Celebrating The Gift of Guidance – Eid ul-Fitr Khutbah 2024

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The conflict between Islam and the current crisis, including the loss of property and the loss of family members, is affecting Muslims who have missed important events and lost their positions. The return of Islam to a new sense of normality is also discussed, with emphasis on finding something mixture between God and the world. The importance of celebrating events likeecca and responding to requests and challenges is emphasized, along with the need to address past issues and change religion.

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On behalf of the entire Bayena team, we

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wish you Eid Mubarak.

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Takabir Allah. May

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Allah accept it from us and from you.

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A special thank you to the wonderful community

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here at the European Islamic Centre in Oldham,

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Greater Manchester for hosting us this month and

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making Eid a special one.

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Alhamdulillah, we've concluded a remarkable month

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and Allah has given us the opportunity

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in his decree to be able to start

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and finish

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the most important time of the year an

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opportunity to earn our forgiveness

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an opportunity to start over again.

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What I wanted to dedicate this, discussion with

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you today, this reminder with you today on

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is

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2 fundamental things.

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The first of them

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is the conflict that we're all feeling

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this month of Ramadan

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and particularly at this time of Eid, which

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is supposed to be a time of celebration.

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But because what's going on in Gaza

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and other significant places where Muslims are being

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oppressed

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in unthinkable ways,

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like the Uyghur Muslims in China,

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like what's happening in Yemen,

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when you think of those atrocities, it's hard

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to feel like celebrating.

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And it's hard to feel like this is

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a time where Muslims should be

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feeling happy.

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Somebody asked themselves, how can I feel happy

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when all of this is going on?

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But that's not the only thing. Sometimes even

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if there's no tragedy going on, which there

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are right now, there are genocides taking place

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at the moment.

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But even if they weren't taking place, sometimes

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there are things happening in our own life.

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There are things happening or tragedies happening in

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your own life. Is it difficulty you're going

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through? You don't feel like celebrating.

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So nobody's life is free from difficulty.

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What I wanted to start with

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is a little bit of history,

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something we should all appreciate about what we

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are celebrating.

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Ramadan,

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the instruction for Ramadan, Allah gave it to

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the prophet

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when he moved to Madinah.

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Arguably, this was just before

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Badr time, actually,

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that the month of Ramadan was revealed. So

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it's very, very early on in the move

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to Madinah that Rasul alaihi wa sallam received

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the instruction,

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and the revelation came about this is the

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month that we should be fasting, and the

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instructions were revealed in Surat Al Baqarah. I

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want to

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I want you to think about who was

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listening to these instructions.

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The Muhajirun and the Ansar. There are 2

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groups of Sahaba.

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There are those that left their homes and

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they came with the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa

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sallam. The migrants, we call them the Muhajirun

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and those who were helping them and giving

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them housing and taking care of them and

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giving them new hospitality and new homes, those

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were the Ansar.

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Let's think about the muhajirul for a moment.

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Many of them left their families behind, didn't

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they?

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Many of them were tortured, beat and humiliated.

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And then not only all of that they

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left, they lost their properties, their business,

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everything and they came to Madinah.

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That's not sad. That's easy to read but

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if you and I had to go through

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something like that the pain of that doesn't

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disappear. It stays with you.

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Many of them lost

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family members

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in Mecca that were beat to death or

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tortured to death.

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This also happened among them, and they still

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carry that pain.

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And of course, even among them is the

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messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam who loves

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his people.

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He loves it. He loves them and

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of course we love people but Rasool Sallallahu

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Alaihi Wasallam had this special love for humanity

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particularly his own people and among them of

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course we have more love for our own

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family, so he has extra love for it

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for his own family, and within his family

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are people like Abu Jahl, and people like

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Abu Lahab who are causing him more pain

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than anybody else.

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And he carries that pain too.

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There's

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not just one, there are multiple tragedies that

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have already happened. There's not just one. 1

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after the other, after the other, after the

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other. That's just from the muhajirun's

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perspective.

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But then there's the alsar perspective.

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They're very happy that the prophet sallallahu alaihi

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wasallam has moved to Madinah. They're

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singing praises, they're thanking Allah that they're being

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honored to host the Messenger of Allah SallAllahu

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Alaihi Wasallam. A good number of them have

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accepted Islam and they're ready to make sacrifices

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to welcome these Muhajiroon, but

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they're not rich people.

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They're not well off,

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they barely have enough to get by themselves.

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The Quran describes them as

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They give other people preference over themselves even

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though they're starving.

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They themselves are starving.

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So now they are in this new difficulty,

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but there's another problem for them, the insar.

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Not only are they economically in a difficult

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situation, and they have to sponsor and support

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and completely carry entire new households,

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on top of all of that,

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by supporting and

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giving refuge to Rasulullah

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and the Muhajirun,

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they have made a new enemy.

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The Quraysh has become their enemy because

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from the Quraysh's perspective,

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you're giving my enemy support, you're giving my

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enemy refuge.

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So now they've made the most powerful tribe

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in the entire region, the most economically

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powerful tribe, the most feared tribe, the most

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respected tribe is the Quraysh. And now automatically

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the Ansar,

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who are not a military power, have now

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made the most powerful enemy in the entire

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region, just for helping the Muhajirun.

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That's what's happened. And pretty sore soon war

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is going to be at their doorstep. They

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have invited

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not just the sahaba, they have invited war

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to their doorstep.

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And there are go there's going to be

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badr not too too too long later.

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Then there's going to be uhad, then there's

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going to be ahazaab, there's going to be

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multiple

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military engagements

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that they didn't have to worry about war

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before but all of a sudden

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this new crisis has come their way. And

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in fact, in the

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in Badr Uhud Hazab, if you take stock

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of the shuhada,

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if you take stock if you take the

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numbers of people that were killed in battle

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from the Muslim side,

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actually, the larger number is the insar. It's

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more of the people of Madinah who were

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killed.

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So they carry the pain also of loss.

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But if you fast forward a little bit

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more, and, of course, Ramadan was revealed, Muslims

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were fasting, and Allah revealed that we're going

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to celebrate at the end of Ramadan, and

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they celebrated.

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With all of that pain, they celebrated.

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Then Uhud

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happened. And in Uhud,

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unlike Badr,

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70 of the leaders,

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very important people of Quraysh were killed in

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Badr, but 70 approximately

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a very influential and important sahaba including the

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Prophet's uncle

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were slaughtered

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in Uhud.

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Not only were they killed, their bodies were

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mutilated,

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cut open.

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That's what they did with them.

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And the lusul salallahu alaihi wasalam was in

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excruciating pain. In fact, he was even injured

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himself.

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From according to some reports, he was injured

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in 3 places on his face alone.

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Like there were there were spears that went

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through his jaw that had to be removed.

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The blood wouldn't stop coming out of his

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face, and they had to cover it with

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plaster. And the next week he's giving the

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khutbatul jum'ah,

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with that on his face.

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And the people

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who made the mistake of leaving their position

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were sitting in the khutba too.

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They were listening to that khutba also. But

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that year,

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Ramadan also came, and that year

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they fasted,

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and that

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year they celebrated read.

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The nakhzab and a year came where our

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mother Aisha

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was accused.

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And for several weeks

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the entire Muslim community wasn't going through a

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physical war. They were going through a psychological

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war.

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Imagine somebody saying something about your mother and

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it's spreading.

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They're going through that psychological war and that

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year also Ramadan came and they fasted and

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at the end of Ramadan they celebrated Eid

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year after year after year.

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And it's not like any of those years

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in the Sirah, if you study Sirah carefully,

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none of those years you can qualify as

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happy years.

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Every one of those years came with massive

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massive challenges,

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massive reasons to be traumatized,

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massive reasons to be devastated. And it's not

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like that was a new problem, you're still

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not fully recovered from previous injuries.

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They're all piling up. And yet Allah told

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the believers to celebrate.

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So what how are they celebrating?

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The question is how in the world are

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they celebrating? I think that's the wrong question

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is what I wanted to dedicate this discussion

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to. This reminder that I wanted to give

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you

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is that that's the wrong question.

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It's not how could they celebrate,

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it's why are they celebrating

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and what are they celebrating. If you understand

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the answer to those questions properly,

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then you will understand how.

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It's the what and the why first.

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Allah gave

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Rasool of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam the final

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message to humanity, the Quran.

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And Allah gave that message

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1000 of years after Ibrahim, Alayhi Salaam, made

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du'a

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when he was building the Kaaba, you Allah

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send a messenger among them,

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1000 of years ago this place was empty.

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It was desert. There was nothing there. Ibrahim

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Alayhi Salaam was building these foundations and he

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made the dua that You Allah, a monk

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because he was building it alongside Isma'il Alayhi

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Salaam from our children, when we have many

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many many offsprings many generations later. You Allah,

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among them send 1 messenger who will read

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your book to them. You read your ayat

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to them. Teach them the book. Teach them

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wisdom. And 1000 of years later,

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Allah answered that dua

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now it's time for you to recognize

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that that dua has been answered.

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Now it's time for you to celebrate

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the answering of the dua of Ibrahim alaihi

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wasallam.

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Guidance has finally

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come. Now you know how to live your

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life.

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Now you know what is right from what

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is wrong. Now you know who your rabb

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truly is. There are other religions in the

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world who believe in God and study their

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concept of God, and you will find something

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twisted and turned in every every one of

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them.

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Study just forget about the religious rituals and

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the practices just study what they think about

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God.

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Just what how they see God and how

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we understand Allah and what Allah told us

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about himself,

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how he introduced himself to us, how he

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purified

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all of the corruptions

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that were associated with him. Some religions had

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gods. The only way to make those gods

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happy is you have to sacrifice someone

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or something.

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Some gods only happy with 1 race,

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not happy with any other race.

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Some gods, other people,

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you can't even talk to that god directly,

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you have to go through somebody else to

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talk to that god.

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That's the systems that were in place,

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and Allah cleansed all of that and connected

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us to Him directly, subhanahu wa ta'ala, and

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that's actually part of the meaning of tasbih

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to remove all of the impurities

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from who understanding who Allah is.

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We're celebrating

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return, the return to the religion of Ibrahim

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alayhis salaam.

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That's what we're just like he broke all

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the idols. You know his story.

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We're actually celebrating

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that Allah restored

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the original teachings of Ibrahim alayhis salam and

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made them permanent until until judgement day.

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That's what we're celebrating. We're celebrating the obedience

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to Allah on his terms.

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People didn't know how to make their God

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happy. So they said, maybe if we kill

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the first, you know, we kill a baby,

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then their God some people sacrifice children to

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make their Gods happy.

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Other people, you know, dance naked to make

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their god happy.

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They tried to get creative. What does this

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god want from us? Because there's some people

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wanted rain, they're like, the rain's not coming,

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We have to have a special ritual to

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make it rain.

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Or we're about to go to war. We

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need a special ritual to to win this

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war. What do we do for our God

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to become happy? And Allah made it very

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clear to us in his book. What does

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he want from us?

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And he in fact, first first he let

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us know that his relationship with us is

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not even a transaction.

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You don't do something for Allah and only

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then Allah does something for you. It doesn't

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work that. Allah provides anyway.

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I don't want them to provide

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me. I don't want that they should feed

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me. Allah is the one who keeps giving

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over and over again.

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Allah is the one who gives. So we

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don't have to go to some temple and

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make a sacrifice and put it in front

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of the idol and wait for something good

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to happen. We don't need to do that.

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We could just make dua to Allah who's

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our razak anyway. He was providing us before

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we could even open our mouth.

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He was providing for us before we could

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even speak for ourselves.

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He provides even the disbeliever.

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This is what Allah does.

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Allah introduced us to what does He it's

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not that we're in a transactional relationship with

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Allah but Allah introduced us to what is

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it that he finds pleasing.

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How do you become someone who's content with

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your rab and your rab is content with

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you?

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The few good things he wants you to

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do, the few harmful things he wants me

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to stay away from.

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He will make good and pure things permissible

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for them, He will make filthy things

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impermissible for them.

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That's what Allah gave.

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He made life easy. Allah said, yuridullahulhukhafifa

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ankumwakuliqalinsanooda'ifah

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Allah wants to make your burden lighter for

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you.

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Allah wants to lighten your burden. Life is

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hard and when you follow Allah's word, life

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becomes easier.

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He wants to remove burdens from you, and

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human beings were made weak.

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We make

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bigger problems for ourselves, and Allah has helped

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us remove those problems just by obeying it,

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just by obedience. And what are we celebrating

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at the end? Look at the Ayah. The

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the ayah of Ramadan is remarkable. It tells

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tells you so many things. By the end

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of the ayah, when we complete the count

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of the fasting which we have, Alhamdulillah.

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Allah says, litook litookmillooooda'idah.

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So you can complete the count.

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So you can complete the count. Walitukabirullahahaalamahadaqum.

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So you can declare Allah's greatness the way

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He guided you.

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Listen to that carefully. So you can declare

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Allah's greatness the way He guided you. On

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the way here, many of you know the

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sunnah of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. So

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even on the way coming to this prayer,

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you were saying, Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar

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la ilaha illallahu Akbar Allahu

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Akbar Wallillahilham.

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We were declaring Allah's greatness, but declaring Allah's

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greatness is not just words, is it?

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When we weren't eating all month,

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even though our body was telling us to

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eat, when we weren't drinking all month, even

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though our body was telling us to drink,

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we were declaring Allah's greatness, because Allah was

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greater than our thirst, Allah was greater than

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our hunger, wasn't it?

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Allah was teaching us how, He was training

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us all month

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to understand what it means that Allah is

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greater.

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What does Allahu Akbar mean? Allah is greater

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than my thirst, Allah is greater than my

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hunger, Allah is greater than my desire, Allah

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is greater than my greed.

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He's greater. Na'id, this 30 days of training,

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now we should celebrate, You Allah,

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You made us stronger because any exercise you

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do consistently makes you stronger, doesn't it? This

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is an exercise of recognizing the greatness of

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Allah. You are now stronger and you're more

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able to recognize Allah's greatness and to live

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by Allah's greatness than you were before.

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Waikus Salam

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so now

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yeah man come on it's okay come

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on I mean everybody else went, wave to

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the camera

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we're celebrating that we're ready now to live

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a life

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where we can actually live

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allahu aqbar

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we can live by that

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we can actually any decision I'm about to

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make just like fasting

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maybe sometimes you forget that you're fasting in

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the beginning right and you're reaching for a

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glass of water and somebody reminds me hey

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you're fasting oh yeah I forgot

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Immediately, Allahu Akbar, isn't it?

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Immediately.

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Now in the rest of my life, any

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business decision,

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any communication,

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any message,

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any conversation,

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any dealing,

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any reaction, right before I'm about to have

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that reaction, I ask myself, oh wait, Allah

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Allahu Akbar, okay. I can't do that.

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I stopped myself.

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I'm celebrating

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the I've I've heightened my recognition

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of Allah's greatness.

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That's what I'm actually celebrating.

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And that I can celebrate even if the

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even if my entire life is on fire.

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Even if there's the greatest crisis going on,

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This gift of guidance,

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it doesn't depend on whether life is easy

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or hard.

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The Sahaba understood something.

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The Quran made them understand something.

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You can have any challenge in your life.

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Life can be easy and life can be

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difficult and the entire Ummah can go through

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multiple multiple multiple crises

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but one thing that will never change

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is that the gift of guidance

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the gift of revelation. Remember the way Allah

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talked about Ramadan. Shahru ramadan ladheeunzilafiil

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Quran uddanlinas

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This that was the beginning of the conversation.

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This is the month in which the Quran

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was revealed. A guidance for all people.

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We're celebrating that we committed ourselves to this

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guidance.

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Every year we're recommemorating

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that and it doesn't matter what our circumstances

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are.

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Even the words that many of you memorize

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by heart at the end of Suratul Asar,

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what

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does that even mean? When do you need

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sabr? You only need sabr when times are

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difficult.

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That's when you need it otherwise there's no

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need for sabr if times are good and

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you

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there's no need for you to have sabr

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We're actually even in the Surah, we're recognizing

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that with iman, with good deeds, with speaking

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out for the truth

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comes difficulty.

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This life is about difficulty.

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We're celebrating that we're ready to meet that

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difficulty and we will not disobey Allah when

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that difficulty comes. That's what we're celebrating.

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And because we're celebrating that,

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then even for the Sahaba, no matter what

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tragedy was going on, they can still celebrate

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the the obedience to Allah.

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Now I'm going to switch to the last

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part of what I want to share with

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you today.

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The last part of what I want to

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share with you today

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is,

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is difficult to talk about,

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and that is the way in which we

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celebrate.

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The way in which we celebrate.

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This is a time for families to get

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together. This is a time for exchanging gifts.

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This is a time for

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get togethers, and

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it's a joyous moment.

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But we cannot experience this moment while not

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being sensitive to those that are in pain.

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We cannot experience this moment forgetting

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that there are we were holding our I

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mean, I'm holding my son when I walked

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in here. My baby.

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That's when I walked in here. And I'm

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thinking about all those people that were hold

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that were burying their babies

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over the last several months.

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All those people that their the joy of

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their life was ripped away from them.

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They're also believers

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and Allah tested them in a way that

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I cannot imagine.

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I cannot bear the thought of it but

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Allah tested them in that way.

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And their pain because we are Qajasad, we're

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like one body, that's our pain too.

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That's our pain also. So while we celebrate

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the obedience to Allah, it cannot

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be completely absent from there is a crisis

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in the family.

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There is pain to be suffered.

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And that pain, even though we're celebrating deed,

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we're not gonna stop celebrating it because that

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celebration doesn't have to do with people. It

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has to do with Allah.

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It has to do with our worship of

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Allah. But at the same time, we we

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can celebrate Eid and feel the pain at

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the same time

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and do something about that pain at the

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same time.

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So this last message that I wanted to

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share with you is about how we celebrate

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Eid.

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Unfortunately,

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a lot of people have bad habits.

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InshaAllah, none of you are from them, so

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I'm not talking about you. So don't feel

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like I figured you out.

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People have bad habits and they're like I'm

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gonna cut back on this stuff, it's Ramadan

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man, I can't, I can't, it's Ramadan.

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And then when Ramadan's over,

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Beb Mubarak

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and the shayateen are also saying, Beb

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Mubarak, they just got unchained too. It's

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not Ramadan anymore

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so I think I'm gonna go back to

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some of the old stuff.

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Maybe not immediately, I'll give it a couple

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of days

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And you end up going back to how

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things were.

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And even the way we celebrate Eid sometimes

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because Eid, you know, what happened with the

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Christian people, with the Jewish people, with other

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faith traditions, they have celebrations. They have Christmas.

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They have Hanukkah they have they have their

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celebrations

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you know what happened to those celebrations they

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became commercialized

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right so they don't even know why they're

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celebrating they just know it's a time where

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a lot of sale a lot of stuff

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is on sale.

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A lot of stuff comes goes cheap and

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there are a lot of lights on on

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people's houses

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and people dress in

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and clothes and give each other gifts that's

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what they know and there's a lot of

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a lot of parties there's a lot of

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dinners and lunches

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there's a lot of extra food, lot of

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you know, that's that's what they know, that's

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that's what it's become.

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It's a time of great extravagance,

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It's a time of going over an extra.

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For us, the first thing was we're celebrating

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obedience to Allah.

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So the problem is

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if many of us are going to be

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celebrating the obedience to Allah by doing things

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that disobey Allah,

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like extravagance,

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like showing off,

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like

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being immodest,

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like being indecent, like clearly dis celebrate

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obedience

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to

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Allah Mubarakaq! While you're saying, celebrate obedience to

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Allah Mubaraka

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while you're disobeying Allah,

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and we're not seeing the irony of that.

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We're not seeing the irony of that.

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Now Allah told us, He alluded to read

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in the ayaat, and He said,

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so you can declare Allah's greatness the way

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He guided you

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and then at the end of all of

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that

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after walitaqabillwalaa'ala

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kumashkurool so you can be grateful, you can

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appreciate this gift of gratitude.

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The very next

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ayah is about

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dua.

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When my servant, my slave asks you about

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me, tell them I am near.

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Then I am near.

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I respond

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to the call, the prayer

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of the one who calls whenever they call.

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That's Allah's promise.

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But Allah added something and we forget that

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part.

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He said, faliastajeebwuli

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then they should try to respond to me

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too.

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Listen to that carefully.

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Here I am asking Allah, You Allah, I

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have a money issue. Help me solve this.

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You're the razik, Solve my problem. You Allah,

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I have a legal issue. You Allah, You're

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the one who rescues from any karb, any

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difficulty, any catastrophe.

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Solve my problem. You Allah, I have a

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marriage problem. You Allah, I have a child

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problem. You Allah, my son is becoming disobedient.

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You Allah, my health. You Allah, my mother.

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You Allah, my father. You Allah, the Ummah.

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You Allah, this. You Allah, that. We're asking

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Allah every kind of du'a, about ourselves, about

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our family, about the Ummah, about du'a, du'a,

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du'a, du'a, du'a, du'a, and Allah said, said,

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I will answer every one of those du'as.

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However,

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falyastajeebulee

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Remember the other Gods I talked about? They

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wanted sacrifices?

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You gotta put something in front of the

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altar then you get what you want?

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What does Allah want?

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He said, They should respond to me. They

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should try to respond to me. What

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do you mean? So that means I'm asking

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Allah for something

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but now Allah is saying, I've also asked

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for something,

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I've also made some demands.

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That means that I have to know what

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Allah is asking for.

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I have to study Allah's book. I have

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to let Allah speak just the way I'm

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speaking to Allah. Allah is also speaking to

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me.

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He also wants something from me and He's

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saying, I'm doing my part. I expect you

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to do at least try to do your

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part.

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At least try to do your part.

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And they should try to believe in then

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they should believe in me.

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Da'allahuabiya shudun so they can be set straight.

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Maybe

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therein lies the answer to our collective question.

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I can't speak to anybody personally. Sometimes people

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say, Why is it Allah answering my du'as?

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But us as a people, us as an

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ummah,

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when we collectively

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decide that we're not going to respond to

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Allah,

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we're not going to listen to Allah,

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We're going to do things our own way.

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We're going to turn this religion into something

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that makes us feel good,

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instead of actually this religion being something that

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is designed. By its design, your support your

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first priority is not your feelings, it's whether

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or not you're pleasing Allah.

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This religion is not serving you, you're supposed

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to serve Allah.

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Every other religion you'll find something. Those religions

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became something that serves the people.

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They should feel good.

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When the church saw that not enough people

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are coming to church, they started a church

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band.

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Not more people will come.

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Right? We should change the religion to cater

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to the audience.

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Even though we don't do that in our

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masajid, walhamdulillah,

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the individual can say, Yeah, but you know

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there are parts of Islam that feel pretty

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good. Other parts of Islam I can purposely

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ignore because I I am not really comfortable

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with. I don't really like them that much.

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I'm not gonna respond to this part of

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Allah's book and this part of Allah's book.

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I'm gonna pretend it's not there. I'm just

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gonna part talk about this part and this

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part and this part.

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And Allah is very clearly telling us

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They should try to respond to me.

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We want our duas to be answered collectively.

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We want Allah Azza wa Jal to give

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us relief

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to

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in our personal lives and across the world

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in the Ummah. Particularly what's on all of

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our conscience right now, in all of our

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minds right now, is the situation in Hazar.

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And Allah Azza wa Jal give the shuhada

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jannah

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and may Allah bring the oppressors to justice.

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But having said all of that, we have

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to do our part. We need to make

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our dua count.

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Like our dua has to have value.

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Our dua cannot just be words. Our dua

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has to live up to the condition that

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Allah gave us that we are celebrating, now

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we're actually in a position to make real

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dua to Allah. We showed Allah, Allah his

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Akbar for 30 days, now we know what

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Allahu Akbar means, now I'm going to live

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the rest of my life living up to

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Allahu Akbar and now I'm in this position

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to ask Allah, You Allah I responded to

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you

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and so I'm asking you also.

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That's actually the deal.

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That's actually this

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guidance that Allah has given us.

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One last thing as I leave you in

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the last minute that I have before we

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make tareed salah

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you know the very next ayah about after

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Ramadan, the Ayat of Ramadan in Surat of

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Dhakarrah.

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Right after that

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Allah azza wa Jal describes

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I won't go into details about that ayah.

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Read out read up on it yourselves.

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But listen.

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Right after Ramadan, the first thing Allah talked

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about is don't do corrupt things with your

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money.

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That's the first thing Allah talked about.

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It's as if if you've truly understood the

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greatness of Allah

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then you and I have truly understood the

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importance of being honest and halal in all

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of our financial dealings.

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Don't eat somebody else's money using falsehood.

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Don't lie about what you owe them.

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Don't scam somebody out of a deal.

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If you're a contractor,

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don't con your customer.

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If you're a lawyer, don't lie to the

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judge to win a case,

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So you can your client can win more

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money. That's Allahu Akbar in real life.

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It's not just Allahu Akbar when we stand

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in salah. It's not just Allahu Akbar when

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we're not eating while we're fasting. Now it's

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Allahu Akbar in money matters.

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That's actually the real test.

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That's the real and there are people that

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are that that owe inheritance money to their

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sister,

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to their to their

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to their mother, you

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know,

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and they're not giving it.

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There are people that owe inheritance money, there

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are people that are not giving mahar to

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their wahir. Money matters.

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And yet all of Ramadan they fasted,

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and Eid they're celebrating.

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What celebration is this when Allah is not

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aqbar in these things, When you don't respond

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to these things and then you say you,

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Iqbal Barak, I'm so happy, I'm so glad,

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give me a hug.

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We have to become honest with ourselves.

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We have to ask ourselves why the ummah

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ends up in the state that it is.

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Maybe, just maybe it has to do with

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my personal obedience to Allah, before we look

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at anybody else in the Ummah. Maybe I

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need to check where am I going wrong,

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where am I not responding to Allah, Because

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I really want Allah to hear my duas

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and I don't want Allah will not hear

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something that is insincere.

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Allah will not respond to something insincere. And

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this is the height of insincerity.

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Disobey Allah on the one hand and ask

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Allah on the other. May Allah have this

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Eid grant us all sincerity.

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May

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Allah truly allow us to celebrate the worship

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and the obedience to Allah. And may Allah

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Azza wa Jal bring us closer and closer

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to His word and put a love and

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concern for each other in all of our

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hearts.

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Hadith, did you have a good time, Adeed?

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Hey. Hey.

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Hey, everybody.

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This is Hadid. Hadid

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and we're having a good time, Hadid. And

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he's seeing this boy over there play, and

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he wants to play.

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Look at him.

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Look at him. Look at him. Look at

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Hi, baby. Hey. Don't bother, everyone.

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Hi, baby. Hey. Don't bother, everyone.