Nouman Ali Khan – Striking Examples From the Quran #24 A Firm Word

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The concept ofteenth-grade words used in the Quran is important and often referred to as "any good words" in the context of parables. The use of mis Joyce and "foaming up" in writing is also important. The importance of faith and acceptance of Islam is also emphasized, as it is not something that is permanent and can lead to cultural collapse. The speaker emphasizes the need for acceptance and acceptance of Islam in the world, and the potential impact of the internet and social media revolution on people's political positions.

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			Just waiting on
		
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			instruction. Okay.
		
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			So,
		
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			in order to to benefit from today's session,
		
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			this is ayah number 27,
		
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			and a little very little about ayah number
		
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			28,
		
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			today from again, Surat Ibrahim.
		
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			This is the concluding commentary on the example
		
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			that Allah was giving about the
		
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			the good word and the filthy word. Right?
		
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			I want to explain to you a concept
		
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			called,
		
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			that's used in, you know, in linguistic analysis
		
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			of the Quran in.
		
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			It's very simple actually. Whenever Allah gives an
		
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			example, he's like I keep saying, he's painting
		
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			a picture. Right? So he's making you use
		
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			your imagination to visualize something.
		
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			Like, the first day we were visualizing a
		
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			tree, and yesterday, we we were visualizing an
		
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			uprooted tree and all the things that come
		
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			with that image. Right? So this painting of
		
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			the image, the more words vivid words that
		
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			are used, the more you get drawn into
		
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			the picture.
		
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			You get you get immersed into the image,
		
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			kind of like the people in Leeds who
		
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			watch movies, and they're really into the movie,
		
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			and they just get kind of sucked into
		
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			the film.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So when you get that immersed in the
		
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			image,
		
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			then what Allah does sometimes is he will
		
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			pull you out of the image and bring
		
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			you back into reality almost immediately,
		
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			but use some of the elements that he
		
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			was using
		
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			inside the image, but now he will use
		
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			them outside the image.
		
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			Right? So he's he's kind of pulling you
		
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			out of that imaginary scenario
		
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			and using that word. So that's what that's
		
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			the that's the concept of Tajrid.
		
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			And there's an entire ayah
		
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			dedicated, in this case, to just just to
		
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			pull you out of the imagery of the
		
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			firm word, and the firm tree, and the
		
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			uprooted tree, to pull you out and give
		
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			you a concluding comment that is actually borrowing
		
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			language
		
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			from those ayats. So for example, you saw
		
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			That the origin of that tree or the
		
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			roots of that tree are firm. And now
		
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			you'll see the word
		
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			come up, but not in the context of
		
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			an example,
		
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			but by
		
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			by pulling us out of the image and
		
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			actually talking about kind of the takeaway lesson.
		
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			So it's interesting that in this case, Allah
		
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			didn't just allow us to
		
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			imagine
		
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			the the the parable,
		
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			contemplate the parable, learn the lessons from the
		
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			parable. There are some takeaways that Allah himself
		
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			spelled out
		
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			on top of all of that, and that's
		
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			what's happening in these ayat. K. So so
		
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			that that's why even though today is not
		
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			a parable, it was important as part of
		
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			that lesson
		
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			to dedicate, because Allah dedicated a particular ayah
		
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			just to this concept. Inshallah, through the course
		
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			of today's discussion, I think you'll see why
		
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			this is so important. So a a a
		
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			brief translation is.
		
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			Allah will make firm
		
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			those who have faith by way of the
		
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			faith
		
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			by way of the firm word.
		
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			By using the firm word, Allah will give
		
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			firmness to those who believe.
		
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			That's what Allah is saying in the beginning.
		
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			Then he says,
		
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			in worldly life and in the afterlife.
		
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			And notice the repetition of the word fee
		
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			that didn't need to be there. You could
		
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			say
		
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			but you see the fee mentioned twice. We'll
		
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			come back to that too.
		
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			Then he says
		
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			and Allah will I'll translate literally again, and
		
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			Allah will misguide
		
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			wrongdoers.
		
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			Now Allah is using the word misguide. What's
		
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			the opposite of misguide?
		
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			Guide. But you didn't see any mention of
		
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			the word guide before.
		
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			You didn't see that. So why is misguide
		
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			being used if if misguided is being talked
		
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			about when guidance wasn't being talked about? We're
		
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			gonna explore that too. That's also another rhetorical
		
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			concept in the Quran.
		
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			And he concludes with
		
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			and Allah does whatever he pleases. Allah does
		
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			whatever he wills. Okay. So now, coming back
		
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			to the opening,
		
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			It's really interesting that the first time we
		
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			heard about a word was the word
		
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			Any word that is good.
		
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			And then that's why there were multiple tafasir
		
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			even from the Sahaba. What is that good
		
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			word referring to? Any good word. And we
		
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			talked about how it can be
		
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			it could be
		
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			but it could be any sincere word, like
		
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			it could be even the word that, you
		
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			know, Luqman had with his son, for example,
		
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			is
		
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			You don't know what good advice, good word,
		
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			good gesture will grow into later on. But
		
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			by the end here, Allah is not repeating
		
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			the word. He's saying.
		
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			So he's changed the word to
		
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			and not just it used to be it
		
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			was indefinite, so it was there was no
		
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			the on it, but now there's a the
		
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			on it,
		
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			which kind of puts you in the in
		
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			a certain direction. This is a very explicit
		
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			reference to the Quran.
		
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			And how do we know that? That Allah
		
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			will make believers firm by way of the
		
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			firm word and the firm word being the
		
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			Quran. First, let's talk a little bit about
		
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			the word firm, and then I'll tell you
		
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			why I think this is a good way
		
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			to read this is actually the word of
		
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			Allah, the Quran itself. So the word Sabaat,
		
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			actually comes from the image of the word
		
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			with a kasra,
		
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			And is used for a belt,
		
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			that is used to tie the luggage.
		
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			So for example, you know, back in the
		
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			day, of course, people had camels and they
		
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			put loaded stuff on camels, but because the
		
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			camel back is kind of narrow, so they
		
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			had two sides of the luggage and they're
		
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			kind of loading up the bags and they're
		
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			it's gonna hang over, but it can still
		
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			tip over so they had a belt to
		
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			secure it, and that kind of a belt
		
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			is actually called a tibat.
		
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			That's that's where it comes from, to to
		
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			secure something to keep it in place. It's
		
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			also used for,
		
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			for for locusts
		
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			when they are putting their eggs in a
		
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			place, when they're laying their eggs. That's also
		
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			called also actually. And they use this as
		
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			a visual image. They use
		
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			it.
		
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			When somebody got, you know, hit with a
		
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			spear in war and the spear pierce their
		
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			body,
		
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			and now it won't come out because it's
		
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			got hooks. Right? It's got talons on the
		
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			side, so you can't just rip it out.
		
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			So now it's it's lodged in and it
		
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			won't come out. It's set in place. That's
		
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			what they would call
		
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			So the idea of is something settled, lodged
		
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			in,
		
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			wedged in, firmed, and the idea of faith
		
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			Allah saying, Allah will make believers firm is
		
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			that they will stand their ground, and their
		
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			beliefs won't shake, and their commitment won't shake,
		
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			and they'll stay where they are. And this
		
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			is why this word is used in different
		
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			duas that have to do with the battlefield.
		
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			Because in battle, if you're if you're among
		
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			the soldiers that are a couple of 100,
		
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			and you see an army coming in front
		
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			of you that are that are a few
		
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			1,000,
		
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			then your feet are gonna shake a little
		
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			bit. So our dua is.
		
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			Right? Make our plant our feet. Make our
		
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			feet firm.
		
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			And then again at the end,
		
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			meaning plant us in, like don't let us
		
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			just uproot and make it make our feet
		
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			so strong
		
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			as if they're pegged into the ground,
		
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			like that's how strong we they they should
		
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			be, you know. So the idea of firmness
		
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			and establish being established, being rooted, being settled
		
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			is the idea that you're not shaking,
		
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			You're not moving with the trend. You're not
		
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			you're not moving from your position because of
		
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			peer pressure, family pressure, or anything else. Nothing
		
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			else is able to sway you from where
		
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			you stand. To give you to make this
		
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			you know, because this sounds all theoretical, but
		
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			practically speaking,
		
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			so you have, for example,
		
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			in many, cultures,
		
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			people practice they they dress the way that
		
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			the culture
		
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			dresses. Right? And I one time, I was
		
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			in a flight from an Arab country that
		
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			shall not be named,
		
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			and there was a, you know, lady sitting
		
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			next to me who I didn't know she's
		
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			Muslim. I was just sitting in flight, and
		
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			then she, like, you know, I was I
		
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			was just reading some Quran and she just
		
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			started talking to me in Arabic and I
		
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			was like, okay,
		
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			and then we just started talking. He goes,
		
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			She's she's telling me she's Muslim and all
		
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			of that and she's proud of her country
		
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			and and then I didn't say anything. And
		
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			she goes, you might be thinking why I'm
		
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			dressed like this because she wasn't dressed, let's
		
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			just say, Islamically.
		
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			Right? So so you might be thinking why
		
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			I'm dressed like this. Like, I wasn't thinking
		
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			anything, lady. I was I was I wasn't
		
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			thinking about that. I just want an orange
		
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			juice and that I'm I'm good. I'm I'm
		
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			I'm fine.
		
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			She goes, no, but I'm proud of my
		
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			country. I'm proud of my heritage. I wear
		
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			the jalbaab. I wear the niqab. I wear
		
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			this. I wear this because it's our country's
		
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			heritage. It's our, you know, but, you know,
		
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			I'm going I'm traveling to France right now.
		
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			And she's very proud of the, you know,
		
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			of the cultural dress when she's in that
		
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			culture,
		
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			And then as soon as she leaves that
		
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			culture, you don't have to
		
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			but in other words, her
		
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			her commitment to that clothing had nothing to
		
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			do with the religion.
		
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			It actually had a geographic commitment.
		
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			When you're in this geographical vicinity,
		
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			then you look like this. When you're outside
		
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			of it, you look like that, and that's
		
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			completely normal. She sees no hypocrisy in that.
		
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			She sees no contradiction in that. It's just,
		
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			you know, you dress this way when you're
		
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			here, you dress that way when you're there,
		
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			and that's just a matter of cultural norm.
		
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			Yeah. I don't wanna be weird when I
		
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			go there, and I don't wanna be weird
		
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			when I go here. So I observe the
		
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			norms when I'm here, and I observe those
		
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			those norms when I'm there. So now your
		
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			in this in this example, your clothing
		
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			is being determined by your surroundings.
		
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			Right? So I'm I'm I'm more inclined to
		
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			dress more like a Muslim,
		
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			when I'm in an Islamic kind of scene,
		
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			and I'm more inclined to dress,
		
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			they'll call it normal,
		
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			when I'm in a non Muslim scene.
		
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			Right? So I'm I'm just gonna and and
		
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			it could be prayer. It could be other
		
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			other manifestations of your religion. It could be,
		
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			like, you're so used to not hearing anybody
		
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			hear you say
		
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			that you normally a a Muslim, you say
		
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			and then you're hanging out with your non
		
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			Muslim friends or coworkers or whatever at a
		
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			restaurant and some brother, you know, walks by.
		
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			Hey. How's it going?
		
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			Like
		
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			because it's not because you don't that's not
		
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			normal for your most non Muslim friends to
		
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			hear you say Arabic stuff. You don't want
		
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			them to think that you're extreme or something.
		
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			Right? So
		
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			the idea of Allah making somebody firm
		
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			and they're they're settled in what they are,
		
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			the environment,
		
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			the surroundings, the the group they're part of,
		
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			the family that they're in, the friends that
		
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			they're around, the work work environment that they're
		
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			in, none of that's having an impact on
		
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			who they are. They are the same they're
		
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			they're planted in what they are. They're firm
		
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			in what they are. Right? And Allah says
		
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			and Allah
		
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			he so now
		
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			that's the meaning of the word
		
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			but now why do I think or what
		
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			makes me think this is more talking about
		
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			the Quran?
		
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			Actually, what makes me think that is twice
		
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			in the Quran,
		
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			Allah refers to the Quran as something that
		
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			gives to
		
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			the heart of the prophet.
		
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			Right? So if so for example, in
		
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			This believer said, how come the Quran doesn't
		
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			come down one time? Just let it just
		
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			come one time and be done with it.
		
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			Why does it come little by little? And
		
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			Allah responds and he turns the direction to
		
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			his prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and he
		
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			says,
		
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			that is so so we can make your
		
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			heart firm.
		
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			So every time the Quran comes,
		
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			it reaffirms
		
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			and re strengthens and reinforces
		
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			the peg
		
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			inside the heart of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam. What does that tell you? That
		
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			even the Messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
		
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			was being continually reinforced.
		
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			That means I, you, and anybody else who's
		
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			gonna say
		
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			Muhammad is going to need continuous reinforcement.
		
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			And if the best reinforcement
		
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			for the best of humanity
		
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			was the Quran coming little by little,
		
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			then it must be that for
		
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			us, which is gonna give us reinforcement, is
		
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			gonna be the word of Allah. There's got
		
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			to be a continuous relationship with the word
		
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			of Allah. Now let's take another step in
		
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			this remarkable phrasing.
		
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			Allah says
		
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			Notice the words, Allah will give firmness
		
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			to the believers
		
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			by the word that is firm. So what's
		
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			already firm? What's already settled?
		
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			The word of Allah is already settled in
		
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			this language, and what is not quite fully
		
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			settled?
		
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			The believer.
		
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			So the the settlement
		
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			as a permanent quality belongs to the word.
		
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			The word is established, the word is perfect,
		
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			the word is settled, the word is what
		
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			it is.
		
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			But the believer is fluctuating,
		
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			and the believer needs more of the firm
		
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			word
		
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			so that they can have more and more
		
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			firmness.
		
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			What this illustrates is that the believer is
		
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			going to go through up and the ups
		
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			and downs, and the Muslim will also go
		
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			through ups and downs.
		
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			And the only way that the Muslim
		
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			will feel that they are firm,
		
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			that they'll actually reach reach some level of
		
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			firmness,
		
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			is how much Quran has been injected into
		
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			them personally and into that society.
		
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			Now let's talk about this at a practical
		
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			level. You know there are many that talk
		
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			about the problem of the Ummah, the weakness
		
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			of the Ummah, the instability of the Ummah,
		
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			the political
		
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			powerlessness of the ummah, the corruption of the
		
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			ummah. How will we revive the ummah? Umma,
		
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			umma, and ummah. Right? So we we hear
		
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			this kind of talk. We've been hearing it
		
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			for since the colonizer left because the colonizer
		
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			left many colonized colonized nations, but he left
		
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			the minds of the Muslims colonized
		
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			in many ways. Right?
		
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			So, and I and I told you about
		
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			that before. You have, for example, in South
		
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			Asia where I come from,
		
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			you know,
		
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			the the makeup industry is focused on making
		
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			brown girls look as white as possible.
		
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			Right? They're a little bleachier skin if they
		
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			have to because the colonizer was a certain
		
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			color, the master race. So you look as
		
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			much like them, and that's that's what's what's
		
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			normal.
		
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			And then, you know, you could have a
		
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			a girl that's, like, from, like, the southern
		
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			region, Macron coast, dark skin people, that's how
		
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			Allah made them, but when by the by
		
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			the time the makeup artist is done, if
		
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			she stands next to a white wall, you
		
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			cannot see her. Right?
		
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			So so that but but where did that
		
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			come from? That came from colonized cultures. Right?
		
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			A sense of inferiority. But, anyway,
		
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			the reason I'm bringing that up is you
		
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			have Muslim cultures,
		
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			and in Muslim cultures,
		
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			now, many Muslim cultures, we have Islamic,
		
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			visibly Islamic things.
		
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			You go to certain Muslim countries, you can
		
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			hear the you
		
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			can hear the You walk into most restaurants,
		
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			if not all restaurants, the food is halal.
		
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			Right? You're gonna see many, many people wearing
		
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			many women wearing hijab.
		
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			Right? So you're gonna see kind of or
		
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			you'll see, like, signs that say or Allahu
		
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			Akbar or things like that. Right? And you're
		
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			gonna see a lots of places, taxi drivers
		
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			playing recitation of Quran or something like that.
		
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			Right? So you're gonna see visible
		
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			signs of Islam and Islamic culture
		
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			in any given Muslim country, right?
		
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			Then you notice something. In those same countries,
		
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			something happened,
		
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			and within 10 years,
		
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			the Adhan got banned in certain neighborhoods,
		
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			or you start seeing Christmas trees in the
		
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			mall during Christmas season even though it's a
		
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			Muslim country, and all of a sudden you
		
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			start seeing, you know, like,
		
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			less and less, of the hijab and you
		
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			see alcohol became allowed.
		
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			And you're like, how did this happen in
		
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			10 years? Like, this was
		
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			what? What what's going on here? You know?
		
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			Like, for example, what happened with the Ottomans
		
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			is this is a little bit further back,
		
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			but in the empire Jawad was telling me
		
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			in the Uthmani rule,
		
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			women wearing niqab was the norm, women were
		
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			just covered, their face was covered too
		
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			and that was the norm. And if you
		
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			weren't covered, that looked weird. And within 10
		
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			years
		
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			with Ataturks coming, within 10 years, even the
		
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			hijab became strange.
		
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			Right? So something that was going on for
		
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			centuries
		
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			disappeared within 10 years, within 10 years.
		
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			Or you'll have countries that are associated with
		
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			very conservative values, conservative Islamic values, religious country,
		
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			and all of a sudden, somebody decides they're
		
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			going to have a concert there.
		
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			They're gonna have a Beyonce concert there. They're
		
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			gonna have a Jay z whatever. They're gonna
		
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			have somebody's concert and you see 50,000 youth
		
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			show up and they're
		
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			jamming to this concert and they're like, like,
		
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			it's a it looks like a non Muslim
		
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			country. And you're like a stuff for love
		
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			stuff for love. Wait a second.
		
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			Where did those youth come from? Did they
		
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			just crawl out of the ground? Were they
		
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			zombies that were hiding?
		
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			Or they they were part of that society
		
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			right? And if you went there 5 years
		
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			ago, visibly, it looked like a very Islamic
		
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			place.
		
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			It looked very, very Islamic. You know what
		
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			that is? Societies
		
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			that have Islam on the outside is like
		
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			the branches and the bark of a tree,
		
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			but Allah says firmness,
		
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			stability of this faith does not come from
		
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			giant masjids,
		
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			or you can hear the adhan, or there's
		
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			halal chicken available everywhere, or
		
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			not that stuff. You know where that comes
		
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			from? It's actually
		
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			And where does where's in the in the
		
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			imagery?
		
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			The roots are firm. So if you don't
		
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			build a society
		
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			that knows in the depths Every young man
		
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			and woman knows in the depths of their
		
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			heart, why are they Muslim? Why is the
		
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			Quran the word of Allah, what is Allah
		
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			actually saying in the Quran? If they don't
		
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			know that, then even if they're in an
		
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			Islamic looking society,
		
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			it's like the is not the roots are
		
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			not firm. So a new wave, a new
		
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			trend, a new king, a new president, a
		
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			new party winning the election,
		
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			a new company moving to the area or
		
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			whatever and all of a sudden what looked
		
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			Islamic within
		
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			no time looks un Islamic
		
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			and you're like, Astaghfirullah, what's happening? Astaghfirullah, Astaghfirullah.
		
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			No. No. No. It's not Astaghfirullah. We didn't
		
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			give that society firmness.
		
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			We were okay with the outside appearance
		
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			of Islam, and we were not concerned with
		
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			deepening the roots. So when we say this,
		
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			look at what's happening, look at all this
		
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			facade and all this fitna and all of
		
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			that, and we're saying if we get rid
		
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			of that, if we outlaw the alcohol, if
		
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			we impose
		
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			if we force girls to wear hijab, if
		
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			we make people go and pray their salawat
		
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			in the masjid, and if we shut down
		
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			the businesses during the prayer, that will be
		
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			Islam. Hold on a second.
		
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			Even if you imposed all of that, our
		
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			people themselves in the depths of their hearts
		
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			convinced of any of that. Do they want
		
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			that? Do they do they believe in that?
		
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			Do they love that about about being in
		
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			that country or they feel like If I
		
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			had freedom, I'd be doing something very different
		
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			right now. And in fact, that's what happens
		
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			when you give those youth a little bit
		
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			of freedom, you see that they're all
		
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			like acting out. They're they're actually acting more
		
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			western than westerners.
		
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			Right? Why? Because it's repressed and they never
		
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			felt convinced of what they were what they
		
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			were what was imposed on them. But Allah
		
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			is saying, the only way believers will ever
		
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			have stability,
		
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			is only gonna happen by the firm word.
		
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			So the scary question we have to ask
		
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			ourselves I mean, I'm from Pakistan, I'm I'm,
		
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			American, I'm very American, I'm very American. I'm
		
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			very Pakistani. I'm both deal with it. But,
		
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			like, you know, in my culture in Pakistan,
		
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			it's a Muslim country, and we have slogans
		
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			like Pakistan Right? And we have many and
		
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			we have many different Pakistans in Pakistan. But
		
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			one of the Pakistan is very conservative, very
		
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			religious.
		
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			Right? Very practicing religious,
		
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			Muslims.
		
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			And the vast majority of them have no
		
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			idea what the Quran is about.
		
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			The vast Forget about the not religious people.
		
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			Well, I'm not talking about the not religious
		
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			people.
		
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			I'm talking about the visibly practicing religious, wanna
		
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			make sure everything is halal and, you know,
		
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			the clothing, the the the social life, the
		
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			and no idea what Allah says, no idea.
		
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			How is firmness gonna come?
		
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			And then what happens in and even in
		
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			forget about Baxal, even in the west, we
		
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			want our kids to be good Muslims. So
		
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			what's what's shallow solution that we come up
		
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			with? We're gonna make our kids become a
		
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			hafid of the Quran. So because if they
		
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			become a then Allah will protect everything else
		
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			is with Allah. So this kid is memorizing
		
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			the Quran,
		
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			and then after memorizing the Quran,
		
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			Allah protect all of our children, I know
		
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			enough of these thousands upon thousands of stories,
		
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			that same kid is drinking alcohol, that same
		
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			kid is in a gang, that same kid
		
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			left the masjid, he's doing drugs, doing all
		
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			kinds of crazy stuff. But I made him
		
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			a hafid. How did he do this? How
		
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			could he do this? Why did he do
		
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			Well, because you made him memorize sounds.
		
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			Those were the sounds of the word of
		
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			Allah, but the word of Allah will not
		
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			become firm in someone until they know what
		
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			Allah is saying,
		
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			and they feel what Allah is saying.
		
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			Right? So we didn't We we we did
		
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			part of the job, which is so amazing
		
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			these kids memorize the Quran, but if by
		
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			the time they memorize the Quran, they haven't
		
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			begun to taste the meaning, the wisdom, the
		
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			beauty, the relevance, the power of the Quran.
		
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			If they don't feel any of that, it's
		
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			just there to lead taraweeh,
		
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			that's all it's for,
		
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			what have you done?
		
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			Where's firmness gonna come from? Where's stability gonna
		
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			come from?
		
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			And then he
		
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			says, in worldly life.
		
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			Meaning, if we want Islam to be firm
		
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			in society
		
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			among the believing, the individual and the community,
		
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			then without the word of Allah, without the
		
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			firm word it will not happen. Then it
		
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			will be a cultural Islam.
		
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			It will be an Islam that's been based
		
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			on a cult.
		
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			Some people's Islam is based on a personality.
		
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			Other people's Islam is based on a certain
		
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			group
		
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			and so long as they're around that group,
		
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			their Islam is strong. The moment they get
		
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			away from that group, their Islam disappears, it
		
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			breaks up.
		
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			Or some Or they find they were worshiping
		
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			almost worshiping a Sheikh, and then when that
		
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			sheikh turns out to be human or he
		
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			said something that's contradictory or wrong, everybody makes
		
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			mistakes, everybody's human, all of a sudden your
		
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			faith has collapsed. Why is your faith collapsed?
		
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			Because you weren't holding on to,
		
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			you're holding on to something else.
		
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			Something else is always going to be unstable.
		
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			So Allah is offering believers the solution. He's
		
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			offering us
		
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			a remedy.
		
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			If we make Quran education
		
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			and Quran,
		
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			like, attachment I don't just say education. I
		
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			don't just say, oh, teach Arabic, teach tafsir.
		
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			I say there's there's gotta be a a
		
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			discussion
		
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			on the Quran among youth, among among families.
		
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			There's gotta be on the Quran. There needs
		
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			to
		
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			be
		
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			a culture of Quran.
		
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			When that starts happening, and and how the
		
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			Quran interacts with the outside world, how is
		
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			the Quran helping us understand the world around
		
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			us? If that doesn't happen, faith will not
		
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			remain firm.
		
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			It will become an artificial thing. And when
		
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			it's an artificial thing, the next wind comes
		
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			and the tree tips over.
		
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			It's not that Islam is weak. It's our
		
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			attachment to it is weak, and Allah is
		
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			teaching us what makes it strong in this
		
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			ayah.
		
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			But then he adds,
		
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			And before I get to, I just one
		
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			more thing I wanna tell you. What does
		
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			the Quran tell us when somebody becomes firm
		
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			in their faith? The first, of course, this
		
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			is Surat Ibrahim. So let's start with the
		
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			example of Ibrahim alaihis salam. When your faith
		
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			is firm, it's not just that you can
		
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			stand in front of Firaun like Musa alaihi
		
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			sallam or in front of like Ibrahim alaihi
		
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			sallam. Ibrahim alaihi sallam can even stand up
		
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			in front of his dad. Before you think
		
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			about standing in front of your in front
		
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			of think about standing in front of your
		
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			uncle
		
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			or your dad or your older brother or
		
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			your family because
		
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			that sounds a lot tougher.
		
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			But the government, I'm ready to protest.
		
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			Right?
		
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			But the immediate
		
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			authority in front of you, you can't stand
		
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			in front of them.
		
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			But he he demonstrated even as a young
		
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			man that he could challenge even respectfully, he
		
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			could challenge his father when the father was
		
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			doing something wrong.
		
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			Where's firmness gonna come from? It's a kind
		
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			of courage also.
		
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			Is actually having the courage to say the
		
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			right thing. That's the same thing with the
		
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			that's the same thing with the believer in
		
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			Alifiroun who spoke up in Surat Rafir.
		
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			Him speaking up guarantees the death penalty.
		
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			You're standing in the palace of the pharaoh
		
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			in his assembly speaking out against the pharaoh.
		
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			What's gonna happen to you? You're not Musa
		
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			who's got a special love and Firaun's got
		
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			a soft corner. You're gonna get executed. He
		
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			knows it but he spoke up anyway.
		
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			Right? Because that that's
		
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			but then why did Allah separate that from
		
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			This is the scary part.
		
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			Allah says believers will have the the firm
		
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			word, not just in this world,
		
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			Allah will make them firm with the firm
		
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			word in the.
		
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			So Allah describes, for example, in Surat,
		
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			at Tahrim, you
		
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			We believers are walking and Allah gives them
		
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			the right words. They say, our master complete
		
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			our right our light and forgive us, as
		
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			they're walking towards Jannah, may Allah make us
		
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			of them. Allah describes in Surat
		
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			he
		
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			says
		
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			None of them are gonna be able to
		
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			speak except when Allah gives permission. Ar Rahman
		
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			gives permission, and they're gonna say the right
		
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			thing. They're gonna speak in the right way.
		
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			That's
		
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			in the But what about
		
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			Because Allah is saying, Allah will give you
		
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			firmness with the right words, with the firm
		
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			words in this world and in the next.
		
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			But then Allah describes in some places in
		
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			the Quran,
		
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			people are speaking nonsense on judgment day.
		
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			I wanna hear help help you hear some
		
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			of those words. What nonsense will some people
		
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			say on judgement day? Here's 1.
		
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			A person will stand on judgement day on
		
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			their way to and they're like, if Allah
		
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			guided me, I would have been a good
		
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			person.
		
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			If Allah had had Allah done that, Allah
		
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			didn't do it.
		
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			Right? That's what just keep this word. Had
		
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			Allah guided me, I would have been from
		
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			the Okay. Another one,
		
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			Oh, we used to follow all these influencers.
		
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			If we had another chance, we would get
		
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			away from these people the way they're getting
		
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			away from us now, if we just had
		
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			another chance.
		
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			Another place in the Quran,
		
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			They say,
		
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			these
		
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			we we ended up following our leaders and
		
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			our elders, and they're the ones who misguided
		
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			us from the past.
		
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			Our
		
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			It's our leaders. It's our it's the government.
		
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			It's the politicians. It's the business people. It's
		
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			the celebrity. They're the ones who misguided us.
		
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			We didn't do it. They did it. This
		
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			this they're the real problem. Look at how
		
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			corrupt they are.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Okay?
		
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			Then,
		
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			They're the ones who misguided us.
		
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			Give them double the punishment. You Allah, give
		
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			them double the punishment.
		
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			Now this is this not and among this,
		
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			oh, there's also, for example,
		
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			in at the end of also.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Yeah Allah, death is coming, but no. No.
		
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			No. Just give me a little bit more
		
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			time. I'm gonna give so much. I'll be
		
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			so good. Just watch. Just watch.
		
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			I had to go to Urdu
		
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			here. Right? Because I when I when I
		
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			went to Pakistan, one of the things somebody
		
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			told me is you get people that are
		
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			begging you for a job. They're begging you
		
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			for a job. Right? Like, yeah. I I
		
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			have small kids. Like, no, you don't, but
		
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			I will one day.
		
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			Please give me a and then you finally
		
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			give the guy a job. He's like, just
		
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			give me a job. I'll show you.
		
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			No. You've never hired somebody this good. Then
		
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			you hire the guy, the guy stopped showing
		
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			up at work, not not returning calls, missing
		
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			deadlines, and he's like, sir, if you just
		
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			give me this one bonus
		
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			for Eid,
		
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			you see what I do.
		
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			You've never seen this kind of productivity.
		
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			Right? So you got this, like, mentality
		
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			that, oh, oh, just give me another chance.
		
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			I'm gonna be amazing. I'm gonna be amazing.
		
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			Teachers know some kids do that to them.
		
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			I know I missed my deadline, but, yo,
		
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			if you just give me just, like, 5
		
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			extra points,
		
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			I'm gonna be the best I'll show you
		
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			I'll be the best student in this class.
		
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			And then a week later when he's missing
		
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			all this assignments again, what happened to you
		
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			being the best student?
		
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			Yeah. I know,
		
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			just, like, just one more chance. Just just
		
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			one more. I know I said one more
		
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			last time, but just this this is this
		
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			is this I mean it this time.
		
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			Right? And they're doing this on judgment day.
		
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			Now the examples I gave you, somebody who
		
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			comes along and says, if only Allah guided
		
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			me, I would have been good.
		
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			If Allah give me another chance, I'll be
		
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			good.
		
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			My leaders are the ones who misguided me.
		
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			My elders are the ones my family is
		
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			the one that misguided me. It's not my
		
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			fault. You should punish them twice. It's the
		
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			it's on them.
		
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			You know what? None of this sounds like
		
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			things that they're gonna come up with on
		
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			judgment day. You know what this sounds like?
		
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			These are the kinds of things they've been
		
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			saying in their life all along.
		
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			They've been saying things like it's all the
		
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			corrupt leaders' fault, my family's fault, what can
		
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			I do, it's everybody else's fault, Allah didn't
		
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			guide me so how can I if Allah
		
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			if Allah already knows everything, then how can
		
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			it be my fault? If Allah already decided
		
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			everything,
		
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			how can it be my fault? If Allah
		
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			has already written written that is and He
		
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			knows who's gonna go to jannah and jahannam.
		
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			Well, you know, guess I it's not my
		
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			fault. They've been they've been singing that mantra
		
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			in this life and they're thinking they're gonna
		
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			be able to sell it to Allah on
		
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			judgment day.
		
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			Allah says the believer will come before Allah
		
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			on judgment day with
		
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			Does this sound like a No.
		
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			So Allah is now telling us the people
		
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			of these kinds of
		
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			words, these weird excuse type words that live
		
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			the life of excuses in this life, that's
		
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			what they're gonna bring to Allah on judgment
		
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			day. That's all they were prepared with. But
		
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			the people who are holding on to Allah
		
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			and holding on to his word in this
		
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			life, they come with the right words before
		
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			Allah on judgement day. May Allah make us
		
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			all from them. So
		
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			Now we get to
		
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			and Allah will this literal translation sounds like
		
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			Allah will misguide the wrongdoers. Let me just
		
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			tell you something about in in. It's really
		
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			cool.
		
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			Simple English. If I say, for instance,
		
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			they executed the murderer.
		
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			They executed the murderer,
		
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			the word murderer
		
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			is actually telling you why they executed him.
		
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			So they didn't have to give you a
		
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			separate statement to illustrate the reason for which
		
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			the execution happened. You understand?
		
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			They executed the murderer,
		
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			or, you know, they You know, the company
		
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			fired the thief.
		
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			So why did they fire him?
		
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			Because he was still It didn't have to
		
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			be said. The word thief included it in
		
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			it. The rationale was already embedded into the
		
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			way the statement was made. The same way
		
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			when Allah says, Allah misguides
		
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			the wrongdoers.
		
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			Allah misguides the wrongdoers.
		
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			In fact, I'd better translate that as Allah
		
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			allows
		
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			the wrongdoers to remain in misguidance
		
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			or to carry on in misguidance. That's how
		
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			I would translate that. But what's the rational
		
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			why is he allowing them to be in
		
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			misguidance?
		
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			Because of their wrongdoing. You understand that the
		
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			is already there.
		
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			Now, what's really interesting word, Allah didn't say
		
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			here, He didn't say in here. He said
		
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			here.
		
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			And
		
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			anybody who's an Arabic student here knows
		
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			means to put something where it doesn't belong.
		
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			Is someone who puts something where it doesn't
		
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			belong.
		
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			Right? Your anger belongs somewhere, you put it
		
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			somewhere else, you're
		
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			Your your your the rights belong somewhere, you
		
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			gave them somewhere else, you're
		
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			The money belongs somewhere, you put the money
		
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			somewhere else, you're That's that's the the meaning
		
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			of is putting something where it doesn't belong.
		
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			What's really remarkable about this ayah is, you
		
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			were supposed to put the water where it
		
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			belongs, the seed where it belongs, you were
		
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			supposed to rely on the tree where it
		
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			belongs, and you're the Valim, you're the one
		
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			who misplaced your hopes on the wrong tree,
		
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			you're the one who didn't nourish, put the
		
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			water where it belongs, and
		
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			nurture the roots how the way they deserve
		
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			to be nurtured. You nurtured the wrong thing,
		
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			you're the wazim.
		
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			And Allah says, and and it's interesting, I
		
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			told you kind of in passing in the
		
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			beginning, Allah didn't say
		
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			this is the opposite of guidance. This is
		
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			the opposite of being firm on the firm
		
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			word.
		
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			So what is Allah telling us about misguidance
		
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			in this ayah?
		
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			It's by he's telling us, actually, misguidance in
		
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			this ayah means there will be people who
		
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			don't hold on to the firm word, and
		
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			they have no interest in holding on to
		
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			the firm word, and they will distance themselves
		
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			from the firm word, and they will be
		
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			disinterested
		
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			and, you know,
		
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			actually even repulsed
		
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			by the firm word and Allah says Allah
		
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			will keep them that way.
		
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			Fine. You wanna stay that way? You stay
		
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			that way. You wanna hold on to some
		
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			other words for yourself? You do it. Some
		
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			people will hold on to their excuses for
		
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			life.
		
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			Hold on to them for life and Allah
		
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			says, Allah will keep them that way. That's
		
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			fine and that's the same excuses they'll come
		
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			with like I told you on judgment day.
		
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			Other people will run to Allah's word. They'll
		
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			run to and and try to hold on
		
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			to Allah's word because they know the more
		
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			they hold on to these words, the firm
		
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			the more firm they become.
		
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			So actually, misguidance
		
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			is now being described as not being firm
		
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			on the word of Allah,
		
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			not holding on to the word of Allah
		
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			and therefore not being firm yourself, flip flopping.
		
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			Like I was telling you, if if we're
		
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			Muslim, if our families are Muslim, if our
		
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			cultures are Muslim because of some cultural trend
		
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			that's been going for a few centuries,
		
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			that doesn't mean that the Islamic roots are
		
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			firm,
		
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			that the faith roots are firm. Then a
		
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			new trend can come and remove everything that
		
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			looked Islamic
		
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			and just get rid of it in a
		
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			generation.
		
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			You know?
		
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			And it but if the roots are firm,
		
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			then
		
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			then the next generation will keep benefiting from
		
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			fruits and fruits and fruits and fruits because
		
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			the right kind of trees were planted.
		
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			This is a this is a very interesting
		
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			time in the history of the world and
		
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			in the history of Islam. We're living in
		
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			the middle of the one of the most
		
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			important moments in history if you don't realize
		
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			it.
		
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			Right? Colonization has ended. There's an Internet and
		
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			an information revolution and a social media revolution
		
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			and a the world humanity is in conversation
		
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			with itself like it's never been before in
		
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			the entire history of humanity.
		
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			Right? Entire history of humanity.
		
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			Nobody will be able to hold on to
		
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			what they believe without it being challenged today.
		
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			It was possible for you to believe something,
		
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			and live in that belief your entire life,
		
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			and you never even met somebody who doesn't
		
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			believe what you believe. That was possible.
		
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			That is now impossible.
		
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			You will not only meet,
		
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			be exposed to ideas that oppose your worldview,
		
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			but the strongest waves will come and hit
		
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			you. And it don't won't discriminate if you're
		
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			7 years old or 17 years old or
		
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			75 years old. It won't discriminate. The only
		
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			way people are gonna be able to stay
		
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			is That's the only way.
		
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			Nothing else will kept keep holding
		
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			on. If you think you're gonna stay Muslim
		
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			because your mama is Muslim, because your dad
		
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			will be really upset if he finds out
		
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			you don't really believe as much as you
		
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			used to believe,
		
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			then your your then your your attachment to
		
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			Islam is just an emotional one, or you're
		
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			just being courteous to your elders and that's
		
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			it. That's all that's left. Nothing deeper remains.
		
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			And Allah will allow those who misplaced their
		
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			faith in the wrong thing, Allah will allow
		
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			them to be by the wayside and fall
		
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			into to misguidance. And somebody asked the question,
		
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			how can Allah misguide allow even Muslims to
		
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			end up leaving Islam?
		
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			What's what's going to happen? And look at
		
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			the power of the eye at the end,
		
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			Allah does whatever He wants.
		
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			Allah does what he wants. He's already told
		
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			us openly in many places.
		
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			If you turn your backs, Allah will replace
		
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			you with another nation other than you. They
		
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			won't be like you?
		
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			They won't be like you? Allah will replace
		
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			entire
		
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			nations, ethnicities, millions of people with other people.
		
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			Allah can bring others. Allah Islam is not
		
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			in need of us,
		
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			Allah's deen is not in need of us.
		
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			The as
		
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			it is. You're the one that's not I'm
		
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			the one that's not
		
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			We're the ones that need The word will
		
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			stay where it is
		
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			and others will come and benefit from it.
		
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			And Allah is not interested in numbers the
		
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			way we are. We think, oh, when we
		
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			have the numbers, we have strength.
		
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			Your numbers impressed you it's not numbers that
		
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			matter in the end the world wasn't changed
		
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			by huge numbers of people it was a
		
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			handful of people the sahaba were not a
		
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			massive number of people
		
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			there are a small number of people
		
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			over and over again in the history of
		
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			the world It's a small band of people
		
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			that bring about a change in the entire
		
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			world. What does that small band of people
		
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			have that the world doesn't have? They have
		
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			They have firmness.
		
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			They're deeply rooted. That's what the difference is.
		
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			And that's what this these ayat about the
		
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			the firm word, and the loose word and
		
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			the deep roots and the shallow roots and
		
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			the tree that falls and the tree that
		
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			stands.
		
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			All of this is actually teaching the ummah
		
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			for for until judgment day, it's teaching us
		
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			if we have become weak and we become
		
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			the kind of tree or trees that keep
		
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			falling, how do we replant
		
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			and become the kind of tree that refuses
		
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			to fall? The formula has been given to
		
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			us. It's up to us to take it.
		
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			May Allah make us the generation that takes
		
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			it and reaffirms it so our next generations
		
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			are actually even stronger
		
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			than the ones that are now.
		
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