Nadim Bashir – Community Ethics – Always Verify Information – Surah Hujurat Tafsir Verse 6

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The speakers discuss Jesus's marriages with Bani Al Must offline and the importance of following proper rules in disputes to avoid regret. They emphasize the importance of learning from past experiences and listening to both parties. The speakers also emphasize the need for more transparency and knowledge in disputes, while reminding people to stay quiet and react until evidence is accumulated.

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			This is, we are continuing with the tafsir.
		
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			We are in ayah number 6, And this
		
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			is a very well known aya. In fact,
		
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			one of the most
		
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			one of the most often,
		
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			discussed aya's in this Surah.
		
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			And because there's a very remarkable story behind
		
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			this aya, and there's a lot of things
		
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			that we can learn and that are, that
		
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			can be derived. A lot of that can
		
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			be derived from this ayah.
		
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			This is ayah number 6. Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala says,
		
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			Oh you people who believe.
		
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			If there comes to you any kind of
		
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			news,
		
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			then Allah says,
		
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			Do your due diligence,
		
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			inquire about it.
		
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			And then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,
		
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			In case you are wrong to others.
		
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			Unless,
		
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			in case you are wrong to others
		
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			unwittingly. Mean that you do not do it
		
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			intentionally
		
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			because you did it out of ignorance.
		
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			And perhaps later on you will be regretful
		
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			over your actions.
		
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			Now what is this ayamim? So we have
		
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			to go back again once. Again, the bat
		
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			we go back to the life of the
		
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			prophet
		
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			to understand this ayah. This is after the,
		
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			the battle or the expedition of Bani al
		
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			Mustalak.
		
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			And after the expedition was over,
		
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			as usual, the people, you know, men and
		
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			women, they became prisoners of war, and they
		
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			were distributed amongst the Muslims.
		
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			At that time, Rasulullah
		
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			he married
		
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			the
		
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			opposing leader's daughter, and her name was
		
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			After he married Joaida
		
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			the
		
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			the prophet he gave to
		
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			the opposition leader. His name was Harith ibn
		
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			Dra'l. So he gave him to Islam, he
		
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			converted to Islam. When the sahaba saw that
		
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			the prophet
		
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			has married within the opposition,
		
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			and not only that, but he the opposition
		
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			leader has become a Muslim,
		
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			they themselves,
		
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			they let go of all the prisoners of
		
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			war. Now, by the way, one thing I
		
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			have to mention is, when we talk about
		
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			the marriages of Rasulullah
		
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			it was Many people they say that the
		
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			prophet alaihi wasallam, he got married to so
		
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			many women
		
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			out of his own lust and desire, and
		
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			that is not true.
		
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			In fact, if this man,
		
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			for argument's sake, if this man was, let's
		
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			just say after his lust and desire,
		
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			then why do you think he married a
		
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			woman
		
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			who was almost 15 years older than him?
		
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			Think about it for a moment. If he
		
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			was truly after his desire,
		
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			he was 25
		
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			when Khadija
		
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			was so much older than him. This shows
		
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			that this was not a man who was
		
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			after his desire.
		
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			In fact, we also learn from the cases
		
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			like Jawaria,
		
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			That Allah times in order to bring peace
		
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			to the communities,
		
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			in order to bring peace
		
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			within the the new comers, the prophet
		
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			sometimes he would marry
		
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			within them to bring some kind of peace.
		
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			So we find with all the all the
		
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			marriages of
		
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			that they were either inspired by Allah
		
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			like in the case of Aisha
		
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			Or a lot of times in order to
		
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			bring peace, in order to connect with the
		
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			other tribes, the prophet
		
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			he will get married. Anyway, coming back to
		
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			the story.
		
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			Made a commitment to the prophet
		
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			that you send a messenger of yours on
		
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			a yearly basis,
		
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			and I, as a community leader, I will
		
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			collect everyone's
		
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			and I will present it to your messenger,
		
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			whoever you send, and they you can distribute
		
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			the accordingly.
		
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			So 1 year comes around, hadith ibn Durar
		
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			as usual, based on his commitment,
		
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			he collects everyone's zakat.
		
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			Now,
		
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			on one end, Rasul
		
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			he is preparing, and he's trying to find
		
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			someone, and he finds
		
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			Walid ibn Akbar. He says, I want you
		
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			to go to the tribe,
		
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			tribe of Bay Al Mustalak,
		
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			and go there and collect this year's zakat.
		
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			Now, there are 2 different versions to this
		
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			story. The first version
		
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			says
		
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			that was
		
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			waiting
		
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			for that person to be sent by Rasulullah
		
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			There But there was
		
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			some type of delay
		
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			on the part of the prophet
		
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			perhaps.
		
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			And Walid ibn Uqba did not come in
		
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			the appropriate time, as he was expecting.
		
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			So Harith ibn Durar and his entire tribe,
		
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			they left their area,
		
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			and they were coming towards Madinah.
		
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			And Walid saw
		
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			that these people have left their area, and
		
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			they're coming. Now, something important to note here,
		
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			because this is part of the story. If
		
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			you go back to the times of Jahiliya,
		
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			tribe,
		
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			and the tribe of Bani al Mustaliq,
		
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			they were at some serious odds. They were
		
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			They did not like each other.
		
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			So, keeping that Jahiliyah's,
		
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			you know, mindset,
		
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			mean that the relationship from the Jahiliyah times
		
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			in mind, they're still aware of that. When
		
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			Waleed came,
		
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			and he saw that these people have left,
		
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			and they're coming to his way,
		
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			he went to Rasulullah
		
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			and all he said was that, You Rasulullah,
		
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			these people, they have refused to pay their
		
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			zakat.
		
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			And they are out to kill me. Because
		
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			once again, he's thinking that from the Jahiliyah
		
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			times, our tribes were at odds.
		
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			Therefore, they're leaving. They're coming my way. They
		
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			perhaps wanna kill me. And he went to
		
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			the prophet and he gave this false
		
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			information.
		
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			At that time, Rasul
		
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			he sent a person that no one is
		
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			gonna mess with. Khalbin Walid. Okay? No one's
		
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			gonna mess with Khaleem Walid. So he says,
		
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			to Khaleem Walid, I want you to go
		
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			and find out what's going on. When Khaleem
		
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			Walid was on the way to that tribe,
		
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			he met Harith ibn Deraar. And Harith ibn
		
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			Deraar said to Khaleem Walid, Where are you
		
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			going?
		
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			Khaleem Walid said that, I'm coming your way.
		
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			I'm heading your way. He says,
		
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			Why? He says, You refuse to pay your
		
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			zakat. He goes, We did not refuse to
		
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			pay our zakat. In fact, we did connect
		
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			our zakat. We was wait we were waiting
		
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			for a messenger from the prophet
		
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			to come and collect the zakat, but that
		
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			person never came. That is one one version.
		
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			The second version is similar, that he came
		
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			all the way there, and when they came
		
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			out to the outskirts of the city, he
		
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			seeing that he went back and said that
		
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			these people have refused to pay their zakat.
		
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			Anyway,
		
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			in both cases, Rasulullah
		
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			when he heard this,
		
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			and he could have taken some serious action
		
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			against them, that is when this ayah was
		
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			revealed.
		
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			When there comes to you any kind of
		
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			news, when someone informs you of something,
		
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			you cannot take action right away
		
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			without doing your due diligence.
		
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			Because if a person does take action
		
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			without due diligence,
		
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			without inquiry,
		
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			without investigation,
		
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			without research,
		
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			then perhaps they will do something that they
		
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			will be regretful about it later on.
		
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			This is what the ayah is saying. And
		
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			as you all know that there are different
		
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			of the Quran,
		
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			this the one that we often recite, haf
		
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			bin aasim, haf'sa anaasim.
		
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			It is,
		
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			and to see buqomam bijayatin fatabayinu.
		
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			Fatabayinu
		
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			comes with the word bayina. Bayina
		
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			means clear evidence. Meaning that whenever you do
		
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			your investigation,
		
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			you have to come across some very
		
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			clear,
		
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			tangible evidence
		
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			in order to make a ruling in a
		
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			situation.
		
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			When someone comes to you, and they give
		
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			you some news, some information,
		
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			they tell you about something
		
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			till you don't have clear evidence about anything,
		
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			you cannot take that person's word, and you
		
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			have to do your due diligence. And another
		
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			the word instead of
		
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			is
		
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			also means making sure that something is absolutely
		
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			firm. The daleel is absolutely firm. And once
		
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			again, why did Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tell
		
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			us to go through this process? Because a
		
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			lot of times we may act in an
		
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			in an ignorant manner,
		
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			and hence the results will be very,
		
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			will be very negative. Now, the the most
		
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			important thing I would say that is to
		
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			be learned from this is,
		
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			This happens often with many of us. Someone
		
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			comes to you and says, did you hear
		
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			someone say something about this? Or did you
		
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			hear this? I've had people come to me
		
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			and say, oh, did you Imam, did you
		
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			hear what was said on the mimbar? Do
		
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			you hear what the what the khateb said?
		
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			And it was completely wrong and so forth.
		
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			And of course the human nature says, let
		
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			me react right away. But subhanallah, we have
		
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			to always,
		
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			whenever
		
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			someone tells us anything
		
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			without
		
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			us reacting, we have to tell them that
		
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			I need to go back, and I need
		
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			to see the evidence. And not only that,
		
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			but I need to listen to both sides
		
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			of the story. I need to sit down
		
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			with both parties, and hear them out. And
		
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			that is why
		
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			in our deen, especially when it comes to,
		
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			you know, matters that are of dispute,
		
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			it is very important that we keep in
		
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			mind, there's a very important rule and principle
		
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			within our deen, and that is,
		
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			Which means, in English,
		
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			that the person who is the plaintiff Okay?
		
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			So for example, if I'm claiming, for example
		
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			Hakam,
		
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			brother Hakam here. He has done something wrong
		
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			to me. That makes me the plaintiff.
		
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			That makes brother Hakam the defendant. He's defending
		
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			himself from the claim that has come to
		
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			him.
		
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			As a
		
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			I'm the one who's making the claim, I
		
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			have to provide the evidence. You understand?
		
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			I have to provide tangible evidence,
		
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			and if I cannot provide tangible evidence, then
		
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			The person who is the defendant, in this
		
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			case brother Haqqah, he being the defendant, if
		
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			he swears upon Allah
		
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			that I have not done anything in this
		
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			kind of situation,
		
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			then he is absolved, and this entire case
		
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			is dismissed.
		
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			This is how things work.
		
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			Unfortunately
		
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			unfortunately,
		
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			in our community,
		
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			in our society,
		
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			that is no longer the case.
		
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			And let me be very
		
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			honest and truth
		
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			to be very truthful about this matter. In
		
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			our community today,
		
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			the basis
		
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			of some news
		
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			being,
		
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			being acceptable
		
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			or not.
		
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			Or how do we decide in our community
		
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			who's guilty is who Who's innocent?
		
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			Wallahi, unfortunately today,
		
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			it has come down to gender.
		
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			A woman
		
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			cries out foul play, subhanallah, everyone drops everything,
		
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			she is the victim.
		
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			Okay. This happens.
		
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			And we see that a lot of times
		
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			the man could be the Madloom.
		
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			And in this case,
		
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			when the man says something,
		
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			everyone is quiet. Now, yes. There are cases
		
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			where the man is the violent. I've come
		
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			across many cases like this too. And truly
		
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			the woman is a
		
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			There are many cases like this. There are
		
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			many and tons of cases like this. But
		
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			the point I'm trying to make is,
		
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			our decision,
		
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			the who's right and who's wrong, who's guilty
		
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			and who's innocent cannot be based on gender.
		
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			This is what's happening in our society,
		
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			unfortunately.
		
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			It is based on evidence.
		
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			It is based on proof. It is based
		
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			on Dalil.
		
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			You make a claim, and you don't have
		
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			any proper tangible evidence. And by the way,
		
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			even if you go to a court of
		
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			law of today, right now,
		
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			there are some certain kind of evidences that
		
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			are simply not acceptable anymore.
		
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			When you talk about text messages and so
		
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			forth, in some courts, they're no longer admissible
		
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			in a in a court of law. Why?
		
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			Because of photoshop,
		
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			because of AI, even recording sometimes
		
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			can be can be, compromised.
		
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			So the thing is, the point The most
		
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			important thing is that when someone comes to
		
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			you with any kind of news,
		
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			be a man, be a woman, then in
		
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			that case instead of us reacting,
		
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			instead of us saying, he's wrong, she's wrong.
		
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			He's right, she's right. It is important that
		
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			we look at the evidence. And a person
		
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			has to do their due diligence. Now, if
		
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			you don't even have the time to do
		
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			your due diligence,
		
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			and you don't know the whole story,
		
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			then it is always better. It is Asan
		
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			to stay quiet. Simple as that. I'll give
		
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			you some very imp You know, just very,
		
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			practical examples. There are times in our Muslim
		
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			community, when a person, a Muslim person, man
		
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			or woman, they get arrested. And subhanallah,
		
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			there's so many rumors, there's so much news,
		
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			there's so many things spreading within the Muslim
		
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			community. And in a situation when I don't
		
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			know, when there's not enough evidence
		
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			to say who's right and who's wrong, it
		
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			is not allowed for anyone to say
		
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			they are right and they are wrong. We
		
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			cannot We're not in that position. How do
		
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			we know that? Again, from another story of
		
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			Rasulullah alaihi wa sallam known as the
		
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			the slander against our mother
		
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			Aisha If you look at that story, you
		
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			have the who
		
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			made a claim against our mother,
		
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			And it was Aisha's word against their word.
		
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			Was there any evidence,
		
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			any of that type.
		
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			There was no evidence.
		
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			And because there was no evidence,
		
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			this was the dilemma for Rasulullah alaihi wa
		
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			sallam. That here the Munafiqun are making a
		
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			claim against my wife, my wife is making
		
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			a claim against them. Is one's word against
		
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			another Another person's word? Yes, there are many
		
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			many others who used to be around
		
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			Aisha They testified
		
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			to the innocence of our mother Aisha
		
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			But that is
		
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			why
		
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			at the very end, he kept on staying
		
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			quiet in this matter. And he kept on
		
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			collecting evidences.
		
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			Kept on talking to others. And at the
		
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			end, what did he do? He went to
		
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			our mother Aisha
		
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			and said
		
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			that if you have truly committed this sin,
		
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			then make tawbah to Allah
		
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			And if you have not, then you have
		
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			nothing to worry about. And that is when
		
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			Allah
		
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			sent down the revelation,
		
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			exonerating
		
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			our mother Aisha of any wrongdoing.
		
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			And that is where, of course, everything became
		
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			very very clear. But you have to ask
		
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			yourself,
		
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			what was the situation of the prophet
		
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			before those ayah came down? Whatever happens in
		
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			our Muslim community, this is why this aya
		
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			is revealed and put in this surah because
		
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			this surah talks about communal ethics. It talks
		
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			about how to manage your affairs in a
		
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			community.
		
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			So when there is something that is spreading
		
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			around, and I don't know all the details,
		
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			I don't have all the details
		
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			to say that he is guilty, or she
		
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			is guilty, or he's innocent, or she's innocent.
		
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			Wallahi, it is wrong.
		
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			We don't have a claim. We should not
		
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			be saying anything till I have not seen
		
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			all the evidence. Yes. There might be some
		
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			who have seen all the evidence. But if
		
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			I don't know all the evidence, I've not
		
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			sat down with both parties, I don't see
		
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			everything in front of me, I cannot make
		
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			a judgment in that matter. Because a lot
		
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			of times those judgments
		
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			are gonna be based on jahala,
		
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			they're gonna be based on ignorance,
		
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			and as a result, when we make a
		
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			judgment based on ignorance, then we have to
		
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			answer to Allah
		
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			in the day of judgement. So this is
		
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			how we manage these kind of things when
		
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			it comes to our Muslim community. I ask
		
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			Allah
		
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			to keep the peace in our Muslim community.
		
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			We ask Allah
		
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			to grant us the tawfiq to handle our
		
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			affairs based on the Quran and the sunnah
		
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			of Rasulullah