or
		
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			or a refuge
		
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			then let him go and hide away in
		
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			that refuge.
		
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			Next hadith,
		
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			Sahay
		
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			Muslim. A time of will come.
		
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			And the true believer will say,
		
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			this is the time of my demise.
		
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			Will
		
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			be raised slightly.
		
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			But but then another will come and take
		
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			its place.
		
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			And the true believer will say,
		
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			This is the time I die. This is
		
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			the time I die. From, so whosoever wants,
		
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			I
		
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			use
		
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			to be destined from the
		
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			and allowed entry into paradise when the time
		
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			of comes.
		
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			That he make sure that his death comes
		
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			his way.
		
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			While he still believes in Allah
		
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			and in the final day. It is not
		
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			important to know who ISIS is.
		
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			It is not important to argue the boycott
		
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			or empty the boycott.
		
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			What is important
		
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			is that you protect your iman, my dear
		
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			brother.
		
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			That is what is important.
		
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			That is what comes first.
		
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			And Allah knows best
		
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			and that he gives to the people
		
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			that which he loves
		
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			be given to him.
		
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			This is one of the ultimate laws of
		
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			Islam.
		
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			And people that have studied the various religions
		
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			of the earth, they find that somehow the
		
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			statement is in every religion. That's That's why
		
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			some people call it the golden principle.
		
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			Do unto others
		
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			what you wish done
		
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			to yourself.
		
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			It is the golden principle in treating others.
		
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			If you feel you got the right to
		
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			be rude with others, don't they have the
		
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			right to be rude with you?
		
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			If you feel you need to be understood,
		
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			don't you think the person you're speaking to
		
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			also wants to be understood?
		
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			So seek to understand
		
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			before you seek to be
		
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			understood
		
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			and hear the greatness of the Sahaba.
		
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			Why Allah says in the Quran? There were
		
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			people
		
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			They preferred others above themselves, though they have
		
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			need.
		
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			If you apply this law in your life,
		
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			your life will change, and you will instantly
		
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			start to love.
		
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			You're having problems with your wife? Having problems
		
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			with your husband?
		
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			Then just try this. Try to give them
		
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			what you want,
		
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			and instantly, your life will change. And Allah
		
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			knows best. And Allah knows best.
		
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			And whosoever pledges an imam,
		
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			you have given him the clasp of your
		
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			hand.
		
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			And the fruit of your heart, your obedience.
		
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			Then obey him as much as you can.
		
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			Obey him as much as you can till
		
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			the end of the hadith.
		
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			Now the hadith and we end on this
		
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			hadith
		
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			The prophet says, you, Shikoo, very soon,
		
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			The best wealth a Muslim could possess
		
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			will be sheep or
		
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			goats.
		
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			And he will live in the mountains with
		
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			his goats and his sheep, and he will
		
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			follow it up to the peaks of the
		
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			various mountains,
		
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			and the places where the rains falls.
		
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			What is he doing up in the mountains?
		
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			He has fled
		
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			with his faith away from the fitan.
		
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			The problems. The problems.
		
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			What did I just say? The people here
		
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			are the shooting, and then they are running
		
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			towards it.
		
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			Logically, you should be running
		
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			away from it.
		
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			The arguments come up. You don't know how
		
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			to defend.
		
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			You don't know really what is happening. Who
		
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			is ISIS? Who's Abu Bakr al Baghdadi?
		
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			What is happening in Egypt? You don't really
		
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			know. You got a little piece of dust
		
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			and a little piece of death and a
		
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			little piece of death. You may
		
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			have
		
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			pieces of information,
		
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			but pieces of information never produced an
		
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			alim, a scholar of that particular field. An
		
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			alim is not one that sits with.
		
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			An alim is one that sits with,
		
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			and there being a difference. Like, for example,
		
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			I like to lead read up on medicine.
		
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			I write I read up on the latest
		
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			studies in medicine. Does that make me a
		
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			doctor?
		
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			I can't even help myself. You see me
		
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			everyday.
		
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			I can't even help myself.
		
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			By the grace of Allah, after reading all
		
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			of these books, you understand? I'm I'm still
		
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			a idiot
		
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			when it comes to medicine,
		
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			though I might have some some
		
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			details.
		
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			So, yeah, let us act in accordance,
		
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			and I would like to end with a
		
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			statement.
		
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			The Arabs have a saying, and the saying
		
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			applies.
		
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			May Allah mercy the slave of his that
		
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			knows his own limit, and he moves no
		
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			further.
		
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			May Allah shower with mercy the slave of
		
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			his
		
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			that knows his own limit, and he moves
		
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			no further.