Mustafa Khattab – Winners Or Losers Maingate Islamic Academy

Mustafa Khattab
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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.

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