Mustafa Abu Rayyan – The Light Of Islam – With British Sign Language

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The importance of Islam is highlighted, including the belief that there is no god but Allah and the deen of Islam, which is a "light, transformative," which changes people's hearts and makes it difficult to see life. The speaker emphasizes the need to address cultural practices and deeds, remove cultural practices that are not part of Islam, and learn the deeps of the Prophet Muhammad. The importance of being prepared for events and focusing on West Bank is also emphasized. The speaker encourages families to be brave and not try to harm Islam, and mentions a fundraiser to help children suffering from Sudan.

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			Allah is the greatest, I bear witness that
		
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			there is no god but Allah I bear
		
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			witness that there is no god but Allah
		
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			Allah is the greatest, Allah is the greatest,
		
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			there is no god but Allah I
		
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			bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of
		
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			Allah I
		
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			bear
		
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			witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah
		
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			My beloved brothers and sisters, I start by
		
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			praising Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for indeed
		
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			Allah is worthy and deserving of our constant
		
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			praise and gratitude and it's a blessing and
		
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			salutations upon our beloved Messenger Muhammad salallahu alayhi
		
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			wa sallam.
		
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			My brothers and sisters, alhamdulillah for Islam.
		
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			We thank Allah for this beautiful religion.
		
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			We thank Allah for allowing us to be
		
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			upon this truth, the message of Islam that
		
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			did not start without Prophet Muhammad salallahu alayhi
		
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			wa sallam but rather is a continuation of
		
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			the message that started from the time of
		
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			Adam's creation.
		
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			It is the religion, the one true religion
		
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			that is about worshipping Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala alone, devoting yourself to a life whereby
		
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			you live not according to your whims or
		
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			desires, not according to what the current social
		
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			norms are, but rather the laws and the
		
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			ways and the values set by creator Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			The deen of Isa alayhi salam, the deen
		
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			of Musa alayhi salam, and all these other
		
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			great prophets that came before our beloved Prophet
		
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			Muhammad salallahu alayhi wa sallam.
		
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			We are upon that path, we are proud
		
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			to be upon that path, we hope to
		
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			live on that path and die on that
		
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			path.
		
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			Now Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala calls this
		
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			Nur, light.
		
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			The deen of Islam is a light, it
		
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			is a transformative light that enters people's hearts
		
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			and once they accept it, I have no
		
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			doubt among as many as we have people
		
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			here that are born into Islam, we have
		
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			a great number of brothers and sisters that
		
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			converted to the religion, that have experienced that
		
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			transformative nature of seeing that light enter your
		
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			heart and change the way you see life,
		
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			change the way you see yourself and become
		
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			someone who lives for their creator Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala.
		
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			And that light is what Allah speaks about.
		
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			But subhanallah, this light that Rasulullah came with,
		
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			our beloved Prophet Muhammad salallahu alayhi wa sallam
		
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			1400 years ago in Mecca, when he came
		
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			with that light, you had those that immediately
		
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			gravitated towards and accepted that light and embraced
		
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			it, and you had those that it took
		
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			them a while but they eventually embraced it
		
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			and you had those that opposed it, rejected
		
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			it and fought against it.
		
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			And this is the nature of faith, this
		
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			is the nature of the faithful.
		
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			You'd have those that embrace it, you have
		
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			those that embrace it after a while, and
		
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			you have those that reject it.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in the
		
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			Qur'an يُرِيدُونَ لَيُتْفِعُونُ وَلَا اللَّهِ بِأَفْوَاهِيمِ وَلَا
		
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			اللَّهُمُ اتِّمُوا نُورِيهِ وَلَا يُكَرِيهَا الْكَافِرُونَ They want,
		
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			and Allah was talking about those that oppose
		
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			the truth, those that oppose the deen, those
		
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			that oppose their faith, that they want to
		
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			extinguish this light, but Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala refuses.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says He will
		
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			complete and perfect this light until it reaches
		
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			everywhere, and that responsibility was upon our Prophet
		
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			salallahu alayhi wa sallam to spread the light
		
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			of Islam, to spread the truth, to spread
		
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			the best type of moral character, like he
		
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			said إِنَّمَا بُعِثْتُ لِأُتَمِّمَ مَكَارِمَ الْأَخْلَاقِ I have
		
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			not been sent except to perfect exemplary character,
		
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			truth, honesty, sincerity, kindness, compassion, mercy, justice.
		
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			These values is what the Prophet salallahu alayhi
		
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			wa sallam came to perfect and to uphold.
		
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			And of course the most important value being
		
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			that we live our lives connected to our
		
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			Creator Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, pure Tawheed.
		
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			Now my brothers and sisters, this attempt to
		
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			dim or even extinguish the light of Islam,
		
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			we have to understand that sometimes, yes, they
		
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			are external.
		
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			Sometimes they are external.
		
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			But often we do what we call self
		
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			-inflicted wounds.
		
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			We are our own worst enemies.
		
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			That when we are carrying this beautiful deen,
		
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			the beautiful religion of Islam, that the way
		
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			we as Muslims portray it, or the way
		
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			we behave, that that is causing the deen
		
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			to not be accepted by others.
		
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			Because what they see, they don't read the
		
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			Qur'an.
		
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			Most people in the world that aren't Muslims,
		
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			they will not read the Qur'an.
		
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			Maybe some will out of curiosity or interest.
		
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			But the majority of them, their understanding of
		
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			Islam is shaped by the Muslims around them
		
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			and the Muslims they see in the world.
		
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			Which adds a responsibility upon us.
		
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			Are we representing the Islam that the Prophet
		
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			came with?
		
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			Or are we doing something that is our
		
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			own?
		
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			And here I want to talk about three
		
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			things that is internal to us, to the
		
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			Muslim Ummah, that we have to ensure is
		
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			tackled and addressed, because it is tarnishing the
		
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			image of true Islam.
		
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			And the first one, my brothers and sisters,
		
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			is cultural practices.
		
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			Cultural practices and Islam.
		
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			And assuming that certain things that are cultural
		
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			are part of the faith.
		
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			And that will happen by the people that
		
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			are looking from the outside in.
		
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			They can't distinguish.
		
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			It's up to us to get rid of
		
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			any cultural habits that have no place in
		
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			the religion of Islam.
		
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			A lot of people will assume that forced
		
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			marriages are part of our deen and part
		
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			of Islam.
		
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			But it isn't.
		
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			Why do they assume that?
		
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			Are they all just bigots and they made
		
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			it up?
		
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			No.
		
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			Now, some of us, in our cultures, we
		
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			have this.
		
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			And we have to address it.
		
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			Because the Prophet ﷺ prevented that.
		
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			And he's preached against that.
		
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			And you can count a number of cultural
		
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			practices that we have all over the Muslim
		
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			world.
		
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			That when people look to us, they think,
		
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			If that's Islam, I don't want it.
		
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			But the fact of the matter is, it
		
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			is not Islam.
		
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			It is not part of our deen.
		
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			And in fact, sometimes it goes against our
		
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			deen.
		
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			It is extremely important that we are able
		
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			to get rid of that and separate beautiful,
		
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			true Islam from certain cultural practices that are
		
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			not part of it.
		
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			This is wajib upon us.
		
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			Because not only are we doing sometimes things
		
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			that are prohibited in our religion, we are
		
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			also tarnishing the image of the message of
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			The way we, in certain parts of the
		
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			world, we are treating our sisters.
		
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			Again, goes against al-Islam.
		
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			The way we treat each other goes against
		
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			al-Islam.
		
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			So the religion is free from this.
		
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			But again, the unassuming person that looks, he
		
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			will not know.
		
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			It's our responsibility.
		
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			The second thing, my brothers and sisters, and
		
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			alhamdulillah, it has been addressed.
		
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			And we will continue addressing it.
		
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			Is the issue of extremism.
		
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			People that are zealots, they will read the
		
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			religion, and without going to the ulama, without
		
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			going to the scholars, without having a good
		
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			understanding of it, they develop the wrong understanding.
		
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			And due to cultural pressures, due to social
		
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			issues, due to actual real grievances that they
		
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			have, they go overboard.
		
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			They go all the way to the other
		
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			side.
		
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			And they think that Islam is harming other
		
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			people that aren't Muslim.
		
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			They think Islam is killing and bombing civilians.
		
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			That's not part of our deen.
		
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			That has nothing to do with Islam.
		
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			But now, the stereotypical Muslim, to many in
		
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			the world, is someone that is out there
		
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			to harm you, to hurt you, to cause
		
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			you issue and problems.
		
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			When the fact of the matter is that
		
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			Islam is there to save you.
		
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			It is there to transform your life.
		
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			It is there to transform your heart.
		
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			It is a beautiful deen.
		
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			That when the Prophet ﷺ brought it to
		
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			the people of Mecca, those that accepted it
		
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			understood that this al-Islam, there's a reason
		
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			why you have 2 billion people that are
		
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			following it today.
		
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			There's a reason.
		
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			And that reason has nothing to do with
		
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			how sometimes, and again, I have to stress,
		
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			it is a minority.
		
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			It is a small group.
		
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			And alhamdulillah, they're getting smaller and smaller each
		
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			year.
		
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			They're getting smaller and smaller.
		
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			But we have to accept that that is
		
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			part of why people look at Islam and
		
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			think it's something that is not for them.
		
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			Oh, I don't want to join that religion.
		
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			Why do you not want to join this
		
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			beautiful religion that connects you to Allah, that
		
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			gives you the best moral character, a religion
		
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			that teaches you right from wrong?
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because of everything they are seeing.
		
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			Is some of it exaggerated?
		
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			Absolutely.
		
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			Is some of it exaggerated?
		
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			Absolutely.
		
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			But we have to internally adjust these issues.
		
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			How do we adjust that?
		
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			Knowledge.
		
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			Understand and learn the true religion.
		
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			Understand and learn who the Prophet ﷺ was.
		
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			And when you do that, you'll realize that
		
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			that which is being portrayed is so far
		
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			away from the truth.
		
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			And all you have to do is speak
		
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			to those that convert every day.
		
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			In the masjid, we have so many coming
		
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			to us every day converting to the religion
		
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			of Islam.
		
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			It's because they saw its benefit, its beauty.
		
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			They saw what it means to change yourself
		
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			from someone that only looks at the material
		
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			to someone that transcends above that and understands
		
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			there is more to life than just what
		
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			you eat, and what you drink, and what
		
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			car you drive.
		
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			The third thing, my brothers and sisters, that
		
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			can be a hindrance, an obstacle to our
		
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			da'wah, to our call, to our mission,
		
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			to spread the light of Islam.
		
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			The first one was cultural practices that have
		
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			nothing to do with the deen.
		
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			The second one was those among us that
		
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			have fell into extremism and are harming those
		
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			that we were meant to preach to.
		
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			And finally, my brothers and sisters, it is
		
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			our own characters and behaviors and our personal
		
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			day-to-day lives.
		
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			I'm talking about your neighbors, your school.
		
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			I'm talking about where you work.
		
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			How are you?
		
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			Are you embodying the character of the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ?
		
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			Are you someone that is helpful?
		
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			The Prophet told us the most beloved people
		
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			are those who are most helpful to others.
		
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			Are we the most charitable?
		
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			Alhamdulillah, when it comes to charity, we do
		
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			great by the way.
		
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			I think in the UK, Muslims are one
		
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			of the greatest contributors to charity.
		
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			Again, it's part of our deen.
		
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			It's nothing special.
		
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			It makes sense.
		
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			But the point still stands, my brothers.
		
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			Ask yourself this.
		
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			If you were to look at Am I
		
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			doing the best I can in my surrounding,
		
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			in my area, in my work, in my
		
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			neighborhood?
		
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			Do you knock on the door, see how
		
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			they are?
		
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			This is our deen.
		
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			This is our religion.
		
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			And that's how we ensure that we overcome
		
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			the obstacles that we have created.
		
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			And when I say we, I'm not talking
		
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			about any individual here, but as a Muslim
		
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			ummah.
		
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			Wallahi, if we get rid of those, the
		
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			Islam will spread further and wider and people
		
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			will understand what the true Islam is.
		
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			But my brothers and sisters, is that the
		
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			only obstacle?
		
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			Is that the only hindrance?
		
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			No.
		
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			Like I said, I started with the internal,
		
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			but there are also external ones.
		
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			You all have studied the life and the
		
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			seerah of our Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			When he came to the Meccans and he
		
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			called them to Islam, When he came to
		
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			the Meccans and he called them to Islam,
		
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			they immediately started to go against, trying to
		
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			not only dim, but extinguish the light of
		
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			Islam.
		
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			They threatened him ﷺ.
		
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			They starved him and his companions ﷺ.
		
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			They pushed them to the side, ostracized, name
		
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			-calling, and using fear-mongering against him, calling
		
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			him all sorts of labels and names, to
		
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			the point where those three years, where him
		
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			and his clan were completely boycotted, where they
		
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			were literally starving, all because those that were
		
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			the rejecters of the truth opposed him that
		
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			harshly ﷺ.
		
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			It didn't stop him.
		
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			He continued preaching.
		
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			He continued calling.
		
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			He continued doing his mission, because the mission
		
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			continues.
		
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			The message continues.
		
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			But there are those that are always going
		
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			to not only reject, but fight against the
		
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			truth.
		
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			And when that happens, my brothers and sisters,
		
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			we have to look to our sunnah for
		
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			guidance.
		
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			We are not the only ones that are
		
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			being spoken about in a manner that is
		
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			unbefitting.
		
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			They did this to our beloved Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			So the next time you see people labeling
		
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			you, something that is undeserving, understand it comes
		
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			with a package.
		
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			It comes with a package.
		
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			And what do you do?
		
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			You have sabr, like the Prophet ﷺ said,
		
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			and the Prophets that came before.
		
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			وَلَنَصْبِرَنَّ عَلَىٰ مَا أَذِيتُمُونَ And we will have
		
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			patience.
		
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			We will have patience.
		
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			And we will have patience regarding the harm
		
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			that you do to us.
		
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			Islamophobia is real.
		
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			And we have those that want to do
		
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			us harm.
		
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			And we have those that don't like our
		
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			deen and our faith and what we stand
		
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			for.
		
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			They look at the modesty of our sisters
		
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			and they see it as a threat.
		
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			They look at us standing up against genocides
		
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			that are being committed and they look at
		
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			us as if we are the ones in
		
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			the wrong.
		
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			There are those that look at our mosques
		
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			and our madrasas and our messaging and our
		
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			family values as if it is something that
		
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			is wrong.
		
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			There is nothing wrong with it.
		
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			There is nothing wrong with our values.
		
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			There is nothing wrong with what we believe
		
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			in.
		
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			Rather it is the same message that Prophet
		
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			Isa came with.
		
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			Prophet Musa came with.
		
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			That our beloved Prophet Muhammad ﷺ came with.
		
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			And we are on that ship.
		
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			And we are going to stay on that
		
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			ship.
		
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			And we are going to invite others upon
		
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			that ship.
		
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			And no amount of bullying tactics, no amount
		
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			of name calling, no amount of labeling, and
		
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			no amount of pressure will make us ever
		
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			move from the haq, from the truth.
		
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			And that is an important message that our
		
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			brothers and sisters have to understand.
		
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			That the truth is the truth.
		
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			The haq is the haq.
		
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			The deen is the deen.
		
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			It is what we believe in.
		
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			It is what we call towards.
		
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			It is what we stand for.
		
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			This is extremely important.
		
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			But if we remove the internal obstacles, if
		
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			we ensure that we are presenting the true
		
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			Islam, not something that is just cultural, if
		
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			we ensure that we are not doing any
		
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			or calling towards any extremism, if we ensure
		
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			that our character is the moral character of
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ, then we are able to
		
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			handle and tackle those that threaten us, those
		
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			that endanger us.
		
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			And as much as we are worried for
		
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			the safety of our brothers and our sisters,
		
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			what should be more concerning to us is
		
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			the message of the deen.
		
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			Is the message of the deen.
		
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			Is that the message does not get distorted.
		
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			It is that in the end of the
		
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			day, that the people that we live with,
		
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			those that aren't Muslim, have a good understanding
		
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			of what Islam is.
		
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			Have the right understanding of what Islam is.
		
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			That's our message.
		
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			And after that, like Allah says in the
		
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			Quran, فَمَنْ شَاءَ فَالْيُؤْمِنُ وَمَنْ شَاءَ فَالْيَكْفُورُ Let
		
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			the one who wants to believe, believe.
		
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			And let the one who wants to reject,
		
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			reject.
		
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			But that should happen على بَيِّنَة upon truth.
		
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			And that is our responsibility.
		
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			There is no other Prophet coming.
		
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			There is no other Prophet coming.
		
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			And the Prophet ﷺ gave that responsibility to
		
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			us.
		
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			What is your place in that responsibility?
		
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			What is your place in that mission of
		
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			spreading Islam, the right image of Islam, and
		
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			ensuring that when people hear Islam, they think
		
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			positivity.
		
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			They think monotheism.
		
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			They think spirituality.
		
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			They think fairness and justice.
		
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			They think kindness and compassion.
		
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			That's our responsibility.
		
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			And that's inshallah ta'ala something that we
		
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			have to stand for.
		
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			أقول قولي هذا وأستغفر الله لي ولكم ولسائر
		
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			المسلمين من كل ذنبٍ فاستغفروه إنه الغفور الرحيم
		
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			الحمد لله والصلاة والسلام على رسول الله My
		
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			brothers and sisters, inshallah ta'ala what I
		
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			want to conclude the khutbah with is some
		
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			points of advice that will aid us in
		
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			preserving the image of Islam.
		
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			And it's extremely important that we do think
		
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			about the image of Islam.
		
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			Remember, when it comes to the pure religion,
		
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			the deen of Allah, we will never waver.
		
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			We will never waver.
		
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			We will never compromise.
		
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			We will never compromise.
		
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			Quraish, they tried to compromise the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			They said, we'll worship your Lord one year
		
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			and you worship our Lord another.
		
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			And Allah revealed that that will never happen.
		
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			We will always stay upon the path that
		
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			was carved to us by the great prophets
		
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			that came before us and our Prophet Muhammad
		
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			ﷺ.
		
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			And let that message be heard loud and
		
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			clear.
		
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			Let that message be heard loud and clear.
		
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			But that being said, my message to myself
		
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			and to all of you is, what can
		
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			we do better to ensure that the message
		
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			of Islam is not tarnished to the point
		
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			that we are not giving ammunition and arming
		
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			those that are against the deen of Allah.
		
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			Number one, my brothers and sisters, is knowledge.
		
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			Understand your faith and your deen so that
		
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			you can explain it better, understand it better,
		
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			and apply it better.
		
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			Learn the deen.
		
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			It is not something as simple as just
		
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			grabbing the Mus'haf, reading a few ayat
		
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			and you understand it.
		
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			Put effort into understanding the religion of Allah.
		
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			Put effort, learn it.
		
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			I always see on Fridays, the mosque is
		
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			full, but the classes and the programs, we
		
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			get small number of people attending.
		
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			And this is a huge problem that we
		
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			have.
		
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			If you can make time for khutbah and
		
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			Jum'ah, which is good, which is wadi
		
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			upon you, make some time to learn your
		
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			religion.
		
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			There's so much content online.
		
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			Understand what Islam really is.
		
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			The second thing, my brothers and sisters, is
		
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			that be brave enough to say no to
		
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			cultural practices that are not part of Islam.
		
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			Be brave, because sometimes we have this attachment.
		
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			We have this attachment, and it's cultural.
		
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			If the deen says no, then that's what
		
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			it does.
		
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			Because the religion of Allah, it should correct,
		
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			and it has.
		
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			It has course-corrected many cultural practices.
		
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			That's the whole point of the deen.
		
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			And finally, my brothers and sisters, understand that
		
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			when people look into Islam, rarely do they
		
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			look into it by looking at the books
		
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			that we have, looking at the Quran, and
		
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			looking at the Sunnah of the Prophet, they
		
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			look at me, and you.
		
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			And we have to try extra hard to
		
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			ensure that when we represent Islam, we represent
		
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			Islam in the right way.
		
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			And finally, when we do all of that,
		
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			when we do our job, when we do
		
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			our job, if there are those that want
		
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			to malign, there are those that want to
		
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			exaggerate, take us out of context, there are
		
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			those that are trying to harm us, and
		
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			harm our message, to them we say, have
		
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			at it.
		
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			Go and try and extinguish the light of
		
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			Islam.
		
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			Because our Creator promised us that you will
		
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			never be able to do so.
		
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			They are entering into Islam in droves, because
		
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			of the good work that's being done.
		
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			So let those that are barking, bark.
		
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			Let those that are yelling, yell.
		
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			Let those that are name-calling, name-call.
		
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			Upon us is our responsibility to call to
		
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			the Deen of Allah.
		
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			...
		
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			A reminder to my brothers, there will be
		
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			a fundraiser, for our brothers and sisters that
		
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			are suffering in Sudan, inshallah.
		
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			Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar.
		
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			I bear witness that there is no god
		
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			but Allah.
		
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			I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger
		
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			of Allah.
		
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			Long live the prayer, long live the success.
		
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			The prayer has ended, the prayer has ended.
		
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			Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar.
		
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			There is no god but Allah.
		
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			Please make sure you stay in the rows,
		
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			close the gaps.
		
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			Allahu Akbar.
		
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			All praise is due to Allah, Lord of
		
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			the worlds.
		
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			The Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
		
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			Sovereign of the Day of Judgment.
		
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			It is You we worship and You we
		
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			ask for help.
		
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			Guide us to the straight path, the path
		
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			of those You have blessed.
		
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			Those who have not incurred Your wrath, and
		
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			those who have not gone astray.
		
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			Ameen.
		
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			Ameen.
		
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			Allahu
		
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			Akbar, Allahu
		
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			Akbar.
		
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			Allahu Akbar, Allahu
		
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			Akbar.
		
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			All praise is due to Allah, Lord of
		
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			the worlds.
		
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			The Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
		
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			Sovereign of the Day of Judgment.
		
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			It is You we worship and You we
		
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			ask for help.
		
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			Guide us to the straight path, the path
		
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			of those You have blessed.
		
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			Those who have not incurred Your wrath, and
		
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			those who have not gone astray.
		
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			Ameen.
		
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			As you've been seeing today, the collections of
		
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			four Sudan.
		
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			Some of you may know that I just
		
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			returned from Sudan with Task Force GLM just
		
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			over a week ago and I wanted to
		
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			appeal to the brothers and sisters today because
		
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			what we saw on the ground is far
		
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			worse than what we see on TV media.
		
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			Now sitting in some of the camps we
		
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			saw sisters who had traveled for two weeks
		
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			on foot, what takes 12 hours by road,
		
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			and they weren't able to eat for four
		
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			days so they weren't able to feed their
		
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			newborn children.
		
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			We saw females in camps, few men, because
		
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			some of the men were detained in Khartoum
		
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			and some of their camps by the militia,
		
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			not allowed to leave because they saw them
		
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			as being of fighting age.
		
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			The situation was dire, we sat in one
		
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			of the tents of one of the elderly
		
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			and the food came to him and the
		
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			two plates that came in front of him,
		
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			we were not able to describe what was
		
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			in those plates, but that had to feed
		
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			a family of 10.
		
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			One meal a day, if that.
		
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			The living conditions under the Sun, 35 degrees
		
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			centigrade, one sheet was covering many of them.
		
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			So we stayed amongst them.
		
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			The security situation is precarious, you may have
		
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			heard very recently 120 young women committed suicide
		
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			to avoid violation and their husbands, fathers were
		
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			slaughtered, 300 in one day, in one region.
		
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			So brothers and sisters, the reason we're making
		
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			that appeal today, I saw with my own
		
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			eyes.
		
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			I could not believe what I was seeing.
		
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			I was able to leave, they are unable
		
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			to.
		
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			Those who do not know where their next
		
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			meal is coming from, that one meal a
		
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			day that feeds 10 or more people, number
		
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			25 million Sudanese.
		
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			So my request is, my brothers, yes we
		
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			should still keep focusing on West Bank and
		
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			Gaza and most recently Lebanon.
		
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			We should continue focusing on those, but I
		
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			will make this appeal to you now after
		
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			what I've seen with Task Force GLM.
		
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			Let's not forget about Sudan.
		
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			Just because others hold them invisible, we must
		
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			as an Ummah hold them as visible as
		
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			everyone else.
		
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			So please, this is a generous community, please
		
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			give today and tomorrow as much as you
		
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			can with regards to Sudan.
		
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			They should at least have the dignity of
		
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			having something to eat, having shelter.
		
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			Jazakum Allah khair.
		
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			There are kiosks around that you can pay.
		
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			You've got brothers and sisters with high-vis
		
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			vests who are collecting and some of you
		
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			can go to the reception and you can
		
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			donate there.
		
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			Jazakum Allah khair for your patience.
		
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			As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh,
		
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			brothers and sisters.
		
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			Just some quick announcements inshallah.
		
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			Firstly, Al-Binat quiz night is on tonight
		
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			inshallah after Isha with some heart-softening reminders
		
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			from Sheikh Qari Zakaullah and Sheikh Mustafa Ibrahim
		
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			and Sheikh Aqil Mahmood, followed by a quiz
		
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			with prizes to be won and food will
		
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			be available as well.
		
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			This is for Al-Binat students that have
		
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			been following our lessons on site and online
		
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			but feel free to bring a friend or
		
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			family member with you inshallah.
		
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			Also, we will have our first event of
		
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			the new