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Salam aleikum wa Rahmatullahi wa barakaatuh
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Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim al hamdu Lillah wa salatu salam ala rasulillah. Allah, Allah, he was
happy.
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We praise Allah Subhana, Allah to Allah, the creator, the nareesha, the cherish the Sustainer, the
provider, the protector, the cure, the one in whose hands lies, absolute control of entire
existence. We send blessings and salutations, upon all those who were sent to us from the beginning,
right up to Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, to remind us about the goodness to remove us from
darkness and to bring us to the light.
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We also asked the almighty to bless his household, his companions, and everyone, from that time, who
struggled and strove right to this moment, to remind people of the same goodness, may the almighty
make us from them and grant us such that our offspring also remain steadfast rather to the end. I
mean,
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I have to say something about the Maldives before I start,
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it's not my first visit.
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But I can tell you,
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it's probably the best so far.
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The reason is the Almighty grants us blessing upon blessing.
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And sometimes we take it for granted.
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Many times, we don't notice and realize the gifts of the Almighty that are around us. And we tend to
concentrate on those things that we might be lacking. But if we were to take a moment to look at
others across the globe, and what they are going through, we would realize not only the importance
of what we've been given, but the importance of preserving What do we have and building upon it, and
not making the same mistakes that others have made. You watch the world, you will notice, some
countries develop while others that were developed, go backwards.
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And if we don't learn a lesson from both of these, we are foolish. We are people who would not have
fulfilled what the Almighty has placed us on earth for number one, we search for him, we look for
him, we worship Him alone. And number two is together with that we leave this globe in such a way
that those who are to follow after us will be proud of our achievements, both regarding our
connection with the almighty as well as development
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of the infrastructure, the countries the nations We will live in, and the globe at large. So my
brothers and sisters, I noticed the development as I was landing, it's been more than a year since I
visited and I visited several times. But noticing the development is something that cannot miss the
eye. So I thank Allah for that. This afternoon, I was taken to a beautiful resort.
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And from there to Panama
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having been given all the times and the entire timeframe of events and so on. I was told there is a
little technical glitch that would require a delay of perhaps 30 to 45 minutes. I said Alhamdulillah
two times. Why?
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When I want things and they happen according to me, I think Allah when I want things and they don't
happen according to me, they've happened according to the creator that I believe in so I thank him
even more because I know there is something even better in it for me than I would imagine. I think
I'm not twice Guess what? I got a little bit more time in the swimming pool. Mashallah Allah
subhanho wa Taala bless us. In fact, to be more precise in the ocean, in a llama beautiful I
normally do not just jump into the ocean, but here I did. It was irresistible. And I told myself who
made this Imagine if the Maldives is so beautiful. What do you think Jenna would be like, for you
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who are from this particular place?
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I could show you so many other places on earth. That would not really impress you. You would say
yeah, my backyard. You know, when I tell people I come from Zimbabwe. They asked me Do you have
lions and elephants in your backyard and when we say
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See the lions and elephants? We do say, Oh, these are from our backyard. Mashallah. But you realize
the favors of Allah and you start asking yourself Who made this?
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It was Allah who gave this place such beauty. It's Allah Who created us. My brothers my sister's one
question you need to ask yourself, when we're talking about religious rehabilitation, we're actually
referring to going back to where we're supposed to be. Look, if I were to ask any one of you, and
I've been doing this of late, where were you one year before you were born? You don't have an
answer. Science cannot answer that. Medicine cannot answer that. No amount of secular education can
answer that where were you one year before you were born? Perhaps let's make it more interesting and
say 20 years before you were born. because technically, someone might argue Okay, I was already in
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the form of a drop of * or an egg that was being prepared to meet and thereafter be created or
come into being.
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But in actual fact, how
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Mina, Lamia COO,
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coo
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has not passed in the stage of men were men was nothing to even be mentioned. Men didn't exist. You
and I did not exist. There was a time when we could not be referred to because we will not existed.
Prior to the birth of our own parents, we were non existent. We need to think of that that will take
us back to the reality. Where did you come from? It's not good enough to just say, you know what I
popped in here. And that's it. And this was all coincidental and by chance, the stage you see here,
that is so beautiful. May Allah reward those who made this a reality.
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It is not as sophisticated as mankind. But we would be foolish if we said it popped up here on its
own this morning. Right? mankind is much more sophisticated than that. How could we say we popped up
here just like that when we know that something less sophisticated than us could not have just
popped up like that. My brothers and sisters we came from a maker in call upon
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shajing. Daddy,
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Mommy
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in Surah. Allah reminds us of the origin, Allah says we created you from a drop of *. Allah
subhanho wa Taala says we created you from a drop of *. And then we gave you the faculties of
hearing and seeing so you could hear you could see and guess what Allah says, we're going to take
you away after your short stint on Earth.
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The only way I will be able to rehabilitate myself when it comes to religion is by asking the
question, Where did I come from? Why am I here? And where am I going? What should I be doing while
I'm here? I've already touched on that right at the beginning. But I want to remind you of another
verse in salt. Yes. Seen and I'm sure many of us read the beautiful surah where Allah subhanho wa
Taala says, I wanna
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follow up on
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Nova does man not see that we created him from * from a droplet of * to Panama.
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And suddenly, he becomes so argumentative, clear arguments, SubhanAllah. He wants to argue about
everything in anything. Let's get this straight. It's very important to put forward your opinions.
It is important also, to have the right to disagree respectfully with what is being said. But you
don't forget, it must be knowledge based. You don't just say something because that's it. You want
to say someone says one plus one is two. If you have a different answer based on knowledge, you have
the right to disagree. But if you do have knowledge, you will say no, it is to some hand Allah, may
Allah grant us ease. So my brothers and sisters what I need to remember what you need to remember is
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I came from a law I came on to this earth. I was made
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By some supreme deity who knows way beyond what I know, I've always in the last year and a half,
given the example of children within the womb prior to birth, and I've said, you know, in the womb,
if you were to be able to speak to say, a twin that was with you in the womb, and you were enjoying
life there, at one stage, you were so small that you swam around the womb, and that was your life.
That was everything you ever knew, you would never have imagined in the wildest of your dreams in
that womb, that there was life outside the womb. And you would never have dreamt that they would be
life, or they is life of a totally different nature, a few millimeters away from you. If you were to
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put aside the membrane of the womb of your mother and break through, you would see something you
never dreamt existed. But while you're in the womb, you think that's everything that so that's
everything. If your twin had to talk to you and say, Now what's going to happen? You would say
perhaps, well, that's it, we are here, we came here by nature, we are here just by coincidence. And
you know, once we ended here, it's going to be over and we're gone. One wonders where we're going to
go and what's going to happen, it's actually over. And little Do you know that as it becomes more
difficult to stay within the womb, and it becomes tougher to move from side to sign. And as you
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think that it's the end of everything. It's only the beginning of the life on this earth.
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There is something known as labor, wherein a woman gives birth, may Allah make it easy for all of
those who have given birth are giving birth and shall give birth up to the Allah make it easy for
them. It's a near death experience for some of them. But my brothers and my sisters, when that
happens, life comes into existence, from one stage to another, it was already alive in the womb. And
after having thought that there would be nothing beyond that, suddenly Here comes, boom.
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You're out in the world. you've actually seen the Maldives, do you believe it? you've actually seen
the movies. If I were to ask any one of you, what would you like from what you loved? In the wombs
of your mothers? You would say I can't remember Not a soul remembers what he or she liked in the
wombs of his or her mother's not even one. Honestly ask yourself what did I like in the womb of my
mother? Definitely, you must have loved some things. You enjoyed yourself, you ate, you drank, you
grew. But when the time was up, guess what? labor takes different lengths different times. Some of
them, some people within a few minutes, some within a few hours, some days, exactly the same happens
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at the end of this stage of life. When we end this life, there is a different type of labor. It's
not called labor, it's called the pangs of death. We in the Arabic language call it sakkara two
modes.
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For some people, it's a second for some people, it's a few minutes, a few hours, some a few days.
And guess what, just when you were thinking everything is going to come to an end. If you were not a
believer, you would be very surprised that there is a very thin membrane, even thinner than the one
on the belly of your mother's that would be separating you in this life from the reality of the
hereafter. So Panama. And so if you believe that when we die, we're going somewhere, you would have
to prepare for that by doing what will navigate back to your maker. We are Muslims. We believe in
the maker we call him the worship to one we say whoever made me is the only one who we owe our
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worship to no sticks, no stones, no people, no one else is owed acts of worship, besides he who made
me the deity the supreme deity. So who is he? When all I know is the maker. He is the one whom I'm
going to return to I call him the worship one. He definitely has to have sent messengers with
messages to me to explain to me why I'm on earth. And you know what, I will always call him the
worshipped one, the maker in the Arabic language, Allah, Allah in the Hebrew language, no him or
ello ha Subhana Allah, the worship to one
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amazing Who do you worship whoever made me so when I put my head on
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Round and I say Subhana Allah, what am I saying? I'm saying, Glory be to the one who made me who is
the highest, he who made me a boon refers to the one who nourishes, cherishes provides protects
exactly what I said at the beginning of this talk when describing the Almighty, I'm saying he is the
highest, and I'm putting my head on the ground only for him because I know, oh, you who made me have
mercy on me, oh, you whom I'm going to return to when I return to you have mercy on me. That's
Allah. He is the one. When we get to the other side, we will say, Oh, you who made me are you whom
I've just returned to, I will always worship you and worship you alone. I did not take any risks. I
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did not take any risks at all, I worship the one who made me and that's it. My brothers, my sisters,
many are deceived by this world. They don't realize that this world is not all about enjoyment.
Because Allah says to us that I have not created this world for you to have perfection or for you to
have eternal bliss. There is another place I have created, wherein you will have eternal bliss and
perfection. Not here. Every single one of us goes through problems. So don't think that the Almighty
is not merciful on us. Because we have problems because we have issues because we are struggling,
you are on earth in order to go through the challenges. I've given an example in the past of the
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schools that we go to, we go to school in order to graduate to go to college, and perhaps to
university in order to be able to get a job in order to be able to earn a livelihood so that we can
have some food and a place to live and perhaps get married and take care of our children. May Allah
grant that to us said, I mean,
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Allah make it easy. So my brothers and sisters, what if someone is granted all that wealth without
going to school,
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the parents would still say go to school, go to school, even if you're wealthy and you know, you
have enough for your children and children's children, you would tell your children go to school,
when they go to school, what are you prepared for, you're prepared for them to be tested, you
prepared for them to follow rules to follow regulations, you're prepared for them to go at a
specific time from this time to this time, dress in a specific way, do whatever they have to they
must do this, they must be in this way they will go they will be tested and the tests will become
more and more difficult as the time passes. In order for them to graduate. My brothers and sisters
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exactly the same thing happens in our lives. Allah says you know what, I want you to graduate to the
Hereafter, I will put tests and bigger tests as you grow older and older. And ultimately, I want you
to graduate into the hereafter. And I want you to earn that beautiful paradise. And Allah says, You
know what, what I want from you is the trial, keep trying. That's all you may never achieve. But the
fact that you've tried is good enough for Allah.
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That's why he says to us through the blessings, lips of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, in
number, Mr. Lubin daubigny. Yet what in number, the Colibri mandawa. Every action shall be rewarded
and judged based on the intention of that action. If I intended to do something, I will get the
reward of it. Even if I did not complete it the way I wanted to the fact that I have tried and I had
the intention, Allah will reward me. He says you try, didn't you? Well come forth. May Allah
subhanho wa Taala, grant us ease. And then if you take a look, if you take a look at the rest of our
lives, Allah Who created us has placed rules and regulations so that we can lead a clean life filled
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with contentment, not necessarily millions and billions, but you will be happy, you will be content
to Panama, you will be happy with what the Almighty has given you. May Allah grant us ease.
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There are so many things we want in our lives, we may not be able to achieve them. There are so many
things we want for ourselves, we may not be able to have it because there might not be as many to go
around for everyone. For example, you want to marry a specific person, and maybe that person, there
are five or 10 others who also want to marry that person. Only one is going to marry that person
perhaps then what will happen. The other nine cannot become depressed. They have to be content Allah
didn't want it. Perhaps it's something better. Like I told you earlier when you want something and
it comes to you. Thank Allah when you want something and it does not come to you. thank him twice.
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Thank him twice. He knows something you don't know. So para la
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My brothers, my sisters,
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allow one's contentment for us on earth while we're going through our challenges. Look at Jesus May
peace be upon him, and why am I giving the example of Jesus? May peace be upon him? The reason is,
we do have the examples of Muhammad Sallallahu wasallam that I'm going to come to. But some people
think that it's just Muslims who suffer. And look across the globe. There are Muslims who are
suffering. Yes, indeed, I do agree there are many Muslims who are struggling and suffering.
Sometimes it's because of the doing of their own hands. And sometimes it's because of the doings of
their own brothers and sisters in sometimes it is totally external maroma protect us from all of
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that. But it does not mean that the Muslims are struggling alone. There are others who belong to
other faiths. They are also struggling, they have their own challenges as well. I was saying, take a
look at the Prophet Jesus May peace be upon him or the Prophet Moses, may peace be upon him? Did
they not struggle from the beginning right to the end? From the very beginning, right to the very
end? Did they not struggle? Were they not challenges and difficulties more than any one of us? I
said, Jesus made peace be upon him. They harassed him, they persecuted him, they really they did not
leave him be they actually try whatever they could to harm him Subhanallah they tried to make his
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life
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that which was very, very difficult. But was he ever anything besides content, he was very content,
he was always a happy person. He continued doing good, he continued to helping everyone. Their bad
did not change his good. This is a mistake we make when someone is being bad to us, we become bad
with them. Don't let someone else's bad temper with your good, you remain steadfast upon that
goodness. If someone else is cheating, you don't have to cheat. If someone else is deceiving, you
don't have to deceive. If someone is corrupt, you should not be corrupt. If someone is harming you,
you need to be able to know how to deal with it in the most respectful way, in a way that would
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solve the problem rather than create two problems out of one. So that was the Prophet Jesus May
peace be upon him look at the Prophet Moses May peace be upon him, the Pharaoh, the pharaoh used to
say Anna buku moon
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I am your Lord the high and they knew he was not but they worshipped him. When Moses came up with
the reality in a very respectful way with software's. You see in religion, what happens you have
extremism, extremism where people want to impose their own understanding of the faith upon everyone
else in a harsh way. Trust me, if you are close to Allah, it shows in your soft nature and in the
goodness of your character. If you are lacking soft nature, or goodness of character, you cannot be
close to Allah subhanho wa Taala.
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A pious person is truly the one whom it shows in their greatness of character and conduct the
Prophet peace be upon him even in times of war, he was the most merciful person, the most just
person you could ever have. He was so trained. Look at what Allah subhana wa Taala says fathima
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have
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booming.
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It is because of the mercy of Allah and the saying of the mercy of Allah that you were lenient
towards those around you on messenger Muhammad, peace be upon him. It's a sign of the mercy of
Allah. You want to know if Allah has mercy on you, no matter how religious you think you are, the
mercy of Allah is depicted very closely by you being lenient and soft natured towards those around
you. That is true closeness to Allah. Many people think that you know what, I'm a religious person,
and they spit in the faces of those who might be struggling in their faith, perhaps they are
struggling because of whatever the challenges may be. The topics I have, for the next few days. I'm
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all interconnected. And I will be addressing some of these matters. But in essence, we will only be
able to impact upon people when we empathize when we try to understand what they're going through
when we educate when we empower in a beautiful way when we smile and acknowledge you are created by
the same maker who made me the maker whom I worship, the one whom I'm trying to impress.
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So that I can go into paradise that he has prepared if he made you, in order for me to show my
closeness to him, I need to show My respect to you because you were created by the same Lord, whom
I'm trying to please.
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That's the beauty of this whole dunya. That's why Allah subhanho wa Taala says, In a moment in your
home command,
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you have mercy upon those on earth, and the one in the heavens will have mercy on you, when you are
messiness. He will be merciless towards you, you will face the wrath of your own deeds. And you
won't know why is this happening? Well, because you were not considerate of the fact that you had to
be merciful to the rest of human beings, no matter how different they were from you. You must be
merciful. You must be a person who understands not everyone will be on your level, when you come
across in a beautiful way. I tell you, the Pharaoh was the worst on the earth at that particular
time. And Moses was probably the best on the earth at that particular time. He was helped by Allah,
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Moses May peace be upon him, he was helped by Allah. And he was told by the almighty himself, go to
the Pharaoh and talk to him. I'm with you. I will help I will guide Allah told him personally, Allah
spoke to him. What can Lama said that clean? The Quran says Allah spoke to Moses, proper speaking
speech between the two of them.
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So Allah says to him and his brother, you know what, you guys, I want you to go to the Pharaoh. And
when you go to him, he deserves that you correct him. But you speak to him with utmost respect.
Haha, it was easy for Allah, Allah already knew the future. And Allah knew this man is never going
to be guided. But Allah wanted it to be a lesson for everyone, including for the Prophet Moses, may
peace be upon him the innovation of status and the granting of that particular rent that he had. So
Allah says, Go with your brother, to the Pharaoh. And how should you talk to him? Now remember,
Allah is telling the best, the most pious perhaps, obviously he was an OB of Allah. The most pious
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Allah is telling him how to talk to the worst of the lot on Earth. The one who used to say I am God,
we're gonna figure out
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Mullah Omar
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Illa in
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the Quran says the pharaoh used to say, or people have been to Israel, I don't know. Or all my
people my cronies, although you who are in front of me, I don't know of a god for you besides me,
that's what the Pharaoh was saying. And Allah is telling Moses, you know what, this guy who claims
to be the God, I want you to go to him. Talk to him in a certain way. What do you think that way
would be imagined today a pious young man walking on the street, seeing someone who is perhaps maybe
outwardly looking like they might need help in terms of spirituality? I don't even want to use the
word sinful.
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But perhaps they might need help. How do you think they would talk? I think today people will say
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hello, you are going to the fire. My sister, my brother Johanna is waiting for you. That's how we
would talk about me, perhaps not many of us but some who claim who have a claim to piety. They think
that's the way Allah would be happy when they talk to others like that. They are totally wrong. They
have not read the Quran. They have not understood the Quran.
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They have not read the Quran, they have not understood it. They haven't looked at the methods of
Allah Who told his own messengers to go to people worse than anyone you will ever meet in your whole
life. You and I will never meet a person worse than the Pharaoh and you and I can never be better
than Moses May peace be upon him. Allah tells Musa alayhis salam powerful words, he recorded them
for us in the Quran. He says, For hola Allahu
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Allah, to me, it's a highlight for anyone who wants to call people towards goodness go and speak the
two of you go to the Pharaoh and speak to him with the softest of words in the kindest tone in the
most beautiful manner. Perhaps he might be reminded and he might take heed and he may turn towards
us.
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Amazing You follow? Can you see how far we have gone away from the path that is the blessing path of
the messages with Allah subhanho wa Taala telling Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam the first
time
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Read earlier about a sign of mercy being in your leniency. And Allah says in that verse to Muhammad
sallallahu alayhi wasallam. If you were harsh, nobody would have listened to you. If you were hard
hearted, they would have dispersed from around you. Many of us are harsh. We are hard hearted, and
we expect people to want to come to Islam. I believe that a lot of people are discouraged from faith
simply because of the way we talk to them. Simply because of the fact that we did not think for a
moment, we don't actually have knowledge. We think what we have is knowledge you have, yes, a little
bit of information about the faith, but you have not even learned how to pass it. You have not
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learned how to pass it on. My brothers and sisters, study the glue and check how Islam spread will
largely it spread through honesty, character, conduct, and so on. And together with that people were
very keen recently I read a story of a sister from one of the Western countries who was stuck
somewhere in Pakistan, and she was helped by men and people who really assisted her with upmost
respect, such that one day when she went back or too long ago, she decided to turn to Islam who
invited her to the dean.
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She saw something and she witnessed it herself. That contentment, the happiness, the nature of these
people, they respected her how many of us are prepared to respect the opposite * and treat them as
those who are deserving our respect? Or do we look at them as * objects? Do we look at them as
those who are meant to be used and abused? May Allah subhanho wa Taala guide us home? So my brothers
and sisters if Musa alayhis salaam the Prophet Moses May peace be upon him was told to speak in this
tone? That's how we should be speaking. There is no room for those who want to impose if Allah
wanted he could guide everyone he says it in the Quran. Why don't we
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lose loon Jeremy
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NASA
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aku meanie if Allah wanted he could have guided all the people on earth. That's what Allah says, Are
you going to force the people that they must be believers? I promise you one of the disasters we
have as Muslims
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is we don't even know our own faith. We don't even know our own Deen. We have not yet seen the
world. I want to give you one quick example. And I'm going to be repeating this example.
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If you look at Muslims who have grown in western countries, and those who are practicing the deen,
in many instances, or let me give you even a slightly different example. If you look at those who
have reverted to Islam in the Western world, they are stronger Muslims in many cases than those who
are born into Islam, and did not yet understand the favor of the Almighty they have upon them. I've
seen people who have wasted their lives in so many ways. They have the worst habits, morals and
values are so low, that it's very difficult sometimes to understand why they would be that way. But
guess what? Our duty number one to thank the almighty for what we're upon the good, pure and clean
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and to reach out to them as well in a beautiful way. Does it mean that because someone has habits or
morals or values that you consider low that you need to start spewing hate against them, you need to
start harming destroying, fighting, killing? Or should you reach out with good positive propagation
in a nice lovely way. The world is huge. So much is happening across the globe. It's not easy. It's
not easy for us to convey that message. Because there is there are so many different words and
messages that are reaching the poor mind that sometimes it becomes confused. It makes our job more
difficult. The strategy remember one thing the religion stays the same.
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the worship of the Almighty stays the same.
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But the way you come across and your method will change with the changing of times. Technology has
progressed and is progressing as we speak. More and more is coming out. People are now able to reach
anything and everything and you know what the most foolish from amongst us has a platform to a his
or her views
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I can consider it foolish. But that view will be made public because that's technology. So what do I
need to do, I need to behave in a respectful way and market my idea
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in a way that people realize this is far more meritorious than that it holds more merit, it actually
is a better opinion or it is the true guidance compared to the other. But you will not be able to
close the mouths of people impossible. If you think you can close the mouths of everyone, you're
actually going to create a disaster.
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May Allah subhanho wa Taala help us in every way. We have people today from all over, trying to
* away the goodness we have, they will succeed in snatching that goodness away. If we don't
realize that what we have is goodness.
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I want to ask you, my beloved brothers and sisters in this beautiful nation of the Maldives.
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To understand the gift that Allah has bestowed upon you, do you know you have many gifts? One of
them is the peace, the stability, the security of your nation, do not compromise it. If you differ
amongst yourselves, behave yourselves, be people who are intelligent enough to learn from the
examples of others who have destroyed their nations, some Anima, because they did not know how to
differ with each other. They have destroyed their nations don't allow that to happen to you. Even if
you differ, you need to realize, okay, we differ, let's talk about it. Let's perhaps maybe debate it
in a very respectful way. Absolutely respectful way, I want to again, draw from the examples of
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those in the West. And I have to because you know what our teachings, the teachings of Islam, we
have strayed away some of our characters and conduct some of the most honest people are no longer
the Muslims, you find the Muslim businessmen will tell you, it's very difficult to deal with
Muslims, there are from amongst us be honest, but not like before, before it was much more much
greater in number it was almost impossible, or very difficult to be duped by a Muslim. But today,
it's happening a lot. So if you were to go to the Western world, sometimes look at how when they
differ with each other, even after divorce. And even in the political arena, when they differ with
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each other, they will debate the matter, they will talk about the matter, they will argue for
example, within the respectful norm. and thereafter, the minute they walk out, they are brothers
again, because they are serving the same nation. They are exactly serving the same nation. It's like
we're in a big ship, we can differ as to which way to steer the ship here or there. But at the end
of the day, don't make a hole in the ship. Because we're all gone. We're all gone. And this is
what's happening when people come to us trying, trying to con our minds and brainwash us to destroy
our own ship. They are the ones who are guilty, may Allah subhanho wa Taala guide. So
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I am saying this because from a religious platform, people like myself who are apolitical, we have
no political agenda whatsoever. It's simply religious, we sometimes are being abused. And people are
using religion, to make us become violent, to make us become people who destroy the nation, in the
name of the faith that is meant to be preserving the nation. So can Allah amazing, even if sometimes
things are happening, that you may not be absolutely excited about? There is a method that is a way
you will never resort to destroying your ship. Because then we're all gone. Take a look at the
nations that are destroyed almost to smithereens. Look at Syria and we cry, look at Libya and we
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cry. Look at some other nations, there are so many to even mention, and we cry because these were at
one stage not long back, powerful nations that were flourishing. What happened to them foolishness.
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We may sit here all night arguing who was foolish, but in reality, people destroyed their own
nations. May Allah subhanho wa Taala forgive us and grant us guidance. I am passionate about this
because religion is being used wrongly, to make people do things that they believe are gaining
closeness to Allah when in actual fact they will not go and study the Quran and go and check go and
see what has happened when Allah the Most Powerful who could destroy the pharaoh just like this and
when the time was right, he did it.
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But for a long time he left the status like that to watch. What do the people do? Take a look at the
Prophet Noah, may peace be upon him. What are the our sudden Isla de vida BTV? l fascinating in inla
home cinema.
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Remember when we sent the Prophet Noah to his people, and we left him there with these people
calling them to the deed for 1000 years less 54 950 years he called his people.
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What happened in those 950 years? Very, very few people accepted the message. Did you hear of the
Prophet Noah killing any one of them? Did you hear him of him slapping anyone? Did you hear hear of
him harming anyone from amongst them, not even the soul? He called them and he kept calling them
because he knows I'm on earth I was created by Allah, that those are different. They are on Earth,
they were created by Allah. Yes, I do have a mission, I will project that mission, I will propagate
it. But you know what, in the same way that you will propagate what you firmly believe others might
do the same somehow Allah in your nation, they might be slightly different rules. It's a Muslim
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country. But when I travel the globe, and I see countries that are not Muslim countries, and
Subhanallah people are free to call towards whatever they believe is correct. The Muslims will call
towards Islam, the Christians will call towards Christianity that others will call towards whatever
they wish to call towards in those nations. So if your message holds value, and you as a community,
and as people who follow a certain faith, prove that you are indeed worth following, then you will
be able to turn the people towards the deed.
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We have a few problems. One is sometimes we have knowledge of the religion. But we're not practicing
it to the degree that when people see us, they don't even want to be Muslims. I mentioned that
slightly earlier. And to be honest, I know of people who have said, I'm glad that I met Islam before
I met the Muslims.
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One of them was brother, use of Islam or Cat Stevens, he said
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I'm glad that I met Islam before I met the Muslims words to that effect where what he meant is I
read about Islam, I was convinced about it. I studied it. Had I met the Muslims first and interacted
or lived with them. Perhaps I may not have been guided to Islam because I would have been put off,
put off.
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Doesn't that make our job more more difficult? All of us who believe were religious, what's your
character? What's your conduct, that is what will truly depict whether the Salah you've written the
sockeye have given and the Hajj you've been for Under Armour that you've done, and the soul that you
have fostered in the month of Ramadan and beyond. That is what will determine whether or not those
are really acceptable by Allah. Remember this.
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So my brothers and sisters, we face many challenges many challenges today on the globe. And in the
next few days, I will be addressing some of these challenges, I hope and I pray that we would be
able to hear the message loud and clear. It is a message of living together in harmony, as good
people trying our best to be the best in our relationship with Allah.
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In following the messenger Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, I will try to be the best Muslim.
And I will learn to reach out to the rest of the people in such a beautiful way that I will restore
their faith by their mere interaction with me.
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Subhan Allah.
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Today, people have lost faith in what in humanity. Women have lost faith in men. Some of the men
have lost faith in women and so on. We need to revive ourselves, we need to make sure that we begin
to lead lives that people's faith is restored. Sometimes we lose faith in our leaders, we lose
faith, for example, sometimes, and I'm talking about a global situation, not necessarily this
nation, but on the global level. Even some of the religious personnel we lose faith in them because
of what they do that is very different from what they're saying and preaching. May Allah subhanho wa
Taala guide every one of us. May Allah subhanho wa Taala. open our doors. It's important for us to
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be balanced, and at the same time, learn the faith. Check what it's all about. Read more about it.
Understand it. If you're not satisfied with something, keep reading. Keep asking keep finding out,
attend the lessons, check what's going on. If something for example, doesn't fit with what you think
it should be. Go and ask again and ask again one of two things will happen.
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Either you will learn the right thing and be convinced or you will be able
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To convince someone else that you know what, actually, this is an error. May Allah subhanho wa Taala
guide us, it's possible that I have made errors. I might be a religious person, I might be a
knowledgeable person. But that doesn't mean I'm infallible. I may have said things that I would
retract. Sometimes I may have done things that perhaps I can apologize for we are human. That's what
human nature is. And that's what human beings are all about. So my brothers and sisters that live in
harmony, let's live in peace. Let's respect people. You are so fortunate. People from the whole
world come to you.
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People from the whole world come to you. Allah brings them here, you may have some form of
interaction with them, some of you more than others. Allah brings them to you try to use those
opportunities to be able to show them what Islam is all about. never become violent and hurtful,
never become people who resort to killing and who resort to whatever else they may be in the
dictionary of hate. May Allah subhanho wa Taala grant us guidance and Nia de la jolla noir hidden
khayrallah come in hungry Nam
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liberati Allahu anhu was told by the prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him on the day of the war on
the day of hate, but the Prophet sallallahu Sallam told him
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if Allah guides through you one person, it's better for you than the most valuable of that which is
on earth in terms of conveyance, the mode of transport. So remember, even though it might be a
difficult moment, you need to be conscious of guiding people learn to love people, you might not
like the deeds that someone engages in, we have issues, issues that we may address, I have another
event here with the youth, one of the days in the next few days, where we will be discussing some of
the other issues that are facing the use of Hana law, some of the bad habits that are becoming
prevalent not only here but across the globe. To deal with those my brothers and sisters, you need
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to love the individual. Although you dislike the act, there's a difference between the two. If your
son or your daughter did something that's not good. You love your son, you love your daughter, but
you don't like what they did. So you will try to still have your daughter have your son, but without
that deed without that thing, you will help them you might have to spend the time and effort perhaps
resources to assist them. But that's the only way you're going to manage by the help of Allah
subhanho wa Taala there is still much to be said I really appreciate the fact that everyone has sat
here and let me in. And I really appreciate the weather that Allah has bestowed upon us here.
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Absolutely stunning. May Allah subhanho wa Taala grant you or goodness aku Kohli hada Casa de La
Hoya cinema Baraka Allah Nabina Muhammad wa salam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato.
