Muhammad West – Proof of Prophethood

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The speakers discuss the history and significance of the Islamist movement, including its use of God and the importance of finding one's stance in the face of "immature" and "monster" pressures. They also touch on the origins and significance of the Quran and its significance in the Arabic language, as well as the culture of Islam used to suppress coworkers and strengthen the military. The speakers also mention a free guided tour to Memorial Memorial Memorial and the importance of their actions in the context of history.

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			I seek refuge with Allah from the accursed
		
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			Satan.
		
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			In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most
		
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			Merciful.
		
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			All praise is due to Allah, Lord of
		
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			the worlds.
		
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			And peace and blessings be upon the most
		
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			honored messengers, our master Muhammad and his family
		
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			and companions.
		
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			Beloved brothers and sisters, As-salamu alaykum wa
		
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			rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
		
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			All praise is due to Allah, Lord of
		
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			the worlds.
		
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			Always forever we begin by praising Allah.
		
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			We testify there is none worthy of worship
		
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			besides Allah SWT.
		
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			And we send our love and our greetings
		
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			and our salutations to beloved Nabi Muhammad Sallallahu
		
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			Alaihi Wasallam, to his pious and his pure
		
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			family, to his companions and all those who
		
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			follow his sunnah until the end of time.
		
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			May Allah SWT place us as the ummah
		
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			of Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
		
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			Allah make it easy for us throughout the
		
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			world, particularly what's happening in Palestine, in Lebanon
		
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			and wherever there is hardship.
		
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			May Allah SWT grant ease and relief.
		
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			Ameen.
		
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			Walhamdulillah.
		
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			Alhamdulillah.
		
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			On Monday we spoke about the legacy and
		
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			inviting those who have never experienced the Nabi
		
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			Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, inviting them to understand who
		
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			this man was.
		
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			What he offers you in your life.
		
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			Dawah to the Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
		
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			Why if any person on earth can lay
		
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			the claim to being the messenger of the
		
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			creator, why he fits the bill.
		
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			How he lived his life.
		
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			How he inspired his people.
		
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			How he changed his community.
		
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			What became of his people after he had
		
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			departed.
		
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			And the legacy he left behind.
		
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			And that's what we spoke about on Monday.
		
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			Invitation to the Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
		
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			Today the question that comes up and I
		
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			put myself in, if I'm on the bus
		
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			somewhere or on the plane, you're sitting next
		
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			to someone flying from here to Job, you're
		
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			an hour or two, and someone says, Oh,
		
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			you're a Muslim.
		
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			I know a little bit about your religion,
		
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			but how do you know your prophet is
		
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			really a prophet?
		
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			Could have been a great statesman, a great
		
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			auditor.
		
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			Could have been a very charismatic person.
		
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			There are many cult leaders that are very
		
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			charismatic.
		
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			People follow them and commit suicide in their
		
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			name.
		
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			So, what evidence do you have that this
		
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			man is a prophet?
		
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			And many times Muslims will say, The miracles
		
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			he did.
		
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			He split the moon.
		
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			He made water and food multiply.
		
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			For a person that is sceptic, and it's
		
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			good sometimes to be a little sceptical.
		
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			Well, that's what your tradition says.
		
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			I don't know how true that is.
		
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			Show me something tangible.
		
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			Show me something logical.
		
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			That can prove that this man is a
		
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			prophet.
		
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			And there are many, many evidences that we
		
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			can give.
		
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			But inshaAllah, in this lecture we're going to
		
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			mention a few.
		
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			So inshaAllah, what evidence do we have that
		
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			Nabi Salaam was genuinely a legitimate prophet?
		
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			We must ask ourselves, if he wasn't a
		
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			Nabi, if he wasn't a messenger appointed by
		
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			the creator.
		
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			Now this, you must understand, this is, this
		
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			sounds very, you know, strange.
		
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			If someone in our community came and said,
		
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			I am being communicated to by the creator
		
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			of the heavens and the earth, and he's
		
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			giving you a message.
		
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			You should be sceptical and say, Hold on,
		
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			this doesn't sound legit.
		
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			I need to understand what's happening.
		
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			And the answer is, so the question is,
		
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			what motivates someone to do this?
		
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			Either he is a fraud, a charlatan, as
		
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			many false prophets are.
		
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			Or he is insane.
		
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			He's telling the truth from his perspective.
		
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			He believes he's a Nabi.
		
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			He's delusional.
		
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			Or he is genuinely a prophet.
		
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			These are the only three options.
		
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			And the Quran mentions these things.
		
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			They say he's a liar.
		
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			They say he's a fraudster.
		
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			They say he's a magician.
		
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			They say he's mad.
		
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			He's crazy.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala rebuffs these things.
		
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			And those who knew him personally, Abu Bakr
		
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			and Khadija, those who knew him personally, knew
		
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			he can never be a liar, and he
		
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			could not be insane.
		
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			And they embraced Islam almost before they even
		
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			heard about Islam, based on his character.
		
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			But for us who don't have the, we
		
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			don't have the honor of having met him
		
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			personally, InshaAllah on Qiyamah, we will be in
		
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			his company.
		
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			We need to ask looking back, what was
		
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			the motivation of the Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam?
		
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			Of those three options, is he a liar?
		
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			Is he a charlatan?
		
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			Is he a madman?
		
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			Or is he telling the truth?
		
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			What was his motivation?
		
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			We know that before Islam, he started preaching
		
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			Islam, the Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was at
		
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			the best point in his life.
		
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			His life from a material perspective, his life
		
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			from a family perspective, went downhill, when Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala appointed him.
		
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			Allah basically says to him, قُمْ فَأَنذِرِ اسْتَانَ
		
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			Your time of relaxation is over.
		
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			The hard days begin now.
		
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			إِنَّا سَنُلْقِي عَلَيْكَ قَوْلًا ثَقِيلًا Allah says, we
		
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			are going to put upon you a heavy
		
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			word, a heavy burden.
		
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			You are going to now work, the easy
		
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			days are over.
		
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			The Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam prior to becoming
		
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			a Nabi, would be what we would say
		
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			in our society, yet now he's on the
		
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			executive level, he's got his money, he's got
		
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			his family, he has it made, he's a
		
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			made man.
		
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			Now is where things become very difficult.
		
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			He derived no financial benefit or power from
		
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			this religion.
		
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			When he died, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, the most
		
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			powerful man in Arabia, the first man to
		
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			unite all of Arabia.
		
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			He is now a man on the stage,
		
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			the emperors of the world are talking about
		
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			him.
		
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			When he died, what did he leave behind?
		
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			Seven coins, seven coins, that's it.
		
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			The vast power and position that he had,
		
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			seven coins, that's it.
		
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			And he was so ashamed.
		
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			Before he died, he asked Aisha, bring me
		
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			all my positions, collect all my money, I
		
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			feel I'm going to die soon.
		
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			What do I have?
		
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			Empty my bank accounts.
		
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			Aisha said, I could only find these seven
		
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			coins.
		
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			And he felt so ashamed.
		
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			He said, how do I stand before Allah
		
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			with this money?
		
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			Get rid of it.
		
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			She said, ya Rasulullah, you are sick.
		
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			I need to look after you.
		
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			He said, no, no, no.
		
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			Go out and give away this money.
		
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			I can't stand before Allah with a sin
		
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			to my name.
		
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			What motivation?
		
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			When he was asked, when the Quraysh could
		
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			not bully him anymore, they said, we'll make
		
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			you the king.
		
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			We'll give you the women.
		
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			We'll give you the money.
		
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			Just stop preaching.
		
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			He said, this is not my...
		
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			If I stop, even if I wanted to
		
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			stop, are you going to defend me against
		
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			Allah?
		
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			Even if I wanted to stop, you think
		
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			I want to do this because it makes
		
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			my life easy.
		
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			I'm going to have to stand before Allah.
		
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			He lost not one child, all his children
		
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			except one.
		
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			He lost his home.
		
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			So what is his motivation?
		
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			Nobody at that time, and looking back can
		
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			accuse him of being a fraud.
		
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			He genuinely believed in his mission.
		
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			He was willing to fight and die for
		
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			it.
		
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			A fraudster doesn't do this.
		
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			He could not have been a madman because
		
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			he produces the greatest book in the Arabic
		
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			language, and the most inspiring book that changes
		
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			the whole society and the legacy.
		
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			So we are left with, he must be
		
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			a prophet.
		
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			But let's look further.
		
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			We also know that he was a reluctant
		
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			Nabi.
		
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			Subhanallah, if you get a message, and you
		
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			are said, you were appointed by Allah, you
		
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			are special, you are the special one.
		
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			We might all say, I knew it, Alhamdulillah,
		
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			deep down in my heart, I knew I
		
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			was special.
		
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			I knew I was that or that.
		
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			It only makes sense.
		
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			When he is informed that you are a
		
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			Nabi, he said, this can't be me.
		
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			He says, I am going mad.
		
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			This was his first reaction.
		
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			I am hearing voices, I am seeing things.
		
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			That's why Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,
		
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			that you are, you are not majnoon, you
		
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			are not crazy.
		
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			Allah is telling the Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam, you are not a madman.
		
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			And Khadija needs to reassure him, that a
		
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			person like you, will never be possessed by
		
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			jinn or by shaitan.
		
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			You are a good person.
		
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			He was a reluctant Nabi.
		
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			Subhanallah, as I said before, sometimes we don't
		
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			mention this hadith.
		
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			It's a hadith, where the Nabi was so
		
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			disturbed by prophethood, that he attempted suicide.
		
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			It's a hadith in Bukhari.
		
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			He goes to the mountain, and he feels
		
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			he wants to jump off the mountain.
		
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			This is not the thinking and the workings
		
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			of a man who is looking for grandeur
		
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			and power.
		
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			It is a very human response.
		
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			This is not normal.
		
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			Something is happening to me, I don't know
		
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			what's going on.
		
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			And he needs to be convinced by the
		
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			people around him.
		
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			Khadija and Abu Bakr says, No, no, no.
		
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			Listen to the message.
		
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			You are inshallah appointed by Allah.
		
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			Now if you look at the Quran, Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala, what we have, we
		
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			don't have the fortune of seeing the miracles
		
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			before our eyes, in terms of the sick
		
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			being healed, and the water multiplying.
		
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			But we have the Quran.
		
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			And there's lots to discuss about the miracles
		
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			of the Quran.
		
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			But I'll take out some verses, which will
		
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			show you categorically, this could not be authored
		
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			by the Nabi.
		
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			He is not the man who authored it.
		
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			Number one, first and foremost, he couldn't read
		
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			and write.
		
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			He could not read and write.
		
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			And they know this, I mean his community
		
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			knew this.
		
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			And Allah says in the Quran, وَمَا كُنْتَ
		
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			تَتْلُو مِن قَبْلِهِ مِنْ كِتَابٍ O Nabi salallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam, you could not read anything
		
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			before this.
		
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			In fact, for us to know, it's important
		
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			to know, there were no books in the
		
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			Arabic language before the Quran.
		
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			The Quran is the oldest book in the
		
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			Arabic language.
		
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			Which means even if he could read, there
		
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			was nothing to read before it.
		
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			It is purely out of a vacuum that
		
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			the Quran comes about.
		
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			So Allah says in the Quran, those who
		
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			say that this man, he's a poet who
		
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			is fabricating this, well he never could write
		
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			anything, read anything before this.
		
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			وَلَا تَخُطُّ بِيَمِينِكِ Nor could you write anything
		
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			before, you never read anything or wrote anything.
		
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			Yet you are now producing a book that
		
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			is the greatest piece of work in the
		
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			Arabic language.
		
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			So Allah says, the people of falsehood then
		
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			be very skeptical.
		
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			What do they have?
		
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			What do they know?
		
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			Then if you look at the Quran itself,
		
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			if you read the Quran, if I was
		
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			to fabricate a book, and I was to
		
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			make a religion up, I would be the
		
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			center of the whole story.
		
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			I would be the main character.
		
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			If you look at the Quran, the Nabi
		
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			Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is hardly mentioned in the
		
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			Quran by name.
		
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			Nabi Musa is mentioned 130 times by name.
		
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			Nabi Isa 25 times by name, and over
		
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			100 times by his titles, the Messiah, the
		
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			word of Allah, the Ruh of Allah, Nabi
		
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			Ibrahim 70 times.
		
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			Maryam Alaihissalam is the only lady mentioned in
		
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			the Quran.
		
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			For what logical reason, would the Nabi Sallallahu
		
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			Alaihi Wasallam mention a name of a woman
		
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			that was not part of his society, that
		
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			was from a different culture, a woman that
		
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			the people in his society didn't even know.
		
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			They didn't know who Maryam was.
		
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			Why would he write a whole chapter about
		
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			her?
		
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			There were no Christians even in his community.
		
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			He's not trying to convince the Christians.
		
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			His people were idol worshippers.
		
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			And as I mentioned, something again that you
		
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			should know, Maryam Alaihissalam, her name is mentioned
		
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			more in the Quran than in the Bible.
		
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			Allah mentions Maryam more in the Quran than
		
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			you find if you count the number of
		
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			times her name is mentioned in the Bible,
		
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			Maryam is mentioned more in the Quran.
		
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			And she's the only lady who's mentioned, not
		
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			Khadijah, not Fatima, not Aisha.
		
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			Again, if I was going to fabricate a
		
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			book, it will be all about me.
		
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			The Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was only mentioned
		
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			five times by name.
		
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			So he's not the center of the story.
		
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			And it's not even about him.
		
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			It's about connecting us to Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala.
		
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			Then you find in the Quran, when Allah
		
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			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala guides mankind, the Quran
		
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			is, the Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is a
		
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			messenger, he's delivering the message.
		
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			The message isn't just for us, it's for
		
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			him as well.
		
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			As Allah says, abdina, Allah mentioned many times
		
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			calls the Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, my servant,
		
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			my slave.
		
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			The Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is a slave
		
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			like we are, just he's the greatest of
		
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			the slaves of Allah.
		
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			And he is the best of all Allah's
		
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			servants.
		
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			But even he gets reminded and sometimes even
		
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			reprimanded in the Quran.
		
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			Aisha says that there's a verse in the
		
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			Quran that if he could have hidden this
		
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			verse, taken it out, he would have.
		
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			But he can't.
		
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			He needs to say whatever Allah has inspired.
		
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			One of these examples which we all know
		
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			where Allah lightly reprimands the Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam is Surah Abasa.
		
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			The name of the Surah Abasa means to
		
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			frown, to scowl.
		
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			Who's frowning?
		
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			The Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is frowning.
		
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			Allah is revealing a verse, you frowned, I
		
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			wasn't happy with that.
		
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			What's the context of the Surah?
		
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			The Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is giving dawah,
		
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			he's pitching, think of a salesman, going and
		
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			trying to, you're trying to get a meeting
		
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			with all these big shots, CEOs, CFOs, you're
		
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			making appointments, no one wants to give you
		
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			a time of day, no one gives you
		
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			an appointment.
		
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			Finally after months, years, he gets a group
		
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			that says, okay, we will listen to you.
		
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			You can come and do your presentation.
		
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			And so the Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is
		
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			very excited, I'm going to speak to these
		
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			guys, these big shots about Islam.
		
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			And he's preaching to them, talking to them,
		
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			and they are listening, they are engaged, they
		
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			are excited.
		
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			Now while he is giving this message, it's
		
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			in a public place, a Sahabi who is
		
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			blind, the blind Sahabi, there's one very famous
		
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			Sahabi who is blind, he's coming and he
		
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			is searching for the Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
		
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			calling out, Ya Rasulullah, Ya Rasulullah, he can't
		
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			see, he's walking, and he is searching and
		
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			he's shouting for the Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
		
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			and he interrupts the meeting.
		
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			Now the Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is in
		
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			this meeting with these high, big shots, and
		
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			then they say, is this guy one of
		
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			your followers, this blind, disabled?
		
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			And you can imagine, if you are blind
		
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			today, in our society, your chances of moving
		
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			forward is very minimal.
		
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			Imagine in the society back then, there's no
		
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			welfare, there's no government, there's no support.
		
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			You can imagine how this Sahabi looked, his
		
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			clothing, how he smelled, you know.
		
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			And so they said, is this man one
		
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			of your followers?
		
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			He's one of my Sahabi.
		
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			And he and I will be equal?
		
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			We will be on the same level?
		
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			Thanks, but no thanks.
		
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			Your message sounds good, but I don't want
		
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			to be associated with these kind of people.
		
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			And they got up and they left.
		
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			And the Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, out of
		
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			his frustration, he's been waiting so long for
		
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			this meeting, the Sahabi couldn't wait.
		
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			He didn't say anything.
		
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			Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam didn't say, what's wrong
		
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			with you, why couldn't you wait?
		
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			He just frowned.
		
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			Did the blind man see him frown?
		
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			Did the Sahabi feel bad?
		
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			The Sahabi couldn't see him frowning, but the
		
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			Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam frowned out of disappointing
		
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			frustration.
		
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			Allah reveals Ayah, this is not a problem.
		
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			Look at the Ayah.
		
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			Allah says, عَبَسَ وَتَوَلَّىٰ The Prophet frowned and
		
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			he turned his face away.
		
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			أَنْ جَاءَهُ الْأَعْمَىٰ Because they came to him,
		
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			the blind man.
		
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			أَمَّا مَنْ اِسْتَغْنَىٰ So there's the blind man,
		
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			but as for he who thinks himself without
		
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			need.
		
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			Allah says, but you're sitting there with those
		
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			who think they are big, big shots, famous.
		
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			You are chasing after them.
		
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			فَأَنْتَ لَهُ تَصَدَّىٰ You give them your attention.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, Ya Rasulullah,
		
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			you focused on the wrong people here.
		
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			You were giving all your attention on these
		
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			guys who think that they are superior.
		
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			Whereas this blind man, وَأَمَّا مَنْ جَاءَكَ يَسْعَىٰ
		
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			This man is blind, he's searching, he's running,
		
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			he's looking for you.
		
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			He's looking for guidance.
		
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			وَهُوَ يَخْشَىٰ And he is conscious of Allah.
		
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			وَأَنْتَ عَنْهُ تَلَهَّىٰ But you are distracted from
		
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			him, you avoiding him.
		
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			كَلَّا إِنَّهَا تَذَكِّرُ Allah says, no, no, no,
		
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			this is not correct.
		
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			And I'm reminding you.
		
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			Don't waste your time with these people.
		
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			Islam, we don't have to.
		
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			And this is what I take from the
		
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			Qur'an.
		
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			The Qur'an is not apologetic.
		
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			The Qur'an, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			says, You accept, you don't accept.
		
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			If none of you accept this Qur'an,
		
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			that's your detriment.
		
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			Does not diminish me in the least.
		
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			You either take the guidance for your benefit
		
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			or you turn away.
		
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			And if you turn away, it does not
		
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			disadvantage Allah in the least.
		
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			And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, He
		
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			does not look at your power, your status.
		
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			This man's heart, again think about it, he's
		
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			blind.
		
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			Look at his sincerity.
		
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			I'm searching for guidance.
		
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			I need to ask the Nabi salallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam something about my iman.
		
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			Allah says, that is the man you should
		
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			have focused on, and not these useless people.
		
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			This is a mild one.
		
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			There are few more ayat which is more
		
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			severe.
		
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			Again, ask yourself, why would the Nabi salallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam put this in the Qur
		
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			'an?
		
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			Why would he author this in the Qur
		
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			'an?
		
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			Allah says, in another ayah where, the Nabi
		
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			salallahu alaihi wa sallam was a very merciful
		
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			man, gentleman.
		
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			And people would come with all kind of
		
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			strange stories when they were supposed to do
		
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			a duty.
		
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			The munafiqs, especially in battle, they said, we
		
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			will be in the battlefield.
		
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			And then when the time came for battle,
		
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			they were gone, they were missing.
		
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			After the battle, the Nabi salallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam called them, where were you?
		
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			And each one came with their lame stories,
		
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			the camel ate my sword, whatever stupid.
		
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			And he says, khalas, I accept.
		
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			Whatever nonsense stories they said, he said, it's
		
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			fine.
		
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			And then he made dua for them, may
		
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			Allah forgive you.
		
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			Allah says to the Nabi salallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam, A'afa Allah anka.
		
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			Allah says, may Allah have mercy on you
		
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			or we are Rasulullah.
		
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			Lima adhinta lahum?
		
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			Why did you let them go just like
		
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			that?
		
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			Why did you give them a free pass?
		
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			Hatta yatabayyan laka allatheena sadaqu wa ta'alamal
		
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			kathibeen.
		
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			Why did you not inspect them properly?
		
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			Until you knew who's really, legitimately missed the
		
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			battle, and for those who are liars.
		
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			Allah says, you shouldn't have done that.
		
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			You were too lenient there.
		
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			Again, this is almost like the master, it
		
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			shows you who is the Rabb, and who
		
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			is the Abd, who is the slave.
		
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			In another example, in the midst of Uhud
		
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			again.
		
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			Here the Nabi salallahu alaihi wa sallam's humanity
		
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			was a bit harsh.
		
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			So there he was too lenient.
		
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			Here he was a bit too harsh.
		
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			In the battle of Uhud, he gets struck
		
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			in the face with a sword.
		
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			And at that moment as he's bleeding, he
		
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			says to the Quraysh, how will Allah have
		
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			mercy on people like you?
		
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			You hit the Nabi with a sword.
		
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			You were almost like, now you've crossed the
		
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			line, Allah is not going to forgive you
		
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			for this.
		
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			How many of us say that?
		
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			Shaykhan Jahannamtu.
		
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			How many of us say this?
		
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			When the Nabi said this, he's bleeding after
		
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			the battle, he almost died.
		
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			Allah says, laysa laka min al-amri shay.
		
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			Allah says, you had no right to say
		
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			that.
		
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			You have no right to talk about who
		
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			goes to Jannah, who's going to have mercy.
		
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			It's not your prerogative.
		
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			This is above your pay grade.
		
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			Look at the wording, it's even subhanAllah but
		
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			harsh from Allah.
		
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			laysa laka min al-amri shay.
		
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			You have nothing to do with this matter.
		
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			O ya tuba alayhim, whether I forgive them,
		
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			or you azzibahum, or I punish them.
		
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			fa innahum dhalimun.
		
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			Yes, they are dhalimun, they committed a sin,
		
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			definitely.
		
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			But the position of forgiveness and mercy, punishment
		
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			and mercy belongs to Allah.
		
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			No one has the right to talk about
		
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			Allah's punishment and Allah's mercy.
		
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			SubhanAllah.
		
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			Again, why would he put this in the
		
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			Qur'an?
		
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			Even more, and there are even more ayah.
		
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			We give another ayah.
		
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			When Abu Talib, we know his uncle who
		
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			raised him, passed away as a non-believer.
		
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			Abu Talib died as a non-Muslim.
		
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			Well known.
		
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			The rule is, you can make dua for
		
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			a non-Muslim.
		
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			We should make dua for a non-Muslim
		
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			friends and neighbors.
		
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			But once they die, to our knowledge, on
		
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			kufr, we don't know the status that the
		
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			person passed away.
		
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			But if they died officially as a non
		
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			-Muslim, you can no longer make dua for
		
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			them.
		
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			This is the rule.
		
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			This is the rule with Allah.
		
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			They've made their choice, that's it.
		
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			Nabi's knows this is the rule.
		
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			And then he says, I know that's the
		
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			rule, but I'll continue making dua.
		
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			Ya Allah, forgive Abu Talib.
		
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			He's died on disbelief, he rejected you.
		
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			But, have mercy on him.
		
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			Allah says, اِنَّكَ لَا تَهْدِي مَنْ أَحْبَبْتُ You
		
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			have no say in who Allah gives guidance,
		
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			who you love.
		
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			Guidance and hidayah belongs to Allah.
		
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			It's not just who you love that you
		
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			get hidayah.
		
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			وَلَكِنَّ اللَّهَ يَهْدِي مَنْ يَشَهَدُ Allah decides who
		
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			will be guided.
		
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			وَهُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِالْمُهْتَدِينَ And He knows who deserves
		
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			guidance.
		
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			And then in a subsequent ayah, Allah says,
		
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			it is not befitting.
		
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			Allah says to the Nabi salallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam, It is not befitting for a Rasul
		
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			of Allah to make dua for a person
		
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			who died on disbelief.
		
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			After it's clear that he's a disbeliever, you
		
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			must stop now.
		
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			You need to stop making dua.
		
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			This broke the heart of the Nabi salallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			Allah says, you don't even have the right
		
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			to make dua.
		
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			Again it shows you, why bring these verses?
		
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			It is to show you that this could
		
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			not have been a manufacturing of the book
		
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			from the Nabi salallahu alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			One more, to mention one more verse.
		
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			At the battle of Badr, at the end
		
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			of the battle of Badr, the Nabi salallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam had to decide, what do
		
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			we do with the prisoners of war?
		
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			So the battle was won, we captured them,
		
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			and subhanAllah, now on reflecting on this ayah,
		
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			we understand the hikmah.
		
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			I've told this many times, the battle of
		
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			Badr, the Nabi salallahu alaihi wa sallam captures
		
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			many of his family members, the people of
		
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			Makkah, they were defeated, and now there's a
		
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			debate, what do we do with these prisoners
		
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			of war?
		
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			Abu Bakr said, Ya Rasulullah, they are our
		
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			family members, they are members of our tribe,
		
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			let's give them a chance, we ransom them
		
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			off, we get some money, maybe they'll become
		
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			Muslim.
		
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			Good, Nabi Salallahu alaihi wa sallam, I like
		
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			that idea.
		
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			Sayyidina Umar says, No Ya Rasulullah, these people
		
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			have came all the way, fought, has killed
		
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			us for years and years and years.
		
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			And if we let them go, they're gonna
		
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			come again and fight us.
		
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			Give me my family members, I execute them.
		
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			You take your family members, give to Ali,
		
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			he will do the job as well.
		
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			We make a point to them, you don't
		
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			mess with us.
		
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			So now, based on the Iyasu, very good
		
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			opinions.
		
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			He's sitting there, he says, I like both
		
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			your opinions.
		
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			And both of your opinions come from sincerity.
		
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			But he chooses Abu Bakr's opinion.
		
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			I like this one better, we will forgive
		
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			them.
		
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			The next day Sayyidina Umar comes, he finds
		
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			the Nabi Salallahu alaihi wa sallam and Abu
		
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			Bakr crying.
		
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			They are hysterically crying.
		
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			Sayyidina Umar says, What's going on?
		
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			Tell me, I wanna cry with you.
		
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			Don't leave me out.
		
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			Nabi Salallahu alaihi wa sallam says, Allah has
		
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			revealed ayat.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, in surah,
		
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			the eighth surah of the Quran, surah Anfal.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, How could
		
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			you have let these people go?
		
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			Without taking the justice as required.
		
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			Many times we think about harsh, but think
		
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			about it today in the context.
		
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			The Gazans, the people of Gaza, they capture
		
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			the parliament of the Israelis.
		
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			What do we do with them now?
		
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			Do we just let them go?
		
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			Or do we have a court case and
		
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			punish them?
		
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			The Nabi salallahu alaihi wa sallam just let
		
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			them go.
		
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			Allah says, No, this was not the right
		
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			thing.
		
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			And then Allah goes further, Had it not
		
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			been on my mercy, I would have sent
		
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			an athab upon you.
		
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			To the Nabi salallahu alaihi wa sallam, I
		
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			would have sent an athab upon you for
		
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			what you have done here.
		
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			The Nabi salallahu alaihi wa sallam didn't mean
		
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			it.
		
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			He was meaning to be merciful.
		
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			Yet this shows you the Izzah, the power
		
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			of Allah and the wisdom of Allah.
		
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			Allah says, This was the right, the decision
		
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			you make was not the correct decision.
		
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			You were thinking mercifully, kindly, you were thinking
		
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			about you'll get some ransom money, but this
		
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			was not the correct decision.
		
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			And it had not been my mercy, what
		
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			you have done was so serious, it was
		
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			warranted a punishment.
		
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			Subhanallah, this is in the Quran.
		
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			Now, as we said, this could not have
		
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			been authored by a man seeking benefit.
		
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			The Quran is, Allah, it's not from the
		
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			Nabi salallahu alaihi wa sallam, it's from Allah.
		
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			And besides the Quran, what we have, he
		
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			is the most, his biography is the most
		
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			detailed document, biography of any person in human
		
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			history.
		
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			We know great people, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi,
		
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			Isaac Newton.
		
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			If I ask you, how did they use
		
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			the toilet?
		
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			What was their favorite food?
		
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			How did they sleep at night?
		
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			Nobody knows.
		
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			How did they brush their teeth?
		
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			We don't know.
		
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			These are people that just lived recently.
		
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			We know to the minute detail of the
		
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			life of the Nabi salallahu alaihi wa sallam,
		
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			and in that we find perfection and beauty.
		
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			We know, I know, all of us knows,
		
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			if you follow his lifestyle, the way he
		
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			ate, the way he slept, just from a
		
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			health perspective, it will be beneficial to you.
		
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			So there is no person on earth that
		
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			is so revered, whose biography is so meticulously
		
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			recorded, and who is so emulated like him.
		
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			And of course, his legacy to the world.
		
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			Undoubtedly, there is no man on earth that
		
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			has achieved what he has achieved.
		
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			Whether you are Muslim or non-Muslim, you
		
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			can't deny this.
		
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			He took a bunch of barbarians, a bunch
		
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			of backward, uncivilized people who killed their own
		
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			children within 23 years.
		
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			He transformed that society to becoming the leading
		
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			society on earth.
		
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			And for the next thousand years, it will
		
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			be the center of civilization, of learning.
		
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			He would transform a community that was basically
		
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			animals, to becoming the greatest empire, not only
		
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			in terms of power and might and land
		
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			from Spain to China, but in terms of
		
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			science and technology, in terms of safety and
		
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			security.
		
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			He transformed the world.
		
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			And until today, the only religion that still
		
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			holds its flag high, the only religion where
		
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			mosques are full when churches are empty, the
		
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			only religion where when he is born, the
		
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			whole ummah is happy, the only religion where
		
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			people still try to pray like him, mention
		
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			his name, make salawat on him, is this
		
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			man.
		
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			There is no person on earth that has
		
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			that legacy, that has achieved what he has
		
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			achieved.
		
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			And therefore, no one can honestly say they
		
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			have the title.
		
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			If anyone were to claim to be the
		
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			messenger of the Almighty God, it is this
		
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			man, Nabi Muhammad.
		
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			May Allah grant us to follow his sunnah.
		
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			May Allah bless his ummah.
		
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			May Allah grant us to be in his
		
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			companionship in the akhira.
		
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			Ameen.
		
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			Alhamdulillah.
		
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			Just one announcement here.
		
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			Our Heritage Day is on the 24th of
		
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			September.
		
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			It's Tuesday, it's a public holiday.
		
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			Allahu Akbar.
		
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			Alhamdulillah.
		
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			And we will be having a, for those
		
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			who would like to participate in our heritage,
		
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			we have a wonderful culture and custom here
		
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			in Cape Town.
		
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			Islam is a great tradition.
		
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			There are tours that we are giving.
		
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			And it's a good time.
		
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			Maybe you have non-Muslim friends, people outside,
		
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			bring them along.
		
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			So there's a free guided tour to our
		
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			museum, our exhibit.
		
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			We also get some traditional food.
		
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			You know, we are very good with our
		
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			food.
		
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			And there will be some entertainment as well.
		
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			So please, inshallah, if you'd like to know
		
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			more, put them in the back.
		
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			JazakAllah khair.
		
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			Assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.
		
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