Nadim Bashir – The Night Journey & It’S Lessons

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The segment discusses the recent incident at thebye of the royal wedding, including the importance of understanding the reality of the event and the need for a return to the city. The speaker emphasizes the importance of loyalty to Islam and avoiding infection during the time of the Prophet's da' clarity. The speakers emphasize the transactional nature of relationships and the need for individuals to overcome difficult relationships to avoid complications and become aware of their capacity to overcome difficult relationships. The segment also touches on the challenges of avoiding infection and political and political struggles, as well as the importance of learning from history and avoiding political and cultural struggles.

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			My family is back at home inshallah.
		
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			With no further ado, we would like to
		
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			welcome Shaykh Bashir.
		
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			JazakAllah khair.
		
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			As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
		
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			As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
		
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			Wa alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
		
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			That's better.
		
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			Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem.
		
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			Alhamdulillahi wa barakatuh.
		
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			Wa salatu wa salamu ala Rasooli Muhammad wa
		
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			ala aalihi wa sahbihi ajma'in.
		
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			I have been a little under the weather,
		
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			but I assure you that this morning I
		
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			got a flu test done a COVID test
		
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			done a strep throat test done and I've
		
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			come negative and everything.
		
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			So I want to make sure that I
		
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			don't want to come and give you any
		
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			kind of barakah so I made sure that
		
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			I got all those tests done before I
		
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			did come.
		
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			So I want to keep inshallah this lecture
		
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			short as the brother was mentioning about the
		
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			Ramadan countdown and Shaykh Salah had asked me
		
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			to come and just share a few things
		
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			a few pieces of information related to the
		
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			subject of al-Isra wal-Mi'raj First
		
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			of all is that I always stress upon
		
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			this that when it comes to our children
		
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			growing up in this society many of our
		
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			kids are very unaware of the events of
		
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			the life of the Prophet ﷺ though they
		
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			may have a they may have an idea
		
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			in their mind but when it comes to
		
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			details our kids are very unaware and especially
		
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			when it comes to even the months of
		
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			the lunar calendar year many of our kids
		
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			know the months but they probably don't know
		
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			them in order and even if they do
		
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			know them in order many times they are
		
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			very unaware or uneducated on the events and
		
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			the incidents that took place in each month
		
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			so this is why often when the month
		
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			of Rajab rolls around the subject and the
		
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			story of al-Isra wal-Mi'raj often
		
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			is discussed and you will see around town
		
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			many people are going to come together and
		
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			they are going to have a discussion they
		
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			are going to have a majlis regarding this
		
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			particular night now strictly academically speaking when it
		
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			comes to the night of al-Isra wal
		
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			-Mi'raj there are many ulama who have
		
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			speculated that what exactly is that night now
		
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			if you go to the subcontinent countries like
		
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			India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and many other Muslim countries
		
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			you will see that on the 27th night
		
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			of Rajab many people will gather at the
		
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			majlis because this is the overall overwhelming theory
		
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			that this incident or this event happened on
		
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			the 27th night of Rajab whereas as I
		
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			said earlier that academically speaking there is no
		
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			evidence pointing towards that however some ulama who
		
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			are seerah experts they were able to put
		
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			their own understanding together they were able to
		
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			apply ijtihad and they came to this 27th
		
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			night and eventually this idea that this event
		
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			took place on the 27th night of Rajab
		
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			became widespread so this is the very first
		
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			thing the second thing that is very important
		
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			to understand when it comes to this event
		
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			was that you will see in some books
		
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			of seerah that there were some speculation that
		
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			perhaps this was not a physical experience of
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ but rather this was perhaps
		
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			a dream of the Prophet ﷺ and we
		
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			are very quick to negate that idea and
		
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			that notion simply because Allah says سُبْحَانَ الَّذِى
		
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			أَسْرَى بِعَبْدِهِ He took and the word asra
		
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			in the Arabic language means to take someone
		
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			at night, it is a night journey that
		
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			one undertakes so this in itself very clearly
		
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			points at the idea that this was not
		
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			a dream of the Prophet ﷺ but rather
		
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			this was a physical experience that the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ he underwent another interesting thing about this
		
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			surah surah al-isra that highlights you will
		
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			find two surahs in the Qur'an that
		
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			highlights this night and the events of this
		
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			night one is surah al-isra and the
		
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			other one is surah anyone know?
		
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			surah najm surah najm surah najm in the
		
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			27th juz is another surah that Allah ﷻ
		
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			He talks about this particular night and there
		
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			are many sahabah رضي الله عنهم they say
		
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			that surah al-isra was a blueprint given
		
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			by Allah to the Prophet ﷺ about what
		
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			is about to come forward in the Medina
		
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			era of the Prophet ﷺ life and not
		
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			only that but in this surah there is
		
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			a passage that begins with وَقَضَى رَبُّكَ أَلَّا
		
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			تَعْبُدُ إِلَّا إِيَّاهُ وَبِالْوَالِدَيْنِ إِحْسَانًا it actually starts
		
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			on the second or third page of this
		
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			surah and if you read the translation you
		
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			will find that there are ten things things
		
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			to do and things not to do accumulatively
		
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			they come out to be ten instructions given
		
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			by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and there
		
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			are some sahabah who were of the opinion
		
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			that these were the ten commandments given by
		
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			Allah to Bani Israel so now we know
		
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			that this happens now we find that of
		
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			course I cannot go throughout the entire story
		
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			because it is a very lengthy one but
		
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			few of the things that we need to
		
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			understand from a facts perspective when Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala took the Prophet ﷺ he
		
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			met many many prophets on his way going
		
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			all the way up to Allah jalla wa
		
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			ala and many ulema have stated that there
		
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			was a symbolic reason why he met each
		
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			of these prophets so on the very first
		
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			on the very first sky he met Adam
		
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			ﷺ the second one he met Isa and
		
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			Yahya ﷺ on the third one he met
		
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			Yusuf ﷺ on the fourth sky he met
		
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			Idris ﷺ on the fifth sky he met
		
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			Harun ﷺ on the sixth he met Musa
		
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			ﷺ and on the seventh sky he met
		
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			Ibrahim ﷺ now though this is not proven
		
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			from any kind of hadith of the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ what I am about to mention there
		
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			are some ulema who have used their own
		
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			theory to come up with some reason that
		
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			perhaps this is why the Prophet ﷺ met
		
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			all these prophets now once again keeping in
		
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			mind that this happened in the year of
		
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			Aam al-Huzn the year of sorrow and
		
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			this was a time where Allah took away
		
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			the external and the internal support from the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ Abu Talib was known as his
		
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			external support whenever he would go outside in
		
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			Mecca it was Abu Talib who stood by
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ whenever he would come home
		
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			the one who would provide him that psychological
		
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			support that emotional support was Khadija ﷺ so
		
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			within a span of a month as the
		
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			ulema they say Allah took both of them
		
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			away from the Prophet ﷺ so the point
		
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			is that and then after this there was
		
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			Al-Isra and Al-Miraj that took place
		
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			after that and soon after that there was
		
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			in the seerah of the Prophet ﷺ there
		
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			were two incidents there was Bay'ah al
		
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			-Aqabah al-Ula where you have a handful
		
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			of people from Medina who came and pledged
		
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			allegiance on the hands of the Prophet ﷺ
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ sent Mus'ab bin Umair
		
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			ﷺ to Medina to educate them and the
		
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			following year they came as a bigger group
		
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			and then that was the year where they
		
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			had an agreement between those the Ansar that
		
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			to be Ansar and Abbas the uncle of
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ that if we send the
		
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			Prophet to Medina will you look after him
		
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			will you take care of him and this
		
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			is where the Sahaba the Ansar gave them,
		
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			gave the family of the Prophet ﷺ their
		
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			word and their commitment that they will always
		
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			support the Prophet ﷺ and then after that
		
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			you find that the Prophet ﷺ made his
		
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			plans for hijrah and the hijrah story is
		
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			a very long one too, but what is
		
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			so symbolic about Adam ﷺ the ulema they
		
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			state that just like Adam ﷺ was to
		
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			leave a place that was near and dear
		
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			to his heart which was Jannah, likewise you
		
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			O Muhammad ﷺ will be forced to leave
		
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			a place that is near and dear to
		
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			you which is Mecca and this is why
		
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			in the hijrah of the Prophet ﷺ we
		
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			find that after every small or short amount
		
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			of time the Prophet ﷺ he would turn
		
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			back and he would look at the Kaaba
		
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			and he would say things he would express
		
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			himself that he feels so much regret in
		
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			leaving this town and he does not really
		
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			want to leave this town then what is
		
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			the symbolic reason of meeting perhaps Isa ﷺ
		
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			and Yahya ﷺ and the ulema they say
		
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			that the opposition to Isa and Yahya ﷺ
		
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			were Bani Israel and this is Allah's way
		
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			of telling the Prophet ﷺ that when you
		
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			go to Mecca and when you go to
		
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			Medina your primary opposition are going to be
		
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			the Jewish community and this is something that
		
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			we find in the seerah of the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ the reason behind Yusuf ﷺ is that
		
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			just like Yusuf in the case of Yusuf
		
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			ﷺ his closest people to him in terms
		
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			of his family were his adversaries likewise the
		
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			closest people to you are going to be
		
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			the closest people or the adversaries that you
		
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			are going to find in your life are
		
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			those who are the closest to you and
		
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			this is why we find that though they
		
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			were the Quraish but they had plotted to
		
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			kill Rasul ﷺ at the time of hijrah
		
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			then what is the what is the meaning
		
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			behind Idrees ﷺ Allah ﷻ the ulema they
		
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			have said that perhaps this is Allah's way
		
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			of telling the Prophet ﷺ that though you
		
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			may be forced to leave Mecca but remember
		
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			Allah will grant you a very high status
		
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			because Allah says in the Quran regarding Idrees
		
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			ﷺ وَذْكُرْ فِي الْكِتَابِ إِدْرِيسِ إِنَّهُ كَانَ صُدِّيقًا
		
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			نَبِيًّا وَرَفَعْنَاهُ مَكَانًا عَلِيًّا we will grant you
		
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			an elevated position so this is Allah's way
		
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			of telling the Prophet ﷺ we will grant
		
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			you an elevated position Harun ﷺ the meaning
		
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			behind that could be that just like Harun
		
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			ﷺ served as a support to Musa ﷺ
		
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			during his da'wah time likewise you will
		
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			find a support in Medina within the Ansar
		
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			in your mission Musa ﷺ the meaning that
		
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			some ulema they say that perhaps just like
		
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			Musa ﷺ had to deal with Bani Israel
		
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			and he had to give so many sacrifices
		
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			and there were so many people who doubted
		
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			Musa ﷺ though there was revelations that came
		
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			to Musa ﷺ even in the case of
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ though you are the one
		
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			who is receiving revelation but there will be
		
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			many people who will doubt you and this
		
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			exactly happened in the case of the Jewish
		
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			community in the time of the Prophet ﷺ
		
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			the Jewish community by the way in Medina
		
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			they did not have a major problem with
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ but as the laws of
		
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			Sharia began to descend through Wahi to the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ and the community of the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ and the community the Jewish community they
		
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			were becoming distinct because the Prophet ﷺ when
		
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			he came to Medina remember which direction was
		
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			he praying in?
		
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			which direction was he praying in?
		
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			Majd al-Aqsa so the Jewish people are
		
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			thinking that well he is praying towards Majd
		
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			al-Aqsa and we pray towards Majd al
		
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			-Aqsa there is not much of a difference
		
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			they revere Ibrahim ﷺ we revere Ibrahim ﷺ
		
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			we believe in Allah, they believe in Allah
		
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			so there is not much of a difference
		
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			between our religions but when Allah after 18
		
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			months of being in Medina Allah sent the
		
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			Wahi that now you have to face towards
		
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			the Kaaba and pray your Salat and slowly
		
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			and gradually Allah began to send down Ahkam
		
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			this is where the Muslim community became very
		
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			distinct from the Jewish community and this is
		
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			where their animosity and their hatred increased towards
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ and then finally he met
		
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			Ibrahim ﷺ and the meaning behind that is
		
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			that just like there was a time where
		
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			Ibrahim ﷺ was able to establish Tawheed and
		
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			monotheism in Mecca, likewise there will come a
		
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			time where you will be able to re
		
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			-establish the foundations of Ibrahim ﷺ in Mecca
		
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			so these are things that happened on the
		
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			night of Isawul Miraj and finally I want
		
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			to finish on this that what are some
		
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			of the lessons that we can take from
		
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			this story because the lessons are the most
		
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			important thing one is the story but there
		
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			are lessons to be learnt the very first
		
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			lesson to be learnt from all this is
		
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			Allah ﷻ when he referred to the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ he did not refer to him as
		
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			Rasulullah ﷺ he never referred to him as
		
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			Muhammad ﷺ but in Surah Al-Isra Allah
		
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			referred to the Prophet ﷺ as an abd
		
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			سُبْحَانَ الَّذِي أَسْرَى بِعَبْدِهِ سُبْحَانَ الَّذِي أَسْرَى بِعَبْدِهِ
		
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			he never said سُبْحَانَ الَّذِي أَسْرَى بِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ
		
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			why did he say abd because the concept
		
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			of an abd, a slave to Allah ﷻ
		
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			is truly an honour in the eyes of
		
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			Allah if you go and you open up
		
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			Surah Al-Furqan what does Allah mention at
		
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			the end of Surah Al-Furqan he says
		
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			وَعِبَادُ الرَّحْمَٰنَ Allah talks about the characteristics of
		
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			the slaves of Allah now though in this
		
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			society when you talk about history when you
		
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			talk about American history when you talk about
		
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			history in general and you use the word
		
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			slaves slaves has a very negative connotation in
		
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			our society but when you talk about slaves
		
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			in the perspective of Allah ﷻ the ulama
		
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			they say especially Ibn Taymiyyah ﷺ he says
		
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			that if Allah refers to someone as a
		
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			slave it is truly an honour given by
		
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			Allah it has nothing there is no negative
		
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			connotation when it comes to the word slave
		
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			because at the end of the day you
		
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			and I we are the slaves of Allah
		
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			ﷻ and I remember one time I was
		
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			sitting with a group of young brothers and
		
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			some children and I asked them are we
		
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			the slaves of Allah or are we the
		
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			servants of Allah and they all said that
		
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			we are the servants of Allah and I
		
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			said that when you are the servant of
		
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			Allah when someone is a servant to someone
		
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			else you are a servant for some portion
		
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			of the day but you are not a
		
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			servant throughout the entire day a slave on
		
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			the other hand you are a slave 24
		
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			-7 we are the slaves of Allah ﷻ
		
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			there is never a point in the day
		
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			where we say that you know what now
		
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			I am off the clock like when we
		
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			go to work we have to provide our
		
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			service in lieu of us providing our service
		
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			we get a paycheck simple as that but
		
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			when we are off the clock and the
		
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			boss says I need you to do something
		
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			we can easily say that I am off
		
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			the clock I don't have to give anything
		
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			back to the company or to the business
		
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			likewise when we call ourselves the servants of
		
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			Allah it means that there are some portions
		
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			of the day perhaps we will dedicate ourselves
		
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			and there are some portions of the day
		
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			where we don't have to dedicate ourselves but
		
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			when you call yourself a slave to Allah
		
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			ﷻ it means that 24-7 we owe
		
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			our life to Allah now this also means
		
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			that a slave to Allah means that no
		
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			matter what the situation is no matter how
		
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			much the level of distress may be I
		
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			am never going to lose my loyalty to
		
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			Allah ﷻ look at the Prophet ﷺ for
		
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			a moment he lost his uncle he lost
		
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			his wife and during the time he was
		
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			married to Khadija he did not marry any
		
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			other woman and so after this he went
		
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			outside to seek out political support he was
		
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			rejected that political support and he was disgraced
		
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			on his way out from Ta'if after
		
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			all this never once did he say that
		
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			why is Allah doing this to me this
		
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			is something that happens very common to us
		
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			why is Allah doing this to me why
		
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			I pray my Salat I read my Quran
		
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			I do dhikr I do so much more
		
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			I am doing so much more than people
		
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			who come to this masjid I live my
		
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			life according to deen I know people who
		
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			don't live their life according to deen yet
		
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			Allah does not bring the challenges upon them
		
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			but Allah brings the challenges upon me and
		
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			we begin to question Allah and in essence
		
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			our loyalty is coming into question here we
		
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			are not truly loyal to Allah ﷻ just
		
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			like we find in the case of the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ or we would find in the
		
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			case of Ayyub ﷺ or we would find
		
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			in the case of Yusuf ﷺ I mean
		
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			think about Yusuf ﷺ for a moment a
		
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			man who was completely innocent being stuck in
		
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			jail being imprisoned for so many years so
		
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			many years never once did he question Allah
		
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			that why is Allah putting me in this
		
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			kind of situation so the first thing that
		
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			we learn from all this is that a
		
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			slave to Allah means that we never lose
		
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			our trust in Allah and our loyalty to
		
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			Allah should never come into question another perspective
		
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			of an abd to Allah is that brothers
		
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			and sisters our relationship with Allah is not
		
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			transactional see what happens is that we feel
		
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			that I do you a favor you do
		
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			me a favor this is the way we
		
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			treat others but a lot of times we
		
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			have the same kind of mindset when it
		
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			comes to Allah I do these things for
		
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			Allah I read Quran I pray Salat I
		
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			do these things for Allah why is Allah
		
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			bringing difficulties upon me so what we have
		
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			done is that we have created a mindset
		
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			that our relationship with Allah is more transactional
		
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			whereas the reality is brothers and sisters that
		
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			if Allah were to bring upon us perpetual
		
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			difficulties in our life still a person cannot
		
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			say why is Allah doing this to me
		
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			or I'm not going to worship Allah no
		
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			a slave to Allah means that our relationship
		
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			with Allah is not transactional you do this
		
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			for me oh Allah and I'll do this
		
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			for you in fact what Allah demands from
		
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			us is we want to have Allah first
		
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			comes first comes because we think that let
		
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			Allah rectify let Allah fix all my affairs
		
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			then I'll come to Allah let Allah do
		
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			this for me this for me this for
		
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			me then I'll worship Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta
		
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			'ala whereas in the eyes of Allah it
		
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			is a complete reversal first comes first we
		
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			have to worship Allah then comes seeking help
		
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			from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala when Allah
		
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			says in the Quran those who strive in
		
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			our path then we will open up the
		
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			ways upon them first Allah is demanding a
		
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			struggle from us Allah is demanding from us
		
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			a commitment when we renew our commitment and
		
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			we are dedicated to our commitment then the
		
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			help of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will
		
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			come another thing that we learn from this
		
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			also is that especially when it comes to
		
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			living in this society that when it comes
		
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			to many people they think that well if
		
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			we are the slaves to Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala then that means that there is
		
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			no freedom there is no freedom because in
		
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			our society we've always been taught especially our
		
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			kids are always taught that you should do
		
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			whatever you want to do you follow your
		
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			heart wherever your heart takes you that's where
		
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			you go so in essence what the society
		
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			is teaching us is that Islam will bring
		
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			you under Allah's slavery and there is no
		
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			freedom in that whereas if you leave Islam
		
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			you leave your commitment and your dedication to
		
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			Allah that is when you will seek out
		
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			true freedom brothers and sisters the reality is
		
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			that it is the complete opposite the more
		
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			we are enslaved to Allah the more freedom
		
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			we have the more we become enslaved to
		
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			the society and we are chasing what they
		
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			refer to as freedom that is not freedom
		
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			that is slavery because the society today will
		
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			be that today sitting down is normal tomorrow
		
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			they will say sitting down is abnormal the
		
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			society is constantly changing what is normal today
		
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			becomes abnormal tomorrow what is abnormal today becomes
		
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			acceptable tomorrow so in essence the society is
		
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			trying to tell us that don't follow your
		
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			deen but follow what we tell you to
		
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			do and they're telling us that you do
		
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			whatever we tell you to do that is
		
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			not freedom that is slavery we have become
		
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			enslaved to the norms of our society so
		
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			if our society says do this then we
		
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			will do this whereas in the eyes of
		
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			Allah when it comes to Allah's rules and
		
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			laws it does not change no matter what
		
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			the situation is it does not change so
		
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			we may think that it is slavery but
		
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			in reality that is where true freedom lies
		
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			then lastly I will finish on this inshallah
		
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			when it comes to difficulty just like we
		
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			learn from this there will always be difficulty
		
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			in our lives there should never be a
		
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			situation where we feel that why is Allah
		
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			doing this to me Allah will always test
		
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			us and there will be situations I have
		
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			met a lot of youth also who would
		
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			tell me that I don't have the bandwidth
		
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			I don't have the stamina the strength to
		
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			handle and endure a difficulty and a hardship
		
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			why is Allah doing this to me and
		
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			I will always remind them of the verse
		
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			of the Qur'an Allah knows us better
		
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			than we know ourselves Allah knows us more
		
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			than our parents know us and Allah if
		
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			he knows that we have the capacity and
		
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			the endurance to overcome and to endure a
		
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			difficulty then Allah will bring that difficulty upon
		
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			us see look let me be honest with
		
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			you what we see happening in Palestine right
		
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			now may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala help
		
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			our brothers and sisters in Palestine may Allah
		
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			give them Izzah may Allah give them Nusra
		
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			may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala give them
		
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			Fatah Ameenubil Alameen what they are going through
		
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			Allah knows that you and I we don't
		
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			have that stamina to go through that perhaps
		
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			this is why Allah has placed us here
		
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			but they are there and Allah knows that
		
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			they can handle that I mean you know
		
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			how many videos I saw that would bring
		
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			tears to my eyes just looking at the
		
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			strength of Iman of these kids when these
		
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			kids are being interviewed that your house is
		
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			gone your family is gone Wallahi you know
		
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			these kids what they are saying is Allah
		
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			is with us I don't care I don't
		
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			have anything Allah is with us this is
		
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			their Iman and their faith so the point
		
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			is that Allah will bring upon us what
		
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			is within our capacity but we need to
		
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			always remember too that after every single difficulty
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will bring ease
		
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			this is the law of Allah when the
		
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			Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam went through all these
		
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			series of difficulties Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			brought the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam to him
		
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			not only that but if the Prophet Sallallahu
		
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			Alaihi Wasallam thought that the people of Mecca
		
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			don't have any Izzah for him the people
		
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			of Taif have no Izzah for him the
		
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			Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam this is Allah's way
		
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			of showing Izzah to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam that in Masjidul Aqsa Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala created a situation where the Prophet
		
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			Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is leading Salat to all
		
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			the Anbiya not just only few Anbiya all
		
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			the Anbiya kulluhum Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			gave that Izzah to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam just in case if the Prophet Sallallahu
		
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			Alaihi Wasallam felt that who's gonna be there
		
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			on my side who's gonna be there to
		
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			stand with me who's gonna be there to
		
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			support me who can I turn to Allah
		
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			is showing that to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam and during the same time the same
		
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			story also is a lesson for us that
		
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			our Iman will be tested because when the
		
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			Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam when he came back
		
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			and he went to the Quraish he went
		
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			to Abu Jahl and he said last night
		
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			I went from here in one night I
		
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			went from Mecca all the way to Al
		
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			-Aqsa from there I went all the way
		
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			to Allah I came back and I came
		
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			all the way back to Mecca now Abu
		
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			Jahl is thinking see you know Islamophobes they
		
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			always are waiting to pounce on a Muslim
		
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			if a Muslim would say something that is
		
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			abnormal or they would do something that is
		
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			abnormal immediately you'll see even in the media
		
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			they would jump immediately on it right you
		
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			see that everything was going normal all of
		
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			a sudden that situation happened in New Orleans
		
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			right remember and all of a sudden oh
		
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			Muslim see because that is the nature of
		
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			an Islamophobe they're waiting to pounce on an
		
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			opportunity to degrade and to criticize and to
		
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			publicly ashame the Muslim man so this is
		
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			what Islamophobes do when Abu Jahl heard this
		
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			he was like khalas this is exactly what
		
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			I need and he went out and he
		
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			began to say that see this is what
		
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			Muhammad is saying so and at that time
		
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			he even went to some other Muslims and
		
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			they said that do you believe in this
		
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			man and they're like of course he's a
		
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			prophet of Allah well what if I were
		
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			to tell you that he is saying last
		
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			night he went from here all the way
		
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			to Major Aqsa and he went to Allah
		
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			and he came back all in one night
		
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			now the new Muslims that time they may
		
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			have a shred of doubt in their heart
		
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			that oh yeah he said that oh okay
		
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			you know I mean he is prophet of
		
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			Allah we trust but that is you know
		
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			how I don't know how that's possible so
		
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			there is an element of doubt when they
		
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			came to Abu Bakr RA this is why
		
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			Abu Bakr RA he stands out in the
		
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			story so much because when they came to
		
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			him and they said you believe in this
		
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			man right and he said yes do you
		
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			believe in the fact that he said that
		
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			from last night he did all this would
		
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			you still believe him and he said that
		
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			if he is saying it I don't have
		
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			any shred of doubt in the words of
		
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			Prophet SAW this is why his Iman was
		
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			different from everyone else's Iman because with everyone
		
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			else's Iman there may be a shred of
		
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			doubt what we learn from this brothers and
		
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			sisters is when it comes to our faith
		
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			in Allah when it comes to our faith
		
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			in the Prophet SAW there cannot be any
		
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			doubt in the heart of a Muslim even
		
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			in the time of the Prophet SAW even
		
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			non-Muslims they did not have doubt when
		
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			the Prophet SAW would say something that he
		
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			would do something when Abu Lahab one of
		
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			his sons he came to the Prophet SAW
		
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			by the way both of his sons they
		
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			divorced both of the daughters of the Prophet
		
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			SAW when he began to call people to
		
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			Allah and one of them even came and
		
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			spat on the Prophet SAW and the Prophet
		
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			SAW said that may Allah send one of
		
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			his dogs upon you this is what the
		
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			Prophet SAW said when he said this and
		
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			he went back and he told his father
		
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			that this is what the Prophet SAW said
		
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			this is Abu Lahab by the way think
		
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			about this for a moment Abu Lahab a
		
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			man who did not believe in the Prophet
		
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			SAW but when he heard this you know
		
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			what he said if the Prophet SAW said
		
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			it it is going to happen this is
		
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			a non-Muslim having this much Yaqeen in
		
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			the words of the Prophet SAW whereas today
		
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			you and I we don't have that much
		
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			Yaqeen in the words of Allah and the
		
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			Prophet SAW so what we learn from this
		
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			is number one is about the concept of
		
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			an Abd we learn also from this story
		
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			that after every difficulty comes ease and we
		
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			also learn that our Iman will always be
		
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			put to test and we can never put
		
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			any doubt or we cannot have any doubt
		
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			in the words of Allah and his Prophet
		
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			SAW we ask Allah SWT to grant us
		
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			the Tawfiq to learn from these stories and
		
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			please sit down with your children and go
		
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			through these stories these are very interesting stories
		
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			that our children should know and the lessons
		
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			from these stories I try to summarize it
		
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			right now but if you go and open
		
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			the books of Sira there are pages after
		
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			pages on this one story so try to
		
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			sit down with your family and go with
		
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			these stories and may Allah SWT grant us
		
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			the Tawfiq to learn from these stories Jazakumullah
		
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			Khair Assalamu Alaikum I would like to thank
		
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			Sheikh Bashir thank you also to all of
		
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			you for staying behind like the Sheikh said
		
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			please pass this knowledge on to your families
		
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			at home