Mustafa Khattab – All Women Matter

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The speakers discuss the rights of women in Islam, including equal pay, responsibility, and protection from abuse. They also touch on the topic of men and the importance of education for men and women, particularly in policies and realities. The discussion also touches on the distribution of profit and loss, sharing between men and women, and the use of "has" and "hasn't" in language. The speakers emphasize the importance of recognizing the importance of the "has" in shrooming and emphasize the need to be mindful of the "has."

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			I bear witness that there is none worthy
		
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			of our worship except Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
		
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			And I bear witness that Muhammad salallahu alayhi
		
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			wa sallam peace be upon him, is the
		
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			seal of the prophets, and the final messenger
		
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			to all of humanity. Whoever Allah Subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala guides, there is none to misguide, and
		
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			whoever Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala leaves to astray,
		
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			there is none to guide aright.
		
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			So the the focus of the Chubba today
		
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			will be in response to some of the
		
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			questions
		
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			that I received
		
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			from a graduate student of Mengele Islamic Academy.
		
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			She came a few days ago with her
		
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			dad, she now she's now in grade 9,
		
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			and she was here last year, mashallah, 14,
		
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			15 years old, and now because she goes
		
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			to the public school,
		
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			her friends ask questions about Islam. Special questions
		
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			related to Muslim women. So one of the
		
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			questions was,
		
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			okay, why do women pray behind the men
		
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			in the salah? Not in the front.
		
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			Why you don't have a female imam?
		
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			And why do women get half of the
		
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			share of the men? And shahada, the testimony
		
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			of a woman equals half of that of
		
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			the men. So these are some of the
		
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			questions. So the the bottom line is, are
		
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			women
		
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			second class citizens in Islam or what?
		
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			So of course,
		
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			I I told her, MashaAllah, this is very
		
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			good that you came forward to ask questions
		
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			because in Islam, Mafaratna
		
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			filkitabi' mashay.
		
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			All the answers are there in the in
		
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			Islam, in the Quran, in the sunnah of
		
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			the Prophet SAW.
		
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			And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala knows that this
		
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			is the final deen, so there are always
		
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			answers for everything. But the good thing is
		
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			you came forward to ask a question, because
		
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			when I when I was her age, I
		
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			was very shy to talk to my teachers,
		
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			and ask them questions like this.
		
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			Waya turoon, ifakamal hadith,
		
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			2 types of people would never learn.
		
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			Mustahin 1 mustaqbe.
		
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			Those who are shy to ask, and those
		
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			who are arrogant.
		
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			Who is this guy, so I'm gonna go
		
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			and ask him something? So 2 types of
		
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			people would never learn, those who are shy,
		
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			and those who are arrogant. So Alhamdulillah, I
		
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			commended her and her dad for asking these
		
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			questions,
		
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			and of course I had to explain
		
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			that in Islam,
		
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			when you read in the Quran, and in
		
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			the sunnah of the Prophet SAW Alaihi Wasallam,
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala talks about the equality
		
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			of all Muslims.
		
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			But Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
		
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			Yeah, and he gave some
		
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			some qualifications,
		
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			and and and some abilities,
		
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			so men and women can complete each other
		
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			and not compete with one another. When you
		
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			read in the Quran, when Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala speaks about good things,
		
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			It says that men and women are equal
		
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			before Allah, and before the law. So for
		
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			example, if a man or a woman does
		
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			something good like salah, zakah, Hajj, they do
		
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			it exactly the same. They give the exact
		
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			same reward, like you and your wife you
		
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			pray namaz, you pray salatul mohr
		
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			with forshur, with all the requirements.
		
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			Do you get more reward than your wife
		
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			or you get equal reward? You get equal
		
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			reward. Same for salah, same for fasting, some
		
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			for Hajj and salatah, and so on and
		
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			so forth. And this is why Allah
		
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			mentions women by by name in the Quran.
		
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			It always talks about males and females, males
		
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			and females.
		
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			Allah
		
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			says in Surah Tawba that the believers, men
		
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			and women, they are guardians of one another.
		
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			Because they are equal before Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala. And again, equal does not mean identical.
		
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			So men and women are equal before Allah
		
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			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and before Sharia, but they
		
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			are not identical.
		
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			In the same way that I and this
		
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			brother from Afghanistan,
		
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			we are equal, but we are not identical.
		
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			We have differences, although both of us are
		
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			men, but maybe he's a bit taller, he's
		
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			more handsome,
		
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			so on and so forth. He can cook
		
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			better than me. So we are equal, but
		
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			we are not identical. In the same way
		
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			men and women are equal before Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala,
		
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			but they are not identical.
		
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			And one of the points that we have
		
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			to make clear
		
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			that Islam gave so much,
		
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			and gave so many rights to women that
		
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			didn't have back then, and some of the
		
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			women in the West
		
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			till, like, 50 years ago, they were struggling
		
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			to get the same rights. The rights to
		
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			vote in elections, the right to have a
		
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			say in marriage, the right to own a
		
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			property,
		
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			to keep the last names at the time
		
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			of marriage. We don't have an issue with
		
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			this in Islam, because Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			gave the rights to men and women. Exactly.
		
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			The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam when he was
		
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			asked about women, Qalamu Nashakaay Qurijal. Women are
		
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			the twin
		
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			sisters of men, and the word he used
		
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			shirk, like when you split a bean,
		
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			one shirk and the other shirk, twins. Like
		
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			2 halves.
		
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			So, there we don't have a special status
		
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			for men in Islam, and a special status
		
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			for women, but Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says,
		
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			wal abijalalihinna
		
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			daraja Men have a degree of responsibility.
		
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			To protect, to provide, and this is actually
		
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			is not a degree of honor, it's a
		
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			degree of responsibility.
		
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			It's not an easy thing.
		
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			And also,
		
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			I told the sister
		
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			that because Islam gave so much to women,
		
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			this explains why
		
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			3 out of every 4 people who take
		
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			Shahada are women.
		
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			75 percent of rebirths to Islam are women.
		
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			If Islam is so abusive to women, no
		
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			no woman would accept Islam. But 3 out
		
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			of every 4 people who take Shahada are
		
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			sisters. And I've seen this first hand. A
		
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			lot of sisters come forward and and take
		
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			Shahada.
		
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			Why? Because they see the honor that Islam
		
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			gave them.
		
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			We read about
		
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			300 years ago in Europe,
		
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			before that in the Middle Ages, there was
		
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			this big discussion between
		
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			theologians and
		
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			scholars of,
		
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			of Europe whether a woman had a human
		
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			spirit or a shaitani or animal spirit.
		
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			You know? So that was the discussion.
		
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			And in Islam, around the same time we
		
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			had scholars in the Muslim faith, we had
		
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			women who were scholars. Imam Bukhari,
		
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			one of his teachers was a woman.
		
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			A scholar of hadith and she was teaching
		
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			them. We have so many scholarly women spent
		
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			in different fields in Filk and Hadith and
		
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			different
		
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			branches of knowledge in Islam, and it's very
		
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			interesting,
		
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			and this is something that the scholars of
		
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			Hadith say,
		
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			there are some hadith that are fabricated.
		
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			Some people used to fabricate a hadith for
		
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			different reasons, we can't get into this some
		
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			other time, and they say although we have
		
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			hundreds
		
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			of fabricators who are men, there's not a
		
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			single female fabricator in Hadith.
		
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			This is something we can think about. Right?
		
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			Although there were so many women who were
		
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			scholars of Hadith, there's not a single one
		
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			who fabricated Hadith.
		
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			Not written, no one knows anything about a
		
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			woman who fabricated a Hadith, but all the
		
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			fabricators of a Hadith are men. Right?
		
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			So this is that.
		
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			Also, we need to consider
		
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			something else, like Allah
		
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			revealed in the Quran
		
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			whole chapters to talk about the rights of
		
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			women. If you take Surah Al Isaa for
		
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			example, it talks about the inheritance of women,
		
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			the rights of women in inheritance,
		
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			the orphans, the rights in divorce, the rights
		
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			in counseling, and so on and so forth.
		
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			There are also some rights in Sura Nur,
		
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			Sura Azza, and so on and so forth.
		
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			So all these Suras and these ayats were
		
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			revealed to protect the rights of women.
		
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			And there are some laws in Islam to
		
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			protect these rights. For example, if you read
		
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			in Surah Maidah about Halaba,
		
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			if a person, if a man
		
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			rapes a woman,
		
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			in this ayah about Halaba in Surah Maidah,
		
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			ayah number 53,
		
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			this man is put to death.
		
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			This is the punishment. If a person, if
		
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			a man rapes a woman, the punishment in
		
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			Islam is Halaba, death. The capital punishment.
		
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			If a man accuses a woman of adultery,
		
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			and he does not have witnesses,
		
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			punishment
		
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			the lashes
		
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			for attacking or for falsely accusing a woman.
		
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			If a man refuses to give a woman
		
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			his share in Mirof, he is sinful, and
		
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			there is a terrible punishment mentioned in the
		
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			Quran. And so on and so forth. And
		
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			it talks about the rights of women, the
		
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			Maharin,
		
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			and and so on and so forth in
		
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			the Quran. So all these ayat are there
		
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			to protect the rights of women in Islam.
		
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			So they have rights, and Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala and the Prophet
		
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			gave him rights
		
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			to own property,
		
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			to have their own business,
		
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			to get an education,
		
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			to have a say in marriage.
		
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			But the problem is in some cultures,
		
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			some women don't get these rights, and at
		
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			the end of the day Islam gets the
		
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			blame.
		
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			So women for example have their own separate
		
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			financial identity.
		
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			The Prophet SAW Alaihi Wasallam used to work
		
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			for Khadija Radiullah. She was his boss, she
		
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			was his employer,
		
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			and he used to work for her, and
		
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			everyone knows this story.
		
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			So they have rights in Islam, but if
		
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			they are denied these rights in some places
		
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			in the Muslim world,
		
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			and because people here in the media, and
		
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			the people in general, they don't know the
		
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			distinction between Islam as a religion and the
		
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			cultures in Muslim countries, they confuse both. Couple
		
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			of examples.
		
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			In my village in Egypt,
		
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			women in in my village, some of them
		
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			tell do tell this day, they have to
		
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			put up a big fight to give a
		
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			get a share from the inheritance.
		
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			Although Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says in the
		
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			Quran that women have a share,
		
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			in many cases they go they don't get
		
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			the share of inheritance.
		
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			My mom had to go through this.
		
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			Right? To fight, and my aunt had to
		
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			fight to get her share of inheritance.
		
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			What they do basically, because her brother will
		
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			say, it is impossible, Allah Jusati mer rabbi
		
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			al Mustaqilah, that I'm gonna give a piece
		
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			of my dad's land to a stranger.
		
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			Stranger is his brother-in-law.
		
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			If you give him his share,
		
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			your wife will give you a share through
		
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			her father. Like, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is
		
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			just and fair.
		
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			If you tell them I'm not gonna give
		
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			you your share because this is not good,
		
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			you're saying basically that Allah is not just.
		
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			Because he told you to do something that
		
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			is not good.
		
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			So, what they do basically, the guy will
		
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			go to his sister and say, you know,
		
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			you're not gonna take your dad's land and
		
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			give it to strangers,
		
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			in laws. Right? What I would do because
		
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			I'm a good guy, I'm gonna give you
		
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			a compensation
		
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			for the land. And if the land is
		
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			worth a 100,000,
		
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			they give her 15, 20,000 only, because he
		
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			will say, you you don't like, you know,
		
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			I I don't expect you to treat me
		
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			like outsiders.
		
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			Like, market value is not gonna work between
		
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			me and you as a brother and sister.
		
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			You know, this is how, you know, they
		
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			they trick the sisters and they just And
		
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			if the sisters refuse,
		
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			Khalas, they put up a big fight, and
		
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			sometimes the father himself
		
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			will make a contract between him and his
		
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			sons
		
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			to deprive the daughters of their share of
		
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			inheritance. Although this is totally against Islam. Right?
		
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			It's totally against Islam.
		
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			Another example
		
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			is when a woman is not allowed to
		
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			get an education.
		
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			She doesn't have to be like a something
		
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			in rocket science or anything, but every Muslim
		
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			has to have the knowledge of the Deen.
		
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			To worship Allah, how to worship Allah,
		
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			seeking knowledge is an obligation on every Muslim,
		
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			male or female.
		
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			When you stop them from learning,
		
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			and you say, no my daughter is not
		
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			going to learn anything,
		
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			this goes against Islam, and at the end
		
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			of the day Islam is to blame. They
		
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			say all Muslims and Islam teaches that women
		
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			cannot learn anything.
		
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			Also, in some places a woman is not
		
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			able to drive. Right? And get a driver's
		
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			license, you know. There's nothing in Islam against
		
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			this because, you know, at the time of
		
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			the Prophet SAWALAM his wives, they used to
		
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			move around on camel or on the horse
		
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			and visit their family. There is nothing wrong,
		
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			and the Prophet SAWALAM said in an authentic
		
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			Hadith al Bukhari, the day will come
		
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			a vaina, a woman will come out of
		
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			Iraq or Yemen
		
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			all by herself from Hajj for Hajj, and
		
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			no one will stop her. By herself. This
		
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			is mentioned in authentic hadith.
		
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			So, Islam is to blame at the end
		
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			of the day because people confuse
		
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			the religion and the culture.
		
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			So Allah
		
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			made it very clear that men and women
		
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			are equal before Allah
		
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			and before the law.
		
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			Now I want to talk a little bit
		
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			about the West here.
		
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			Because theoretically
		
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			men and women are equal.
		
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			But in practical life, in real life,
		
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			there is still a long way for women
		
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			to go to achieve equality with the men.
		
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			And this is based on official,
		
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			numbers.
		
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			For example, in the US,
		
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			government numbers say that for every dollar a
		
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			man makes, if we're talking about a doctor,
		
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			a lawyer, a teacher,
		
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			for every dollar a male,
		
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			worker, for every dollar they achieve, a woman
		
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			will achieve
		
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			75¢.
		
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			They get less pay for the exact same
		
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			job.
		
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			And we're talking about Caucasian women. If you
		
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			talk about Latino women, they get 10
		
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			10¢ less.
		
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			African American women, they get 10¢ less. So
		
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			they are not equal. And also on the
		
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			other hand,
		
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			if you think about for example,
		
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			Yeah. Someone needs to, remove their car, it's
		
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			a blue
		
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			Acura
		
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			887
		
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			because they are blocking the the way. So
		
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			if this is your car blue Acura, then
		
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			remove it inshallah.
		
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			So,
		
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			although we know in Islam we have this,
		
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			big discussion, a big debate between the scholars
		
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			about, Alwulayah Kubra, Alwulayah Uthma, Alwulayah Surah, so
		
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			Alwulayah Uthma, can a woman become the khalifa
		
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			of Muslime?
		
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			Most of the scholars say no. Because this
		
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			is the place of the Prophet salallahu alayhi
		
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			wa sallam, and only a strong man can
		
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			fill this place, and lead salah, lead the
		
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			army,
		
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			govern the Ummah. But for the walayhi suhrah,
		
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			can a woman become the head of an
		
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			Islamic center?
		
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			Can a woman,
		
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			lead salah for women for example, if sisters
		
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			are together, they have a halakah or something,
		
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			it is time for salah, can a sister
		
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			become iman for women? Of course, yes. Because
		
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			at the time of Aisha radiAllahu anha, this
		
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			is in Bukhari, other places, she used to
		
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			lead salah for women,
		
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			but not for both. Because all the laws
		
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			in Islam are to protect women.
		
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			We know that when we do salah,
		
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			we know salah is not basically making dua,
		
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			you have movements in in the salah, bending
		
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			over, going for sujood,
		
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			and imagine if you have a female,
		
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			Himana, leading the salah here, and all these
		
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			moving, with all busting all these moves,
		
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			I will pay you a $1,000,000 if you
		
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			can't focus for one second in salah. It
		
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			is not practical. I know because I'm a
		
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			man. It You know, it's hard to explain
		
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			to some people, but this is the reality.
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala knows us better than
		
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			we know ourselves.
		
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			So when we ask Sisr to break behind
		
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			the man, we're not really getting them to
		
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			second class, this is just for protection.
		
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			For their protection. But if a man is
		
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			praying in the front and the women are
		
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			praying in the back, no one would look
		
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			at the man and say, oh, my shit.
		
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			Nothing. Right? And when we ask the sisters,
		
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			or ask someone, you don't shake my wife's
		
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			hand,
		
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			you know,
		
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			the Queen of England doesn't go around shaking
		
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			every man's hand. She doesn't do this. Because
		
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			she's a royalty, and I tell them, well
		
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			my wife is my queen, I don't want
		
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			my wife to shake every man's hand, and
		
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			I don't go around shaking women's hands. And
		
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			this is something the prophet
		
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			told us to do. Right? This is a
		
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			different opinion and so on and so forth,
		
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			but again, this is for the protection
		
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			of the sisters.
		
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			So in the last
		
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			250 years in the US,
		
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			400,
		
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			45 presidents have been elected. In the last
		
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			150 years, 45 presidents have been elected. From
		
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			George Washington
		
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			all the way to Abuja. Right?
		
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			45 have been elected to for president,
		
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			and 48 have been elected as,
		
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			vice president.
		
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			None of them is a man.
		
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			Not one of them is a man. Why?
		
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			A woman.
		
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			No, no one of them is a woman.
		
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			Sorry. Not one of them is a woman.
		
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			My bad.
		
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			Why? Maybe,
		
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			people are not ready for a female president,
		
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			I was thinking maybe Hillary Clinton will do
		
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			it, but it didn't
		
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			work. Bernie Sanders was the best option, but
		
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			Khalas too good for to be president. But
		
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			anyway,
		
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			people are not ready yet for a female
		
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			president.
		
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			In Canada, everyone will say, well, Kim Kaptel,
		
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			1993,
		
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			but she was never elected.
		
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			Mulrooney
		
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			decided to retire, 1993.
		
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			She was second in line. She became prime
		
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			minister for about 3 months, then they had
		
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			an election, and she lost a big time.
		
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			So not a single woman
		
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			has been elected in the last 250 years
		
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			in the history of North America,
		
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			maybe in Mexico, other places in Latin America
		
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			they have elected some, but in, the US
		
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			and Canada, not a single woman has been
		
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			elected to the highest office,
		
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			maybe because they are not ready yet for
		
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			a female president.
		
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			In the Muslim world, although I spoke about
		
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			the distinction between Malaya Ummah, Malaya Surah,
		
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			we have this debate among scholars
		
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			whether a woman can be a president of
		
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			a country,
		
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			president of an organization,
		
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			which
		
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			I think is acceptable, but for Khalafa Uma
		
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			it has to be for a man. But
		
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			with Aya Surah, the head of a state
		
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			and organization,
		
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			this is debatable among scholars, but I think
		
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			it's okay.
		
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			And although we have this debate among scholars,
		
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			we have saw seen so many female presidents
		
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			and prime ministers in Muslim countries.
		
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			The biggest of them,
		
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			in,
		
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			Indonesia.
		
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			The biggest,
		
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			the most populated Muslim country in the world
		
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			elected a woman as president.
		
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			Pakistan,
		
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			Bangladesh, Turkey, in the last
		
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			15, 20 years, they elected women, and so
		
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			many throughout Islamic history. So just to show
		
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			you the the comparison.
		
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			In Islam, as I said, women are allowed
		
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			to keep their last name, to have to
		
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			own their own property,
		
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			and and I'll talk inshaAllah a little bit
		
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			about,
		
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			inheritance and about the testimony
		
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			in shahab.
		
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			So basically,
		
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			one of the questions asked by the sister,
		
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			why do men get twice the share of
		
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			a woman?
		
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			First of all, this is not correct.
		
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			Because the word man doesn't mean anything, and
		
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			the word woman doesn't mean anything. The word
		
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			man can be a son, a brother, a
		
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			father, a grandfather,
		
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			and so on and so forth. And the
		
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			words to woman can mean a sister, a
		
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			wife, a mother, a daughter, a grandmother.
		
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			So these are vague terms.
		
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			To say that a woman gets half of
		
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			the share of the men is not correct.
		
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			In
		
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			in the rules of inheritance, and I want
		
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			you know to know the answer so when
		
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			someone says something, you know how to answer.
		
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			Women have about 34
		
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			different types of shares and inheritance.
		
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			In some cases,
		
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			few cases actually,
		
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			woman will get half of the share of
		
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			the brother. But in most cases, a woman
		
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			will get more than the man, and in
		
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			some cases she will get an equal share
		
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			with the man. Give an example.
		
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			Say for example, if I die today,
		
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			and I leave my father, and I leave
		
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			5 brothers, and I leave my mother, my
		
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			wife, and one daughter.
		
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			So we have a lot of females and
		
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			males in the in this case.
		
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			My daughter will get 1 half.
		
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			My wife will get 1 eighth, my mother
		
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			will get 1 6, the rest will go
		
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			to my father which will be a little
		
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			bit,
		
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			which is less than 1 third of what
		
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			my daughter got.
		
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			My brothers will get 0.
		
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			So you see in this case,
		
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			males, my brothers, 5 brothers will get 0.
		
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			Because I have a daughter, my father is
		
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			there, they are not getting anything.
		
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			My my wife will get 1 8th, my
		
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			mother will get 16th,
		
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			my daughter 1 half, whatever is left will
		
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			go to my father, which could be around
		
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			the same share that my mother will get.
		
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			Right? After you give all these shares. But
		
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			you see, it depends
		
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			on two things. The shares of inheritance are
		
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			based on 2 things.
		
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			Number 1, on your closeness to the deceased.
		
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			Those who are close to the deceased will
		
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			get more. Like my daughter will get more,
		
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			then my father, my mother,
		
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			my,
		
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			wife will get some.
		
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			But those who are distant, they get nothing.
		
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			And those who are young get more, and
		
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			those who are old get less. So my
		
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			daughter will get more than my father, or
		
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			my mother, or my wife, because they are
		
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			old.
		
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			Right? So this is how it works in
		
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			sharia, those who are young get more, those
		
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			who are old get less, those who are
		
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			close they get more, those who are distant
		
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			get less.
		
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			It has nothing to do with gender.
		
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			This is the least factor in the equation.
		
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			So in some cases, men in the in
		
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			the in the case will not get anything,
		
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			and the females will end up getting a
		
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			lot of things. And in some cases,
		
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			say for example,
		
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			if my mom was married to another man,
		
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			and she has children from that marriage,
		
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			then her husband died or divorced, then she
		
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			got married to my father, she had me,
		
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			if I die, my brothers and sisters from
		
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			my mother's first marriage
		
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			will share my inheritance 50.50.
		
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			The boy will give $10,000,
		
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			and the girl, his sister will get $10,000.
		
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			It's in Surat Al Lani Saab.
		
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			5050 for the man and for the woman.
		
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			And why does my son get twice the
		
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			share of my daughter?
		
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			Because
		
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			number 1, if my son gets $20,000
		
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			and my daughter gets 10,000.
		
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			My son has to provide for the family.
		
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			If I die, he has to pay for
		
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			everything. He has to pay for the rent,
		
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			for everything, for the food, shopping. My daughter
		
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			Islamically doesn't have to pay anything in the
		
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			house.
		
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			And when my son
		
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			gets married, he has to pay Mahal, he
		
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			has to pay for everything.
		
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			My daughter when she gets married, Islamically, she
		
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			doesn't have to pay anything.
		
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			In other words, our money
		
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			is their money,
		
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			sisters, money, and their money is their money.
		
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			This is how it works. So Allah in
		
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			many cases, women end up having more money
		
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			than the men.
		
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			This is for a fact, I've seen it
		
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			firsthand.
		
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			Right? So if you say that Allah is
		
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			not fair to women, this is not true.
		
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			Because in Islam, women have a lot of,
		
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			they get a lot of opportunities, and they
		
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			get shares and stuff, and men have a
		
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			lot of responsibilities.
		
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			So this is how it works in in
		
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			Sharia, in the distribution of the inheritance.
		
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			And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala honors women, and
		
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			he gave them shares although they might be
		
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			denied in some certain cases.
		
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			Also for Shahadah.
		
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			For the shahada. If someone here has a
		
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			50,
		
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			$50 bill, you can give it to me,
		
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			I'll give it to you later. So
		
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			for shahada, everyone signs this ayah in Surah
		
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			Baqarah,
		
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			about ayah to Dayn, the longest ayah in
		
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			the Quran, ayah
		
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			282 I believe, or 283.
		
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			The longest ayah in the Quran. It talks
		
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			about deaths. So for example,
		
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			we have 50.
		
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			Right. That's okay. I can take the 100.
		
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			Take the 100. Exactly.
		
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			So for example, if I borrow $100 from
		
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			brother Abu Mohammed here, Islamically we write a
		
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			contract.
		
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			Because if
		
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			if I die,
		
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			and my family would deny, then we have
		
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			the contract, I give the money back.
		
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			So the ayah Yasura Baqarah talks about loans,
		
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			if you talk a loan from someone, $50,
		
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			100, 500, 1,000,
		
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			you write it down.
		
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			The IRS says,
		
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			In business transactions, we know that in the
		
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			past, we're talking about 1500 years ago, women
		
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			did not get involved so much in business,
		
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			and traveling, and caravans, and stuff.
		
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			But the idea says, if 2 men cannot
		
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			be found, they give 1 man and 2
		
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			women.
		
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			1 will actually sign the contract, the other
		
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			one would be a backup.
		
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			Just in case the first one is pregnant,
		
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			or she just gave birth, or she is
		
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			sick, she can't go, or she doesn't remember
		
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			the details, the backup will go.
		
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			The olamat make a distinction between shahada and
		
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			ishad.
		
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			There are 2 different terminologies in fact.
		
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			Shahada is when they you sign the contract,
		
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			you have to have 1 man and 2
		
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			women.
		
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			Ishhad
		
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			before a judge,
		
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			the rights will be established even by the
		
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			testimony of 1 woman.
		
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			The testimony is accepted. Say for example, you're
		
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			walking around and there's a crime, a person
		
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			shot another, before a judge, if only one
		
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			woman saw 1 woman saw the, crime, she
		
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			will testify before a judge, and her testimony
		
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			will be accepted. There's a difference between a
		
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			shahad and shahad. Now this is a big
		
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			discussion among this couple.
		
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			Tayeb.
		
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			Now,
		
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			we talk about the $50 or the $100,
		
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			and this is only a special case in
		
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			Islam, just because when you're traveling you cannot
		
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			normally find 2 men to testify over this,
		
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			you can get a woman or 2 women
		
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			to testify. Okay.
		
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			Now we will talk about the highest forms
		
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			of shahada in Islam. This is the lowest
		
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			form, a $100.
		
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			It's down here.
		
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			The highest form of shahada in Islam
		
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			is if you come forward and you say,
		
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			Sameera to Rasool Allah SAWA SAWA.
		
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			In a hadith,
		
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			if you hear a hadith from Aisha Radulan
		
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			in Bukhara, she said, I heard the Prophet
		
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			SAW say this hadith.
		
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			And you get another hadith, different hadith,
		
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			from Abu Hurair Radulan, who I heard the
		
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			prophet say this and this. Do I accept
		
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			both a hadith as strong and authentic if
		
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			you are a Bukhari Muslim?
		
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			Strong hadith. We accept both. They are at
		
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			the same level.
		
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			They are at the same level, whether it's
		
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			narrated by a man or a woman, and
		
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			I'm talking about pillars of Islam.
		
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			A hadith about salah, about Hajj, about fasting,
		
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			so we accept both as equal. We're not
		
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			talking about $50 anymore.
		
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			Another high form of shahal, if you can
		
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			please move forward, people are waiting outside. We'll
		
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			be done soon inshallah, one minute.
		
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			Another high form of shahal in Islam related
		
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			to one pillar of Islam, in the books
		
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			of Fef.
		
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			We started this in the books of Firth.
		
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			For the beginning of Ramadan or for Eid,
		
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			for the month of Shawwal, the sighting of
		
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			the moon.
		
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			They say if 1 person, reliable person,
		
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			saw the moon for the beginning of Ramadan
		
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			or for Shawwal,
		
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			then the rest of Muslims have to fast,
		
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			1.6 Muslims have to fast,
		
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			1,600,000,000
		
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			Muslims have to fast for the sighting of
		
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			1 person at the beginning of Ramadan.
		
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			It doesn't matter if the person is a
		
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			male or a female.
		
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			Their testimony before jealousy is equal.
		
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			So we are talking about 1,500,000,000
		
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			people fasting in Ramadan, we're not talking about
		
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			$50 anymore.
		
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			So this is the highest form of Shahada
		
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			in Islam, and in some cases it felt
		
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			a woman's
		
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			Shahada would be accepted, and a man's Shahada
		
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			would be rejected. And things related to pregnancy,
		
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			virginity, and so on and so forth, are
		
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			the maxes, the shahada of a woman, and
		
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			they reject the shahada of a man. So
		
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			these are the different cases
		
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			of, you know, a face rulings related to
		
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			women in Sharia. What they do basically, they
		
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			take one aspect and they generalize. Oh, a
		
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			woman takes half. A woman's shahala is half
		
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			of the men. They forget about the majority
		
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			of the cases, so we need to, pay
		
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			attention to this inshallah. We ask Allah Subhanahu
		
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			Wa Ta'ala to give us the best in
		
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			this life, and the best in the life
		
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			to come.
		
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			Yes, your money.
		
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			Thank you.
		
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			So,
		
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			I'll make a couple of announcements inshaAllah and
		
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			we'll begin our salah.
		
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			The first
		
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			announcement inshaAllah for the youth program,
		
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			in March and in April it will be
		
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			done, we'll continue at Frank McKechnie from 7
		
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			to 9, not 6 to 8. Now inshallah
		
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			from 7 to 9 to make it easy
		
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			for more people to come, we have a
		
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			program for the boys and the girls, a
		
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			gym for boys, gym for girls. So make
		
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			sure inshallah, Saturdays your kids would join us
		
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			7 tonight. The last Saturday of the month
		
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			is here in the Masjid, we have a
		
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			program for them,
		
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			lectures, and my pizza, activities, and so on
		
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			and so forth.
		
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			The second one, a few weeks ago we
		
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			announced,
		
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			the need to expand the school because
		
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			starting next year, they would be losing money
		
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			because we reached the maximum capacity, 190 students,
		
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			and if we don't expand, the school is
		
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			gonna start losing money. We need to expand.
		
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			It's a must.
		
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			And one way to do this, inshallah, if
		
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			we get sponsorships for the classrooms.
		
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			6 classrooms out of 12 have been sponsored
		
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			so far. 1 raised his hand a few,
		
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			weeks ago, but I don't get their names.
		
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			If he is here inshallah, he can come
		
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			forward and give me his, information.
		
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			So basically if you pay
		
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			$25, sorry, $25,000
		
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			over a year, which means $2,000
		
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			a month, for 1 year we would put
		
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			your name on the classroom.
		
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			Or if you choose your parents, as some
		
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			people did, at least 2 brothers who sponsored
		
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			6 classrooms, they put their father's names, or
		
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			mother's names, or any name you choose, to
		
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			make it easy for you. So we'll put
		
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			your name, we'll put you on the wall
		
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			of honor, we'll give you a tax receipt
		
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			for the whole amount, you get a free
		
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			salah spot here, Sadaqa Jariyah for you and
		
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			your family. So inshallah, next week at Jum'ah,
		
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			I will do a small fundraiser, so we
		
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			get the rest of the sponsorships. We can
		
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			get one person to do it, or if
		
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			you talk to your brothers and sisters, and
		
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			collectively come up with a 25,000,
		
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			we'll put your parents name on the classroom.
		
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			It is easy, it is doable. Make sure
		
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			inshallah you talk to your wife, you talk
		
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			to your family, and come forward. We allow
		
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			up to 5 people,
		
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			people's names to be on the classroom.
		
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			Maybe a person is not able to give
		
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			25, maybe 1 person will pay 5, will
		
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			get another 5, and so on and so
		
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			forth, and put the 5 on the classroom.
		
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			This has to be done for the school,
		
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			Insha'Allah, to, to be in the right place
		
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			next to Olive Grove, next to Isnah, and
		
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			maybe better than them. Why not? We have
		
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			the potential inshallah to be an excellent school
		
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			in the GTA. We ask Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala to give you the best in this
		
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			life and the best in the life to
		
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			come. And if someone is willing to do
		
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			the sponsorship inshallah, you can come to me
		
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			after the salah, and we'll figure it out.
		
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			6 classrooms are left, 6 are gone already.
		
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			Jazakatullah khayran.