Nouman Ali Khan – Building Disciplined Communities

Nouman Ali Khan
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The speaker discusses the meaning of surah in the Bible and its use in various cultural and political topics. They emphasize the importance of acceptance of the Prophet's statement, acceptance of one's promises, and the history of humanity. The speakers also touch on the use of "will" in Islam, the importance of unity in locality, and the need to show discipline and unity in a locality. They encourage sponsor students and encourage people to help students on Bayina TV.

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			No doubt Allah is the one who loves
		
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			those who fight in his path in rows.
		
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			Saffan, rose.
		
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			Allah added a new
		
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			qualification.
		
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			It's not enough that you want to fight.
		
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			It's not enough that your intentions are good.
		
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			It's not enough that you're brave.
		
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			That's not enough.
		
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			If you truly mean what you say, you
		
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			will show me discipline.
		
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			Safran.
		
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			I'm dedicating
		
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			today's khutba to the opening ayat of Surat
		
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			Asaf.
		
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			It's a surah myself and
		
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			my colleagues happen to be studying. We've spent
		
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			the last almost couple of months
		
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			trying to understand the message of the surah,
		
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			and there are some takeaways from the beginning
		
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			of the surah that I thought should be
		
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			wider spread,
		
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			at least, Insha'Allah. So I pray that I'm
		
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			able to do some justice to the wisdom
		
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			that is encapsulated
		
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			in these ayat.
		
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			The first thing I'd like all of you
		
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			to know is that
		
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			almost by consensus,
		
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			this surah seems to has have been revealed
		
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			after Uhud.
		
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			So the Muslims
		
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			were engaged in the battle of Uhud.
		
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			Many of you, if not all of you,
		
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			are familiar with the losses that we suffered
		
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			at Uhud,
		
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			and the kind of faltering in the discipline
		
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			of the Muslims that led to the chaos
		
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			that ensued
		
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			in which the prophet himself sallallahu alaihi wasallam
		
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			was injured severely. At one point, he was
		
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			even rumored to have been killed.
		
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			70,
		
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			the most important companions of the prophet
		
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			were murdered. Their bodies were later mutilated
		
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			by the enemy.
		
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			After Badr. So Badr is the first and
		
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			Uhud is the second.
		
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			And this surah is coming
		
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			after Uhud.
		
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			So it's a commentary
		
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			to the Muslims in that state.
		
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			And it's remarkable that the opening of this
		
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			surah describes not the believers
		
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			but it describes the skies and the earth.
		
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			Everything in whatever is in the skies and
		
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			whatever is in the earth continues to declare
		
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			Allah's perfection.
		
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			It can it it always has and it
		
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			always will in a sense. Declare Allah's perfection.
		
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			And he's the ultimate authority,
		
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			the all wise.
		
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			Just a quick note about that.
		
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			Human beings have their ups and downs in
		
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			this world.
		
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			We have some days where we're closer to
		
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			Allah. Some days we're not so much. Some
		
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			days we do better at obeying Allah. Other
		
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			days not so much.
		
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			Some moments we have good deeds. Other moments
		
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			we have bad deeds and failures.
		
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			We have our ups and downs. And Allah
		
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			begins by saying, you can have your ups
		
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			and downs here on this planet,
		
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			but the rest of Allah's creation is in
		
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			continuous.
		
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			Of Allah. There's no faltering anywhere else.
		
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			No no one else is falling short in
		
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			this tasbih.
		
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			In fact, every time you hear tasbih in
		
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			the Quran,
		
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			you should remind yourself of the first historical
		
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			mention of tasbih.
		
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			The first historical mention of tasbih is the
		
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			angels themselves
		
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			who were questioning the creation of the human
		
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			being,
		
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			and they couldn't understand when they exist already,
		
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			and they already do
		
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			The angels understood something, the entire sky is
		
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			the earth, and especially also the angels constantly
		
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			do
		
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			They declare God's perfection.
		
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			They're in com complete surrender to Allah. What
		
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			could be the purpose of creating something,
		
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			and giving them so much responsibility
		
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			and a position of honor,
		
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			when they have such potential for failure
		
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			and terrible deeds? What would be the point?
		
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			So every time this has mentioned, it's almost
		
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			as if the criticism of the angels is
		
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			echoed again.
		
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			You know. And Allah said, he knows he
		
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			told them, we know something we don't that
		
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			they don't
		
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			know. In any case, that's
		
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			And the other thing you should know about
		
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			this in the Quran is that it's used
		
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			many places
		
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			as an expression for the salah itself.
		
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			When Allah says
		
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			for example,
		
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			many places in the
		
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			Quran,
		
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			That it's not just talking about tisbih. It's
		
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			actually talking about prayer. It's actually talking
		
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			about salat.
		
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			So sala and tisbih are actually
		
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			closely related to each other. They're very very
		
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			closely related to each other. In fact, the
		
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			ultimate form of is
		
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			actually our prayer.
		
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			It was actually the salah.
		
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			In any
		
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			case, Allah then opens the surah with these
		
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			two names of his, Al Aziz Al Hakim.
		
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			Allah is the ultimate authority, even though there
		
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			are people in this world who would fail
		
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			to recognize or refuse to recognize
		
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			that authority.
		
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			They don't see the point in it.
		
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			There are others who even if they recognize
		
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			his authority,
		
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			when Allah gives a command,
		
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			there's somebody who might say, okay fine. Allah
		
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			said it but I don't know why he
		
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			said it. It doesn't make any sense to
		
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			me.
		
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			I don't see the point in it. Let
		
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			me put this another way. I don't see
		
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			the wisdom behind it.
		
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			Why should I follow this? I don't see
		
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			the wisdom in it. I don't see the
		
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			logic in it. I don't see the point
		
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			of it. And Allah explains that he's not
		
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			just the authority, he's also al Hakim. He's
		
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			the owner of all wisdom.
		
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			So when he exercises his authority and when
		
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			he gives a commandment,
		
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			then there is wisdom behind it.
		
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			Now, there are narrations surrounding the revelation of
		
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			the Surah, and one of them is that
		
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			somebody came and asked the Prophet
		
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			among the sahaba, some new sahaba, he came
		
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			and asked, what's the best thing I could
		
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			do?
		
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			Which which deeds are the best, most beloved
		
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			to Allah? And Allah revealed fighting.
		
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			And they Some people didn't like that he
		
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			revealed that.
		
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			Right? Why would he Why would fighting be
		
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			the best thing to Allah? Give me some
		
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			dhikr to do. So give me something else
		
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			to do. Why are you talking about fighting?
		
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			And they couldn't understand the logic behind that.
		
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			And it's as if Allah's response to that
		
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			entire thought process is already in the first
		
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			ayah.
		
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			All of the rest of creation
		
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			recognize
		
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			Allah's ultimate authority
		
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			and His wisdom, which is what makes them
		
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			do continuously
		
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			anyway.
		
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			It's as if Allah is saying, he doesn't
		
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			need yours.
		
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			It's as if Allah is saying, whether you
		
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			do it or not, we'll change nothing. You're
		
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			a you're a lot smaller
		
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			than the rest of Allah's creation, and you
		
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			cannot take away anything from the of Allah,
		
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			or from the of Allah, or from the
		
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			hikmah of Allah, by your little question. That
		
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			that's not gonna happen.
		
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			Then the other side.
		
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			This is I keep saying this is after
		
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			And Allah
		
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			says,
		
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			This is the 2nd ayah.
		
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			Those of you who believe,
		
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			why do you say things that you don't
		
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			do?
		
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			Why do you say things that you don't
		
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			do?
		
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			And this phrase,
		
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			why do you say things that you don't
		
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			do,
		
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			is open ended like, what did I say
		
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			that I didn't do?
		
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			Allah didn't specify.
		
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			If you compare this to suratul Munafiqoon,
		
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			Allah specifies
		
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			exactly what the Munafiqoon
		
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			said.
		
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			Exactly. He quoted them. Exactly what they said.
		
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			If you go to
		
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			Other other places in the Quran exactly what
		
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			people say Allah quotes it. He tells you
		
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			exactly what they said. In this surah, it's
		
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			as if Allah left it purposely
		
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			ambiguous. He didn't say any
		
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			Why do you say something you don't do?
		
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			Why do you why do you say what
		
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			you don't do?
		
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			So the each person listening
		
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			would have a different answer to that question.
		
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			They they have to ask themselves what is
		
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			it that I said
		
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			and what is it that I didn't do.
		
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			You understand?
		
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			And even if you have this narration that
		
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			some people asked about, what's the best deed,
		
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			and the fighting is the best deed, and
		
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			all of that. What I need you to
		
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			understand is, when the Quran was spreading,
		
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			that
		
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			meaning that one person who came and asked,
		
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			not everybody knew about that.
		
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			Everybody knew about the surah, but not everybody
		
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			knew about the question behind the surah.
		
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			And you have this is an important lesson
		
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			in the understanding of the Quran.
		
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			Even if you find a story behind the
		
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			revelation of an ayah, that doesn't mean even
		
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			at the time of the Prophet
		
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			everybody was thinking about this ayah because of
		
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			that question.
		
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			That question was 1 individual, 2 individuals. It
		
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			didn't happen in front of the entire city
		
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			of Madinah.
		
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			But the Quran was recited, memorized and spread
		
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			quickly
		
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			without that background story. You understand?
		
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			So, what do we learn from that? Allah
		
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			uses an incident or somebody comes and ask
		
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			a question
		
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			which is a small question but Allah gives
		
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			an answer that doesn't just benefit that one
		
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			person. Allah gives an answer that benefits many
		
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			questions and gives many answers.
		
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			So it's actually a mistake to reduce the
		
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			ayah to
		
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			what incident. That would be a mistake.
		
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			In any case, Allah says, why do you
		
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			say what you don't do?
		
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			If you connect this to what Allah just
		
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			said before, everything does
		
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			Everything How does a how does a believer
		
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			do tasbih? The believer says, subhanAllah.
		
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			In fact, even saying
		
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			is a form of tasbih.
		
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			In fact, Muhammad rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
		
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			is a completion of our tisbih and I'll
		
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			tell you quickly why.
		
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			Before the coming of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam,
		
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			the two religions of the book were Judaism
		
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			and Christianity,
		
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			the two religions of the book.
		
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			Tasbih
		
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			from anything that is not suitable for God.
		
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			That's what this means. Now, you have a
		
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			pure concept of God, that you don't adulterate
		
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			that concept with any other corruption
		
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			in it.
		
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			We know that christians glorify God.
		
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			But the Quran comes along and says, you
		
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			may be glorifying God but you're certainly violating
		
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			because
		
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			your concept of God has been corrupted.
		
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			The Jews had their own version of commemorating
		
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			God, but certainly one thing missing from that
		
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			commemoration was
		
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			Now the Christians did it in their faith.
		
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			In their faith, they made Jesus divide and
		
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			all of that. That's a violation of tasbih.
		
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			The Jewish people did it in a very
		
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			different way, even though there were some issues
		
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			there too. But practically they said yes, God
		
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			gives laws.
		
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			But sometimes they're not the best laws. We
		
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			can change them.
		
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			So they violated Al Aziz al Hakim.
		
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			You understand?
		
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			So the What existed in the world
		
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			is some concept of god but it wasn't
		
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			the the the Allah
		
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			that is
		
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			And the Quran came and revealed to the
		
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			believers
		
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			the true meaning of subhan'Allah,
		
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			the true meaning
		
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			of But once you say that,
		
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			once any believer said that,
		
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			that statement itself was a promise. And that's
		
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			this is where I want you to stay
		
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			with me. That statement itself, to accept that
		
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			there is no God except Allah, to accept
		
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			that Muhammad is His Messenger
		
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			This was actually a promise
		
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			at the time.
		
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			Let's first talk about that time. What was
		
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			that promise? Now that I've accepted him as
		
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			the messenger, I understand that he is the
		
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			final messenger.
		
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			I understand this is the last
		
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			mission of guidance
		
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			given to this man. And these 23 years
		
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			that we call them, these 23 years of
		
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			the seerah,
		
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			Right? These are the most important 23 years
		
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			in the entire history of humanity and for
		
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			the entire future of humanity. And now that
		
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			I've accept I'm in I'm in the proximity
		
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			of this man, Muhammad
		
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			his burden
		
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			has now been shared with me.
		
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			I am now a part of his mission.
		
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			I don't just get to say that and
		
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			say, okay, I accept it and sit back.
		
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			This statement comes with a very heavy burden
		
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			that has now fallen on my shoulders.
		
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			Now when a burden comes on the Of
		
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			course the sahaba do this,
		
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			and this is why they stayed with the
		
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			prophet
		
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			through thick and thin. They migrated with the
		
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			prophet knew what
		
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			knew sahaba accepted Islam and financially sacrificed in
		
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			Madinah. In Badr, we we we put our
		
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			lives on the line. So the Muslims know
		
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			this. They know what it means to go
		
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			through difficulty. In order to understand the next
		
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			part of this khutba, I really want you
		
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			to understand
		
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			one more thing about Madinah that will help.
		
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			One more thing about the city of Madinah.
		
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			I want you to understand that the population
		
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			of Madinah,
		
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			the Muslim population of Madinah,
		
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			is actually 3 different populations.
		
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			If you understand that, your understanding of the
		
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			Quran that was revealed in Medina will become
		
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			a lot
		
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			easier. There are 3 populations in Medina. And
		
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			of course, this surah is revealed in Medina,
		
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			so this will help us.
		
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			The first population in Madinah
		
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			are what Allah calls
		
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			The best of the best, the first and
		
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			the foremost,
		
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			whether they are from the migrants of Mecca
		
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			or they are from the Ansar.
		
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			This is the first category of belief.
		
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			These are the people that are the best
		
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			of us. These are the Abu Bakr as
		
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			in the, Iqdawna bin Khattab radiya abba ta'ala,
		
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			etcetera, etcetera. You know them.
		
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			The second
		
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			category is on the opposite extreme. Allah calls
		
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			them
		
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			the the hypocrites.
		
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			These
		
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			are of 2 kinds.
		
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			Well, some of them accepted Islam for the
		
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			wrong reasons. They accepted Islam because Islam is
		
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			winning, Might as well join the winning party.
		
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			That's one reason. The other is, they accepted
		
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			Islam because they thought it was nice.
		
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			But once they accepted it, they realized this
		
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			is a pretty heavy burden. Then they're like,
		
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			I don't wanna do all this work. I
		
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			mean, I like the Islam. I like the
		
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			Tawhid thing. I like the dhikr thing. But
		
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			this He wants a war? You want me
		
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			to go to war? You want me to
		
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			give up what? How much of my money?
		
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			You want me to what? Bring these guests
		
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			and have them live in my house? Come
		
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			on. What is this?
		
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			I thought you just give me Let me
		
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			just pray 5 times. That's good for me.
		
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			Don't give me these other requirements.
		
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			So they the bunafiqun were of this category.
		
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			Right? Either they they accepted Islam for the
		
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			wrong reasons or once they accepted Islam, they
		
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			only like some parts of Islam. They were
		
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			uncomfortable with other parts of Islam. And they
		
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			complained about it and even tried to sabotage
		
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			it.
		
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			So there's the the true believers and the
		
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			hypocrites. But there's a third category in the
		
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			middle. You could basically call them the regular
		
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			Muslims.
		
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			They came into Islam for good reason.
		
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			They wanna learn more,
		
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			and they haven't matured in their religion yet.
		
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			You can think of it like a new
		
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			Muslim.
		
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			Hasn't quite learned everything yet.
		
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			And these people in the middle there, you
		
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			can think of them as the majority.
		
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			And this majority
		
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			is being inspired
		
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			by the first group.
		
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			They're being inspired by the first group, and
		
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			they're sometimes also being influenced by the second
		
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			group.
		
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			Sometimes when they sit in the company of
		
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			Abu Bakr as Siddiq or Umar or Uthmar,
		
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			when they sit in that company, their iman
		
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			goes up and they feel inspired.
		
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			When they sit in the company, who says,
		
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			why do we have to go to war?
		
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			Everything was fine.
		
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			We could just be here and get along
		
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			with everyone.
		
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			Shouldn't Islam be about peace with everybody? They
		
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			sit there and say, I mean, that that
		
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			makes kind of that kinda makes sense.
		
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			But she'll appease 2. So now they're kinda
		
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			being pulled
		
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			on two sides. You understand?
		
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			And this is the population of Madinah.
		
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			When the Quran in Madinah came and said,
		
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			It actually included all 3.
		
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			But most directly,
		
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			it's actually targeting the middle population.
		
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			And it's targeting the middle population to tell
		
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			them, be like
		
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			the and avoid being like
		
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			the hypocrites. You understand?
		
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			This is why Allah will say something like,
		
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			Those of you who have faith, have faith.
		
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			What is how's that wickedly sentence?
		
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			It makes sense because those of you who
		
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			have come into faith now demonstrate
		
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			real faith,
		
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			like these people.
		
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			Or
		
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			Those of you who've claimed to have faith,
		
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			don't be like the ones who caused Musa
		
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			pain.
		
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			Who caused Musa pain? The
		
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			of Musa caused Musa pain. So So don't
		
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			be like
		
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			the in the time of Muhammad
		
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			That's what they're being told.
		
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			So Allah is telling the this middle population
		
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			and I that's important to note because actually
		
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			I consider myself and most of us, we
		
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			give benefit of the doubt. We belong kind
		
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			of in the middle.
		
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			Sometimes we are inspired by those that are
		
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			doing better than us. Other times, we're influenced
		
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			by people that are doing much less than
		
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			us and they wanna pull us. We're we're
		
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			kind of being pulled in both directions. And
		
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			these surahs are talking to the people that
		
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			are pulling in both directions.
		
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			And to them, Allah is saying, why are
		
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			you saying
		
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			things you don't do?
		
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			Why are you saying things you don't know?
		
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			Some of the I want you to know
		
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			one at least one story about this. It's
		
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			really cool.
		
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			Before This surah came after Uhud. I keep
		
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			repeating so it gets drilled in your head.
		
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			But before Uhud
		
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			before Uhud,
		
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			the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam took a
		
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			survey and he wanted to know
		
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			the opinions on where we should fight. And
		
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			the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam's own opinion
		
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			was we should fight from inside the city.
		
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			We know the city, we know the terrain,
		
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			we can break up the larger forces because
		
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			they won't be able to take us head
		
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			on. They're gonna have to go through the
		
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			streets and the alleys, and we can set
		
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			up traps and corners, and have strategic advantage
		
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			because we know the terrain and they don't
		
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			know the terrain. So if we make this
		
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			into an urban war, as opposed to a
		
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			war on the battlefield, we will have strategic
		
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			advantage.
		
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			Some new Muslims had come into Islam after
		
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			Badr.
		
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			Now Badr did not take place in the
		
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			city. Badr took place on the battlefield.
		
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			So they came into Islam after Badr and
		
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			they were all, man, I missed out. You
		
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			guys smart in Badr? In the shawada of
		
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			Badr Arjannah?
		
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			And some of the new Muslims, some of
		
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			the younger men, they're like, You Rasool Allah.
		
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			No no no. We're not afraid of the
		
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			enemy. We'll go out in the we'll go
		
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			out in the field and face the enemy.
		
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			Why do we have to hide in our
		
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			homes and rooftops, etcetera? We'll go out and
		
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			face the alameen, and you know, face to
		
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			face. Go out in the and that that
		
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			was their they were inspired.
		
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			So they gave that suggestion to the Prophet
		
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			Even though the Prophet's own suggestion, alifatul salam,
		
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			was to stay inside the city.
		
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			Rasool Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam then listened
		
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			to them,
		
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			acknowledged their sentiment,
		
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			and they went out into And he doubled
		
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			his armor by the way, which was an
		
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			indication that he knew something bad is coming.
		
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			Something's coming.
		
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			Now, we all know what happened in wafilat.
		
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			After waha, Allah revealed Surah Al imran also.
		
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			And Surat Al Imran, Allah talked to those
		
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			young men, those people who were so fired
		
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			up to go face the enemy. And he
		
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			said to them,
		
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			You were the same people that were wishing
		
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			for death before you met with it. You
		
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			saw death coming at you at the battlefield
		
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			for the first time, and then you were
		
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			just standing there staring at it as if
		
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			to say staring at it
		
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			paralyzed. What happened?
		
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			It was so easy to make those comments.
		
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			You were fired up in the moment.
		
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			But when it came time,
		
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			you're not that person,
		
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			you know.
		
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			There are there are people that, you know,
		
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			now it's easy. It's even easier now, even
		
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			though I'm gonna relate this directly to now,
		
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			to become a keyboard warrior.
		
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			Brother, we have
		
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			to fight the kuffar.
		
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			Are you tapping this from the battlefield?
		
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			Did you did you take pause from
		
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			the the the the warfare and just make
		
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			sure you upload encouragement to the rest of
		
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			the ummah to?
		
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			Easy to talk.
		
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			Easy to say.
		
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			Now with that in mind, just just because
		
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			you're inspired,
		
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			cause you heard inspirational
		
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			stories and you wanna repeat those stories,
		
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			saying that stuff is something else,
		
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			doing that stuff is something else.
		
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			You can get inspired by those who've done
		
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			amazing things and then start talking big, but
		
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			talking big is not the same as doing
		
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			big.
		
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			It's truly just it's massively
		
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			disgusting
		
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			to Allah
		
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			that you say things that you don't do.
		
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			There's lots to say here, but it's one
		
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			thing that scholars talk about here
		
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			is it's bad when you don't do something
		
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			that you're supposed to. But it's much worse
		
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			when you say you're gonna do it,
		
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			and then don't do it.
		
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			When you're talking big. That's that's disgusting in
		
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			the sight of Allah.
		
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			And the word disgust is muqd is a
		
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			practice of the ancient Arabs.
		
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			Before Islam, a man would have, you know,
		
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			many wives. The the the father would have
		
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			many wives and he would divorce some of
		
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			his extra wives or the father would die.
		
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			And the son would marry his stepmothers.
		
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			And this was considered disgusting but they did
		
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			it anyway. This was called maqd.
		
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			Allah uses that word.
		
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			That's how disturbing it is that things come
		
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			out of your mouth that have nothing to
		
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			do with action.
		
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			So then the question then becomes, by the
		
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			end of as I reach the end of
		
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			this halban, what is the action we gotta
		
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			take?
		
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			What's the action? And the action comes in
		
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			the 4th ayah, where Allah does talk about
		
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			fighting but he gives a prerequisite.
		
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			It's actually an incredible ayah. My entire intention
		
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			to share this khadba with you was this
		
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			ayah.
		
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			No doubt Allah is the one who loves
		
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			those who fight in his path in rows.
		
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			Rose.
		
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			Allah added a new
		
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			qualification.
		
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			It's not enough that you want to fight.
		
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			It's not enough that your intentions are good.
		
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			It's not enough that you're brave.
		
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			That's not
		
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			enough.
		
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			If you truly mean what you say, you
		
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			will show me discipline.
		
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			Allah
		
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			loves
		
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			those
		
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			who
		
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			fight
		
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			Allah They have to show that what happened
		
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			at what happened at Guwahand?
		
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			Some people left their position.
		
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			They weren't soft.
		
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			They weren't sufuf.
		
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			Allah is saying, your intentions, even if they're
		
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			good, are not enough.
		
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			You need to demonstrate the highest form of
		
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			discipline.
		
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			You have to demonstrate the highest form of
		
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			discipline. Now,
		
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			here's This is food for thought for you
		
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			because we only have, you know, 5 minutes
		
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			and I'll be done.
		
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			If the Muslims were not a military, they
		
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			were not an organized army with years of
		
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			training
		
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			and military exercises, and if you know anything
		
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			about the military, they have they they There's
		
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			training for years. You wake up at a
		
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			certain time. You eat at a certain time.
		
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			You dress. Your sergeant walks in. You all
		
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			stand up. There's a there's a code you
		
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			have to follow and it gets drilled in
		
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			your head. That regiment gets drilled in your
		
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			head year after year after year after year
		
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			So you're ready for the real thing. So
		
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			when you're when you're you know, your battalion
		
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			commander, your lieutenant whoever says go, then you
		
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			just go
		
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			immediately. There's there's no gap between the issue
		
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			of the command and the execution because that's
		
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			life and death. And it cannot happen unless
		
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			you have the highest form of discipline. Now
		
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			the question is, if the Muslims,
		
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			2 days before
		
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			uhud, 2 days before They're not
		
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			an organized military. You think they can in
		
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			2 days become
		
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			They could just become an organized military? They
		
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			can't. And then Allah gave an analogy. He
		
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			said,
		
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			It is as if they are a wall
		
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			that is cemented together with melted copper or
		
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			melted lead.
		
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			Now, I want you to know this. This
		
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			is one of the most incredible analogies in
		
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			the Quran.
		
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			You cannot become that because it takes time
		
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			to pour the lead, it takes time to
		
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			get all the bricks, it takes time to
		
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			size all the bricks, or even, you know,
		
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			to chisel them, to make them the right
		
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			size, to fit where they're gonna fit, to
		
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			build the foundation, to put the wall. How
		
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			tall should the wall be? How thick should
		
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			it be? If it's too thin and you
		
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			build it too tall, it's gonna tip over.
		
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			If you put a too heavy of a
		
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			stone too high up, it's gonna crack the
		
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			other ones. If there's a small gap, you
		
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			can't put a big stone there. You have
		
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			to put a small stone there. What is
		
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			this one analogy that they are a they
		
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			are a building
		
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			that is leaded together
		
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			is actually saying, you are not in a
		
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			position to fight until you as a community
		
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			become completely and utterly disciplined
		
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			like the walls in a building the or
		
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			the bricks in a building.
		
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			Until that happens, you're not ready.
		
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			Just don't even talk big. 1st show me,
		
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			baniyanu marsus, then we'll talk.
		
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			That's that's the idea.
		
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			And the thing I want you to just
		
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			as I leave you, I want you to
		
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			think about this. The analogy of a building
		
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			that been leaded together,
		
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			There's a brick at the bottom of the
		
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			wall.
		
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			There's a brick at the top of the
		
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			wall.
		
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			Those two bricks are not connected to each
		
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			other.
		
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			They have no connection to each other.
		
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			The brick at the bottom of the wall
		
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			is connected to the bricks that are on
		
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			the side of it, on the bottom of
		
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			it, all around it. Isn't it?
		
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			So it has to play its role
		
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			down here.
		
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			That one has to play its role
		
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			up there.
		
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			So if you truly want to be part
		
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			of a unified wall,
		
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			you need to demonstrate unity in your locality.
		
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			You can't say, I over here need to
		
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			be united with those over there. How come
		
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			we're not united
		
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			and you're a wiggly piece of the wall
		
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			down here?
		
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			You understand?
		
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			What do Muslims complain? We complain the ummah
		
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			is not united. We're not united with the
		
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			Muslims in Africa and the Muslims in India.
		
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			Are you united with the Muslims in Gaithersburg?
		
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			You're united with the Muslims inside this hall?
		
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			You're united with the Muslims you grew up
		
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			with or
		
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			your friends,
		
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			like, in your family?
		
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			When when Allah says, like
		
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			understand the analogy. There's something very profound being
		
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			given here.
		
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			If you can't demonstrate that kind of discipline
		
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			in at the most localized level,
		
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			if the brick is not doing its job,
		
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			if the lead is not doing its job,
		
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			then the building is gonna collapse.
		
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			Then there is no building.
		
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			When he says, Allah loves he didn't just
		
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			say, Allah loves those who fight. Fighting is
		
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			a later problem.
		
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			The building is the first problem.
		
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			That building that's ready to stand in front
		
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			of a storm,
		
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			it's not gonna collapse.
		
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			And so the last minute,
		
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			I'll tell you every part of a building
		
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			plays a role.
		
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			There's a brick that gets to be on
		
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			top.
		
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			There's a brick that has to be on
		
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			the bottom. And there's a brick that's in
		
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			the foundation. Or there's pieces of the building
		
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			that are in the foundation.
		
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			Nobody even sees it. We're standing on it.
		
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			People see the building and say, Wow, this
		
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			is a nice wall.
		
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			And the foundation gets upset, Man, everybody steps
		
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			on me and nobody gives me credit, nobody
		
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			walks over me and says,
		
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			It's pretty nice foundation 20 feet deep.
		
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			I need some credit too. You know what?
		
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			Maybe if I got out of the bottom
		
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			and I popped up a little bit, people
		
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			would notice me
		
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			and then I'd get some recognition around here.
		
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			Do you understand what I'm saying?
		
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			Instead of someone understanding their role and appreciating
		
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			their role
		
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			You know what happens? What happens in the
		
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			corporate office?
		
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			If you're in a department
		
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			and you want your department to succeed, it's
		
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			a different attitude. But if you're in a
		
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			department and you just care about the promotion,
		
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			there are 2 things that you can do.
		
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			Either you could exceed, excel so much that
		
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			you'll just move up naturally. Or you sabotage
		
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			your leader so that he gets fired or
		
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			she gets fired so you can take their
		
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			job.
		
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			So you're you're a brick but you're actually
		
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			shifty. You're you're not happy where you are.
		
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			You don't wanna get cemented here. You're like,
		
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			I I could do better.
		
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			I need to go somewhere else. I need
		
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			to go somewhere else.
		
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			This ayah gave the sahaba very clear understanding
		
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			that no role is insignificant.
		
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			Think think about even a war.
		
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			Think about even war. In a war, there's
		
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			the battle, there's the people that are making
		
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			the weaponry, there's the people that are supplying
		
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			the food, there's the people that are working
		
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			in the the hospital
		
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			to remedy the soldiers. There are people that
		
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			are setting up the camps. The people that
		
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			are taking care of the animal. All these
		
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			different roles are being played. The logistics are
		
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			as much a part of a military operation
		
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			as the battlefield. In fact, the logistics are
		
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			maybe 80%.
		
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			That's 80% of what's going on.
		
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			And the logistics are not glorified,
		
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			but they're part of a larger operation. The
		
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			Muslims were being told to think, stop acting
		
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			like you need to be the hero.
		
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			Understand, you have to work together and build
		
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			something together.
		
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			You have to build a building together.
		
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			And this this is a sense that the
		
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			Muslims are given right after the chaos of
		
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			Uhud because in Uhud, we showed that we
		
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			still don't have the discipline that is needed.
		
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			Overall, we need to build that discipline. And
		
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			so Allah gave us that that profound message.
		
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			And that the the the implications of that
		
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			message carry on until the day of judgement.
		
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			May Allah Azzawajal, make us disciplined families, disciplined
		
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			communities.
		
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			May Allah Azzawajal allow us each of our
		
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			communities to become an example of
		
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			so that we can we can be given
		
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			higher and higher responsibilities by Allah and we're
		
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			able to carry them.
		
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