Nouman Ali Khan – Allahs Promise for Those Who Stay Strong

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The importance of learning and mastering artistry in crafting experiences is emphasized in various stories of COC. The speaker discusses the use of unique language in each story and the importance of crafting experiences in building understanding and knowledge. The speaker also touches on the surah and its significance in reciting surahs in prayer and the importance of the words of Allah in reciting them. Finally, the speaker encourages students to study the Qwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwh

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			And that's an important lesson.
		
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			Sabr means you have to go through pain.
		
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			And when we are ready to go through
		
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			that pain, then like Nuh عليه السلام, like
		
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			Musa عليه السلام, and finally like even Rasulullah
		
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			صلى الله عليه وسلم, we are going to
		
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			be under the eye of Allah.
		
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			Allah is going to be watching.
		
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			And He is going to...
		
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			and how will you find this?
		
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			When will Allah give a new way for
		
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			you?
		
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			How will Allah make a new, you know,
		
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			opening for you?
		
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			Well, the secret is given in this surah,
		
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			isn't it?
		
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			سَبِّحْ بِحَمْدِ رَبِّكَ حِينَ تَقُومَ So,
		
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			what I'm going to start with is something
		
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			that Musa عليه السلام and Nuh عليه السلام
		
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			have in common.
		
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			In the story of Musa عليه السلام and
		
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			in the story of Nuh عليه السلام, you
		
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			see two visual elements, two things that seem
		
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			to be in common with each other.
		
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			One of them is the sea, and the
		
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			other one is the mountain.
		
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			So, in the story of Musa عليه السلام,
		
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			we know that when Fir'aun was following
		
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			him, Allah عز و جل opened the sea,
		
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			فَرَقْنَا بِكُمُ الْبَحْرَ He opened the sea for
		
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			Musa عليه السلام and the Israelites, and they
		
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			went through, and Fir'aun gets drowned inside
		
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			of the sea.
		
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			We also know that in the story of
		
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			Nuh عليه السلام, it's the only other story
		
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			where flood or drowning is the punishment given
		
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			to the disbelieving nation, and so the people
		
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			who disbelieved in Nuh عليه السلام were drowned.
		
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			In the beginning of the mission of Musa
		
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			عليه السلام, Allah عز و جل spoke to
		
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			him on the mountain.
		
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			The Arabic word for a mountain is either
		
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			جبل or طور.
		
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			Those are two words in the Qur'an
		
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			used for the mountain.
		
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			But regardless, Musa عليه السلام, Allah spoke to
		
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			him on the mountain.
		
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			And at the end of the journey of,
		
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			when Allah commanded Nuh عليه السلام to build
		
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			his ship, to build the ark, after the
		
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			flood was over, فَاسْتَوَتْ عَلَى الْجُودِ the ship
		
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			landed on top of the mountain.
		
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			So the two visual elements that these two
		
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			stories have in common are the sea and
		
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			the mountain.
		
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			Now one more thing as we get closer
		
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			to the point.
		
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			Allah has a very unique style of speaking
		
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			in the Qur'an.
		
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			So when He speaks about different stories of
		
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			the prophets, He speaks in unique ways about
		
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			each of them.
		
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			But sometimes He uses very similar language in
		
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			one story, and then you find the similar
		
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			language again in a very different story.
		
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			And something like that happens between Nuh عليه
		
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			السلام and Musa عليه السلام.
		
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			So I want to start with Musa عليه
		
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			السلام.
		
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			When Musa عليه السلام went up to the
		
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			mountain, Allah tells us in Surah Taha, that
		
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			when he went up to the mountain, Allah
		
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			told him, not only is He about to
		
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			give him the revelation, وَلَقَدْ مَنَنَّ عَلَيْكَ مَرَّةً
		
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			أُخْرَى We had already done favors to you
		
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			many times before this.
		
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			Allah has been doing favors to Musa عليه
		
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			السلام for a long time.
		
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			And so He started reminding Musa عليه السلام,
		
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			when your mother put you in the basket,
		
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			when your sister was walking on the side
		
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			of the river, when you were raised in
		
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			the house of Fir'aun, when we reunited
		
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			you with your mother, كَيْ تَقَرَّ عَيْنُهَا وَلَا
		
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			تَحْزَنُ So her eyes could become cool, so
		
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			she could find comfort again.
		
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			I did you the favor of reuniting you
		
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			with your mother.
		
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			Then you killed someone, and you escaped, and
		
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			we tried you in many ways.
		
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			And so all of these different trials that
		
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			he went through, Allah makes a list of
		
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			all of them, and then at the end
		
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			of all of them, the part of the
		
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			plan was, he will get married in Madiya,
		
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			and he will go in the desert and
		
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			live there for a while, and then one
		
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			time he will get lost in the desert,
		
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			and he will see a fire on top
		
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			of a mountain, and he goes and tries
		
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			to see what maybe he can get some
		
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			directions there.
		
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			This is where Allah was having this conversation
		
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			with him, and He says to him some
		
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			interesting things.
		
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			He says, one of the things He says
		
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			is, جِئْتَ عَلَىٰ قَدَرٍ يَا مُوسَىٰ You came
		
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			here right on schedule.
		
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			You came here exactly according to plan.
		
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			So all the things you went through were
		
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			part of my plan, so you could be
		
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			here at this moment.
		
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			But part of what Allah says to him
		
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			also is, وَأَنَا اخْتَرْتُكَ لِنَفْسِي I have chosen
		
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			you for myself.
		
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			And another really beautiful thing, the thing I
		
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			want you to focus on now, is He
		
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			says, وَلِتُصْنَعَ عَلَىٰ عَيْنِي So you can be
		
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			crafted, and I'll focus on the word تُصْنَعَ
		
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			in a second, you can be crafted under
		
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			my watch.
		
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			Meaning, crafting, you know when somebody works with
		
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			wood, and they make a table, and when
		
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			somebody works with metal, and they make a
		
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			sword, and in different kinds of works, you
		
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			have to do craftsmanship, you have to have
		
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			artistry, you know to cut the angles properly,
		
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			and to mold it properly.
		
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			People do a lot of صُنَع when they
		
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			are making a pot, or when they're making
		
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			utensils, right?
		
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			So Allah is describing someone being crafted or
		
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			designed.
		
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			So Allah is telling Musa A.S. that
		
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			all of those experiences you had, were part
		
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			of you being designed.
		
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			So you know how in engineering, there are
		
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			stages of product development, and you have to
		
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			go through one design phase, then the next
		
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			design phase, then the next design phase.
		
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			It's like Musa A.S. life was being
		
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			engineered by Allah, and every part of the
		
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			design, every one of those experiences was part
		
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			of the design, so you could be ready
		
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			for your real mission.
		
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			And in this is a really beautiful lesson
		
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			that the experiences that we go through, they
		
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			are part of Allah's design, to help engineer
		
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			us.
		
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			Because we are like the human beings, like
		
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			a baby is like raw materials.
		
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			Right?
		
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			It's like raw materials.
		
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			And as Allah puts us through these experiences,
		
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			actually each one of those experiences starts building
		
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			our understanding, builds our maturity, builds our experience.
		
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			Sometimes you develop strength by going through pain.
		
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			Right?
		
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			This is just Allah's design.
		
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			You know athletes, for example, if they want
		
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			to improve themselves, they have to push harder
		
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			than their previous stamina to improve.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And that's how they're being engineered to perform
		
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			even better and better and better.
		
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			So Allah says to him, وَلِتُصْنَعَ عَلَى عَيْنِي
		
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			So you can be crafted, engineered even, under
		
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			my watch.
		
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			And I want you to remember this phrase,
		
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			crafted under my watch.
		
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			Now, I told you the connection, there's some
		
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			sort of a connection between Musa Alayhi Salaam
		
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			and Nuh Alayhi Salaam.
		
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			And I told you about the mountain and
		
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			the sea, and the story of Musa Alayhi
		
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			Salaam and the mountain and the sea, and
		
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			the story of Nuh Alayhi Salaam.
		
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			Then I told you that Musa Alayhi Salaam,
		
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			Allah says to him, so you could be
		
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			crafted under my watch.
		
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			And then you find a similar phrase in
		
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			the story of Nuh Alayhi Salaam.
		
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			When you look at the story of Nuh
		
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			Alayhi Salaam, and Allah told him to build
		
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			this ship, which was a strange instruction, because
		
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			there was no water anywhere nearby.
		
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			Why am I building a ship?
		
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			And nobody even knows how to build a
		
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			ship.
		
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			Nobody, because they're not a people that live
		
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			next to the sea, so they have no
		
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			reason to know how to build a ship.
		
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			So Allah gives him wahi and he says,
		
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			وَصْنَعِ الْفُلْكَ بِأَعْيُنِنَا Engineer the ship under our
		
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			watch.
		
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			Musa Alayhi Salaam was told, I engineered you
		
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			under my watch.
		
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			And Nuh Alayhi Salaam is being told, engineer
		
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			this ship under my watch.
		
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			And so this phrase is similar between these
		
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			two stories also.
		
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			Now, let's focus on Nuh Alayhi Salaam for
		
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			a couple of moments.
		
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			When he was being told to engineer the
		
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			ship, then everyone around him, they already called
		
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			him crazy.
		
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			They already insulted him for many generations.
		
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			In fact, some of the things we learn
		
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			in the Quran, the hints that we get,
		
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			is that people used to disbelieve in Nuh
		
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			Alayhi Salaam, and then they would get married,
		
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			young men disbelieved in him, young men and
		
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			women, they got married, they have children, they
		
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			bring their children and say, don't listen to
		
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			this crazy old man.
		
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			And then those children get older, they get
		
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			married, they have children, they bring their children
		
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			and say, my dad told me don't listen
		
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			to this crazy old man.
		
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			So generations and generations used to insult Nuh
		
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			Alayhi Salaam.
		
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			But now, after 950 years, Allah is telling
		
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			him, build a ship.
		
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			And they're looking at him building a ship,
		
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			and this is the...
		
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			We told you he's crazy.
		
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			This is, see?
		
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			This is the craziest thing he's ever done.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So, one of the big allegations against Nuh
		
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			Alayhi Salaam is that he is insane.
		
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			By the way, that same accusation was made
		
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			against Musa Alayhi Salaam also.
		
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			He was called insane also.
		
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			But anyway, so he's building this ark, this
		
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			ship, under the watch of Allah.
		
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			But while he is building it, the more
		
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			he builds it, the more people make fun
		
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			of him.
		
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			Every day he's working on it.
		
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			You cannot build the ship in one day.
		
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			You cannot engineer it in one day.
		
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			You're working on it, working on it, working
		
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			on it.
		
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			And Allah is...
		
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			It's almost as if, you know, when you
		
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			design something, especially construction project, engineering project, and
		
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			we know it's big enough that it's going
		
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			to fit human beings, it's also going to
		
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			fit animals.
		
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			So, it's a very large construction project.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So, you have to have blueprints.
		
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			And you have to have a schematic.
		
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			So, you can put the right pieces in
		
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			the right place.
		
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			And you have to have structural engineering even.
		
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			All of this has to be taken care
		
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			of.
		
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			Allah says, وَحَمَلْنَاهُ عَلَىٰ ذَاتِ أَلْوَاحٍ وَالدُّسُورِ In
		
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			another place He says, we made, we boarded
		
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			him onto something made up of boards of
		
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			wood, planks of wood, and nails.
		
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			It's as if every board of wood and
		
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			every nail was designed by Allah, put this
		
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			here, put this here, put this here.
		
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			So, everybody else is calling him crazy, but
		
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			he's working according to the design Allah has
		
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			revealed to him.
		
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			You know, and he's designing this ship.
		
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			Now, why did I mention both of these
		
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			things to you?
		
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			Now, I slowly work towards the point that
		
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			I wanted to share with you in this
		
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			khutbah.
		
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			There's a really beautiful surah in the Quran
		
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			that I came here to not only study
		
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			but share some lessons from with a group
		
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			of our students, surah al-Tur.
		
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			Surah al-Tur is surah number 52 in
		
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			the Quran.
		
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			And I'd like you to go after the
		
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			khutbah this weekend, just read surah al-Tur
		
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			on your own.
		
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			In the beginning of surah al-Tur, Allah
		
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			takes a number of oaths.
		
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			He swears by a number of things.
		
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			The first thing He swears by is the
		
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			mountain.
		
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			And the last thing He swears by is
		
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			the sea.
		
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			So, وَالطُّورُ وَكِتَابٍ مَصْطُورٍ فِي رَقِبٍ مَنْشُورٍ وَالْبَيْتِ
		
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			الْمَعْمُورِ وَالْبَحْرِ الْمَسْجُورِ وَالسَّقْفِ الْمَرْفُوعِ وَالْبَحْرِ
		
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			الْمَسْجُورِ So, the first thing was the mountain
		
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			and the last thing was the sea.
		
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			And it's very subtle and delicate that at
		
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			the end of this surah, Allah talked to
		
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			His Prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam.
		
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			Allah talked to Muhammad Rasulullah, salallahu alayhi wasalam.
		
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			And He said to him, أَصْبِرْ لِحُكْمِ رَبِّكَ
		
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			فَإِنَّكَ بِأَعْيُنِنَا Keep moving forward with patience.
		
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			Stay strong on your mission.
		
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			Because you are commanded by your Rabb, because
		
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			of the hukm of your Rabb, keep working
		
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			forward because you are definitely under our eyes.
		
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			The same phrase that I told you was
		
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			used in the story of Musa alayhi wasalam.
		
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			The same phrase that was used in the
		
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			story of Nuh alayhi wasalam, is a similar
		
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			phrase that now Allah is using for Muhammad
		
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			Rasulullah, salallahu alayhi wasalam.
		
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			And He's using it in Surah At-Tur
		
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			in the beginning of which He made a
		
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			hint towards the mountain and He made a
		
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			hint towards the sea.
		
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			But what does it mean for our Prophet,
		
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			alayhi salatu wasalam?
		
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			It actually, it's kind of a combination of
		
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			both of those stories and then even more.
		
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			In the sense that, Rasulullah, salallahu alayhi wasalam,
		
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			is going to go through many many experiences
		
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			while he is in Makkah.
		
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			And every one of those experiences is part
		
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			of what Allah wants him to go through,
		
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			not just for him, but actually the lessons
		
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			for all of the ummah until Judgment Day
		
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			are being designed by the experiences that our
		
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			Prophet is going through, salallahu alayhi wasalam.
		
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			If we contemplate that for a little bit,
		
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			that's a very powerful lesson.
		
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			What is that lesson?
		
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			Every surah of the Qur'an that we
		
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			recite so beautifully, our Qur'an memorize them
		
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			and we enjoy them, reciting them in the
		
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			prayer.
		
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			When those surahs were given to the Prophet,
		
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			salallahu alayhi wasalam, when he would recite them,
		
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			people would call him crazy.
		
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			People would insult him.
		
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			And he had to go through those experiences
		
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			so that a thousand and a half years
		
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			later, you and I can recite those same
		
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			surahs.
		
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			You understand?
		
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			So he, Allah put him through that because
		
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			actually he had to go through that so
		
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			one day we can value what we're reciting.
		
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			So one of the things that every Muslim,
		
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			myself and yourself should be aware of, is
		
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			the words of Allah that we get to
		
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			recite, they're not cheap.
		
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			It was a big sacrifice that had to
		
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			be made and the Rasul sallallahu alayhi wasalam
		
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			was being crafted and his mission was being
		
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			designed by Allah with a lot of pain
		
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			so that one day we can have the
		
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			convenience of having access to the word of
		
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			Allah.
		
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			Because it did not come to us in
		
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			an easy way.
		
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			It came to us through the sacrifices of
		
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			our Messenger sallallahu alayhi wasalam and those that
		
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			believed in him.
		
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			The other thing is, that in both of
		
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			those stories, especially in the story of Nuh
		
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			alayhi wasalam, Allah azzawajal told Nuh alayhi wasalam
		
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			to build this ship.
		
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			But why was he telling him to build
		
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			the ship?
		
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			Because the azaab of Allah is very close.
		
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			The azaab of Allah is very close.
		
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			So two things are getting closer.
		
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			Two things are increasing.
		
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			One, the time they have left and the
		
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			state of emergency is increasing.
		
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			Two, the way they make fun of him
		
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			is also increasing.
		
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			And as the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasalam was
		
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			making his da'wah and he was sharing
		
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			the Qur'an with the people of Mecca,
		
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			their aggressiveness towards him was also increasing.
		
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			And the more their aggressiveness was increasing, the
		
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			time for hijrah was also coming closer and
		
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			closer.
		
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			The time to leave Mecca was coming closer
		
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			and closer.
		
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			When he has to leave Mecca, the moment
		
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			he will leave Mecca, the new chapter will
		
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			begin.
		
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			And that new chapter is not just the
		
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			life in Medina, it's the chapter of azaab,
		
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			punishment for the people of Mecca.
		
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			And the first episode of that punishment was
		
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			Badr.
		
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			The second episode was Uhud, and so on
		
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			and so forth.
		
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			Right?
		
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			The punishment, the phase of da'wah is
		
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			over, now Allah's punishments will begin for them.
		
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			And Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasalam is being told,
		
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			وَاصْبِرْ لِحُكْمِ رَبِّكَ فَإِنَّكَ بِأَعْيُنِنَا Stay committed to
		
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			your mission, no matter what people are saying
		
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			to you, no matter how much they call
		
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			you crazy, whatever insults they give you, keep
		
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			moving forward, don't back down, because every step
		
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			you take is being designed by us.
		
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			Every single step you take is being designed
		
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			by us.
		
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			What Allah does in this surah, He tells
		
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			the Prophet alayhi sallallahu alayhi wasallam to make
		
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			tasbih.
		
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			As you get to the end of the
		
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			surah, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam is being
		
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			told, keep doing tasbih of Allah until idbarul
		
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			nujum.
		
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			Meaning, do tasbih of Allah in the night
		
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			time also, until the stars begin to disappear.
		
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			Meaning Fajr time.
		
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			Yeah?
		
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			And this is a very important image, because
		
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			the image of doing tasbih of Allah in
		
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			the night, is actually like his mission.
		
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			He is calling to Allah, describing the perfection
		
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			of Allah, sharing the word of Allah, and
		
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			around him is the darkness of kufr.
		
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			Darkness of shirk, like the darkness of the
		
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			night.
		
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			And soon that situation is about to change.
		
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			There's new light that's coming.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So in it there's a subtle hint that
		
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			things are about to change until the hukm
		
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			of Allah comes, until then you keep doing
		
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			this.
		
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			Until then you keep working.
		
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			But soon I will give you a new
		
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			hukm, a new rule, and that rule will
		
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			be to make hijrah.
		
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			And you'll have to go.
		
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			But what does that mean for you and
		
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			me?
		
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			When you follow the command of Allah, when
		
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			you stand by the truth, when you stand
		
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			by what is just, when you don't allow
		
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			corruption to happen under your watch, when you
		
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			call it out.
		
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			Whenever you do that, it requires sabr.
		
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			Because whenever you say the truth, somebody gets
		
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			angry.
		
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			Then people get offended.
		
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			You're afraid to get attacked when you do
		
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			the right thing.
		
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			And we've got to keep doing the right
		
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			thing until it becomes impossible to do the
		
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			right thing.
		
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			Until the very moment it becomes impossible.
		
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			And when it becomes impossible, Allah will open
		
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			a new door.
		
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			The idea is you and I cannot just
		
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			say, we stand up for justice without going
		
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			through pain.
		
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			You have to go through pain.
		
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			Allah loved His Prophet ﷺ so much, and
		
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			He allowed him to go through a lot
		
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			of pain.
		
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			And that's an important lesson.
		
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			Sabr means you have to go through pain.
		
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			And when we are ready to go through
		
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			that pain, then like Nuh ﷺ, like Musa
		
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			ﷺ, and finally like even Rasulullah ﷺ, we
		
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			are going to be under the eye of
		
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			Allah.
		
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			Allah is going to be watching.
		
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			And He is going to...
		
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			When will Allah give a new way for
		
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			you?
		
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			How will Allah make a new opening for
		
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			you?
		
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			Well, the secret is given in this surah,
		
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			isn't it?
		
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			سَبِّحْ بِحَمْدِ رَبِّكَ حِينَ تَقُومُ وَمِنَ اللَّيْلِ فَسَبِّحْهُ
		
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			وَإِذْ بَعْرَ النُّجُومِ Do tasbih of Allah every
		
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			time you get up.
		
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