Muhammad West – Trust Allahs Plan

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The speaker discusses the struggles faced by the Middle East during the past 100 years, including war, peace, political challenges, and the split between Saudi Arabia and Iran. They emphasize the importance of trusting the Islam plan and protecting people's identities, while also acknowledging the danger of oppression and the need for people to be faithful to their plans. The speaker also discusses the importance of practicing religion and not giving up during difficult times, while also highlighting a small organization that raised money for minorities and their contribution to society.

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			I hope we get a special good today.
		
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			Just part of the special hour.
		
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			That's the time of the hour.
		
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			Asalaamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu, alhamdulilahi rabbil
		
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			alameen, wa salatu wasalaamu ala ashrafil mursaleen, Sayyidina
		
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			Muhammadin wa ala alihi wa sahbihi ajma'een,
		
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			my beloved brothers and sisters, asalaamu alaikum wa
		
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			rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu, alhamdulilahi rabbil alameen, ashadu an
		
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			la ilaha illallah, we testify that there is
		
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			none worthy of worship besides Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala and we send our love and
		
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			our greetings, our salutations to beloved Nabi Muhammad
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, to his pious and
		
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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, may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			bless us, ameen, ameen, walhamdulillah.
		
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			Alhamdulillah was a huge monumental and earthquake in
		
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			terms of what we've seen in front of
		
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			us with regards to what's happening in Syria
		
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			and while we're going to talk a little
		
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			bit about Syria, it's not so much about
		
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			Syria in today's lecture, it's really about trusting
		
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			that while we might be going through challenges
		
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			in our personal life, while we might have
		
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			challenges at an ummah level, we sometimes make
		
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			our dua, we cry and we besiege Allah,
		
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			and we work and we work and we
		
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			work and we say, ya Allah, when are
		
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			things going to change?
		
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			You know, when is there going to be
		
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			any kind of glimmer of hope?
		
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			And I say this is on the global
		
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			level and I'm sure even at the personal
		
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			level, whatever difficulties may Allah make easy for
		
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			you, might be your work, might be your
		
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			health, but we have to believe that if
		
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			we are doing what we are required to
		
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			do, Allah has a plan.
		
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			And if you trust in that plan, tawakkal,
		
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			you trust in the plan of Allah, Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala promises, wal aqibatu lil
		
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			muttaqeen, in the end, in the end the
		
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			muttaqeen will be the winners, that's a promise
		
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			from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, Allah's timeline
		
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			and time frame belongs to Him, and He
		
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			decides when and where and how to the
		
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			best, that is in which we cannot understand.
		
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			So I want to touch a little bit
		
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			about Syria, and I know that it is
		
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			a complicated issue, there are many people that
		
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			see the same events, and they say mashallah,
		
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			this is Allah's nasr and this is good,
		
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			this is another, it's a step in the
		
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			right direction, and others see this as a
		
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			huge defeat for the ummah, how do we
		
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			reconcile this?
		
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			And perhaps there's a bit of everything involved,
		
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			and history is, as we come to know,
		
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			nothing is easy and clean and uncomplicated.
		
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			I'll begin by saying this, that for the
		
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			last 100 plus years, the Middle East in
		
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			particular, has struggled post the Ottoman Empire, the
		
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			people were divided, their lands were colonized, split
		
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			up, and the one thing that the powers
		
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			of the world would not allow, they would
		
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			not allow a government which was fearful of
		
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			Allah to rule, not a single country, from
		
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			one side of the Middle East to the
		
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			other, for the last 100 plus years, you
		
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			could really say, was a government which was
		
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			true to the Islamic values, that had the
		
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			ummah in its mind, and they have tried
		
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			with different types of regimes.
		
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			The powers outside were comfortable to have dictators
		
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			ruling over the people, who had no care
		
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			for deen and for their people, it was
		
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			only about their own leadership, their own power,
		
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			this was the status quo, and nobody around
		
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			the world is going to allow a Muslim
		
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			government that fears Allah to be established, because
		
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			this is the greatest threat to the tyrants,
		
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			this is the greatest threat to Israel, and
		
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			all the oppressors in the world, because once
		
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			you have one country, and this is the
		
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			will of the people, if you ask the
		
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			people on the ground, what do you want?
		
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			They want to see, not necessarily a caliphate
		
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			that will dominate the world, no, we want
		
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			an Abu Bakr, we want an Umar bin
		
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			Abdulaziz, we want someone that will stand up
		
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			for justice, will stand up for the rights
		
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			of its people, that will defend the honour
		
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			of the weak, and that will be a
		
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			shield for the ummah against the aggressors and
		
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			the oppressors, this is what we all want
		
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			to see, those in the Middle East and
		
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			across, and by hook or by crook, our
		
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			enemies will not allow this to happen, because
		
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			once it happens, you can't stop this momentum,
		
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			now Syria has been under terrible dictatorship, perhaps
		
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			one of the worst in the Middle East
		
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			for the last 50 years, and it's a
		
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			whole long history, and I encourage you in
		
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			terms of your obligation, what can you do
		
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			for the ummah at the very least?
		
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			Go and learn, go and watch a proper
		
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			documentary, or read a proper book on it,
		
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			not just Facebook, Whatsapp posts, go and learn
		
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			and see what happened to Syria, Syria wasn't
		
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			even a country maybe a hundred years ago,
		
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			there was no such country, it was drawn
		
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			up by the colonial powers, and how did
		
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			it become like this?
		
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			And there was a civil war for the
		
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			last 13 years, 14 years, this regime had
		
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			collapsed already 10 years ago, the only reason
		
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			why it still survived was because external players,
		
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			Iran, Hezbollah, Russia got involved and they propped
		
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			up this government, this was not the will
		
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			of the people, and for whatever reasons, for
		
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			the last as we said 50 years, the
		
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			people of Syria wanted their liberation, they were
		
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			denied that, Alhamdulillah, if you look at the,
		
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			we cannot deny what we see on the
		
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			streets, people being let out of prison after
		
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			30-40 years, people letting out of jail,
		
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			and they will ask, you know, did Saddam
		
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			Hussein liberate us?
		
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			There are people who were born, there are
		
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			children that walk out, how are there children
		
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			in this jail?
		
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			Their mothers, subhanallah, were incarcerated, born in jail,
		
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			they've never seen the sunlight.
		
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			Now this is what we have, these regimes,
		
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			whoever they are, they are not there to
		
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			defend the Ummah, they are there to preserve
		
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			the status quo of oppression.
		
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			And so Alhamdulillah, we are joyous and we
		
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			celebrate and we congratulate the people of Syria,
		
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			and we know that they now enter a
		
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			very dangerous time.
		
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			As we said, nobody of the powers, wherever
		
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			you are, whether it's in Washington, or Tel
		
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			Aviv, or Riyadh, or Tehran, nobody wants to
		
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			see a thriving, strong, Islamic, I say Islamic
		
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			state, even that word is now a dangerous
		
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			word, a country that is truthful to Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala, because this is the
		
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			biggest threat to anybody who is an illegitimate
		
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			ruler, this is the biggest threat to all
		
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			of them.
		
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			And so now there will be many many
		
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			players at hand that will try to undermine
		
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			this new beginning.
		
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			We also know that many parts of the
		
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			world, it is deliberate that they force these
		
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			countries to become a failed state, Libya, Somalia,
		
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			you know, they would rather allow a country
		
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			to be in chaos, than for it to
		
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			thrive and to be strong.
		
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			And it's for that reason now you see
		
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			Israel for example bombing the daylights out of
		
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			Syria's army, so that they have no ability
		
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			to defend itself.
		
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			So we should remember this is what's happening
		
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			at play, but for now, we really hope
		
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			the best for our brothers and sisters in
		
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			Syria, we really make dua that Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala begins a new chapter for
		
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			them.
		
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			And this is important, and I want to
		
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			link this to Jerusalem.
		
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			Throughout our history, whether it was Sayyidina Umar
		
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			radiyallahu anhu, whether it was Salahuddin al-Ayubi,
		
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			whether it was the Mamluks, almost the road
		
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			to liberate Jerusalem always began, you had to
		
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			first win Syria.
		
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			Syria had to, or Damascus, had to be
		
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			liberated before Jerusalem will be liberated.
		
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			And subhanallah, we know that in the eschatology,
		
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			in the times of Qiyamah, when Dajjal will
		
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			establish his headquarters in Israel, Imam Mahdi and
		
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			Nabi Isa will descend in Damascus, not Mecca,
		
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			it will be in Damascus.
		
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			It will be from Damascus that Islam will
		
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			rally, its base will be in Damascus, and
		
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			from there, Jerusalem will be liberated.
		
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			This could happen in the next few years,
		
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			it could happen in the next million years,
		
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			Allah alam, Allah's timeline is, but it's interesting
		
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			that these lands are so connected, and that's
		
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			why the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam speaks
		
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			about the times of fitna, he says, while
		
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			I was sleeping, I saw the pillar of
		
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			the book being taken from beneath my head.
		
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			The people explain this, Islam, or the strength
		
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			of Islam was taken away, meaning from Surah
		
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			Madinah, taken away from us.
		
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			And I thought it was going to be
		
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			taken away completely, I thought Islam will disappear
		
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			completely.
		
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			So the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said
		
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			he chased after it, and he saw that
		
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			it landed in Asham, basically in Syria.
		
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			And then he says, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
		
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			wa sallam says, when tribulation comes, will always
		
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			blossom or thrive in Palestine, or Jerusalem, or
		
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			rather Asham in Syria.
		
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			You would find that faith always returns to
		
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			Asham, in particular Damascus and Syria, in times
		
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			of tribulation.
		
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			This is where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			blesses that people, there will always be people
		
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			on the Haqq in this land.
		
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			And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam mentions
		
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			that Qiyamah, this battle will end with you
		
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			becoming mass troops, when the meaning, before the
		
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			end, the battleground will be Asham, and in
		
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			Yemen, and in Iraq, subhanallah.
		
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			And it was interesting, this was before Islam
		
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			even left Saudi Arabia.
		
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			There were no Muslims in Yemen, no Muslims
		
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			in Syria, no Muslims in Iraq.
		
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			The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is speaking
		
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			about a political reality, Sahaba didn't understand, we
		
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			see this.
		
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			Now, we've been making dua for more than
		
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			a year, for Jerusalem, and Gaza, and ya
		
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			Allah, bombing, genocide, all of this is happening.
		
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			And we had been so occupied, and we
		
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			should be, with the pain of Gaza, and
		
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			then we, in our hearts we might think,
		
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			ya Allah, where are you?
		
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			What's happening?
		
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			And Syria wasn't even on our minds, we
		
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			haven't even made dua for how many years,
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, we haven't been
		
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			doing that, it seemed like it's a done
		
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			deal, and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, which
		
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			we hope this is the case, that this
		
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			land is liberated.
		
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			Without us, subhanallah we can say, without us
		
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			even making dua, Allah has, those of us
		
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			outside, Allah has gifted us something which we
		
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			could not imagine.
		
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			As part of, we wanted Jerusalem to be
		
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			liberated, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has a
		
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			plan.
		
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			Allah has a plan.
		
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			And we need to be faithful to that
		
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			plan.
		
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			And this is repeated, it's a motif in
		
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			the Quran over and over and over, that
		
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			Allah reminds the believers, in times of difficulty.
		
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			When Nabi Musa, Nabi Musa alayhi salam and
		
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			the Bani Israel went up against Firaun, they
		
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			had no way of resisting, they were being
		
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			persecuted, they were being killed, their children were
		
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			being killed.
		
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			The ayah, just before the ayah I'm going
		
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			to mention, Firaun walks in, and how does
		
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			every dictator assert his authority?
		
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			The same way Israel is doing it, the
		
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			same way Bashar and his father had done
		
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			it, they walk in, they take your children,
		
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			they * your women, they kill whomever they
		
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			want, whoever speaks up, you'll disappear.
		
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			So when this is happening to the Bani
		
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			Israel, they ask Musa, what is this you
		
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			brought, you come to help us and liberate
		
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			us, but you put us into a worse
		
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			situation.
		
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			Nabi Musa says to them, he says to
		
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			his people, seek help, put your trust and
		
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			put your dependence in Allah.
		
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			Wasbiru and be patient with Allah's plan and
		
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			Allah's time.
		
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			Innal arda lillah, that the world belongs to
		
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			Allah.
		
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			Everything belongs to Allah.
		
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			Yurithuha man yashaa min ibadihi, and he will
		
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			give this world to whom he wants of
		
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			his slaves.
		
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			Allah is the one that keeps this dictator
		
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			in place and liberates this people, it is
		
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			Allah's prerogative.
		
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			But in the end, Allah will only give
		
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			it to the muttaqeen, the people of faith,
		
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			the people of iman.
		
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			We might not live to see it, we
		
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			might not live to be there, but in
		
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			the end, maybe not us, maybe our kids,
		
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			our grandkids, but the aqibat al muttaqeen, our
		
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			job is just to remain steadfast on taqwa.
		
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			And this is for the anbiya, this isn't
		
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			just for us, lay people, even the anbiya
		
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			have to be patient with the plan of
		
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			Allah and the decree of Allah, and do
		
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			what is right, and eventually Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala will make things come right.
		
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			Now, we can talk Syria Palestine, we need
		
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			to talk about that, but again I bring
		
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			this back to our lives.
		
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			Who of us here do not feel at
		
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			times is my dua, are my duas being
		
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			answered?
		
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			Who of us sitting here feel, ya Allah,
		
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			for how long?
		
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			I come to jumuah, I feel inspired, but
		
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			then I go back to the reality of
		
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			my life, and it seems like there is
		
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			no way out.
		
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			There seems like there is, I've looked at
		
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			my situation over and over and over again,
		
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			and ya Allah, I don't see a light
		
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			at the end of the tunnel, in fact
		
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			I don't even think that there is a
		
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			window here.
		
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			Now subhanallah, as Allah's advice to us is,
		
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			you be faithful, you have patience, you do
		
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			what is right, and Allah will, Allah will
		
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			give you the outcome that you will be
		
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			happy with in the end.
		
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			It's a promise from Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala.
		
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			It might not be the outcome that you
		
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			had in mind, but Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala is going to give you an outcome
		
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			even better than the one you had in
		
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			mind.
		
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			And perhaps the best example of this is
		
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			from the seerah in the life of the
		
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			Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			He struggles for 10 years to call his
		
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			people to Islam.
		
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			He is the khatamun anbiya, the final nabi,
		
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			sayyid walid alam, the greatest of the children
		
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			of nabi Adam.
		
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			He has the miracle of the Quran in
		
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			his hand.
		
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			But on all metrics that we would measure,
		
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			his mission after 10 years is a failure.
		
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			That's what we would, if we look at
		
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			stats, numbers.
		
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			His people can't even make salah publicly, no
		
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			jumuah, they won't have for 10 years no
		
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			jumuah, because there's no masjid, there's nothing.
		
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			Those who had the guts to openly profess
		
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			their Islam, are being tortured, the bilals and
		
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			you know, Sumayyah and Ammar subhanallah, tortured or
		
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			killed.
		
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			And if things couldn't get worse, the only
		
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			protection that the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
		
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			had, dunya protection was his uncle Abu Talib,
		
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			and he dies.
		
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			Now the nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam has
		
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			no option, what do I do now?
		
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			I don't even have the protection of a
		
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			disbelieving uncle, what do I do now?
		
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			And as an act of desperation, an act
		
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			of humiliation, an act of, like the Prophet
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wa sallam has felt so low
		
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			to go cap in hand to the people
		
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			of Taif and literally beg them, can we,
		
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			can you help us out?
		
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			And we know what happened in Taif, how
		
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			he was humiliated there.
		
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			The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam at this
		
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			point, this is Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
		
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			this is the person making tahajjud to him
		
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			till his feet are swollen.
		
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			The man who is, with the most pious
		
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			of sahaba, even he was at a point
		
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			where his heart was broken.
		
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			We know the year of sadness and the
		
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			deep du'a that he makes on his
		
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			way back from Taif, ya Allah, to where
		
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			do I go from here?
		
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			I don't even know what to do anymore
		
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			ya Allah, have you left me?
		
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			Allah has to reveal, ma wadaaka rabbuka wa
		
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			ma qala.
		
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			Allah says, I don't hate you, imagine Allah
		
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			says to the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
		
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			I don't hate you, and I didn't leave
		
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			you, I'm still here.
		
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			How low must he have been to even
		
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			ask this question in his mind?
		
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			So now, without any clear way forward, without
		
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			any alternative, he says, well, what can we
		
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			do now?
		
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			Let us look for a partner that can
		
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			help us.
		
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			And the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam would
		
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			wait for hajj time, and the different hajjis,
		
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			tribes would come from the different regions to
		
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			Mecca, and he would go, and I guess
		
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			how humiliating, for us, subhanAllah, it would be
		
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			so humiliated that our Rasul must go to
		
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			these kings, asking them for their favour to
		
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			protect him, to help the Muslim community.
		
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			I mean, we would feel so humiliated if
		
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			our leaders need to go to, whether it
		
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			is Moscow, Washington, and sort of speak to
		
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			non-believers, help us to preserve our deen.
		
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			This is Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			And he goes, and Abu Bakr radiallahu anhu,
		
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			by his side, scheduling the meetings, I don't
		
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			know if anybody is in sales, where you
		
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			need to make the speech, and he goes
		
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			with all this energy and fervour and determination,
		
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			speaking, giving dawah to these people, asking tribal
		
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			chief after tribal chief, this is my mission,
		
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			this is my message, these are my people,
		
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			can you help us, can you assist us,
		
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			can we immigrate to your hometown, so that
		
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			we can have a place to practice our
		
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			religion freely.
		
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			And one by one, they shut the door,
		
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			slammed the door in his face.
		
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			Nobody is taking him seriously.
		
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			Again, humiliation, completely despondency.
		
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			And again, the Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
		
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			is thinking, this is the plan, Allah, I
		
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			need to, I can't survive in Makkah, I
		
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			need to look for an alternative, I can't
		
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			sit and cry, let me move forward.
		
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			But even that is not working.
		
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			And it so happened, Hajj is over, all
		
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			of these people that he was supposed to
		
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			meet, rejected him.
		
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			I feel for sales people, those people that
		
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			phone you, be merciful with them, those people
		
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			that want to sell you insurance.
		
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			I don't know how much abuse I can
		
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			take.
		
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			One or two people says, I'm not interested,
		
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			or swear you're out, you might just resign.
		
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			These people do it for their daily job,
		
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			8 to 5.
		
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			It's difficult.
		
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			The Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is going
		
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			through this, Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is
		
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			going through this.
		
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			And we can imagine his heart must be
		
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			broken.
		
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			And he walks back home, no plan, not
		
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			working, and he meets on the road, just
		
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			on the road, 6 random putas, 6 random
		
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			people sitting there.
		
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			Not chiefs, not big, no one special, in
		
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			our minds, nobody special.
		
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			It's a meeting that was not scheduled, he
		
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			had a whole schedule of meetings, none of
		
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			them materialized in anything of substance.
		
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			This is a meeting he did not schedule,
		
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			with people he did not know.
		
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			When you asked him, who are you and
		
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			where are you from, they said we're from
		
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			Yathrib, even the Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
		
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			has to sort of figure out, Yathrib, like
		
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			this little Dorpi, like you know when someone
		
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			tells you, I'm from Jekyll's Fountain, and you
		
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			think, where is that now?
		
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			Is that now, you have to like figure
		
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			this thing out, because it's not even a
		
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			big place on the map.
		
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			The Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam's mind was
		
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			not even on Medina.
		
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			It wasn't part of his discussions.
		
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			Like Syria, not on our minds, we focus
		
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			on Gaza.
		
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			Allah's plan is working.
		
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			Allah knows all the steps.
		
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			And while the Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
		
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			had his own plan, he bumps into these
		
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			six brothers from Medina, they have a conversation,
		
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			he gives Dawah to them.
		
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			They embrace Islam, when nobody else was excited
		
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			about Islam.
		
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			Again, six people embrace Islam, in our minds,
		
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			this was not going to change the world,
		
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			but this changed the world.
		
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			These six men went home, they spoke to
		
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			their family members, those people were excited about
		
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			the message, they returned the following year to
		
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			Makkah for the Hajj, and again, eventually, as
		
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			we say, the rest is history.
		
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			This is how the first capital of Islam
		
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			was established.
		
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			This is how the first Islamic state was
		
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			established.
		
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			No great plans, no great strategy, no great,
		
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			you know, it was just pure determination, taqwa
		
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			and dependence in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			Ya Allah, I will walk the path, even
		
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			though this path looks like it's a dead
		
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			end, but if this is where you want
		
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			me to go, then I'll be patient.
		
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			Allah, you know what is on the other
		
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			side of this mountain as Nabi Musa reaches
		
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			the Red Sea.
		
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			You know, Ya Allah, what is beyond the
		
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			sea, I will follow the path.
		
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			And that is really the mission, the message
		
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			of today.
		
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			Trust in Allah's plans.
		
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			And when the plan doesn't go to the
		
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			way you want to, Allah says that perhaps
		
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			you find yourself in a situation, that you
		
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			are in a situation which you hate, you
		
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			think it's bad.
		
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			And you want something desperately, you love something,
		
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			but it's bad for you.
		
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			Remember, Allah says, I know, but you don't
		
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			know.
		
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			Trust me.
		
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			You might feel like you're in a losing
		
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			position.
		
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			You might feel like you are weak.
		
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			But if we are doing what we are
		
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			supposed to do, then Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala will not leave us.
		
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			When Allah, as Ibn Qayyim mentions, when Allah
		
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			tests you, and the ummah and the individual,
		
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			when Allah tests you, it is never to
		
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			destroy you, subhanAllah.
		
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			Allah's test is not meant to break us
		
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			or destroy us.
		
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			And when He removes something from our positions,
		
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			we lose something which we love.
		
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			We didn't get the thing that we wanted.
		
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			We wanted that job, we tried, we begged,
		
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			we made dua, we didn't get it.
		
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			It is only to empty your hand for
		
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			something better that Allah will give you.
		
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			It is only to put things aside so
		
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			something better can come.
		
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			To clear out your plan for a better
		
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			plan.
		
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			And Sayyidina Ali radiallahu anhu has this beautiful
		
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			dua.
		
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			He says, O Allah, when I lose my
		
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			hopes and plans, and this is the point
		
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			here, when we even lose our hope and
		
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			our ability to dream and plan, when we
		
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			sit there and we feel, I'm not even
		
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			excited to plan the solution.
		
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			I don't even think there's a solution.
		
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			When it's incurable, when it is impossible, when
		
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			you're in that situation, Sayyidina Ali says, when
		
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			I get to that level, help me remember
		
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			that your love is greater than my disappointment.
		
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			And that your plan for my life are
		
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			better than my dreams.
		
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			That while I have given up, Allah has
		
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			never given up.
		
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			Allah has not turned away.
		
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			And so we end off with advice for
		
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			all of us, and it's something which in
		
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			these difficult days that we're in, that we
		
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			know that we believe we should all have
		
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			at least, have the courage, have the iman,
		
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			have the commitment, that the ummah inshaAllah, that
		
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			this, we take this as a sign of
		
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			the change to come.
		
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			We take this as the first glimmer of
		
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			hope of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala putting
		
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			these tyrants in their place.
		
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			That this is the first of the rest
		
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			of them.
		
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			And that as the time, as the days
		
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			go on, more and more Izzah will return
		
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			to the ummah.
		
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			We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
		
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			give us people that He loves to rule
		
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			over us.
		
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			Allah says, وَاسْبِرُوا لِحُكْمِ رَبِّكَ فَإِنَّكَ بِأَعْيُنِنَا So
		
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			beautiful.
		
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			Allah says to all of us, so be
		
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			patient with the decree of your Lord, you
		
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			are under our watchful eye.
		
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			Allah sees what is happening.
		
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			Allah knows what is going on in your
		
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			life.
		
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			وَسَبِّحْ بِحَمْدِ رَبِّكَ حِينَ تَكُومَ And what are
		
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			we, Allah says, I'm watching over you and
		
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			I'm planning and I'm preparing.
		
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			What must we do, ya Allah?
		
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			Simple.
		
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			Allah is not asking us to change governments.
		
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			Allah is saying, remember Him, praise Him in
		
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			the mornings when you rise, make your Fajr
		
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			Salah.
		
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			وَمِنَ اللَّيْلِ وَمِنَ اللَّيْلِ And in the evenings
		
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			glorify Him.
		
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			وَسَبِّحُوا وَإِدْبَارُوا النُّجُومِ And late at night, in
		
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			the Maghrib time and Isha'at time, Allah
		
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			says, your job, oh ummah, be patient and
		
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			make Salah.
		
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			And I will do the rest.
		
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			Be patient, make Salah, put your dependency in
		
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			Him, do what is right, and He will
		
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			take care of the results.
		
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			And so we put our faith and our
		
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			trust in your hands, Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala.
		
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			You are the best of those who dispose
		
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			our faith.
		
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			We trust you over ourselves.
		
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			And we trust your plan more than our
		
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			own plans.
		
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			And we make dua, ya Allah, have mercy
		
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			on all of us.
		
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			May Allah help this ummah and grant us
		
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			all to see a strong and blessed ummah.
		
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			May Allah bless us in our lives, make
		
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			easy for those who are going through difficulty.
		
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			May Allah grant Janatul Firdaus for those who
		
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			have passed away.
		
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			Ameen, walhamdulillah.
		
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			Just one announcement, or two announcements.
		
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			Masjid Love, mashallah, what an organization.
		
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			Small organization that started an uncle, an auntie,
		
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			during COVID, when the Imams and the Mu
		
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			'addins couldn't earn a salary during COVID time.
		
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			Masjids were closed, subhanallah.
		
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			Masjids couldn't, you know, support the Imams.
		
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			And this organization by, subhanallah, again, an individual.
		
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			This is not an alim, maulana, not the
		
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			MJC.
		
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			Just an individual that said, let us try
		
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			and raise one rand, two rand, yeah, and
		
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			they, mashallah, it is doing great work.
		
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			And what they've done over the last few
		
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			months is to raise money for Palestine, for
		
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			Gaza, and for Lebanon.
		
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			And so they would now, on Monday, the
		
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			16th of December, 9am, at Islamia, I believe
		
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			all this money that they've collected, they're going
		
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			to now hand it over, and they'd want
		
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			the whole community who's participated to be part
		
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			of that, to show that from our side,
		
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			that we are part of this ummah.
		
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			That our brothers and sisters in Syria, Palestine,
		
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			wherever it might be, your brothers in Cape
		
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			Town, we are minority, we are tiny, but
		
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			we feel for you, and we are part
		
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			of your struggle, and what little rands and
		
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			sins we can share, this is our contribution
		
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			to you.
		
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			And then the other last sort of announcement,
		
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			there is a book for sale at the
		
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			back, it's on discount today, it's a special
		
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			December discount, but the talib has mentioned, and
		
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			so if anybody would like to buy a
		
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			copy, it's at the back.
		
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			Jazakallah khair.
		
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			Walaikum Assalam.
		
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