Nadim Bashir – Conversations In The Quran #13 Story Of Talut Pt.2

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The use of a tabut in court battles is discussed, as it is used to gain confidence and gain the desire to be the people they want to be. The importance of strong heart and engagement in political issues is emphasized, along with the need for strong and confident leadership. The importance of building connections with Allah's and re-establishing connections with the um wind is emphasized, as it is essential to achieve success in elections. The speaker emphasizes the need to trust the process and go through it in order to achieve success.

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			A long time ago, there was a box.
		
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			In this box, there used to be, it
		
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			used to be called a tabut.
		
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			In this box, there used to be some
		
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			of the belongings of Musa Alayhi Salaam.
		
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			Some of the ulema, they say, that some
		
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			of the belongings of Musa Alayhi Salaam were
		
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			in there.
		
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			Even the tablet on which the Ten Commandments
		
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			were written on, some of the remains of
		
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			that tablet was in this box.
		
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			And it was a theory amongst the Bani
		
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			Israel, that anytime they would go into battle,
		
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			if they had this box with them, it
		
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			was almost viewed as a good luck box.
		
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			It was almost viewed as, as long as
		
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			this box is within us, we're always gonna
		
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			be the ones who are victorious.
		
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			After a while, this box was lost from
		
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			them.
		
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			They did not have this box.
		
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			And many of them actually thought that we
		
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			keep on losing our battles because we don't
		
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			have this tabut amongst ourselves.
		
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			So Allah is telling them, through the Prophet,
		
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			that the sign that this man is the
		
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			king that has been sent to you by
		
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			Allah, designated by Allah, is that this tabut
		
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			that you have been looking for, for such
		
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			a long period of time.
		
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			And in this, فِيهِ السَّكِينَةِ What's Sakina?
		
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			The victories that they used to experience.
		
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			This tabut is gonna be brought to you
		
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			again.
		
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			And hence, this tabut was actually brought back
		
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			to them.
		
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			When they saw that tabut, that is when
		
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			they began to trust Taalud as their leader.
		
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			Now, the next thing is the next test.
		
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			At that time, Taalud said, gave them a
		
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			very clear instruction, now we're gonna head that
		
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			way.
		
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			But on this journey, many of you are
		
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			gonna get thirsty.
		
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			And we're gonna come across a river.
		
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			But this river is your test.
		
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			And he said, that anyone who actually stops
		
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			at that river, and they drink water to
		
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			their fill, then they are not from amongst
		
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			us.
		
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			They have failed the test.
		
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			At the same time, Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala is not expecting something unrealistic from them
		
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			either.
		
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			You see, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said
		
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			in the Qur'an, anyone who took probably
		
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			one handful of water for themselves, that is
		
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			good enough.
		
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			But do not fill your stomach with water.
		
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			So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, فَلَمَّا
		
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			فَسَلَ طَالُوتُ بِالْجُنُودِ قَالَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ مُبْتَلِيكُمْ بِنَهَرٍ
		
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			Allah is gonna test you with a river.
		
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			فَمَنْ شَرِبَ مِنْهُ فَلَيْسَ مِنِّي Whoever drinks from
		
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			there to their fill, they're not from amongst
		
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			us.
		
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			وَمَنْ لَمْ يَطُعَمْهُ فَإِنَّهُ مِنِّي And whoever does
		
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			not fill up their stomach with this water,
		
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			mean they drink a little, they are gonna
		
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			be from amongst us.
		
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			إِلَّا مَنِغْتَرَ فَغُرْفَةً بِيَدِي You take a little,
		
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			no problem.
		
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			فَشَرِبُوا مِنْهُ إِلَّا قَلِيلٌ مِّنْهُمْ The Qur'an
		
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			says, majority of them, when they got to
		
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			the river, they could not hold themselves back,
		
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			and they drink to their fill.
		
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			And hence, though they kept on traveling, but
		
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			in the back of Talut's mind, he knows
		
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			that these are not the people that I
		
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			need to trust.
		
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			The ones who actually listened, the ones who
		
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			obeyed, they're the ones who I can trust.
		
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			Then what happened after that?
		
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			فَشَرِبُوا مِنْهُ إِلَّا قَلِيلٌ مِّنْهُمْ فَلَمَّا جَاوَزَهُ هُوَ
		
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			وَالَّذِينَ آمَنُوا مَعَهُ قَالُوا لَا طَاقَةَنَنَا الْيَوْمَ بِجَالُوتَ
		
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			وَجْنُودِ Now they came in front of Jalut
		
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			and his army.
		
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			Those who drank to their fill, because they
		
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			have already demonstrated that for them their desires
		
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			are more important than the orders of Allah
		
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			SWT.
		
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			Because Allah said, don't drink to your fill,
		
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			but they drank to their fill.
		
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			So for them their desires were more important
		
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			than Allah's command.
		
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			So those are the ones who said, when
		
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			they came face to face with the army
		
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			of Jalut and they said, لَا طَاقَةَنَنَا الْيَوْمَ
		
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			بِجَالُوتَ وَجْنُودِ There's no way.
		
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			There's absolutely no way that we can defeat
		
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			this army.
		
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			Look at them from top to bottom.
		
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			Look at how much they are armed.
		
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			There's no way we can defeat them.
		
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			The Qur'an says, those who did not
		
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			drink to their fill, they always kept Allah's
		
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			order at the priority.
		
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			Allah's order was a priority for them.
		
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			They said, قَالَ الَّذِينَ يَظُنُّونَ أَنَّهُمْ مُلَاقُوا اللَّهِ
		
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			كَم مِّن فِئَةٍ قَلِيلَةٍ غَلَبَتْ فِئَةً كَثِيرَةً بِإِنِّ
		
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			اللَّهِ How often do you see that a
		
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			small group overpowers a big group?
		
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			Meaning, these people are saying, that let's make
		
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			history.
		
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			History is on our side.
		
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			How many times do you see in history
		
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			that a small group can overpower a big
		
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			group?
		
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			Today, we're gonna see this.
		
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			This is them, their way of building confidence
		
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			within themselves.
		
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			But at the same time, Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala says, they made a dua to
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			كَم مِّن فِئَةٍ قَلِيلَةٍ غَلَبَتْ فِئَةً كَثِيرَةً بِإِنِّ
		
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			اللَّهِ وَاللَّهُمْ عَصَابِرِينَ وَلَمَّا بَرَزُوا لِجَالُوتَ وَجْنُودِهِ
		
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			قَالُوا رَبَّنَا Now, this is a very beautiful
		
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			dua that I always recommend, especially in this
		
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			day and age, when Muslims are being persecuted
		
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			all over the world.
		
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			This is the time that we need to
		
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			recite this dua.
		
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			And these people who were with Talut, who
		
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			trusted Talut, the small group of people that
		
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			were left, who had iman in their heart,
		
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			they made this dua, رَبَّنَا أَفْرِغْ عَلَيْنَا صَبَرًا
		
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			وَثَبِّتْ أَقَدَامَنَا وَانْصُرْنَا عَلَى الْقَوْمِ الْكَافِرِينَ رَبَّنَا
		
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			أَفْرِغْ عَلَيْنَا صَبَرًا Ya Allah, instill within us
		
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			sabr.
		
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			Because they know they're about to go, and
		
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			this is not gonna be easy.
		
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			Only the person who knows and who has
		
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			sabr, they can go into the thick of
		
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			the army, and they can go and put
		
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			their life on the line.
		
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			So Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala is saying,
		
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			they made dua that, Ya Allah, grant us
		
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			sabr.
		
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			And not only that, وَثَبِّتْ أَقَدَامَنَا and make
		
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			our feet firm.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because if you show the army, if you
		
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			show your opponent, that you are shaking, that
		
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			automatically, that is a moral victory for them.
		
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			So they are asking for confidence, they're asking
		
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			for thabat, and firmness in the battlefield.
		
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			But at the same time they know, that
		
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			the ultimate victory comes from Allah Subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala.
		
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			So what did they say at the end
		
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			of the dua?
		
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			وَانْصُرْنَا عَلَى الْقَوْمِ الْكَافِرِينَ Ya Allah, grant us
		
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			strength and victory over these non-believers.
		
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			And subhanAllah, once again, this is a dua
		
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			that you and I, we should be reciting
		
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			in this day and age.
		
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			رَبَّنَا أَفْرِغْ عَلَيْنَا صَبَرًا وَثَبِّتْ أَقَدَامَنَا وَانْصُرْنَا
		
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			عَلَى الْقَوْمِ الْكَافِرِينَ You can find this at
		
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			the end of the second, just the second
		
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			part in Surah Baqarah.
		
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			Memorize this dua inshaAllah.
		
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			Now, after that Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			says, فَهَزَمُوهُمْ بِإِذْنِ اللَّهِ Because they trusted Allah
		
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			Subhanahu wa ta'ala, they came across them
		
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			and they defeated them.
		
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			فَهَزَمُوهُمْ بِإِذْنِ اللَّهِ وَقَتَلَ دَاوُودُ جَالُوتَ وَآتَاهُ اللَّهُ
		
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			مُلْكَةً وَالْحِكْمَةَ وَعَلَّمَهُ مِمَّا يَشَاءُ Allah Subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala put that strength in Dawood Alayhi
		
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			Salaam.
		
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			And Dawood Alayhi Salaam was able to defeat
		
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			Jalut single-handedly.
		
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			And not only that, but that in itself
		
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			was that defeat for the entire, that victory
		
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			was for them.
		
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			But when he killed Jalut, they lost that
		
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			battle morally, and eventually physically they lost that
		
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			battle.
		
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			So Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala says, how
		
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			he gave Dawood Alayhi Salaam then understanding.
		
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			He gave him prophethood.
		
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			وَعَلَّمَهُ مِمَّا يَشَاءُ And he gave him whatever
		
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			Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala He wanted.
		
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			So this is the story in itself, the
		
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			conversations that would take place between Talut and
		
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			his people.
		
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			Now, there's just two things I want to
		
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			share with you at the very end, something
		
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			that we can learn from these stories.
		
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			Number one is, when it comes to leadership,
		
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			or when it comes to stories like this,
		
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			we would always think that if you're going
		
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			into a battlefield, you need to be courageous.
		
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			If you're going into a battlefield, you need
		
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			to be firm, you need to be built,
		
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			you need to be very strong and so
		
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			forth.
		
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			But there's one thing that we learn from
		
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			the Qur'an and that is, whatever we
		
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			think are the qualifications of victory and success,
		
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			they may not be the same qualifications of
		
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			victory and success in the eyes of Allah
		
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			Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			Let me give you a good example, based
		
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			on what is happening today.
		
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			For such a long time, for such a
		
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			long time, and please, try to understand what
		
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			I'm trying to say.
		
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			For such a long time here in America,
		
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			many Muslims, and I give them credit for
		
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			it, I'm not gonna take credit for them
		
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			away, I'm not gonna take credit away from
		
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			them, they've been working really hard and they
		
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			keep on working hard.
		
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			You heard me talking about this before standing
		
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			here, that when it comes to elections for
		
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			example, I trust that we should be more
		
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			engaged in our city matters rather than the
		
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			national matters because we don't have control over
		
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			the national matters.
		
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			You understand?
		
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			I'm not gonna sit here and tell you
		
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			that who to go and vote for in
		
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			national elections, and should you vote or not,
		
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			I'm not gonna get into that right now.
		
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			But for such a long time, Muslims were
		
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			so engaged and so much politics all over.
		
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			And wallahi, if there is one thing that
		
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			this whole Palestine situation, this whole genocide that
		
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			is taking place, if there is one thing
		
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			that we have learned from this is, that
		
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			wallahi, majority of the work that we thought
		
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			we're doing, and we're putting so much work
		
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			into it, it fell apart.
		
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			It just went down the drain.
		
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			We thought that we're making so much internal
		
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			connections.
		
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			But subhanallah, even the people that Muslims, they
		
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			voted for in the past, when the Muslims
		
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			went to them, these kind of same people,
		
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			I'm not gonna sit here and take their
		
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			names, but those same people, they said that,
		
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			yes, you did support us, but we got
		
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			more support from them.
		
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			And hence we're gonna support them.
		
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			I'm not saying that we stop doing work
		
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			in our city.
		
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			I once again feel that doing work in
		
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			our own city, being engaged in our local
		
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			elections, is far more important than the national
		
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			elections to be honest.
		
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			You understand?
		
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			But at this point right now, what I'm
		
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			trying to say is, that many people they
		
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			thought that the only way we will succeed
		
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			is by gaining political power.
		
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			And subhanallah, if there is one thing that
		
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			we have learned, and that is that, when
		
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			it comes to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
		
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			in the eyes of Allah, yes, all these
		
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			things are secondary.
		
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			But you know what's first?
		
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			You know what's first?
		
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			Building our connection with Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala.
		
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			When this whole genocide started, it's important that
		
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			the entire ummah comes back to Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala.
		
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			You see, what we think is success or
		
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			is gonna lead us to success, may not
		
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			lead us to success.
		
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			What's gonna lead us to success is first
		
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			of all, building our connection with Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala.
		
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			The ummah coming together, the ummah uniting together.
		
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			For us to leave our bad habits behind,
		
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			and coming close to Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala, and re-establishing a connection with Allah,
		
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			that's more important.
		
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			You know, I remember when this whole thing
		
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			happened, there were many people who were going
		
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			to these protests and so forth.
		
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			You understand?
		
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			And I'm not against it.
		
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			It's a way of, you know, growing awareness.
		
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			But wallahi, there's no point.
		
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			You can go to a protest, and come
		
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			home and miss your salawat, but there's no
		
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			purpose in that.
		
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			You understand?
		
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			What is the priority?
		
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			The priority is, in the eyes of Allah,
		
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			the priority is establishing our relationship with Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			That is the priority.
		
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			Everything else is secondary.
		
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			When we make what is secondary the priority,
		
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			and what is the priority as secondary, then
		
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			we're gonna have problems in our ummah.
		
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			You understand?
		
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			So these people, what they thought, what's gonna
		
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			lead them to success, Allah is saying, No,
		
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			what's gonna lead you to success is obedience
		
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			to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			Don't drink from the river.
		
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			Accept this man as your king.
		
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			Allah is putting all these demands on them.
		
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			That is what's gonna lead them to success.
		
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			So the thing that we learn from this
		
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			is, that what we think is gonna always
		
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			bring us success, may not be the ultimate
		
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			source of success.
		
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			It can help us no doubt.
		
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			But sometimes we need to go back to
		
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			the higher purpose of our life in order
		
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			to gain success.
		
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			And the last thing I'll share with you
		
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			is, that when it comes to the story
		
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			of Dawood and Jalut, you know subhanAllah many
		
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			people, even life coaches, many times they will
		
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			share the story of David and Goliath.
		
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			They will share their story.
		
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			And the whole lesson they take from that
		
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			is, that it doesn't matter who you are,
		
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			you can always conquer your challenges.
		
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			No matter how great they are, you can
		
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			conquer your challenges.
		
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			So it's their way of perhaps motivating people.
		
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			But you have to, at the same time,
		
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			you have to understand that in life, things
		
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			don't come that easy either.
		
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			I mean, no one knows the story of
		
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			Dawood before that.
		
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			Dawood عليه السلام, like all the people of
		
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			Bani Israel, he had to be patient.
		
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			He could not drink water from the river.
		
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			He had to accept Talut as his king
		
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			and so forth.
		
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			So a lot of times you cannot just...
		
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			You know, we look at sometimes people's success,
		
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			and we feel like, Oh khair, success is
		
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			that easy?
		
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			I can just go and just do this
		
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			very simply.
		
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			Success does not come that easily.
		
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			In anything in life, you have to trust
		
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			the process.
		
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			You have to go through the process in
		
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			order to succeed anytime in life.
		
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			So this is why, even when you look
		
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			at the Prophet ﷺ, if he wanted, if
		
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			Allah wanted, Allah could have brought multitudes of
		
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			people into faith, into Iman and Islam and
		
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			so forth.
		
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			But no, the Prophet ﷺ, he had to
		
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			go through the process.
		
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			13 years in Makkah, 10 years in Madinah,
		
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			battles after battles.
		
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			His family took so many hits.
		
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			They went through so much pain.
		
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			The Sahaba went through so much pain.
		
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			At the very end of the life of
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ, that is when Allah ﷻ
		
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			granted victory.
		
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			In life, even within our deen, there is
		
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			no such thing called easy fixes.
		
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			There is no such thing called easy success.
		
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			It takes time.
		
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			Even if a person wants to build their
		
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			spirituality, to be honest, it takes time.
		
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			It takes...
		
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			You know, you have to go through a
		
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			certain process in order to gain anything in
		
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			life.
		
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			In the case of Dawud ﷺ, he went
		
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			through that same process.
		
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			In the case of the Prophet ﷺ, he
		
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			went through that same process.
		
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			And for us too, we may have to
		
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			go through the same process.
		
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			Yusuf ﷺ, if he did not, if he
		
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			was not thrown into the well, he would
		
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			have never been found by that passing caravan.
		
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			If he was not found by the passing
		
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			caravan, then he would have not been sold
		
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			into slavery.
		
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			Had he not been sold into slavery, he
		
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			would have never ended up in the palace.
		
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			Had he never ended up in the palace,
		
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			he would have probably never become the Minister
		
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			of Egypt.
		
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			To become the financial minister of Egypt, it
		
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			was Allah's plan, he had to be first
		
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			thrown into the well.
		
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			You have to sometimes just trust the process
		
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			and go forward.
		
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			I ask Allah ﷻ to grant all of
		
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			us tawfeeq, to learn from these stories of
		
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			the Qur'an, and may Allah ﷻ give
		
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			us tawfeeq to apply them in our life.
		
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			Ameen.
		
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			Jazakumullah khair.
		
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			As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu.
		
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			As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu.