Mustafa Khattab – Ramadan Special Quran Gems 9

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The speakers discuss the importance of reading the Quran in understanding the natural wonderings of the creator, particularly Jesus as a promise to walk on the earth and reflect on the creation of Islam. They share stories about animals and birds, including the story of a woman named Nuh al Toast and the importance of learning to live like human beings. The speakers advise viewers to not watch news and reflect on the creation of Allah, as humans are doing their job of remaratul and the world is doing its own thing.

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			We spoke about,
		
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			paying attention to the Quran in the month
		
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			of Ramadan, which is the month of the
		
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			Quran.
		
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			And we said that reading it is good,
		
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			memorizing it is excellent,
		
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			and reflect on it, on it is great.
		
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			And also
		
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			applying it to your life. This is the
		
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			purpose of the revelation.
		
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			So today inshaAllah we will focus a little
		
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			bit on something that if you read the
		
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			Quran you will come across all the time,
		
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			and that is, the order from Allah
		
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			to walk on the earth and reflect and
		
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			look around.
		
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			Afalam yaseeru fil adifaaamburu
		
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			koseru fil adifum manburu So you will read
		
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			this command in the Quran over and over
		
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			again. Allah
		
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			says,
		
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			Walk through the land and look around and
		
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			reflect.
		
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			So what do we get from reflecting
		
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			on the creation of Allah
		
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			It's very simple.
		
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			By looking around, and looking at the marvels
		
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			of the creation of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
		
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			you will know how great Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala is, how powerful Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			is, and you will also,
		
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			understand the purpose of your life in this
		
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			world. By just looking at the creation.
		
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			Sometimes when we look at birds, and fish,
		
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			and animals,
		
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			these are just, you know, animals and fish,
		
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			there's nothing we can learn from them. Actually,
		
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			there are so many things you can learn
		
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			from them.
		
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			Wallahi, they teach you a lot.
		
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			So
		
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			I'm telling you,
		
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			I should make an oath that by just
		
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			watching National Geographic wallahi, you can learn more
		
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			about yourself,
		
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			the purpose of your life, than watching a
		
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			lot of news channels, like Fox News.
		
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			Because the truth is there is nothing truthful
		
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			about most of the news that you watch
		
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			on Fox News for example. I studied them
		
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			for 5 years for PhD,
		
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			and what you get from watching them 2
		
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			things, you'll get from watching,
		
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			you know, Fox News, CNN, CBC, most of
		
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			these channels, heart attacks, and blood pressure. That's
		
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			all you get from them. But by watching
		
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			National Geographic, you will
		
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			learn learn a lot of things.
		
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			You will learn about the fact that all
		
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			these animals,
		
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			they submit themselves to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			You will never find an animal
		
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			making sajdah to another animal, or to another
		
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			human being, but you will find human beings
		
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			making sajdah to another human being, or to
		
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			other enemies.
		
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			There are 2,500,000,000
		
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			people in this world, out of the 7,000,000,000.
		
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			2,500,000,000,
		
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			they worship
		
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			Buddha, and so on and so forth.
		
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			Right? So we worship each other. We worship
		
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			animals. I'm not gonna give you examples, examples
		
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			of so many. If you come from India,
		
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			if you come from other places, you know
		
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			what I'm talking about. China,
		
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			you read about ancient Egypt, ancient Greece,
		
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			ancient Rome, they worship thousands of animal gods,
		
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			and so on and so forth.
		
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			So you'll never see an animal worshiping another
		
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			animal, but we do it all the time.
		
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			So,
		
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			I'm gonna share with you
		
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			this ayah from Surah Hajj, and it always
		
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			breaks my heart to read this ayah. So
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says in this ayah:
		
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			Alamtahuhan
		
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			Allah
		
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			Have you not seen that everything in the
		
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			heavens and everything in the earth
		
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			submits to Allah
		
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			including the sun, the moon, the stars, the
		
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			trees,
		
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			everything,
		
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			and even animals.
		
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			All living beings, the fish, the birds, the
		
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			animals, but when He talks about human beings,
		
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			it says, and some humans do,
		
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			and some humans don't.
		
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			So everything submits to Allah, but when it
		
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			comes to human beings some of us do,
		
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			and some of us don't. So Allah Subhanahu
		
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			Wa Ta'ala is basically saying that everything submits
		
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			to His will, except us. Some of us
		
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			choose to obey, some of us don't.
		
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			When you read for example in the Quran
		
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			the story of Nuh alaihis salam, he was
		
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			building the ark, you read in Surah Hud,
		
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			his people were making fun of him, when
		
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			the order came
		
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			to,
		
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			go up the
		
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			the ship,
		
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			the animals, they just went up.
		
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			The human beings, Oh, what's wrong with you?
		
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			You're building a ship in the desert, what's
		
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			wrong with you? And some of them were
		
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			saying, and even their kids,
		
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			They used to teach their kids, Nuh alaihis
		
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			salam failed as a prophet, maybe he will
		
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			succeed as a carpenter. This is what they
		
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			were teaching their kids.
		
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			So when he told them go up the
		
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			ship, so the animals
		
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			didn't ask questions, why are you building the
		
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			ark in the desert? They went up. Human
		
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			beings, oh, what's wrong with you? They didn't
		
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			go up and they drowned and died. Most
		
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			of them.
		
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			You look for example, at the example
		
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			of Saba, the people of Saba in Yemen.
		
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			Why did they accept Islam with Surah Alaihi
		
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			Salaam? Because of what?
		
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			Because of the bird, the hoopu. If you
		
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			read the story of Surah Anam, they all
		
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			became Muslim because of a bird
		
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			that made down onto them. You know this
		
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			story better than me. And most of us
		
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			are even ashamed to tell other people about
		
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			Islam. They're afraid, what are they going to
		
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			say about me?
		
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			You read for example in the Quran in
		
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			Surah Mayra, the way we learn how to
		
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			bury each other after death, from what?
		
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			From a bird, from Alhurrah, from the crow.
		
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			The story of the children of Adam, when
		
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			one of them killed the other. He didn't
		
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			know how to bury his brother? No, he
		
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			learned it from the other person, right?
		
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			And at the end of the story,
		
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			this person became regretful. He started to cry,
		
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			and he was sorry, not because he killed
		
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			his brother, but because he didn't know how
		
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			to bury his brother like the crow.
		
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			So, his his his regretfulness was not Tawba
		
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			because he was not sorry, actually.
		
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			He was sorry because he felt like the
		
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			crow was bitter than him.
		
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			This reminds me of the story of a
		
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			bunch of guys,
		
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			they robbed the bank, a lot of money.
		
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			Because in Islam, when you feel sorry about
		
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			what you have done, this is Tawba. But
		
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			if if you do it for another reason,
		
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			this is not Tawba, like in the case
		
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			of the children of Adam. So after they
		
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			robbed the bank, they drove the car like
		
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			7 hours in the desert, and they went
		
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			inside the cave, and one of them started
		
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			to cry.
		
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			So the ringleader,
		
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			the big thief, the big Chor, Hirsas,
		
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			Tugh in Somali.
		
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			They said, okay, why are you crying? Are
		
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			you crying? Do you feel sorry for robbing
		
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			the bank? He said, no, I feel sorry
		
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			because it's gonna take us a week to
		
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			know how much money we stole.
		
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			It's not Taobah. So the hit of the
		
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			thieves said, okay, what's wrong with you? He
		
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			gave he just watched and used for just
		
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			10 minutes. They're gonna say on CBC
		
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			that, $5,000,000
		
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			have just been stolen from the bank. We
		
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			don't have to count anything, right?
		
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			So by just watching the example of these
		
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			animals and birds we'll learn a lot of
		
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			things in the story of the field Abraha
		
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			Habashi.
		
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			The elephant
		
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			didn't want to destroy the Kaaba, but a
		
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			human being
		
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			mobilized a huge army to destroy the Kaaba,
		
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			the house of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. So
		
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			there is a lot we can learn from
		
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			animals inshaAllah after Ramadan if Allah gives me
		
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			the life, we're going to give 2 or
		
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			3 khutbas about all the things we can
		
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			learn from animals and birds and even fish
		
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			in the Quran.
		
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			So why do we need to do these
		
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			things and reflect?
		
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			Wallahi, it seems to me that over the
		
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			last few 1000 years since we came on
		
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			Earth,
		
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			we have done a lot of damage, and
		
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			all these animals and the these birds, they
		
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			are doing their job. They are just being
		
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			animals and birds.
		
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			We have learned to fly like birds, we
		
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			have learned to dive and swim like fish.
		
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			I think it's about time to learn how
		
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			to live like human beings. Because this is
		
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			our job. Flying and swimming in oceans, all
		
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			these, this is not our job. Our job
		
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			is
		
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			remaratul, are to take care of this world,
		
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			as was the intention of Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala from the very beginning. And this is
		
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			why, I'm gonna conclude with this, don't shoot.
		
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			This is
		
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			why there's a lot of medicine now in
		
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			the world, more than 500 years ago, but
		
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			subhanAllah we have more illnesses,
		
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			more sickness in this world. We have more
		
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			entertainment.
		
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			All these channels, and all these different things,
		
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			and entertainment, and movies, and video games, and
		
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			stuff.
		
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			Tend to we I don't know all the
		
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			names,
		
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			but people are more miserable now than they
		
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			were 200 years ago.
		
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			The proof there are more people killing themselves
		
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			now, than the people who used to kill
		
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			themselves a 100 years ago.
		
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			So people are miserable, people are sick, and
		
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			you just imagine after the establishment of the
		
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			United Nations, there are more wars now, people
		
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			dying now, than before the United Nations was
		
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			established. Things don't even make any sense anymore.
		
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			So my advice don't watch the news channels,
		
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			Fox News, BBC, all these things. Watch,
		
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			National Geographic,
		
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			read the Quran, reflect on the creation of
		
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			Allah, this will give you the meaning and
		
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			the purpose of our existence in this world.
		
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			Wa Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, ala'ala.
		
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			So the question for last night was,
		
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			was about Moz, banana.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Banana. This is the meaning of the word
		
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			maws in, in English, and Subhanahu Wa Salam
		
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			Alaikum Where is the word banana in the
		
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			Quran? And almost all the answers I got
		
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			were,
		
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			banaqaadireenaalaal
		
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			Musaweeh banana.
		
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			What are you talking about?
		
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			I'm talking about the Arabic, right? Not the
		
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			English banana, right? Okay.
		
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			So,
		
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			the answer is in Surah Waqa, Waqah, Waqalhimmandud.
		
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			The Talh is most, Ayat 25. Talh is
		
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			most, Mandud is clustered, one above the other.
		
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			So this is the meaning, Waqalhimmandud,
		
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			and the winner is brother Muhammad Kaki.
		
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			The Quran.
		
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			But not everyone knows the last ayah revealed.
		
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			Why is the last ayah revealed to the
		
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			prophet
		
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			before his death? If you know the answer,
		
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			email me,
		
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			inshaAllah by tomorrow at imamustafah@anatoyacenterjazda
		
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			natoyacenter.c
		
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			h.
		
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			Correct.