Nouman Ali Khan – We Have Been Chosen

Nouman Ali Khan
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The speakers discuss the importance of listening to recorded messages and identifying actions or events. They also talk about the weight of people seeking happiness and finding their way back to their home, as well as the challenges of working in a certain culture and the importance of remembering someone for their success. They emphasize the need to push hard and not struggles to make good actions.

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			under the Nakamoto who
		
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			will be he went
		
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			when I let him in Trudy and fusina woman sejahtera Medina
		
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			fecha de la
		
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			ilaha illallah wa de la sharika when a shadow Allah Mohammed Abdullah
		
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			Al Saleh Allahu
		
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			Allahu Allah de Cali vocabulary shahida for so long it he was asleep and curfew and concealer
		
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			for in DC Kitab la basura had he had you Mohammed in Salalah who I knew he was sallam, but in a
Shabbat
		
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			Hakuna Matata Hakuna Matata.
		
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			yaku subhanho wa Taala Karim, but an akula rubella Jiminy Shakeology? Yeah, I was born
		
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			in Edina la linea.
		
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			La
		
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			La Casa La Casa de la ha Allah universities from Shakti Saudi will city Emily, what will determine
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			and multimedia in a in the law, the law which is
		
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			what I was hoping, but also the sub bullet.
		
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			In today's football shout out I'd like to share with you some very powerful I ops. And I'm already
before I even share this message with you for myself and for all of you. I'm already nervous because
the weight of these ions and the amount of time that I have, they don't go with each other. And I
hope that I'm able to do at least some justice to the message of this very powerful. This speech
that Allah Himself revealed to our messenger and through his through the messengers of Allah and
listening to all of us. It occurs at the end of sort of Hajj, so tahajjud, Lucky surah which means
it happened before the prophets on the lung where it was and then migrated. And his primary audience
		
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			has the most people that were listening to him at that time were Muslims. So as these ions are
coming nowadays, when we hear the IR we hear them as Muslims. Most of the time non Muslims don't
listen to the Quran. But you have to imagine a different time. At this time when the Prophet is
speaking or the source around the hotbar is happening now to a Muslim audience, but mostly to a non
Muslim audience and completely different. It's a completely different situation. And one thing that
I in the beginning that you like you need to appreciate is that when Muslims listen to a football,
they come voluntarily to the machine. Men most of them come in early and they sit and turn their
		
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			cell phones off and they don't talk to each other and they want to listen to something that will
remind them of a lot but another person is not the same way. So when the messenger software Salamis
reciting these ions for the listen
		
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			to
		
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			Pandora Koran is being recited listen to it quietly. Make keep keep your mouth shut. Just quietly.
Listen, I'm thinking in Arabic doesn't just mean Be quiet. Don't talk and listen. Just listen to
what's being said. And listen to it quietly and attentively so that you can be shown mercy I love
him too. But the non Muslims I mean, they said not just not only look at the contrast, on the other
hand, they said don't listen to this wonderful fee, every time this recited make a lot of noise. We
don't want to hear this message. And it's very different also, because now you are listening to
Koran recitation in your car, and you go to the gas station, and it's kind of loud and you opened
		
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			the door, the guy pumping gas next to you can also hear the Quran right from your car. But he has no
idea what's being recited. Because that's not his language. This is another big difference. Even
back then when the Prophet was reciting for iron from the one where it was the non Muslims that were
listening would immediately understand what I was saying. Without like our time now, they would
immediately understand that this is talking to them about them, even though they hated that message.
So now what happens over time, and this happens to many people, you know, it's a human phenomenon
that we don't listen to certain people. We just don't like listening to certain people. Like for a
		
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			lot of Muslims, if they see a certain, you know, Republican candidate, or a certain Tea Party member
or whatever, or certain known Muslim hater on
		
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			TV and he's about to give a speech. Most of us would just change this how this guy is gonna bark his
barking and why waste our time and we change our channel. Why don't we look at his face, we kind of
assume we know what this guy has to say. There's no reason to waste our time. You understand what
I'm saying? The same way in even in your family and other things within your family. It could be the
elders. When young you know your son or your nephew or somebody comes, they're about to tell you
something before they even open their mouth. You go here we go again. This kid's gonna waste my time
again. I don't have to listen to this. It happens the other way too. children walk in the parents
		
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			father says come here. I have to talk to you. Oh my God, he's gonna give us hope. buggin he's gonna
sit me down before dinner and give me a whole advice on how big a loser I am. So even before the
Father opens his mouth, the son is turned his ears off. He's not even listening. He's sitting there
but he's not sitting there.
		
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			His soul is traveling somewhere else. You know he's not paying attention. Especially when you're
agitated with someone annoyed with some some when you have something against someone you turn you
tend to tune them out you don't even listen.
		
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			So when the people would see the Prophet alayhi salaatu wa Salaam and they would hear the name of
Allah. Allah says this
		
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			is the speech of Allah the moment they were here oh my god, another few ions from God your God more
talk from a lot I don't need to hear this. I don't need to hear this. You know, just because this is
a religious the ceremonial weekend for the Christians in my mother's apartment, her downstairs
neighbor, she came upstairs with a gift of a candle and she gave her a Bible. And my mom said we I
want to give you a copy of Quran too. And she goes No, no, I don't need that connection with that is
okay.
		
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			Sorry. I already I can assume what your ally has to say. I don't need to know you need you need this
message though. Because my preacher this Sunday told me I need to go talk to my neighbor and bring
them to Christ right? So but you don't have to listen. This is the audience the messenger is dealing
with an audience that's not interested in listening. So the style is very powerful in the beginning
of the surah or in the beginning of this passage rather Yeah, you have no booty burn within people
and example is about to be given. I'm translating this carefully. And example has been given some
out to be given. Now when you see an example is about to be given you did not mention who's giving
		
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			the example. Other places in the Quran Allah.
		
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			Allah gave an example. A lot given that he mentioned himself. The moment he mentioned himself, the
non Muslims, they don't want to hear it. So in this Merkin, surah Allah says, okay, don't don't stop
listening just because you think it's from Allah, just listen, at least booty by my fellow, pay
attention to what is being said. You know, I do have the Allahu said one time we listen to the
speech before we listen to the speaker.
		
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			In other words, you don't judge somebody based on their appearance based on their gender or race or
their age, based on who they are to you based on your previous experience. You give them an
opportunity to say something and listen to it fairly. This is very difficult for most of us to do.
It's very difficult. You know, even in a situation like a football, if one of the young you know,
young kids from our community, the 1617 year old kid, he's wearing those one of those loose t shirts
and he's got no beard, you know, and he's got a baseball hat on backwards and you're sitting here
for July and he walks up here after the event and says Salam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato. And
		
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			he sits down, most of you will think maybe I have to make up this a lot. I don't know what's going
on. You know, I can't listen to this kid. Who put him up there? Who's in the football selection
committee? Why is he up there? He doesn't belong to be up there. You know, we would pass judgment
before he even opens his mouth actually, just because of his appearance. So Allah says, Put the
appearance aside, just listen to a message. And he gives them this almost final final example.
Understand also these are these are a group of people that worship idols at the worship idols. So
Allah just says, In the la de da, de la de la, Lu Baba, all of those that you're calling on other
		
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			than alone. They can't even create a fly.
		
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			They can't even create a fly. One of which the Marula who even if all of them got together for one
project to create a single flight. The question arises legitimacy, they can create mountains, they
can create the sun. Ibraheem alehissalaam says we're in the La Jolla to be some similar mushrooms.
But if you have an animal in my mind, Allah brings the sun from the east you bring it from the west,
he gives something big that Allah does. But in this ayah Allah himself says, You people you can't
even do as much as creating a single fly. He causes me very small, very insignificant. And later on
in the Quran, we even learned people when they hear small examples from
		
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			what's the point of Am I giving this example I don't get it doesn't make any sense. Seems kind of
silly. Allah already talked about that in his book.
		
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			You know, that's coming in whether you are on but here in particular, we have to pay attention to
the fly and let's see how it's connected. He says we're in Yes.
		
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			If the fly
		
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			took something away from your gods, those gods that you worship other than Allah. Now you understand
that in idol worshipping cultures like the Arabs used to have idols and statues all around the Kaaba
and they used to worship them. Now in many parts of Southeast Asia, and those communities that are
even hear there are many temples like that, that what their idol worshipping religions, or they even
say, don't worship the idol. They have the idol there so they can concentrate or do some kind of
rituals and ceremonies, you'll notice one thing in common, they all have some kind of ceremonial
food that they put in front of the idol for blessings. Either they'll put milk there, I don't know
		
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			if ice cream or something else, but they'll put something there. Right. And then they'll do their
whole rituals. And this is blessing food. So if a tourist walks into the place, some guy who's not a
Buddhist is not a Hindu is not one of those things. He walks into the temple and he says that looks
Snickers bar, and he picks it up and tries to eat it. What are we gonna do?
		
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			This is special food. You can't touch that. This is for that guy over there, the giant statue that's
staring at us for him.
		
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			But you know what happens all the time when you leave food open?
		
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			flies show up?
		
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			Isn't that the case? So kempo is open food is sitting there, the idols in front and flies show up.
And these guys are worshipping this God and they're begging him for, you know, rain to come or
they're begging him for the flood to stop or they're begging this false god for you know, a child or
whatever else. And in the middle of it all, the tourist is not allowed to eat that food, but the fly
comes and sits down on the chocolate milk and takes a few sips and flies off.
		
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			And can that God do anything? No, God can't do anything. The foundations of their belief are crushed
in front of their eyes, by flies, by flies. And if the idea is that they created the flies, then at
least a fly should worship them.
		
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			If they are the creator of the fly, which Why should the fly come in and disrespect them? In this
way? You can even create a fly. And even if the fly violated you religion took something from your
Gods food whose Gods can't get it back. Now, yes,
		
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			we can retrieve it. And this happens in front of your eyes all the time. Don't you ever think
baronova even
		
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			though the one seeking the one in pursuit, and the one being pursued are both weak. The seeker and
the sounds difficult English, I'll try to simplify it as much as I can. The one after something. And
the one who they're asking from Blue, they're both weak, Allah says, in other words, the idol
worship or the wishek is weak, and his idol is weak. They're both weak.
		
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			In this passage, there are three groups of people mentioned. There are three groups of people
mentioned. And from all three groups of people, Allah has put a responsibility on them.
		
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			The responsibility of all three groups of people, the first group of people is all of humanity, the
biggest group.
		
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			And Allah says, so so many people are doing shit. And it's not just with idols, it's with other
things, too. People worship their careers. Don't
		
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			people worship money, people worship, you know, their, their, their company, they spend all their
time thinking about it. They spend all their time making it bigger and bigger and praising
		
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			God, I don't know, what is this, all they do, their life is just amounting to one thing. They're
there, you know, business investments, or their career or whatever else. This is a form of, you
know, there's a psychological form of shape going on inside a person. That's their biggest goal in
life. But Allah here talks about three groups of people, this was the first group of people and
these, this group of people failed, because they didn't appreciate alone. I want to explain this
phrase to you before I move on, and I want to do this rather quickly. The seeker and the saw are
weak, a lot of talk to all of humanity, which means all of us are seeking something. We're all after
		
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			something. Those of you that are in college are looking to graduate, those of you that are looking
for a job or looking to secure a job. Those of you that are you know, paying off a house, you're
looking to pay off and finish the house. Some of you are in the business, you're hoping to expand
the business. Some of you have made the investment you're waiting for the investment money to come
back. Some of you have you know, you know, send some money away or what you lent someone you're
hoping for it to be returned. All of you are looking to do something. Some of you young men are
looking to get married, you know, hope waiting for the family to come and say yes, so you can move
		
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			on. You know, some of you are young, you know, you're looking to get your kids put into the school,
everybody's looking to do something big things are small things. And Allah says everybody who needs
to get something done, which is all of us. And the proof of that is the speed with which you believe
the mustard after Juma is done.
		
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			The speed with which this mustard will empty out. You know why that is? Because you all need to do
something, right. You got to get back to work. You got to get back to home, you're hungry, whatever
it is. Once you get out of here, we're all hooked up. We're all seeking something
		
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			Lessons because you're always in need of something you are weak, alone needs nothing.
		
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			unique thing. And then you go and seek those things from anything other than a lot. And all of those
things are also weak. They're also weak in and of themselves. We are learning a very deep wisdom of
Islam here, we are weak. Because the people we asked from and the things we asked from and the
sources we expect from they are also weak. When we learn to ask from a lot of really ask from Allah,
Who is strong, we will become strong. We are weak because of the will be asked me.
		
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			When I used to study abnormal psychology back in New York A long time ago, we did a few case
studies. And there was this remarkable case study of a very intelligent student, really smart guy.
He did his PhD in 1982, or something from NYU in clinical psychology, Ph top of his class PhD
student, and instead of writing, you know, saving his thesis on a computer, which you can imagine is
tougher back then he typed the whole thing up. Here's a 500 page thesis that he's typed. And he
hands it to the department. This is like four years of work, right? And the guy didn't even have a
second copy of that one. 500 page pieces copy five years of work of his life. And they lost that
		
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			paper. So when he submitted his thesis paper, and have you met, somebody asked him, What do you do?
I'm a PhD student here up on PCs at NYU. It's no joke, you know, and I'm doing a thesis on this is
all he talks about is this thing, right? And overnight, that entire effort disappears, it's gone.
They can't find it. Somebody misplaced it, somebody stole it. Whatever happened to that guy. It's
been almost, you know, 20 years or more, actually 30 years almost. They still find him on NYU campus
walking around telling people don't go to school here. They'll steal your work. And every few weeks,
they have to take him into Bellevue, the psych ward in Bellevue and keep him there for a few days
		
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			and they let him go. He shows back on NYU campus and starts walking around again, old guy now. Why?
Because the only thing he saw was that thesis. And when that was taken away, he collapsed. He was
too weak to sustain his own mental health. He couldn't sustain it. And he's a very intelligent
person. Back when I used to live in the East Coast, I even heard of sad stories. young Muslim boy
wants to marry this girl. The family said no. And he's obsessed with this girl, right? He killed
himself jumped off the Queensboro Bridge, committed suicide. Why? Why does these things happen? When
people seek something that's from creation, and they don't get it, then their own weakness comes
		
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			out. That's why many of you are so unhappy. That's all you seek is in this world. You just want your
son to be this way or that way you want to pay off the house, you want to get out of that you want
to save this much money. You want this you want this, you want this, you're seeking, seeking,
seeking, seeking, seeking, and you're thinking to yourself, the moment I get these things, I'll be
happy, he will never be happy unless you turn to Allah. And Allah He taught me
		
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			the next ayah he says na de la haka.
		
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			They didn't appreciate a la like he deserved to be appreciated. What a beautiful conclusion. Because
we're so busy appreciating everything else. We didn't have time to appreciate why we're really on
this earth. And I want to give you some negative examples. I want to give you a positive example a
family I really admired. They were in one of the states in this country where they were afflicted by
a flood.
		
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			family lost everything they used to be they used to make at least 100 to $200,000 in car sales,
luxury car sale sales a month, just sheer profit. And all the cars we used to buy were imported. And
all of them were paid in cash. I mean, they were doing well for themselves. Good, you know, wealthy
family, Wilson family. And when the floodwaters came, the entire dealership was underwater. So their
entire business disappeared overnight. Just overnight, the whole business disappeared. When I went
to visit them some time later, the brother still had a really nice car, he had a Lexus LS Ls 450 you
know the the elite class Lexus and used to deliver pizzas in that Lexus. But you know what, anybody
		
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			else who will lose a business like that worth millions, they would commit suicide. They go to CVS,
buy a whole bottle of Tylenol, pop the whole thing and be done with it. This guy's got a smile on
his face. He goes home after delivering pizza with his family. And they're all sitting there looking
so happy and content. And I just couldn't help myself like How come? How can you guys are going
crazy. How can you not depressed? I'm so sorry to hear about your loss. All you see on their faces
in smiles is very, very powerful thing to see that. You know a whole thesis can be written on just
why these people are happy. How come they're not suicidal and deeply depressed.
		
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			Else will give us a roof over our head. There's no food on our table. And back then I used to be
worried about invoices and deliveries and taxes and this and that. Now I get
		
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			So time to go to the person who can I complain about. So
		
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			when somebody seeks a lot, and these things they understand I might give them a lot takes. But the
one thing nobody can take from you, the only one who can lose it is you yourself is your love and
your relationship with a lot. That's the only thing we can afford to lose. What can the enemies of
Islam take from people that hate us? they can, they can take our homes, they can take wives, they
can humiliate, you know, they can take away anything they can, but the one thing they cannot take
away is our relationship with a lot because that's inside the heart, that will be with us. We have
to be the people that appreciate a lot a lot complains, he complains about the rest of humanity.
		
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			Now.
		
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			They didn't appreciate a while, like he deserved to be appreciated. I told you in the middle of this
football, there are three groups right? This was the first group, the second group allows oh just
says Allah who Yes, the feminine
		
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			woman,
		
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			Allah chose by his special selection, certain messengers that from among the angels, like God that
He said that he chose him such an army of angels, and he chose one to deliver the message when he
selects messengers from people also.
		
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			chosen,
		
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			chosen, of course, finally, and as a climax, Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is chosen. Why it is
I mentioned this right after that conversation. In the right in the previous conversation. A lot of
Zoltan is complaining about how we didn't appreciate it. The next conversation is, here's who you
should learn from. These are the people I chose. These are the creatures of ally chose that truly
appreciate a lot. And they came to teach you how to appreciate a lot. That's why they came so you
can learn. And they didn't just come to one group or another, All together now. You know,
rasulillah, baby Sonico me we didn't send any messenger except the language of their in the language
		
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			of their people. So let's send messengers in all people's languages. And then finally he sent a
messenger for all of humanity. So now he has a right to complain to all of humanity. Because the
messenger for all of humanity is here. He's here. So why didn't you take advantage of the
messengers? Now very few people took advantage of the messengers. Very few people benefited from
that message. And that's the third group of people. So the first group was humanity. The second
group was the messengers. And the third group is themselves. Those who believe those who accepted
the call of messengers. Now a lot turns his attention to them at the end of this. I'm skipping a
		
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			little bit I'm taking you to the end. Yeah, you handed in
		
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			the address if
		
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			Nick ruku
		
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			makes it good, where did we learn to make rucola and sudduth that didn't come to us on our own. We
could only have learned that from the messenger so in the long run, he was sent
		
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			home and enslave yourselves and worship your master. All the acts of worship, what do you make when
you walk into the machine House have a lot to make when you leave the house of Allah to make when
you enter your home when you leave your home? When you put your clothes on what to say when you
start eating? What kind of foods you should eat, what kind of foods you cannot eat? What can you
look at what can you not look at how can you dress? How can you not dress weird and all of that come
from the messengers that already came to teach? Now it's time for you to apply
		
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			and do good things.
		
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			do good things, find an opera find opportunities to do good things like look at the beautiful
general ending, you know,
		
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			for Allah, we worship Allah, we do we remember Allah we make us God we decide on all these things
are for Allah azza wa jal, but he adds to that you people, because you are following the legacies of
prophets. They were people that just looked for opportunities to do good. Do good to your neighbor,
the good your coworker, do good to somebody who see stranded on the street, they got a flat tire,
nobody's pulling over to help them, do good to them. You're the people that are supposed to do good
at every opportunity you find every opportunity you find you're you're hunting for good D
		
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			serving others
		
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			so that you can be successful, realize that we don't make us from the successful so that's the first
appeal from a lot as origin. Me poopoo and make meaning makes a lot pray.
		
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			Then he says, Who wants to do
		
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			worship align everything else to salaat is just a starting point and merciful love beyond that.
		
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			Then be good to people around you so that you can be successful, but then he added separated from
all of these things. The final instruction and I hope I can inshallah, wrap this up in the next five
minutes, though, it seems impossible. It's very heavy thing that allows for us to do hopefully I can
finish it tonight in our youth conversation. But at least I want to share some snippets of
		
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			you know, those of you that have jobs. Of course you went in for an interview before you
		
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			Got your job.
		
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			And when you went to the interview, probably the cases the interview went really, really well,
unless your uncle was doing the interview and he hooked you up. But other than that, if you went,
you probably did really well on your interview, they saw your resume look like you have good
experience, you look like a good fit for the job and you got the job. Okay? That you know, sometimes
you go to an interview, and then the guy interviewing you, the Human Resource Manager, he starts
describing what he expects.
		
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			And his expectations are so high
		
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			that you're listening to him saying, Why did he even call me for an interview? He knows I'm not
nearly qualified for the job. This is embarrassing. The more he lists his requirements, the more
incapable and incompetent and unqualified I feel. Why do I even why was even called in for an
interview, just to be told how worthless I am. Is that why it was called? And so he goes through all
of these descriptions. And at the end, he says, congratulations, you're higher.
		
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			Aren't you shocked?
		
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			You're like, I'm not qualified. How did I get chosen? I don't think I have any of these
qualifications. But I've been chosen. olara xojo gives us a really impossible job description. I
want to remind him, he said ma de la ha ha Casa de, the rest of humanity did not appreciate a law
like he deserved to be appreciated. Then he turned to you and me. And he said wacha he knew he had
		
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			struggled with no goal in front of you make every effort you can for Allah and Allah alone. I don't
like the word struggle anymore. Because we translate jihad. He said, we struggle so many times. Most
of you don't even know what that means. You don't even know what that means. It's just an abstract
idea in your head. Now, what does it mean to struggle for a lot, to try the very best you can in
everything you and I do to put everything in, you know, some of you have, for example, you apply for
immigration, you know how early you show up to your meeting,
		
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			how early you show up for the citizenship interview. Three hours ahead of time you get dressed the
night before and don't sleep.
		
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			You put in some struggle, because you know, your success depends on you put in some struggle. When
something is important. You don't you're not late. You show up on time. When you have a business and
a big client gives you a call, you get ready. You say you call home and say I won't be home tonight,
I gotta get ready for this client. It's a big deal. Allah wants that kind of enthusiasm from you and
me and real struggle to put exert yourself as much as you and I can for his sake. And then he adds
this is hard enough, he says how God as opposed to say, must stop at home. He didn't say struggle as
much as you can. He said struggle as is worthy of love.
		
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			If humanity can't even appreciate, it deserves to be how are you going to you and I are going to
struggle for a lot as he deserves to be. How is that even possible? How many of us are going to pray
to Allah like he deserves to be prayed to?
		
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			We can do our best. But that's still not what he deserved. He deserves so much better. Even when we
think a lot he deserves to be thanks so much more. When we remember a lot he deserves to be
remembered so much more. So Allah gave us like the example I was giving you a leg it was a really
hard job description. And when you give us a job description, it feels like how am I going to do
this, this is impossible for me. And he has
		
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			such powerful words. He said this to all people on this planet that say that ilaha illAllah,
Muhammad Rasulullah sallallahu wasallam all people who say that Allah says to them, watch who he is
the one that has selected you. And the word used in the Arabic language is Shiva, who is used when
someone is chosen for a quality that they have. Allah saying he sees something in you. So he decided
to gift you with Islam.
		
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			He sees something in you that qualifies you for struggling for him. So you get to be honored with
the law. You get the gift of Muhammad Rasulullah sallallahu sallam, congratulations, you got the
job. That's what the law says. You and I are not Muslim, because we're born in a Muslim family. You
are not you are not Muslim, because we read a book about Islam or saw a YouTube video and decided to
become Muslim. We are Muslim because a lot chose us. A lot chose us and he didn't just say he chose
us. He says he chose us because he thinks we're talented. We've got something to offer him. He sees
something in us we don't even see in ourselves. We don't even see it in ourselves. You know?
		
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			When he came up to me, he had a guilt inside because he had killed the person and the loss has to
him and
		
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			I have chosen you because there's pain in you. There's good in you. If the outcomes are high.
		
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			There's some good news. He doesn't even know that about himself. He knows that about him. Allah
knows that about us. He sees in us something that makes us worthy of becoming members of this oma we
		
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			Should all everybody who calls himself should feel a sense of appreciation. Yala, you honored me
with this award, you gave me this title of Muslim who was debacle. And then you know, I've been
chosen and I know a lot of my time, but I want to end with this just I'm not gonna get to complete
the ayah maybe tonight inshallah, but just this part, when you get an impossible job description,
and then your told you about the job, your first reaction is this is too hard for me. I don't know
if I can do this. I don't think I can do this. What does the law say?
		
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			Immediately after that, he says he didn't put any difficulty any constriction, any discomfort in
this religion for you at all relax.
		
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			My job is to make it easy for you. I know you think it's hard, I'll make it easy. You just accept
the job. You accept your responsibility. And he and I'll end with this the next words of the ayah
even though it's not the completion of the minutes at Eco, Ibrahim.
		
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			You just got the job. It's not going to be hard for you. And by the way, you are the continuation of
the legacy of your father, Ibrahim.
		
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			You are going to have the same kind of job that who had once one long time ago. Ibrahima, they sit
down and the moment you and I hear everybody sit down we say Wait, come again. What
		
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			you just said it's gonna be easy. A lot of settings not gonna put any difficulty and now all of a
sudden who did he mentioned? Ibrahima Lisa, even the kids. I just know Islam from Sunday school here
know what kind of things that have to do. Jumping into a fire leaving your family in the middle of a
desert, not at the airport, in the middle of the desert. First of all, getting them there in the
first place without an SUV, and then leaving them there without food or shelter. Nothing. Taking on
a tyrant King having to slaughter your young son.
		
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			Having an attempt to solve any of these things sound easy.
		
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			You will have no difficulty and by the way, you're on the same line as Ibrahim.
		
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			What an irony, Allah Zoho told us that because Allah made all of those incredibly difficult things
easy for Ibrahim
		
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			those things we read about them we cannot imagine we will ever be able to do. But Allah made those
things easy for everyone.
		
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			So lives telling us what are you going to complain about?
		
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			I bought this for Ibrahim, what are you gonna say? too hard for me? Have you ever compared yourself
to the difficulties of Ibrahim which is harder? You're not gonna have any problems Your life is
gonna be easy. This is Allah putting things in perspective for the Muslims. So we understand that
coming into this Deen means making struggle means that Allah will make those struggles easy for us
when we turn back to him for him making no struggle difficult, difficult struggle easy is hard. He
can take fire and make a cold he can tell a knife not to cut. He can tell the desert to bring out
water he can make your my problems easy. We're not gonna have any problems. We just have to
		
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			sincerely commit to struggling for the sake of Allah azza wa jal. Hopefully tonight, I can define
what that means. What is it that it means that we struggle for the sake of Allah Zota barakallahu li
walakum Hakeem when a fan er can be King
		
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			hamdu lillahi wa salatu salam ala
		
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			rasulillah tamina v 100. In a while he was happy
		
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			he Tabby hit get him back. Let him initiate regime in la llamada
		
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			De Lima Allahumma salli ala Muhammad Ali Mohammed
		
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			Ibrahim Ibrahim al al amin in Naka Hamid Allahumma barik Allah Mohammed
		
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			Mohammed
		
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			Ibrahim Ibrahim al alameen
		
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			wa rahmatullah tecoma in the La Jolla sun eater, he will come back.
		
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			He will link up with adekola he talked about Hello.
		
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			How can you solder in mechanical meaning