Mustafa Khattab – EidulFitr 2010 Khutba part 2

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The speaker discusses the challenges faced by the Muslim community in America, including attacks on Islam and violent reactions from Muslims. They emphasize the need to educate Americans about their religion, values, and principles, and to work on educating them about their religion and values. The speaker also mentions the importance of educating Muslims about their values and principles, and the need for them to represent themselves in the West.

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			The third group is
		
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			our life together as a Muslim community in
		
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			America.
		
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			The first thing, we need to be united
		
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			as a community.
		
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			Don't tell me you are Egyptian. Don't tell
		
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			me you are Pakistani. Don't tell me you
		
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			are Moroccan.
		
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			Don't tell me you are American or Latino.
		
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			We are Muslims. The challenge we face, we
		
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			face as one community.
		
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			Don't tell me you are Sunni. Don't tell
		
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			me you are Shia. Don't tell me you
		
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			are Sufi. We are one community.
		
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			If you believe in Allah as God, if
		
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			you believe in Prophet Muhammad as a prophet,
		
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			you are my brother.
		
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			Any other differences
		
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			are something between you and Allah.
		
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			The challenge we face, we face as one
		
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			single community.
		
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			After September 11th,
		
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			there has been so many challenges in this
		
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			country.
		
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			And for those of you who follow the
		
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			news, they know
		
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			every time there is a masjid built in
		
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			this country, there's a challenge
		
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			Conservative voices here and there
		
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			asking for the stoppage of this building.
		
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			And of course, the most famous example is
		
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			the
		
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			Islamic
		
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			Cultural Center in New York.
		
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			Because they say, it is only 2 blocks
		
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			away.
		
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			And they know
		
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			there are strip clubs
		
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			only 1 block away.
		
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			But the message does not honor
		
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			the memory of those who had fallen in
		
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			the September 11th, but the people who are
		
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			in the strip clubs do.
		
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			And they say that the Masjid is too
		
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			close.
		
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			You should
		
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			build it away a few blocks away.
		
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			I would should ask, how close is too
		
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			close?
		
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			Because if we try to build an Islamic
		
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			center
		
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			40
		
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			or 50 or 200 miles away in
		
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			Florida, they speak out, they say no.
		
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			If you try to build another
		
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			Masjid in Tennessee,
		
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			300 miles away,
		
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			they say no.
		
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			If you try to build another Masjid
		
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			500 miles away in California,
		
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			they will speak up and say no.
		
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			Usually, when people attack in this country
		
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			or in the West in general,
		
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			they do it for two reasons.
		
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			Number 1, to get attention
		
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			and to become famous and to become rich,
		
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			because they know that the easiest way
		
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			you can become rich and famous and wealthy
		
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			is to attack the prophet and attack Islam
		
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			and attack Muslims.
		
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			If you want to be rich,
		
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			make a cartoon of the Prophet.
		
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			Put a bomb in his head.
		
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			If you want to become rich, write a
		
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			book on the Quran.
		
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			And say that the Quran say this, and
		
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			say this, and say this. The Quran oppresses
		
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			women that the Muslims want to take over
		
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			America and do this and this.
		
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			But they never give a chapter number and
		
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			a verse number because it is not there.
		
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			Every time we want to build an Islamic
		
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			school, there is a challenge.
		
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			Every time
		
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			people try to say good things about Islam,
		
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			they're always
		
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			a challenge.
		
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			So this is number 1. We have the
		
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			same challenges, we have to stand up and
		
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			speak for ourselves.
		
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			Number 2,
		
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			we need to educate other Americans about our
		
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			values
		
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			and about our religion.
		
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			American people are not bad, they are not
		
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			evil. And I have been here
		
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			for 3 years and I know that many
		
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			of them are decent people.
		
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			They don't hate Muslims for who they are.
		
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			The problem is,
		
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			they go by what they hear in the
		
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			media, they go by what they hear in
		
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			their places of worship.
		
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			They don't read for themselves.
		
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			So this is what we need to do
		
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			to educate them about our religion,
		
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			about our values, and about our principles.
		
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			And once you teach them, they know.
		
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			As I said, there are two reasons why
		
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			people attack Islam.
		
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			To get famous,
		
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			to become rich, and number 2, to provoke
		
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			a violent reactions from Muslims.
		
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			They know that if they make a cartoon
		
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			of Prophet Muhammad or if they burn the
		
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			Quran, that the Muslims will go violent and
		
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			go wild and
		
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			destroy things and
		
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			burn houses and cars.
		
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			And we should be smart.
		
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			We should not take the bait.
		
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			You do what the prophet did.
		
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			He was insulted, people spat in his face,
		
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			people threw stuff on him, and he was
		
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			patient.
		
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			And in description
		
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			of the righteous servants of Allah given in
		
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			Surat
		
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			Subhana says, khalu salalam.
		
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			And when they are midway the khalpapa mujahilunabhalu
		
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			salalam. When they are addressed by the ignorant
		
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			and the foolish ones, they say peace.
		
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			So if they try to provoke
		
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			a violent reaction from you, say peace.
		
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			Don't get involved in this stuff and give
		
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			Islam a bad name and make a bad
		
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			image for Muslims.
		
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			Teach and educate.
		
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			You need to clarify and convey the message
		
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			of Islam and not to provoke.
		
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			And this what we Muslims believe and this
		
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			is what we stand for.
		
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			Number 3, and I'll conclude with this,
		
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			we need to have people to represent Islam
		
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			in the West and in this country.
		
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			Alhamdulillah, we have so many doctors. We have
		
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			more doctors than we have patients.
		
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			We have more lawyers than we have inmates.
		
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			We have more engineers than we have cars.
		
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			But where are the Muslim
		
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			people who work in the media?
		
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			Where are the Muslims who work as politicians?
		
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			We are tolerant
		
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			and sake of all non Muslims
		
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			who, regardless of their good intentions, make
		
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			mistakes every time they talk about Islam. They
		
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			misrepresent
		
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			us.
		
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			Some of many of them have good intentions,
		
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			but every time they speak, they make mistakes.
		
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			You can see all the documentaries
		
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			made by the BBC,
		
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			PBS,
		
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			National Geographic. They are fantastic.
		
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			But there are always a glitch in there,
		
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			In relation to Aqidah, in relation to Muslim
		
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			culture, in relation to Muslim history, we need
		
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			Muslim people
		
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			to work in the media.
		
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			And we need Muslims to work as politicians
		
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			in this country,
		
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			and they should be guided by the ethics
		
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			of Islam. To speak for
		
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			us, to represent us.
		
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			We don't want to be represented by other
		
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			people.
		
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			Those who have evil intentions and those who
		
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			have good intentions.
		
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			If we do this,
		
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			we
		
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			embody
		
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			the spirit of Ramadan.
		
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			The month that instills in us the goodness,
		
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			the charity
		
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			of being good and kind and being united.
		
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			In Ramadan, we worship the same God, we
		
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			face the same Qibla, we start at the
		
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			same time, we have been in the same
		
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			time,
		
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			and we face the same Qibla, the same
		
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			Kaaba.
		
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			So this should be our goal
		
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			and this should be our guide in this
		
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			life. We ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to
		
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			accept from us and to forgive our sins,
		
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			and to give us the reward for all
		
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			good deeds according to the best of our
		
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			intentions, and to give us sincerity in everything
		
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			we say and do, and to unite Muslims
		
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			wherever they might be, and to forgive all
		
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			Muslims those who are living and those who
		
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			are dead.