Mustafa Khattab – What Is Your Legacy Iar Khutbah

Mustafa Khattab
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The transcript describes the loss of the largest Muslim man in history, Alcenti-owned, and the legacy of his death. The speakers discuss the sad reality of legacy and the importance of staying true to Islam. They also talk about the loss of the largest Muslim man in history and the legacy of his death. The speakers emphasize the importance of finding a good legacy and using a gift to help others. They also mention the use of English in various countries and a promotion for clear Q centers. The speakers also discuss his struggles with his English language and his use of translation and creating a clear Q center for new Muslims.
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Alhamdulillahi alladhi ahsana kulla shay'in khalaqa wabada

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khalqa al-insani min tiyn wa usalli wa

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usallimu ala al-mab'uthi rahmatan lil'alamin

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Sayyidina Muhammadin salallahu alayhi wasallam wa ala alihi

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wa sahbihi ajma'in Amma ba'd yaqulu Allahu

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ta'ala fi kitabihi alkarim wa huwa azdaqul

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qa'ilin ba'da a'udhu billahi minash shaytanir

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rajim Ya ayyuha alladhina aamanu ittaqullaha wa quluu

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qawlan sadeeda yuslih lakum a'malakum wa yaghfir lakum

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dhunubakum wa man yu'ti'illaha wa rasulahu faqad

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faaza fawzan azeema I bear witness that there

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is none worthy of our worship except Allah

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subhanahu wa ta'ala and I bear witness

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that Muhammad salallahu alayhi wasallam is the seal

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of the prophets and the final messenger to

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all of humanity whoever Allah subhanahu wa ta

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'ala guides, there is none to misguide and

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whoever Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala leads astray

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there is no one to guide to the

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right way wa ba'd inshallah I'm going to

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begin with a story which is a very

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powerful story from the hadith in nabi salallahu

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alayhi wasallam and this story is mentioned in

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different collections of hadith like al nasai, abu

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dawud and there is one version of the

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hadith in sahih muslim so this is a

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story of a man, a youth by the

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name of abu mahzura he also goes by

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the name of aws ibn rabi'a abu

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mahzura he was 16 years old, a youth

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and he was not muslim at the time

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the prophet salallahu alayhi wasallam was travelling one

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day and he camped outside mecca so abu

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mahzura, not a muslim, a youth, 16 years

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old came for observation with a few of

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his friends, like three of them it was

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time for salatul dhuhr, so bilal radiallahu anhu

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called the adhan and abu mahzura and his

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non-muslim friends they started to make fun

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of the adhan so for example, when bilal

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radiallahu anhu said hayya alas salah you know

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the egyptian, turkish, melodious style abu mahzura and

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his friends started to copy the maqam of

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the adhan and nabi salallahu alayhi wasallam saw

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them from a distance and he told his

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sahaba one of those guys who are making

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fun of the adhan has an amazing voice

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bring them here so they brought them, abu

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mahzura, the youth, 16 years old not muslim,

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who narrated the hadith he said, my knees

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were knocking together I freaked out, I panicked

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I'm a dead man already because I'm making

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fun of the adhan and they called me

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and the soldiers brought him to rasulallah salallahu

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alayhi wasallam so when they came, rasulallah salallahu

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alayhi wasallam told them to call the adhan

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one by one and abu mahzura was the

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last one of them and nabi salallahu alayhi

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wasallam was very impressed by the voice of

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abu mahzura and he told him, sit down

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then the prophet salallahu alayhi wasallam took off

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the turban of this youth, abu mahzura and

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wiped over his head and made dua for

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him he said, ya Allah bless him and

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guide him to islam so he took shahada

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on the spot, he accepted islam and nabi

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salallahu alayhi wasallam then said now go, you

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become the official muadhin of the haram in

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mecca so he said, wait a minute, there's

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a problem here so what is the problem?

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he said, I can only make fun of

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the adhan but I don't know how to

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say it professionally so the prophet salallahu alayhi

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wasallam taught him the wording of the adhan

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and the iqama you know, in the hanafi

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madhab, you guys from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan

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Turkey, when you do iqama, you say everything

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twice haya al salat, haya al salat, haya

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al falat, haya al salat, everything twice in

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arab countries, we do everything once in iqama

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so in the hanafi madhab, they got everything

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twice from this hadith in sahih muslim from

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abu mahzura this man in the story rasulallah

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taught him to say it this way and

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rasulallah taught the sahaba both ways, the arab

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way and also the hanafi way imam al

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dhahabi, in his book siyad alam al nubala

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he mentioned abu mahzura and he said that

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abu mahzura, until he died many years later

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he never ever shaved his head he said

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that his hair grew all the way to

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his knees he used to wrap it under

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his turban nobody saw it, he kept it

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under his turban only when he made wudu

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or something they saw it and someone asked

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him why didn't you shave your hair he

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said how can I shave the hair that

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was touched by the hands of hazrat muhammad

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s.a.w he never shaved it his

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children became the muadhinul haram grandchildren until the

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time of imam al shabi'i so rasulallah

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s.a.w was able to see beyond

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his mistake making fun of the adhan he

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was able to see the skill, the gift

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that allah gave to him, abu mahzura and

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used it for the benefit of the ummah

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and that was the legacy of abu mahzura

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every time you remember his name the adhan,

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the hanafi way iqamah abu mahzura, this is

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his legacy subhanallah so this is one of

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the amazing things about rasulallah s.a.w

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he was able to spot the skill, the

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gift in each one of his sahaba and

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use it for the benefit of the ummah

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each and every one of you brothers, sisters,

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old, young allah gave you a gift it's

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different from the one who is sitting next

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to you the problem is maybe you will

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not be able to spot the gift and

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over the years specially our youth they are

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always on their phones electronics, playing games fortnite

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and if you don't use the gift if

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you don't use it, you lose it khalas,

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it's gone so you need to find the

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gift that allah gave you and use it

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for the benefit of the people and this

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will be your legacy a legacy, when i

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ask people ok, what do you want your

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legacy to be?

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they say, well my legacy i want to

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be remembered as the one who eats the

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most biryani in my neighborhood or mansaf or

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shawarma i want to be remembered as the

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one who plays the most video games in

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town and the one who sleeps for a

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week straight, hibernates no, this is not a

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legacy a legacy has to be something good

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something that benefits others and subhanallah, when you

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read the quran even anbiya pray to allah

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to give them, to bless them with a

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good legacy and this is the meaning of

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the dua of ibrahim a.s. he said,

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ya allah, bless me with a good legacy

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honorable mention people until yawm al qiyamah they

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will remember me they will say good things

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about me they will follow my example ibrahim

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a.s. was blessed with this legacy even

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without asking for it we honored your mention

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we gave you a great legacy hazrat muhammad

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a.s even without him asking now subhanallah,

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the sad reality is in another 40, 50,

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60, 70 years most, if not all of

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us people in attendance here today we will

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not be around anymore 50, 60, 70 years

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may allah bless you with a long and

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healthy and happy life but even if you

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live another 100 years eventually we are going

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to leave this is the sad reality and

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i always say that our indian and pakistani

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brothers and sisters they have this lovely saying

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in urdu zindagi bahut muhtasari i'm from egypt

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but i love biryani so much and this

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is why me and she order both as

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long as it's not spicy like jahannum so

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zindagi bahut muhtasari life is very short even

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if you live to be 150 years old

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it's still a short life hazrat nooh a

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.s people think that he was 950 years

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old when he died but this is not

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correct he spent 950 years in dawah calling

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people to the faith but imams say that

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he was 1750 years old when he died

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nabi s.a in an authentic hadith in

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ibni abid dunya, it's a collection of hadith

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he said that nooh a.s hazrat nooh

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a.s was asked before he died 1750

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years old how do you see your life

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you lived a long life he said he

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said my life was very short and this

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is based on the hadith from rasulullah nooh

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a.s said my life was so short

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zindagi bahut muhtasari my life was very short

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it felt like someone who entered his house

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from the front door stood a little bit

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in the living room then left from the

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back door 1750 years old we are miskeen

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subhanallah 60-70 years old khalas bye bye

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janaza and how do we spend our time

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subhanallah 7 years when you are young you

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are not doing anything beneficial you go to

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school another 7-8 years of your life

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are gone if you eat 3 meals a

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day that take you like 1 hour this

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means that 3-4 years of your life

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gone, eating non stop technically each one of

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us in our lifetime we eat 25 tons

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of food throughout your life 1 year in

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the washroom maybe 1 or 2 years stuck

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on the highway in the rush hour watching

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movies, games social media facebook, twitter, instagram tiktok

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another 15 years of your life gone what

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is left really at the end if you

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live 60 years you sleep 7-8 hours

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a day this means if you die at

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the age of 60 you spend 20 years

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of your life sleeping snoring 1 third of

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your life is gone on bed what is

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left is the 5 minutes that you spend

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in salah namaz and this is what will

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give you jannah in the end so your

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life is really very short so when we

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leave this world and people forget us because

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after 50-60 years when we leave this

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world most people will not remember us anyway,

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if you want the proof do you personally

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remember the people who died 50-60-70

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years ago no, we don't so I want

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you to leave a legacy with Allah, to

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be remembered for something good and I'm going

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to share at the end a few examples

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of how you can leave a legacy so

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now when you think of the sahabah what

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is the legacy they left so subhanallah if

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you are from India Pakistan, Arab countries, Palestine

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we ask Allah to support them and strengthen

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them if you come from any of our

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countries back home, North Africa you know these

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countries they came to Islam through the sahabah

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of the Prophet ﷺ we are the fruit

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of those sahabah if you think of just

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one example of their legacies for example if

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you think of Abu Bakr as-Siddiq what

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comes to your mind for me the first

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thing, the first legacy that he left is

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dedication to Islam just one word, dedication Khadija

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radiallahu anha sincerity and Nabi ﷺ said in

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the hadith in Bukhari Muslim, authentic hadith that

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the top four best women of Jannah are

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Khadija bint Khuwaylid Fatima bint Muhammad Asiya the

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wife of Firaun and Maryam the mother of

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Isa ﷺ these are the top four women

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of Jannah of all time Khadija radiallahu anha

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made it to the top even though did

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she pray five times namaz a day?

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no, because she died before Isra and Mi

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'raj so there was no five times salah

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when she died did she fast in Ramazan?

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no she died before Hijrah Ramazan became for

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two years second year of Hijrah, no Ramazan

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did she do hajj with Rasulullah?

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no, did Rasulullah ﷺ even pray janazah for

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her?

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there was no salatul janazah at the time

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four times takbir?

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no, it didn't exist at the time how

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did she make it to the top?

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her sincerity she was sincere with Rasulullah ﷺ

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she was always there for him you think

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of Ali radiallahu anha, what is his legacy?

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bravery and knowledge Uthman ibn Affan, Abdulrahman ibn

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Affan, generosity Bilal, his voice Khalid ibn Walid,

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leading the army so Rasulullah ﷺ found the

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gift in each and he used it for

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the benefit of the ummah this is something

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that we need to do in our lives

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because each one of you is blessed in

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a different way, some of you maybe Allah

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blessed you with a good memory go memorize

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the Quran some of you have a good

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voice go call the adhan, Allah blessed you

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with money, donate to the masjid here some

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of you are blessed with free time, volunteer

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I don't know look for your gift, find

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it and use it for the benefit of

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the ummah now I'm gonna share with you

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some of the legacies of amazing people from

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Islamic history and mashallah I see most of

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you guys are young you are youth, this

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is one of the most youthful communities I've

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been to and by youth I always mean

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75 and under, mashallah alhamdulillah so I'll share

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some stories with you so you don't fall

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asleep in the khutbah, inshallah so you think

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of Sa'ad ibn Mu'adh r.a

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from the Ansar, from Medina he received Rasulullah,

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he was very supportive Rasulullah s.a.w.

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said that when Sa'ad ibn Mu'adh

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died the throne of Allah shook in joy

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to receive his soul and 70,000 angels

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came down for his funeral this is in

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Bukhari and Muslim, it's an authentic hadith when

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did he die?

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he was 36 years old 36 you think

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of Fatima r.a one of the four

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top people of Jannah and Rasulullah s.a

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.w. said you think because of her legacy

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and greatness that she was like 60, 70

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years old when she died, no Fatima ibn

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Muhammad s.a.w. died in her 20s

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and Rasulullah s.a.w. right before he

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passed away he said you, Fatima r.a,

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will be the first one to catch up

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with me in Jannah she died 6 months

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later she was in her 20s you think

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of someone like Muhammad Abu'l Qasim Al

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-Thaqafi those of you who come from India

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and Pakistan he conquered India and Pakistan for

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Islam, he was 17 years old and he

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died at the age of 23 this man

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Muhammad Abu'l Qasim Al-Thaqafi 23 years

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old when he died 17 years old he

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became a military commander you think of Imam

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Al-Nawawi he was a great scholar one

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of the greatest scholars in the history of

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Islam he died at the age of 45

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Sibaway, one of the greatest scholars of the

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Arabic language he came from a Persian background

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his background is not even Arab he became

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one of the masters of the Arabic language

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he died at the age of 32 32

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you think of Malcolm X one of the

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greatest Muslim leaders in the history of North

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America died back in 1965 at the age

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of 39 very young you think of someone

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like if you are from North Africa, Tunisia

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you know Abu'l Qasim Al-Shaabi rahimahullah

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till this day, he is the greatest poet

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in Tunisian history the national anthem if the

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people want life they must respond to fate

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this powerful poem, the national anthem of Tunisia

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comes from this guy the greatest poet in

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Tunisian history he died at the age of

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25 back in 1934 so what these amazing

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figures have in common they all died young

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they didn't count the years they made the

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years count so this is something that you

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need to think about inshallah what kind of

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legacy do you want to leave behind well

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it doesn't have to be something very sophisticated

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it can be something simple like raising good

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Muslim kids this is your legacy they will

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make dua for you and so on and

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so forth you can be a good Muslim

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professional you can be a good Muslim doctor,

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engineer, teacher Uber driver if you work at

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the gas station you put a smile on

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people's faces you do your job professionally you

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become an ambassador for Islam there are so

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many ways you can leave a legacy as

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a Muslim in this life so we ask

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Allah to bless you with a long and

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healthy and happy life and may Allah give

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us the best in this life and the

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best in the life to come I

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wanted the Quran to be my legacy when

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I leave this life I want to be

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remembered as someone who served the Quran and

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someone who tried to make the Quran in

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English more accessible to people and this is

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why Alhamdulillah I produced the clear Quran which

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we use for da'wah in North America,

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Alhamdulillah so my story in brief I grew

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up in a small village in Egypt, about

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3 hours drive to the north of Cairo

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and I had no potential whatsoever of going

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to school my father was totally against it

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he wanted me to become a farmer just

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like everyone else in the village but my

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mother had a different plan for me so

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she put up a big fight with my

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father she went to struggle against my father

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she said it's a shame that we have

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a family of so many and none of

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us has ever been educated my mother and

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my father and my siblings they didn't go

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to school so Alhamdulillah eventually Allah put Rahmah

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in his heart I ended up going to

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school we didn't have a school in the

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village so I went to Al-Azhar in

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another village I used to walk 1 hour

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in the morning 1 hour back in the

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evening completed my Hifdh by the age of

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12 and finally 1997 I moved, I left

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the village I moved to Cairo to study

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Islam in English and translation there was one

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big problem for me I didn't know any

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English before the age of 20 just a

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normal small guy from the village, no English

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we didn't have the best English teachers at

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Al-Azhar in Egypt so the pronunciation was

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all wrong let me give you a flavor

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of my suffering of my English in high

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school so for example in high school they

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taught us to say at Al-Azhar I

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have a problem in my stomach instead of

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stomach it's too much my biryani, my mansaf

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or my shawarma is very deliquious instead of

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delicious I have extensive ex-appearance instead of

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experience so terrible, terrible subhanallah, so one night

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back in 1997, I was very frustrated I

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made dua to Allah I said ya rabbal

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alameen, you created the heavens and the earth

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and the galaxies so inshallah help me with

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my English and I'm going to use it

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to teach people about Islam so alhamdulillah I

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did my part with the help of Allah

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and after 3 years I graduated top of

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the entire English department shortly after I was

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appointed as a professor to teach Islam in

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English and translation got my masters, my PhD

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in English 2007 I moved to South Carolina

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I was the imam there in Clemson for

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4 years and my English went down a

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big time I'm not aware because here in

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North Carolina the English is good, like the

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North but South Carolina is totally different subhanallah

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so alhamdulillah eventually I translated the Qur'an

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the clear Qur'an, the first one was

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done from Mecca Medina, Tarawih, the subtitles behind

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Shurim, Sudeis, Hudaifi then the clear Qur'an

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for Dawah, the clear Qur'an for Muslims

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with the Arabic text then we did the

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clear Qur'an dictionary for non-Arabs so

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they can understand the Qur'an in just

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4 months we have the app and the

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book the clear Qur'an dictionary then with

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a group of kids 7 years and older

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we did the clear Qur'an for kids

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4 volumes covering the whole Qur'an with

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illustrations and stories then we did the clear

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Qur'an made easy for new Muslims it's

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the first Tafsirul Qur'an for new Muslims

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and inshallah in about a week we'll be

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releasing the clear Qur'an the clear seerah

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for kids so they love the legacy of

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the Rasulullah in the English language the reason

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I came all the way from Chicago I

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have one minute inshallah is to get your

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continued support for the clear Qur'an for

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Dawah Alhamdulillah in the last 4 years alone

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we have distributed more than 5 million copies

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of these in the US and Canada with

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your help this is one of the most

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generous communities we have been to in North

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America you guys sponsor more boxes than anyone

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else and also in return you guys, this

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fantastic community you receive more boxes of the

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clear Qur'an as a gift from Fufqan

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Foundation more than any other masjid in North

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America Alhamdulillah May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

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bless the Imams and the administration of this

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masjid for always opening their doors and hearts

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for us now with the genocide in Gaza

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may Allah protect them and give them Izzah

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and Nasr Ya Rabbal Alameen there is a

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lot of interest in Islam from non-Muslims

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because before October of last year we used

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to receive like hundreds of requests from non

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-Muslims they want to get 3 copies of

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the Qur'an since October until today we

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have been receiving thousands of requests every month

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so every few weeks we print 100,000

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copies within a few weeks they are all

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gone so we always need copies and subhanallah

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this is a complaint that we always receive

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from non-Muslims especially those who accept Islam

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they say after they take shahada where are

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you guys where have you guys been because

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20-30 years ago my parents, grandparents were

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desperately looking for the truth nobody told them

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about Islam no one gave them Qur'an

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and they died kafir because of you why

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are you hiding Qur'an why are you

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hiding Islam so we need to go out

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there and mashallah you have an amazing dawah

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team here in the masjid may Allah bless

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them but we need to do more we

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need to make sure that every non-Muslim

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in this country receives the Qur'an in

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their hand this is their right on us

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the sad reality is we have neighbors all

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of us many of them are not Muslim

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they have never heard anything about Islam they

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have never heard anything about Hazrat Muhammad Sallallahu

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Alaihi Wasallam never heard anything about the Qur

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'an they cannot figure things out on their

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own we have to teach them we are

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hiding this treasure for ourselves and you see

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people of batil Jehovah's Witnesses they knock on

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your door all the time they give you

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materials you go to hotels they have their

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book in the hotels we are not doing

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our best we can do more so what

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I want from you to continue your support

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inshallah as you exit today there is a

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table here downstairs for the brothers there is

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another table for the sisters downstairs sponsor at

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least a box a box has 52 copies

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of these which means 52 families will receive

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them at Furqan Foundation we have more than

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100 teams across North America handing out free

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Qur'ans to those who are interested prisons

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hospitals, MSAs you name it so every year

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we give out more than a million copies

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and we have seen thousands of shahadahs every

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month across North America so let's do our

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part if Allah bless you with money do

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5 boxes, 10 boxes, 50, 100 you will

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get a tax receipt and you will get

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a bigger copy than this as a gift

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you can check it outside inshallah I've done

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most of the work, the translation we have

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a Furqan team is helping me and if

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you sponsor today you will be sharing the

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reward with us if someone accepts Islam you

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can do it one time you can do

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it monthly, no problem you will get a

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tax receipt and this will be a sadaqah

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for you and your family inshallah we ask

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Allah to bless you with health and wealth

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and may Allah make things easy for all

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of us and may Allah guide people to

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the straight path may Allah bless your children

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make them good Muslims, ambassadors for Islam and

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may Allah help you leave a good legacy

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your support for Dawah can be your legacy

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today

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