Mustafa Abu Rayyan – 47 Tafseer Surah alBaqarah Verses 214216

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The speaker discusses the importance of testing one's worship and experiencing suffering for the betterment of their lives, and the need for acceptance and faith in one's relationship with others. They stress the importance of conditioning oneself to ask for help and sadaqa, giving sada 49% to those in need, and learning from actions of the prophet. The speaker also emphasizes the need for acceptance and faith in one's life and the importance of protecting the believers and peace in Islam.

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			We are on I a number 214.
		
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			I a number 214.
		
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			We spoke about the ayah that came before
		
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			where Allah
		
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			Where Allah
		
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			mentioned that the Umma, mankind was one community
		
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			and Allah sent them prophets
		
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			that would give them gala tiding
		
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			and then also warn them. Give them gala
		
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			tiding that if they follow the divine guidance
		
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			that comes from Allah, they will be rewarded.
		
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			They will live a good life, prosperous life
		
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			in this world and a good and prosperous
		
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			life in the hereafter.
		
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			And if they don't, then the prophets were
		
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			which means warners
		
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			to warn them the of the that they
		
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			will be held accountable
		
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			if they refuse to follow the guidance of
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			So the purpose of the prophets in the
		
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			books was to teach mankind right from wrong.
		
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			Truth from falsehood,
		
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			that which is pleasing to Allah from that
		
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			which is not pleasing to Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala.
		
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			And then that the mankind,
		
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			split into 2, those that follow the prophets
		
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			and those that deny the prophets.
		
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			And Allah
		
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			mentions
		
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			that they differed.
		
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			So the purpose of the prophets and the
		
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			books was to judge between people in matters
		
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			wherein they differed.
		
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			Should we allow alcohol or should we not
		
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			allow alcohol?
		
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			The sharia, the guidance where the prophets came
		
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			that we should ban alcohol.
		
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			Should this happen or that happen? Anything. Anything.
		
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			Does haram or halal? Anything that is good
		
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			or bad, righteous
		
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			or wicked,
		
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			it was explained by the prophets in their
		
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			books.
		
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			Then Allah
		
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			mentions that
		
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			the,
		
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			and only those whom the scriptures were given
		
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			differed concerning it after clear proofs had come
		
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			unto them through hatred and envy of each
		
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			other. And then Allah, by his leave, guided
		
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			those who believed to the truth and that
		
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			wherein they differed and Allah guided whom he
		
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			wills to the straight path. Allah is telling
		
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			us basically,
		
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			there's 2 people.
		
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			The message of the prophets came. Worship only
		
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			1 god.
		
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			Live a good a righteous life. Have the
		
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			best of manners. Avoid all prohibitions.
		
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			And if you fall into it, repent. Hasten
		
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			to repentance. Live a life worthy of living
		
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			and if you do so, you will be
		
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			rewarded.
		
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			Now the prophets came with this message.
		
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			Now you have the choice to follow
		
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			or to reject.
		
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			If you follow, you get the that they
		
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			promised. If you reject,
		
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			they warned you. That's the basic message of
		
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			this ayah. That Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala speaks
		
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			to those that did follow the messengers
		
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			and the prophets. Those that did accept
		
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			Islam.
		
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			Now
		
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			remember the Galat tiding we just talked about?
		
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			The Galat tidings for those that follow?
		
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			Now does that mean
		
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			that that's it? Once you follow the prophets?
		
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			Once you become a believer, you have a
		
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			ticket to Jannah and that's it? Allah tells
		
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			us no.
		
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			That's not the case.
		
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			Allah says
		
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			Or do you think
		
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			that you will enter Jannah? That you will
		
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			enter paradise?
		
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			And the trials
		
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			that came to the ones that came before
		
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			you,
		
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			that they will not happen to you?
		
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			Did you think that just because you say
		
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			I believe,
		
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			that everything will be fine and dandy and
		
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			you will not be trialed or tested
		
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			like the ones that came before you.
		
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			So what happened to those that came before
		
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			us? What happened to the followers of the
		
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			prophets? What happened to the believers?
		
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			They were afflicted with
		
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			is severe poverty.
		
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			They struggled.
		
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			What
		
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			they suffered from ailments and difficulty and calamities.
		
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			And they were shaken.
		
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			So here Allah is telling us
		
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			that don't expect
		
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			the journey
		
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			that you're upon to be easy.
		
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			Just because you believe that you will not
		
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			be tested. In Surah Al An Kabood, Allah
		
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			says,
		
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			Do the people think that they will be
		
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			left alone just because they said we believe?
		
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			And they will not be tested?
		
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			You will be tested.
		
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			Your faith will be tested.
		
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			Your trust in Allah will be tested.
		
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			Your patience will be tested. Your gratitude will
		
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			be tested.
		
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			This is not
		
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			meant just I believe and that's it. So
		
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			Allah is telling us here, the best of
		
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			the best were tested.
		
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			And this is what we learn,
		
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			we learn
		
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			that
		
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			this whole duniya is a trial.
		
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			And in it you are constantly being tested
		
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			by Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			Allah mentioned in the Quran that's the reason
		
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			he created us.
		
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			Allah mentions that
		
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			Allah is the one that created
		
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			heaven and earth to test which one of
		
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			you will have the most righteous actions.
		
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			So you're constantly being observed by our creator
		
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			and you're constantly being tested. What will you
		
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			do? Now what how does Allah test us?
		
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			Allah test us with
		
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			with good and with bad.
		
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			So a child was just born to you
		
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			and the birth was very easy for your
		
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			wife. You have a beautiful baby boy,
		
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			this is a test.
		
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			Everything went wrong and she is in the
		
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			ER and your child is struggling or may
		
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			have bone and disability is also a test.
		
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			So when everything is going good, you're being
		
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			tested. When everything is going really bad, you're
		
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			also being tested.
		
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			Now, you don't control your circumstances.
		
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			You do not control your circumstances.
		
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			One day, things are going great. You're healthy.
		
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			You're strong.
		
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			And the other day, things are really bad.
		
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			You get diagnosed with an illness. A relative
		
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			may die. You may lose your job. This
		
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			is life. This is the test. Now,
		
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			how do you pass those tests? That's your
		
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			job. How do you pass those tests?
		
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			Gratitude
		
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			with things that when things are going great,
		
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			patience when things are going bad.
		
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			Your whole life is between those 2.
		
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			Oh Allah, make us among those that have
		
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			patience during difficulty
		
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			and are grateful during prosperity.
		
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			And if you do those two things,
		
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			you will live your life
		
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			the way you're meant to. Now it doesn't
		
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			mean
		
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			this is the thing. A lot of people
		
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			think it's a trade off. I will be
		
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			a good Muslim thus I deserve a good
		
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			life today. No. Who told you that? This
		
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			is why one time someone asked a question,
		
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			they said,
		
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			if Muslims are right,
		
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			why do Muslims
		
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			suffer?
		
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			Right. Answer, who told you that suffering
		
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			is an indication of truthfulness or falsehood right
		
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			from wrong? Who told you that? The idea
		
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			that you should be Where where did that
		
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			come from? Rasool alaihi wa sallam wasn't rich.
		
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			Right? His house for 2 months they wouldn't
		
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			cook.
		
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			Right?
		
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			In many battles
		
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			they were on the losing end.
		
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			Prophet Musa
		
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			wasn't as powerful as Firaun.
		
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			Right? He wasn't eating as lavish as Firaun,
		
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			etcetera, etcetera.
		
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			The idea that
		
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			suffering is an indication
		
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			of righteousness or or or you're suffering, therefore
		
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			you're bad. That's what's gonna happen in the
		
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			end times. In the end times, the followers
		
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			of the Dajjal will live prosperous lives.
		
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			The followers of the Dajjal will live the
		
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			most prosperous of lives.
		
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			Abundance of food and they will be enjoying
		
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			themselves and those that reject the dajal and
		
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			stay upon faith, they will struggle.
		
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			So if we make the benchmark, you know
		
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			what? If you have a good house and
		
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			a good car and a good job, you
		
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			must be upon the haqq. Then when the
		
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			jail comes and he's giving all this free
		
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			stuff for those that reject faith and follow
		
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			him,
		
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			are we gonna do that?
		
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			This is not the
		
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			way. This is very important to understand that
		
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			we have to and,
		
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			eventually Allah says always,
		
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			and the end
		
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			victory.
		
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			Underline the word end.
		
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			Eventually the victory will be to those who
		
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			have taqwa. You will be victorious when you
		
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			meet Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. You will be
		
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			victorious when you go to Jannah. And I
		
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			would you for all the worship that you've
		
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			done, all the patience that you've done. But
		
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			to think that that means in this world
		
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			you will be rich beyond your dreams and
		
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			you will have a good life. This is
		
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			not the case.
		
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			And this is why when some people say,
		
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			you know what,
		
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			I,
		
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			they treat their worship or as a trade
		
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			off for dunya.
		
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			I should be a good Muslim so that
		
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			Allah treats me well and gives me a
		
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			good job or that's not necessarily the case.
		
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			Allah when you start praying,
		
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			Allah may test even more.
		
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			When you start,
		
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			being serious about your deen, you might get
		
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			tested with more problems.
		
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			And you have to persevere because
		
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			that's what happened to the prophets. The prophets
		
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			said in hadith,
		
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			Those who suffer the most with trials are
		
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			the prophets.
		
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			Then the ones who's the most closest to
		
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			them, that's how it goes.
		
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			So,
		
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			you being tested by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			with many difficulties
		
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			is not an indication of you being far
		
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			away from the truth or you being wrong,
		
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			or you being punished.
		
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			You must have patience and take it,
		
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			and accept it,
		
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			and have patience,
		
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			and look it within,
		
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			and remember that this dunya is temporary.
		
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			And that, in the end of the day
		
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			as long as Allah has pleased you nothing
		
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			else matters. As long as Allah's pleased with
		
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			you nothing else matters.
		
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			On top of that we as Muslims, this
		
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			is important to mention. In this ayah Allah
		
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			is teaching us a very important point. What
		
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			is Allah teaching us here? Allah says,
		
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			did you think?
		
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			That you will enter
		
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			Without such trials as those that came before
		
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			you has passed you? Has happened to you?
		
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			Now, I want to take tell you a
		
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			story that happened to one of the companions.
		
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			In Mecca,
		
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			the companions are few in number,
		
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			and they are suffering,
		
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			and they are being tortured
		
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			and abused
		
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			and beaten
		
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			and insulted.
		
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			Now think about this.
		
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			Think about,
		
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			this is also one of the things that
		
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			we should be grateful for Allah Subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala. And Allah did not Allah did not
		
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			test us with this. Think about this. You
		
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			live in Makkah and you're a regular person.
		
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			And you hear from Muhammad preaching to about
		
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			Islam. But you you understand how it works.
		
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			Okay? Well, if I accept his his his
		
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			faith, if I believe, if I reject idol
		
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			worship, I will also be insulted,
		
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			I will also be beaten, I will also
		
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			be ostracized from the community, I may be
		
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			killed.
		
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			To have so much faith and belief that
		
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			you're willing to take that suffering because you
		
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			believe in that truth. This is true, iman.
		
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			In that case we have it a lot
		
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			easier. Do we not? We have it a
		
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			lot easier. And they would believe and then
		
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			they would be suffering.
		
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			And they would know that, they So one
		
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			time they went to the prophet and they
		
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			said,
		
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			enough is enough. Are we not upon the
		
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			truth?
		
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			Why is Quraysh doing all of this and
		
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			all of this and over there? Alasna alal
		
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			haqq. Are we not upon the truth?
		
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			And the prophet
		
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			said, the people that came before you this
		
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			is very important. What does Allah say here?
		
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			That you will have you do you think
		
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			you're going to go to Jannah?
		
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			Without being, without going through what the people
		
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			that came before you went through. They were
		
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			afflicted with poverty,
		
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			difficulty,
		
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			until they were shaken.
		
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			The prophet said,
		
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			the ones that came before you,
		
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			the one man will be brought
		
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			and they would put a saw
		
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			right there on his head
		
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			and carve him in 2,
		
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			killing him in that gruesome manner,
		
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			just to denounce
		
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			faith. And they would preserve it.
		
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			So in other words,
		
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			there were people that suffered more
		
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			than the suffering of
		
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			Of the prophet said there are people that
		
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			suffered more for Islam than you currently are,
		
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			although they were suffering. And we can say
		
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			to ourselves there are people that have suffered
		
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			for Islam more than we are today. Right?
		
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			The prophet said then, victory will come. Allah
		
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			has promised,
		
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			but you guys are rushing.
		
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			Have patience. And they did have patience. And
		
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			it took years.
		
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			For 3 years,
		
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			they were boycotted where they couldn't even buy
		
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			food because they were Muslims. And many of
		
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			them were killed. Some of them had to
		
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			go to foreign lands to Abyssinia.
		
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			But eventually
		
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			they moved from Mecca. They went to Medina.
		
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			And slowly but surely the Muslim community became
		
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			stronger
		
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			and stronger, bigger and bigger, until they came
		
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			back, conquered Mecca, freed from idolatry, and then
		
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			the result was, alhamdulillah, great.
		
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			But the suffering happened. They struggled.
		
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			And they they struggled personally, they struggled as
		
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			a community. Many of their kin,
		
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			family members
		
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			died and suffered.
		
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			And sometimes, you may not live long enough
		
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			to see the eventual victory of the believers
		
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			but or sometimes the testing is tailored to
		
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			you personally.
		
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			Sometimes you're being tested in your home. Sometimes
		
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			you're being tested with your health. Sometimes you're
		
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			being tested and you have to stay strong.
		
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			Now,
		
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			what is our job?
		
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			When an affliction happens to you and Allah
		
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			tests to you? You control what you do,
		
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			what you say, and how you react. That's
		
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			what you control. I'll give you guys an
		
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			example.
		
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			Someone loses their child.
		
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			This is one of the most painful experiences
		
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			one can go through, losing a loved one,
		
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			losing your own child.
		
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			Now if you then
		
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			start saying this is not fair,
		
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			why did it happen to me?
		
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			Then you're saying things you're not supposed to.
		
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			You're not passing the test, rather you are
		
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			failing it.
		
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			If you,
		
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			in your heart,
		
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			start getting angry
		
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			at who? Who can you get angry at?
		
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			Who took the the the life? Who gives
		
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			life or takes life? Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			So in your heart you must accept it.
		
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			But does that mean you don't feel sadness
		
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			and sorrow? Well, of course you feel sadness
		
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			and sorrow. And look at the prophet salallahu
		
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			alayhi wa sallam what he said. When he's
		
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			lost his old son
		
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			and the prophet
		
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			is an example,
		
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			of someone
		
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			who lived a life
		
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			of sadness and tragedy.
		
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			He was he was orphaned at a young
		
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			age, never met his father, lost his mother
		
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			at a young age, lost his grandfather at
		
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			a young age,
		
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			then he,
		
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			lost his wife and an uncle in the
		
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			same year, then he saw his suffering,
		
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			And he saw his friends being beaten and
		
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			assaulted. And then he lost all of his
		
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			children in his lifetime, except for 1. Only
		
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			Fatima died after him. All he saw all
		
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			he buried all of his children
		
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			except Fatima who died 6 months after him.
		
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			So the prophet in his life saw a
		
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			lot of suffering. And when he had his
		
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			son Ibrahim and his Ibrahim and he was
		
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			holding him and and, the prophet cried. His
		
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			his just a baby son just died here.
		
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			Prophet cried
		
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			and cried.
		
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			And he said,
		
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			indeed the heart feels sadness.
		
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			So that's
		
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			okay. That's fine.
		
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			And the eyes have tears. That's also fine.
		
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			But look what he said.
		
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			We will not say
		
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			except that which pleases Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			So when you're diagnosed with an illness,
		
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			when you're having problems with your wife or
		
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			vice versa,
		
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			when your children are not listening to you,
		
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			when you lose your job, when you're having
		
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			difficulty going well, it could be if you're
		
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			struggling with your mother. Right? Yeah. You don't
		
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			understand each other. It could be relationship. It
		
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			could be finance. It could be health. It
		
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			could be anything. Anything really.
		
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			Your job is to never say something that
		
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			dis dis dis
		
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			dis dis dis Allah. Right? Control that
		
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			and and and have patience and inshallah you
		
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			will pass the test.
		
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			That's your job.
		
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			So they were tested, and what touched them
		
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			was poverty.
		
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			So it could be that because I'll give
		
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			you guys an example. Someone is working. They
		
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			don't allow him to pay jum'ah. He leaves
		
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			his job. Then he struggles to pay the
		
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			rent. This is a test from Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala that you did the right thing.
		
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			If you left your job because you don't
		
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			let you pay jum'ah, you did the right
		
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			thing. Allah test you. Allah may test you
		
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			with poverty now. Look, will you go back
		
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			to the job that was denying you to
		
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			pray or will you persevere and Allah will
		
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			give you something better inshallah. This is the
		
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			way of the Muslim. You're being tested by
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			They were tested with illness and ailments and
		
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			and and and and
		
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			and and general difficulty. Right?
		
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			They were shaken.
		
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			They were shaken
		
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			because of their enemies.
		
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			Right? And what happened to the prophet was,
		
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			that they were surrounded
		
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			by people that wanted to kill them. By
		
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			people that hated Islam and Muslims and
		
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			they were shaken in Surat Al Hazar, all
		
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			Mohammed says was
		
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			They were shaken very harshly. Meaning, what does
		
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			that mean?
		
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			They're they
		
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			they were very
		
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			scared, anxious,
		
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			worried,
		
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			but they stayed firm.
		
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			Now what the Sahaba went through, what many
		
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			Muslims went through in the past, what many
		
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			Muslims are maybe going through today,
		
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			This is Allah testing their faith. You remember,
		
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			you won't enter Jannah. Allah is saying, do
		
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			you think you're gonna just enter Jannah without
		
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			being tested? You will be tested.
		
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			It went it went to such an extreme
		
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			level.
		
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			Until even the messenger
		
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			and those who believed along with him said,
		
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			When will the help of Allah come?
		
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			When will Allah ask the question?
		
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			Because Allah promised.
		
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			Allah will save the believers. Allah will aid
		
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			the believers. Allah is with the believers. Those
		
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			are promise that were made, but they were
		
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			pushed so far, they actually said, when will
		
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			the help of Allah come? And does Allah
		
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			indeed, certainly
		
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			the help of Allah is near.
		
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			So when you do what's when you have
		
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			patience, the help of us Allah is near.
		
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			There's a general principle you have to remember.
		
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			Usually,
		
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			the aid of Allah
		
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			relief
		
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			comes
		
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			when you're pushed
		
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			to your limits.
		
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			Right? Imam Shafiq used to say,
		
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			Get worse o calamity
		
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			because at your worst is when
		
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			aid will come. So almost like do your
		
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			worst. Because when it gets really tough, that's
		
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			when Allah helps you. And you have to
		
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			have patience. Allah says in the Quran. Allah
		
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			says in the Quran
		
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			about droughts and rain.
		
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			When a community is suffering from a drought
		
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			and they're waiting for rain, Allah says,
		
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			Allah is the one that brings about rain,
		
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			After they give up hope.
		
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			So,
		
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			it's only when things get really difficult that
		
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			Allah's aid come. Allah's aid will come. You
		
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			just have to stay strong
		
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			and persevere,
		
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			and Allah
		
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			will always come.
		
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			Now, in this ayah, you're learning about
		
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			the,
		
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			the the difficulties
		
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			that you may go through as a believer.
		
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			Badr, the Muslims were fighting the kuffar, and
		
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			Allah, when things got really difficult, aided them
		
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			with the angels.
		
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			And one is going through a drought, when
		
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			things get really difficult, Allah will aid you
		
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			with rain, etcetera, etcetera. You're searching for a
		
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			job. You're searching for a job. You're searching
		
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			for a job. You're you're almost about to
		
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			give up.
		
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			And also Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala opens a
		
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			door for you. If you're a true believer,
		
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			these things Allah will open. The the the
		
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			the the,
		
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			victory and the help and the aid of
		
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			Allah will come.
		
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			But until it arrives,
		
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			be a good believer and it may take
		
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			a very long time. How many years was
		
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			Ayub sick? Who can tell me? Prophet Ayub,
		
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			how many years was he sick?
		
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			Some of the wise mentioned 16 years he
		
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			was better than 16 years after Allah,
		
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			Allah gave him health.
		
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			Right. So
		
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			and what did the prophet say to Khabab
		
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			and the Sahaba?
		
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			You guys
		
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			are rushing and hurrying. So when Allah promises
		
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			victory, when Allah promises
		
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			aid, when Allah promises help, it doesn't mean
		
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			that it's gonna happen just like that.
		
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			So we need to exercise patience and we
		
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			need to ensure we are passing the trials
		
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			that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala puts us through.
		
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			Now here in this aya, there's one type
		
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			of trial that's mentioned. This is the trial
		
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			of difficulty, hunger,
		
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			poverty,
		
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			fear, these kind of things.
		
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			But the other trial is very dangerous and
		
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			that's the one people neglect the most.
		
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			When you have prosperity
		
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			and affluent and richness and food, abundant
		
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			fridges that are full, jobs, children, these are
		
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			also tests.
		
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			Tests. And this is the one that most
		
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			people will fail at because
		
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			a question was posed one time. What's easier,
		
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			to be patient during difficulty
		
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			or grateful during prosperity?
		
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			What do you guys think? Which one do
		
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			you guys think is easier?
		
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			To be patient?
		
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			I'll give you guys an example.
		
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			Who in the past year or so, or
		
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			the past month or so, or the past
		
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			week or so had a headache? Most of
		
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			us would say, yeah. Yeah. I had a
		
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			headache. Right?
		
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			But Now when you have a headache,
		
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			you the idea Okay. You have to have
		
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			Sabah. You have to have Sabah.
		
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			You know you have patience.
		
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			That's a natural thing. Right?
		
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			Okay.
		
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			What about when you don't have a headache?
		
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			Do you remember to be grateful?
		
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			Do you tend to oh, you know what?
		
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			Today I'm actually feeling healthy.
		
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			Let me be grateful to Allah. Thank you
		
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			Allah for a healthy day. Does that come
		
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			to your mind? It doesn't really come to
		
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			your mind. That's the thing. Right? We tend
		
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			to remember Allah more when we are in
		
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			difficulty.
		
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			Right? All of a sudden you're something really
		
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			is happening. Think about it. Something
		
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			bad is happening to you. You'll pray qiyam.
		
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			You'll make dua. Oh Allah. I need you.
		
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			Oh Allah. Right? All of a sudden you
		
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			click it to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			This is why
		
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			one of the benefits of calamities,
		
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			difficulty,
		
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			problems,
		
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			health issues, one of the benefits
		
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			is
		
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			that you go back to Allah.
		
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			But if Allah just let you stay healthy,
		
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			you would probably never went back to Allah
		
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			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. That's why I'm I'm I'm
		
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			I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm used to say
		
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			a power up. He used to say
		
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			a calamity that brings me closer to my
		
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			creator is more beloved to me than prosperity
		
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			that takes me away from my creator.
		
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			If I'm healthy for 10 years straight and
		
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			never get sick, and because of that I
		
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			never ask Allah for health, I never make
		
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			dua to Allah. Everything is going if everything
		
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			is going for you, everything you when are
		
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			you gonna make dua?
		
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			When are you gonna make way if if
		
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			everything was perfect, you would not you'd forget
		
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			to even make dua. Right? But every time,
		
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			oh, Allah grant me this, oh, help me
		
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			with this. So we need Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala. But you need to condition yourself to
		
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			ask to be connected to Allah even in
		
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			times of good.
		
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			Even in times of good you need to
		
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			condition yourself to to an uh-uh connect yourself
		
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			to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Because it's not
		
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			enough that we only go back to Allah
		
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			in times of difficulty, we should always go
		
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			back to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And we
		
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			always need Allah.
		
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			Bayim, let's continue.
		
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			Do you think?
		
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			And the trials that came to those that
		
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			came before you have not passed to you
		
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			yet.
		
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			They were afflicted with severe poverty and ailments
		
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			until they were shaken.
		
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			So bad
		
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			that even the messenger
		
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			and those with him that believed said,
		
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			the aid of Allah come.
		
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			The aid and the help of Allah is
		
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			close.
		
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			Muhammad they will ask
		
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			you. What they should spend. This ayah
		
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			is teaching you
		
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			how to spend,
		
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			how to give sadaqa. Who Moses said who
		
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			to give sadaqa to. And it's mentioned that
		
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			one of the Sahaba,
		
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			he wanted to give charity and he asked
		
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			the prophet, who is the most deserving of
		
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			my charity?
		
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			And in this ayah you will learn. It
		
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			is not speaking about zakat,
		
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			rather it's speaking about sadaqa.
		
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			The zakat
		
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			the zakat,
		
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			the people that get it are mentioned. There
		
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			are 8 categories of people, 8 types of
		
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			people that receive zakat. Those are mentioned Surah
		
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			Tawba.
		
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			8 of them are mentioned.
		
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			Right? Those the zakat is given to 8
		
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			types of people. The poor,
		
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			the needy,
		
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			those that help distribute the zakat, are paid
		
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			from the zakat,
		
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			Those that are in debt.
		
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			Those that are in captivity.
		
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			Those that are the travelers that have don't
		
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			don't have enough.
		
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			And others as well. Right?
		
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			Those are the categories of zakat.
		
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			In this ayah you're learning about sadaqah.
		
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			Right? Voluntary charity. Who is the most deserving?
		
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			Who should you give? They
		
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			ask you, oh Mohammed.
		
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			What they should spend?
		
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			Say
		
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			whatever you spend of good, if you go
		
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			first to your parents,
		
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			to the parents.
		
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			And
		
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			to your kin
		
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			and relatives.
		
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			And the orphans,
		
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			and the poor,
		
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			and the wayfarer, the traveler,
		
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			And whatever good that you do,
		
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			indeed Allah is aware and knows it well.
		
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			So here you've learned of those that are
		
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			the most deserving
		
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			of your voluntary
		
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			charity. Not the zakat but your sadaqa.
		
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			Your parents,
		
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			your relatives,
		
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			the orphans,
		
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			the needy,
		
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			the travelers,
		
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			these are the ones I mentioned.
		
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			A lot of times we overlook
		
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			that if you have the opportunity
		
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			to support your parents,
		
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			that is a good sadaqah to do. And
		
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			you get the reward of being beautiful to
		
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			them and the reward of charity.
		
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			If you have relatives that are in need,
		
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			then it is better to give it to
		
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			them than to give it to any other
		
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			cause.
		
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			Very important principle.
		
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			It is better for you to give to
		
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			your relatives who are in need than a
		
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			person that is not your relative that that
		
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			is in need. So if you have the
		
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			choice between giving a £100
		
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			to someone that you're related to,
		
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			that is your kin, that is in need,
		
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			or
		
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			some random person that is also in need,
		
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			you get more reward if if you give
		
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			it to your relative because why? You are
		
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			not only giving him but you're also keeping
		
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			the ties of kinship.
		
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			2 separate acts of worship. We are ordered
		
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			by Allah and the Messenger to keep the
		
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			ties of kinship, meaning
		
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			stay connected
		
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			to your relatives.
		
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			Visit them, help them, aid them. Familiar ties
		
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			need to be strong.
		
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			Now with that £100 that you give to
		
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			your relative,
		
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			you aided him if he was in difficulty
		
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			and you also strengthened the bond as a
		
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			family.
		
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			Those are two things that are you doing
		
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			and
		
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			for both. This is why the sunnah is
		
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			that if you have the option
		
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			to you have you have to choose between
		
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			giving it to relatives and non relatives, then
		
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			it is relatives. There is exceptions. What are
		
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			the exceptions? Let's say the one that is
		
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			in your relative is in more dire need,
		
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			then of course you give it to them.
		
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			But other than that, generally speaking,
		
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			the sadaqa that you give to your parents
		
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			and your relatives,
		
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			there's more reward in it because not only
		
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			is it sadaqa, it's also.
		
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			It's also
		
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			In your life, if you come across orphans,
		
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			whether it is on a poster,
		
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			an announcement,
		
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			or those that you know, there is so
		
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			much barakah
		
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			in helping the orphans. There is so much
		
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			blessings in helping the orphans. The prophet
		
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			those who sponsor,
		
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			close to him by helping orphans. So we
		
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			all earn wages.
		
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			Imagine you set aside a portion of your
		
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			wages
		
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			and then you say I'm going to sponsor
		
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			an orphan. This is a great thing that
		
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			you can do. It may be the reason
		
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			Allah gives you Jannah.
		
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			Right? It may be the reason Allah gives
		
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			you Jannah, and
		
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			the needy. You have to understand my brothers.
		
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			Sometimes when you read these ayaats, you understand
		
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			the kind of person Allah wants us to
		
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			be. We're the kind of people that not
		
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			only focus on personal
		
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			worship, not only are we meant to be
		
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			the the people that pray and are connected
		
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			to the creator, but we are meant to
		
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			be the ones that are the most beneficial
		
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			to society. That we are aiding the widows
		
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			and the orphans, the poor and the needy,
		
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			the travelers, our parents keeping bonds
		
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			of of kin and and our family members.
		
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			This is the kind of person
		
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			that Allah wants us to be.
		
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			The most deserving of Allah's rama, the most
		
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			deserving of existing and being is the one
		
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			that lives his life like this. And we
		
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			should try our best to to get as
		
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			close to that as possible.
		
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			They ask you, oh, Muhammad
		
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			what they should spend or who they should
		
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			spend on. Whatever good that you spend,
		
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			for your 2 parents.
		
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			And your relatives.
		
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			And the orphans.
		
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			By the way, the an orphan ceases to
		
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			be an orphan in Islam the moment that
		
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			they hit puberty and they go up. So
		
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			orphans are the young ones. So an 18
		
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			year old
		
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			who lost his dad is not necessarily an
		
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			orphan from an Islam perspective. You could still
		
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			help them if they need to, but they,
		
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			orphans are the younger ones, if that makes
		
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			any sense.
		
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			And the needy,
		
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			and
		
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			the wayfarer.
		
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			But someone is traveling, they need to go
		
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			somewhere, but they don't have, enough.
		
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			If you help them, there's a great reward
		
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			in this as well.
		
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			And whatever good you do,
		
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			Allah knows it well. Allah will reward you
		
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			for it. And this is what you have
		
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			to every good thing that you do, Allah
		
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			sees and Allah will reward you for it.
		
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			Now,
		
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			Allah mentions
		
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			in this following aya, aya number 216,
		
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			the ayah related to fighting
		
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			and war.
		
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			And that
		
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			the Sahaba
		
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			and and the believers, Allah mentions their relationship
		
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			with the enemies of Islam.
		
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			And they went through several stages.
		
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			One stage they went through was when Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala said,
		
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			Keep your hands away from them and establish
		
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			the prayer. Don't engage with the enemy.
		
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			During their worst times, when they were suffering,
		
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			they were told, do not engage. Disengage, leave
		
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			them be.
		
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			Their their their their their their
		
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			their whipping and hitting and abusing and insulting,
		
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			leave it.
		
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			Then another stage,
		
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			turn your face away from the ignorant.
		
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			Then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentioned
		
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			forgive them and let go.
		
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			But when things got worse and worse and
		
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			worse eventually Allah says in Surah Al Hajj
		
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			It has been given permission.
		
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			Permission has been granted.
		
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			All this time it was patience, patience, patience,
		
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			patience.
		
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			Permission has been granted.
		
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			Those that have been fought against
		
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			and have been oppressed
		
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			to fight back.
		
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			And Allah is able
		
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			and all capable
		
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			of aiding them and helping them. So when
		
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			they've been pushed, finally they were given permission
		
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			to push back.
		
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			When they were fought against, finally they were
		
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			given permission
		
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			permission to fight back. Now fighting back isn't
		
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			easy.
		
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			At first you're like, yes, let's defeat the
		
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			enemy. They've done this to us. They've done
		
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			this to us. The Sahaba, for 13 years
		
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			they were suffering. Finally they were given permission
		
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			to fight back.
		
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			But
		
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			that's not as easy.
		
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			That involves sacrifice. You may lose your life.
		
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			You may lose your wealth. Your children may
		
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			be may be orphaned, so you may not
		
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			be encouraged.
		
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			In this ayah,
		
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			Allah is encouraging the believers.
		
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			Allah is encouraging the believers.
		
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			Allah mentions
		
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			fighting in Allah's cause has been made
		
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			an obligation upon you, has been written for
		
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			you.
		
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			While you dislike it.
		
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			No one likes to put their lives on
		
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			the line.
		
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			No one likes to put to engage the
		
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			enemy.
		
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			No one likes to be in the front
		
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			lines.
		
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			And then
		
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			and it may be that you dislike something,
		
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			it is good for you. Rather, it is
		
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			good for
		
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			you. Example would be the battle of Badr.
		
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			It may be it may have been difficult.
		
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			They were outnumbered.
		
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			They were outnumbered.
		
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			So it was also almost like a guarantee.
		
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			They were outnumbered 3 to 1. How are
		
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			you going to defeat an army that's 3
		
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			to 1?
		
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			How are you gonna put your life on
		
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			the line like this?
		
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			And Allah is telling them, well, I felt
		
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			Allah has made it it's it's been written
		
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			for you to do, and you may dislike
		
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			it. But it may be that you dislike
		
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			something, but it is better for you. Why?
		
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			What were the benefits that they gained from
		
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			it? Number 1, when they finally engaged the
		
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			enemy, when they finally fought back against the
		
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			enemy, first of all, they were recognized
		
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			as a force in Arabia to be reckoned
		
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			with, to be respected.
		
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			Right? No more were they the bullied.
		
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			No more were they that they stood up.
		
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			2, they actually defeated their enemy
		
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			and that aided in the dawah. Now the
		
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			prophet
		
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			could spread Islam more freely. It wasn't that
		
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			they were constantly being hunted.
		
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			The benefit of it was those that died
		
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			gained martyrdom and went to Jannah.
		
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			Those that were injured were rewarded by Allah
		
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			for their injuries. Those that fought with the
		
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			prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, they gained their
		
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			rank. And think about it. We're using Badr
		
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			as an example.
		
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			The sahaba that participate in the Badr.
		
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			Right? Now first I want you to imagine
		
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			standing there against
		
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			the bloodthirsty
		
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			Uraish.
		
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			The Sahaba are there.
		
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			And they are outnumbered.
		
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			And and they have to fight in in
		
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			the heat, in the desert. Right? All of
		
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			these difficulties.
		
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			And
		
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			one day, they defeat the enemy Alhamdulillah.
		
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			One day, Eder Jibril came to the prophet
		
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			and
		
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			said,
		
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			what do you guys say about those that
		
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			participate in the Badr?
		
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			And the prophet said,
		
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			we consider them the best among us.
		
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			And the angel Jibreel said, so do we.
		
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			The angels that participate in Badr
		
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			are considered the best among the angels.
		
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			Look at the rank they've they enjoyed. And
		
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			then the prophet said, oh people of Badr.
		
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			300 and something sahawa. O people of Badr.
		
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			Do whatever you want. You have been forgiven
		
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			by Allah.
		
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			You have been forgiven by that that that
		
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			wasn't a that wasn't a
		
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			a free ticket to do haram by the
		
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			way. When the hadith some people take it
		
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			kafirs. What does it mean do whatever you
		
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			want to do? It means that no matter
		
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			what
		
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			you
		
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			end up doing, you have your place in
		
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			Jannah.
		
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			You've been forgiven.
		
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			That's why there was one companion,
		
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			Hatayb ibn Abi Beltah.
		
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			This companion Hatayb ibn Abi Beltah.
		
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			When the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was
		
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			planning to to to invade Mecca,
		
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			because they broke the treaty. There was a
		
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			peace treaty that the Quraysh broke, and then
		
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			the prophet said, Halas broke the treaty. So
		
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			now we're going to,
		
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			invade Mecca.
		
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			His family was in Mecca, Hadib. So he
		
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			wrote a letter
		
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			telling them we are the the Sahaba are
		
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			coming. We we are coming. And and it
		
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			wasn't meant this was a secret. It was
		
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			a state secret that you couldn't give. But
		
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			he wrote a letter
		
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			and he wanted to send it to to
		
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			to to Mecca,
		
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			because he was thinking that
		
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			his family is behind enemy lines. And just
		
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			in case they are used,
		
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			as hostages or this and this to happen,
		
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			they they at least know what's happening. So
		
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			he gave them the information.
		
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			Of course the prophet, Allah told him, and
		
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			Jibreel told him. And then the woman that
		
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			he gave him to, the prophet sent Zubair
		
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			and Ali to get the letter from the
		
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			woman that took it. So she was traveling
		
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			and he said, you have a letter with
		
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			you. She said, I don't have a letter
		
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			with me. And so the prophet told us
		
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			you have a letter with you. Unless you
		
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			want us to to to look for it,
		
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			give us the letter. And she tried to
		
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			insist she doesn't but she did. So they
		
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			found the letter. They come back and then
		
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			when the prophet sees the letter and the
		
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			sahabit, this is now,
		
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			spilling the beans. Right? Telling Qurays that they're
		
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			coming.
		
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			Now
		
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			he's probably a hypocrite. Let me cut off
		
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			his neck.
		
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			How dare he do this? And the prophet
		
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			said,
		
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			he's he participated in Badr.
		
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			He participated in Do you not know he
		
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			is a participant of Badr? Let him explain
		
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			himself. And he explained himself.
		
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			The point is,
		
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			right, participating in Badr came in handy, didn't
		
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			it?
		
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			Very handy. Right? Now
		
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			that was a battle.
		
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			Battles are not easy,
		
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			but look at this eye. Now read this
		
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			eye with that in mind.
		
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			Fighting has been written out for you and
		
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			made obligated upon you.
		
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			While you dislike it.
		
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			And maybe they dislike something.
		
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			But it's better for you. Wasn't it better
		
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			for the Sahaba that came Jannah? Wasn't it
		
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			better for the for the for the believers?
		
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			Wasn't it better for Hadik as well? All
		
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			the can come out of it. And
		
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			here Allah teaches something very important.
		
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			This is almost like a life lesson.
		
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			It may be that you like something, love
		
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			something,
		
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			but it is bad for you. It is
		
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			bad for
		
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			you. Allah knows
		
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			and you do not know. This is very
		
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			important. When Allah legislates something,
		
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			Allah knows what's better for us and Allah
		
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			knows what's bad for us. And if we
		
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			as Muslim internalize that, wallahi, you will learn
		
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			so much. So the the the fari'ullah of
		
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			jihad,
		
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			the act of worship of jihad when it
		
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			was prescribed upon the believers, this is better
		
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			for them. There is khair in it for
		
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			them. Right? Now in previous lessons we spoke
		
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			about the principles of jihad, what it means,
		
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			who does it, when is it done, and
		
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			we mentioned very clearly
		
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			that what is practiced by some indiscriminately
		
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			killing the innocent, the innocent, Muslims, innocent non
		
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			Muslims. Oh, that has nothing to do with
		
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			what what we are talking about. Has nothing
		
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			to do with what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			is talking about. And those people are criminals.
		
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			They're Mujurims.
		
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			But
		
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			after what happens is
		
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			because
		
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			the the term jihad,
		
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			to struggle in the way of Allah,
		
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			to fight for the sake of Allah,
		
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			because it has now been associated with people
		
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			that are terrorists,
		
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			people that are killing innocents, when it's been
		
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			associated with that,
		
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			we almost forgot this
		
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			glorified
		
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			act of worship for
		
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			where one is willing to give up their
		
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			life
		
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			for Allah.
		
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			Badar and Uhud and Hazab and Handak, etcetera
		
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			etcetera. And that was not the only one.
		
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			That's not the only one. Muslims throughout time
		
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			have been fighting and warding off against the
		
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			enemies of of of Islam, and Allah will
		
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			reward them for it if they have the
		
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			right intention. If they have the right intention.
		
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			Now,
		
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			here you're being taught it may be that
		
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			you're like well that's not necessarily a good
		
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			thing. And sometimes the prophet would have to
		
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			draft the companions.
		
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			And this may happen also sometimes, you know,
		
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			countries they draft the people to fight,
		
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			and
		
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			one might be thinking, Oh, this is bad.
		
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			And I don't want to. And it happened
		
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			in time of the Sahaba, where some Sahaba
		
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			prefer to stay home.
		
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			They prefer to stay home. They didn't want
		
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			to. Right? It's a lot of things, you
		
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			know arrows and swords and spears and dangers
		
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			and you don't know if you're gonna survive,
		
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			But Allah mentioned,
		
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			Allah
		
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			mentioned,
		
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			Why is it that you were told to
		
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			to to go and fight in the way
		
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			of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and go and
		
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			march forth? You stay behind.
		
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			You plant your feet,
		
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			you cower. Why is this?
		
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			Are you pleased with this lowly world?
		
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			But Allah is so so this was the
		
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			messaging that was being given and one must
		
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			remember the lofty goals attained through fighting the
		
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			way of Allah
		
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			when protecting the believers and the Muslims,
		
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			the spread of Islam,
		
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			the, the, oppression being lifted, and also the
		
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			personal reward one gains for being one that
		
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			fights for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala. This is referring
		
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			to the following aya that we're going to
		
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			recite next week. We'll be talking in about
		
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			more about the details
		
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			of, fighting in Islam. What does it mean?
		
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			What is transgression?
		
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			And here, in
		
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			Allah mentions for example,
		
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			do not transgress.
		
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			A lot of what people do today is
		
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			transgress.
		
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			They are not doing what was described in
		
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			the Quran, the sunnah.
		
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			One more time.
		
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			Has been made obligatory upon you.
		
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			What is something that you dislike. And
		
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			it could be that you may dislike
		
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			something. It is better for you.
		
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			It may be that you like something, like
		
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			staying behind, like not engaging, like not praying,
		
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			like etcetera, all these things. Or huwa shoglakkom
		
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			and it is worse for you. This I
		
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			can be applied in so many things. A
		
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			neighbor that you like sleeping in, but it's
		
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			bad for you. A Enabey that you dislike
		
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			waking up early in the winter and come
		
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			to the masjid, but it is better for
		
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			you. Enabey that you don't like wearing the
		
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			hijab, but it is better for you. Enable
		
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			that you prefer not wearing it and it's
		
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			worse for you. So this is a that
		
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			you can,
		
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			apply to all asfidis of Islam And you
		
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			have to remember
		
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			whenever you have that in your heart, that
		
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			you feel that an act of worship is
		
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			difficult,
		
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			that you feel an act of worship is
		
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			something that
		
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			that comes easy to you.
		
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			The end of that desire. What's the Allah's
		
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			desire with?
		
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			Allah knows.
		
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			You do not know.
		
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			I was just reading some statistics on alcohol
		
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			just today. Very interesting.
		
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			Right?
		
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			That
		
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			one of the leading causes of death
		
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			in adult males in the UK is the
		
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			consumption of alcohol.
		
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			And the amount of problems it causes, especially
		
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			when you,
		
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			the concern of alcohol, the amount of diseases
		
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			it's causing,
		
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			and they say most violent crimes are committed
		
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			under the influence of alcohol.
		
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			Right? Most domestic abuse is committed under the
		
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			influence of alcohol.
		
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			Not to mention so many accidents that are
		
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			happening because of alcohol.
		
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			All of these things.
		
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			Right? Allah has made it haram.
		
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			Right? Allah has made it haram, but it
		
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			may it may be that you like something
		
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			and it is bad for you. Allah knows
		
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			you do not. You can apply it to
		
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			so many things.
		
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			Now, someone thinks that Allah has made haram
		
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			gambling
		
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			and alcohol for example. They're both haram.
		
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			Now when you combine them, look what you
		
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			get.
		
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			When you combine gambling and and drinking, people
		
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			lose everything.
		
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			Right? Allah
		
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			The laws of Allah are there to protect
		
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			mankind.
		
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			Right? Or imagine you,
		
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			combine
		
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			sexual immorality with alcohol.
		
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			What you get.
		
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			Right? Unwanted pregnancies
		
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			that leads to
		
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			abortions or teenage pregnancies
		
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			or this or that. All of these things.
		
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			All of so many problems can be avoided
		
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			if people listen to the creator. If people
		
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			listen to the creator, and our message is
		
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			to teach and spread the pure master of
		
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			Islam. Not only
		
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			that these problems could be avoided, but look
		
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			at the ayah previously,
		
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			they talking about
		
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			giving. Give to your parents,
		
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			give to the,
		
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			the needy, give to the orphans. So again,
		
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			when we listen to our creator we become
		
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			better people who care for others and avoid
		
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			immorality and sin and corruption.
		
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			And if everyone did that, we would have
		
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			a much more cohesive society where the orphan's
		
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			needs are being met, the parents are being
		
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			taken care of, the children are being taken
		
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			care of, and we're avoiding all of these
		
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			sins. And we understand, wallahi, if people just
		
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			understood that
		
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			Allah knows and we do not.
		
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			Allah knows what's better for us and we
		
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			do not. If this is understood, every prohibition
		
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			this is why we believe as Muslims.
		
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			Every single command Allah gives
		
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			is for the betterment of humanity.
		
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			Every single prohibition
		
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			Allah has made is also for the betterment
		
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			of humanity,
		
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			and also better for us as well. I
		
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			include here Barakal Afikum. We'll continue, next week.