Mustafa Abu Rayyan – Indeed All The Believers Are Brothers

Mustafa Abu Rayyan
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The conversation covers various struggles with pain and struggles with emotions, including feeling at home and struggling with emotions. It also touches on the crisis of global oppression and the importance of educating young Muslims and being aware of what's happening in the world. The responsibility of individuals to act as part of the Islam process is emphasized, along with the need for educators to be creative and share their experiences. The importance of protecting against evil behavior and being true believers is also emphasized.
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Inna alhamdulillahi nahmaduhu wa nastae'inuhu wa nastaghfiruhu

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wa na'udhu billahi min shururi anfusina wa

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min sayyi'ati i'malina man yahdihi allahu fala

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mudhila lah wa man yudhlil fala hadiya lah

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wa ashhadu an la ilaha illa allahu wahdahu

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la sharika lah wa ashhadu anna muhammadan abduhu

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wa rasuluhu wa safiyyuhu min khalqihi wa khaliluhu

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arsalahu allahu ila al nasi kaafatan basheeran wa

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nadheeran fa ballaghal risalata wa addal amanata wa

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nasahal ummah wa tarakana alal mahajatil baydaa layluha

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ka nahariha la yazighu anha illa halik fasalawatullahi

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wasalamu alayhi wa ala alihi wa ashabihi wa

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man ihtada bihaddihi wastanna bisunnatihi wa da'a

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bidawati ila yawmiddeen ya ayyuha allatheen aamanut taqullaha

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haqqa tuqatihi wa la tamutun illa wa antum

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muslimoon ya ayyuha an-nas taqu rabbakum allathee

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khalaqakum min nafsin wahidah wa khalaqa minha zawjaha

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wa battha minhuma rijalan kathiran wa nisaa wa

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attaqullaha allathee tasa'aluna bihi wa al-arhaam

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inna allaha kaana alaykum raqiba ya ayyuha allatheen

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aamanut taqullaha wa qulu qawlan sadeeda yusrih lakum

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a'malakum wa yaghfir lakum dhunubakum wa man yu'ti

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'illaha wa rasulahu faqad faaza fawzan azeema hibati

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fil-lahi wa fil-islam usikum wa nafsi

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bitaqwa allahi wal-ihsan fa inna allaha ma

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'allatheena taqaw wa allatheena hum muhsinoon my beloved

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brothers and sisters i start by praising allah

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subhanahu wa ta'ala and thanking him for

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indeed he is worthy and deserving of our

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constant praise and gratitude and i send blessings

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and salutations upon our beloved messenger muhammad salallahu

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alayhi wa salam my brothers, when i say

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this, my brothers this is a statement that

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we use a lot as muslims, brothers and

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sisters ikhwa, akhi this and ukhti that but

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the reason we say that is because we

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truly are meant to be brothers to each

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other and that means something i guarantee you

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that if you have family members that are

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suffering that you are emotionally at the very

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least suffering with them that you have empathy,

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that you feel that pain because of how

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close they are to you what makes muslims

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special and different is it is that relationship

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that we have with all who say la

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ilaha illallah like allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

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says in the quran innamal mu'minoona ikhwa indeed

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all the believers are brothers all of them

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and the moment someone says their shahada we

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welcome them to the greatest and biggest family

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in the world and with that comes a

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sense of responsibility towards each other with that

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comes a understanding of what it means to

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be united with that comes love wilaya, allah

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says in the quran wal mu'minoona wal mu'minati

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ba'duhum awliya'u ba'd indeed the believer men

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and the believing women are to each other

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awliya protectors, brothers, friends, loyal towards each other

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each one of us, our pain is the

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other's pain our joy is the other's joy

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that's what makes us unique that's what makes

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us special now let me ask you my

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brothers and sisters have we fulfilled the responsibility

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of being a true brotherhood as it relates

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to what's happening all over the world there

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are so many pain points in the muslim

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ummah so many and the prophet described us

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as one body like one body if one

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part is feeling pain, the whole body is

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awake at night and in fever if your

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toe is hurting, you are all day bothered

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the muslim ummah wherever they may be the

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east and the west and the whole world

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when they are suffering, we suffer with them

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that is what it means to be a

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muslim and that then turns into actions it's

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been almost a year that the onslaught on

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palestine the current onslaught as for the actual

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predicament the crisis the occupation has been going

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on for far too long we as the

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muslim ummah we mobilized we reacted we spoke

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out we felt the pain for the first

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three to four months then as it disappeared

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from the news cycles it disappeared from our

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minds it disappeared within our communities we got

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busy life continues they're still being bombed they're

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still being killed they're still being oppressed they

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have no medicine they have no help except

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and the little

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aid that comes to them and we go

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about our day sudan the rohingya brothers and

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sisters from myanmar all over the world different

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pain points i'm mentioning a few but there

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are so many how many of us are

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aware and constantly conscious of that and you

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might be wondering well sheikh how can we

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constantly be conscious of it and aware of

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it would you not be aware of it

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and conscious of it if it was your

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own flesh and blood brother yes you would

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what makes them different is it because they

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are far away no that care that pain

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in itself is an ibadah and it is

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from that pain from that concern from that

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worry that will make you raise your hands

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and make dua which is our greatest asset

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we have Allah raising our hands but when

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they are not on your mind then you

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will not even be able to make dua

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for them because you are not remembering them

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do you see the importance of being conscious

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of your brothers and sisters that at the

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very least we can stand in front of

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Allah and say Ya Allah I was powerless

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but I did what I could I was

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when it came to my dua I ensured

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I was remembering all of them at the

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very least and when I say the very

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least I'm not trying to minimize dua dua

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is the most powerful tool we have but

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it is a tool we all can engage

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in education many young Muslims are not aware

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of what's happening in the world they are

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not aware of the oppression that is taking

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place nor the systems that put this oppression

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in place to begin with they do not

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know the history they do not know currently

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what's happening in the world and we, and

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this is very relevant as now a new

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school year is starting we are getting ready

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to send them out for the education are

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we thinking about ensuring our young Muslims that

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are growing up the next generation are informed

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not just about their deen not just about

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the rights of Allah not just about Tauhid

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which is the essence of everything but they

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are also informed of what's happening in the

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world why are we fragmented who caused us

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to be fragmented what are the leading causes

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who from our family, from the Muslim brothers

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and sisters are suffering the most and what

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are some of the ways we can alleviate

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that what are some of the strategies we

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can put in place long term vision we

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speak about people like Salahuddin Al Ayubi a

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great hero, we speak about them but Salahuddin

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Al Ayubi grew up in a home he

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had a mother and father he was raised

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we need to think about the future generation

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do they care about the Ummah do we

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instill that in them and before that do

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we instill in them an attachment and love

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to Allah an attachment and love for the

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deen because if you have a love for

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Allah and a love for the deen you're

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going to love those who love Allah and

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the deen which are the fellow brothers and

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Muslims everywhere so what is my call here

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today for myself and for all of you

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number one don't abandon and forget your brothers

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and sisters at the very least do the

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most powerful thing which is raise your hands

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and make dua for them after your Salah

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at night when you're alone remember them just

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like you would remember your sibling, your cousin

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who's in the hospital that's the very least

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that we behave like the Ummah that we

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are my brothers and sisters we should also

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continue the great works that have been doing

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let's not take our foot off the gas

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we need to continue, let's not be reactionary

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there have been many movements that are celebrated

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that were movements that brought about reform and

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a lot of times there are certain things

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people talk about but what they forget is

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for every liberation for every civil right movement

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for every conquest there were those there were

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those that were putting the work inconsistently what

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we cannot expect is to do nothing or

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react for a little bit of time and

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not put the work in we need people

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that are educated we need people that care

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we need people that know their deen we

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need people that know the Quran and I'm

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not just talking about recitation we need people

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that understand what it means to be the

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inheritors of the prophets the upholders of justice

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the justice that the prophet came with we

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need to be people that understand that it

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is our collective responsibility as the Muslims to

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take humanity away from the many darknesses that

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they are in to the one true light,

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Al-Islam and those darknesses take different forms

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it is because of those darknesses that they

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are in the shirk that they are in

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the sins that they are in the hedonism

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that they are in the chasing of the

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dunya that they are in that is causing

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to be the oppressive people that they are

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calling them to Tawheed that responsibility is our

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responsibility but to do our job effectively to

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be the right type of ambassadors of Islam

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yes, we need ilm yes, we need ibadah

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yes, we need dua but we also need

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to understand that we need to do it

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together one ummah one ummah one body that

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we feel each other's pain and we work

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to remedy it to the best of our

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abilities my

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beloved brothers and sisters it is also important

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that we correct our mindsets number one Allah

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promised those who follow the path of the

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prophets who single their worship out for Allah

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the true believers in the end, they are

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the ones that will be victorious they are

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the ones that will have the end victory

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the end victory belongs to the pious so

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your responsibility is to be among the pious

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among the Muslims, among the worshippers that being

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said you are not promised that immediately you

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are not promised that right now and your

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responsibility is not just to aim that you

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are there when that victory when that happens

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but to be honored to be part of

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the process of that happening to be part

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of the process right that you are part

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of the process of the spreading of Islam

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and adl and justice that you are part

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of the process of alleviating suffering and injustice

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that you are part of the process of

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bringing about generations that worship Allah subhanahu wa

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ta'ala alone that's the honor there were

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many sahaba that lived in Mecca under oppression

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many sahaba that never saw an Arabia that

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said la ilaha illallah many sahaba that all

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they knew was a Mecca that was filled

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with idols that all they knew were Muslims

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that were being oppressed they didn't see Medina

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they didn't see the many victories the prophet

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had they didn't see the return to Mecca

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they didn't see the idols being removed they

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didn't see that but they were still victorious

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because they were part of the process and

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they were upon the Ibadah of Allah until

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the day they met Allah subhanahu wa ta

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'ala why is that important?

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because that protects us from feeling defeated because

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we have assurances that as long as we

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are on the right path that the end

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victory belongs to the believers and there may

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be tests as we are on this journey

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be part of the process be part of

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the solution be part of the Dawah be

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part of the mission of the prophet salallahu

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alayhi wasalam and that will take many forms

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and what we have to ask ourselves is

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as a mother what is my role?

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as a father what is my role?

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as a worker that works in a particular

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business what is my role?

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and each one of us there are certain

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things that we can all do we can

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all make dua we can all spend on

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that which will aid and help the ummah

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we can all speak out against the evil

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that we see and there are certain things

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that we can specialize in and do differently

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and that's extremely important my brothers and sisters

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it comes from a place of responsibility that

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we are able to stand in front of

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Allah and say yes ya Allah we truly

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did care for our ummah they truly were

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my brothers and the brotherhood of Islam does

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so much good for us it also eliminates

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the poison that is in our communities the

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poison of tribalism the poison of me and

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my brother against my cousin the poison of

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me and my brother against my cousin against

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the world this mentality that we are putting

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each other in little groups in Islam we

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do not divide each other based on any

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lines no tribal lines no borders in countries

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I am a Somali and you are a

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Saudi and you are a Pakistani and we

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don't care about each other no we are

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all Muslims and we all care about each

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other this is extremely important because the things

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that the deen came to eliminate if we

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keep bringing them back there is only one

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function for our different ethnicities and countries and

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that function is so we may know each

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other it is among the signs of Allah

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that we all look different have different languages,

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it's beautiful but it is not how we

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organize each other how we show loyalty towards

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each other, it is Islam and that's important

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because at some point there was a trend

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that was especially in certain countries hashtag Palestine

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they were writing online Palestine, not my problem

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Palestine, not my problem Sudan, not my problem

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oh what is your problem?

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oh my area my country this type of

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thinking is poisonous Islam came to get rid

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of it we cannot continue bringing it back

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up to life we need to fear Allah

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in this regard and finally my brothers and

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sisters the strongest thing that can unite us

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is Tawheed there is a saying Kalima tul

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Tawheed Qabla Tawheedul Kalima the statement of Tawheed

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comes before the uniting of the Ummah meaning

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what?

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yes we need to be united but the

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easiest way to do that is to ensure

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that we are all believing the same thing

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promoting the same thing calling to the same

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thing and being true Muslims getting rid of

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sin, getting rid of innovation getting rid of

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shirk coming together as brothers may Allah make

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us among those that truly care for their

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brothers and sisters wherever they may be may

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Allah cleanse our hearts and make us love

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one another and be true awliya to each

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other

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