Nouman Ali Khan – 3 Keys for Guidance – The Last One Is Crucial

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The political and cultural crisis facing new Muslims has caused a devastating military setback, resulting in many deaths and shook for the new Muslims to be more knowledgeable. Jesus is the central common point between Muslims, Christians, and Jews, and the Bible's use of the word Jesus is a way to avoid confusion and chaos. The importance of guidance and the heart in protecting one's health is emphasized, and action is the first key to guidance. The guidance is to have the right kind of information, acting on it, and following or getting to your destination. The heart is not in it, and guidance is to protect the state of the heart, not to let it turn away, and to not let it turn away. sponsor students on BayGeneration TV and the community can sponsor students on BayGeneration TV.

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			The du'as are not placed in the Quran
		
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			randomly. They're placed strategically. They're there for a
		
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			reason. This du'a did not occur somewhere else.
		
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			It occurred here in this conversation.
		
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			So So I'm going to mention to you
		
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			just for your just for ease of remembering,
		
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			I want you to take with you after
		
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			by the by the end of this footba
		
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			today, 3 things that have to do with
		
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			guidance, so you'll understand this dua.
		
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			3 things that have to do with guidance.
		
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			The first thing
		
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			Allahu
		
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			The Messenger of Allah Subhana Wa Alaihi Wasallam
		
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			came into
		
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			contact along with the migrants
		
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			and to contact with the Christian and Jewish
		
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			religions more directly when he migrated to Madinah.
		
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			And early on, there was an agreement made
		
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			between these communities and the Muslim community. So
		
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			they were living together in peace. So there
		
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			was politically at least
		
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			a stable situation between the Muslims, Jews and
		
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			the Christians,
		
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			a stable situation in Madinah.
		
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			And while this is going on, the Prophet
		
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			and the Muslims that have migrated and along
		
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			with the new Muslims, the Ansar,
		
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			they're also mentally and also physically and financially
		
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			preparing for war because it's they know it's
		
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			coming.
		
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			So within a few months, it's going to
		
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			Badr is going to, you know we're gonna
		
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			get started preparing for Badr. And escalations are
		
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			going to happen. Not immediately,
		
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			but you can easily argue within a year.
		
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			So there are 2 fronts. On the 1
		
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			hand we're dealing with the Jewish and Christian
		
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			communities,
		
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			and the new Muslims,
		
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			who many of them belong to Jewish families
		
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			and Christian families and they just became Muslim.
		
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			And then you've got the Ansar, the Muhajirun,
		
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			the migrants settling into Madinah, and then there's
		
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			the threat of the war from the
		
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			outside.
		
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			But even though politically
		
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			there's peace
		
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			with the Jewish and the Christian communities. There
		
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			is also an upsetness in the air. They're
		
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			not happy that some of their family members
		
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			accepted Islam.
		
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			This is a new religion. I don't know
		
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			what you needed this religion for. We had
		
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			a perfectly good religion already. Your book, this
		
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			Quran seems to talk about Jesus. Well, we
		
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			already have Jesus.
		
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			This talks about Musa, the Jewish family will
		
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			say, We already have Moses. What do you
		
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			need this for?
		
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			There's no need for it.
		
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			So they couldn't see why their family members
		
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			were more and more in number starting to
		
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			accept Islam. And of course, politically, there's peace.
		
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			But now inside these families, conversations are starting
		
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			to happen to try to convince these new
		
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			Muslims to come back,
		
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			and to show that this religion, this new
		
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			religion
		
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			is just some cult. It's not a real
		
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			thing. You just made this stuff up. You're
		
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			just getting caught up. Maybe you're going through
		
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			a phase and that's why you accepted this
		
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			thing. You just wanna be different.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And so they're trying to
		
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			somehow convince their newly accepted Muslim family members
		
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			to come back to the old ways.
		
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			And in the midst, this went on for
		
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			a few years. This kind of under the
		
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			tone tension between the Muslim or the Christian
		
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			and Jewish faith in Madinah and the Muslims
		
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			was going on while we were in a
		
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			state of peace.
		
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			And then comes
		
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			Badr, but after Badr comes Uhud. And this
		
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			what I'm going to share with you is
		
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			actually after Uhud.
		
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			After all. And Uhud as you might know,
		
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			the Muslims suffered a pretty devastating military
		
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			setback.
		
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			And some of the most important and crucial
		
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			companions of the Prophet
		
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			were shuhada, were martyred in the battle of
		
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			Uhud.
		
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			This was also a crisis of faith
		
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			for new Muslims and for Muslims who hadn't
		
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			yet internalized the teachings of
		
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			this book. You see the Muslims that are
		
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			coming from Makkah have heard 2 thirds of
		
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			the Quran and they've gone through a lot
		
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			of difficulty, and they are mature in their
		
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			understanding of the faith. But now there are
		
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			Muslims that just became Muslim last week, or
		
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			just became Muslim last month.
		
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			They know some things but they don't know
		
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			a lot. And even what they know is
		
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			at a surface level,
		
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			and it's not deep yet. There's no yet.
		
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			In Arabic is depth, maturity. It's not there
		
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			yet. It's building, but it's not there yet.
		
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			Just like nowadays, you would think of somebody
		
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			who accepts Islam. You don't expect them to
		
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			be super knowledgeable like someone who's born and
		
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			raised in a Muslim family, or someone who's
		
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			been studying the Quran, or Sharia, or Sira,
		
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			or Hadith, or Fiqh for 10, 15, 20
		
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			years. There's a big difference between the 2.
		
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			The same difference existed back then.
		
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			So when Muslims and even the
		
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			Prophet was nearly killed
		
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			in Uhud,
		
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			this was pretty devastating.
		
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			How could if this is the true religion,
		
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			how could this happen?
		
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			If this is the religion that is promised
		
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			victory,
		
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			why was he almost killed? Why are all
		
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			these dead bodies here? And by the way,
		
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			many most of the shohada
		
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			in Uhud
		
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			were from Medina. They were from the Ansar.
		
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			So these are now this is now closer
		
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			to home. It's not even those who came
		
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			from Makkah. Most of them died. In fact,
		
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			the majority was actually the Ansar because they
		
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			were the bigger number anyway.
		
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			So now there's this crisis. And this crisis
		
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			then, some Christian and Jewish families saw an
		
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			opportunity.
		
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			Hey, we told you it's not the right
		
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			religion.
		
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			I mean, do you see now? Do you
		
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			see what happened?
		
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			If God was really on your side, would
		
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			that have happened? You really think that would
		
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			have happened? So now there's this, they're dealing
		
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			with the crisis of the enemy, and now
		
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			they're hearing these arguments coming back from their
		
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			family members to try to shake them in
		
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			their faith.
		
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			And in that
		
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			background, with that background in mind,
		
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			Allah revealed guidance to the Muslims.
		
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			And that guidance is Surat Alimran.
		
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			It's a large surah of the Quran. It's
		
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			the 3rd surah in the order of the
		
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			wussaf, but it was revealed with this background.
		
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			This is what the Muslims were going through
		
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			externally and internally many of them. And to
		
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			support them with both of these crisis, the
		
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			external crisis and the internal crisis,
		
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			Allah revealed to them this surah.
		
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			It's important to understand that context because then
		
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			a lot of what Allah is saying especially
		
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			in the beginning of this surah will make
		
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			sense and I'm hoping within the few minutes
		
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			that I have,
		
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			I can by the end of this suhbaq
		
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			take something away for you and me. What
		
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			do we get out of this? Why is
		
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			this being why is this moment in history
		
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			being crystallized in this way by the Quran?
		
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			So Allah begins, aliflammeem
		
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			which already we know. No 1 knows but
		
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			Allah, what that means. And this is gonna
		
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			be important.
		
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			No 1 but Allah knows what that means.
		
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			And then He describes Himself, Allah huda illaha
		
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			illahu al hayulkayyul
		
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			Allah.
		
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			There's no 1 to be worshipped, obeyed, loved,
		
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			adored
		
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			in any way, shape, or form except He,
		
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			the living, the maintain the maintainer.
		
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			Al Hayy Al Qayyum.
		
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			Both of these names are really important for
		
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			a number of reasons. I'll just share 2
		
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			quick ones with you. Later on in this
		
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			surah, not too much later, we're gonna see
		
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			the problem of Jesus.
		
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			Because Jesus is actually a central
		
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			common point between the Muslims, Christians, and Jews.
		
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			The Muslims have something to say about Jesus.
		
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			The Quran has something to say about Jesus.
		
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			The Christians believe something about Jesus. And the
		
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			Jews also believe something about Jesus. The Jews
		
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			reject Jesus.
		
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			The Christians accept him as someone who died
		
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			on the cross
		
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			and then resurrected.
		
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			And the Muslims are
		
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			the crucifixion of Risa alaihi salaam,
		
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			and they are going to have a completely
		
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			different explanation that Allah will give them. So
		
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			all 3 of them
		
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			in their conversations Jesus exists.
		
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			But you know what? The conversation about Risa
		
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			'alayhi wa salam, all of it has to
		
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			do with Allah's name, Al Hayr
		
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			Allah the living, the giver of life. You
		
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			know for the Christians, they made Jesus as
		
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			the Lord. He is the life. He he
		
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			gives life. You know, in Christian narrative,
		
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			they would say that,
		
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			Adam brought death to the world and Jesus
		
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			brought life.
		
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			And Allah is taking that away from the
		
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			very first line and saying, who who Allah.
		
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			So
		
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			forget responding to their criticisms of the Muslims
		
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			and what they're going through. Allah begins the
		
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			best defense is offense.
		
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			So let's begin with who God really is
		
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			before we talk about Jesus. Maybe you don't
		
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			understand who God is before you speak on
		
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			behalf of God to me. Allah is Al
		
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			Hayy
		
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			and Al Qayyum. And when Allah maintains everything,
		
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			even when things look like they're falling apart,
		
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			Allah didn't stop being Al Qayyum.
		
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			The other side of it, later on in
		
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			this surah, in the second half of this
		
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			surah, we're going to see the catastrophe of
		
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			Uhud. Allah will comment on what happened at
		
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			Uhud. Almost 60 ayat of this surah,
		
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			Surah Surah Al imam are dedicated to the
		
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			disaster of Uhul.
		
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			Part of which is also what happened with
		
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			the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
		
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			And the rumor actually this if you don't
		
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			know, he was injured so severely that
		
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			he fell unconscious on the battlefield,
		
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			and his face was pooled with blood.
		
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			Some reports tell us his face was injured
		
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			in 3 different places.
		
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			That Ali radiallahu anhu a and Fatiha radiallahu
		
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			ta'ala anha had to actually make plaster out
		
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			of mud to cover his face so the
		
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			bleeding would stop.
		
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			And this happened just and by the way,
		
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			when he's when he
		
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			was reciting Surat Alay Imran, soon after Uhud,
		
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			the injuries are probably still there
		
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			while he's reciting the surah.
		
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			So the rumor was he's been killed on
		
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			the battlefield.
		
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			But Allah is adhai.
		
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			When Allah decides to preserve someone, no 1
		
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			can take their life.
		
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			And Allah decides to maintain this religion. He
		
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			will maintain this religion. So Al Hayul Qayyung
		
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			has multiple targets, you know.
		
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			Rusfuraing bihijalwahid
		
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			as they say in Arabic. 2 birds with
		
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			1 stone.
		
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			Right? From the very beginning. And then Nahu
		
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			says,
		
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			This is a very important part. Even though
		
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			I don't want to digress too much into
		
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			this part of the subject, but it's important.
		
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			The Quran's 1 of the Quran's most powerful
		
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			qualities
		
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			is that it doesn't
		
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			speak in black and white. The Christians are
		
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			entirely wrong. The Jews are entirely wrong. The
		
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			Muslims are entirely correct. That's not how the
		
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			Quran speaks.
		
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			Here are some things the Jews said incorrectly,
		
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			but here are other things that they got
		
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			right. Here are some things that the right
		
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			that the Christians are right about, and here
		
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			are some things that Christians are not right
		
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			about. It doesn't say these people are all
		
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			wrong, and these people are all right. It
		
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			doesn't do that.
		
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			But the problem is a lot of people
		
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			like to keep their life simple.
		
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			They like to keep life and what's the
		
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			simplest way to do things? Either this person
		
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			is in the accepted category or they are
		
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			in the rejected category. Keep life simple.
		
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			So even if, for example, the Quran speaks
		
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			positively of Jesus, of 'risa'adiq, which it does.
		
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			It speaks positively of 'risa' 'alay salam. Somebody
		
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			might come along from the other faith and
		
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			say, See, you guys like Jesus too. You're
		
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			just like Christians.
		
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			I don't know. We didn't say that. We
		
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			accepted some parts. We didn't accept your whole
		
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			story.
		
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			But you see how you can take something
		
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			small and build your own narrative on top
		
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			of that, a false narrative?
		
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			This is something the Quran trains the believers
		
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			not to fall into.
		
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			That you can accept some parts of something
		
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			and reject other parts of something, and that
		
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			is part of being truthful, honest, and fair.
		
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			So he says Allah says openly,
		
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			He sent the book down to you meaning
		
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			the Quran
		
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			confirming
		
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			what is before it.
		
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			Confirming what's before it, The Christians might be
		
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			thinking, is he confirming the Bible?
		
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			The New Testament? Is he confirming
		
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			the gospel of Jesus? Is that what he's
		
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			saying?
		
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			And the Jews might be thinking, Is he
		
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			confirming the Torah and rejecting the Christians? Which
		
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			1 is he confirming?
		
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			And Allah says, And He sent down the
		
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			Torah and the Injeel. He sent down both.
		
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			And now imagine both of those religions are
		
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			there in Madinah.
		
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			And when they heard tawrat, the Jews got
		
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			happy. Okay, okay, tawrat. We got endorsed.
		
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			But wait a second. He also endorsed what?
		
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			Injeel.
		
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			And with the Christians, the Christian concept by
		
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			and large with some variety was, the blood
		
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			of Jesus,
		
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			the blood of Jesus
		
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			now that he saved us by sacrificing himself,
		
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			we no longer have to follow God's law.
		
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			Just accepting Jesus has saved us. But once
		
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			you mentioned tawarat, you're mentioning the law.
		
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			So now you're you're upsetting the Jews and
		
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			you're upsetting the Christians by just saying, He's
		
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			revealed the book to you and by the
		
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			way, He revealed tawat and injeel before too.
		
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			Because neither of them can accept both.
		
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			They have to reject 1 of them. 1
		
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			of them rejects it completely. The Jews reject
		
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			the injeel completely.
		
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			And the the Christian reject the torah practically.
		
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			Practically, none of these rules apply. So they
		
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			do different kinds of kufar, outside kufar and
		
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			inside kufar. But we're not even talking about
		
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			kufar of the Quran. We're talking about Kufar
		
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			of Torah and Injeel of each other. Even
		
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			though the old testament is common to them.
		
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			So what is the Quran doing? Saying before
		
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			you come and question the faith of these
		
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			Sahaba and tell them that they're following the
		
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			wrong religion, have you thought about what you
		
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			believe?
		
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			That you're not exactly standing you're you're you're
		
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			not exactly standing on concrete ground. It's lot
		
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			of thin ice. You're standing on yourself.
		
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			And this is where the Quran begins.
		
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			A
		
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			long time ago, it used to be guidance
		
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			for people. Waanzalalfarqalil
		
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			Allah sent what divides the right from the
		
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			wrong.
		
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			This is again a description of the Quran.
		
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			Those who disbelieve
		
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			And now this kuffar could refer to them,
		
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			but it's actually more directly seems to be
		
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			referring to the Quraysh.
		
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			Because we just lost the battle to the
		
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			Quraysh.
		
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			Allah says,
		
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			They have severe punishment.
		
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			And Allah is very mighty in taking revenge.
		
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			Meaning just because they won and Uhud means
		
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			nothing.
		
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			That doesn't mean they got away from Allah's
		
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			punishment.
		
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			That doesn't mean that Allah is not going
		
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			to avenge.
		
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			Now if that is true, this should not
		
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			be a crisis for you. This should not
		
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			be a problem for you.
		
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			But the next ayah seems like it's a
		
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			completely different subject. Allah says, Inalahaada
		
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			ikhfa alahi shayun fil ardiwada fis Saba.
		
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			Allah, nothing is hidden from Him.
		
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			Not in the earth, not in the sky.
		
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			This is a really cool reference. Not in
		
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			the earth,
		
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			not in
		
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			the sky. Especially when it comes to Jesus,
		
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			you figure out why the earth and the
		
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			sky are important to mention.
		
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			He says,
		
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			He made you inside the bellies of your
		
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			mothers however He wants.
		
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			He makes you in the bellies of your
		
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			mothers however He wants. Now this is a
		
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			pretty remarkable thing to in the middle of
		
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			a conversation about the Torah, and the What
		
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			are we talking about babies for? What's this?
		
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			What's the reason for this? Well, how can
		
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			we understand this? 1st and foremost,
		
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			when Allah creates in the womb however He
		
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			wants, doesn't that include the virgin birth of
		
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			Mary of Jesus?
		
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			SubhanAllah
		
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			Then the accusation of the Israelites that this
		
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			is the Jews, that this is an illegitimate
		
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			birth gets destroyed.
		
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			But there's something else. Allah talks about this
		
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			time when I was inside my mother and
		
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			you were inside your mother. Allah talks about
		
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			the time, this time other places in the
		
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			Quran too. And He says,
		
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			you know, You were in He brought you
		
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			out from the bellies of your mothers, you
		
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			knew nothing.
		
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			This is a time when you knew nothing.
		
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			Now Allah is starting by saying, Allah knows
		
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			you from the time you didn't even know
		
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			yourself.
		
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			Allah was aware of you before you became
		
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			aware of yourself.
		
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			So now that you've come out of your
		
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			mother and I've come out of my mother,
		
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			now still Allah knows me better than I
		
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			know myself.
		
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			And the things that I'm saying on the
		
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			outside,
		
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			the criticisms that I'm making on the outside,
		
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			Allah knows what's coming on my tongue, but
		
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			Allah also knows what is in the depths
		
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			of my heart.
		
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			He knows that too. He's calling out people
		
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			and their intentions.
		
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			So He says,
		
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			No 1 can be worship except Him. Alaaziz
		
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			al haqeem, the ultimate authority, the all wise.
		
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			Now we get to this the part that
		
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			I really wanted to share with you in
		
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			these last few minutes.
		
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			The you know, when you have a major
		
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			lesson in the Quran,
		
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			you'll find across the major lessons in the
		
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			Quran,
		
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			1 of the common themes in them is
		
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			that they conclude with a prayer.
		
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			They conclude with a du'a.
		
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			And this is an important formula that's repeated
		
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			multiple times in the Quran. What's the purpose
		
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			of that formula?
		
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			You learn something
		
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			about Allah. You learn something about your religion.
		
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			And now that you've learned it, that's the
		
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			action. What should be the reaction?
		
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			The reaction should be you should engage in
		
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			a conversation with Allah for yourself.
		
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			That's what should
		
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			happen. So at the end of these lessons,
		
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			what did you get out of it? You
		
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			got a new conversation with Allah out of
		
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			it. That's your dua.
		
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			That's the point of this du'a. So we're
		
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			right
		
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			at the precipice
		
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			of this du'a in this passage.
		
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			He says,
		
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			He's the 1 who sent the book down
		
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			to you, the Prophet
		
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			And among this book and this law, there
		
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			are ayaat
		
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			that are clear or they are absolutely
		
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			explicit.
		
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			And others are not so clear. They are
		
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			kept vague and ambiguous
		
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			on purpose.
		
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			We started the Surah with Alif Lamim.
		
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			Right?
		
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			There already we know something with in the
		
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			very beginning. And now Allah says, By the
		
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			way, some of the ayaat have been made
		
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			entirely clear. Allah says, He made 7 heavens.
		
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			We don't know where the first 1 ends
		
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			and the second 1 begins.
		
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			We don't know.
		
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			Allah talks about the the shayakeen. They can
		
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			see us from where we cannot see them.
		
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			We we can't see that. So we don't
		
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			know. There's no scan that we've come up
		
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			with. There's no heat seeking signature that we
		
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			can come up with that can detect the
		
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			jinns and the shayateen,
		
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			that is something we cannot know. It's wuthashabi.
		
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			There are things you can know, and there
		
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			are things that are going to be beyond
		
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			your knowledge. The basic question that somebody asks
		
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			is, why tell me things I cannot know?
		
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			Why should you tell me things I cannot
		
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			know? Well,
		
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			when you learn that there's a reality that
		
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			you cannot access,
		
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			1 of its most fundamental benefits is it
		
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			humbles you.
		
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			It makes you aware, acutely aware and reminded
		
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			of your ignorance.
		
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			I cannot know everything.
		
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			And Allah as our teacher, Anlam Al Quran.
		
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			1 of the most important lessons He's teaching
		
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			us in the Quran is the limits of
		
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			our knowledge.
		
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			And part of the way to teach us
		
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			the limits of our knowledge is to say
		
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			things that only Allah can know. And we
		
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			have to just humble ourselves and say, I
		
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			cannot know.
		
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			And this, this part, I cannot know. This
		
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			is where the people before us, when they
		
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			came across things, they started interpreting them in
		
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			all kinds of creative ways like they did
		
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			with Jesus,
		
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			like they did with previous scripture. Now Allah
		
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			is saying, this is 1 of the mistakes
		
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			they made before you question Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam, or you question the scripture that's given
		
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			to him.
		
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			Do you not see the games you played
		
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			with your own scripture
		
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			in the way you interpreted it?
		
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			InshaAllah,
		
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			maybe I'll come back here for a lesson
		
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			on just just how the Quran talks about
		
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			certain subjects and how the Bible talks about
		
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			the same subject. So you can see, and
		
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			how the Jewish and Christian scholarship talk about
		
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			the same subject that the Quran is talking
		
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			about. And you can see the clear difference
		
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			in thought process.
		
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			Allah does not allow us to take them
		
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			utashabihaat
		
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			and turn them into whatever we feel like
		
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			it.
		
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			Like I'll give you an example from Christian
		
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			typology.
		
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			Christians believe, for example,
		
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			that Jesus is the Son of God. The
		
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			question then comes from the Jews,
		
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			If He's really the Son of God, that's
		
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			gonna save humanity from all of his sin.
		
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			All of its sins. How come no other
		
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			prophet talked about Him?
		
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			No other talk No other prophet said, the
		
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			Son of God is coming. The Son of
		
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			God is coming. Your sins are gonna get
		
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			It's nowhere in the Bible.
		
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			Nowhere in the previous scripture. Where did you
		
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			get this from? They're like, dude, no, it's
		
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			there. It's just coded.
		
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			How how is it coded? Oh, you know
		
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			the story of Abraham? Abraham was supposed to
		
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			sacrifice his son. See, that was a preview.
		
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			Or you know how Joseph, Joseph saved the
		
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			people that were dying in Egypt when he
		
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			interpreted the dream, so he was a savior?
		
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			Yeah. That was also a preview.
		
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			Now you can turn anything into anything.
		
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			And by the way, the Jewish people did
		
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			this too.
		
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			The Jewish people did this with Ibrahim Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam. Ibrahim Alaihi Wasallam begged Allah
		
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			not to destroy the nation of Luth, if
		
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			you know the story.
		
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			He argued with Allah not to or with
		
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			the angels not to destroy the people of
		
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			Luth. You know what the rabbis turned that
		
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			into see? Abraham argued with God. We should
		
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			argue with God.
		
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			That's why we argue with God because Abraham
		
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			did it.
		
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			So if you wanna play these games, then
		
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			you can. Iftiraahil
		
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			fitna ortiraahta.
		
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			And then you wanna come up with whatever
		
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			interpretation suits you. And Allah says,
		
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			(QS. Al Mujadilah 2:3) But the right interpretation
		
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			of things that were meant to be vague,
		
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			that were meant to not be known. Nobody
		
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			can know them except Allah.
		
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			People that are mature in knowledge, when they
		
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			come to those places, they say, We just
		
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			have faith in it.
		
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			That is everything is from Arab. What did
		
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			Allah mentions,
		
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			And then the people who are mature in
		
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			knowledge, ironically, instead of saying, I know what
		
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			this means. The people that are truly mature
		
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			in knowledge are okay with so'ein saying, Only
		
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			Allah knows what this means.
		
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			That's their attitude.
		
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			Now through this opening passage, Allah has given
		
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			the Muslims humility,
		
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			and Allah has basically put the people that
		
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			were trying to make the new Muslims doubtful.
		
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			He's put them in their place like before
		
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			you come after us, kind of just check
		
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			yourself. Look in the mirror a little bit,
		
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			and you might find you need a humble
		
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			pill yourself.
		
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			But then we come to us. This is
		
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			the in the Quran. This is the purpose
		
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			of this, sharing this subba with you. And
		
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			I'm hoping in the next 2, 3 minutes,
		
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			I can give you at least the juice,
		
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			some essentials
		
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			that you should take from this du'a.
		
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			Immediately following this passage is this du'a.
		
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			That's the dua.
		
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			The duas are not placed in the Quran
		
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			randomly. They're placed strategically. They're there for a
		
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			reason. This dua did not occur somewhere else.
		
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			It occurred here in this conversation.
		
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			So I'm going to mention to you just
		
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			for your just for ease of remembering,
		
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			I want you to take with you after
		
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			by the by the end of this footba
		
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			today, 3 things that have to do with
		
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			guidance, so you'll understand this dua.
		
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			3 things that have to do with guidance.
		
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			The first thing,
		
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			practically speaking, if I if I didn't have
		
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			a GPS, I didn't have my phone or
		
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			a, you know, maps app or anything else,
		
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			and I was asking somebody how to get
		
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			to this masjid, the first thing I need
		
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			is the correct directions.
		
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			The correct information.
		
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			I need to know which street to turn
		
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			on, how far to go, how many miles,
		
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			what markers to look for, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.
		
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			If I don't have the right information,
		
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			I cannot have guidance.
		
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			You with me?
		
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			So the first thing you need for guidance
		
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			is what? Information.
		
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			That's the first key. Guidance and information are
		
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			not the same thing, but at least it's
		
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			1 part of it. 1 part of guidance
		
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			is to have the right kind of information.
		
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			The first thing Allah does in this passage
		
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			is He says, by the way,
		
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			Allah knows what he sent in the Torah.
		
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			Allah knows what he sent in the Ijeel.
		
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			Allah knows how you manipulate that information and
		
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			he knows how you're trying to dissuade the
		
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			Muslims for by making them leave their faith.
		
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			But actually, the Muslims are committed to the
		
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			right knowledge.
		
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			They first have to have the right knowledge.
		
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			That's the first piece.
		
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			The second piece
		
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			of, you know, following or or getting to
		
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			your destination
		
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			is acting on the guidance. Just because I
		
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			know the directions and I just sit there,
		
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			it was nice to
		
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			know. Masha Allah. It's right over there and
		
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			I'm not taking any steps.
		
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			What's the point of guidance if you're not
		
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			going to what?
		
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			Act on it.
		
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			So there's this and there's alaman. There's the
		
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			second piece.
		
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			Right? So there's the action, there's this knowledge,
		
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			and there's also action. Okay.
		
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			But then there's a third piece.
		
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			And this is not, this doesn't come to
		
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			us by way of an analogy.
		
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			I'll give you
		
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			the the the the realistic situation that you
		
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			might find yourself in, I might find myself
		
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			in, any Muslim can find themselves in. Allah
		
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			gave us the knowledge that we should come
		
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			and worship him on Friday. So you came
		
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			here.
		
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			Allah gave us
		
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			and so you acted on that knowledge. So
		
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			you have the knowledge and you acted on
		
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			it. So the first 2 pieces of the
		
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			prerequisites have been met.
		
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			But it's very possible that just like in
		
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			accounting. In accounting they have this term LIFO.
		
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			If you've heard LIFO,
		
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			last in first out.
		
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			So some people attend Jumah LIFO style. Right?
		
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			So make sure you're the last 1 in.
		
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			Make sure you're the first 1 out. You're
		
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			strategically looking for the car space. That is
		
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			the quickest exit. You point your shoes in
		
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			the opposite direction of the Qiblah just to
		
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			make sure that you're you get out as
		
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			quickly as possible. You make sure you sit
		
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			in the farthest place back you can. I'm
		
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			not calling you guys out at the back.
		
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			You have no space but you know, you
		
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			know, 1 foot already outside.
		
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			But the idea is I'm here, but I
		
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			just wanna get out of here.
		
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			I'm here, but I'm thinking about where to
		
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			do lunch.
		
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			I'm here, but I'm thinking about the project
		
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			that I left halfway.
		
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			So you acted on the knowledge. Sure.
		
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			You had the knowledge and you acted on
		
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			it. Sure.
		
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			But your heart's not
		
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			in it. Your heart's not in it.
		
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			The 3rd piece of guidance is your heart
		
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			has to be in the right place.
		
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			You should want this. You
		
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			You should love this. You should desire this.
		
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			The problem is, 1 can
		
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			do the you know, know the right things
		
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			and even do the right thing
		
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			and still their hearts not in the right
		
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			place.
		
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			They're just doing it.
		
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			It's just mechanical.
		
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			You just go through the motions.
		
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			It could be that somebody got up at
		
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			the right time to fast in Ramadan.
		
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			They broke their fast at the right time
		
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			when Maghrib happened,
		
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			and they felt nothing.
		
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			They felt no connection. There's nothing that happened
		
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			in their heart.
		
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			There's 3 parts to guidance.
		
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			There's the knowledge, there's the action,
		
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			and there's the heart.
		
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			And the easiest ones are the knowledge and
		
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			the action.
		
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			Those are easy.
		
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			The hard 1
		
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			is the heart.
		
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			Some Sahaba
		
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			accepted Islam. And Allah describes the Christians, especially
		
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			the Christians, when they accepted Islam,
		
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			You will see their eyes roll with tears.
		
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			You know what happens? Their hearts were melting.
		
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			Their hearts were
		
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			melting. Now those people that have accepted Islam,
		
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			they remember the moment when they turned back
		
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			to Allah. Even if you were born a
		
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			Muslim, there there was a time when you
		
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			made tawbah and tears were running down your
		
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			eyes. There was a time when you felt
		
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			something in your heart. You pray every day,
		
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			but some prayers are different than other prayers,
		
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			aren't they?
		
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			Some moments are different than other moments. There's
		
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			a moment where you felt something, and it
		
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			shook you from the inside. And now remember
		
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			that moment, and then understand this
		
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			dua. Our Rabb, our Master, do not allow
		
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			our hearts to turn away. Our hearts
		
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			to turn away after You've guided us.
		
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			The guidance was 3 things.
		
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			It was the knowledge, and it was the
		
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			action, and it was the heart.
		
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			But the thing that's in trouble first
		
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			is the heart. And the heart can deviate
		
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			while the knowledge is there and the actions
		
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			are there.
		
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			So the believer recognizes that all of this
		
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			polemics and all of this discussion at the
		
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			end of it all, I need to protect
		
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			my guidance and that means I need to
		
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			protect the state of my heart. You Allah,
		
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			don't let it turn away. Don't let me
		
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			become just someone who just goes through the
		
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			motions after you've given me the gift of
		
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			guidance.
		
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			And then Allah And by the way, the
		
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			word zayr
		
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			or mazeeer also in Arabic is used for
		
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			teeth
		
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			that bend, that don't grow straight, that go
		
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			out of place. Like it was naturally supposed
		
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			to grow, and it grew out unnaturally.
		
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			Right? So it's actually
		
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			deviating where naturally I was supposed to go
		
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			somewhere, I ended up in the wrong place.
		
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			You know? And that that's what the word
		
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			means.
		
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			And I end this foodbaai I know it's
		
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			pretty much over time. Wahablana miladoon karrahma.
		
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			Give us the gift. Give us from your
		
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			special vaults, give us rahma as a gift.
		
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			The word
		
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			in Arabic
		
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			or in Arabic also is used for if
		
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			you if people used to climb the mountains
		
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			somewhere in the mountain they found like
		
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			They found like a little well with fresh
		
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			water. And it's like, this is like the
		
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			most amazing water they've ever had. In the
		
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			middle of the desert, there's this fresh water
		
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			up and hidden away in top of the
		
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			mountain like they found a treasure. And usually,
		
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			it's very expensive to own a well. It's
		
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			really you have to pay high money to
		
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			get cool water.
		
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			And now, they just got this free access,
		
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			and they're getting more and more and more
		
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			of it. Right? So an endless gift.
		
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			And that's why from the word from that
		
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			word, you get the word hibah,
		
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			the gift. Hey, Allah. We beg Allah wa
		
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			hablana min ladun kabahma You Allah, You are
		
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			the owner of endless gifts. And the gift
		
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			we're asking Allah now is that our heart
		
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			be kept in a safe place.
		
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			The ayah is also teaching us a formula.
		
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			If my heart doesn't turn towards Allah or
		
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			I don't steer it back towards Allah, then
		
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			I will miss out from the rahma of
		
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			Allah.
		
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			I'll miss out. I won't get it.
		
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			If I really want Allah's
		
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			The second part is second. The first part
		
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			is,
		
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			Then when I follow that,
		
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			You are the 1 that's going to guide
		
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			us, steer us straight.
		
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			I know my time is up, and I
		
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			know the next tabla is about to start,
		
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			so I'll conclude
		
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			quickly. But I will just give 1 tip
		
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			for all of us and myself
		
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			to keep our hearts in the right direction.
		
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			You know what that is?
		
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			Keep thinking about judgment day.
		
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			Keep thinking about judgment day. The very next
		
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			ayah says,
		
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			Our Rabb, You are the 1 who will
		
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			gather all people on the day in which
		
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			there is no doubt. If I keep thinking,
		
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			consciously thinking, I have to answer Allah. I
		
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			have to answer Allah. I have to answer
		
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			Allah. I have to answer Allah. Before I
		
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			say something, I have to answer Allah. Before
		
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			I do something, I have to answer Allah.
		
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			Before I take that money, I have to
		
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			answer Allah. Before I respond to somebody with
		
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			a good comeback, I have to answer Allah.
		
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			If I can control my temper because I
		
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			have to answer Allah.
		
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			If I have to control my greed, my
		
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			desire, my lust, whatever else because I have
		
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			to answer Allah. I have to wake up
		
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			because I have to answer Allah.
		
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			I have to walk away from the situation
		
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			because I have to answer Allah because it's
		
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			coming, it's coming, it's coming. The heart will
		
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			be corrected. 1st step. Allah gives it Himself.
		
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			It's not some strange formula you have to
		
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			find. The Quran is clear. You asked Allah
		
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			for something, and you Allah even gave you
		
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			a, here say this. (QS.
		
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			Al Ananiqarah:
		
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			3) Allah doesn't go back on His promise.
		
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			Go back on the promise. It's the promise
		
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			of Allah. Those who remember Allah, Allah will
		
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			remember them. May Allah make us people that
		
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			don't become unaware of judgment day. May Allah
		
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			make all of us whose hearts may have
		
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			deviated a little over Allah. It doesn't matter.
		
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			That we can able steer them back. And
		
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			we can have that conversation within ourselves. So
		
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			the life is poured back into every act
		
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			of worship that we do.
		
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