Nadim Bashir – 3 Solutions To Our Current Situation

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The segment discusses the concept of fear and grief in the future and the loss of trust and fear that comes with loss of trust and fear. It emphasizes the importance of education and bringing back to Islam to avoid harming one's situation. The Jewish community is the most educated one and is the most educated one. The importance of philosophy and engagement in one's life is also discussed, along with the need for pride in one's own culture and social services. Engagement in education, social services, and fundraising is emphasized, along with upcoming events and announcements.

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			As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
		
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			Allah is
		
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			the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest,
		
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			Allah is the Greatest, Allah is
		
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			the Greatest.
		
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			I bear witness that there is none worthy
		
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			of worship except Allah.
		
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			I bear witness that there is none worthy
		
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			of worship except Allah.
		
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			I bear witness that
		
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			Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah.
		
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			I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger
		
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			of Allah.
		
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			Come to Prayer.
		
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			Come to Prayer.
		
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			Come to
		
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			success.
		
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			Come
		
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			to success.
		
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			Allah is the
		
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			Greatest, Allah is the Greatest,
		
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			Allah is the Greatest.
		
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			I bear witness that there is none worthy
		
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			of worship except Allah.
		
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			Because this is something that we learn from
		
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			the Quran, and we learn from the sunnah
		
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			of Rasulullah ﷺ.
		
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			Today, so many of us, due to our
		
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			lack of spirituality, we are going through this
		
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			element of fear.
		
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			The element of what's gonna happen after the
		
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			election.
		
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			The element of what's gonna happen to Muslims
		
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			in this country, down the road, 5 years
		
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			later, 10 years later.
		
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			Are we gonna still be here with our
		
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			family?
		
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			What's gonna be the state of the affairs
		
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			of the Muslim community?
		
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			There's a lot of uncertainties in the air.
		
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			And in situations like this, we need to
		
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			come back to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			And we need to understand our purpose of
		
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			life.
		
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			We need to connect with Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala and put our trust in Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			Because the promise of Allah is, that those
		
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			who put their trust in Allah, Allah says
		
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			that He will not put upon them any
		
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			kind of fear or grief.
		
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			This is the concept by the way in
		
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			the Qur'an that has been mentioned many
		
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			times.
		
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			لَا خَوْفٌ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلَا هُمْ يَحْذَنُونَ I'm sure
		
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			that you've heard this kind of ayah many
		
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			times, and they are scattered throughout the entire
		
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			Qur'an.
		
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			And many times we don't even pay attention
		
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			to what it means.
		
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			It simply means that when it comes to
		
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			the future, we always have fear for the
		
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			future.
		
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			There is no such thing called grief about
		
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			the future.
		
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			Either you have fear about the future, and
		
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			you have grief about the past.
		
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			Allah is saying that those who are spiritually
		
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			connected to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, there
		
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			is no fear on them for the future,
		
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			and there is no grief about the past.
		
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			And subhanAllah, an amazing example that I can
		
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			share with you, when it comes to even
		
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			putting your tawakkul in Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala, is the story of the mother of
		
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			Musa alayhi as-salam.
		
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			The mother of Musa alayhi as-salam, she
		
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			wants to protect her child.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says that, وَأَوْحَيْنَا
		
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			إِلَىٰ أُمِّ مُوسَىٰ أَنْ أَرْضِعِي فَإِذَا خِفْتِ عَلَيْهِ
		
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			فَأَلْقِيهِ فِي الْيَمِّ وَلَا تَخَافِي وَلَا تَحْزَنِينَ Allah
		
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			said to the mother of Musa alayhi as
		
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			-salam, put your baby in a basket and
		
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			put it in the river.
		
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			Now logically someone can say that, what is
		
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			the point of putting the child in the
		
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			river, if the objective is to protect the
		
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			child.
		
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			Because this same river has animals, and it
		
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			may have crocodiles and other animals in it,
		
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			that may devour the child.
		
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			So then the objective is lost.
		
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			Someone could say that this same river that
		
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			you are putting the baby in, it goes
		
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			by the palace of Firaun.
		
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			Firaun can easily pick up this child and
		
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			kill the child.
		
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			So when you talk about the objective is
		
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			protecting the child, then why would you put
		
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			the child in the water?
		
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			That's what logic says.
		
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			But Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala when He
		
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			said, and He inspired the mother of Musa
		
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			alayhi as-salam and said, put the child
		
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			in the water.
		
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			She never said that this makes logically sense
		
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			or it makes logically no sense.
		
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			She said that this is what Allah wants
		
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			from me, I will do exactly what Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala says.
		
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			And Allah says, لَا تَخَافِي Do not fear
		
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			about the future, what's gonna happen to this
		
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			child.
		
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			وَلَا تَحْزَنِي Meaning that when you have put
		
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			the child in the water and it is
		
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			going away, do not have any kind of
		
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			grief or sorrow over your decision.
		
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			What was the reward of putting that trust
		
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			in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala?
		
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			Allah returned Musa alayhi as-salam back to
		
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			his own biological mother.
		
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			And not only that but now under the
		
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			protection of Firaun.
		
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			Think about it for a moment, how ironic
		
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			the situation is.
		
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			That Firaun is trying to kill all these
		
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			children to protect his kingdom and now Allah
		
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			has created a situation that he is now
		
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			taking care and protecting that same child who
		
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			will be the cause of his destruction.
		
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			And not only that but Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala returned the child to the mother
		
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			with a stipend.
		
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			This is the reward of coming back to
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			I remember that when the situation even started,
		
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			the Gaza situation started, there were so many
		
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			people who were going out in these demonstrations.
		
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			People were going out in protest.
		
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			And even someone came and asked me that
		
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			do you think this is beneficial or not?
		
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			And here is what I said to them
		
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			and this is my honest opinion about the
		
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			situation.
		
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			There is nothing wrong in going out in
		
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			these protests.
		
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			There is nothing wrong in going out in
		
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			these demonstrations.
		
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			But this is secondary.
		
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			The very first thing is, we need to
		
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			come back to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			That is step number one.
		
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			Then after that you can do step number
		
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			two.
		
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			If people are going to go in demonstrations
		
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			and all these kind of things, and try
		
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			to raise their concerns or raise their voices
		
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			in all these different city halls, which we
		
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			saw very commonly, and we saw nothing change.
		
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			But if a person says, I'm going to
		
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			do that but I'm not going to connect
		
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			with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, I'm not
		
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			going to try to instill religiosity in my
		
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			life, then we have really misunderstood that what
		
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			is the situation and how do we come
		
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			back to Allah and how do we fix
		
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			the situation.
		
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			So the very first thing is, in order
		
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			to change our condition, we need to come
		
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			back to Allah.
		
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			The second thing that I certainly believe, and
		
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			based on my observation and talking to many
		
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			people, is that as a Muslim community, we
		
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			need to really focus on our education.
		
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			Let me tell you honestly, if you observe
		
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			the Muslim community at large, or forget about
		
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			the Muslim community right now for a moment.
		
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			If you observe the general mass, if you
		
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			look at even Frisco right now, as a
		
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			city and as a whole, there are studies
		
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			that have been made that when it comes
		
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			to education, there are surveys that in terms
		
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			of religion, which religious communities are the most
		
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			educated ones.
		
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			And if you look at right now, how
		
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			things were, and how the ties are changing,
		
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			and how the ties are turning right now,
		
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			you will see that right now that you
		
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			will find Jewish people often, they are the
		
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			ones who are controlling everything right now.
		
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			They are the ones who are sitting as
		
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			CEOs in these major companies.
		
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			And right now as it is, you find
		
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			many even Hindu Americans stepping in and coming
		
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			to those positions.
		
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			Well, they did not just come into those
		
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			positions just like that and overnight.
		
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			They made education a focus for themselves.
		
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			They made education a focus of their community.
		
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			Brothers and sisters, if you actually study history,
		
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			after World War II, what did the Jewish
		
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			community do?
		
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			It was the very first thing that they
		
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			did in order for their recovery process.
		
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			Go back and read the books.
		
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			It is written in the books, in the
		
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			books of history, that the very first thing
		
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			they focused on was their education.
		
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			And now even as it is, as we
		
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			speak, even based on religion, when the studies
		
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			have been done, that which religious communities are
		
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			the most educated ones, believe it or not,
		
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			these are just some studies I'm sharing with
		
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			you.
		
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			You may agree, you may disagree.
		
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			And even the person who put this together,
		
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			they may be subjective.
		
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			It's a subjective situation and matter for many
		
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			people.
		
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			But based on the numbers, the number one
		
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			educated community right now, in America right now,
		
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			is the Hindu community.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because they make education a focus for themselves.
		
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			And this is why, by the way, if
		
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			you're not connected to politics, and you're not
		
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			reading what's happening right now, in politics overall,
		
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			the Hindus are making their way in politics.
		
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			They're bringing all of their policies from overseas,
		
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			and they're trying to institutionalize their policies here
		
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			in this country.
		
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			You see what kind of an impact and
		
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			what kind of a presence they have in
		
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			the community and in the society.
		
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			You cannot deny it.
		
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			The second community is the Jewish community.
		
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			Now you may ask me that, I'm sure
		
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			that the Muslim community is probably number three.
		
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			You'll be shocked, brothers and sisters, that the
		
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			Muslim community comes in at number 15.
		
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			The Muslim community comes at number 15.
		
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			Education has no longer become a priority for
		
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			us.
		
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			How many professors I have met who are
		
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			Muslims, who have told me, that I am
		
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			a professor, I have Muslim students coming into
		
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			my college class, my university class, and they
		
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			don't take their studies seriously.
		
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			All they want is an A, and simply
		
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			on the grounds of, why do they want
		
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			an A?
		
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			Because their professor is a Muslim.
		
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			Come on man, brother, hook me up.
		
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			Come on, give me an A.
		
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			You're a Muslim, I'm a Muslim, just give
		
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			me an A.
		
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			You understand?
		
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			That's what they're saying.
		
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			So we have not taken our education seriously.
		
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			Going back into history, when the Muslims were
		
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			sitting at the top of the world, why
		
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			were they sitting at the top of the
		
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			world?
		
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			It was because of their education.
		
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			Go back to the seerah of the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ.
		
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			When they were captives, when they were prisoners
		
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			of war, after the battle of Badr, what
		
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			did the Prophet ﷺ say?
		
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			He says, if you want to be freed,
		
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			in order for their ransom, the Prophet ﷺ
		
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			has said that, if you want to be
		
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			free, then the cost of your freedom, is
		
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			that you teach my sahaba how to read
		
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			and write.
		
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			Because the Prophet ﷺ understood the importance of
		
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			education.
		
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			If you read the very first few verses
		
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			that were revealed in the Qur'an, اقرأ
		
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			باسم ربك الذي خلق خلق الإنسان من علق
		
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			The first five verses, this is Allah ﷻ
		
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			emphasizing on education.
		
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			When you go back into Islamic history, there
		
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			is a book that you can find even
		
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			on Amazon, it's called the House of Wisdom.
		
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			Read it if you can.
		
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			Or just read what is this book about.
		
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			This book actually talks about that there was
		
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			a time where for every single topic, not
		
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			only just religious topics, in Qur'an, in
		
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			Tafsir, in Hadith, in Tazkiyah, in Aqidah, that
		
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			there was of course, there were many ulema
		
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			and scholars.
		
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			But even when it came to medicine, when
		
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			it came to astronomy, when it came to
		
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			law, when it came to so many different
		
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			principles and studies of life, people who were
		
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			not Muslims were traveling to Muslim lands.
		
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			They were traveling to Muslim lands to acquire
		
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			their education.
		
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			The Muslims had that Izzah at one time.
		
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			It was not because of our money, but
		
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			because we were the intellectual kings of the
		
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			world.
		
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			So if we want to change our condition,
		
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			brothers and sisters, we need to learn how
		
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			to take our education seriously.
		
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			I understand that many of us, we grew
		
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			up with this mindset.
		
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			And you will laugh when I say this,
		
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			that we were taught that just get an
		
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			education so you can get married.
		
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			Because we were always taught one thing, that
		
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			if you don't get a degree, no one
		
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			will give you their daughter.
		
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			We heard this so many times.
		
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			I heard this so many times.
		
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			That if you don't get an education, you
		
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			will not have a job.
		
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			If you don't get a job, no one
		
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			will give you their daughter.
		
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			We heard this so many times.
		
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			So the Muslim mindset has become what?
		
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			That I need to get an education so
		
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			that I can live.
		
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			So we have learned to live.
		
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			This is the policy in our life.
		
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			We have learned to live.
		
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			We are studying so we can live a
		
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			life.
		
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			So we can pay our bills.
		
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			We need to change that mindset.
		
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			We need to live to learn.
		
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			That is the mindset that we need to
		
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			change.
		
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			The third thing, we don't have too much
		
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			time.
		
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			The third thing that we need to really
		
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			focus on is, and I'm going to lump
		
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			two things together here.
		
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			One is civic engagement.
		
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			And number two is social services.
		
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			When we talk about civic engagement, I know
		
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			we're living in a time where of course
		
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			it is the election season.
		
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			Next week on Tuesday night, we'll find out
		
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			who is the next president of the United
		
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			States.
		
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			But at this point right now, you may
		
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			have your own opinion about who to vote
		
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			for and what is voting, is it halal
		
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			or haram and so forth.
		
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			But the point is brothers and sisters, whether
		
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			you vote or not, first of all my
		
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			opinion is, you should go and vote.
		
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			But even if you don't want to vote
		
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			for anyone, even if you submit a blank
		
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			ballot, even if you submit a blank ballot,
		
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			it is still considered as a Muslim number.
		
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			Because at the end of the day, they
		
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			see the numbers at the end of the
		
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			day.
		
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			And the numbers is what matters to them
		
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			the most.
		
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			So if they show that the Muslim numbers
		
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			are so low, they really don't care about
		
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			our community.
		
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			But more than that, even when we talk
		
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			about our own city, when we talk about
		
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			our own engagement in the city, how much
		
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			of engagement do we have in the city?
		
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			How often do we know what's going on
		
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			in our own community?
		
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			We don't.
		
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			We are disconnected.
		
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			And not only that, but from a social
		
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			service perspective also, how much are we engaged?
		
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			I'm gonna leave you on this.
		
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			You know subhanallah, there is no shortage of
		
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			intellectuals in our community.
		
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			There is no shortage of doctors in our
		
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			community, mental health professionals in our community.
		
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			But subhanallah, how many times, yes there are
		
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			Muslim doctors today for example.
		
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			I'm just gonna highlight just one segment right
		
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			now, the community due to time.
		
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			But even if you talk about the Muslim
		
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			doctors in our community too, they all have
		
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			their own practices, they have all their own
		
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			clinics.
		
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			But have we ever thought about, let's take
		
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			the next step forward?
		
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			Like even as a doctor, why not become
		
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			a specialist?
		
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			Why can we not see that the best
		
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			doctors in town are our own Muslim doctors?
		
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			We can see that.
		
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			And is that a possibility?
		
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			Absolutely is a possibility.
		
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			You go to New York right now by
		
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			the way, if you go to New York,
		
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			there are communities which are Jewish dense communities
		
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			right now.
		
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			And you will see that they have hospitals.
		
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			They will have hospitals, the hospital of Beth
		
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			Torah, hospital of Beth Israel, hospital of this,
		
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			hospital of that.
		
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			And you see that they are providing service
		
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			to everyone.
		
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			Why can we as a Muslim community, why
		
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			can we not have the same thing?
		
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			There is a Methodist church, there is a
		
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			Methodist hospital, there is a Presbyterian hospital, there
		
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			is so many of these kind of hospitals.
		
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			Why can we not have a Muslim run,
		
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			organized, operated hospital?
		
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			Do we lack the funds?
		
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			No.
		
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			Do we lack the intellect?
		
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			No, we don't.
		
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			But this is why we need to start
		
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			thinking big as a Muslim community.
		
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			Civically engage yourself.
		
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			Know what's going on in your community and
		
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			so forth.
		
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			Even I tell you honestly, there are Muslims,
		
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			enough Muslims, that probably you can go and
		
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			swing the votes even in your own city
		
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			elections.
		
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			You can have so much of an impact.
		
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			But civically and socially, we need to be
		
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			more engaged.
		
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			So three things.
		
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			Number one is, spiritually we need to come
		
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			back to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			Number two is, we need to take education
		
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			seriously in our Muslim community.
		
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			And number three is, being more civically engaged
		
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			and engaging in more social services.
		
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			I ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
		
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			grant all of us tawfiq to act upon
		
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			and apply what's been said and heard.
		
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			And may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala change
		
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			our affairs for what is better.
		
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			Ameen.
		
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			Ameen.
		
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			Ameen.
		
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			Ameen.
		
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			Let's go straight in line and fill in
		
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			the gaps.
		
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			Say, I seek refuge in the Lord of
		
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			the Universe from the evil of that which
		
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			He has created, and from the evil of
		
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			that which is firm when it is firm,
		
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			and from the evil of those who breathe
		
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			in knots, and from the evil of the
		
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			envier when he envies.
		
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			Allah is the Greatest.
		
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			Allah hears those who praise Him.
		
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			Ameen.
		
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			Allah is the Greatest.
		
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			Allah hears those who praise Him.
		
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			There are a few requests for du'as.
		
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			There is a request for du'a of
		
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			shifa.
		
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			For brother Qamar Iqbal, sister Khairul Nisa, brother
		
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			Hadi Ali, brother Mirza Azmatullah Beg, sister Shahnaz
		
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			Beg, brother Faisal Khan, and brother Norman Ahmed,
		
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			and also brother Imad's daughter.
		
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			Her name is Sabine.
		
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			We ask Allah to grant all of them
		
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			shifa.
		
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			Also there is du'a maghfira request for
		
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			brother Alim, and brother Rehan Aziz.
		
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			May Allah have mercy upon their souls.
		
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			And may Allah give them a place in
		
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			Jannah.
		
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			One last important announcement, or two is, on
		
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			Tuesday inshallah, your masjid, Frisco Masjid, is a
		
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			polling station.
		
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			Please make sure you come and you exercise
		
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			your right to vote.
		
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			And number three is that inshallah on Sunday,
		
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			your community has a very important event, which
		
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			is your fundraiser.
		
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			So please make sure you come and you
		
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			support your masjid inshallah.
		
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			I intend to be there also inshallah.
		
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			Many other shuyuh are going to be there.
		
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			But your masjid is trying to finish off
		
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			the last portion.
		
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			You have an amazing and very beautiful facility
		
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			in the back, but it is not complete.
		
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			Until this is not complete, the community needs
		
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			to come out and donate and provide their
		
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			support inshallah.
		
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			So please make sure you come on Sunday.
		
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			The details you can ask inshallah the board
		
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			members, and they will provide you the details.
		
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			Go ahead.
		
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			Assalamu'alaikum.
		
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			As Imam Nadeem Bashir, Sheikh Nadeem Bashir, mentioned
		
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			just now that we have the fundraising on
		
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			Sunday at 6 p.m. at Ford Center
		
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			in Frisco.
		
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			So we have only less than 100 tickets
		
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			left.
		
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			And we will not oversell the tickets.
		
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			So outside we are selling the ticket.
		
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			Please buy your spot and come to the
		
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			event.
		
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			There will be three surprise announcements as well.
		
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			And if you due to some reason cannot
		
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			come, we would really appreciate you can mention
		
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			your pre-pledge amount outside at the table
		
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			or in the office because ICF really needs
		
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			your donations to complete some of the important
		
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			projects like second floor and outside parking lot.
		
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			Second announcement is Sheikh Nadeem Bashir mentioned that
		
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			ICF is going to be polling station on
		
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			November 5th.
		
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			So do vote and you can come to
		
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			ICF and then there are early polling stations
		
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			in Frisco where you can go and vote
		
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			as well.
		
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			But do exercise your right to vote as
		
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			Imam Nadeem Bashir mentioned in his khutbah how
		
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			important it is.
		
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			Last announcement which is very important that daylight
		
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			saving is happening again and on this Sunday.
		
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			So the Jummah time from next week next
		
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			Jummah will be first Jummah at 12.45
		
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			second will be 1.35 and third will
		
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			be 2.25. And this will be khutbah
		
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			starting time.
		
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			This will also be advertised through all our
		
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			channels.
		
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			But again please note that Jummah timing will
		
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			change to 12.45, 1.35 and 2
		
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			.25 for first, second and third Jummah.
		
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			Jazakallah Khairan Assalamu Alaikum