Musleh Khan – Al-Ahzaab Unveiled – Class 6

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The Battle of Uhud has caused the aftermath of expansion, territory, and wealth, with the Prophet's opinion limiting their ability to take over their lands and the need for individuals to study and learn from others to achieve their goals. acceptance and loyalty are paramount, along with finding a steady life and finding a standard for women in relationships. A woman is married to another man, "naught," and "naught," in Arabic, emphasizing acceptance and loyalty, finding comfort and a strong life in relationships, setting a steady life, and finding a standard for women in the face of divorce and sexual abuse.

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			As I said, I'll prepare you for a
		
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			test, okay.
		
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			I will give you some material to look
		
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			over, so because I know that your notes
		
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			are probably different from one student to the
		
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			other, so I totally get that.
		
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			I will give you exactly what I want
		
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			you to know, and the test will always
		
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			be multiple choice, okay.
		
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			We'll make it easy, Inshallah.
		
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			From what I've known, as far as I
		
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			can remember, nobody has ever failed a test
		
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			of mine.
		
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			I've never, unless a student just didn't show
		
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			up, or they just put Salaam Alaikum on
		
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			the test, and that was it, they handed
		
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			it back to me.
		
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			Yeah.
		
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			Other than that, I don't think I have
		
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			ever failed a student in anything Islamic, ever.
		
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			So, not to worry.
		
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			Let's continue with our study of the magnificent
		
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			Surah Al-Ahzab.
		
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			Okay, there's a couple things that we want
		
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			to look at before we start today.
		
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			I believe this is where we paused, right?
		
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			Yeah.
		
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			Verse number 27.
		
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			Yeah.
		
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			We did look at this, we looked at
		
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			this word, and then that brings us to
		
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			this verse, where I believe we paused.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			This is the last verse about Surah Al
		
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			-Ahzab.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			When I say the last verse, this is
		
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			the last verse of the Surah that's going
		
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			to link some sort of lesson from the
		
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			battle itself.
		
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			As far as what happened in the battle,
		
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			and how the Muslims navigated through Al-Ahzab,
		
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			that conversation is already finished.
		
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			Now we are just looking at the aftermath.
		
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			So, these verses from 25 to 27, these
		
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			verses are more focused on the aftermath of
		
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			Surah Al-Ahzab.
		
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			So, as you can see, four things came
		
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			out of this battle.
		
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			Number one, Allah has also caused you to
		
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			take over their lands.
		
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			So, the real estate for the companions and
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ has now expanded.
		
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			Remember, after each battle, it gave them, especially
		
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			the battles that they were victorious in, it
		
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			gave them the power and the authority to
		
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			control, and whatever land was available to them,
		
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			nobody claimed that land was also now under
		
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			their name or their ownership or their property.
		
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			And as part of Al-Uhud, the Battle
		
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			of Uhud also gave them the opportunity to
		
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			expand as well.
		
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			So, after the Battle of Uhud, the landscape
		
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			of Medina continued to expand.
		
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			More and more land was under control of
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			Allah is reminding all of them that this
		
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			is not because of something you have done
		
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			or acquired.
		
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			This is something, we gave this to you.
		
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			So, He, meaning Allah ﷻ is reminding them,
		
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			He is the one that caused you to
		
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			take over their lands, the homes and wealth,
		
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			as well as lands that you have not
		
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			even set foot in.
		
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			There are areas of both Mecca and Medina,
		
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			and even some of the cities in between,
		
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			that the Messenger ﷺ and his companions could
		
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			never cross through.
		
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			They could never visit, they could never do
		
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			anything.
		
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			Because of, as these battles continued, this is
		
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			one of the most important outcomes of all
		
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			the battles, is an expansion of landscape, territory,
		
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			and things of that nature.
		
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			So, this ayah is just a reminder to
		
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			them, it was not because you were victorious
		
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			in the battle, it was because that Allah
		
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			ﷻ allowed and gave permission for this to
		
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			take place.
		
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			And Allah is most capable, and He has
		
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			the Qadr over all things.
		
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			وَلَمْ تَطَأُوهَا See this last part of the
		
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			ayah?
		
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			Which is, lands you have not set foot
		
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			on, that's لَمْ تَطَأُوهَا.
		
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			This here, one tafsir mentions that it is
		
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			in reference to what is to come.
		
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			So, not necessarily land that they've never seen
		
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			or touched before, but perhaps there are more
		
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			battles to come that they will be victorious
		
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			in as well.
		
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			So, this last part of the ayah, in
		
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			your notes, you just want to note that
		
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			it has both of those meanings.
		
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			It has, number one, whatever expansion they were
		
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			able to receive and get from wealth and
		
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			homes and land now, after Al-Ahzab.
		
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			And number two, it's directly related to the
		
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			battles that were to come afterwards and the
		
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			land and wealth that they would get from
		
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			the future battles, that is also being promised
		
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			to them.
		
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			So, things are looking up for the believers
		
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			now.
		
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			There is hope for their future, and it
		
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			looks like things are gradually starting to come
		
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			together in terms of the Prophet's governance of
		
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			Medina and the hopes of him being able
		
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			to freely visit Mecca and do Hajj and
		
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			Umrah and all of that.
		
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			All of these things now are going to
		
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			start to manifest.
		
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			So, Mecca could not have looked worse at
		
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			this phase.
		
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			The battle of Uhud and Al-Ahzab and
		
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			others are taking notice that the Quraysh now
		
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			cannot do it themselves.
		
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			So, you see what also is happening, that
		
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			others now are starting to take notice that
		
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			the Quraysh are weakening.
		
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			They keep losing one battle after another after
		
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			another.
		
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			The sixth year, the Prophet ﷺ said, let's
		
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			go for Hajj.
		
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			Anybody know why?
		
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			Why did this happen?
		
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			Sixth year after the Hijrah, why did the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ say that, keep in mind, Mecca
		
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			is still restricted.
		
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			It's off limits for them to go and
		
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			visit.
		
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			Why after Al-Ahzab, he tells the companions,
		
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			okay, they haven't even figured out how they're
		
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			going to get into Mecca, but he says,
		
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			let's go.
		
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			Why did he do that?
		
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			Think, why would he do that?
		
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			Things are really tense that just came out
		
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			of this battle.
		
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			Now, they're going to go and confront what
		
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			could potentially turn into another battle, and they're
		
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			going to have to travel for at least
		
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			one month to get there, and they have
		
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			no idea what is waiting for them.
		
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			Why would the Messenger ﷺ do that?
		
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			The companions, in terms of just the morale,
		
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			the strength, and the focus, and the confidence,
		
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			and all of those things, how is everybody
		
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			feeling at this point?
		
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			So, for the most part, it's safe to
		
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			say, because remember we talked about a verse
		
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			that when the companions saw the Quraysh entering
		
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			from all corners, what did they say?
		
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			They started praising Allah.
		
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			This is what Allah and His Messenger ﷺ
		
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			promised.
		
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			So, they were in a good state, good
		
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			frame of mind.
		
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			Now, after that this had happened, and the
		
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			Quraysh were defeated, they retreated.
		
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			They couldn't do anything.
		
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			They had no choice but to leave.
		
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			The confidence is one step higher, stronger, whatever
		
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			you want to call it.
		
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			The whole morale of the companions, and all
		
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			of Medina at this time, is very high.
		
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			So, basically, this is sort of a strategy
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ is using, that everybody already
		
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			now feels that the Quraysh stand no chance
		
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			against them.
		
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			There's three battles now that happened in a
		
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			row where the Quraysh failed.
		
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			The battle of Uhud, they first won it,
		
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			but then things happened afterwards.
		
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			But the point is that they were defeating
		
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			the Quraysh.
		
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			They brought all of their wealth and muscle,
		
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			and they still couldn't stop the Muslims who
		
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			are a small group, a minority group, and
		
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			they had literally next to nothing with them.
		
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			So, all of that has been done.
		
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			Let's go and see if we can sort
		
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			of make a path for us to get
		
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			to Hajj.
		
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			What do you learn from this strategy the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ is doing?
		
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			What do you learn from that?
		
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			We kind of had a sort of mini
		
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			example of this in today's class just before
		
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			we started.
		
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			If I came in here, right, and I
		
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			said to you, okay, here's the test.
		
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			Here's the question.
		
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			Go for it.
		
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			Tell me three things that you learned about
		
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			Surah Al-Ahzab.
		
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			Chances are that all of you already came
		
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			with this understanding that the teacher said, we
		
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			will be tested today.
		
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			You all went through your notes.
		
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			You sat here, got yourself focused.
		
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			You already got yourself into that mode.
		
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			That's exactly what happened here.
		
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			What was the benefit of that?
		
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			What do you sort of get out of
		
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			that small experience of, okay, a test is
		
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			going to happen.
		
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			Let me get myself in gear.
		
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			What's the benefit to go through that whole
		
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			process?
		
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			Did you benefit?
		
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			Okay.
		
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			Anything else?
		
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			Prepared?
		
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			Okay.
		
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			When something needs to be accomplished and it
		
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			needs to be done, and as long as
		
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			you go through all of the steps to
		
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			prepare, the sunnah is to go through it.
		
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			Like, as long as you do the things
		
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			you need to do to prepare, the result
		
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			of that is with Allah.
		
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			Your job and my job is to just
		
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			go through, but ensure that you are prepared.
		
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			That is a formula and a principle of
		
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			life.
		
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			Does that make sense?
		
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			Your whole life, you have to do that.
		
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			You have to go through the things Allah
		
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			puts in front of you every single day,
		
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			including the people you talk to, the conversations
		
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			you're involved in, the things that you hear.
		
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			You didn't hear those things.
		
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			You didn't talk to those people just because
		
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			you're in their life or you were at
		
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			a particular place at a particular time.
		
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			No.
		
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			You were chosen to be at that moment
		
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			to hear those comments.
		
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			You were chosen to be alive right now
		
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			in 2024.
		
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			At the end of this month, you're chosen
		
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			to be here.
		
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			So when a believer can take, you know,
		
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			and sort of internalize life in that way
		
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			where it's a constant, I'm prepared.
		
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			Let's see where this goes.
		
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			And every conversation, you're always focused on what
		
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			I can get out of it to make
		
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			me a better human being, to make me
		
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			a better Muslim.
		
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			There's nothing in your life that you will
		
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			go through except you will find khair and
		
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			benefit out of it.
		
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			Nothing.
		
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			Even the worst of it, you'll walk away
		
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			and say, Alhamdulillah, I still learned something from
		
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			that.
		
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			That's the goal for all humans.
		
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			You know, some people find that feeling or
		
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			that sense of confidence and contentment.
		
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			They find it in like material things.
		
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			You know, as long as I look around
		
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			me and I'm like, man, I've got this
		
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			house now.
		
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			I worked hard for it.
		
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			So it's mine.
		
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			I know I got to, you know, my
		
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			wife needed a car.
		
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			My husband needed a car.
		
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			Everybody, kids need tuition fees sorted out anything
		
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			that people want.
		
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			Alhamdulillah, I got us to a good place.
		
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			Some people look at that and they sort
		
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			of feel like, you know, I prepped, I
		
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			went through it and I got the result
		
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			that I needed.
		
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			Now I can face the world until one
		
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			of them gets sick.
		
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			Then you realize, man, I could pay to
		
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			fix my home, to fix my car, but
		
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			I can't get, no matter how much I
		
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			pay, I can't fix my health.
		
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			The believer doesn't have this problem.
		
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			The mu'min, they don't have this problem.
		
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			They are always, always, they're always in this
		
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			mode, in this gear, like the companions are.
		
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			They've gone through something.
		
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			They embraced it with Iman and faith in
		
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			Allah.
		
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			So now gradually the messenger Alayhi Salaatu Wasalaam
		
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			is saying, you know what, now it's a
		
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			good time to go for hajj.
		
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			Now is the time to do this.
		
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			So the hypocrites are thrilled by this decision.
		
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			Why?
		
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			They're absolutely thrilled and ecstatic that the Prophet
		
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			Alayhi Salaatu Wasalaam said, let's go and perform
		
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			hajj.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Yeah, they're like, again?
		
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			He's gonna set you guys up?
		
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			Now you're gonna go there?
		
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			You're not even gonna wait for the Quraysh
		
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			to come here?
		
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			Now you guys are gonna pack and go?
		
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			Oh man, they had a party with this
		
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			whole situation.
		
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			It was said that before this journey or
		
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			the attempt for the first hajj, it was
		
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			said that this is where the hypocrites were
		
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			at their peak in Medina.
		
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			Like there was never a thing that the
		
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			Prophet Alayhi Salaatu Wasalaam could say, not even
		
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			khutbah he could give, except that hypocrites were
		
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			in the jama'ah.
		
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			Remember how hypocrites are living amongst them, right?
		
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			They go for fajr and they're praying in
		
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			the front line, you know, they're fasting in
		
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			Ramadan.
		
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			They're there at the masjid for every salah.
		
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			They got beards, they got niqabs on, they
		
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			got everything.
		
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			Like you cannot, you know, identify a hypocrite
		
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			from anyone else.
		
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			So they were very good at what they
		
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			did.
		
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			And hypocrites in general are very good at
		
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			what they do.
		
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			It's really difficult for you and I to
		
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			sort of understand and detect and know who
		
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			these people are.
		
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			It's very, it's almost impossible.
		
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			That's why the ulema, they teach us that
		
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			you and I as average laymen Muslims, we
		
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			never take that label and say to anybody,
		
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			you are a hypocrite.
		
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			We can't do that.
		
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			There's a whole process behind it and it
		
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			involves more than just one person.
		
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			You know, there's a series of different people
		
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			involved for something like that.
		
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			You're basically saying this person is a person
		
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			of the hellfire.
		
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			Who's going to say that, right?
		
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			So the hypocrites here, they continue to do
		
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			exactly what they've been doing it all along.
		
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			Muhammad's going to go and set you guys
		
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			up just for hajj.
		
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			Hajj, you don't even need to do that
		
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			right now.
		
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			You can do next year or at least
		
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			let's wait.
		
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			This is what he does to you all.
		
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			A prophet's family, his family life, his wives
		
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			and the realities of marriage, this is what
		
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			is to come now.
		
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			Some uncomfortable subjects now are going to happen
		
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			and some of them will be really difficult
		
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			for us to have.
		
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			Do you have a question?
		
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			Yeah, go ahead.
		
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			Um, so he said, oh, I think I
		
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			missed.
		
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			So number one, he has caused you to
		
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			take over lands.
		
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			Is number two.
		
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			So is you inherited.
		
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			So you are now in a position to
		
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			inherit something, to receive some.
		
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			That's number one.
		
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			Number two, what is it that they're getting
		
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			is they're getting land.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			Which land is this?
		
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			This is a land of that they were
		
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			not able to inherit or touch.
		
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			Any companion died.
		
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			This part, you have to remember land is
		
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			money.
		
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			It's wealth.
		
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			It's everything to these companions.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			So land is survival.
		
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			Land is the insurance that they need to
		
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			ensure that those who come after them, when
		
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			they pass away, there's some wealth and status
		
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			that's left behind.
		
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			Homes, huts, whatever you want to call it.
		
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			So homes are singled out as one.
		
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			Wealth in general is the next as well
		
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			as the last.
		
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			So the possibility of land that they've never
		
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			known, seen or touched, they can also inherit
		
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			as well.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			So here's what's going to happen now.
		
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			This is going to be, as we get
		
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			to specific verses, there are going to be
		
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			subjects that we have to talk about that
		
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			it's going to, I don't know how else
		
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			to say it, but it might just get
		
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			a little uncomfortable for some students, right?
		
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			And Alhamdulillah, from as far as I can
		
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			see, we don't have anybody here that's below
		
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			the age of 13 or 12, right?
		
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			I know that some of you bring your
		
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			kids with you, but I don't think any
		
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			of them fall into that age bracket.
		
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			So we should be fine.
		
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			And we'll discuss them as we get to
		
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			those verses.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			Now we're going to start to get into
		
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			some of the things that are related to
		
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			the wives of the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			It is this part of Surah Al-Ahzab
		
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			that the Ulama of Tafsir say, every single
		
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			practicing Muslim woman must study the Surah.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			This is a Surah that helps her speak
		
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			about and develop this sense of courage to
		
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			talk about issues that are so personal, that
		
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			are so intimate to her.
		
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			But if she mentions anything, it'll just create
		
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			trouble.
		
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			Perhaps maybe the community, perhaps maybe her husband,
		
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			it would just create a huge problem.
		
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			So what tends to happen very often is
		
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			the wife or the woman would just keep
		
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			it to herself.
		
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			She'll just stay quiet and take whatever it
		
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			is and just deal with that.
		
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			That becomes her whole life.
		
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			This part of Surah came to break that
		
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			cycle and to sort of empower her now
		
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			that no matter how personal these issues are,
		
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			no matter how you might feel that or
		
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			the husband might feel that he's being degraded
		
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			and he's being put down in a certain
		
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			way, maybe his pride and ego gets in
		
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			the way.
		
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			How dare you talk to me like that?
		
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			I'm your husband, dot, dot, dot.
		
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			And you guys know the story.
		
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			You don't even have to be married to
		
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			know what I'm talking about.
		
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			That's where the Surah comes in.
		
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			It's going to start to really bring some
		
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			of those issues out.
		
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			And for that sister that struggles with this,
		
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			when she reads these ayat, some of them
		
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			might really shock you that the wives of
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ, they did not shy if
		
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			they had to speak or ask the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ anything.
		
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			Let me give you an example.
		
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			Listen to this narration, okay?
		
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			The Prophet ﷺ, one of the, see this
		
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			verse here?
		
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			Yeah, verse number 28.
		
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			Once we come to it, we come to
		
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			it.
		
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			I just want you to know it's verse
		
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			number 28, okay?
		
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			One of the reasons scholars say that that
		
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			verse was revealed is an incident that happened.
		
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			Some of the wives of the Prophet ﷺ
		
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			came to him, not all but a few
		
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			of them.
		
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			It doesn't say exactly how many, but some.
		
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			And they said, Ya Rasulullah, we want you
		
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			to give us a little more.
		
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			What are they asking for?
		
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			They're asking for more wealth, inheritance, just overall
		
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			support.
		
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			Why are they doing this now?
		
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			Why are they doing this now?
		
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			After Ahzab, what did the Muslims inherit?
		
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			They got some wealth, right?
		
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			They got some wealth.
		
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			They got additional arms and material and different
		
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			things, right?
		
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			So now for the first time in the
		
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			history of Medina, there's a surplus of wealth.
		
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			This never happened.
		
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			Now they actually have areas where they store
		
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			this excess of material, food, and wealth.
		
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			This never happened to them.
		
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			Prior to this battle, the Muslims, including the
		
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			wives of the Prophet ﷺ, everybody basically, what
		
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			we would say, they were penny pinchers, right?
		
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			Literally every single penny and dollar that you
		
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			spend has to be accounted for, has to
		
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			be thought through.
		
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			Now they don't have this problem.
		
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			So rightfully, it makes sense that these wives
		
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			came to him ﷺ and requested for him
		
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			to sort of increase what he provides and
		
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			he gives to them.
		
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			Before I even begin reading this narration, what
		
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			do you learn from this?
		
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			Especially the mothers and the wives that are
		
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			here, you've been married very long.
		
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			I think almost all of you that are
		
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			married have been married longer than me.
		
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			So you would have more experience and you
		
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			would have a better understanding of this situation.
		
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			You, the wife, request from your husband, listen,
		
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			you know, we've always had a Toyota.
		
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			And you know, I mean, I like Mercedes.
		
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			We got our businesses going really well, so
		
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			I want to trade in.
		
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			That's all.
		
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			You think that's appropriate?
		
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			Is there something wrong?
		
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			She can ask for an Emirates Airbus 380
		
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			if she wants.
		
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			Like she said, I want an airplane.
		
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			I just, I don't want like any air,
		
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			I want the largest commercial airplane in existence.
		
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			She can ask for anything she wants.
		
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			Asking, there is no problem with.
		
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			But asking with wisdom, asking, you know, things
		
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			that, you know, you're in the situation that
		
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			it can be provided for, that's your haq.
		
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			You have the right to do that.
		
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			Like, that's not something the husband allows you
		
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			to do.
		
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			You understand?
		
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			Allah already gave you the right to do
		
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			that.
		
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			You don't need anybody's permission to ask for
		
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			if you see that the marriage and life
		
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			is in a good place and more has
		
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			occurred.
		
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			You have no restriction to do that.
		
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			So that's what happened with the wives of
		
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			the Prophet.
		
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			You want to know how he reacted?
		
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			Listen to what he reacted.
		
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			He reacted.
		
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			And after they asked him this question, the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ did not come to see any
		
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			of them for an entire month.
		
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			And he did not even, listen to this,
		
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			and he didn't even come out and meet
		
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			none of the Sahabas for one month.
		
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			Now I'm going to ask you again, is
		
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			that a question you should ask your husband?
		
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			Should you ask him that?
		
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			Now what you're going to see is that
		
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			there is a difference between the wives of
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ and wives of husbands, like
		
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			Muslim wives to Muslim husbands, like in our
		
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			day and age.
		
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			The wives of the Prophet ﷺ, you're going
		
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			to see this massive separation.
		
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			The expectations of the wives of the Prophet
		
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			of Allah are a totally different level of
		
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			expectation than average Muslims like me and you.
		
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			You understand?
		
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			That's why he pauses for an entire month.
		
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			What is he doing?
		
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			No one knows.
		
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			The narration doesn't mention not even a sentence.
		
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			It just says that he didn't go near
		
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			them for a month and he didn't even
		
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			talk to the companions for a whole month.
		
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			He just came in, led Salah, left.
		
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			That was it.
		
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			So look what happened.
		
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			Imagine if, okay, let me just read it,
		
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			okay?
		
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			So one month goes by.
		
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			Listen to what happens.
		
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			They start asking, the wives as well as
		
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			companions, all together start asking.
		
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			They said, what's going on with him?
		
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			And they were all starting to come to
		
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			their own conclusions.
		
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			You know, this doesn't even sound like a
		
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			hadith.
		
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			It sounds like somebody wrote this yesterday about
		
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			our Muslim communities today, right?
		
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			They said the Prophet ﷺ divorced his wives.
		
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			That's why he never came out for the
		
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			whole month and talked to them.
		
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			He divorced all of them.
		
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			Somebody said this.
		
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			Somebody just literally came up with this whole,
		
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			oh, you know why?
		
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			Because they got divorced.
		
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			He let them all go.
		
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			You know, we all can relate to this.
		
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			I'm not saying that we say it, but
		
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			we've all heard these kinds of allegations and,
		
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			you know, speculation that goes around where people
		
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			pick something out of something they seem to
		
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			think they understand, but they don't.
		
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			So they just come up with these assumptions
		
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			and they kind of speculate and they put
		
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			two and two together, draw a conclusion.
		
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			Yeah, this is, I think, what happened.
		
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			Actually, you know what?
		
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			I've seen this before.
		
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			This is what really happened.
		
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			That's what's happening here right now.
		
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			Look what happens.
		
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			So this rumor goes around that he divorced
		
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			them.
		
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			Umar, he says to the wives of the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ, I'm going to find out what
		
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			happened and then I'm going to tell it
		
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			to you guys, okay?
		
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			I'll be that person.
		
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			What do you learn from that?
		
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			Umar took it upon himself to go and
		
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			ask the Prophet ﷺ, what do we get
		
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			out of that?
		
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			What do we learn from that?
		
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			If it's important and it involves you somehow,
		
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			whatever is being talked about or whatever incident
		
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			happens, if it involves you and it involves
		
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			me and we genuinely need some answers, then
		
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			certainly somebody can be that middle person and
		
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			say, you know what, let me go and
		
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			figure this out.
		
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			But not just anybody, not the one person
		
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			who we know has a reputation that when
		
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			they get a little bit of news, they
		
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			become the headquarters of backbiting for all of
		
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			Canada, right?
		
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			They become the head office.
		
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			Not that person.
		
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			Who is this man?
		
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			The man who was closest to being a
		
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			Prophet after the Prophet ﷺ, if there ever
		
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			was one.
		
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			If there ever was a Prophet after him,
		
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			it would have been Umar.
		
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			So the perfect, the right man is going
		
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			to go do this.
		
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			So he goes to the Prophet ﷺ and
		
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			he says, Ya Rasulullah, did you divorce all
		
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			of them?
		
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			He doesn't say, Ya Rasulullah, one month, what
		
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			are you doing?
		
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			How could you do this to them and
		
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			start to scold her?
		
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			You can't behave like this.
		
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			You can't act this way.
		
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			You're this, this, and this.
		
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			You know who gets a lot of this?
		
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			Shaykhs get this, a lot of it.
		
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			You know, there is like this sort of
		
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			image that is, you know, the consequence of
		
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			anybody who does this kind of work, the
		
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			expectation of always being in a good mood,
		
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			smile, dress right, look right, feel right, act
		
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			right, all the time.
		
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			And I've seen it where some very well
		
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			-respected Shaykhs, like I seen one Imam years
		
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			ago getting out of a parking lot and
		
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			somebody was trying to like push their way
		
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			in front of him and was doing it
		
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			in such a way, it was very, very
		
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			like obvious.
		
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			The person who was doing this didn't care
		
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			about anything, just tugged his way, almost like
		
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			hit his car.
		
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			And so the Shaykh honked his horn and
		
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			just said, what are you doing?
		
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			Just wait, wait your turn.
		
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			This became an enormous problem in the entire
		
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			community, in that masjid, and it reached the
		
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			administration and they put this Shaykh in a
		
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			meeting to reassess his value to the community.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So this whole like image that's been pasted
		
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			and it's permanently stuck, these expectations, that they
		
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			always have to be on point, they always
		
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			have to be on.
		
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			That's what's happening here.
		
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			But the Umar doesn't get into nothing, he
		
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			just focuses on one thing, okay?
		
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			Because he knows that the Prophet ﷺ could
		
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			be dealing with something, there could have been
		
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			some problem, it's none of his business.
		
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			So he just asked, Ya Rasulullah, did you
		
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			divorce him?
		
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			Because that's what people are saying.
		
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			So Prophet ﷺ says, what do you think
		
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			he said?
		
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			You think he gave an explanation?
		
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			It's one letter.
		
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			He says, no, no.
		
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			Anything else?
		
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			That's it.
		
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			You learn from every letter in this narration
		
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			something, especially how to deal with rumors and
		
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			scandals and things of that nature.
		
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			Umar then says, Ya Rasulullah, I went into
		
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			the masjid and the Muslims there are saying
		
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			that the Prophet ﷺ divorced his wives.
		
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			Has there been an ayah sent to you
		
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			that I can tell them you did not
		
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			do this or you did do this?
		
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			Is there a verse I can just go
		
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			and announce it to them?
		
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			Now this is where the exception happens because
		
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			he's the leader of the Ummah.
		
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			So what we are starting to see here
		
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			that Surah Al-Ahzab opens an area that
		
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			is very, very private and personal for the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ, but it still affects the overall
		
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			atmosphere and interaction and relationship of all of
		
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			his followers.
		
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			So this is where the exception is.
		
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			For an imam, if somebody asked him, I
		
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			was like, yeah, I saw you with some
		
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			other woman.
		
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			We're so-and-so, your wife for 27
		
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			years.
		
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			And he could say, well, you know, we
		
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			got divorced.
		
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			I got, you know, a long time ago
		
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			and I got married again.
		
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			This is my new wife, my new wife,
		
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			blah, blah, blah, blah.
		
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			That's it.
		
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			The imam now could say, it's none of
		
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			your business.
		
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			That's it.
		
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			You know, there's a famous speaker, all of
		
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			you know, was asked this in a public
		
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			forum.
		
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			All of you know, I won't say, but
		
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			just what I want you to understand is
		
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			that don't think that these scenarios don't happen.
		
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			They're very real in this day and age.
		
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			Yeah, a speaker was asked, how many wives
		
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			do you have or how many wives you
		
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			are married?
		
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			And his answer in front of like thousands
		
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			of people, he just looked at the emcee
		
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			and said, listen, in all respect, it's none
		
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			of your business.
		
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			Done.
		
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			It went viral.
		
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			I won't say who, but you all know.
		
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			Anyhow.
		
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			So, Umar says, he says, Ya Rasulullah, can
		
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			I go and let them know that what
		
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			they're saying about you, it didn't happen.
		
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			Can I go and say to them, the
		
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			rumors is not true.
		
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			Listen to the prophet's answer.
		
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			He says, he goes like, yes, if you
		
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			want.
		
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			He doesn't tell them, yes, you must go.
		
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			If this is what they're saying about me,
		
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			then go deal with it.
		
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			He says, if you want, go and tell
		
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			them.
		
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			What do you learn from this?
		
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			There's a really, really powerful lesson that is
		
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			extremely difficult to implement.
		
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			What do you learn from his response?
		
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			He says, yes, Umar, if you want.
		
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			When somebody talks about you and you hear
		
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			who it is or what's being said, naturally,
		
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			generally, how do people respond to that?
		
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			Does it sound like this?
		
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			Oh, I know him.
		
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			He said that about me.
		
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			Watch when I see him at the masjid
		
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			tomorrow.
		
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			All right.
		
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			That's how an average person would respond.
		
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			Oh, I see him at work.
		
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			I'm going to give it to him.
		
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			As a matter of fact, I'm going to
		
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			go tell his boss.
		
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			I'm going to tell the admin.
		
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			Look at the prophet.
		
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			He says, yeah, what you learn from this
		
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			is sometimes you just have to wait.
		
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			People get tired of talking about the same
		
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			thing and you will be in the past.
		
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			They will find something else to talk about.
		
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			Just wait it out.
		
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			Most of the times when it comes to
		
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			rumors and gossip, that's the best response is
		
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			just to ignore it.
		
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			See what happened to Aisha in the first
		
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			page of Surah An-Nur, the whole rumor
		
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			that got spread about her, that she was
		
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			with somebody else, all because the hypocrite saw
		
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			another companion with Aisha coming into Medina and
		
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			they don't see her husband anywhere.
		
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			Aisha is up to no good.
		
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			And it went all over.
		
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			What did Aisha do?
		
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			You know what she did?
		
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			She went home.
		
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			She never spoke to anybody and answered any
		
00:38:02 --> 00:38:06
			of the rumors because every single night she
		
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			was just in Tahajjud.
		
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			Just praying to Allah that, oh Allah, you
		
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			decide what is the best outcome for all
		
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			of this.
		
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			The ayah gets sent to the prophet, peace
		
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			be upon him.
		
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			He announces it to everyone.
		
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			Nobody uttered a sentence about Aisha again after
		
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			that.
		
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			Sometimes you just have to let the storm
		
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			calm down on its own and let it
		
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			pass.
		
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			So the prophet, peace be upon him, says,
		
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			if you want, go ahead.
		
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			So Umar, peace be upon him, he goes
		
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			back.
		
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			He goes back into the masjid.
		
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			He calls everybody in a loud voice and
		
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			he announces to all of them the messenger,
		
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			peace be upon him, did not divorce any
		
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			of his wives.
		
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			And an ayah was revealed.
		
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			This is another verse or a portion of
		
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			it in Surah An-Nisa that if Umar
		
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			did not do this, then the ayah in
		
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			another surah says that this rumor, that people
		
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			would have validated this, they would have confirmed
		
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			it and turned it into the truth.
		
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			You know Malcolm X once said that we
		
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			live in a time where somebody could repeat
		
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			a lie over and over and over and
		
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			eventually the lie becomes the truth.
		
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			Right?
		
00:39:23 --> 00:39:26
			It's so real when you think about propaganda,
		
00:39:26 --> 00:39:27
			when you think a lot of things that
		
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			the media do and take people who are
		
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			very normal and innocent and turn them into
		
00:39:34 --> 00:39:37
			enemies and shaitan, and these are the worst,
		
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			just by simply repeating things that are untrue
		
00:39:40 --> 00:39:42
			to the point where the public now deem
		
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			it as the truth.
		
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			The media doesn't do this alone.
		
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			Have you ever listened to comedians?
		
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			And you know how sometimes comedians, they would
		
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			choose like a particular ethnicity, right?
		
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			They'll be like all the Spanish people when
		
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			they eat and everybody gets a kick out
		
00:40:01 --> 00:40:01
			of it.
		
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			The Indians when they do this, and they'll
		
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			do this and they'll go on this like
		
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			worldwide tour, have 75 shows repeating the same
		
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			thing.
		
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			And before you know it, you listen to
		
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			that enough, you start to be like, oh
		
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			my god, I see that every day.
		
00:40:16 --> 00:40:19
			Wow, that is so true.
		
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			Yeah, they are so wild.
		
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			They're so messy.
		
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			Now you start convincing yourself that that's exactly
		
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			how whoever he's talking about, that's exactly how
		
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			all of them are.
		
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			And you take this sort of mindset now
		
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			without even realizing that you do it all
		
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			from something like a comedian, right?
		
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			So that tool is extremely powerful.
		
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			So this is why Omar now stands up
		
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			and he says this and an ayah is
		
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			revealed that if he didn't do that, the
		
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			people would have ran with this.
		
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			And the prophet then alayhi salatu wasalam comes
		
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			back and after a month or so, and
		
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			he comes with another verse.
		
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			That's this verse, okay?
		
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			When he finally sort of begins to speak
		
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			and meet his wives again, he goes directly
		
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			to them.
		
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			And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gives them
		
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			this verse.
		
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			The messenger alayhi salatu wasalam says, women and
		
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			perfume have been made dear to me and
		
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			the comfort of my eye has been placed
		
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			in prayer.
		
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			I put this narration because this is sort
		
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			of a precursor to some of the conversations
		
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			we're going to be having in this section
		
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			of Surah Al-Ahzab.
		
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			What is the point that I try to
		
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			get at here is the most pious, modest
		
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			example, the most perfect of Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala's creation.
		
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			Do you see what the first part of
		
00:41:45 --> 00:41:46
			this hadith says?
		
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			He says women and perfume, I love those
		
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			the most.
		
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			If you didn't know the prophet alayhi salatu
		
00:41:53 --> 00:41:57
			wasalam said this, just listen to that sentence
		
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			and what kind of person would you think
		
00:41:59 --> 00:42:00
			would say such a thing?
		
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			And wouldn't it kind of sound a bit
		
00:42:04 --> 00:42:05
			like offensive?
		
00:42:06 --> 00:42:08
			All you care about is women and perfume?
		
00:42:09 --> 00:42:09
			Really?
		
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			What kind of man are you?
		
00:42:13 --> 00:42:15
			That's the conversation we're going to have.
		
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			This is the greatest creation of Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala.
		
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			And that opening sentence of the hadith, that's
		
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			why I put it there.
		
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			And then of course, the prayer has become
		
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			a comfort to my eyes.
		
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			So I put that to sort of just
		
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			put your mind into a place where we're
		
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			going to now dig deeper.
		
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			It's a really uncomfortable thing to bring up,
		
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			especially with somebody of that caliber, the prophet
		
00:42:44 --> 00:42:45
			of Allah.
		
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			We're going to understand why this happens, what
		
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			this actually means, and the fact that he
		
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			even says a statement like that, wasn't he
		
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			worried or concerned that at some point somebody's
		
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			going to take the statement of him and
		
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			bring it out of context and then label
		
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			him.
		
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			He's a this and he's a that.
		
00:43:04 --> 00:43:05
			What kind of man is this that you
		
00:43:05 --> 00:43:05
			follow?
		
00:43:05 --> 00:43:07
			That's what we have to deal with till
		
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			now.
		
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			So show us how and this we're going
		
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			to, these ayat will show us how the
		
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			wives of the prophet alayhi salatu wasalam become
		
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			examples for women that the prophet alayhi salatu
		
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			wasalam cannot be.
		
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			Meaning there are certain things he cannot be
		
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			that person to either be the example or
		
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			to have the conversation.
		
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			One time a woman came to him salallahu
		
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			alayhi wasalam and asked him, Ya Rasulullah, my
		
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			monthly cycle is complete.
		
00:43:38 --> 00:43:40
			How do I prepare myself to go and
		
00:43:40 --> 00:43:40
			pray?
		
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			So the prophet alayhi salatu wasalam tells this
		
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			woman, he says to her, you need to
		
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			take a shower, you need to use this
		
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			material or this item to cleanse yourself and
		
00:43:51 --> 00:43:52
			then you can go and pray.
		
00:43:53 --> 00:43:54
			And it's actually, it's written out, right?
		
00:43:54 --> 00:43:55
			What she should do.
		
00:43:56 --> 00:43:57
			You know what she says?
		
00:43:57 --> 00:44:00
			Ya Rasulullah, I don't understand.
		
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			What do you mean exactly?
		
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			So he repeats it a second time.
		
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			She still says, Ya Rasulullah, I don't get
		
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			it.
		
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			Like how exactly do I use those things
		
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			to clean myself and be ready?
		
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			I just want to make sure I do
		
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			it right.
		
00:44:15 --> 00:44:17
			Three times this woman asks him.
		
00:44:18 --> 00:44:20
			The fourth time, you know what his answer
		
00:44:20 --> 00:44:20
			to her was?
		
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			You know what, go ask Aisha.
		
00:44:25 --> 00:44:26
			She'll explain it to you.
		
00:44:26 --> 00:44:29
			Which tells you there was only so far
		
00:44:29 --> 00:44:30
			he could go.
		
00:44:31 --> 00:44:33
			There's only so much he would say.
		
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			After this point, it's not appropriate even for
		
00:44:39 --> 00:44:43
			him alayhi salatu wasalam to go further, especially
		
00:44:43 --> 00:44:44
			in person.
		
00:44:45 --> 00:44:49
			Imagine if somebody goes up to an imam,
		
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			a sister goes and asks a similar question,
		
00:44:53 --> 00:44:53
			right?
		
00:44:54 --> 00:44:55
			Some imams can handle it.
		
00:44:56 --> 00:44:57
			Some simply can't.
		
00:44:57 --> 00:45:01
			So those things as well, we're going to
		
00:45:01 --> 00:45:02
			see it.
		
00:45:02 --> 00:45:04
			And it's just going to go deeper and
		
00:45:04 --> 00:45:07
			deeper and deeper in some of the most
		
00:45:07 --> 00:45:09
			uncomfortable things, inshallah.
		
00:45:09 --> 00:45:10
			But of course, you know, it will be
		
00:45:10 --> 00:45:12
			beneficial for all of us.
		
00:45:13 --> 00:45:17
			So the prophet alayhi salatu wasalam goes back
		
00:45:17 --> 00:45:17
			to his wives.
		
00:45:18 --> 00:45:21
			And he basically says to them this command,
		
00:45:21 --> 00:45:25
			O Prophet, Allah tells him, say to your
		
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			wives, if you desire the life of this
		
00:45:31 --> 00:45:34
			world and its luxury, then come.
		
00:45:41 --> 00:45:45
			I will give you a suitable compensation for
		
00:45:45 --> 00:45:48
			divorce and let you go graciously.
		
00:45:48 --> 00:45:50
			So you see what happened?
		
00:45:50 --> 00:45:51
			Remember these wives?
		
00:45:51 --> 00:45:53
			What did they ask from him in the
		
00:45:53 --> 00:45:53
			beginning?
		
00:45:53 --> 00:45:57
			More money, a little bit more comfort, you
		
00:45:57 --> 00:45:59
			know, Ya Rasulullah, we don't have a couch,
		
00:45:59 --> 00:46:00
			you know, let's just get some cushions, like
		
00:46:00 --> 00:46:02
			just something a little nicer.
		
00:49:01 --> 00:49:05
			So just one point and then we break
		
00:49:05 --> 00:49:09
			for salah is that now that this ayah
		
00:49:09 --> 00:49:12
			is given to him, now we're going to
		
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			see for the first time in the entire
		
00:49:15 --> 00:49:19
			Quran, for the first time that the wives
		
00:49:19 --> 00:49:22
			now are going to be given a higher
		
00:49:22 --> 00:49:27
			status and level of expectation from any of
		
00:49:27 --> 00:49:32
			the wives in the ummah from then until
		
00:49:32 --> 00:49:33
			the end of time.
		
00:49:33 --> 00:49:38
			So all of the believing Muslim women, we
		
00:49:38 --> 00:49:40
			are going to see that everybody else is
		
00:49:40 --> 00:49:43
			in one category, but the wives specifically are
		
00:49:43 --> 00:49:45
			in a completely separate category.
		
00:49:46 --> 00:49:50
			The expectations are higher, the laws of their
		
00:49:50 --> 00:49:52
			marriage with the Prophet, peace be upon him,
		
00:49:52 --> 00:49:54
			are slightly different, they're altered.
		
00:49:55 --> 00:49:59
			But here's the point, number 28, just make
		
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			sure you make a note, this is one
		
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			of the abused verses in the Quran.
		
00:50:06 --> 00:50:11
			This verse here, unfortunately, some husbands who don't
		
00:50:11 --> 00:50:14
			take the time to understand the context, who
		
00:50:14 --> 00:50:17
			don't study it, use this and they sort
		
00:50:17 --> 00:50:20
			of use it to their advantage, you know,
		
00:50:20 --> 00:50:25
			to affirm more control and other things with
		
00:50:25 --> 00:50:26
			their marriages.
		
00:50:26 --> 00:50:28
			So we're going to just touch on some
		
00:50:28 --> 00:50:31
			of those things after salah, inshallah ta'ala,
		
00:50:31 --> 00:50:31
			okay?
		
00:51:27 --> 00:51:30
			It's very nice, I tell you, it's very,
		
00:51:30 --> 00:51:35
			very nice, it's right, very nice, it's right,
		
00:51:35 --> 00:51:38
			very nice, it's right, very nice, it's right,
		
00:51:40 --> 00:51:43
			very nice, it's right, very nice, it's right,
		
00:51:44 --> 00:51:46
			very nice, it's right, very nice, it's right,
		
00:51:46 --> 00:51:46
			very nice, it's right, very nice, it's right,
		
00:51:47 --> 00:51:48
			very nice, it's right, very nice, it's right,
		
00:51:48 --> 00:51:49
			very nice, it's right, very nice, it's right,
		
00:51:49 --> 00:51:49
			very nice, it's right, very nice, it's right,
		
00:51:49 --> 00:51:49
			very nice, it's right, very nice, it's right,
		
00:51:49 --> 00:51:51
			very nice, it's right, very nice, it's right,
		
00:51:51 --> 00:51:53
			very nice, it's right, very nice, it's right,
		
00:51:53 --> 00:51:56
			very nice, it's right, very nice, it's right,
		
00:51:56 --> 00:51:56
			very nice, it's right, very nice, it's right,
		
00:51:56 --> 00:51:56
			very nice, it's right, very nice, it's right,
		
00:51:56 --> 00:52:16
			very nice, it's right, very nice, it's right,
		
00:52:29 --> 00:52:31
			very nice, it's right, very nice, it's right,
		
00:52:31 --> 00:52:31
			very nice, it's right, very nice, it's right,
		
00:52:31 --> 00:52:32
			very nice, it's right, very nice, it's right,
		
00:52:32 --> 00:52:32
			very nice, it's right, very nice, it's right,
		
00:52:32 --> 00:52:32
			very nice, it's right, very nice, it's right,
		
00:52:32 --> 00:52:32
			very nice, it's right, very nice, it's right,
		
00:52:32 --> 00:52:32
			very nice, it's right, very nice, it's right,
		
00:52:32 --> 00:52:32
			very nice, it's right, very nice, it's right,
		
00:52:32 --> 00:52:32
			very nice, it's right, very nice, it's right,
		
00:52:32 --> 00:52:32
			very nice, it's right, very nice, it's right,
		
00:52:32 --> 00:52:32
			very nice, it's right, very nice, it's right,
		
00:52:32 --> 00:52:32
			very nice, it's right, very nice, it's right,
		
00:52:32 --> 00:52:33
			very nice, it's right, very nice, it's right,
		
00:52:33 --> 00:52:33
			very nice, it's right, very nice, it's right,
		
00:52:33 --> 00:52:33
			very nice, it's right, very nice, it's right,
		
00:52:33 --> 00:52:33
			very nice, it's right, very nice, it's right,
		
00:56:48 --> 00:56:49
			very nice, it's right, very nice, it's right,
		
00:56:49 --> 00:56:51
			very nice, it's right, very nice, it's right,
		
00:56:51 --> 00:56:52
			very nice, it's right, very nice, it's right,
		
00:56:52 --> 00:56:54
			very nice, it's right, very nice, it's right,
		
00:56:54 --> 00:56:54
			very nice, it's right, very nice, it's right,
		
00:56:54 --> 00:56:54
			very nice, it's right, very nice, it's right,
		
00:56:54 --> 00:56:55
			very nice, it's right, very nice, it's right,
		
00:56:55 --> 00:56:55
			very nice, it's right, very nice, it's right,
		
00:56:55 --> 00:56:55
			very nice, it's right, very nice, it's right,
		
00:56:55 --> 00:56:55
			very nice, it's right, very nice, it's right,
		
00:56:55 --> 00:56:55
			very nice, it's right, very nice, it's right,
		
00:56:55 --> 00:56:55
			very nice, it's right, very nice, it's right,
		
00:56:55 --> 00:56:55
			very nice, it's right, very nice, it's right,
		
00:57:00 --> 00:57:05
			very nice, it's right, very nice, it's right,
		
00:57:05 --> 00:58:06
			very nice, it's right,
		
00:58:06 --> 00:58:31
			very nice, it's right, very
		
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			nice, it's and the earth and all that
		
00:58:35 --> 00:58:45
			is between them, so
		
00:58:45 --> 00:58:48
			be patient for what they say.
		
00:58:50 --> 00:58:53
			So glorify the Name of your Lord before
		
00:58:53 --> 00:58:56
			the rising of the sun and before the
		
00:58:56 --> 00:59:00
			setting of the moon, and from the night
		
00:59:00 --> 00:59:03
			glorify the Name of your Lord.
		
00:59:06 --> 00:59:08
			And listen on the Day when We will
		
00:59:08 --> 00:59:13
			call you to a place near.
		
00:59:15 --> 00:59:17
			On the Day when we will hear the
		
00:59:17 --> 00:59:19
			cry of truth.
		
00:59:21 --> 00:59:23
			That is the Day of Resurrection.
		
00:59:25 --> 00:59:29
			For it is We who give life and
		
00:59:29 --> 00:59:29
			cause death.
		
00:59:30 --> 00:59:36
			And to the Day when the earth and
		
00:59:36 --> 00:59:38
			all that is between them, so be patient
		
00:59:38 --> 00:59:48
			for what they
		
00:59:48 --> 00:59:48
			say.
		
00:59:51 --> 00:59:54
			And you are not against Me.
		
01:00:09 --> 01:00:11
			Allah is the Greatest.
		
01:01:26 --> 01:01:27
			All praise is due to Allah, the Lord
		
01:01:27 --> 01:01:31
			of Mercy and Mercy.
		
01:01:35 --> 01:01:41
			To Him we worship and to Him is
		
01:01:41 --> 01:01:52
			the straight path, the path of those who
		
01:01:52 --> 01:01:53
			fear Him.
		
01:02:07 --> 01:02:13
			O you who have believed, when the prayer
		
01:02:13 --> 01:02:16
			is called on the Day of Resurrection, seek
		
01:02:16 --> 01:02:18
			refuge in Allah.
		
01:02:22 --> 01:02:27
			That is best for all of you.
		
01:02:31 --> 01:02:33
			And when the prayer is called on the
		
01:02:33 --> 01:02:37
			Day of Resurrection, disperse in the land and
		
01:02:37 --> 01:02:38
			seek refuge.
		
01:02:46 --> 01:02:50
			And remember Allah much that you may succeed.
		
01:02:52 --> 01:02:56
			And when you see a business or entertainment,
		
01:12:06 --> 01:12:18
			remember
		
01:13:23 --> 01:13:31
			Allah much that
		
01:13:31 --> 01:13:41
			you
		
01:13:41 --> 01:13:41
			may succeed.
		
01:18:59 --> 01:19:05
			In the name of Allah, let's go on
		
01:19:05 --> 01:19:08
			for about another 20 minutes or so inshallah.
		
01:19:10 --> 01:19:11
			In the name of Allah, all praise is
		
01:19:11 --> 01:19:12
			due to Allah, and peace and blessings be
		
01:19:12 --> 01:19:13
			upon the Messenger of Allah.
		
01:19:14 --> 01:19:18
			So, last point that we mentioned with respect
		
01:19:18 --> 01:19:21
			to this ayah is that this is one
		
01:19:21 --> 01:19:24
			of the abused verses in the Qur'an.
		
01:19:26 --> 01:19:30
			The reason why is typically this is a
		
01:19:30 --> 01:19:34
			verse that is used to hijack a scenario
		
01:19:34 --> 01:19:38
			between the husband and wife where the husband
		
01:19:38 --> 01:19:43
			would claim or exaggerate the position he is
		
01:19:43 --> 01:19:47
			put in when his wife will demand for
		
01:19:47 --> 01:19:47
			more.
		
01:19:48 --> 01:19:51
			More material things, and it could be anything.
		
01:19:51 --> 01:19:54
			You know, like, they have a stove and
		
01:19:54 --> 01:19:56
			she's like, okay, you know what, can we
		
01:19:56 --> 01:19:57
			upgrade the stove?
		
01:19:57 --> 01:20:00
			We'll save electricity, or she just wants something
		
01:20:00 --> 01:20:01
			nice.
		
01:20:01 --> 01:20:05
			There is no problem financially for him or
		
01:20:05 --> 01:20:07
			the household to afford things like this.
		
01:20:08 --> 01:20:10
			But if he doesn't want to do it,
		
01:20:10 --> 01:20:14
			what happens occasionally, it's not very often, but
		
01:20:14 --> 01:20:15
			it does happen.
		
01:20:16 --> 01:20:19
			I've met couples who've had this problem where
		
01:20:19 --> 01:20:21
			the husband will come to me, pull me
		
01:20:21 --> 01:20:22
			aside and say things to me like, you
		
01:20:22 --> 01:20:23
			know, just talk to my wife, you know,
		
01:20:24 --> 01:20:25
			all she cares about is everything has to
		
01:20:25 --> 01:20:27
			match in the house, everything, this has to
		
01:20:27 --> 01:20:30
			be perfect, has to be A-grade, it's
		
01:20:30 --> 01:20:33
			got to be top-notch technology, blah, blah,
		
01:20:33 --> 01:20:33
			blah.
		
01:20:33 --> 01:20:39
			Yeah, it's a silly, silly issue to exaggerate,
		
01:20:39 --> 01:20:44
			especially if it's not something that she typically
		
01:20:44 --> 01:20:44
			does.
		
01:20:45 --> 01:20:48
			Then once in a while, it's not an
		
01:20:48 --> 01:20:49
			issue.
		
01:20:49 --> 01:20:51
			And the thing is, this is one of
		
01:20:51 --> 01:20:55
			the verses that he would claim, look, the
		
01:20:55 --> 01:20:57
			sunnah of the wise of the prophet, look
		
01:20:57 --> 01:20:58
			at this.
		
01:20:58 --> 01:21:01
			If they wanted anything from the dunya, they
		
01:21:01 --> 01:21:01
			were divorced.
		
01:21:02 --> 01:21:03
			Is that what you want, over a stove,
		
01:21:03 --> 01:21:05
			or something like that, right?
		
01:21:05 --> 01:21:06
			It's very silly.
		
01:21:07 --> 01:21:08
			And this is just one of a million
		
01:21:08 --> 01:21:12
			examples of people cherry-picking an A and
		
01:21:12 --> 01:21:13
			just using it to their advantage.
		
01:21:13 --> 01:21:17
			So, the first thing that I want to
		
01:21:17 --> 01:21:19
			highlight is how this ayah begins.
		
01:21:20 --> 01:21:21
			See this?
		
01:21:21 --> 01:21:27
			يَا أَيُّهَا النَّبِيِّ O Prophet, remember, every time
		
01:21:27 --> 01:21:31
			Allah calls the Prophet by his title, every
		
01:21:31 --> 01:21:35
			time this happens in Qur'an, it's such
		
01:21:35 --> 01:21:37
			high priority for him.
		
01:21:37 --> 01:21:40
			This is Qur'an's way of saying, stop
		
01:21:40 --> 01:21:45
			everything you're doing and fulfill this instruction, fulfill
		
01:21:45 --> 01:21:46
			this command.
		
01:21:47 --> 01:21:50
			So, يَا أَيُّهَا النَّبِيِّ O Prophet, pay attention
		
01:21:50 --> 01:21:51
			to what comes after it.
		
01:21:51 --> 01:21:54
			It's just like يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا Like
		
01:21:54 --> 01:21:57
			the famous companion, Abdullah ibn Mas'ud radiallahu
		
01:21:57 --> 01:22:00
			anhu, once said, anytime you hear يَا أَيُّهَا
		
01:22:00 --> 01:22:05
			الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا prepare yourself to receive a command
		
01:22:05 --> 01:22:08
			or instructions from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
01:22:08 --> 01:22:11
			Every time يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا happens, Allah
		
01:22:11 --> 01:22:13
			tells us to do something or not do
		
01:22:13 --> 01:22:13
			something.
		
01:22:14 --> 01:22:17
			The Prophet ﷺ, you can think of يَا
		
01:22:17 --> 01:22:19
			أَيُّهَا النَّبِيِّ as his version of يَا أَيُّهَا
		
01:22:19 --> 01:22:20
			الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا.
		
01:22:20 --> 01:22:23
			This is explicit, it's directed to him.
		
01:22:23 --> 01:22:24
			So, that's the first thing when it comes
		
01:22:24 --> 01:22:26
			to يَا أَيُّهَا النَّبِيِّ O Prophet.
		
01:22:26 --> 01:22:30
			Second point, why not just talk directly to
		
01:22:30 --> 01:22:30
			his wives?
		
01:22:31 --> 01:22:33
			يَا أَزْوَاجُ النَّبِيِّ O wives of the Prophet.
		
01:22:33 --> 01:22:37
			Why does Allah speak to the Prophet and
		
01:22:37 --> 01:22:39
			tell him, go tell your wives this?
		
01:22:39 --> 01:22:41
			Why not just talk to them directly?
		
01:22:42 --> 01:22:47
			Why do you think Allah tells the Prophet
		
01:22:47 --> 01:22:47
			to go do this?
		
01:22:48 --> 01:22:52
			Again, this is a pattern all throughout Qur
		
01:22:52 --> 01:22:52
			'an.
		
01:22:52 --> 01:22:55
			What do you think?
		
01:23:03 --> 01:23:06
			Okay, to ease his worries.
		
01:23:06 --> 01:23:10
			So, allowing him to do this is more
		
01:23:10 --> 01:23:13
			to his advantage than it is as if
		
01:23:13 --> 01:23:15
			Allah speaks directly to them.
		
01:23:16 --> 01:23:17
			Okay.
		
01:23:18 --> 01:23:21
			There's a verse, verse 30 and 31 of
		
01:23:21 --> 01:23:22
			Surah An-Nur.
		
01:23:22 --> 01:23:23
			It sounds like this.
		
01:23:24 --> 01:23:33
			وَقُلْ لِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ يَغُضُّوا مِنْ أَبْصَارِهِمْ وَيَحْفَظُوا فُرُوجَهُمْ
		
01:23:33 --> 01:23:37
			Allah says to the believing men, O Prophet,
		
01:23:37 --> 01:23:40
			قُلْ Prophet, go say to them that they
		
01:23:40 --> 01:23:43
			need to cover their eyes and protect their
		
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			honor and their privates.
		
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			Allah could have just said, يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ
		
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			آمَنُوا غُضُّوا أَبْصَارَكُمْ O people of Iman, protect
		
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			your eyes.
		
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			Lower your gaze.
		
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			But instead, Allah tells the Prophet to do
		
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			that.
		
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			Next ayah, verse 31 in Surah An-Nur.
		
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			Allah gives the exact same instruction to the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			But this time, go say to the believing
		
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			women.
		
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			Why not just talk to them directly?
		
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			Write this down, okay.
		
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			Say again.
		
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			Okay, he's definitely a leader.
		
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			But on that note, does everybody else automatically
		
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			by default respect him as a leader?
		
01:24:24 --> 01:24:24
			No.
		
01:24:25 --> 01:24:27
			People still question him.
		
01:24:27 --> 01:24:28
			People still doubt him.
		
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			People still disrespect him.
		
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			This is one of Quran's way to bring
		
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			honor and respect to him ﷺ.
		
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			You go do this.
		
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			Okay, so the first thing is, this is
		
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			priority for him.
		
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			Drop everything you're doing and go take care
		
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			of this.
		
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			Number two, this is also to protect the
		
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			honor and the dignity of the Prophet.
		
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			If you listen to him, you automatically listen
		
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			to the Creator.
		
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			So to raise his honor, raise the trust,
		
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			and protect his reputation.
		
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			All of those things for him ﷺ.
		
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			Third point.
		
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			This ayah, take a look at it.
		
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			It says, go speak to your wives.
		
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			And say to them, and the message is,
		
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			if you desire the life of this world
		
01:25:16 --> 01:25:17
			and its luxury, then come.
		
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			Meaning, go ahead and have it.
		
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			And if that's all you want and nothing
		
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			else, that's priority for you, then the thing
		
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			that you get from me is going to
		
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			be a divorce.
		
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			But we're going to talk about the word
		
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			that's used here.
		
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			Talaq is the most common word for divorce.
		
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			It's not mentioned in this ayah at all.
		
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			There's a different word that's used.
		
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			Here's the third reason why it's important that
		
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			the Prophet does this.
		
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			If Allah ﷻ speaks directly to them, or
		
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			the Prophet sits with them, they're physically in
		
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			his presence and he's physically in their presence.
		
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			And he gives them this ayah.
		
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			Now, there's an additional reason or incentive for
		
01:26:13 --> 01:26:14
			them.
		
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			They already love and respect Allah.
		
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			They already believe in Him.
		
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			But this is to also, in a very
		
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			subtle and beautiful way, to put the wives
		
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			in a situation where they also increase their
		
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			respect and acceptance of the instructions coming not
		
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			just from the Prophet, from their husband.
		
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			You see how different it is?
		
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			Usually when the husband says, okay, look, we're
		
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			going to change things in this house.
		
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			We have a stove, six burners.
		
01:26:48 --> 01:26:50
			There's only two of us.
		
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			We're going to get a single burner.
		
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			Because we need to save the electricity and
		
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			we don't want to get too attached to
		
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			this dunya thing.
		
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			Now, that's a really extreme example.
		
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			But the outcome you want to have in
		
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			a situation like that is, for her to
		
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			say, you know what?
		
01:27:05 --> 01:27:07
			If that's all that we can afford and
		
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			we can still do things, we can still
		
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			live and survive.
		
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			And inshallah, bismillah.
		
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			And she does it and he does it.
		
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			And they adjust their lifestyle.
		
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			Now, her respect for him, his respect for
		
01:27:24 --> 01:27:26
			her, her love for him, his love for
		
01:27:26 --> 01:27:27
			her.
		
01:27:27 --> 01:27:30
			The relationship now takes one step forward.
		
01:27:30 --> 01:27:36
			There's an additional layer of acceptance, cooperation, respect.
		
01:27:37 --> 01:27:39
			So one or third reason the ulema say
		
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			is that the Prophet, by him sitting there,
		
01:27:43 --> 01:27:45
			talking to them, they see him and they're
		
01:27:45 --> 01:27:47
			in his presence and they hear his voice.
		
01:27:49 --> 01:27:51
			Automatically, whatever comes out of his mouth, they
		
01:27:51 --> 01:27:53
			still love him more for talking to them,
		
01:27:54 --> 01:27:55
			for giving them the time and the attention.
		
01:27:55 --> 01:27:56
			Everybody understand?
		
01:27:57 --> 01:27:58
			So it's kind of to build a bit
		
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			of that intimate and private relationship of love
		
01:28:02 --> 01:28:04
			and respect to increase that a little bit
		
01:28:04 --> 01:28:06
			more because now they're hearing it directly from
		
01:28:06 --> 01:28:07
			his voice.
		
01:28:08 --> 01:28:12
			So all of these subtleties are extremely important.
		
01:28:12 --> 01:28:14
			Like the ulema write it down in their
		
01:28:14 --> 01:28:18
			tafsir and they preserve it for this reason
		
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			that these are things, despite how subtle they
		
01:28:20 --> 01:28:25
			are, they're extremely important in maintaining that love
		
01:28:25 --> 01:28:27
			and harmony that a relationship needs.
		
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			Okay?
		
01:28:32 --> 01:28:34
			Now let's talk about the instruction.
		
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			So go and say to them, if you
		
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			desire the life of this world and its
		
01:28:38 --> 01:28:42
			luxury, first of all, is that haram for
		
01:28:42 --> 01:28:44
			a wife to be like, you know, I
		
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			just love to have a nice big home,
		
01:28:47 --> 01:28:51
			a comfortable life and a beautiful car and
		
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			travel the world with my husband.
		
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			Is that haram?
		
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			No, why not?
		
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			So there's one rule then.
		
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			If the poor man is working that minimum
		
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			wage job at Walmart or Canadian Times, they
		
01:29:07 --> 01:29:10
			say, listen, you know, BMW just released their
		
01:29:10 --> 01:29:11
			new series.
		
01:29:12 --> 01:29:12
			I want it.
		
01:29:13 --> 01:29:14
			If you don't get it for me, it's
		
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			over.
		
01:29:15 --> 01:29:16
			That's a different scenario.
		
01:29:17 --> 01:29:19
			So we're not talking about that at all.
		
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			This ayah is the extreme scenario I just
		
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			painted for you that despite whatever financial situation
		
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			the husband is in, when it comes to
		
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			the wives of the Prophet, everybody knows and
		
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			understand the Prophet is extremely poor.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			He starved more days than all the companions.
		
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			He went on more days living in his
		
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			home where the burner was never lit, meaning
		
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			there was nothing to cook.
		
01:29:58 --> 01:30:01
			Anytime they had some food, like even just
		
01:30:01 --> 01:30:04
			some extra dates, children and orphans used to
		
01:30:04 --> 01:30:07
			come at their homes begging for something to
		
01:30:07 --> 01:30:07
			eat.
		
01:30:08 --> 01:30:11
			And his wife Aisha radiallahu anha, she would
		
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			give them.
		
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			They would be left with nothing.
		
01:30:14 --> 01:30:15
			He'd come home later.
		
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			Ya Aisha, is there anything for us to
		
01:30:18 --> 01:30:18
			have?
		
01:30:18 --> 01:30:20
			No, Ya Rasulullah, so and so happened and
		
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			I gave them the last of what we
		
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			had.
		
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			He would remain silent, done.
		
01:30:25 --> 01:30:29
			That was almost his entire life, alayhi salatu
		
01:30:29 --> 01:30:29
			wasalam.
		
01:30:30 --> 01:30:33
			Struggling, suffering, and when it came to the
		
01:30:33 --> 01:30:36
			status of financial status, it was literally next
		
01:30:36 --> 01:30:37
			to nothing.
		
01:30:37 --> 01:30:40
			Gifts were being poured to him all the
		
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			time.
		
01:30:41 --> 01:30:43
			He would accept a lot of those gifts.
		
01:30:44 --> 01:30:47
			But there are narrations of him also giving
		
01:30:47 --> 01:30:51
			those gifts away to other companions, those who
		
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			needed more than him.
		
01:30:52 --> 01:30:56
			He made that ultimate sacrifice, alayhi salatu wasalam.
		
01:30:56 --> 01:30:58
			Now it's his wife's turn to do the
		
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			same.
		
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			So this is not about them wanting to
		
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			attach themselves to a luxurious life.
		
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			This is the first instruction and command to
		
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			the wives.
		
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			You are no longer just wives anymore.
		
01:31:19 --> 01:31:22
			Now you are in a separate category because
		
01:31:22 --> 01:31:24
			you are all married to this man, alayhi
		
01:31:24 --> 01:31:25
			salatu wasalam.
		
01:31:25 --> 01:31:27
			So when you say, when we look at
		
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			this ayah now, that if this is what
		
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			your priority is, wazinataha, fatAAalayn.
		
01:31:35 --> 01:31:38
			The Prophet, alayhi salatu wasalam, says fatAAalayn.
		
01:31:39 --> 01:31:40
			Did I write the name?
		
01:31:40 --> 01:31:41
			Okay, I didn't write the meaning.
		
01:31:41 --> 01:31:42
			Okay.
		
01:31:43 --> 01:31:46
			fatAAalayn is a really, this is one of
		
01:31:46 --> 01:31:51
			the verbs in Arabic to say with ease,
		
01:31:51 --> 01:31:54
			without hesitation, go ahead, just have it.
		
01:31:54 --> 01:31:55
			Go ahead, take it.
		
01:31:56 --> 01:31:58
			You know, like if you go to your
		
01:31:58 --> 01:32:01
			favorite coffee shop or a juice store or
		
01:32:01 --> 01:32:03
			something, you usually get a small, but then
		
01:32:03 --> 01:32:04
			one day you go in there and you're
		
01:32:04 --> 01:32:06
			like, man, let's just get a large, I
		
01:32:06 --> 01:32:07
			love this drink.
		
01:32:08 --> 01:32:10
			And whoever's paying, you tell your kids, go
		
01:32:10 --> 01:32:11
			ahead, just take it.
		
01:32:11 --> 01:32:12
			Ah, no big deal.
		
01:32:12 --> 01:32:13
			You don't even have to ask me, just
		
01:32:13 --> 01:32:14
			order a large, it's all good.
		
01:32:14 --> 01:32:16
			That's called fatAAalayn.
		
01:32:16 --> 01:32:19
			So Allah is saying to the Prophet, tell
		
01:32:19 --> 01:32:20
			them that if this is what all you
		
01:32:20 --> 01:32:22
			care about, then that's okay, just go ahead,
		
01:32:22 --> 01:32:23
			have it.
		
01:32:24 --> 01:32:27
			fatAAalayn gives the impression, and it's indirectly also
		
01:32:27 --> 01:32:30
			highlighting this dunya world is worthless.
		
01:32:31 --> 01:32:32
			You want it, go ahead, take it.
		
01:32:32 --> 01:32:33
			I don't lose anything.
		
01:32:34 --> 01:32:36
			You're actually not going to gain anything by
		
01:32:36 --> 01:32:39
			taking it, by attaching yourself to it.
		
01:32:39 --> 01:32:40
			That's fatAAalayn.
		
01:32:40 --> 01:32:43
			It's a really remarkable verb to use to
		
01:32:43 --> 01:32:45
			describe how He allows them.
		
01:32:46 --> 01:32:48
			fatAAalayn also is, you gotta do it, I'm
		
01:32:48 --> 01:32:49
			giving you nothing.
		
01:32:50 --> 01:32:50
			Okay?
		
01:32:51 --> 01:32:53
			fatAAalayn, if this is what you want, you
		
01:32:53 --> 01:32:55
			take it, you're not going to get that
		
01:32:55 --> 01:32:55
			from me.
		
01:32:56 --> 01:33:01
			Here's the word that is used, umattiAAkunna, this
		
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			is the word that's used to divorce here.
		
01:33:04 --> 01:33:08
			wa-usarrihkun, from saraaha, let it go.
		
01:33:10 --> 01:33:14
			saraaha is not a word used to divorce
		
01:33:14 --> 01:33:15
			anymore.
		
01:33:16 --> 01:33:16
			Okay?
		
01:33:16 --> 01:33:18
			This is not a word that's used anymore.
		
01:33:19 --> 01:33:21
			Divorce has several terms.
		
01:33:21 --> 01:33:25
			You have talaq, you have khulaa, you have
		
01:33:25 --> 01:33:29
			fasaq, you have several different words to describe
		
01:33:29 --> 01:33:32
			a divorce, depending on how the divorce should
		
01:33:32 --> 01:33:32
			happen.
		
01:33:33 --> 01:33:35
			The most common term that we all are
		
01:33:35 --> 01:33:37
			used to is fasaq, talaq, right?
		
01:33:38 --> 01:33:39
			That's the most generic term.
		
01:33:41 --> 01:33:46
			wa-usarrihkunna, saraaha, is more or less like
		
01:33:47 --> 01:33:53
			a polite, easy, no process involved, if this
		
01:33:53 --> 01:33:55
			is what you want, you are free to
		
01:33:55 --> 01:33:55
			go.
		
01:33:55 --> 01:33:56
			That's the divorce, it's done.
		
01:33:57 --> 01:33:59
			There's no waiting period, none of that stuff.
		
01:33:59 --> 01:34:02
			wa-usarrihkun, go ahead, have it, we're done.
		
01:34:03 --> 01:34:08
			That's how the Prophet ﷺ gives the option
		
01:34:08 --> 01:34:10
			of separation or divorce to his wives.
		
01:34:10 --> 01:34:11
			It's this word that's used.
		
01:34:13 --> 01:34:15
			talaq comes later, right now.
		
01:34:16 --> 01:34:18
			Now, one more thing you need to know
		
01:34:18 --> 01:34:19
			about this verse.
		
01:34:20 --> 01:34:26
			After the Prophet ﷺ went into, I guess
		
01:34:26 --> 01:34:29
			you could say, isolation for about a month,
		
01:34:29 --> 01:34:31
			he came back to his wives, and he
		
01:34:31 --> 01:34:33
			came back to them with this ayah.
		
01:34:33 --> 01:34:36
			After he taught them this verse, there was
		
01:34:36 --> 01:34:40
			about nine women, most of them his wives,
		
01:34:40 --> 01:34:42
			but there were others that were sitting there,
		
01:34:42 --> 01:34:44
			hearing and listening to these instructions.
		
01:34:46 --> 01:34:47
			Who is the first?
		
01:34:47 --> 01:34:48
			Now, what has to happen?
		
01:34:48 --> 01:34:52
			These wives have to respond and affirm and
		
01:34:52 --> 01:34:56
			accept that this is the life they want,
		
01:34:56 --> 01:34:58
			where they give up the dunya, they make
		
01:34:58 --> 01:35:02
			the sacrifice, and they stick with him ﷺ.
		
01:35:02 --> 01:35:06
			See, they basically pledge to him, we will
		
01:35:06 --> 01:35:09
			sacrifice, it's going to be a tough life,
		
01:35:09 --> 01:35:12
			we will struggle with you, and this is
		
01:35:12 --> 01:35:14
			how, like you have that pledge from us.
		
01:35:15 --> 01:35:16
			Who is the first wife to do that?
		
01:35:19 --> 01:35:20
			You know why that's important?
		
01:35:21 --> 01:35:26
			That is also the beginning of the great
		
01:35:26 --> 01:35:28
			honor and love and respect.
		
01:35:29 --> 01:35:32
			That is how, this is the first ayah
		
01:35:32 --> 01:35:37
			that also elevates the status of Aisha radiallahu
		
01:35:37 --> 01:35:37
			anha.
		
01:35:37 --> 01:35:40
			After that she was given, just imagine this,
		
01:35:41 --> 01:35:41
			okay?
		
01:35:41 --> 01:35:45
			You are given, Aisha radiallahu anha, she is
		
01:35:45 --> 01:35:49
			given the opportunity from an Nabi to say,
		
01:35:49 --> 01:35:52
			Ya Aisha, you go first, do you accept
		
01:35:52 --> 01:35:53
			this way of life?
		
01:35:53 --> 01:35:57
			Immediately, without hesitation, Aisha radiallahu anha does what
		
01:35:57 --> 01:35:59
			she always does, anything for the sake of
		
01:35:59 --> 01:36:01
			the deen, for the sake of her husband,
		
01:36:01 --> 01:36:02
			for the sake of Allah.
		
01:36:02 --> 01:36:04
			She says, absolutely Ya Rasulullah.
		
01:36:04 --> 01:36:07
			I pledge that this is the way of
		
01:36:07 --> 01:36:09
			life that I will sacrifice, and I am
		
01:36:09 --> 01:36:10
			with you 100%.
		
01:36:10 --> 01:36:12
			You know what happened after that?
		
01:36:12 --> 01:36:13
			All the others followed.
		
01:36:14 --> 01:36:15
			Because why?
		
01:36:15 --> 01:36:18
			Every one of them knew who Aisha radiallahu
		
01:36:18 --> 01:36:18
			anha was.
		
01:36:18 --> 01:36:20
			They respected her so much.
		
01:36:21 --> 01:36:24
			Whoa, if Aisha agreed, that's it, it's done.
		
01:36:24 --> 01:36:27
			We're definitely going to do the same.
		
01:36:27 --> 01:36:30
			So all the wives continued, they all accepted
		
01:36:30 --> 01:36:31
			this.
		
01:36:31 --> 01:36:33
			Now here's the point.
		
01:36:34 --> 01:36:38
			When we say now that they will sacrifice
		
01:36:38 --> 01:36:42
			and struggle, and this is what is needed
		
01:36:42 --> 01:36:43
			from his wives.
		
01:36:44 --> 01:36:49
			We just established that having luxurious things and
		
01:36:49 --> 01:36:50
			comfortable life is not a problem.
		
01:36:51 --> 01:36:52
			What's the problem here?
		
01:36:52 --> 01:36:54
			Why is it that they had to give
		
01:36:54 --> 01:36:55
			this up?
		
01:36:56 --> 01:37:02
			Can't they be pious, devoted wives and still
		
01:37:02 --> 01:37:05
			have comforts to live with?
		
01:37:05 --> 01:37:07
			Can't they have both?
		
01:37:08 --> 01:37:08
			What do you think?
		
01:37:11 --> 01:37:12
			Do you agree first of all, can you
		
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			have both?
		
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			Can you still be religiously devoted and live
		
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			a comfortable life?
		
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			Absolutely.
		
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			So why can't you have both here?
		
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			Why were they given this ultimatum?
		
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			Either this or that.
		
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			But you're right.
		
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			So it's the same then for anybody.
		
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			Anybody could be attached.
		
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			Can one of them make the claim to
		
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			him and say, Ya Rasulullah, I'm with you
		
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			100%.
		
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			But you know, my pillow has a hole
		
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			in it.
		
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			My bed is broken.
		
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			That's all I'm just saying.
		
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			Can I just have a new pillow and
		
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			a new bed?
		
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			I'm with you 100%.
		
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			That's not going to make me now.
		
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			I got a new pillow.
		
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			Oh my God, I want everything.
		
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			You see why it's important to do this
		
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			with verses like this?
		
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			One of the things I try my best
		
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			to do for 25 years of teaching tafseer
		
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			is I always try to figure out how
		
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			can a verse talk to me in 2024,
		
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			like in this day and age?
		
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			How do I make this verse relatable to
		
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			this day and age?
		
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			This day and age, it's well understood.
		
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			You all agreed.
		
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			There is nothing wrong with wanting a comfortable
		
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			life, and you can still be religiously devoted.
		
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			Here's the thing.
		
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			You have to think about who these women
		
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			are.
		
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			They are now going to play the role
		
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			of the greatest female example of the entire
		
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			world, and perhaps, as we all know, some
		
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			of them will be selected to be the
		
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			leaders of women in gender.
		
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			The impression that they could leave for other
		
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			generations to come is what is also like
		
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			you have to consider when you think about
		
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			the message of this ayah.
		
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			Sure, they might be really religious and devoted
		
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			to him and still have comfortable things, but
		
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			that's not the point.
		
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			The point is that there will come a
		
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			time after they are all gone, like now,
		
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			where people will look at this, and if
		
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			they seen, yeah, Aisha always had new clothing.
		
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			Hafsa always had new furniture.
		
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			Umm Maimunah always had the best camels to
		
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			ride on and to travel on.
		
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			They always had the best foods.
		
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			You know the standard, the bar for living
		
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			a quote-unquote good Islamic life now reaches
		
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			a place where most people won't get to.
		
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			You see what I'm saying?
		
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			They're going to put out a standard that
		
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			is so high, the vast majority of Muslim
		
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			families all around the world, the majority of
		
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			them may never reach to that standard.
		
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			If they're trying to be like these wives,
		
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			they won't reach it.
		
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			But here now, the fact that they're going
		
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			to sacrifice, that's something, whether you live a
		
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			comfortable life or not, you can relate to
		
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			that.
		
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			Because I'm sure all of us do our
		
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			own sacrifices every single day.
		
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			We all do it.
		
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			So this was about setting the bar, not
		
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			high, but setting the bar in a way
		
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			that every, you know, the Prophet ﷺ told
		
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			us that the majority of his followers would
		
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			be what?
		
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			They will be poor.
		
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			So if these wives were living this high
		
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			life, then the majority of the ummah would
		
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			not be able to like connect, to really
		
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			understand and to extract because there's like, you
		
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			know, this is for the rich, you know,
		
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			the people with high status in our society.
		
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			It's not for all of us.
		
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			Now, even the teenage daughter can relate to
		
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			this.
		
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			Now, even somebody who's not married can relate
		
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			to this.
		
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			Somebody who is married, but they're all working
		
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			paycheck to paycheck, they can all relate to
		
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			this now.
		
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			Does this make sense?
		
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			So, This is the last part that I
		
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			leave you with.
		
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			See this part here?
		
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			Is the same word.
		
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			Is, okay, I let you go, and he
		
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			does it in a beautiful way.
		
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			When was the last time you heard of
		
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			a divorce?
		
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			Where your response to him, MashaAllah.
		
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			It's amazing how they got divorced.
		
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			Allahu Akbar.
		
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			So beautiful.
		
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			When was the last time you heard that?
		
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			Like, these are the things that really like
		
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			draw me into an ayah.
		
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			It's when I look at just what the
		
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			message is here, and then I look at
		
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			life around me, and I'm like, my God,
		
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			what happened?
		
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			This is not the only verses that talk
		
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			like this about separation and divorce.
		
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			There are tons of other verses that give
		
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			the same message that it's not a terrible
		
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			thing.
		
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			It doesn't have to be an awful experience,
		
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			but unfortunately, the lack of knowledge and a
		
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			bunch of other things, other factors contribute and
		
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			make the whole process really ugly for anybody
		
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			who has to go through that.
		
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			Okay, we'll pause there.
		
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			The prophet's wives have noticed their budget have
		
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			not increased.
		
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			So we talked about this.
		
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			They came up, or it should be, they
		
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			came up with a respectful request to increase
		
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			their income.
		
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			We talked about this surplus of Medina, the
		
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			spoils of war, all of this stuff are
		
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			now changed and have increased in Medina.
		
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			Okay, this conversation continues, but we need to
		
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			go through word by word in every verse.
		
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			I really want you to take the message
		
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			of each of these ayat.
		
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			So inshallah, we'll continue with verse 29 next
		
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			week, inshallah.
		
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			Does anybody have any questions?
		
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			Okie dokie.
		
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			Students, there is something here for you that
		
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			one of the students has brought.
		
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			So please help yourself to it as you
		
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			read.
		
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			Yeah, there are some good copies of the
		
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			Qur'an.
		
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			So I'll just leave it right here.
		
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			If you need a copy of it, it's
		
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			the clear Qur'an by Dr. Mustafa.
		
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			So if you need one, all in English
		
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			translation, please help yourself to that, inshallah.
		
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			It is a great honor for the people
		
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			of Thailand to honor them always and forever.
		
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			As-salamu alaykum.