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The importance of learning new things every day to become a successful person is emphasized, along with advice on improving one's life. Examples of successful people include an old civil rights figure and a man named Malcolm X. The importance of Islam is also highlighted, with advice given on how to be successful in Insha matter and the life of a man named Mohammed Ali. The speaker provides insight into the life of these individuals and gives advice on how to be successful in Insha matter.

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			How are you guys doing?
		
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			Great. How was the summer vacation?
		
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			Great. Good, Marcela. Yes. I was at the
		
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			Wisconsin Pet. I saw you, Joseph. I saw
		
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			you
		
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			at
		
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			Okay.
		
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			So, Alhamdulillah,
		
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			you are students at the, Make8 Islamic Academy.
		
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			Alhamdulillah, you get, you receive good education.
		
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			You have very dedicated teachers. Alhamdulillah.
		
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			You have a new principal.
		
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			So, we wish you all the best inshallah.
		
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			We know that,
		
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			as a recap of what I said at
		
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			the end of last year, the last session
		
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			we met together, we are here in this
		
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			world for a short period of time.
		
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			And you are the one who decides
		
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			whether you'll live a happy, a decent, a
		
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			successful life or not. Right? Your family
		
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			has done their part
		
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			by bringing you to the Islamic Academy to
		
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			get an Islamic education,
		
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			to be in a good Muslim environment,
		
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			you have good teachers, good friends, and so
		
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			on and so
		
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			forth. We know that from the lives of
		
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			the Sahaba of the Prophet SAW
		
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			they try to do something good every day,
		
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			either in terms of Salah,
		
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			fasting,
		
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			giving Salafah,
		
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			studying something new with the Prophet, like learning
		
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			a Hadith, memorizing a new Surah from the
		
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			Quran,
		
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			And this is why some of
		
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			them, although,
		
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			they were youth when they accepted Islam,
		
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			they became very successful in life. I'll give
		
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			you one example.
		
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			There's one of the Sahaba, his name was
		
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			Sa'd ibn Mu'adh
		
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			How many of you have heard the name?
		
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			Sa'd ibn Mu'adh Okay
		
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			Sa'd ibn Mu'adh
		
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			was only about 35 years old when he
		
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			died
		
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			35 years old
		
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			But when he passed away, the Prophet SAW
		
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			Alaihi Wasallam said that 100 of 1000 of
		
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			angels came down for his janazah.
		
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			And the throne of Allah was shaken
		
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			because of him. Because this is how important
		
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			he was for Islam and for Allah Subhanahu
		
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			Wa Ta'ala. Very important!
		
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			35 years old, right?
		
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			You have to read his story, why was
		
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			he very, a very significant figure in Islamic
		
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			history?
		
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			How many of you heard of Abu Qasim
		
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			Shafi? How many of you are from Tunisia?
		
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			Anyone here from Tunisia?
		
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			No one from Tunisia?
		
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			So, Abu Qasem Shafi
		
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			was 24 years old when he died.
		
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			25 year 24 years old.
		
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			And Abu Qasem Ishapi is the most important
		
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			poet
		
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			in the history of Tunisia.
		
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			If you heard the National Anthem of Tunisia,
		
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			The National Anthem of Tunisia
		
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			was made by him.
		
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			He was a great poet, and still he
		
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			is the biggest, the greatest poet of all
		
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			time in Tunisian history. 25 years old when
		
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			he died.
		
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			Why? Because these people tried to leave a
		
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			legacy,
		
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			to leave something behind.
		
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			They were working hard every day.
		
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			Some of the Sahaba, like Abu Lad Nabas,
		
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			they used to say,
		
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			If
		
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			I don't get close to Allah every day,
		
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			and I don't get distant from Jahannam,
		
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			and I don't get close to Jannah, and
		
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			I don't improve as a human being, and
		
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			I don't learn something new every
		
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			day, this day is lost from my life.
		
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			I don't count this day from my life.
		
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			So every day, Shaa Allah, try to learn
		
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			something new. If you are learning a new
		
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			language, try to learn 2 words, 5 words
		
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			every day. Try to memorize the Surah from
		
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			the Quran, or 1 Ayah.
		
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			Try to understand the meaning of 1 Ayah
		
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			from the Quran, the Tafsir of 1 Ayah.
		
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			Try to learn new skills every day. Right?
		
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			Because this is what will make you successful
		
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			in life. Any day
		
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			that is gone from your life without learning
		
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			something new, without you becoming a better person,
		
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			this is a day lost from your life.
		
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			And if you are this year, what you
		
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			were 5 years ago, you didn't learn anything
		
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			new, you didn't improve in any way, then
		
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			you wasted
		
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			5 years or 2 years of your life.
		
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			So, inshallah, in conclusion,
		
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			I'm going to show you a few examples
		
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			of people who are your age.
		
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			Some of them became very successful,
		
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			some of them became losers.
		
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			Why? Those who became successful, they invested their
		
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			lives, they learned something new, they tried to
		
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			improve, they tried to become better human beings,
		
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			and some of them, they have the opportunity
		
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			to become good people, learn something new, and
		
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			improve, but they wasted the opportunity.
		
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			We start with this guy.
		
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			I think his last name was Culkin, but
		
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			in the movie,
		
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			in Home Alone 2, he was Kevin.
		
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			So, this is when he was he was,
		
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			8 years old, 9 years old.
		
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			Eventually, when he was,
		
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			about 17,
		
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			18,
		
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			he became a a drug addict.
		
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			You know, he used to do drugs and
		
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			stuff. And
		
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			Is that Kevin? Yes. This is Kevin when
		
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			he was about 20 years old.
		
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			He lost his life to drugs.
		
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			He wasted his life. Drug addict.
		
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			So when he was 8, 9 years old,
		
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			he was very famous, a celebrity, he made
		
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			1,000,000 of dollars, he won he won awards,
		
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			but because he didn't improve himself, he didn't
		
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			learn something new, he didn't hang out with
		
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			the right folks
		
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			drugs.
		
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			The second guy,
		
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			any guess who who this guy is?
		
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			He's an old guy from, like
		
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			No.
		
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			Okay. I'll I'll I'll tell you.
		
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			This guy, when he was young,
		
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			he was your age, like in grade 3,
		
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			4, he was an artist. He used to
		
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			make paintings. And if you go to Google,
		
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			you will see some paintings by this guy.
		
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			He was an artist when he was young.
		
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			So
		
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			this is what became of him.
		
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			Do you know this guy? Hitler. It was
		
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			Hitler.
		
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			Yes.
		
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			This guy is responsible
		
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			for the death of somewhere between 15 to
		
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			20,000,000 people in Europe, during World War 2.
		
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			So he started off as an artist,
		
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			very nice guy,
		
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			bright future, great potential, but he wasted everything
		
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			because of the bad things he was learning
		
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			and the bad people he was hanging out
		
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			with.
		
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			No. They say he, he committed suicide in
		
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			1945.
		
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			This guy. We're gonna conclude with 2 good
		
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			guys.
		
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			This guy was
		
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			great.
		
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			You know who this guy is? Mandel. Mandelah.
		
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			No.
		
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			Because of racism and
		
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			stuff, he ended up stealing at a young
		
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			age.
		
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			Thief.
		
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			Selling drugs
		
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			and so on and so forth. He ended
		
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			up in jail,
		
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			but while in jail, he learned about Islam,
		
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			and eventually
		
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			Yes? How old was he?
		
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			I think when he was about 17. He
		
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			ended up in jail. But of course, no
		
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			one gets caught the first time they steal.
		
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			Right? So he was stealing
		
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			for a long period of time, selling drugs.
		
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			Eventually, he got busted, ended up in jail.
		
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			But while in jail, he learned about Islam.
		
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			He couldn't
		
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			threw some inmates.
		
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			It's a long story. Maybe I'll give you
		
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			the whole story. I I did my,
		
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			my thesis on the Nation of Islam and
		
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			the life of Malcolm. But, anyway,
		
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			he learned about Islam. He couldn't read or
		
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			write. He memorized the dictionary, the whole dictionary,
		
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			he read many books, he became self educated,
		
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			and eventually, he became one of the most
		
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			important civil rights figures in the US. And
		
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			this guy,
		
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			without any without comparison to anyone, I think
		
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			no one accepted Islam in the US because
		
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			of anyone more than this guy. I would
		
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			say literally 100 of 1000 accepted Islam because
		
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			of this guy,
		
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			Malcolm X.
		
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			And he was fighting for the rights of
		
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			his people. Are you still left? No. He
		
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			died in 1965.
		
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			This is a picture of him at Muhammad
		
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			Ali Mosque in Egypt
		
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			in 1964
		
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			when he went for the Hajj.
		
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			Malcolm X. So the last guy that I
		
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			wanna show you, this guy to the left,
		
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			who's it? Mohammed Ali?
		
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			Okay. Me me me me me.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			Can you come here?
		
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			Come here. Yes. Over here.
		
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			You.
		
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			Face the crowd.
		
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			Yeah.
		
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			He looked exactly like this guy. Did he
		
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			go like this? Go like this?
		
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			Yeah. You look exactly like you.
		
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			Here.
		
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			You wanna take the bee or the butterfly?
		
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			Bee. The bee. So Muhammad Ali, everyone knows,
		
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			he used to, float like a butterfly and
		
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			sting like A bee. A bee. This is
		
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			why we got the butterfly and the bee.
		
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			Can I have the lion? At the age
		
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			of,
		
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			10
		
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			at the age of 10,
		
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			his bike was stolen.
		
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			And he was crying the whole day. He
		
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			thought his life was devastated.
		
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			Someone met him and told him, okay, if
		
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			you catch the guy who stole your your
		
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			bike, what would you do? He said, I
		
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			can't do nothing. He said, you gotta learn
		
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			to defend yourself.
		
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			And he learned to
		
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			fight as a boxer, and he became the
		
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			greatest He became the best boxer in the
		
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			whole world. In the whole world. He's no
		
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			longer is better than somebody. The greatest
		
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			of all time. Right?
		
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			Yeah. He died,
		
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			one day before Ramadan of this year. Kalas,
		
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			we're almost done insha'Allah,
		
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			because you gotta go down inshaAllah to your
		
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			classrooms.
		
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			So from all these images that I showed
		
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			you,
		
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			all these people started off at the same
		
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			place.
		
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			Some chose to be good people, some chose
		
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			to be losers.
		
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			So, again, the question
		
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			is up to you,
		
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			and make up your mind, and think of
		
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			the answer. Do I want to be a
		
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			winner or do I want to be a
		
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			loser?
		
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			And if you want to be a winner,
		
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			successful in this life and in Afrah, what
		
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			do you need to do? InshaAllah to be
		
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			successful.
		
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			And throughout this year, InshaAllah, I'm gonna help
		
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			you answer this question. We'll give you many
		
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			examples from the life of the Sahaba and,
		
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			important figures from our Islamic history, inshaAllah, as
		
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			role models for you. We ask Allah Subhanahu
		
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			Wa Ta'ala to bless you and give you
		
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			success
		
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			in, this school year. InshaAllah. I give you
		
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			the best in this life and the next.
		
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			We'll meet you tomorrow at Tassalatul Khurr, InshaAllah.
		
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			Jazakum MaFayl Assalaam Alaikum.