Muhammad West – The Ahzab Invasion #02

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			A'udhu Billahi Minash Shaitanir Rajeem Bismillahir Rahmanir
		
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			Raheem Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen Wasalaatu Wasalaamu Ala Ashrafil
		
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			Mursaleen Sayyidina Muhammadun wa ala alihi wa sahbihi
		
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			ajma'een My beloved brothers and sisters Asalaamu
		
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			Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen We forever
		
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			begin by praising Allah and I swear there
		
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			is no god but Allah We testify there
		
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			is none worthy of worship besides Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala and we send our love
		
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			and our greetings and salutations to beloved Nabi
		
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			Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam to his piousness, to
		
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			his pure family, to his companions and all
		
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			those who follow his sunnah until the end
		
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			of time.
		
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			May Allah bless us to be in the
		
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			companionship of the Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam in
		
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			Jannatul Firdaus.
		
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			Ameen.
		
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			Ameen.
		
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			Alhamdulillah.
		
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			Subhanallah, we make dua for all the Muslims
		
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			throughout the world.
		
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			East to west, things look difficult for the
		
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			Ummah.
		
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			Our brothers and sisters in Gaza, in Lebanon,
		
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			in Yemen, even our brothers and sisters in
		
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			America.
		
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			Subhanallah, they had to choose between a male
		
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			Dajjal and a female Dajjal.
		
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			And whatever case is a bad, whatever solution
		
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			is a bad one.
		
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			There is no lesser of two evils.
		
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			Both extremely evil.
		
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			And it speaks to our topic.
		
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			We must have a strategy.
		
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			We must plan.
		
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			We must work for a better tomorrow.
		
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			But sometimes the situation looks so bleak, so
		
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			dire.
		
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			Whether on a Ummah level, whether on a
		
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			personal level.
		
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			It might be that, subhanallah, there is no
		
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			answer to your financial problems.
		
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			There is no ease for anyone who is
		
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			going to difficulty.
		
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			There might be no cure for that disease.
		
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			There might be no answer for the marriage
		
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			that is struggling.
		
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			And when everything, all the doors look closed,
		
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			the only thing you have left is tawakkal.
		
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			The only thing you have left is to
		
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			depend in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
		
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			help you through it.
		
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			And like Allah had shown time and time
		
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			again in the Quran, you have to plan
		
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			and strategize.
		
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			But ultimately your sincerity is the thing which
		
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			Allah will make a way open for you.
		
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			Like Bani Israel, the Jews are on, the
		
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			Red Sea is in front of them, and
		
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			Firaun is behind them.
		
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			There is no way out.
		
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			They follow the GPS coordinates, follow this way,
		
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			they get there, it's a dead end.
		
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			And the people said, Musa, you've led us
		
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			to be destroyed.
		
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			We're either gonna be drowned, or Firaun is
		
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			gonna kill us.
		
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			And Nabi Musa said, No, Allah is not
		
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			going to lead me to a dead end.
		
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			If Allah brought me to this, there will
		
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			be a way, and Allah opens the Red
		
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			Sea.
		
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			And another example is this example, never in
		
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			the seerah, in the biography of the Nabi
		
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			Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, was there a moment so
		
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			hopeless, so unimaginable, that the Muslims were at
		
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			the verge of really surrendering, giving up.
		
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			And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala shows, how
		
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			He will turn an impossible situation into a
		
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			victory.
		
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			So we said last week, just to recap
		
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			quickly, the Jewish tribe from Medina who was
		
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			expelled, the Banu Nadir, they, for two years,
		
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			they form an alliance, a coalition.
		
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			They engage the Quraysh, they engage the Bedouin
		
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			tribes called the Ghatafan.
		
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			And they bring a coalition of 10,000
		
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			people to commit a genocide against Medina.
		
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			They bring a genocide against Medina, or plan
		
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			a genocide.
		
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			And when the Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam explains
		
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			to the Sahaba, Ya Sahaba, I've been informed
		
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			that this army is on its way.
		
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			It is an army coming from the north,
		
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			from the south.
		
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			If all around we have these enemies, what
		
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			should we do?
		
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			There's almost like a dead silence in the
		
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			masjid.
		
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			Nobody has the...
		
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			I mean the diagnosis is severe.
		
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			It's like the doctor telling you it's terminal.
		
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			Like you know, there's nothing.
		
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			What treatment is there?
		
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			What can we do?
		
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			Nobody has a suggestion.
		
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			We can't fight them.
		
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			We can't...
		
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			What do we do?
		
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			And then subhanAllah, the back of the masjid,
		
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			put a Salman, Salman al-Farisi radiyallahu anhu.
		
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			We said this Persian man, a foreigner, he
		
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			raises his hand and he says, I have
		
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			a suggestion.
		
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			And subhanAllah, we stopped last week by talking
		
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			about, how is it that a Persian finds
		
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			himself here in this little dorpy in the
		
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			middle of nowhere.
		
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			This man who comes from the most advanced
		
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			civilization in the world, he settled here in
		
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			the desert.
		
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			Really, if you looked at the map of
		
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			the world at that time, Medina would not
		
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			even been on the map.
		
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			It wouldn't have featured on the map.
		
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			So how did you get here Salman?
		
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			And we said Salman radiyallahu anhu, he mentions
		
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			how he started off as a young man,
		
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			as a pagan fire worshipper.
		
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			He then embraces Christianity.
		
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			His family become upset, and so he flees.
		
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			He leaves his home to be a Christian.
		
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			And he moves from monastery, church, priest one
		
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			by one, trying to learn the true religion
		
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			of Christianity.
		
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			Until he finds an old priest, and that
		
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			priest says, Salman, this is the, I'm the
		
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			last person that I know, that is still
		
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			teaching the correct gospel.
		
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			The others have corrupted it.
		
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			The Christianity you see around you, the trinity
		
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			and all this, is not the religion of
		
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			Allah.
		
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			So Salman says, Sheikh Mawlana, what must I
		
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			do?
		
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			When you die, where do I go to?
		
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			So he said, Salman, I advise you, look
		
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			for the last Nabi.
		
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			We hope soon a Nabi will appear, the
		
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			last prophet, he will appear, in Arabia.
		
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			And look for these signs.
		
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			Number one, he will live in a city,
		
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			our scriptures tell us, he will live in
		
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			a city, that is between two extinct volcanoes.
		
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			And it's filled with date plantations inside.
		
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			This man, if he's a Nabi, he will
		
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			not ever accept zakah, charity.
		
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			A Nabi is not allowed to accept this
		
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			charity, zakah.
		
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			But if you give him a gift, he
		
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			has a gift for you, he has a
		
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			barakah, he will accept it.
		
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			And there's a strange birthmark on his back.
		
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			Something's funny on his back.
		
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			Look for these things, and inshallah this is
		
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			what we know to be the Nabi.
		
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			And of course he must preach the tawhid
		
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			and the wonders of Allah.
		
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			So we said Salman, mashaAllah, he gathers all
		
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			his belongings.
		
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			The man has left his home, he left
		
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			everything for the sake of Allah.
		
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			He finds a caravan of Arab travelers.
		
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			He says, Arabs, can you take me to
		
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			Arabia?
		
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			I want to explore Arabia.
		
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			I'm looking for a city like this.
		
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			They said, no problem Habibi, mashaAllah, come to
		
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			Arabia.
		
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			And when he's on his way, they steal
		
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			his goods, and they put chains on him,
		
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			and they turn him into a slave.
		
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			Rabbim of his freedom, Rabbim of everything.
		
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			And I said this last week, and I
		
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			imagine if it was us, something in my
		
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			mind, if I was, subhanAllah, I think maybe
		
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			I got it wrong.
		
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			Maybe the Lord of the Persians is punishing
		
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			me.
		
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			I turn my back on God, and now
		
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			he's punishing me.
		
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			He took away everything, even my freedom.
		
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			I'm now a slave.
		
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			But subhanAllah, Salman's iman remains committed.
		
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			I'm going to look for this Nabi.
		
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			And he gets bought and sold.
		
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			Allah a'lam how many different cities he
		
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			moves from slave market to slave market.
		
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			And al-Qadar Allah mashaAllah decrees that he
		
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			ends up in Madinah.
		
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			And when he gets to Madinah, he looks
		
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			at this place and he says, I see
		
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			the old lava flows.
		
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			For those, if you go to Madinah, just
		
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			outside of it, you will see these black
		
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			rocks, outside of Madinah.
		
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			This is an extinct volcano that existed, that
		
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			was there on both sides, the north and
		
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			the south of Madinah.
		
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			He said, looks like this, and these date
		
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			trees, this looks like the place.
		
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			Okay, but he's a slave.
		
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			And he asks around, is there any person
		
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			claiming to be a prophet?
		
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			People says, what are you talking about?
		
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			We don't know, what is it?
		
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			What even is a Nabi?
		
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			They don't even know what a Nabi is.
		
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			Salman radiyallahu anhu arrives in Madinah, years, not
		
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			days, years, before Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
		
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			comes to Madinah.
		
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			Before the Nabi comes to Madinah, makes hijrah,
		
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			Salman is already waiting for him.
		
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			And so Salman mentions to the Nabi sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam, I remember the day you
		
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			arrived in Madinah.
		
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			When you arrived, I was in the tree
		
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			picking the dates, and then I heard my
		
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			master, the Jewish guy, going, there's a guy
		
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			calling to be a Nabi, there's a guy
		
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			calling to be a prophet.
		
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			And I almost fell out of the tree.
		
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			Salman says, I was so amazed, and I
		
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			wanted to meet you, I struggled to meet
		
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			you, because I'm a slave, I can't just
		
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			move around.
		
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			One day Salman comes to the Nabi sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam, and he says, Oh Muhammad,
		
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			it looks like your people are in need,
		
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			you guys have come from Makkah, I'm bringing
		
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			you some charity, here's a few dates.
		
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			And I watched you, you distributed every date,
		
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			and you didn't take a single one for
		
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			yourself.
		
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			And I thought to myself, that's one.
		
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			Few days later I came and I said,
		
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			here's some, here's a gift for you and
		
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			your Sahaba.
		
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			You distributed it, and you took a date
		
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			for yourself.
		
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			And I said, that's two.
		
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			And then, once the Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam was performing Salah, and he could see
		
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			Salman trying to look under his shirt.
		
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			And the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
		
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			I know what you're looking for, he takes
		
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			his shirt down, and Salman sees the Nabi
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wa sallam has a birthmark, it's
		
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			called the seal of Nubuwwah.
		
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			Like Allah stamps him, this is the, you
		
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			are the last one.
		
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			It looks like a, it's described in the
		
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			books of Sira, like the egg of a
		
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			pigeon, and it's a bit like an elevated
		
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			type of skin, and it has a discoloring.
		
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			And it's like a strange birthmark.
		
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			And when Salman sees this, he breaks down.
		
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			He said, I've been looking for you for
		
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			years.
		
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			Since my days in Persia, I've been looking
		
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			for you.
		
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			And the Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was
		
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			shocked, I can't believe, that you've been searching
		
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			for me, I didn't even know about you.
		
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			And when the Sahaba heard about Salman's story,
		
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			they were so moved, that the Ansar, the
		
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			people of Madinah said, Salman, we give you
		
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			nationality, you are Ansari.
		
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			You're not Salman al-Farisi, you're Salman al
		
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			-Ansari.
		
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			And so the people of Makkah said, no,
		
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			he's like us, he made hijrah, he left
		
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			his home, he's a muhajir.
		
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			You are Salman the muhajiri.
		
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			And then the Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
		
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			said, no, I adopted him, he's Ahlul Bayt.
		
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			That's why Salman is an honorary member of
		
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			the family of the Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam.
		
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			He said, you are now a member of
		
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			my family.
		
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			You've left everything to be with me, so
		
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			you are honorary.
		
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			So this is Salman.
		
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			All that back story is, Salman puts up
		
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			his hand and he says, Ya Rasulullah, this
		
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			army that is coming to Madinah, I have
		
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			a suggestion.
		
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			Allah had brought him here for the suggestion.
		
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			It says, we Persians are used to fighting
		
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			big numbers.
		
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			This is now global kind of warfare.
		
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			When we fight the Romans, we deal with
		
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			hundreds of thousands of soldiers.
		
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			And when we're confronted with an enemy so
		
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			big, and you can't fight them, we dig
		
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			a trench.
		
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			And I'm sure of all the people, Salman
		
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			must have been the one, radhiallahu anhu, who
		
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			has a mental image of Madinah in his
		
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			mind.
		
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			Because he's looking for this place between mountain
		
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			passes, date plantations.
		
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			He's telling the sahaba, you don't realize, Madinah
		
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			is actually fortified from three directions.
		
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			You can't bring an army through the extinct
		
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			lava flows.
		
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			It's very sharp.
		
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			The rocks are very difficult.
		
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			The army can't march through that.
		
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			And you can't march through the date plantations.
		
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			So you only have this strip of about
		
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			6 to 10 kilometers that is open.
		
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			If we can dig a trench, a ditch,
		
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			the army can't come in.
		
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			This will help us.
		
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			And mashaAllah, everybody agrees.
		
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			This is the best suggestion.
		
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			And so within about a week and a
		
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			half, the sahaba go, I mean, they have
		
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			about a week to finish this project.
		
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			A trench that is 6 kilometers long, 9
		
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			meters wide, and 5 meters deep.
		
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			It's quite a substantial trench that needs to
		
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			be dug.
		
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			Night and day the sahaba are digging.
		
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			Everybody is digging.
		
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			Even Rasulullah ﷺ is digging.
		
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			The whole community is committed.
		
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			We need to dig this thing before the
		
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			army comes.
		
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			And subhanAllah again, this might have, like sometimes
		
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			we have ajeeb, strange options on the table.
		
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			This is like a weird option.
		
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			But that's the only option we have.
		
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			We as a ummah, we do not become
		
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			hopeless.
		
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			We don't just say, if Allah decrees, Allah
		
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			decrees.
		
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			No, we hold on to that experimental treatment.
		
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			We hope on to that crazy business idea.
		
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			If that's the best we've got, we go
		
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			for it inshaAllah.
		
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			And this is the best we've got, so
		
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			we're gonna go.
		
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			And now the digging begins.
		
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			And the books of seerah tell us of
		
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			the camaraderie and the mood within Madinah.
		
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			They are desperate.
		
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			It's also a time of great famine and
		
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			hunger.
		
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			And subhanAllah, from the digging of the trench,
		
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			we noticed a number of miracles.
		
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			And we'll mention two of them, two miracles
		
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			of the sahaba.
		
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			The sahaba tell us about these experiences.
		
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			So they said that while we're digging, it
		
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			was also winter time in Madinah, which meant
		
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			there wasn't a harvest.
		
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			So food was scarce.
		
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			We were hungry and we're digging.
		
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			And it was just a very miserable kind
		
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			of mood.
		
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			And one of the sahaba, Jabir radiallahu anhu,
		
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			who's a young man now, he's maybe 20
		
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			years old.
		
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			He says, while I was digging in the
		
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			trench, and the Nabi ﷺ was with us,
		
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			covered in dust and sand, and he's digging
		
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			as much, I saw something which broke my
		
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			heart.
		
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			As he's digging and he's lifting up the
		
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			sand and the rocks, he had a stone
		
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			tied against his stomach because of the hunger.
		
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			So Jabir says, radiallahu anhu, the famous Jabir,
		
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			we all An-Jabirin, Jabirin, the Jabir, the
		
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			very famous Jabir.
		
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			He says, I could not bear to see
		
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			the Nabi ﷺ basically starving, starving to death
		
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			here next to me.
		
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			So he goes home to his wife and
		
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			he says, what do we have?
		
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			Empty all the cupboards.
		
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			What do we have to eat?
		
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			He says, I only have a little bit
		
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			of cup of flour.
		
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			We can make some bread.
		
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			And this goat that you can see is
		
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			basically half dead.
		
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			It has no meat.
		
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			It's just on its last.
		
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			That's all we have.
		
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			So Jabir says, okay, make some bread.
		
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			And we slaughter the goat and we invite
		
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			the Nabi ﷺ for a supper.
		
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			I just can't let him go hungry.
		
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			And so Jabir radiallahu anhu says, I went
		
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			and I whispered to the Nabi ﷺ, Ya
		
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			Rasulullah, we inviting you for supper.
		
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			Why whisper?
		
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			Because everyone is hungry.
		
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			The whole jama'ah is hungry.
		
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			I'm whispering, come for supper afterwards.
		
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			And Nabi ﷺ says, Ya Muslimin, Jabir has
		
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			invited all of you for supper.
		
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			Jabir says, I ran home to tell my
		
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			wife, it wasn't me.
		
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			You're putting me in the eyes.
		
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			You bring the whole tabligh jama'ah to
		
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			the house.
		
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			Now I look bad.
		
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			No, he ran home and he said, I
		
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			didn't invite, the Nabi ﷺ is calling them.
		
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			And the Prophet ﷺ said, Jabir, let me
		
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			dish the food.
		
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			And this is again, what's nice about this
		
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			hadith is Jabir is narrating, not I saw,
		
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			I heard.
		
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			It says, this is my house.
		
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			It's my wife's cooking.
		
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			That the Nabi ﷺ entered the house and
		
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			he said, let me hand out the meals.
		
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			And he invited 10 people at a time.
		
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			The house was only 10 people could fit.
		
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			So people are queuing outside.
		
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			10 people would come in.
		
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			They would eat, they would dish, and they
		
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			would leave, another 10.
		
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			And so the sahab, I mean, he's narrating
		
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			the hadith years later.
		
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			So they asked Jabir, how many people ate?
		
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			He says, wallahi, at least a thousand.
		
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			At least a thousand people ate from that
		
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			plate of food.
		
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			And we as a family ate our full.
		
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			We gave our neighbors and there was leftover
		
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			for tomorrow.
		
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			Alhamdulillah.
		
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			So this is the barakah, one of the
		
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			miracles of the digging the trench.
		
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			The second miracle.
		
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			And subhanAllah, this is more impressive.
		
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			Because we were not there, we didn't see
		
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			it.
		
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			This one, we got to see, we get
		
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			to see.
		
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			The Nabi ﷺ drew a line.
		
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			This is how the trench must be dug.
		
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			He drew a straight line.
		
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			And the sahabah followed that line to the
		
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			T.
		
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			And as they digging, they come upon this
		
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			massive boulder.
		
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			They didn't want to dig around it because
		
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			Rasulullah ﷺ drew this line, we must go
		
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			through this rock.
		
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			So they try to move it and they
		
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			can't.
		
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			They try to hit it, they can't break
		
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			it.
		
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			So they said, Ya Rasulullah ﷺ, what must
		
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			we do?
		
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			We can't break this rock, we can't move
		
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			it.
		
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			What do you advise us to do?
		
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			So he said, let me do it.
		
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			I will move it.
		
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			And he jumps into the trench, the Nabi
		
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			ﷺ.
		
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			And he takes the pick, and he strikes
		
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			this rock.
		
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			And with the first knock, a piece of
		
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			the rock moves, and a flash sparks.
		
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			And he says, subhanAllah, the Nabi ﷺ says,
		
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			Allahu Akbar, I have seen, Allah has shown
		
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			me, we will conquer Yemen.
		
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			And the sahabah saying, Takbeer, Allah, we're gonna
		
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			conquer Yemen, mashaAllah.
		
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			And he hits the rock again, another flash.
		
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			And the Nabi ﷺ said, subhanAllah, we are
		
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			going to conquer, Sham, Syria, Lebanon, the Romans,
		
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			we're gonna beat them.
		
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			Takbeer, the sahabah ecstatic.
		
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			And he hits it the last time, the
		
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			rock breaks and he says, Allah, Allah has
		
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			shown me, we'll conquer the Persians.
		
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			The great Persian empire, we're gonna conquer them.
		
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			Takbeer, and the sahabah happy.
		
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			On the outside of the trench, the munafiqs
		
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			are looking at them, and saying, now, our
		
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			people have lost their minds completely.
		
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			Our people are digging a hole to save
		
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			themselves from invasion.
		
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			To save themselves from a few soldiers from
		
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			Makkah.
		
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			In our context, it's as if the P
		
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			.E. is invading Cape Town, and we're digging
		
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			a little trench, no one can invade us.
		
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			While we're digging, the imam says, soon, we're
		
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			gonna conquer America, and China, and Russia.
		
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			So the munafiqs are saying, غَرَّهَا أُولَيْدِنَهُمْ These
		
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			people have become, our people have become, completely
		
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			they've lost their minds.
		
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			They can't even, the words they use, they
		
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			said, you are so scared, you can't even
		
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			go to the toilet in the desert, because
		
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			the enemy is coming, but you're talking about
		
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			conquering this superpower, and that superpower, you've lost
		
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			your mind, you've gone crazy.
		
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			You people have become, like you know how
		
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			cults, you know, you think of these cult
		
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			leaders, people have lost their minds.
		
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			So that's how they look to sahaba.
		
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			Sahaba believe, Ya Rasulallah, you say we're gonna
		
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			conquer Persia, Rome, and Yemen, we're gonna do
		
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			it.
		
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			Wallahi, 10 years from this, the same sahaba
		
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			would see all these conquests unfolding.
		
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			The same sahaba that were digging a hole
		
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			to survive, would conquer the palaces of the
		
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			emperor of Persia, of Rome, of Yemen, of
		
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			Bahrain, subhanallah.
		
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			As the Prophet said, predicted within 10 years
		
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			that came to pass.
		
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			And so, the sahaba are digging, and they
		
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			get the trench ready, just in time, just
		
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			in time the trench is ready, so that
		
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			when the Quraysh arrive, when the army arrive,
		
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			they're completely shocked.
		
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			Never before had they seen something like this.
		
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			And the sahaba now, for a moment it
		
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			feels like there is some kind of reprieve.
		
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			There is some kind of, Alhamdulillah, we are
		
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			moving, we have something to hold on to,
		
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			a bit of hope.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentions in the
		
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			33rd surah of the Qur'an, is called
		
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			the surah Al-Ahzab, because it mentions the
		
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			feeling and the mood.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, وَإِذْ قَالَ
		
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			الطَّائِفَةٌ مِّنْهُمْ يَا أَهْلَ يَثْرِبُ And so when
		
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			the munafiq said to the believers, side note,
		
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			in times of desperation, in times of war,
		
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			in times of crisis, the munafiq show their
		
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			true colors.
		
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			There are those who when things are bad,
		
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			they push themselves more.
		
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			We need to do more.
		
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			We're all bad, we're not great.
		
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			But when time is hard, we say for
		
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			the ummah, I will tend to rise to
		
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			the occasion, I will do more.
		
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			The munafiq when things are bad, all he
		
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			does is he criticizes more.
		
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			I told you, this is useless man.
		
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			Why are you wasting your time?
		
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			All they can do is criticize the ummah.
		
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			They offer nothing of positivity.
		
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			They don't even make a dua.
		
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			They don't even say, may Allah help you,
		
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			I can't do anything, may Allah help you.
		
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			They can only break down.
		
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			This is an element of the munafiq.
		
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			So Allah says that, وَإِذْ قَالَ طَّائِفَةٌ مِّنْهُمْ
		
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			When a group of the munafiq said, يَا
		
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			أَهْلَ يَثْرِبُ O people of Madinah, they never
		
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			said Madinah, they said يَثْرِبُ لَا مُقَامَ لَكُمُ
		
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			فَرْجِعُ O people of Yathrib, there is no
		
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			hope for you here, there is no stability,
		
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			so just give this up, it's waste of
		
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			time, you're digging a hole, what is this,
		
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			just go home.
		
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			You're wasting your time.
		
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			And a party of them asked permission, and
		
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			some of the munafiq said, O Muhammad, they
		
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			never said Rasulullah, O Muhammad, indeed our family
		
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			is unprotected, you guys continue digging your hole,
		
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			but I need to look after my family,
		
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			I have things at home, and they left.
		
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			And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, and
		
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			it wasn't that they were in danger, they
		
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			just all they want to do was to
		
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			leave and desert the ummah, and they'll use
		
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			every excuse.
		
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			I say this because in our context of
		
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			crisis, people will look for every excuse to
		
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			break down some positive initiative.
		
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			We know it's a bad situation, if we
		
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			had the solution we'd do it, but we're
		
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			trying, a bit of boycotting here, a bit
		
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			of marching there, writing a letter here, petitioning
		
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			there, giving a khutbah there, we know that
		
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			doesn't solve the problem, but this is all
		
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			we have.
		
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			To add, to just break that down as
		
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			well, it shows a complete disconnect with the
		
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			ummah.
		
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			Allah says, قَدَ يَعْلَمُ اللَّهُ الْمُؤَوِّقِينَ مِنْكُمْ وَالْقَائِلِينَ
		
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			لِإِخْوَانِهِمْ هَلُمَّ إِلَيْنَا Allah says, I know those
		
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			who hinder the ummah amongst them, I know
		
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			the obstacles in the community, the ones who
		
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			break down the community, also I know who
		
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			they are.
		
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			And those who say to their brothers, come
		
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			to us, and don't go out in battle,
		
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			and don't participate in this, it's a waste
		
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			of time, rather come, we leave this thing,
		
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			they break away from the jama'ah.
		
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			أَشِحْ عَلَيْكُمْ فَإِذَا جَاءَ الْخَوْفُ That in dispute,
		
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			they have a resentment towards you, the sahaba
		
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			but to the jama'ah.
		
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			And I said, I see this in communities.
		
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			We wanna build a masjid for example, where
		
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			are we gonna get the funds?
		
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			Okay, it's a problem, we all wanna do
		
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			this collectively, but you get the naysayers, they
		
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			don't contribute anything positive, they just bring the
		
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			mood down.
		
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			And it's as if though the only purpose
		
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			is to hurt the jama'ah, to work
		
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			against the jama'ah, to find, we find
		
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			a solution, they'll find a problem for the
		
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			solution.
		
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			Allah says that, they are indisposed towards the
		
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			affairs of you, and towards the ummah.
		
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			They almost want to see the ummah fail.
		
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			And Allah protect, that's the feeling.
		
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			Some people if they can't be in charge,
		
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			and they're not the ones running, if I'm
		
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			not the one that scores the goal, then
		
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			I'm rather going to criticize everything.
		
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			And when fear comes, you see them looking,
		
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			and when the problem comes, they are the
		
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			first ones to show their fear, and their
		
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			eyes going wild, as if though they're about
		
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			to die.
		
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			They are the first ones to have cowardice
		
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			in them.
		
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			And we look at the situation of our
		
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			ummah.
		
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			This is where we don't lack for numbers
		
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			or resources.
		
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			We have billions of people.
		
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			We have the wealthiest of countries.
		
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			Our problem is, there is no harmony within
		
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			this ummah.
		
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			We can't, subhanallah, if we are to dig
		
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			a trench today, we would find committees, and
		
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			meetings, and debates, and rebuttals, and point of
		
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			order, and objections, and nothing would happen.
		
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			Subhanallah.
		
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			And this is the munafiq.
		
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			All we want you to do is, don't
		
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			just dig the trench, subhanallah, dig a hole.
		
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			No, there has to be counter and discussion.
		
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			And this is subhanallah the problem, with them,
		
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			and it will always be like this.
		
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			Where's the mu'mineen?
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, But when
		
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			the believers see the enemy, and when they
		
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			see things get hard, when the situation becomes
		
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			desperate, what do they say?
		
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			They say, هَذَا مَا وَعَدْنَا اللَّهُ وَرَسُولُهُ وَصَدَقَ
		
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			اللَّهُ وَرَسُولُهُ They said, Allah promised us this.
		
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			Allah told us it's gonna be difficult.
		
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			وَمَا زَادَهُمْ إِلَّا إِيمَانًا وَتَسْلِيمًا And the more
		
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			difficult the situation is, they get closer, and
		
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			they become stronger to Allah.
		
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			They turn closer to Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala.
		
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			And so this crisis, Allah sends a crisis,
		
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			one of the wisdoms of Gaza, one of
		
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			the wisdoms of the problems in the ummah,
		
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			is to divide the believers and the munafiqs.
		
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			And that's why for us, we need to
		
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			ask ourselves in this crisis, which side are
		
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			we on?
		
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			Are we of those that help the cause?
		
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			Or do we hinder the cause?
		
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			Do we work towards a positive outcome?
		
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			Or are we indisposed to the fears of
		
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			the ummah?
		
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			Does this increase your iman?
		
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			Or does it take away from your iman?
		
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			And so the Quraysh arrive, and they are
		
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			unable to enter Medina, and it seems like
		
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			the Muslims are able to hold them off
		
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			for some time.
		
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			Within the camps of the Quraysh, Abu Sufyan,
		
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			remember Abu Sufyan is the command and chief,
		
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			but his master, the guy in charge, is
		
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			this Yahud, this Jewish guy, who brought about
		
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			the coalition.
		
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			So Abu Sufyan says to him, this was
		
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			a complete waste of time.
		
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			We can't enter Medina.
		
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			I've got 10,000 men.
		
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			We are camped outside.
		
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			We thought you promised us it's going to
		
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			be a quick win.
		
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			As they thought it's going to be a
		
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			quick win.
		
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			You're going to go into a defensive city,
		
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			or a defensive land.
		
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			No army.
		
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			You're going to just go in and walk
		
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			over them a year later.
		
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			You're still stuck there.
		
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			May Allah destroy them there.
		
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			So this group, they're saying, how do we
		
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			enter now?
		
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			What do we do now?
		
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			Abu Sufyan is angry.
		
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			The mastermind, Huyay, this Banu Nadhir, this Yahud,
		
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			he says, I've got a plan B.
		
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			Don't worry.
		
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			I've got a plan B.
		
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			They've blocked us from coming in, but I
		
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			have a plan to enter Medina.
		
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			How?
		
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			There's still one Jewish tribe in Medina.
		
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			If I can get them to flip, if
		
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			I get them to open the gate, then
		
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			there's no hope.
		
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			And inshallah, we'll continue next week with this,
		
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			bismillah.
		
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			A few announcements.
		
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			You see, you can look online.
		
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			The books are there.
		
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			You don't have to wait for the outcome.
		
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			FYI, the Muslims win.
		
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			The Muslims win.
		
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			That's all you want to know.
		
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			The good guys win.
		
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			The avengers win eventually.
		
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			We'll see how they get there.
		
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			Alhamdulillah.
		
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			Right, so just a few announcements.
		
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			Alhamdulillah, we have a couple of events happening.
		
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			On the Saturday, the 23rd of November, we'll
		
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			have our meet and treat.
		
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			This is for young men and women looking
		
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			to get married between the ages of 25
		
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			and about 40, 20 and 40 men and
		
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			women.
		
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			We have very limited space, but if you
		
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			have a cousin, a sister, a brother that
		
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			is interested or should be interested, sometimes they
		
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			fisson, then you sign them up, bring them,
		
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			and inshallah tell them, yes, yes, forward to
		
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			them.
		
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			Subhanallah, in the world we live in, we
		
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			need to keep ourselves safe.
		
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			And then on the 1st of December, the
		
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			slide isn't up.
		
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			On the 1st of December, I believe it's
		
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			a Sunday, we will have an Umrah class.
		
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			And we do it just one Sunday morning
		
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			from 9 o'clock to Dhuhr.
		
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			The A to Z of Umrah.
		
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			A lot of people are going for Umrah
		
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			inshallah, may Allah grant us Umrah Maghbul.
		
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			We've got also very limited seats, but if
		
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			you are interested, you can join inshallah.
		
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			And online is available as well, bi-ibnillah.
		
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			Shukran so much.
		
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			Wassalamu'alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.