Nouman Ali Khan – Striking Examples From the Quran #20 Fading Foam

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The importance of not allowing people to talk over the Quran is discussed, including the need to be quiet and listen to the Quran to avoid burning one's good deeds. The process of building a jewelry or a utensil by the influence of Allah involves cleansing metal, removing impurities, and creating new foam. The importance of deification, deification, and beauty is emphasized, and the need to learn from the world and pursue beauty and purpose in one's life is emphasized. The importance of victory and protecting people from diseases is also emphasized. The speaker emphasizes the importance of educating oneself and allowing oneself to contemplate the word of Islam, as well as the potential for Islam to be a major population in the future.

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			Everyone once again.
		
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			I I pray that Allah accepts our worship,
		
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			especially in this last part of Ramadan. And
		
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			then he allows all of us to
		
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			capture the blessings of Laylatul Qadr,
		
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			and that he uses that this this precious
		
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			time for all of us to overlook
		
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			our sins, to forgive our past mistakes,
		
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			and to allow us to live as better
		
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			slaves of Allah into until the time that
		
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			we're ready to meet him.
		
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			A couple of things I wanted to say
		
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			that are, or maybe just one thing I
		
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			wanted to say outside of the context of
		
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			this lecture. Just that I know people are
		
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			watching online also and a lot of you
		
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			here. Just some things about the
		
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			the the adab of the Quran and some,
		
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			kind of part of the relationship we should
		
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			have with the Quran. Taraweeh is going on.
		
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			You know, sometimes people step out, they make
		
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			they come back in. Sometimes I walk in
		
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			a little bit later into the masjid. Salah
		
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			is already going on.
		
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			And, some of you are excited to see
		
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			me or see each other, and you start
		
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			saying salaam to each other. How are you?
		
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			How's it going? Things like that. Right?
		
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			Allah has said in the Quran,
		
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			Allah says when the Quran is being recited,
		
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			then,
		
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			you know, listen
		
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			to it carefully
		
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			and remain silent,
		
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			like, don't talk
		
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			when the Quran's being recited.
		
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			So now what happens sometimes is you're walking
		
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			and the imam is leading the prayer so
		
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			everybody can hear the Quran. Even if you're
		
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			not praying, you can hear the Quran, and
		
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			somebody comes, how are you? I just have
		
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			a very small question or
		
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			can I can I do or, you know,
		
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			you wanna have the conversation?
		
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			And now,
		
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			I need to I know some everybody else,
		
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			I sometimes I try to use sign language
		
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			like,
		
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			And sometimes that's clear, or sometimes I actually
		
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			have to say we can't talk over the
		
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			Quran.
		
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			And so but but this is a habit
		
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			you need
		
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			to develop for yourselves,
		
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			and this is a habit you need to
		
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			develop into your children. Sometimes kids are playing
		
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			in the back, and they're not joining the
		
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			prayer, and that's okay. But even if they're
		
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			not joining the prayer,
		
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			part of your training at home should be
		
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			even if you're not praying and the Quran's
		
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			being recited,
		
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			we need to remain silent.
		
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			And sometimes you have, for example, Quran playing
		
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			in the car because it's Ramadan. Right? So
		
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			you're listening to recitation in the car,
		
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			and then you get a phone call or
		
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			you're talking to your wife or somebody in
		
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			the car while the Quran is playing. You
		
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			know, it's better for you to just pause
		
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			the Quran playing and then have that conversation
		
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			then allow the Quran to be background noise
		
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			while you're having conversation because it's the word
		
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			of Allah. It deserves
		
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			that respect and Allah
		
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			has explicitly said that that's what it deserves.
		
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			That's what the Quran deserves. So even if
		
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			I'm if I can hear the Quran and
		
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			I'm not even in the salah, I should
		
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			still be quiet.
		
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			I should still be quiet. And,
		
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			some of you understand this this kind of
		
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			etiquette of the of the
		
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			in the context of. Right? So when you
		
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			walk into and the is going on and
		
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			your best friend walked in, you're not gonna
		
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			be like, yo, I haven't seen you forever,
		
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			man. Where you been?
		
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			It's.
		
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			Everybody knows you're not supposed to do that.
		
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			Right? So you already know that you don't
		
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			wanna burn your good deeds, but expand that
		
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			same etiquette,
		
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			that same,
		
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			you know, decorum that you observe
		
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			to not want to burn your good deeds
		
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			during the the Jumu'ah Khutba or during the
		
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			salah, the same thing should be the same
		
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			courtesy should be awarded to the Quran if
		
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			it can be heard
		
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			if it can be heard, which is why
		
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			just on a on a side note, you
		
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			know, there's some places in the in the
		
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			Muslim world sometimes people get excited and they
		
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			wanna put the Quran on loudspeaker in the
		
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			neighborhood,
		
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			right, in the market. They wanna put the
		
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			Quran on loud speaker and like the whole
		
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			neighborhood is just buzzing with Quran recitation.
		
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			The The problem the only problem I have
		
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			with that is you're keeping people from doing
		
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			their business and the only way they can
		
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			do their business now is by disobeying this
		
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			verdict of Allah himself. You should be quiet
		
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			and listen to the Quran. So you should
		
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			there's an environment in which the the Quran
		
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			recitation should be happening. And when you find
		
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			yourself in that environment, then you and I
		
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			should observe that to the best of our
		
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			ability. May Allah forgive our shortcomings and may
		
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			Allah make us attentive listeners and benefitters from
		
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			his own words. Okay. So today is one
		
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			of the most
		
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			rich powerful examples,
		
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			in early Quran.
		
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			Hey. Who's this little guy?
		
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			Hey,
		
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			you. What's up? Yeah.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			Alright. That's your guy? Okay. Alright.
		
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			Cool.
		
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			I I thought I was being about to
		
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			be jumped.
		
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			Okay. Happy birthday.
		
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			So this this parable belongs to Surat Rad.
		
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			It's ayah number 17.
		
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			It's really rich. There are multiple ways that
		
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			you can,
		
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			see the imagery of this ayah manifest, like,
		
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			what it represents.
		
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			So I'm gonna try to be as systematic
		
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			as I can be. The first thing I
		
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			think I'm gonna do to try to help
		
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			you wrap your minds around what's going on
		
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			in this parable is by translating it at
		
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			the at the most surface level, like a
		
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			very basic translation
		
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			of the ayah so you all know what
		
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			it's talking about. To give you a background
		
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			a little bit, the ayah is going to
		
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			talk about,
		
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			foam.
		
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			And not I don't mean foam in the
		
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			mattress. I mean foam like, you know, when
		
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			it floods or when there's waves of a
		
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			beach and they come towards the sand and
		
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			there's kind of this bubbly white stuff that
		
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			rises above the water or when there's a
		
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			wave rising up, you can see the white
		
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			foam and the froth on top.
		
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			That foam, that's called
		
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			In Arabic, that's called
		
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			And that It's gonna be described in 2
		
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			ways. So just keep this idea in mind
		
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			that this is One of the central images
		
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			in this ayah is about foam and this
		
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			bubbly substance that rises above the water. Okay?
		
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			So
		
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			he sent water down from the sky. So
		
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			Allah is referring to rain coming from the
		
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			sky.
		
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			Then because of that water,
		
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			the valleys flooded,
		
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			the valleys got filled up and they started
		
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			flooding not as in drowning
		
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			but they started, you know, flowing.
		
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			Like water is coming and now it's kind
		
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			of coming off of the rooftops, it's coming
		
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			down from the mountains and the streets are
		
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			flowing with water. So the water seeps into
		
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			every nook and cranny inside of these valleys.
		
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			Suggests as much as they could take. So
		
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			not more than they could take as in
		
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			everything got flooded and homes got destroyed and
		
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			cattle got killed and all that stuff,
		
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			but as much as it could take, it
		
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			could take. So it's maximum amount of rain
		
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			is happening, extreme rain is happening and the
		
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			water is flowing. That kid, masha Allah. 2nd
		
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			time I saw a 100 of you like
		
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			following him now like,
		
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			where is he gonna go this time? You're
		
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			still following him.
		
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			Anyway yeah. That's okay. That's the nature of
		
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			education. Anything but the speaker will become interesting.
		
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			Anyway
		
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			so but, speaking so so so the rain
		
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			is coming, and now it's flooding in every
		
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			every nook and cranny inside multiple valleys.
		
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			Then that flood water or the water that's
		
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			flooding all the streets and the valleys and
		
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			different areas, right, because it's different elevations,
		
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			it starts building up, it starts carrying.
		
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			The the flood water starts carrying with it,
		
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			zabad, the foam,
		
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			rabi and rising above. It keeps on rising
		
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			above. So it's not just clean, clear rainwater,
		
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			you could see bubbles forming and froth forming,
		
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			and this this foam forming on top, and
		
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			that's you're starting to notice that it's rising
		
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			higher and higher.
		
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			Now Allah pauses that image and takes you
		
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			somewhere else and says,
		
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			And from what they burn on fire, meaning
		
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			people burn on fire,
		
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			when they want to make jewelry or they
		
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			want to make utensils.
		
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			Utensil could be a shovel,
		
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			a utensil could be a fork or a
		
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			spoon, but the idea is Allah is saying
		
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			And by the way, sometimes people take metal
		
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			like steel or aluminum or some other metal
		
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			and they burn it. They put it inside
		
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			extreme fire or even gold. They put it
		
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			inside extreme fire. And they put it inside
		
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			extreme fire because they're trying to get it
		
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			to melt.
		
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			So if deep inside the metal, there was
		
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			any impurity,
		
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			it will burn and it will rise to
		
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			the top and it will also form foam.
		
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			It will also become like froth or foam
		
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			that comes to the top. So now Allah
		
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			is actually talking about 2 kinds
		
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			of foam or froth, one that was coming
		
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			from the flood rains and all of a
		
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			sudden people are burning a fire and they're
		
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			trying to make
		
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			in pursuit of making jewelry, so it's the
		
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			same process for when you're trying to make
		
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			jewelry, and the same process,
		
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			or any other utensil, any other utility. So
		
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			even basic items, like if you to manufacture
		
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			a spoon, or you wanted to manufacture a
		
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			fork, or you want to manufacture an iron
		
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			rod, or something like that,
		
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			the metal that's needed needs to be cleansed
		
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			of the impurities in the middle. If there's
		
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			dirt in the middle, if there's other metals
		
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			in the middle, if there's air gaps in
		
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			the middle, it needs to get all cleansed
		
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			out so it can be
		
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			molded properly. Right? And then he says,
		
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			it also has froth just like the first
		
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			froth. Okay? So that's the image.
		
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			And so,
		
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			then Allah concludes this,
		
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			is about to conclude this parable, he says,
		
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			That is how Allah strikes the truth
		
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			against the falsehood. That's how In a sense,
		
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			you could say that's how Allah makes truth
		
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			and falsehood
		
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			clash into each other.
		
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			So that's the point that he's making. We're
		
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			gonna dig into what we can learn from
		
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			that. But then he as he concludes the
		
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			parable, he adds some more imagery. He says
		
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			in Arabic is
		
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			So,
		
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			as for the froth, the foam, it will
		
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			disappear, it will go far away, it will
		
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			become nothing. By the way, just like, you
		
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			know, when a wave is coming and there's
		
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			foam on top, it looks really scary and
		
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			intimidating
		
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			because it adds a lot of height to
		
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			the wave. But once it crashes, you realize
		
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			the foam was actually nothing.
		
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			It's the the water was underneath it but
		
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			the foam was actually just empty. It looked
		
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			far more aggressive. Right? Because it's just mostly
		
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			bubbles anyway. It's just nothing. So he says
		
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			as for the foam,
		
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			it's going to dissipate. It's going to distance
		
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			itself.
		
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			And ask for whatever benefits people
		
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			then that will become stationed or remain in
		
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			the land or embed in the land. What
		
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			that refers to is the rain came,
		
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			the foam rose,
		
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			but some of the rain went inside the
		
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			soil also. Right? Some of And and that
		
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			rain that went inside the soil is going
		
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			to cause vegetation to grow and is going
		
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			to bring life to that earth.
		
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			So Allah is now comparing those two reactions
		
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			of the earth. And then at the end
		
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			of it all he says, and that is
		
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			how Allah strikes examples.
		
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			So this is
		
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			this is the just translation. No explanation of
		
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			what Allah is saying. Now, let's try to
		
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			dig a little bit deeper into what Allah
		
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			is saying.
		
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			1st and foremost,
		
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			you know, I'm I'm gonna try to give
		
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			you the analogy of how
		
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			truth itself comes from the sky,
		
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			like revelation came from the sky. And Allah
		
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			says,
		
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			the truth is from your Rab. The same
		
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			way the water comes from the
		
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			sky. Right? The water descends from the sky.
		
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			And when the water descends from the sky,
		
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			I'll I'll talk about it at an individual
		
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			level first.
		
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			When I as a human being come into
		
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			contact with the truth,
		
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			then
		
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			before I came into contact with the truth,
		
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			there were 2
		
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			things. There were There was a part of
		
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			me that was good and there was a
		
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			part of me that wasn't very good, but
		
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			I didn't even know that there was something
		
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			bad or something wrong with me.
		
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			That I didn't even know that some of
		
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			my habits are bad.
		
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			Once the revelation came, it made me see
		
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			that some of the things that I have
		
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			that I'm carrying are impure.
		
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			They're not good. And just by learning the
		
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			revelation, just by
		
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			taking in that reign, it started washing away
		
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			my broken concepts.
		
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			There's people behind there having a conversation, and
		
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			I really wanna hear what they're saying.
		
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			Okay. Yeah. You guys. Yeah. I see you.
		
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			Yeah.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			Alright. So sorry.
		
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			So the the thing is I gotta concentrate.
		
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			Sorry.
		
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			So I don't I don't mind awkward pauses
		
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			and situations. Actually, I kind of enjoy awkwardness.
		
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			It's,
		
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			it's entertaining.
		
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			Yeah. Yeah. You know what I feel. Yeah.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			So
		
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			what was I saying something about Islam?
		
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			What was I saying?
		
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			I come into contact with the truth. I
		
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			start learning about one God. I start learning
		
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			about revelation. I start learning about
		
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			kindness to parents. I start learning about honest
		
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			dealings in business. I start learning about rituals
		
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			that my family had or my tradition had
		
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			and my culture had that were pagan, that
		
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			were, you know, vile, that were evil, and
		
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			I start seeing them for what they are.
		
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			And all of a sudden,
		
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			ideologically,
		
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			as as far as my world view,
		
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			there are concepts and practices
		
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			that were a part of my heritage
		
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			that are starting to what?
		
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			Wash away. They're starting to wash away. Like
		
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			this this rain comes and it washes away
		
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			all the impurities that were on top, it
		
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			starts just cleaning me out.
		
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			And I start developing a purified concept of
		
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			who God is, a purified concept of who
		
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			I am, a purified concept of what life
		
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			is, what's coming ahead.
		
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			It's just it starts cleansing me. It starts
		
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			detoxing me in some sense. Right?
		
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			But then
		
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			that's one kind of froth that gets removed,
		
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			But then there's another kind of froth that
		
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			gets removed. Allah Allah didn't just talk about
		
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			the rainwater coming and smoothly all the dirt
		
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			starts
		
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			washing away. Then he talked about a really
		
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			painful process
		
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			of people taking a metal. That's not a
		
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			natural process.
		
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			Gold can be discovered naturally, but if you
		
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			wanna purify gold, you have to go through
		
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			a a man made process,
		
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			you know, uh-uh an artificial process of creating
		
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			an intense fire,
		
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			and then putting that gold into that flame,
		
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			and allowing that gold to be burned so
		
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			much that it starts melting, and only then
		
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			can the heat penetrate deep inside the the
		
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			core of that metal to find the impurity
		
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			for that to emerge which is similar to
		
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			even though I felt that I have been
		
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			cleansed.
		
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			I felt that my concepts have been cleansed
		
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			and my beliefs have been cleansed, and my
		
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			worldview has been cleansed,
		
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			but there are still impurities inside me.
		
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			And sometimes I have to go through a
		
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			really difficult situation
		
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			and Allah will And sometimes that difficult situation
		
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			comes at the hands of either I put
		
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			myself in the flames or somebody else put
		
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			me in the flames. And there was some
		
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			deep,
		
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			deep darkness or some impurity that was so
		
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			deeply lodged inside me that it Just imagine
		
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			in the first case when rain water came,
		
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			if there was a piece of metal that
		
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			had an impurity inside, the rain water will
		
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			come and go over it. It's not gonna
		
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			cleanse the inside.
		
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			Right? So even though it got it created
		
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			a lot of foam
		
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			which was the impurity being removed,
		
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			there were There are some impurities that are
		
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			more stubborn
		
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			that won't just get removed because you came
		
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			into contact with water.
		
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			Those impurities
		
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			have to go The only way to remove
		
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			them is to go through some excruciating
		
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			burning experience.
		
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			And then you realize
		
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			through that experience that as much as I
		
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			thought I was cleansed
		
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			there were some dirt inside me that this
		
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			experience
		
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			exposed. And then that rose to the top,
		
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			and then I learned something about myself,
		
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			this impurity that wrote I I realized that
		
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			that was always there and had it not
		
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			been for this difficult situation
		
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			and not been put in this fire, then
		
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			that would not have emerged.
		
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			Right? So that's at a very personal level
		
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			you can see that this
		
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			cleansing that Allah is doing, this ayah can
		
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			be looked at as an ayah about tazkiyah,
		
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			about purification,
		
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			that that can happen at 2 levels, at
		
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			a theoretical level, at a learning level, every
		
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			time you're sitting in a halaqa learning something
		
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			about Allah's book, learning something about Allah's Messenger
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, every time you're enhancing
		
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			your knowledge of revelation,
		
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			whenever that's happening, you are actually your mind
		
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			is being cleansed of certain things.
		
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			Your your thought process is being cleansed of
		
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			certain things. But not all learning happens in
		
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			the classroom.
		
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			Right? Life is also a teacher.
		
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			Right? And painful experience is also a teacher.
		
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			And so those those those lessons will come
		
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			from a different kind of textbook.
		
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			They will come from a different experience. So
		
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			Allah is putting those 2 together and
		
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			as if to describe that both of these
		
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			have the same function to separate the froth,
		
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			to separate the impurity from within ourselves. Right?
		
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			But then he mentioned this interesting thing,
		
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			in pursuit of jewelry and in pursuit of
		
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			utensil,
		
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			Which is again another,
		
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			reinforcement in the Quran of
		
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			the conflation, the union between beauty and purpose.
		
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			Jewelry, the purpose of jewelry is beauty.
		
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			And the purpose of a fork and a
		
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			spoon and a shovel and all that stuff
		
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			is what?
		
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			It's function.
		
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			And Allah always puts these two things together
		
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			and it's as if even Islam itself is
		
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			both of these things.
		
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			Islam
		
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			when it comes in a society or it
		
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			comes in a person for example, that person
		
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			becomes purposeful.
		
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			That person is fair. That person will give
		
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			their family their rights. That person will give
		
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			the inheritance
		
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			that his sister deserves
		
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			and not take her share. That person's gonna
		
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			give the Mahar that he's supposed to pay.
		
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			The person's gonna pay Zakat. The person's gonna
		
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			be fair in their business dealings and they're
		
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			gonna not lie about you know, not paying
		
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			the loan back on time and they're they're
		
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			gonna become honest. Right? They're fulfilling a purpose.
		
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			But at the same time what Islam does
		
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			even more than that is it makes them
		
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			a beautiful person. They're a beautiful person to
		
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			be around.
		
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			They're a beautiful person who Their mannerisms become
		
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			beautiful.
		
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			Their interactions become beautiful.
		
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			Their presence
		
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			adds beauty in the life of others around
		
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			them.
		
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			That's what happens when deen
		
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			enters into somebody.
		
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			It's actually kind of like when the water
		
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			enters inside the land then beautiful flowers bloom,
		
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			then beautiful plants bloom, right? Revelation comes inside
		
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			a person and the best of them, the
		
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			nicest of them comes out. They used to
		
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			have a really ugly temper.
		
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			Nobody likes anger, right? If you're an angry
		
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			person people don't like being around you especially
		
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			when you're angry, right? If you have a
		
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			sharp tongue, nobody likes people with a sharp
		
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			tongue, and even if they tell you they
		
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			like you, they're telling you they like you
		
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			because if they tell you they don't like
		
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			you, they'll get your sharp tongue. So
		
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			so they're they're That's a that's a security
		
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			policy that they say they like you. You
		
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			love me? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I I totally
		
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			love you. Yeah. So much.
		
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			Please please believe me.
		
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			Right?
		
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			But what what does the din do? It
		
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			it controls a person's tongue.
		
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			It controls a person's anger. And so the
		
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			the ugliness in them is been contained,
		
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			And the beauty of them therefore emerges.
		
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			Right? So
		
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			and some of you may have some young
		
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			men that weren't practicing or weren't conscious of
		
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			their deen maybe a year ago, months ago.
		
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			You remember yourselves being a very angry guy.
		
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			You remember yourselves punching walls
		
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			and flipping out and cussing and you know,
		
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			storming out of the house and speeding down
		
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			the highway just to blow off some steam
		
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			or whatever.
		
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			You remember that guy and then you remember
		
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			the person you become after deen enters into
		
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			your life and the salah enters your life
		
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			and
		
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			something happens to your personality.
		
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			And that ugliness goes away and beauty takes
		
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			its place, and that's actually also
		
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			right? Islam has a function, but actually even
		
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			more importantly, Islam emerge brings out the beauty
		
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			in a person.
		
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			The religion brings out the beauty in a
		
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			person. But now I'm going to take a
		
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			step back and share something with you that
		
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			I think is the core message of this
		
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			this ayah.
		
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			This ayah is a commentary first and foremost
		
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			I believe not just on the individual it's
		
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			actually a commentary on the seerah of the
		
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			Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
		
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			It's actually it's a Maqan Surah. So Turad
		
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			is a Maqan Surah. So it's earlier
		
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			but it's as if Allah has mapped out
		
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			the entire adventure of the Sira. What's going
		
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			to happen in Makkah and what is going
		
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			to happen in Madinah all in one ayah.
		
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			It's all laid out already. So let's understand
		
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			how
		
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			the Quran came in Makkah and Makkah is
		
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			a valley
		
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			Makkah is a valley and Allah said
		
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			He sent water from the sky and the
		
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			valleys
		
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			started getting flooded. And what's the first valley
		
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			that started getting flooded?
		
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			Mecca. And it took as much as it
		
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			could take.
		
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			It took us So the Quran is going
		
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			in every nook and cranny. It's going everywhere.
		
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			Right? One of the things that you may
		
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			be familiar with in the Quran if if
		
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			you've been listening to my lectures especially more
		
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			recently on the Makkan Surahs that I've been
		
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			working on I make it very clear that
		
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			the Quran was not just criticizing Mushrikoon in
		
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			Makkah The Quran was criticizing
		
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			the the politically
		
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			The most powerful politicians,
		
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			the most wealthy millionaires and billionaires,
		
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			the most elite social class of people. Now
		
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			if you live in a society that doesn't
		
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			have
		
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			you know major, you know like
		
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			civil rights like nowadays modern societies talk a
		
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			lot about civil rights. But if you go
		
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			to a society that's tribal
		
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			or you go to a society that's more
		
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			traditional old school, right?
		
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			Like if you go to a country that
		
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			for example has a king and has a
		
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			royal family, so countries have that nowadays too,
		
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			right? You're not gonna go in that country,
		
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			walk around and say whatever you want about
		
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			the royal family
		
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			if
		
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			you are interested in maintaining your health.
		
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			Right? You're not gonna do that.
		
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			You're In fact, you might find in some
		
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			countries, there's so much they have to make
		
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			sure that,
		
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			that they show enough respect
		
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			and you know, royal you know, reverence to
		
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			the king that they might have to put
		
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			a picture of the king and the queen
		
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			in every restaurant, in every office, in every
		
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			lobby. They might have to wear a little
		
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			locket. Hey, hey, hey, hey, no, no, there's
		
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			a king right here in my heart. You
		
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			know?
		
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			They might have to do that because they
		
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			no. No. No. We respect the king. This
		
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			is, you know
		
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			and if, you know, some some places they're
		
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			so scared that they might be seen as
		
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			defiant against the king or the ruling class
		
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			that when they're driving a taxi and some
		
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			tourist comes. So how's the government here? Oh,
		
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			the government's amazing. It's the most amazing government
		
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			ever. Our king is the best the best
		
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			king ever. It's a gift from Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala that he sent on us. Oh,
		
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			the king the king. Oh,
		
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			hold on. Let me pull up my car
		
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			and just make dua for the king. Yeah.
		
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			Because they have to show proper reverence. But
		
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			maybe if it's not even a kingdom, maybe
		
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			it's a village, and a village has an
		
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			elder.
		
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			Right? And the elder, you know, he's not
		
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			just the elder, he's got like 30 guys
		
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			working for him. He's got security guys around
		
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			his compound. Everybody else lives poor. The guy
		
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			that Chaudhry Saab, if you're Chaudhry, sorry. But
		
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			this is Chaudhry Saab. He's got his mansion.
		
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			He's got this giant 10 foot fence around.
		
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			Guys with machine guns, you know. You don't
		
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			know about that stuff. You you don't know
		
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			about that life in like England or America,
		
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			but you go to some of the Muslim
		
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			countries, you're gonna see, you know, that's that
		
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			you and then some random kid from the
		
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			village is talking trash about, you know, the
		
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			the big guys
		
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			kids or his his lifestyle or whatever. That's
		
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			not gonna work out really well. It's not
		
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			gonna go well. And Mecca was that kind
		
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			of society.
		
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			The rich and the powerful, you don't just
		
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			you don't open your mouth about them just
		
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			like that. You don't just say whatever you
		
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			want about you know, I call him Abu
		
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			Jahal
		
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			or, you know, because Abu Jahal is actually
		
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			a condescending term. It's not it's not that
		
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			was not his name, you know.
		
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			And you don't talk about, you know, Walid
		
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			ibn Mughira, the way the Quran talks about
		
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			it about him. You don't say things like
		
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			You don't say things like
		
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			You don't comment on, oh look at the
		
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			face he made, Look at the way he
		
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			was staring. Look at this. Look at And
		
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			I will, you know, I will make them
		
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			climb the mountain in * and I will
		
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			make them do this and I will, woah
		
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			and this is not just one comment that
		
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			somebody made and people said yo somebody might
		
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			hear you no no no this was Quran
		
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			Quran was coming down insulting these top dog
		
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			millionaires and these politicians and these big guys
		
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			and then these surahs were being memorized
		
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			and were being recited
		
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			everywhere in Makkah.
		
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			A flood came and now these The message
		
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			of Islam, the insults against the most corrupt
		
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			people in that society which are also the
		
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			most powerful people in that society
		
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			you know you might have some very wealthy
		
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			guy who just buried his daughter
		
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			right and then the Quran is coming and
		
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			saying
		
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			or you might have some very wealthy man
		
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			and beggars came and begged him for some
		
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			money and some he pushed these kids away
		
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			and said, get away from me, new clothes
		
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			You know, and he just now it's coming,
		
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			the Quran is calling these people out?
		
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			You think they're just gonna sit quietly and
		
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			take it? No. People like that get very
		
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			upset when you talk about them.
		
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			You know, they get upset if the servant
		
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			comes and he puts the tea in front
		
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			of them, and he doesn't say, you know,
		
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			doesn't bow his head. Hey,
		
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			what was that?
		
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			What was that? Did you look up at
		
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			me? Did you make eye contact with me?
		
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			That's the kind of arrogance these people have.
		
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			And the Quran is just hammering them 1
		
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			ayah, after 1 surah after another, after another,
		
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			after another. You know what happens then? These
		
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			kind of people, they get so mad,
		
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			it's like they start foaming at the mouth.
		
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			They start getting they need to make this
		
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			stop.
		
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			And you know what happens then? This anger,
		
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			it's not just though they love shirk and
		
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			they hate it tawhid, no they love their
		
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			egos.
		
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			I would argue more than worshiping the gods
		
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			that they set up around the Kaaba, they
		
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			worship their power, their money, and their status.
		
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			And the Quran was coming after their power,
		
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			coming after their money, coming after their status.
		
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			And when the Quran was doing that, the
		
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			rage was rising like foam.
		
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			Now they they live off of this reputation
		
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			in the before Islam came
		
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			these were the most respected people of the
		
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			society.
		
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			These were the most honorable people of the
		
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			society. These were the people that are stable,
		
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			wise. We listen to their direction.
		
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			We follow them. They are the influencers,
		
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			etcetera. Right? These are the, because they if
		
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			they got to this position of power that
		
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			must mean they're smarter than the rest of
		
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			us. That's how they got there. So we
		
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			should be listening to them. And the Quran
		
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			comes
		
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			and all of a sudden Allah says, you
		
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			know,
		
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			All valley started getting flooded. Now everybody's hearing
		
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			the reality of these people but then if
		
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			these people are the foam,
		
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			people used to be impressed with them but
		
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			after the Quran came, the Quran exposed that
		
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			these are not the best of you. This
		
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			is the worst filth of you that the
		
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			flood water comes and rises raises like foam.
		
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			And by the way, foam
		
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			has no weight.
		
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			Foam is light. Right? It's it's dead twigs
		
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			and pebbles and things like that. The impurities
		
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			on the earth which if the rain never
		
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			comes it just looks like that's what the
		
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			land is. But the rain water comes and
		
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			then it starts removing these impurities you didn't
		
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			even know were there.
		
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			But it only removes things that were lightweight
		
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			and you know what? These people were the
		
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			heavyweights of the society.
		
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			These people were the ones of gravitas and
		
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			the Quran with its words is lifting them
		
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			like they're foam
		
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			and it's stirring them up and it's enraging
		
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			them like rising foam
		
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			and they don't know what to do with
		
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			it
		
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			And Allah didn't just say
		
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			He said
		
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			foam that keeps on rising just like in
		
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			Makkah,
		
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			their aggression towards Islam kept on rising. They
		
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			get angrier then angrier then angrier then angrier
		
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			and Allah says yes that's what happens when
		
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			water comes.
		
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			Foam rises.
		
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			It's Allah's way of saying when truth comes,
		
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			the hatred towards the truth rises.
		
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			That is the natural way of things just
		
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			like Allah made night and Allah made day
		
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			just like Allah made male and Allah made
		
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			female
		
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			just like Allah made life and Allah made
		
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			death Allah made truth
		
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			and the opposition of truth will always rise.
		
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			Falsehood will always rise.
		
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			That's the nature of it. You can't just
		
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			have truth without a clash.
		
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			You can't just have water coming without the
		
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			froth rising.
		
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			You it must exist.
		
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			It must exist. So this clash must happen.
		
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			By the way, I'm taking you forward in
		
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			the parable Allah says
		
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			That's how Allah strikes truth against falsehood. Now
		
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			interestingly that form kind of rose on its
		
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			own because the Kuffar
		
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			proudly declared themselves Kuffar.
		
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			The Kuffar
		
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			openly made Istihza
		
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			they made fun of the Ayat of Allah
		
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			they openly called the stories of the Quran
		
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			Asateerul Awaleen They openly declared the Prophet Sallallahu
		
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			Alaihi Wasallam Sahir, Kadeb, Khazab, Majnoon
		
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			They called him a liar, they called him
		
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			a magician, they called him possessed, they called
		
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			him insane. They called him all these things.
		
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			Right? So they were open in their froth.
		
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			But the second image
		
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			is not you can't just pour water on
		
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			it, you can't just pour Quran on it,
		
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			or give Dawah of the Quran,
		
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			and the filth emerges
		
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			when the Messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
		
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			moves to Madinah.
		
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			When he moves to Madinah,
		
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			then there is a population of people who
		
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			call themselves believers.
		
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			But within them there are people
		
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			who are actually hurting the mission of the
		
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			Prophet
		
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			but they're not calling themselves Kufar.
		
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			So they are enemies of the Prophet's mission
		
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			but they don't call themselves enemies.
		
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			In fact, they are deeply embedded
		
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			inside the Muslim community.
		
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			They call themselves believers, when they come and
		
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			meet the Prophet
		
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			they say
		
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			you know,
		
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			at the end of Surat Al Baqarah, we
		
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			say, for example,
		
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			Right?
		
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			And we we say, you know,
		
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			we say we believe the Munafiq also says
		
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			we
		
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			say they say
		
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			so they're the same
		
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			they they testify that Muhammad is the Messenger
		
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			of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam
		
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			They're embedded in the Muslim community.
		
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			In fact, in some battles they even said,
		
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			Oh, we should come too. We should join
		
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			you too. You know.
		
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			Now,
		
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			they are a much tougher problem because they
		
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			don't rise to the top on their own
		
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			because they're so deeply embedded and they're disguised.
		
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			It's almost like an impurity that lies deep
		
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			inside of a metal.
		
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			And you cannot purify a metal unless you
		
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			put a metal inside of a flame.
		
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			You can't just
		
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			pour some soap on the gold and get
		
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			a get a sponge and, you know, try
		
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			to purify the gold because the purity the
		
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			impurity is too deep inside.
		
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			The only way is that the metal has
		
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			to be put through the fire.
		
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			When the Messenger of Allah
		
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			moves to Madinah,
		
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			then Allah puts the ummah through multiple battles
		
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			and extreme difficulties.
		
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			Multiple battles.
		
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			So
		
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			multiple skirmishes in between, and then economic insecurities
		
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			and threats from outsiders. All kinds of stuff
		
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			was happening in Madida and every one of
		
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			them is like the believers being put in
		
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			flames.
		
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			And then in one of them, one of
		
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			the worst
		
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			is actually Uhud.
		
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			So let's take Uhud as our case.
		
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			In Uhud, we lost some of the most
		
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			significant Sahaba numbers.
		
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			And many of them were the providers, the
		
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			economic providers for the ones that who were
		
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			even left behind. Not to mention their households,
		
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			they were the primary providers for their households.
		
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			So So not only did we we lose
		
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			many precious
		
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			Sahaba including the Prophet's uncle and
		
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			the Rasulullah
		
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			almost got killed himself
		
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			But also, Madinah essentially which was already poor
		
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			is now guaranteed to be bankrupt,
		
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			basically.
		
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			So where we had an economic disaster a
		
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			military disaster plus an economic disaster
		
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			on top of that
		
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			then Allah describes why did he put the
		
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			Muslims through this
		
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			He says
		
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			These are the days we flip between people.
		
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			Sometimes we give Kufar victory. Sometimes we give
		
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			you victory.
		
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			Then he says,
		
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			so Allah could expose and bring out who
		
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			truly believes.
		
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			And he could take some shuhada among you.
		
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			And Allah does not love the wrongdoers. The
		
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			didn't win because Allah loves them.
		
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			Then He says so beautiful He says
		
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			He says, So Allah could purify those who
		
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			believe. Now
		
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			in Arabic is used when you purify gold,
		
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			which is what the parable we're talking about
		
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			now is.
		
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			It's as if Allah is saying believers
		
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			are like a metal that until you burned
		
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			it, the impurity of the munafiq inside would
		
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			not rise to the top. And what happened
		
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			in Uhud?
		
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			They rose to the top on their own
		
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			like froth.
		
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			They exposed themselves like froth.
		
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			You didn't
		
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			They would never have declared themselves munafiq in
		
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			that way
		
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			and hey I'm right here I've been hiding
		
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			all along. Gotcha.
		
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			They wouldn't have done that
		
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			unless the events of Uhud happened.
		
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			So Allah says in the second case scenario
		
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			is
		
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			when you burn a flame
		
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			and then the foam rises to the top.
		
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			So the kafir just separates themselves clearly, just
		
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			from the dawah. They separate themselves, like in
		
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			Mecca. And the munafiq has to be separated
		
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			through tough times.
		
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			Sometimes we have to ask ourselves when the
		
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			Ummah is going through tough times. What's the
		
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			what's the objective Allah has of putting the
		
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			Ummah through tough times?
		
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			Perhaps,
		
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			perhaps,
		
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			it just exposes those who wanted to sell
		
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			the religion out and they just come out.
		
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			They you don't have to call them out.
		
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			They declare it themselves.
		
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			They just emerge on their own.
		
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			Now, let's go go back to the parable
		
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			again. There are 2 things Allah mentioned. Allah
		
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			said you do this for the purpose of
		
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			making jewelry
		
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			and you also do this for utensils remember
		
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			It's fascinating
		
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			because
		
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			if you stick with the imagery, if you're
		
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			gonna go through the process of burning a
		
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			metal and carrying the metal and creating a
		
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			furnace and all of that,
		
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			and you say you have 2 things you
		
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			can make. You can either make jewelry
		
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			or you can make a spoon.
		
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			Which one you're gonna make?
		
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			You're going to make the jewelry because it's
		
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			way more valuable
		
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			What is it? Same amount of labor and
		
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			what do you get at the end? You
		
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			get a necklace, you get a crown,
		
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			you get a precious metal or you get
		
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			a spoon,
		
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			right? So
		
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			clearly one is far more precious than the
		
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			other, isn't it?
		
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			When the Muslims were going into battle,
		
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			they wanted 2 things.
		
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			1,
		
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			they wanted shahada.
		
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			They were running to the enemy and Allah
		
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			said,
		
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			run to forgiveness from your Rab. You're not
		
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			running to your enemy's sword, you're running to
		
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			your own forgiveness.
		
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			That's how they saw
		
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			it. You're running towards the Jannah. That's what
		
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			Allah described in Al Imran.
		
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			But the Muslims also wanted victory.
		
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			We also want victory.
		
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			And then
		
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			in places like Surat Asaf,
		
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			Surat Al Fath,
		
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			what Allah does is he compares victory
		
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			and Jannah.
		
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			So Jannah is in the akhirah, victories in
		
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			this world, right?
		
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			So He says
		
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			about that Oh,
		
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			can I tell you of a deal that
		
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			will save you
		
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			from from painful punishment?
		
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			And by the end of that ayah,
		
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			you know, and he will enter you into,
		
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			you know,
		
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			he'll enter you into gardens, Jannah, that's goal
		
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			number 1. And then he said,
		
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			and secondarily,
		
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			you also love that victory should come.
		
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			So there's a primary objective, heaven,
		
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			salvation,
		
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			and there's a secondary objective,
		
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			victory in this world.
		
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			And in this parable, Allah said, Yes, people
		
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			do burn metal, but they burn it for
		
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			two reasons,
		
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			jewelry
		
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			and just utensils.
		
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			So as if the victory of this world
		
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			is not the crown jewel. That's just a
		
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			utensil that's just a means to an end
		
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			if Allah gives us victory, the ummah victory
		
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			then we will worship Allah better but if
		
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			Allah doesn't give us victory we'll still worship
		
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			Allah
		
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			That will not change.
		
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			It's not like our Islam will be different
		
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			without victory and with victory, our Islam will
		
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			still be Islam.
		
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			Our commitment to Allah is still our commitment
		
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			to Allah, the Messenger is still Allah's Messenger
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wasallam. The book of Allah is
		
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			still the book of Allah.
		
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			My connection to Allah is still my connection
		
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			to Allah.
		
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			But it would help, it would be a
		
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			further utility,
		
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			so it would add something to it.
		
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			So now Allah has made that that incredible
		
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			comparison between the ultimate objective and the secondary
		
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			objective even in this parable
		
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			But then even beyond the Seerah,
		
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			even beyond the Seerah,
		
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			It's as if Allah has described forever, this
		
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			is how truth and falsehood are going to
		
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			be.
		
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			You know, Allah didn't say, you know,
		
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			he said, and it's it's interesting. It's
		
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			multiple valleys got flooded as much as they
		
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			could. And Qadr in Arabic is as much
		
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			as it could, Qadr also means schedule. Like
		
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			when Musa alaihis salam was told,
		
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			You Musa, he arrived right on schedule.
		
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			Okay? It's as if Allah is saying that
		
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			the message of Islam that came to Mecca
		
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			came at a certain time
		
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			exactly when it was supposed to come. And
		
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			then from that place, it reached another place.
		
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			It reached Persia.
		
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			It reached Africa. It reached Europe. It reached
		
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			India, it reached different parts of the world
		
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			right on schedule. There was a time when
		
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			it was supposed to reach
		
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			these other places.
		
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			And each of those places was supposed to
		
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			take in the message as much as each
		
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			place can take.
		
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			Some soil
		
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			is is richer and it can take more
		
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			water. Some takes less water.
		
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			Some grows a different kind of plant and
		
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			requires less water. Some grows a much heavier
		
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			kind of plant. The Quran went and Islam
		
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			went all over the world but the way
		
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			that Islam went and the way that Islam
		
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			was taken in, and the way that Islam
		
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			flourished all over the world, there was a
		
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			variety.
		
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			And each one of
		
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			rose.
		
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			The foam also rose. And in each society
		
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			that Islam came and will come until judgment
		
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			day,
		
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			each society
		
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			opposition will rise. So for example, when Islam
		
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			came and it became more of a prominent
		
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			presence
		
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			in the United Kingdom,
		
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			Right? Over the last century, it became more
		
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			and more of a prominent presence in the
		
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			United Kingdom. You're gonna see Foam rising. You're
		
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			gonna see opposition to the presence and the
		
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			existence of Islam in this country. The more
		
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			Islam will become prominent in this country, the
		
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			more it will become a problem.
		
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			Seen by some as a problem in this
		
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			country.
		
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			You know, we must eliminate it. We must
		
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			get rid of it because we need to
		
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			keep this land pure from any foreign or
		
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			external influence. This is the same exact thing
		
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			the people of Makkah were saying about Islam
		
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			when Islam came to Makkah.
		
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			Makkah was doing just fine. We don't need
		
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			this. And then you will see the people
		
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			who are otherwise really nice
		
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			but because this water has now arrived, now
		
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			you could see that they were actually froth
		
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			rising. You never saw their hatred before,
		
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			but now all of a sudden,
		
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			you can't even believe it's the same person.
		
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			People may have Before the coming of Islam,
		
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			people might even have had nice opinions of
		
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			Abu Jahal or nice opinions of some of
		
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			the elites, Walid ibn Bukhira.
		
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			They might have been as much a normal
		
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			part of society and even looked up in
		
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			that society, but once the Quran exposed them
		
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			and once their opposition to Islam came out,
		
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			then you you saw the true side of
		
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			them emerge. And you might find that in
		
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			any society where Islam comes.
		
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			You might find that again and again.
		
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			But this is not just about even Islam
		
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			in non Muslim societies.
		
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			It may even be that Islam
		
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			over time just like water goes in the
		
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			earth and it dries up.
		
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			Sometimes
		
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			it allows you to grow, sometimes it remains
		
00:43:04 --> 00:43:07
			deeply embedded inside, and until you dig, you
		
00:43:07 --> 00:43:08
			don't you find there was a well underneath
		
00:43:08 --> 00:43:09
			that had formed.
		
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			Right? So it went in but you didn't
		
00:43:12 --> 00:43:14
			know that it had gone in. So I'd
		
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			like to even share the example of sometimes
		
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			there were people that were Muslim
		
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			that used to be Hindu. They became Muslim
		
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			maybe 200 years ago, 300 years ago they
		
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			became Muslim and they passed Islam down into
		
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			their family.
		
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			But over time,
		
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			even though their grandpa was a Hafid of
		
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			the Quran or he was like a, you
		
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			know, very conservative or etcetera, but the children
		
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			became a little bit more,
		
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			you know, liberal, and then their kids became
		
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			a little extra liberal, and then their kids,
		
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			you know, were not religious. We're Muslim, but
		
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			we're not we we do Eden stuff, but
		
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			we're not we don't identify ourselves as too
		
00:43:53 --> 00:43:54
			Islamic. That's a bit extreme for us. And
		
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			they became basically
		
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			almost you can't tell them from non Muslims.
		
00:43:58 --> 00:44:00
			Right? So it started off, they came left
		
00:44:00 --> 00:44:02
			Hinduism, came to Islam, but a few 100
		
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			years and now you they're basically back to
		
00:44:05 --> 00:44:07
			being looking and acting just
		
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			like non Muslims. And then what happens then
		
00:44:09 --> 00:44:11
			is what does Allah do? There was water
		
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			somewhere in there and so one of
		
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			that very liberal, very agnostic, very secular,
		
00:44:18 --> 00:44:19
			very progressive family,
		
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			their 18 year old girl
		
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			starts watching this Islamic stuff online
		
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			and starts showing secretly wearing hijab
		
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			and their 20 year old son
		
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			starts praying and he closes the door and
		
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			he starts praying in there in his house,
		
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			and they don't even know that he's becoming
		
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			like I mean we're all Muslim but why
		
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			are you becoming like Muslim Muslim? Like
		
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			like this is this is too much too
		
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			much Muslim,
		
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			you know.
		
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			And take that thing off. We don't wear
		
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			that in our family.
		
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			What are you doing?
		
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			You might find women that are even college
		
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			university girls that wear,
		
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			they'll cover, they'll wear wear the Khimar,
		
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			what you call hijab
		
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			on campus but on their way home they'll
		
00:45:02 --> 00:45:04
			take it off because the home won't tolerate
		
00:45:04 --> 00:45:05
			it. And they're Muslim families.
		
00:45:06 --> 00:45:09
			Right? And the family felt like they got
		
00:45:09 --> 00:45:10
			rid of it, they got rid of this
		
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			water thing, but the water stayed
		
00:45:13 --> 00:45:15
			and maybe it slept for a couple of
		
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			centuries.
		
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			Maybe it slept for 1 generation,
		
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			but it's so resilient. It just comes back.
		
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			Allah says by the end of this parable,
		
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			Froth
		
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			will come and go.
		
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			The bubbles come and they disappear.
		
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			Just like ideas,
		
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			ideologies,
		
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			groups,
		
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			they come,
		
00:45:42 --> 00:45:43
			they become powerful
		
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			and then they disappear.
		
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			The Mongols came, and then they disappeared.
		
00:45:49 --> 00:45:51
			Came, and then they disappeared.
		
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			The colonizers came, and then they disappeared.
		
00:45:56 --> 00:45:57
			And then ideas come,
		
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			ideologies come, communism came.
		
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			It came like a wildfire.
		
00:46:02 --> 00:46:04
			It took over almost huge parts of the
		
00:46:04 --> 00:46:05
			world.
		
00:46:05 --> 00:46:08
			There were even strong communist movements within the
		
00:46:08 --> 00:46:09
			UK when communism was rising.
		
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			And then it started withering away. It started
		
00:46:13 --> 00:46:13
			disappearing.
		
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			Ideas rise and they fall, and they rise
		
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			and they fall.
		
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			Allah says,
		
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			and for what whatever benefits people will remain
		
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			somehow stationed within the land. The water will
		
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			actually seep inside the soil, might become so
		
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			deep that you don't even notice it anymore
		
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			but the water will stay.
		
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			It will stay.
		
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			So you'll find Islam came and you would
		
00:46:39 --> 00:46:41
			say, well, you know, the world has modernized.
		
00:46:41 --> 00:46:43
			We don't need religion anymore.
		
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			But Islam seems to stay.
		
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			And then you have communism came, for example,
		
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			in places like the, you know, the Soviet
		
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			Union before its collapsed. There were places like
		
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			Kosovo and Albania and, you know, Montenegro. And
		
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			there were there were Muslims living in, like,
		
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			what what is now Kazakhstan and, you know,
		
00:46:59 --> 00:47:02
			other Uzbekistan, other places where the the communism
		
00:47:02 --> 00:47:04
			was so extreme that you could get killed
		
00:47:04 --> 00:47:06
			for holding on to your Islam.
		
00:47:07 --> 00:47:09
			You could literally quite literally get executed.
		
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			What did Islam look like after the the
		
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			extreme secularism of Ataturk
		
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			in Turkey
		
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			Right? I met people who told me it
		
00:47:17 --> 00:47:19
			was illegal to even have a copy of
		
00:47:19 --> 00:47:20
			the Quran in your home
		
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			Their grandma the grandma said, You couldn't have
		
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			a copy of Quran in your home
		
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			right?
		
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			And men were ripping off hijabs of women
		
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			in the street
		
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			this like Islam was such a problem for
		
00:47:33 --> 00:47:35
			them They wanted to rip it out of
		
00:47:35 --> 00:47:37
			people, like, gutting it out. Like, imagine
		
00:47:37 --> 00:47:39
			something deep inside you, and they wanna cut
		
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			you open and pull it out of you.
		
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			That's how they wanted to get rid of
		
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			Islam.
		
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			The way they tried to get the way
		
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			they got rid of Islam in Granada in
		
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			Spain centuries ago.
		
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			What the what the Uighur Muslim are going
		
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			through now,
		
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			forcing their young men to drink, drink alcohol
		
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			in Ramadan.
		
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			Right? Forcing their daughters to marry Buddhist men.
		
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			To put pictures of their ruler in front
		
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			of the Masjid in in the where the
		
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			Qibla goes.
		
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			Forcing them to do that.
		
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			Hoping and then putting security cameras and you
		
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			know surveillance outside every home and having an
		
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			agent live with them
		
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			stays.
		
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			It just stays and there's 2 ways of
		
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			fighting Islam. Is everything okay?
		
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			Oh, it's small. Okay. So there's 2 ways
		
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			of
		
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			destroying Islam. So now we're gonna flip this
		
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			image that Allah has given us in this
		
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			ayah. We're gonna flip the image.
		
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			The first imagery I gave you is the
		
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			Quran came and flooded society.
		
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			And then the trials came in Madinah that
		
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			purified the believers.
		
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			But on the other side is
		
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			This is the story of Haqq.
		
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			The other story is the story of
		
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			They also want to create a flood.
		
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			They don't want to destroy Islam in America
		
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			or Islam in Canada or Islam in England
		
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			or Australia
		
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			by police
		
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			and by forcing you or making it illegal.
		
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			Let's slowly trying to make those policy
		
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			much softer approach. Let's use the education system.
		
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			Let's use funding.
		
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			Let's use other me let's use media tactics.
		
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			Let's flood them with messages.
		
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			Let's flood them in a way that the
		
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			weak among them will leave Islam and rise
		
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			like froth.
		
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			Right? We want them to be separated from
		
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			their religion.
		
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			And if that doesn't work, then let's take
		
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			the more extreme measures that are now found
		
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			in some other parts of the world.
		
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			Let's police them. Let's beat them. Let's make
		
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			it illegal for them for them to even
		
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			read the Quran.
		
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			Let's torture them.
		
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			And that's like, you know, putting them in
		
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			the fire. So on the one hand, there's
		
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			the fire that believers put themselves in, and
		
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			then there's the fire that the disbelievers are
		
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			putting them in.
		
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			All of this to just remove,
		
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			get get rid of this entity, this thing
		
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			called Islam.
		
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			Just get rid of it somehow.
		
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			Previous parables I was telling you, even people
		
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			who leave Islam can't seem to leave Islam.
		
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			They leave Islam and all they do is
		
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			make videos about how much they hate Islam.
		
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			Just leave Islam
		
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			bro. Just leave already.
		
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			You know what else I hate you? Yeah,
		
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			I got it. You hate me. Go. And
		
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			what else? One more thing.
		
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			Why are you still crying?
		
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			I don't know. Because I wanna come back
		
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			or something, but I can't admit it.
		
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			It'll remain in it'll remain station. Whatever benefits
		
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			people will remain.
		
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			You know, even within Islam,
		
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			we've had so many different denominations. Right? There's
		
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			different groups, there's different ideologies, there's different schools
		
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			in within Aqeedah. There's still
		
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			different masalik, different factions, different cults,
		
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			different tariqas. There's all this kind of variety
		
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			in Islam.
		
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			Some of the most interesting varieties you get
		
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			in the United Kingdom.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Depending on the much that you walk into,
		
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			you're like, oh, okay. Alright.
		
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			You know? So you'll you'll get and if
		
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			the Muslim world is like that,
		
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			and you know what? Some of those groups
		
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			have risen and fallen.
		
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			Some ideas have risen and fallen. Islam somehow
		
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			stays.
		
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			You would think with this many factions, it
		
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			would just collapse. No. Islam stays. The core
		
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			values, the core core principles of this deen
		
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			are there to
		
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			stay.
		
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			Will remain in the land. And I would
		
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			argue from the beginning, this is a parable
		
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			about the Quran itself. And the what truly
		
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			benefited, what truly flooded Mecca was the Quran,
		
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			was the word of Allah.
		
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			And what I'm hoping through this series, you
		
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			guys are starting to realize
		
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			is how much we need to flood ourselves
		
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			with the Quran.
		
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			And how we we've actually
		
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			we haven't done our job educating ourselves and
		
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			being allowing ourselves to really contemplate the word
		
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			of Allah the way it should have been
		
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			contemplated. But that need that needs to come
		
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			back, and that we're the ones that will
		
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			benefit from
		
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			it. Last comment about these ayaat.
		
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			I love the conclusion
		
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			That is how Allah gives examples, Allah
		
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			says
		
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			Just ponder how much, how rich this parable
		
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			is,
		
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			and how there are some things that will
		
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			be cleansed just by education
		
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			and others by difficult experience. How much has
		
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			been encapsulated inside one example?
		
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			Just just in these, you know, to have
		
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			that's how Allah gives examples. That's what he
		
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			says. That's how Allah gives examples.
		
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			So the last comment I wanted to make,
		
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			to you about this is about the and
		
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			the. Allah, just like He knows everything in
		
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			the past, He knows everything in the future.
		
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			And Allah gave us this final religion,
		
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			this last revelation
		
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			that he gifted to Muhammad
		
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			and we became we are now in 2024
		
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			the recipients,
		
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			the carriers of this revelation.
		
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			And Allah has a plan for the rest
		
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			of the world and what's gonna happen in
		
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			the world. And all the places in the
		
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			world are like valleys.
		
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			And every one of them, one day or
		
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			another, will be flooded
		
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			with the water that comes from the sky
		
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			which is the Quran.
		
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			And every one of them will take it
		
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			in a way that is meant for it
		
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			to be taken. Some places will get Islam
		
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			in this century. Some places will get Islam
		
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			200 years from now. We don't know.
		
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			We don't know what that's gonna look like.
		
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			I don't think anybody in India imagined a
		
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			100 years before Islam came to India that
		
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			Islam will be like the the Muslims will
		
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			be the the the dominant population of Muslims
		
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			in the world will be South Asia and
		
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			Southeast Asia. I don't think anybody would have
		
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			imagined that.
		
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			When I when I went to Indonesia, the
		
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			most populated Muslim country in the world,
		
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			you know, before the Adan,
		
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			they have this you ever seen those giant
		
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			gong drum things?
		
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			They beat that drum and I'm like what
		
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			is that?
		
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			What are you guys doing? Like, the
		
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			and it it goes faster and faster. And
		
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			then a few minutes after, then they give,
		
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			and I'm like, what's that about? That's
		
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			cool and weird.
		
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			So I asked about and they said that,
		
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			you know, before Islam came here, this is
		
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			how they used to call people to the
		
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			temple.
		
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			And then people used to come in. And
		
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			the early Muslims, when they wanted to give
		
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			dawah, they employed this technique
		
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			to break Subhanahu wa'ala.
		
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			Subhanahu wa'ala. And the majority like the biggest
		
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			Muslim population of the planet,
		
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			you know.
		
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			So how will Islam come to a region?
		
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			We don't know.
		
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			How will it come? We don't know.
		
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			But so long as it will be something
		
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			that benefits people.
		
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			Now Allah has already sent his Messenger.
		
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			The the rain has already fallen. The Quran
		
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			is already now in our possession. The only
		
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			difference now is who is going to be
		
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			spreading this word?
		
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			Who's going to be internalizing it and then
		
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			spreading it? You know? What remains in the
		
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			world just just think about that. You know
		
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			people say, oh, times have changed. It's not
		
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			the time for religion anymore. It's time for
		
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			humanity to move on from these barbaric old
		
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			ways, etcetera, etcetera.
		
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			The imagery here is when water goes into
		
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			the ground,
		
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			then it produces life. Isn't it?
		
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			And when water produces life,
		
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			it produces a tree,
		
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			then it is producing
		
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			endless trees because that tree will give fruit,
		
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			the fruit will have seeds, that seed will
		
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			produce another tree, another fruit, another tree, another
		
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			And for generations,
		
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			fruits will continue to grow because of that
		
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			one rain that came. So this is something
		
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			that will emerge in new generations, one after
		
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			another after another after another. It's not something
		
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			that's going away.
		
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			It's not something that will ever ever disappear.
		
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			What a beautiful description of the Quran.
		
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			That which benefits people.
		
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			That which benefits people. Islam didn't come to
		
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			invade people or to control people. The Quran
		
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			didn't come to, you know, impose on people.
		
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			The Quran came to benefit people.
		
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			This is for you.
		
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			If you excel, you're doing it for your
		
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			own benefit.
		
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			And that's
		
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			the
		
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			challenge of our society. How are we to
		
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			understand
		
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			How will the word of Allah bring benefit
		
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			to our valleys?
		
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			Every one of us, especially the young here,
		
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			you Allah has put you in a particular
		
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			valley at a particular time.
		
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			And you understand your society, your culture, your
		
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			heritage,
		
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			your opportunities like nobody else does. And you
		
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			must internalize the word of Allah and then
		
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			see how that word of Allah will bring
		
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			benefit in that society.
		
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			May Allah truly make us like the example
		
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			has given. One one scary thing I didn't
		
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			give you, I should give you now. And
		
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			that is I'm I'm sorry. It'll take 2
		
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			minutes. And that is Allah at the end
		
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			he mentioned
		
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			that the water in the land will stay
		
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			and the froth will disappear.
		
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			By using it like that, it's almost as
		
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			if he didn't mention the froth from the
		
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			metal.
		
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			It's like he brought emphasis to the froth
		
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			from the land and not the froth from
		
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			the metal. Why would that be? Maybe it's
		
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			a very subtle way of describing that the
		
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			will die.
		
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			Will disappear from Makkah. But
		
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			which is deeply embedded,
		
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			you'll remove some of it, but not all
		
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			of it will go.
		
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			Not all of it will go. Nifaq will
		
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			be an ongoing problem. Hypocrisy will be an
		
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			ongoing disease. So he didn't bring an end
		
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			to Nifaq,
		
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			but he did bring an end to kufr
		
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			in the parable. And that's what happened in
		
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			the region of of, you know, Hijaz. Kufr
		
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			was brought to an end, but nifaq even
		
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			in the last revelations given like in Surat
		
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			Tawba,
		
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			Allah says Right? Even until the end, the
		
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			disease remained. May Allah protect all of us
		
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			from nifaq and may Allah bless us from
		
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			the beauty of these ayaat and allow them
		
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			to to come into our hearts, minds, and
		
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			into our communities.
		
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