Nouman Ali Khan – Mariam AS Trial – The Real Purpose of Duaa

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The importance of having a daughter for Islam is highlighted, including the emotional impact of a woman named Mariam Sipsal who had a child. The use of "naive" in Arabic and "naive" in the language are also discussed, with the importance of "naive" in culture. The speaker encourages viewers to sign up for a website to learn the Quran and become a part of their lifestyle, while also highlighting the frustration of young people feeling frustrated with guidance.

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			And by the way, please remember those words
		
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			next time, any of you, if you're expecting
		
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			a child, and that you were hoping, and
		
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			your mother was hoping, and your father was
		
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			hoping, and your extended cousins were hoping it's
		
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			gonna be a son, and you have a
		
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			daughter.
		
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			You remember that Allah didn't highlight the birth
		
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			of a child like He did the birth
		
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			of Maryam salamun alaiha.
		
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			It's an honor to have a daughter. It's
		
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			a gift of Allah to have a daughter.
		
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			Our duas are a means by which we
		
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			connect to Allah. Our duas are not a
		
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			means by which this world becomes heaven.
		
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			This world is gonna be full of trials.
		
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			People that were much better than we are
		
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			had difficulty in life. Today's Khubba is dedicated
		
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			to a very unique individual mentioned repeatedly in
		
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			the Quran.
		
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			It's Mariam salamu alayha.
		
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			And the reason I decided to give a
		
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			khutbah on some aspects of her life that
		
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			Allah highlights in the Quran,
		
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			are actually inspired by a question somebody asked
		
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			me this week. Somebody came to me this
		
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			week and said,
		
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			that they've had a very close relationship with
		
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			Allah since childhood
		
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			and that they make du'a. They've made du'a
		
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			to Allah from a very early age, praying
		
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			tahajjud,
		
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			even even, you know, when they were a
		
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			teenager
		
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			and they whenever they asked Allah for something,
		
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			Allah provided. This person actually had a pretty
		
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			tough life. You know, father passed away at
		
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			an early age, no brothers. And this woman
		
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			has lived a pretty lonely life and basically
		
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			decided to really truly depend on Allah.
		
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			And so
		
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			as she grew and developed in
		
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			her years,
		
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			she found that Allah miraculously answers her prayers.
		
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			Every time she asked Allah for something, Allah
		
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			has never left her prayer unanswered.
		
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			So she developed this reliance and this closeness
		
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			with Allah and would always turn back to
		
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			Allah. And if I mean, she needs something,
		
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			she goes and prays 2 rak'ahs and she
		
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			makes dua to Allah. So really beautiful connection
		
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			she had with Allah. But where did the
		
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			question come from? The question came from a
		
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			fact that more recently she went through quite
		
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			a series of very unexpected difficulties in life.
		
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			And she decided that she's going to increase
		
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			her ibadah to Allah and increase her duas
		
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			because her problems have also increased.
		
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			So you figured the more your problems increase,
		
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			the more you're gonna ask Allah to help
		
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			you solve your problem.
		
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			And so she does that, and she prays
		
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			like she's never prayed before, fasts like she's
		
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			never fasted before,
		
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			begs Allah, cries to Allah, sheds tears before
		
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			Allah like she's never done before,
		
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			but the problems keep getting worse, they don't
		
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			they don't get any better.
		
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			And she starts thinking to herself, maybe Allah
		
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			is not happy with me because before I
		
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			used to pray and everything used to get
		
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			answered.
		
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			I've never had this problem before Every time
		
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			I had a need I turned back to
		
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			Allah and Allah solved my problem
		
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			But now I'm making dua after dua after
		
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			dua
		
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			and I continue to beg Allah and my
		
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			problems are not getting solved they're only getting
		
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			worse
		
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			What could possibly be the reason? And in
		
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			her mind, the reason was
		
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			I must have done something wrong. Allah must
		
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			no longer be answering my prayers because somehow
		
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			I've been disqualified.
		
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			I no longer I'm not in Allah's good
		
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			books anymore.
		
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			The reason I decided to give this Khutba
		
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			is that this is a very common
		
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			notion that can creep into somebody's mind
		
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			Now I get to Mariam salamu alayhi and
		
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			I really when she spoke to me I
		
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			remembered her because
		
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			the thing with Maryam Salamu 'alayha was even
		
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			when she was young
		
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			her birth
		
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			was strange It was mentioned in the Quran
		
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			Not many people's birth is mentioned in the
		
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			Quran
		
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			And you know the mother was expecting a
		
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			son but she had a daughter instead
		
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			And Allah says, they said dakarukal untha'
		
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			You know, which has a multiple multiple layers
		
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			of meaning, but I'll just highlight one of
		
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			them. This boy, this girl is like like
		
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			no other boy. This girl is special.
		
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			And by the way, please remember those words
		
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			next time any of you if you're expecting
		
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			a child and that you were hoping and
		
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			your mother was hoping and your father was
		
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			hoping and your extended cousins were hoping it's
		
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			gonna be a son
		
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			and you have a daughter
		
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			You remember that Allah didn't highlight the birth
		
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			of a child like He did the birth
		
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			of Maryam salamu alayhi
		
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			It's an honor to have a daughter It's
		
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			a gift of Allah to have a daughter
		
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			And it's actually
		
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			the behavior of the mushrikoon
		
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			to be upset that you had a daughter
		
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			وَ يَهِ يهِ يهِ يهِ يهِ يهِهِ يِي
		
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			يِيمِي يهِي يهِيمِن غِينِي يهِ يهِيهِهِيمِن
		
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			يَيْنِيهِيهِي
		
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			attitude because
		
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			he had a girl
		
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			Girls are a blessing from Allah
		
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			and honor and said disrespect not only of
		
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			the gift of Allah but of the ayaat
		
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			of the Quran when you're upset that you
		
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			had a daughter
		
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			You should be mindful of that But that's
		
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			on a side note
		
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			This child is born, she's actually given a
		
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			special place in what was then the central
		
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			house of Allah
		
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			And Zakariyah alaihis salam used to take care
		
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			of her and every time he used to
		
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			come to visit her to make sure she's
		
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			doing okay because she was dedicated living in
		
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			the house of Allah Every time he'd walk
		
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			in, he'd see fruits, food in front of
		
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			her and he'd say, where did you get
		
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			these fruits? These fruits don't even grow here
		
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			and these fruits aren't even from this season
		
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			These fruits grow in the winter. These fruits
		
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			go in the summer. You have them in
		
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			off season. Where did you get them from?
		
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			She would respond
		
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			These come especially from Allah.
		
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			These fruits come to me from Allah. Imagine
		
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			somebody whose duas
		
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			are answered in a way that special delivery
		
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			from the sky of food for this woman.
		
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			And so when the sister was telling me
		
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			her duas get answered in life I remembered
		
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			Mariam salamu alayhi and how miraculously Allah would
		
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			intervene and provide for her even matters like
		
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			food things that we can get up and
		
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			get ourselves She didn't even have to get
		
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			up for that.
		
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			Very special child, very special woman.
		
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			And so about this woman, what I wanted
		
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			to share with you is later on in
		
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			life what happens to her.
		
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			When she's a young woman, angels visit her,
		
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			Tell her that she's going to have a
		
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			child The first thought in her mind, I'm
		
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			not married
		
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			How? What do you mean I'm gonna have
		
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			a child? Lam yam sasni bashar
		
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			No man has ever touched me What in
		
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			the world do you mean I'm gonna have
		
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			a child?
		
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			That is how your Master declared it It's
		
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			I'm sorry. We're just here to deliver the
		
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			news We're not here to negotiate whether this
		
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			is gonna happen or not That decision has
		
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			been made You're having a baby
		
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			Now she's in shock, what am I gonna
		
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			do?
		
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			She's gonna turn back to Allah and hope
		
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			that this will not happen to her, which
		
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			it's gonna happen.
		
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			And I'll fast forward a little bit for
		
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			you, just so you appreciate what happened to
		
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			this woman,
		
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			after she had the baby.
		
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			After she had the baby
		
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			and she came back to her town,
		
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			the entire community that looked up to her
		
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			as a as a Zahida, as a spiritual
		
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			woman, as a woman of worship and ibadah,
		
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			someone who even the Prophet of their community
		
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			Zakariyah had endorsed.
		
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			She grew up under the tutelage of Zakariyah
		
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			alaihis salam.
		
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			All the masjid community is standing there, she's
		
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			walking back with a baby,
		
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			and they all start
		
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			collectively, together, start humiliating her.
		
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			How could you do this?
		
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			What have you done?
		
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			Can you There are there are women in
		
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			the in the Jum'ah today.
		
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			No Muslim woman,
		
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			no Muslim woman can ever imagine being in
		
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			a situation where she's holding a baby,
		
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			and somebody's telling her that child is not
		
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			legitimate.
		
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			She cannot imagine that kind of humiliation.
		
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			No Muslim, and none of us can imagine
		
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			that kind of accusation for our sister, for
		
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			our mother, for our daughter We cannot imagine
		
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			that pain
		
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			It's beyond us
		
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			For the Muslim,
		
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			our dignity is greater to us than our
		
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			life
		
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			Our the sense of dignity Allah give it
		
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			has given us is more valuable to us
		
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			than even our life.
		
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			And she knows that when she goes back
		
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			with this baby, that's what they're gonna say.
		
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			It's one thing that they might be saying
		
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			it behind her back They're saying it in
		
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			public in front of her in front of
		
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			her
		
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			Now I want to take you back to
		
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			how she dealt with this problem
		
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			Because no amount of dua she made is
		
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			going to change what Allah has decided Allah
		
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			has decided that she has to face this
		
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			She has to stand in front of this
		
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			And what does she do? When the child
		
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			comes as she's about to deliver the child
		
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			She says
		
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			She says,
		
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			If only
		
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			if only I could die before this happens
		
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			Hopefully I die giving birth
		
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			That's she's it's all on her mind Because
		
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			that will be an easy escape from what
		
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			is coming
		
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			There is no other place in the Quran
		
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			anybody ever wishes for death
		
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			This is the only one
		
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			Think about that
		
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			Why is it there? Allah azzawajal is acknowledging
		
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			that sometimes people go through such traumatic humiliating
		
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			situations
		
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			where they wish they were dead.
		
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			Even that happens. That's how extreme her situation
		
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			became. And Allah acknowledged that and recorded that
		
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			in the Quran,
		
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			I read this and I was just insha'
		
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			like how did she just say that?
		
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			You know our Messenger alaihis salatu wa salam
		
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			told us,
		
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			None of you should ever wish for death
		
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			You should not wish for death
		
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			That's not something you should say casually.
		
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			And she's actually now wishing for death. Why?
		
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			Because this is an extreme case.
		
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			This is a crazy situation.
		
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			And so,
		
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			you know, the the humiliation she will face
		
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			is far worse than death.
		
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			So she says There are going to be
		
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			this is in the Quran for a reason
		
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			there are going to be people that are
		
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			going to be in humiliating situations and there's
		
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			no getting out of it there are going
		
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			to be people that are gonna have to
		
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			face their family
		
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			that are going to have to face false
		
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			accusations
		
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			that are going to have to face up
		
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			to a mistake they made in the past
		
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			Who knows?
		
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			And they're going to have to face that
		
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			kind of trauma and they'll have to find
		
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			comfort in the example of Mariam salamu alayha
		
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			But she didn't stop there. She said,
		
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			2 words nasyan,
		
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			mansiya.
		
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			It was incredible words.
		
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			Nasiya in Arabic, they say faal and fi'l.
		
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			These 2 ozan, they say nisi also. In
		
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			one qira, it's nisiyan. In another qira, it's
		
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			nisiyan.
		
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			This is similar to dib.
		
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			The in the Arabic language, you have two
		
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			kinds of words, dib and madbur.
		
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			The first of these words is actually used
		
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			I wrote this down for you
		
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			For an animal, for a goat, or a
		
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			ram, you don't call it
		
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			until it's ready to be slaughtered. It hasn't
		
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			been slaughtered
		
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			yet. Once it is slaughtered, it's called
		
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			it's called
		
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			not before, before it's called
		
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			She uses 2 words. Common translations say, I
		
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			wish I was dead, I wish I was
		
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			forgotten.
		
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			That's what the translation says. But there are
		
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			2 words of being forgotten. One of those
		
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			words
		
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			actually means, I wish, even though because she's
		
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			away from the Masjid, right? She's not back
		
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			home.
		
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			I hope nobody ever misses me.
		
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			They don't even ask the question, Where did
		
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			Maryam go?
		
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			I wish I could be invisible,
		
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			forgotten from people's memories right now, and nobody
		
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			even has the thought of me. This is
		
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			Nasi.
		
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			Nobody even thinks I existed.
		
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			There are people that go through the kind
		
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			of depression and anxiety where they don't come
		
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			out of home
		
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			They don't leave home They don't pick up
		
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			phone calls They don't answer text messages They
		
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			get anxious being around people They're going through
		
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			so much trauma that they wish they were
		
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			forgotten. As a matter of fact, even if
		
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			somebody knocks on the door, they say, I
		
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			wish they didn't remember me. I wish I
		
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			didn't have to face anybody.
		
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			They want to just crawl away, away, away,
		
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			away, but just be by themselves. This is
		
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			Nasiyyan,
		
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			and I'm and she's hoping already that she
		
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			dies
		
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			and nobody even comes looking.
		
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			And then later on, even if years go
		
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			by and nobody found out what happened to
		
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			her,
		
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			she's completely forgotten. There's no memory of her
		
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			in the future either.
		
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			I hope nobody thinks of me right now,
		
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			and I become invisible in the future also.
		
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			I wanted to highlight this woman's trial because
		
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			this is a woman of dua whose duas
		
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			used to get answered immediately.
		
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			She used to didn't even have to ask
		
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			for food, any news to come.
		
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			And this is the situation Allah put her
		
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			in.
		
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			This is the trial that Allah put her
		
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			in. Think about that.
		
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			This is not because Allah hates her. This
		
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			is not because Allah forgot about her. This
		
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			is not because Allah wants to humiliate her.
		
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			This is actually all of this ended up
		
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			becoming Allah honoring her. You know, you have
		
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			the case of Nuh alaihis salam
		
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			who was a very loving father.
		
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			He made he made dua he invited his
		
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			people to Islam
		
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			for 950
		
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			years can you imagine you think he made
		
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			dua for his son
		
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			you think he made dua for his wife
		
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			all those years or he didn't care about
		
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			them Someone who cares so much about his
		
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			nation,
		
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			they spit on him, they insult him, and
		
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			he goes back to them and makes dua
		
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			for them 950 years. You think he ignored
		
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			his own son, his own wife?
		
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			All those years of dua
		
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			and they didn't change
		
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			Isn't that the case?
		
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			Does he blame himself? Yeah, maybe I didn't
		
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			do something right or maybe Allah stopped listening
		
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			to me The reason I'm starting with that
		
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			is people that were much better than we
		
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			are much much better than we are were
		
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			also they also had similar problems there are
		
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			parents in the audience that make dua for
		
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			their kids
		
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			and they see that their children are going
		
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			away from the religion they're going down a
		
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			dark path and they can't control it and
		
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			they're making dua for them and they're not
		
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			seeing that their dua is being answered and
		
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			now they're getting frustrated Is there something wrong
		
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			with me? Why isn't Allah answering? Well, you're
		
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			not the first one to be put in
		
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			that position
		
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			Our Messenger
		
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			made lots of dua You don't think he
		
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			made dua for his uncles?
		
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			His family?
		
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			You don't think he considered abulaha when he
		
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			made dua' for guidance?
		
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			And if he did, despite all of that
		
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			loving dua' Allah himself tell him
		
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			you don't get to guide who you love
		
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			you know, there are people among us, there
		
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			are children among us who wish their parents
		
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			or their elders were acting in a more
		
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			guided way I've met so many young people
		
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			whose parents are in a haram explicitly haram
		
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			business and the children, the son and the
		
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			daughter is trying to tell the father and
		
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			the mother, please get out of this
		
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			We we're dependent on you You're paying my
		
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			college tuition You're providing for us But you're
		
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			providing for us from haram income And I'm
		
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			not in a position to provide for the
		
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			family right now But this is wrong And
		
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			then they're told you're being disrespectful You shouldn't
		
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			talk back to your parents etcetera etcetera Now
		
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			it's the flip side, it's the children making
		
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			dua for the guidance of their parents.
		
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			But things aren't changing, things are where they
		
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			were. These frustrating situations happen.
		
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			And then on top of that are situations
		
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			like health calamity.
		
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			Not just family problems, but health calamity.
		
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			Or you can't find a job, you have
		
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			money problems,
		
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			and you're making dua to Allah.
		
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			You ask yourself, I even did Iqaf last
		
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			year,
		
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			and I kept making dua and I didn't
		
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			pick my head up from sajda all night
		
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			long and still I have this problem still
		
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			it didn't go anywhere so the first thing
		
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			I wanna remind myself and all of you
		
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			is that Prophets
		
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			Prophets
		
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			all of them
		
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			Much before us, Allah mentions their duas consistently
		
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			in the Quran
		
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			And Allah also mentions their problems consistently in
		
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			the Quran
		
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			You don't think for example
		
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			that Yaqub
		
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			the father of 12 sons made du'a for
		
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			all of his sons?
		
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			And especially for his son Yusuf when he
		
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			lost his son Yusuf you don't think he
		
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			made dua for a use of safety that
		
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			Yusuf should come back home that he could
		
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			spend he could look at his beautiful son
		
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			once again
		
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			we know that he cried so much he
		
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			lost his eyesight
		
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			he lost his eyes over crying over his
		
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			son
		
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			and all of those du'as for so many
		
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			years go unanswered and then they eventually they
		
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			get answered
		
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			you don't think that, you know, the mother
		
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			of Musa alaihis salaam when she put her
		
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			baby in the water
		
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			and it the river just takes the basket
		
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			away the basket could flip over anytime and
		
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			how do you know the basket is waterproof?
		
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			How do you know it's not gonna leak?
		
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			How do you know it's not gonna hit
		
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			a rock and it's done?
		
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			You know, it's you're throwing something in a
		
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			river It's not a jaw It's a baby
		
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			in a river You don't think that mother
		
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			is making dua'a to Allah?
		
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			And notice the difference In that case, in
		
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			the case of Musa's mother, she makes dua'a
		
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			to Allah and a few hours later she's
		
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			reunited with her son
		
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			just a few hours later
		
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			by the time the baby is hungry for
		
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			the next meal he's back with his mother
		
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			and in the other case with the case
		
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			of Yusuf alaihis salam he was separated from
		
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			his father
		
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			but he wasn't reunited with his father for
		
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			many years
		
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			for many many years
		
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			we are going to go through difficulty in
		
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			life
		
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			and our all of our problems are not
		
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			going to be solved because we made a
		
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			dua to Allah understand the reality of dua
		
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			what is the purpose of
		
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			dua? We often confuse
		
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			dua with talab
		
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			talab in Arabic means to ask for something
		
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			to demand something
		
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			Dua means literally to call
		
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			That's what it means
		
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			I called you, I invited you,
		
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			I cried out to you This is Dua
		
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			When we make dua to Allah, sometimes in
		
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			that dua we are making demands It's true
		
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			We're making requests
		
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			But we should never forget that all of
		
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			those requests You know what they are at
		
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			the end of the day? It's a humble
		
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			slave of Allah turning back to Allah
		
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			and begging Allah
		
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			to help him with whatever problem But it's
		
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			more than Allah solving your problem It's just
		
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			the act that you communicated with Allah that's
		
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			the most valuable thing Our duas
		
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			are a means by which we connect to
		
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			Allah Our duas are not a means by
		
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			which this world becomes heaven
		
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			This world is gonna be full of trials.
		
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			People that were much better than we are
		
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			had difficulty in life. That's okay.
		
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			We created all human beings in toil, and
		
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			labor, and struggle. Struggle is a part of
		
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			life. The purpose of dua is to help
		
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			you and me deal with those struggles, and
		
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			to never forget that Allah is with us
		
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			whether it's hard times or easy times. May
		
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			Allah not make us people that lose faith.
		
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			May Allah honor us, and and make help
		
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			us remember that no matter how much people
		
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			try to humiliate you, people try to put
		
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			you down, people insult you like they did
		
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			Mariam
		
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			Allah still honors you. There's a big difference
		
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			between what people say about you and what
		
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			Allah thinks about you. Because if you go
		
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			what by what people said, said, then Mariam
		
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			was the most humiliated insulted person in society.
		
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			And if you go by what Allah says,
		
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			she's one of the most honored women in
		
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			all of human history. So we go by
		
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			what Allah says. Allah is the one who
		
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			honored us.
		
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			We honored the children of Adam.
		
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			May Allah make us dignified
		
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			before Allah
		
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			before He makes us dignified before people.
		
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