Mustafa Khattab – Ramadan Reflections 26 A Final Word

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The importance of learning the title "the best generation" to access opportunities for learning is emphasized in Islam curriculum. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of learning the fruit of Islam, such as hikons, to gain access to opportunities for learning. The discussion also touches on the loss of a young man with cancer and the importance of donating to the foundation. The segment ends with a discussion of winners of the fundraiser and the importance of faith in graduation timing.

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			So,
		
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			this thing is heavy. Before we begin inshallah,
		
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			I would like to give a shout out
		
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			to, brother
		
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			Yusuf Yusuf
		
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			Abi.
		
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			Assalamu alaikum, brother Yusuf Hashib. Assalamu alaikum.
		
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			If you come to the Masjid and you
		
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			see all the flow can you raise your
		
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			hand, please?
		
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			Yes.
		
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			Yes. When you see all the flowers and
		
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			all the roses in the front and in
		
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			the back, this is the work of brother
		
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			Yusuf.
		
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			The flowers.
		
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			So we ask Allah
		
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			to bless him with alfia, with health and
		
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			a long life, insha'Allah.
		
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			If you don't give thank you to tashekur
		
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			adherim, to the people, then you don't give
		
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			Tashaykur Tawla Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			I'm gonna keep it short tonight, inshaAllah. This
		
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			is my last thoughtura. I'll be leaving tomorrow
		
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			inshaAllah, and I'll miss you. I'll keep you
		
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			in my dua, so make dua for me
		
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			and the family inshaAllah.
		
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			So,
		
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			how would you feel
		
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			like you have a little
		
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			kid, like 6, 7 years old, you don't
		
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			want to take him to the public school
		
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			because this is for free, so you took
		
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			him to the highest of the top schools
		
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			in town,
		
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			And you pay, like, $20,000
		
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			or more a year for their education.
		
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			So one day at the end of the
		
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			year, they gave them the diploma, mashaAllah. They
		
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			went home, and he said, MashaAllah, my kid,
		
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			I love you. What is 1+1?
		
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			And they said, 11.
		
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			That's a big disappointment.
		
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			You know, sometimes I feel the same way.
		
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			Like, when people come to the khutba,
		
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			and, you know, they're playing with their phone,
		
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			they're falling asleep in the khutba,
		
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			And believe me, sometimes in many cases, like,
		
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			most of us coming to Jum'at, this is
		
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			the only connection you have with Islam, and
		
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			this is the only knowledge we gain throughout
		
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			the week. So if you go to work,
		
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			you are busy, you come home late, you
		
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			don't have time to read and study and
		
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			sit with the ulama, and, you know. Like,
		
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			coming to Khubba, this is your only source
		
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			of knowledge. There are 52 Khubba's a year,
		
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			so let's assume that you come for 20
		
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			Khubba's or 48 Khubba's a year. Each of
		
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			them is half an hour,
		
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			and basically with the introduction in Alhamdulillah and
		
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			the dua at the end, you end up
		
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			with, like, 15 minutes of pure knowledge,
		
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			every jum'ah. Right? So you need to pay
		
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			attention.
		
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			When people sit in the back and talk,
		
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			or they chat on Facebook, or they post
		
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			something, and, this imam is so boring, ill
		
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			oh *. I mean, you're not paying attention
		
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			to the hubaman,
		
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			and you come and you leave, and believe
		
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			me, when you leave the masjid and you
		
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			didn't gain any knowledge, you didn't learn anything
		
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			about halal and haram, you tazkiat and nafs,
		
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			you didn't learn anything,
		
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			then you just basically wasted 1 week of
		
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			your life without gaining any knowledge. Right? So
		
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			make sure inshallah, when you come to the
		
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			food, but pay attention
		
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			and try to apply
		
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			even
		
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			1% of what you hear in the Khubba.
		
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			If the imam talks about halal and haram,
		
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			how to calculate your zakah, dealing with your
		
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			family, your wife, your husband, your kids, and
		
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			taskiyatun nafsabatafsiruqulahalhadith
		
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			of the prophet
		
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			try to apply. Because what is the point
		
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			if you hear,
		
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			but you don't apply? The good thing about
		
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			the sahaba of the prophet the best generation,
		
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			they apply it. They apply it. And every
		
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			time the Prophet SAW Alaihi Wasallam said something
		
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			in hadith,
		
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			or Allah said something in the Quran,
		
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			they didn't say, Oh, he is talking to
		
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			my cousin.
		
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			No, he is talking to you. Right? He
		
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			is talking to you, not anyone else. This
		
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			is how the sahaba understood.
		
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			If it says this is halal or this
		
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			is haram, they knew it was talking to
		
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			them individually.
		
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			Right? And they paid attention to what Muhammad
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said.
		
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			There is this story, little story,
		
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			and as I said, you don't have to
		
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			have a PhD in Islamic Studies to get
		
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			close to Allah
		
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			All you need to do is have, like,
		
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			pay attention,
		
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			and,
		
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			you know, you know, with sincerity,
		
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			that's all you need. That's all you need.
		
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			And Ikhlas and Hikma, this is something that
		
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			Allah
		
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			gives to whoever he wants.
		
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			There are people that I know of, they
		
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			memorize
		
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			all, you know, Ajzaqul Quran, the entire Quran
		
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			in Quran. And they know Bukhari, and Muslim,
		
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			and this and that. And
		
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			subhanAllah,
		
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			no hikmah whatsoever.
		
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			So there are two levels in Islam. There
		
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			is knowledge, which is available for everyone.
		
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			Then you have hikmah, which is a gift,
		
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			a gram from Allah. It is not for
		
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			everyone.
		
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			And these are not my words. These are
		
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			the words of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala in
		
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			Surah Baqarah.
		
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			Allah gives hikmah only to whoever he wants.
		
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			It's not for everyone.
		
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			It's a privilege, it is not a right.
		
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			Right? So Allah gives it to whoever deserves
		
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			it. And the best way to learn hikmah,
		
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			of course, is if you follow the sunnah
		
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			Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, you salar the
		
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			lives of
		
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			Muhammad in the Quran. Kitab means Quran.
		
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			Hikma means the Sunnah of Muhammad Well, Khurma
		
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			may Yutla fiyuteqqunam means Quran. Hikma means the
		
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			Sunnah of Muhammad Well, Khurma may Yutla fiyuteqqunam
		
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			means Quran. Hikma means the Sunnah of Muhammad
		
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			Well, Khurma may Yutla fiyuteqqunam means Quran. Hikma
		
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			is Quran, for sure. Hikma, the Muqasirun, they
		
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			have like Ishma is the Sunnah of Muhammad
		
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			His way, his manners, his akhlaq, and and
		
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			his ada.
		
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			So this man came to the prophet
		
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			his name was Dreymad al Azdih. It's an
		
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			authentic ahadith in al Sahha.
		
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			And this man, Dreymad al Azdih, was like
		
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			mushrik. He used to make salzat to the
		
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			idols, and he was a doctor. He was
		
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			a physician. So they told him, Muhammad salallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam is majnoon. So he said,
		
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			I'm gonna go to him and, you know,
		
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			talk to him. So he went to the
		
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			prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam, and he said,
		
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			if you are sick, if you are majnoon,
		
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			I'm a doctor, I can help you. So
		
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			what do you say? So the prophet salallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam said,
		
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			The first minute of Khuba that we hear
		
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			every Jummah.
		
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			So the man said, would you please repeat
		
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			this again for me? So the Prophet repeated
		
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			a second time, and the man said, can
		
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			you do it? They repeated it a third
		
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			time. And the Prophet repeated
		
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			it a third time.
		
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			All praise is due to Allah
		
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			We seek His help and assistance. Whoever Allah
		
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			guides, there's no one to misguide, and whoever
		
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			Allah leaves to stray, there's no one to
		
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			guide. 3 times the prophet
		
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			said, and the man said,
		
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			these are not the words of human beings.
		
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			These this is a revelation from Allah, and
		
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			he accepted Islam on the spot. The prophet
		
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			didn't have to give him Khutba, or Bayan,
		
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			or anything.
		
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			He just gave him the introduction to the
		
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			Khutba. We're not talking about the Khutba, just
		
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			the first few lines of the Khutba that
		
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			we hear every single Jum'ah.
		
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			And as soon as the imam said, Inna
		
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			Alhamdulillah, they start to nod off, and as
		
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			he says,
		
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			This is a topic for today, they snore
		
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			like,
		
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			get out of here.
		
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			Another example, so this is a man who
		
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			heard something and it affected him, it touched
		
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			their hearts.
		
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			One of the sahabas said,
		
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			I accepted Islam because the Prophet
		
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			used to talk to me every single day,
		
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			so I wanted to get him, you know,
		
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			off of my shoulders, so I said, Khas,
		
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			I'm gonna become Muslim, so the Prophet
		
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			left him alone.
		
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			So he
		
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			said, the only reason I truly accepted Islam
		
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			is when I heard the prophet sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam, insalah,
		
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			say, recite in the gala'a,
		
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			Which we read typically at the end of
		
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			the Khubba every Jum'ah. One ayah touched his
		
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			heart, and he became Muslim. And the stories
		
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			are so many.
		
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			A few days ago we spoke Khaled, I'm
		
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			almost done, so don't shoot. A few days
		
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			ago I spoke about the story of brother
		
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			Ali Banat,
		
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			a millionaire
		
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			youth, he was 25 years old, I believe,
		
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			from Australia,
		
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			and he got cancer, and he said this
		
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			is a gift from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			And he was not practicing before, and they
		
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			told him you have about 7 months, and
		
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			you will die. So the last 7 months,
		
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			the last, you know, period of his life,
		
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			he dedicated his millions
		
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			to save lives and do charity work in
		
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			Africa, and millions of people have been making
		
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			dua for him. So there is a brother
		
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			in this jama'ah tonight
		
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			who heard this story, and he was so
		
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			touched.
		
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			And this is why we had when we
		
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			had the fundraiser last night, this brother came
		
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			out and he said, I'm giving 50,000
		
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			fisabilah for this masjid. And he came to
		
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			me after and he said, do you know
		
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			why I gave the 50,000? I said, I
		
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			don't know. And he said, because of the
		
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			story of brother Ali Banat. It touched me
		
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			so hard that this is a young man
		
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			who is willing to donate his money for
		
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			Usabilla.
		
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			He's not better than me. Let's compete together
		
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			in doing good. He's he has done his
		
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			best. Let me do my best because I
		
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			wanna be like this brother. And he did
		
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			his best. We ask Allah, Subhanahu wa Ta'ala,
		
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			to accept from him with akhlas. And we
		
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			ask Allah, Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, to reward those
		
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			who donated last night. And those who couldn't
		
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			donate, at least if you make the offer,
		
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			us. And by niyah, we ask Allah, Subhanahu
		
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			wa Ta'ala, to give you. Last night in
		
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			tahajjud, one brother, a doctor came forward, and
		
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			he also donated 20,000 after we finished the
		
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			fundraise. So I ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			to bless you and your families, and provide
		
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			for you just like you provide for the
		
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			house of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			The last thing, inshaAllah.
		
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			The question from, say, 2 days ago,
		
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			we had a winner, but he didn't pick
		
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			up his, his prize brother, Hussein Hashi.
		
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			Hussein Hashi, if he's are you here? Masha'Allah.
		
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			Hassan. I know. Jazzaq Alafiq Alafiq. Jazzaq Alafiq.
		
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			So magaaq means, what's your name, brother Hassan?
		
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			We know your name is Hassan. Jazzaq Alafiq.
		
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			And also the winner for last night,
		
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			we know the first I have revealed of
		
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			the Quran,
		
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			some of the last I have revealed,
		
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			but this is not the last one. Today,
		
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			I have perfected your faith for you.
		
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			1 of the last, but not the last.
		
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			The very last ayah revealed of the Quran,
		
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			know why he came after is?
		
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			Ayah 281 in Surah Qadrach, according to the
		
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			majority of the mufassaroon and the scholars. And
		
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			this ayah says, be mindful of the day
		
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			when you stand before Allah for judgment.
		
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			Everyone will be rewarded according to their deeds
		
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			in this dunya. No one will be treated
		
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			unjustly. This is the last ayah. Revelations that
		
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			continued for 1000 of years to all the
		
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			prophets
		
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			came to a conclusion with this ayat no
		
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			more wahri. And the winner is, doctor Sayed
		
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			Risa.
		
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			He shay a few times, and
		
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			he got it right.
		
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			Thank you to Google.
		
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			So with that, we'll conclude, inshallah. We ask
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to accept your Ibadah
		
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			and give you Jannatah for those ameena of
		
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			Bara'at.