Muhammad West – Asabiyyah

Muhammad West
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The speakers discuss the history and responsibility of the church, including the responsibility of the people to hold strong against hate and violence, the church's responsibility to support its values and actions, and the importance of learning to be a good Muslim to avoid violence and the need to practice behavior and behavior. They stress the importance of breaking down the unity of the community and practicing behavior and behavior. They also touch on the misunderstandings of the Prophet's principles and encourage people to focus on their own values.
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A'udhu Billahi Minash Shaitanir Rajeem, Bismillahir Rahmanir

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Raheem, Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen, wasalatu wasalamu ala ashrafil

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mursaleen, Sayyidina Muhammadin wa ala alihi wa sahbihi

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ajma'een, my beloved brothers and sisters, assalamu

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alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu.

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Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen, always forever begin by praising

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Allah, and I share with you la ilaha

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illallah, we testify there is none worthy of

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worship besides Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, and

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we send our loving greetings, salutations to our

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beloved Nabi Muhammad salallahu alayhi wa sallam, to

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his pious and his pure family, to his

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companions and all those who follow his sunnah

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until the end of time.

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May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala bless the

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ummah of Nabi Muhammad salallahu alayhi wa sallam,

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may Allah make it easy for us, grant

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us success, ameen, ameen walhamdulillah.

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Today inshallah we're gonna talk about something called

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Asabiyah, have you heard about this before?

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Do you know what Asabiyah is?

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So inshallah it's something we learn, something new.

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30 years ago, it's not an easy topic,

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30 years ago, there was a genocide in

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Rwanda, so we are living through a genocide

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now, we are watching live what's happening in

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Palestine.

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One group of people is trying to completely

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destroy another group.

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Now 30 years ago, we had a genocide

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in a tiny country called Rwanda.

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Small population, few million people.

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And within the span of 100 days, 3

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months, 1 million people were hacked to death.

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This isn't like an army going in and

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bombing, if you drop bombs, you can kill

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a large amount of people.

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But these are people going in door to

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door, hacking their neighbors, their co-workers, their

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colleagues to death.

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These people they lived with for hundreds of

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years.

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People who share the same culture, the same

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language, the same religion.

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They've been living together side by side.

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But a few hundred years before, the colonial

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powers came in and said, this group they're

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called Houthis, and this group they're called Tutsis.

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They put this one in the box, and

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that one in the box.

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And you couldn't tell the difference between the

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two.

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There were no differences really.

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But because a mindset of them versus us.

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And this one hating that one.

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This division built up and built up.

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Eventually, it got to the point where people

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who you lived with side by side for

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hundreds of years, you went in, you took

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a knife, you killed the children, the women,

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everybody.

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And you moved on.

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1 million people in 100 days.

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Now subhanallah, we don't make comparisons.

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We look at Gaza, subhanallah, it's like 40

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,000 people, 42,000, 50,000 people.

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The march that we had was over 50

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,000.

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That's 50,000 people plus in your mind

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that has died in Gaza.

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Times that by 20, that's a million people.

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And so we ask scientists, professors, thinkers, what

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makes ordinary normal people who go to work,

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who take their kids to school, become mass

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murderers overnight?

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How is it possible?

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Because this was a mobilization of an entire

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country.

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Hundreds of thousands of Hutus killed millions of

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Tutsis.

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How did normal people go from just going

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to the shop, going to work, end up

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murdering whole families of people?

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How do we do this?

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And one of the things that comes out

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is this sectarian, tribal mindset.

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Us versus you.

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We are right, you are wrong.

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It's our people versus your people.

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You are not even people.

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And I had a conversation with a Zionist

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at work, at varsity, a student.

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And I was trying to limit my political

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stuff in class.

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It's accounting, it's only political.

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But somehow it led to the Middle East.

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It led to petrol prices.

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And this young man said, well it's all

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Hezbollah's fault.

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It's all Hamas' fault.

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Before I could just get, let's just finish

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the accounting, let's balance this balance sheet.

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We'll talk about this afterwards.

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And getting to understand, I genuinely said I

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want to understand your perspective.

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Because we are all intelligent people.

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I think, I believe we are all civil,

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decent people.

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We all love humanity.

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We see the same facts but we come

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to totally different conclusions.

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Some way there's a miscommunication here.

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And really the bottom line of this conversation

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is, well those are my people.

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Those are the good guys.

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And these people are the bad guys.

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And I will stand with my people to

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the better end.

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You see this with parents.

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The principal brings two kids, they had a

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fight.

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The one stabs the other one.

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He said, why?

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Your son stabbed another student.

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He said, yeah but he called my son

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a name.

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Just because it's my son, I need to

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stand with it to the better end.

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No matter how much oppression and aggression we

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cause.

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And this is what is Asabiyyah.

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The Nabi salallahu alayhi wa sallam spoke about

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against this.

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In Arabic Asab is to hold together.

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It's about holding something together, a social cohesion.

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A force that keeps people together in a

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group but in a negative sense.

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It's like a negative unity.

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In Arabic mashallah there's positive unity which is

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like making the ummah jamaah.

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You have Asabiyyah which is a collective built

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on some negative cohesion.

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And the Nabi salallahu alayhi wa sallam spoke

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about this in many ahadith.

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And he said this type of Asabiyyah where

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communities stand up for their tribe.

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Or their culture, Malay, Indian.

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Or their sectarian group, Tablighi, Sufi, Salafi.

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Or they stand up with their political party,

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ANC, Hezbollah, whatever.

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They stand up for no just purpose.

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This is Asabiyyah.

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And a Sahabi asked, Ya Rasulullah, is loving

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your tribe or loving your people Asabiyyah?

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If I love my people, I'm proud of

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my South African people, I'm proud of my

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Malay culture, we are the Malays.

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Is this Asabiyyah?

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The Nabi said no.

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Asabiyyah is to support your people in an

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unjust cause.

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Where you stand with your people even when

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they are wrong.

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Why?

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Because we are the Memons.

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That's it.

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This board is only for the Cockneys.

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Now I pick on everybody today inshallah.

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Either all of you are going to take

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me to the Human Rights Commission.

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But that is Asabiyyah.

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And the Nabi salallahu alayhi wa sallam spoke

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against this very clearly.

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And titles.

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We put titles and we box people into

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little boxes.

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So that we can see that's a them

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or you're one of us.

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And automatically we decide how we're going to

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treat you based on that.

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Based on your title, based on the box

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that you tick.

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Before I even know you, before I even

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understand what it is that you want.

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I already want to box you and categorize

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you.

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I look at your address, now I know

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what kind of service I'm going to give

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you.

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I look at your cultural background and now

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automatically how this conversation is going to go.

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And titles.

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Titles are a dangerous thing.

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A title can be something which is good

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and praiseworthy.

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And that same title can be used to

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demean, put someone down, to cause division.

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And this is a beautiful example from the

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seerah.

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One of the titles which Allah gives to

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the sahaba is muhajireen and ansar.

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Beautiful title.

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Those who made hijrah and those who helped.

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We all want to be muhajireen, we all

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want to be ansar.

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Allah says, the best of people, asabikun awwalun.

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Allah loves the early Muslims of the muhajireen

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and then the ansar.

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So Allah mentions these titles as groups that

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He loves.

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It's a good title.

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Now look at this from the seerah.

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The sahaba, they were on their way back

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from a battle.

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On their way home.

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The army consists of muhajireen, people from Mecca,

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and ansar, the people from Medina.

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And on their way home, two young people.

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One from the muhajireen, one from the ansar.

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Two young men.

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They got into an argument, a shoving match

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over.

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Allah, we don't even know what it was

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that they got into a scuffle over.

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And then they first started to fight.

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This one grabbed him and chest to chest.

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And while they're in the fight, the sahaba

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from Mecca said, O muhajireen, help me.

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And then the people of Medina, O ansar,

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help me.

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Now they're calling each other by their...

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These are titles Allah had given them.

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This is not even Meccans and Madinis.

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This was muhajireen, O ansar, help me.

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The nabi is about this, the ansar and

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the muhajireen are calling each other by these

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titles.

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He is red in his face.

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He is angry.

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The vein is throbbing.

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And he says, what are these titles of

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jahiliyyah?

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You're calling each other.

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These are titles Allah had given.

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But he said, this is a type of

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jahiliyyah.

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You're using titles of jahiliyyah.

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And he says, I'm still with you.

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I'm still here and you're already fighting over

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my tribe versus your tribe.

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You're using names.

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Now what?

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Now you're muhajireen and us, we are the

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muhajireen.

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And we're not of you.

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We are the ansar.

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The same title now was meant to break

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the jamaah.

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Was meant to demean.

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And subhanallah, how often do we do this?

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Particularly in religion.

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What madhab are you from?

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Now we know, oh, it's khanafis.

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They're different.

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They're different to us.

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Or shafis.

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Oh, no madhab.

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It's even worse.

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You don't tick any of the boxes.

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That's a bigger problem.

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And this is how we divide and break

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ourselves up into smaller and smaller groups and

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factions.

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Each one has their own title.

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Each group has a sub-sub-sub-group.

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Within the salafis, there's what type of salafi?

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Madkhali?

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And it gets on in each group.

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It's a tariqah.

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This is a problem.

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And the nabisim says, Unfortunately, four qualities will

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remain in this ummah until the day of

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qiyamah.

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Four things of jahiliyya will not get rid

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of.

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Four types of ignorances of jahiliyya will not

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get rid of unless Allah SWT has blessed

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you as a person.

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Number one is that you will be boasting

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over your status.

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You want to put other people down based

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on whatever blessing Allah has given you.

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And boasting over your lineage.

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My forefathers, my...

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Your forefathers don't even know who you are.

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You have no...

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You know, subhanAllah, what is there?

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In what your great-great-great-great-grand

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uncle who did this.

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But you want to boast and put another

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man down based on your forefathers.

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There's nothing wrong with being proud or honored

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of your people.

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And your lineage and your tradition.

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But to use it as a means to

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put someone else down, this is a problem.

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Or to make it a means why I

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am superior to you.

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This is a problem.

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And it's this superiority which has led to

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the world's biggest genocides.

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The Nazis killed millions and millions of Jews.

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Why?

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Because we are superior as a human race

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than you.

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What you see in India, it's all this

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national...

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And that's exactly like Zionism.

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This is what Asabiya leads to.

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This is not just a little petty thing

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we have in our community.

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It leads to genocide.

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It leads to whole communities killing one another.

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So bragging about your lineage.

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Posting about your status.

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And the Nabi says, talking about looking at

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the stars.

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Checking your horoscopes.

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Audhu Billah, we shouldn't be doing this.

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And wailing, grieving over the dead beyond what

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is permissible.

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And so as I mentioned, we all have

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this mindset.

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We want to put labels on people.

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And put you in a box.

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And decide from there what kind of person

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you are.

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I want to ask, what madhab do you

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follow?

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What sect do you identify with?

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I'd say I put up my hand, I'm

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a tablighi for example.

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And I ask now, what do you think

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of the Sufis?

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What do you think of this group?

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And automatically you'd find if you're outside of

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the group, well we think negatively of that

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group.

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Just without even knowing.

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Without even having a sense of why.

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This them versus us is something which the

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Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam warned us against.

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And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says, Let

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people stop boasting about their forefathers and their

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lineage.

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And their ancestors who have died.

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Many of whom are basically in Jahannam even.

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Subhanallah, this is the Arabs.

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Remember the sahaba, their forefathers were idol worshippers.

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You want to be proud about your forefathers.

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They did this, they won that battle.

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They're in Jahannam.

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Who merely are fire for Jahannam.

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Or they will be, and in the sight

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of Allah, this is more insignificant than the

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cockroaches on the floor.

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You know, the dung beetle.

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So the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says, O

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Muslims, Allah has removed the sense of partisan.

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A sectarian, Allah has removed this from you

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from the days of Jahiliyyah, the sahaba.

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You have come beyond that.

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You are now out of that ignorant mindset.

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You see a person for his principles, for

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what he stands for.

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I don't see Abu Bakr who is a

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Qurayshi.

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And Salman Al-Farisi, he is a Persian.

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No, I see what you stand.

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What is the measure of the man based

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on his actions, his deeds and his principles.

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The Prophet says, you have come out of

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that now, O my sahaba.

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You are beyond that now.

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Of the days of Jahiliyyah and boasting about

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your forefathers.

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Indeed a person, the only thing that matters,

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you are either a pious believer or a

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rich sinner.

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That is the only thing that matters.

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And all of mankind came from Adam, and

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Adam is from clay.

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Ultimately, if you really want to go all

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the way back, you all go back to

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mud.

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If you want to be smart, remember you

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go back to mud.

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And in fact, asabiya one could say, is

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the original sin.

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This is the same reason shaitan declares war

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on insan.

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I am made of fire, he is made

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of clay.

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Simple, them versus us.

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No logic, reason.

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That's why when I sat with a Zionist

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student, I wanted to find some profound deep

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reason to justify in my heart, how it's

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okay for someone to kill a whole hospital

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of babies and children, and not feel anything.

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There must be something that gives me a

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sense of, it makes sense.

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And really, wallahi, as pathetic, as stupid, as

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Jahiliyyah, these are my people, it's us versus

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them.

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We are the good guys, you are the

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bad guys.

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Whatever we do, I support.

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I don't even need to look.

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If my people did it, I give the

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green light.

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I don't need to listen to anything you

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say.

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It's you, it's wrong.

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This is Jahiliyyah, asabiyyah.

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And we don't have to look outside.

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Before we criticize those on the outside, the

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ummah is in the ICU because of this.

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Our ummah is crippled because of this.

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Within our tiny 2-3% Muslim population

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in South Africa, every single one of us

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here can list, I'm not just a Muslim,

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but I belong to this madhab, and this

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aqeedah, and this tariqah, I'm of this cultural

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background, subhanallah.

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We put all that there.

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Not as titles of praise, but as titles

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to make me different to them.

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And perhaps religious asabiyyah is of the worst.

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Religious asabiyyah is of the most despicable.

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Because in our attempt to get closer to

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Allah, we belittle, we undermine, we insult others

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who try to get closer to Allah.

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There's asabiyyah between the brothers in the masjid.

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No one cares about those people in the

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disco, who are not even worshipping Allah.

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We don't care about them.

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We discuss how you worship versus how I

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worship.

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Yes, doesn't mean we're all the same kumbaya,

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everything goes.

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There are certain principles which are right and

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wrong.

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We must discuss those things.

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But to negate someone's iman, his islam, his

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sincerity, his connection with Allah, because of a

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title, this is what destroys the ummah.

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In a beautiful hadith, it's actually a long

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hadith, and perhaps with time.

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The nabi says, the anbiya of the past,

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they were given sort of instructions by Allah

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to give.

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And in the hadith it begins where Allah

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instructs Nabi Yahya, tell your people five things.

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And Nabi Yahya is a bit late, and

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so then Nabi Isa is instructed, tell your

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people five things.

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To worship Allah alone, and to make salah,

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and to fast.

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That fasting is your shield, and to make

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dhikr of Allah protects you from calamities, and

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to give sadaqah will remove you from calamities.

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So these are the five things.

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Then Nabi Isa says, Allah commanded me with

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also five to tell you.

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These are the five things I need to

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tell you.

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He commanded, the hadith continues, and I command

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you, Allah is commanding you with five.

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So Nabi Isa says, I'm commanding you, O

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my ummah, with the five things which I

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was commanded.

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Number one, listen to the authority.

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Listen to the leadership.

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If we lived in an Islamic state, in

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a Muslim country, there's a khalifa, whether he's

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good, bad, so long as he's not commanding

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you to do sin, we need to respect

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him and listen to him.

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Allah has given that manzilah.

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Others, we have chaos.

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And we see that now.

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We see the chaos without a khalifa.

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Okay, so we don't have that.

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We still have some, alhamdulillah, some sort of

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leadership in our tiny community.

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We have committees, we have chairpersons, we have

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imams, we have ulema bodies.

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Love them, hate them, whatever you have the

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ulema bodies.

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We are better off having a weak, impotent

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maybe ulema body than none at all.

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Fix it.

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Help it.

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Restore it.

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Then break it down.

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Listen to the authority.

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Don't work against and obey the authority.

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If they command you with good, follow them

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and respect them.

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Listen and obey two things.

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Then to fight jihad against those who harm

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this ummah.

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To stand up against oppression.

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And to make hijrah when you can't fight

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in this.

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You find yourself in a situation of some

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hijrah.

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Doesn't only mean you immigrate to some islamic

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state.

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It means you're in a company where my

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morals are being tested all along.

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I can't practice my islam here.

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Rather leave that paycheck and go to a

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job where you can practice your islam freely.

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Rather leave that community where there is no

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islam, no masjid, to the southern suburbs or

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wherever the cape flats, where the masjid is

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there and you can practice.

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Make hijrah from something which is bad for

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your imam to something which is better.

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Leave that group of friends that diminishes your

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imam to something which is better for your

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imam.

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And then he said, Allah commanded me with

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the jama'ah.

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The jama'ah, the community.

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For indeed, whoever parts ways against the jama

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'ah.

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Very serious words here.

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Whoever walks away from the jama'ah, you

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break the unity of the muslims.

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You cause a fitna in our community.

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Then he has cast off, he's out of

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the fold of islam.

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I'm not saying this, the professor is saying

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this.

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Whoever breaks the jama'ah of the ummah.

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You break the jama'ah of the masjid.

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We go this way, now you wanna go

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that way.

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The community is going on one side and

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you wanna cause mischief and corruption.

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Yes, if the jama'ah, if the community

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majority is wrong in a way that doesn't

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break the unity, we can talk about things.

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But to break down the unity of the

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muslims and to divide us further and make

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us fight one another.

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Then he has thrown off the yoke of

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islam.

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Unless he comes back.

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And whoever calls by names, whoever calls by

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titles of jahiliyyah.

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Even as we said, titles of jahiliyyah doesn't

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even only mean my forefathers.

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If you're using titles, tablighi, shafi'i, kokni,

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malay, whatever it is.

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To cause a division.

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Without unjust, that means these are titles of

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jahiliyyah.

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Then you are the cause of jahannam.

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The sahaba said, even if we perform salah,

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you say, ya rasulullah, if I use this.

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Even if I fast and I make salah

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but I do these things, I'm still a

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part of jahannam.

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Even if he is fasting and praying.

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If you're gonna call someone, the hadith continues,

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this is so profound.

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When you call people by their names, when

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you call them by titles, when you wanna

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put them in a box.

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When you wanna put someone in a box,

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put them in the box Allah has given.

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Allah has called them muslimeen, mu'mineen, wa ibadullah.

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Allah has called you muslims, and He's called

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you believers, and He's called you worshippers of

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Allah.

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If someone is a muslim, and he worships

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Allah, and he believes in your Qur'an,

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he follows your qiblah.

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Don't break that title over something smaller.

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Don't break the jama'ah.

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We conclude with this hadith.

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As I mentioned, yes, it's not kumbaya that

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everyone believes whatever you believe and it's okay,

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it's all the same.

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There is a right and a wrong.

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There is a permissible and impermissible.

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There is a halal and a haram.

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And we can discuss that.

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We can discuss, what do the shias believe

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versus ahlus sunnah.

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There are certain things which are incompatible.

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What does this madhab follow, it might be

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a mistake in the madhab.

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We do it not to divide, or to

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cause harm, or to insult.

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We do it to stand on principle.

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But ultimately, irrespective of what madhab he follows,

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even irrespective of what sect he follows.

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People ask, and I'm getting more problems here.

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The head of Hezbollah was killed, Nasrullah.

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We didn't see statements, we didn't see, and

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because he's a controversial figure within our community.

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On the one side, we love the resistance

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against the oppressor.

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We love that they stand up, standing up

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and fighting for humanity.

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On the same side, there were problems in

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terms of aqeedah that we don't subscribe to,

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and other historical events.

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Nonetheless, anyone that says the kalima, as the

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hadith says, whoever prays like us, he makes

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salah.

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And he faces our qiblah.

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And he eats our halal food.

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Basically he identifies as a Muslim, and that

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person is a Muslim.

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And that person is under Allah, the protection

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of Allah, and the protection of the Rasul.

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So do not, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, so

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don't betray the protection of Allah.

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Don't you go and fight those who Allah

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has protected.

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Anyone who says I identify as a Muslim,

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look at how he lives his life.

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You are in the club.

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And we give you the honor of a

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Muslim.

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We can talk about everything else, but you

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have the title of Islam.

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You're part of the jama'a insha'Allah.

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And so we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta

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'ala to remove the sense of asabiyyah, as

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them and us.

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When the enemy looks, he doesn't look at

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a bunch of, he looks at one enemy.

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Now if the enemy sees you all as

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one, yet we want to divide ourselves into

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groups and pieces, and this is the problem.

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Insha'Allah save us from the sickness and

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this disease, and grant us to be an

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ummah that is strong, and grant us success.

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Ameen.

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One announcement, in the spirit of making the

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ummah strong, begins with nikah.

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Bringing people together.

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There's bad cohesion, there's good cohesion.

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Love, and rahma, and nikah, it's the good

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kind.

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And we need rijal, we need men.

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If you're not going to fight in jihad

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brothers, then you must make nikah.

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You must make nikah.

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We're looking for men.

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Those of us who are married, we don't

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want to be called upon, we're doing our

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service.

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So those who are not married, you need

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to serve.

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And so insha'Allah, there are many masha

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'Allah lovely sisters, who are looking to make

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their life halal, who are looking for a

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partner and a companion.

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Even if you are eligible insha'Allah, and

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you are in two minds, just sign up.

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At the very least you're going to go,

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you're going to eat some savories, you're going

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to meet some people.

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Alhamdulillah you don't know what Allah has put

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out there for you.

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Just go, you don't have to do anything.

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You're not signing up for anything.

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So if you are single insha'Allah, over

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the age of 20, and you are single,

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as a male, please sign up for the

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sisters.

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I'm sure we already filled up.

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But if you still want to sign up,

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you can sign up as well insha'Allah.

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JazakAllah khair.

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Wasalamu ala sayyidina Muhammad wa ala sahbihi as

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-salamu ala mursaleen.

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Alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen.

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Assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuhu.

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