Nadim Bashir – Community Ethics – Surah Hujurat Tafsir Verse 11

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The importance of community cohesion and staying away from things that can divide our hearts is emphasized, along with the advice of Allah to stay away from certain words and phrases. The speaker emphasizes the importance of being a strong community and not being insulted or protected by others. The use of nick jokes and words to describe people is considered offensive and should be avoided, and community acceptance and forgiveness are also discussed.

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			So today, inshallah,
		
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			we're continuing with the tafsir of Surat Al
		
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			Hujurat.
		
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			And Surat Al Hujurat, once again, it's a
		
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			surah that talks about and emphasizes
		
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			on community cohesion,
		
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			getting along in the community, making sure
		
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			that we keep aside, and we stay away
		
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			from things
		
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			that can perhaps divide our hearts. This is
		
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			the most important thing. Today, inshallah, we're just
		
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			gonna just again, just take 1 ayah, which
		
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			is ayah number 11 of Surat Al Hujurat.
		
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			But I wanna share with you something interesting.
		
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			If you read these 2 ayahs, ayah number
		
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			11 and ayah number 12, there are 6
		
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			things.
		
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			6 things that Allah subhanahu is telling us,
		
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			as a community, you stay away from it.
		
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			If you want your hearts to be united,
		
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			stay away from these 6 things.
		
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			Now you may just see them as 6
		
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			things, 6 points that Allah
		
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			is making to us. But there's a difference
		
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			between them. In ayah number 11, Allah is
		
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			telling us to stay away from 3 things
		
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			that happens right in front of the person.
		
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			And in ayah number 12, Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala is telling us to stay away from
		
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			3 things that often happens behind a person.
		
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			So that is why Allah is telling us,
		
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			3 things that can happen in front of
		
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			a person, stay away from them. What are
		
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			those 3 things that you can do in
		
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			front of someone?
		
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			You can hurt them, you can do something
		
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			to them, that we should stay away from
		
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			as a community.
		
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			The first thing Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,
		
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			This is the first thing that Allah is
		
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			telling us to stay away from. What is
		
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			this?
		
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			To make a mockery of each other. Now,
		
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			I want to break down this aya here,
		
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			this part, because it's very interesting. Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala often in the Quran,
		
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			whenever he is addressing people,
		
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			Allah will often use the word qaum. Qaum
		
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			is in reference to a nation,
		
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			or a group of people, a community.
		
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			When you say the word qaum, and you
		
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			are referring to a community,
		
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			the men are covered, the women are covered,
		
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			the children are covered, the elderly are covered,
		
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			everyone is covered.
		
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			And Allah
		
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			he could have said, because he brought women
		
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			later on. So a person is thinking to
		
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			themselves that if Allah is addressing the women,
		
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			then why didn't Allah say in the beginning,
		
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			The men should not make a mockery of
		
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			other men. Because later on he said, the
		
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			women should not make a mockery of other
		
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			women.
		
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			But the reason why Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			did this is that first of all, as
		
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			the ulama say, that because often
		
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			this can happen between the women of making
		
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			a mockery of each other, Allah subhanahu wa'ala
		
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			is telling us that first he brought a
		
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			broader topic.
		
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			Within a community,
		
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			we should not make a mockery of each
		
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			other. But especially especially, since this happens often
		
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			within the the women of the community,
		
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			the women have to also be very vigilant.
		
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			They have to be very careful about this,
		
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			that when you get together,
		
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			you make sure you don't make a mockery
		
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			of each other. Now of course the men
		
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			are not exempt from this, but since it
		
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			happens often amongst the women, that's why Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala, he's highlighting
		
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			the women here in this. Another important thing
		
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			is to understand from this ayah is that
		
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			Allah
		
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			he's telling us that often
		
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			when we make a mockery of each other
		
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			Why are we making a mockery of each
		
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			other? Often because we think of higher. We
		
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			think that we are better than them. We
		
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			think we are superior than them. And often,
		
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			when we make a mockery of each other,
		
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			what are we bringing up? I'm rich,
		
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			they're poor.
		
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			I'm affluent, they're less affluent.
		
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			I have a bigger house, they have a
		
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			smaller house.
		
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			My children are more accomplished,
		
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			their children are less accomplished. We always bring
		
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			up these things when it comes to making
		
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			a mockery. They don't look good, I look
		
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			good. I You know, and there's all these
		
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			topics that usually come up. And this is
		
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			why Allah is telling us
		
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			that in a community,
		
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			who is superior,
		
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			who is inferior
		
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			is never
		
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			based on how much money you have. And
		
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			who is affluent and who's less affluent. And
		
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			who's look good looking and who is not
		
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			good looking and so forth. None of that
		
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			matters when it comes to Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala. That is why Allah says
		
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			That is the criteria.
		
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			The who is better in the eyes of
		
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			Allah Allah
		
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			And
		
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			this is why I say this all the
		
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			time.
		
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			We have no idea
		
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			amongst us
		
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			how much one's connection is with Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala. I may come to the masjid.
		
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			Yes, I'm the imam of the masjid.
		
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			And we might be coming to the masjid
		
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			as a religious community.
		
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			But if I see someone who is coming
		
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			to the masjid, and I have no idea
		
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			who they are,
		
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			They could be better than me in the
		
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			eyes of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. They could
		
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			be waking up for tahajjud, and qiyamulayin.
		
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			And they could be amongst the mustajabu
		
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			da'wad. That if they raise their hands, Allah
		
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			will accept that. But often what happens is
		
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			we become judgmental.
		
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			I am better than them. I I don't
		
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			see this brother often. I don't see this
		
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			sister often. That's why Allah is telling us
		
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			don't say these kind of things. Do not
		
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			make a mockery of others because when you
		
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			make a mockery of others,
		
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			and imagine if that person
		
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			is close to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
		
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			then who's gonna defend this person?
		
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			It's Allah who's gonna defend this person. And
		
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			that is why you could
		
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			A person could potentially
		
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			put themselves in danger
		
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			if they're making a mockery of a person
		
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			who is so close to Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala that you're putting I may be putting
		
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			myself in harm's way by making a mockery
		
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			of them. That's why Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			is telling us,
		
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			Then the second advice that Allah subhanahu wa'ala
		
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			is telling us, that we should stay away
		
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			from is, that insulting one another, or defaming
		
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			one another.
		
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			Now see here Allah subhanahu is telling us,
		
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			do not defame
		
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			Allah Allah Quresh said, do not defame them.
		
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			That's not what he says. He says,
		
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			Why? Because when you defame others,
		
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			you are defaming yourself.
		
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			When you are insulting others,
		
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			you are actually insulting yourself. So that's why
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa'ala is telling us that keep
		
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			this in mind. Next time you say something
		
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			to someone, and you're trying to bring them
		
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			down, you're not bringing them down, you're bringing
		
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			yourself down. Because that person, that brother, that
		
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			sister will be part of the community. And
		
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			if you bring one person down in the
		
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			community,
		
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			you are bringing yourself down. And guess what?
		
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			If this is not stopped, then we're gonna
		
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			pull each other down, and as a community
		
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			we will suffer. So that's why Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa'am is telling us,
		
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			and do not use insulting nicknames
		
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			towards each other. Now, of course we have
		
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			to understand this. That does this mean that
		
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			if I wanna give a reference to someone,
		
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			I cannot use a nickname? Or I cannot
		
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			say some I can say something? If you're
		
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			trying to use as a reference For example,
		
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			I could be talking to a person,
		
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			and I'm saying that this one particular brother,
		
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			or this particular sister, and the other person
		
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			is saying, I still don't understand who you're
		
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			talking about. You understand? I may not understand.
		
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			And then we use an adjective, or we
		
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			use a word.
		
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			We use a word. That sometimes
		
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			in some societies, in some cultures, it may
		
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			be offensive,
		
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			but that's not my intention. My intention is
		
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			I'm just trying to help you understand who,
		
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			which person I'm referring to and so forth,
		
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			and that in that case, it will be
		
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			okay. But always try to use better things,
		
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			better adjectives, better, you know, better words to
		
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			describe a person.
		
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			But what if that person is standing right
		
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			in front of you, and you use an
		
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			offensive nickname
		
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			that they do not like it and so
		
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			forth, Allah subhanahu wa'ala is telling us stay
		
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			away from these kind of things. Why? Because
		
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			it's a very known fact that when you
		
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			use a nickname
		
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			to insult someone, to put down someone,
		
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			it does not stop over there.
		
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			Usually often people would join in. If it
		
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			becomes a big laughing, a big laughter, and
		
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			a big laughing moment,
		
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			what happens is other people are gonna join.
		
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			And people are gonna add nicknames to that,
		
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			and eventually what happens is that person's name
		
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			is a name that no one understands or
		
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			no one knows, I would say, but his
		
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			nickname becomes more very well known in the
		
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			community. And that's why Allah subhanahu is telling
		
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			us everyone has beautiful names. Always refer to
		
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			them with their beautiful names, but not insulting
		
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			nicknames.
		
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			And this is something that we find, that
		
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			back in the time of the prophet sallallahu
		
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			alaihi
		
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			wa
		
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			sallam, one time Safiyyah radiAllahu ta'ala Anahi came
		
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			to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, and
		
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			she was crying.
		
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			And she and she and the prophet asked,
		
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			why are you crying? And she said that
		
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			Hafsa
		
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			said to
		
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			me that I am the daughter of a
		
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			Jew.
		
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			So because I am that, she felt that
		
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			she took that very offensively. Now of course
		
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			she is the wife of the prophet They
		
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			both are the wives of the prophet
		
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			So the prophet
		
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			she he said to, to Sofia that, you
		
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			tell her
		
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			that your,
		
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			that your father was a prophet,
		
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			and your uncle was a prophet, and your
		
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			husband is a prophet. Now what does that
		
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			mean? It means that if you think about
		
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			Judaism and where it goes back from, which
		
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			prophet was sent to Bani Israel?
		
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			Musa alayhis salam. Right? So she he's he,
		
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			he alayhis salam, he salalahu alayhi salam is
		
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			telling her that, say that my father, meaning
		
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			that going all the way, referring to Musa,
		
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			and my uncle referring to?
		
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			Who's Musa's brother?
		
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			Harun. Okay? So tell her
		
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			that your father, meaning Musa,
		
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			and your uncle, referring to Harun,
		
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			and your husband, all of them are prophets.
		
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			That is a distinction that no one else
		
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			has. You understand?
		
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			So, but then later on, the prophet he
		
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			did go back to Hafsa, and he said
		
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			to Hafsa, Hafsa
		
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			It's mentioned actually This is the worrying that
		
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			is mentioned in the hadith of Prophet He
		
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			said, Hafsa, that be cautious of Allah
		
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			Be aware of Allah
		
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			You're violating other people's rights. And even in
		
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			the time of the Prophet when people would
		
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			refer to each other in insulting ways, Rasulullah
		
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			salallahu alaihi wa sallam, he would not take
		
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			the he would not just say that, you
		
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			know what? It happened once, it's okay, just
		
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			let it go. No. He would address it
		
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			immediately,
		
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			because the most important thing is that we
		
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			keep the community united. And especially, especially when
		
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			we live in a land like this, where
		
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			we are the minority,
		
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			we cannot afford as a Muslim community that
		
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			we are fighting from within. We have to
		
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			make sure that our communities are united, so
		
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			that we can progress, and we can have
		
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			a bigger bigger impact. But if our hearts
		
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			are divided, we may be within 4 walls,
		
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			but if the hearts are divided and they're
		
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			not united,
		
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			then our impact will be very less, and
		
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			we're gonna be spending a lot of times
		
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			putting down each other. So this is why
		
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			there are 3 advices.
		
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			3 things that we should stay away from,
		
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			but once again, these are three things that
		
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			happens in front of a person. Next week
		
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			insha Allah, next week insha Allah we'll cover
		
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			the next verse, ayah number 12, where Allah
		
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			is telling us to stay away from 3
		
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			things that happens behind the back of a
		
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			person.
		
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			Number 2 is, do not defame each other.
		
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			Do
		
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			Number 2 is, do not defame each other.
		
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			Do not do some do not say something
		
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			that is considered as insulting. And number 3
		
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			is, do not create nicknames,
		
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			towards each others that can put each other
		
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			down. I ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
		
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			make us and actually I forgot the remaining
		
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			verse of the aya. I just remembered these
		
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			three things. Then Allah says,
		
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			After you have become a Muslim, after you
		
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			believe in Allah, these are not things that
		
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			are that are appropriate. By the way, Badal
		
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			Iman. Why not Badal Islam? Because we're talking
		
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			about Madina here. You understand? We're talking about
		
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			after a community has come together. These are
		
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			people who are now on iman. So Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa'ala is telling us, it's not appropriate
		
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			after we truly believe in Allah that we're
		
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			using these kind of nicknames against each other.
		
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			And then Allah says,
		
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			Whoever does not repent to Allah, they are
		
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			indeed those who
		
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			they are indeed those who are the walimund,
		
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			the oppressors. Yes. We may make a mockery
		
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			of each other. We might insult each other.
		
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			We might do something to hurt someone, but
		
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			we always go back and we seek forgiveness.
		
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			Ask them for forgiveness. And by the way,
		
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			there is
		
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			If I if I violate the laws of
		
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			Allah, I ask Allah subhanahu for forgiveness. But
		
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			if I do something to hurt someone else,
		
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			then I need to go back to them,
		
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			and I need to ask them for forgiveness.
		
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			It's not sufficient to say that, you Allah
		
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			forgive me. You know, this
		
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			is
		
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			you need to go back to that person
		
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			and ask us for for forgiveness. Otherwise, as
		
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			Allah is saying, if we don't do this,
		
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			we'll be amongst those who are the oppressors.
		
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			So we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
		
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			not make us amongst their oppressors in this
		
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			dunya and the Akhirah.