Nouman Ali Khan – The Journey of Musa (AS) – A Recap

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The transcript discusses the use of "has been" in the Quran as a way to describe success, and the importance of accessibility in learning and respect for teachers. The transcript also discusses the challenges of being in a certain position and the importance of human emotions in shaping one's behavior. The transcript emphasizes the need for training and writing to achieve success and the importance of knowing the truth. The conversation also touches on the crisis of faith and the importance of human emotions in shaping one's behavior.

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			publish Jackie Sabri were silly Emily looked at me calling, but hamdulillahi Rabbil aalameen or
salat wa salam O Allah say that you will mursaleen rather early or savvy womanist and the reason
that he lived within a lot of Medina lemon home, Amina Latina, Amina Mohammed Ali had also been
happy but also the southern I mean empanada me.
		
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			Once again, everybody Somali come to light on
		
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			it going to try and wrap up my recap of the IOP that I've already covered in a lecture series
previously before continuing from iron number 74. That's actually my goal in this series is to
continue from iron number 74. But because I imagine many of you have not been following my series
online, so it's beneficial because you guys are sitting here, and maybe even some of the online
audience to kind of get a recap of the story. Yesterday, I tried to capture some lessons from the
first part of the story. The part of the story where Musashi Salaam is traveling with his own
students, and they realize they've gone too far. And they've now started to back. Today, we're going
		
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			to pick up from there and capture some main lessons from this next portion of the story. Mind you,
in my own lecture series, I have not yet completed this portion of the discussions on this portion
of the story. So I'll only highlight some things as I've covered them thus far.
		
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			So for what are the abdomen Reba Dena Dena hora hypothermia and in our alumna, homina donnarumma,
they head back towards where they had come from. And they both Now remember, this is the place where
the fish went off in a strange way. But as they head back the then Allah says then both of them
found one of our slaves I but then everybody, no, one of our slaves. And so Allah does not tell us
this person's name. Allah does not tell us any details about this individual. In fact, there's even
at the seed minority versus majority positions. Is he a human being? Is he an angel? There are a
hadith that point out that his name is a huddle. There are different pronunciations I'll stick with
		
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			how they write. And then there are weaker narrations about why he's called that. So there's a lot of
discussion around that. But our focus is not on all that secondary information. Our focus is why
would Allah the clearest of all speakers who taught human beings Bian Allah who by and he taught
human beings how to be clear in their speech, right, and he gave us the Quran that is moving by
definition, it is clear and clarifying by definition, he chose not to tell us who this person is by
name. And he chose actually to even use a napkin or form I didn't mean anybody. No, he didn't even
say ferwerda Abdullah. Right, then they both found our slave. No one of our slaves I've done a slave
		
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			literally would mean they both found a slave from among our slaves. It's really also very
interesting that Allah did not because from here on, you're going to see that Musashi Salaam is
going to be alone with his teacher, so they're going to leave the student behind. So his role as a
teacher is now finished, and he's no longer going to carry you shatter, but no new shot can go back
head back now. It's only going to be Mousavi Salaam and his new teacher from here on out, but
finding him is something both of them accomplish together. For the mithuna form is used the pair
form is used of the verb to say both of them found him. Both of them found this is a significant
		
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			detail, because a lot of times when you find in the Quran, Mousavi said understanding with our own
For example, He standing with huddling Salaam, but Allah will use Kala Kala Kala he said he's not
going to say Carla both of them said other places Allah will highlight the presence of both of them.
Sometimes Allah will only highlight the presence of or the role of one of them, which is Moosa and
s&m. In this case, Allah could have just said for what he found him, so Musa alayhis salaam found
him, but he said both of them found him this is significant again, because the student that had
failed him in the previous episode, can actually recuperate and be helpful and now making up
		
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			For that mistake, right, so your failure does not your failure is that of a project, you failed at a
task. But you yourself are not being defined as a failure. You can recover from a past failed event,
and then have success in future events. What happens a lot of times is one failure is used to either
you do this to yourself, you define yourself permanently as a fail, oh my god, I failed. I'm such a
loser, I'm a failure in life, I'm just, I'm never gonna accomplish anything, and you beat yourself
up and stamp yourself and tattoo failure on your face. That's what you might do that to yourself.
And even if you don't do that to yourself, others around you can take one of your failures and then
		
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			slam you with it all the time. Right. And what Allah is teaching us implicitly, is that you can have
a failure, and you get up and you restore, you make make things right and you move forward, and you
can still accomplish good. And so he's now still an assistant and we'll say they sent him and he
still takes part in accomplishing that important mission that could have taken lifetimes for what
I've done. Anybody know about this servant? Allah azza wa jal told musar. Listen, I'm in the Hadith
we learn he told him that there's someone more knowledgeable than you. And you could have had the
Quran be more in sync with the Hadith of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi Salaam. And Allah could have
		
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			said here, if I watch other men can Allah mean who
		
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			he could have, he found the one who was more knowledgeable than him. Because that's what he was
looking for the one who was now let's say, you are LIMU, the one who's going to teach him. But no,
Allah says he found one of our servants. This is an important distinction, the highest of all
teachers, the most knowledgeable prophet of Allah at the time was on a sit on the the the recipient
of the rod, even above him, there is a teacher, and that teacher has even a higher ranking. And that
highest ranking is decided just described in the Quran as what I've done with everybody, not just a
slave from among many slaves that we have, like justice, like the term slave in society is used for
		
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			the lowest status. Historically, somebody could be a farmer, a slave is lower than that. Somebody
could be a cleaner, a slave is lower than that. Somebody could, you could have any job, but the
lowest job you could have is white slave, that's the lowest you can have. But the slave of Allah is
the highest honor a human being can have.
		
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			And, you know, when when when we become teachers, like, if I used to be a preschool teacher, I've
taught all kinds of I've taught, I've taught Arabic, I've taught in a college, and I've taught at a
preschool. Right, so I've seen all the strangeness humanity has to offer
		
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			in the classroom. But in any case, the point is, when you're teaching at a higher institution, if
somebody is a professor at a high end University, it comes with prestige, right? If somebody is
teaching you teaching even children, it comes with prestige, but not like when you get into higher
education. And if your students are PhD students, you're hired Higher, higher up, right? So the the
higher level knowledge you're teaching, the higher your prestige is. And here what is Allah telling
us in the world of learning, Allah is Dean, this is a different world, in every other field of
education. In this world, the higher up you go, you earn the highest possible ranking. And the
		
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			highest possible ranking is abdomen, a body not a slave.
		
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			You get to be one of our slaves. In other words, the the advancement in the knowledge of this theme,
and the closer you become an I become to Allah, the more we identify ourselves as just another slave
of Allah, among others. We don't distinguish ourselves on the basis of our knowledge. Others can
distinguish you. Others can distinguish you others can say, oh, Mashallah, your surgery is really
good. Can you teach me but you don't distinguish yourself? Mr. Tajweed is here. Everybody rise? You
don't do that. You're not you're not expecting special treatment. In fact, if you study the Hadith,
it's really cool. You know how they found him. He was wrapped up in a blanket lying on the beach.
		
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			That's how they found him and they come up to him and they said, and he just looked at him and he
goes, he said, salaam wa sallam said Salaam, and he said, This alarm and how is there any peace
around here? He he basically kind of trolled him. The first conversation and then he after that, he
said, Musa Denise Mussolini's re Musa Bani Israel. Oh, okay. It was, you know, like a grand office
or he was at the top of the mountain or laying on the beach in the blank and sleeping. That's how he
met him. And it's it's violence designed. This was supposed to be the case, right? And it just
another person. And even though cron describes him as just another slave, why? Because Allah is
		
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			teaching us through this a philosophy of education. The most knowledgeable, the most honorable
teachers among us, what makes them the most honorable is their accessibility.
		
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			In fact, it's their it's their oneness with everybody else.
		
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			You know, they're, they're not requiring a special status, or to be spoken to a special way, or to
be treated in a certain way, or to have certain uniform that when when they walk in everybody is Oh,
he's here, okay? Sit up straight. You know, they don't need to have that. Because, you know, we have
we have that in society that happens oftentimes, and even in the religious world, whether it's
Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Hindu doesn't matter, we, you know, certain kinds of clergy, certain
people that have a religious title or, you know, status, when they walk by it is known that they
just, they just made a presence, you know, they made an entry, there's an entourage, there's a kind
		
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			of holy presence around them. And everybody's like, Oh, you know, there's, there's this, this social
status thing that we've created around religiously knowledgeable, and this is not just Muslims, this
is in the psychology of religion, Christians do this, you know, Jews do this. Hindus do this, right.
And in fact, Muslims do it to Muslims do it also this kind of reverence. Now, the thing is, I should
have love and respect for my teacher. And you're going to see that musante, so I'm just gonna have
humility to his teacher from the beginning. So there's two points of view that student's point of
view, and the teachers point of view, I should have total respect for my teacher. But the teacher
		
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			should not consider himself in this position of superiority except in the role of teaching,
accepting the role of teaching. Yes, in teaching, I have a superiority. in teaching, I can tell you
what to do in teaching i can i can say, hey, you messed up, fix this. Do this. Again, I can talk
down to you as a teacher, I can be disappointed in you. I can be proud of you. I'm talking down to
you. But when it comes to eating, we're eating the same food. Well, I don't deserve a special Salaam
I just have Salaam oligomeric, who sound like you, we're gonna stand in the same row in prayer and
everything else were equal. What do we do unfortunately, if someone has elevation in one respect,
		
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			then we elevate them in every respect, especially nowadays, in Muslim society, you know, what we do,
when someone receives the highest status in one area, like somebody becomes a doctor,
		
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			then the rules don't apply to them. Then their doctor Saab at the restaurant and their doctor Saba,
wherever they go, they're the doctor, special treatment, expedited, you know, when people in many
Western countries now that I've seen them up close and personal, when you make a certain amount of
money, then the laws don't apply to you. And the rules and the lines don't apply to you the passport
line and the visa line and the hospital and Doctor they don't apply to you once you reach a certain
level of money. Then you have your own rules, right because you reached a certain kind of status.
And but this does not apply this this has been negated in just the way Allah had Musa alayhis
		
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			salaam. Okay, you know, come into contact with his teacher, just asleep from among our slaves. It's
also interesting to note that Rasulullah sallallahu sallam, the highest macom that he reached, the
highest station that he reached, was when he was elevated in the Mirage, right? That spiritual
journey where he was elevated and he is closest to a lot spiritually and physically now closest to
Allah. And every time Allah describes the marriage, he uses the word I was
		
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			so hilarious Ravi Abdi for OHA Isla de ma
		
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			so to nudge him in certainly saw when he raises me ticks him in the night he didn't say so Hannah
levy Asahi rosu Lee, so higher levy as rabina v. At the journey that marks the highest position any
man has ever reached is being described as what
		
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			so for me and you the highest place we can reach the most honorable position we can reach with Allah
is actually
		
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			the problem happens the problem occurs with you and me when our study and our in our pursuit of
learning Allah's Deen which is for Allah starts getting noticed by people.
		
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			It's so we're doing it for Allah but who's noticing people are noticing, and people are noticing and
they're starting to give you shift status. Right? And they're starting to, you know, make you this
holy figure. Right young man came to me yesterday said I make some good videos online or whatever.
And now, I don't want to be held to this position. Okay. Yeah. Because that's what happens, right?
This happened to me in New York, by the way, it's a New York story, I'll tell you. I was in Long
Island many years ago and when I started giving a hug, but I was going through a phase so I used to
wear a job and had a much longer beard and some some people consider this beard stuff ferula we can
		
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			discuss that at some other time. But anyway, much longer beard. I have a thought I had a turban.
Right. And Jesus sandals, I was doing the whole look right. So and I would give the hookah and I was
21 years old, and I would give the football and when I would finish the football old men from
different countries in the world would want to come in almost in ruku
		
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			To one to shake my hand and then they would some people would bring their children could you make
doll for him and other children with other was straight up just say could you on my child
		
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			and I realized that that's because of the way I look, the way I appear for some seems to be I must
be closer to Allah. Now the same person if I just after Salah took my stuff off and I went put a T
shirt on and play some basketball with the guys outside
		
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			saying I will pass by nothing if I had my you know, spiritual uniform on and the same person will
find us I like he wants me to offer me and my children and bless my car, can you touch my car? You
know, like good? Okay?
		
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			Well, in other words we associate people will start giving you a position, you didn't want it.
You're just doing what you think is in line with us or not the messengers of emotion, or you're
doing something that pleases allies, and people around you either people start insulting you because
of your religion, or people inflate your position because you're the two extremes, right? But that's
what you get. And people start doing that to you. And you know what human beings are a product of
their environment, if you're in a smelly place, the smell will come on, you're close, right? If
you're in a polluted area, you'll get used to the pollution. And you know what, if you're getting
		
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			you if you're getting praised or being given a certain position all the time, recognized all the
time, then you might start getting what started getting used to it, that I'm being treated in this
way. Right? Or when I walk in, they asked me to lead the prayer. So I'm used to that. And I'm used
to No, no, no nine.
		
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			And then one time, nobody asked me to lead the prayer. Hello, Hey, what's going on here? I need to
lower my mask a little bit. They need to recognize who I have. So I mean, I'm still gonna say no,
but I miss being asked.
		
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			Right? This is this is not a body now. This is not just one of our sleeves. And that's the that's
the the beauty of this phrasing. The teacher is being introduced first and foremost, not as someone
who will have a relationship with his student, but someone who has a relationship with Allah. And as
a result of it, he sees himself and Allah sees him as just one of many, nothing special, nothing out
of the ordinary. The other important thing here is and this is this gets a little bit philosophical,
but an important subject to discuss. Allah told us that he will have Mousavi Salah meet his teacher
at a place where two oceans meet much rain. The Quran calls it much of a hurry. And another place in
		
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			the Quran by analogy and Soto Rahman, Allah says Mahajan behind me, you have to PR by by
		
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			training, you have to write by now Houma Bursa, one Liberia, they between so he he fused two oceans
together two seas together that clash against each other. And between them, there's a barrier that
they refuse to cross, they don't violate that barrier. Right. I've actually had the had the honor of
seeing that barrier in South Africa, between the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic, and how there's
timber due to different temperatures of water to different kinds of sea life. And you can see the
two different textures of the water right on the right on the sea, and also how to love Maine.
		
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			But it's also symbolic of something Musa alayhis salam has been given and by the way, the knowledge
of Allah and the words of Allah have been described as an ocean, in which surah in the Surah coolum
cannel bahuvida done legally, Matthew Robbie, this is not an accident. If the words of Allah were
turned into if the oceans were turned into ink to write the words of Allah. So there's an
association made with the oceans and the word of Allah. And Moosa and a Salaam is going to meet
someone where two different oceans meet. Now to put all of this together in a literary sense, bear
with me, it's gonna get a little bit philosophical, the knowledge of Revelation, the knowledge of
		
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			the Torah that was given to musante salaam, the revelation of the Quran that was given to us from
Allah sallallahu Sallam is from the oceans of knowledge that oceans of the word of Allah, the words
of Allah, that's one ocean, the ocean of Revelation, this is an
		
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			element.
		
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			But there's another book of Allah, not the book of Allah that has revelation, but the book of Allah
that captures all of reality that captures all of reality. In Luffy, Kitab him in probably another
aha in the valley karnala he has seen, not anything occurs, not any calamity strikes not any
incident occurs. This summer, you will often foresee come, nothing happens in the Extended Universe,
or in even inside of yourself. No cell is moving. No neuron is firing inside of yourself, except
that's also documented inside of a book.
		
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			inside of a book that Allah describes, so there are now there's two oceans, two books, two oceans,
the books of the book of Revelation, and the book that's captured all of reality, all of what goes
on. So two books, right? And Musashi Salaam is supposed to go where two oceans meet, where he's
going to meet a teacher who Allah has given access to the other ocean. He has access to which ocean
Revelation the teacher is going to meet has access to which ocean, the knowledge of reality, the
reality of things, Happy khattala shakaama here, the reality of things. What this tells you and what
is going on, say about the two oceans there's a barrier and they don't, they don't mean because
		
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			Allah, the human beings that Allah taught revelation to they're not supposed to know the other side.
And the creatures a human being even in this case, we don't know if he's human or Angel. We don't we
can't say for sure, but whoever he is that Abdullah when he's been taught this ocean, he's not to
know the other side, which is why in this narration, when he meets with Musa alayhis salaam, he says
to Masada salam, Allah has taught you something I'm not supposed to know. And Allah has taught me
something you're not supposed to know. Just like but you know, who am I but is the one liable? Yeah,
and there's between them, there's a barrier they're not supposed to cross. There are two different
		
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			kinds of knowledge. And that's why Musa alayhis salam is going to learn something that is very
different from Revelation
		
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			is very different from the books Allah revealed to profits, from the teaching of right and wrong
from the teachings of Kabbalah and Iran, from the stories of creation. It's different from all of
that these lessons are totally a different ocean. And you know, when you take a fish out of one kind
of water, if it's saltwater fish, and you put it in a different kind of water, different
temperature, very difficult for it to survive, you understand? It can't tolerate it. And so he comes
from this ocean of knowledge where he knows certain things about Allah through Allah, His
revelation, he meets this teacher. And this teacher is from the other ocean You see, from a
		
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			completely different ocean of knowledge, and he's going to meet them now you appreciate why we have
to meet him where the two oceans meet, right these two oceans of knowledge are going to meet at the
place where the two oceans he's really beautiful. So for water, the abdomen a body now how does how
does Allah describes this teacher who's been given knowledge from the other ocean, the the ocean of
haqiqa, the reality of things, the secret behind things, the secrets behind things about him, Allah
says, I'll tell you now hold on. A minute andina is the first thing we learned about him. Allah has
given him that he had we had granted him a special love and care that comes only from us.
		
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			So before you learn anything about this person, we don't even know his name. We just know he's one
of our last names. And we also know Allah has given him special love and care. You know what that
means for people shangela your three Arab say, if you don't have something you can give it. When
Allah has given somebody love. Then they exude love to others. When Allah has given someone
patience, they exude patience to others. When Allah has given someone knowledge they impart
knowledge to others. When Allah has given someone Rama, then what do they give to others? They give
more to others they are a source of love and caring for others you understand. So when Allah says
		
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			it, no matter mean rendina that Allah has given him the special LACMA that means everything he does,
whatever he does, has Rama in it is my that comes of mercy and love that comes only from Allah.
		
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			And then Allah says, adds on well alumna who may lead to nerima, and we had taught him from our
special volts, a special kind of knowledge alumna who would have been enough could have been this
fall in lava. Right, alumna we taught him. alumna who Mila Dona ba fi llama con, he says, especially
from our own behalf from our special law walls, and then this month rule would look which can also
be considered him a freebie, if you don't understand what I'm saying, learn Arabic, it's not that
hard. Anyway, he he taught him special knowledge, some special kind of knowledge. This is a laws way
of saying that the knowledge of this ocean is not easily accessible. It's not accessible. And the
		
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			knowledge of this ocean unlike the knowledge of Revelation, they're fundamentally different. They're
fundamentally different. You know, the knowledge of revelation teaches us to be grateful. Yes, it
teaches us to be grateful.
		
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			But a human being could be grateful without ever having revelation learned. In fact, there are
people who heard the Quran for the first time and they say this is what we already believed. their
fifth law speaks to it. Their fitrah already corresponds to what the revelation said. In fact,
Christians came and heard the Quran and said in kudamon copy he mostly mean in the Quran. They said
we were already Muslim in our heart.
		
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			Before this, they felt it already. Right? So then this ocean corresponds with human nature. But the
other ocean is actually special, especially given to certain sleeps. I won't go into the linguistic
differences between andina and Milan. I've talked about that in other lectures, but it's suggesting
that this knowledge is highly, highly exclusive. You don't get to have it. You don't have any
inclination towards it. I don't know how many other nerima Okay, so now we learned that these are
two different realities. Before it's better I established that philosophical base for you, before we
get into the, it will make things easier. So here's the thing, in revelation of the of all the
		
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			profits, not just also the loss of Allahu alayhi wa sallam, but the Torah is given to musala Islam,
the NGO given Tony Silas and the revelations given the silence Sure, I knew Ibrahim, Ibrahim, you
name it, the revelations, one of the things that revelations have is the difference between right
and wrong.
		
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			All of them, they have a difference between right and wrong, what you should do what you should not
do. It's always been there. And all revelations that Allah has sent have always encouraged human
beings compelled human beings to be truthful and not be dishonest, for example, to be merciful, to
be kind to parents, to keep family ties, there's some fundamental basic things that have passed down
from one revelation to the next to the next to the next. They're consistent, being grateful, being
being mindful, being just etc, etc, etc. Right? So in accordance with the revelations that have
always been given, human beings know the difference between right and wrong. And when did they learn
		
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			when they confirm this definition? From the word of Allah? This is this is where we get
philosophical, they get it from where the word of Allah the word of Allah taught us what is right
and what is wrong, fine.
		
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			Whenever something happens in the world, whenever something happens in the world, does it not happen
by the permission of Allah, always. And whenever it happens, it's the word of Allah goon.
		
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			And it becomes via goon. So there's the word of Allah, that is revelation. And there's the word of
Allah, that is reality. There are two different words of Allah, I keep going back to two oceans,
right? Two different kinds of words of Allah know, are there children that are innocent, and in pain
and sick in the hospital?
		
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			Is that a reality? Yeah, it's a reality. Are there innocent people that are killed? Yeah, that's
also reality. Are there car accidents where somebody died, who had didn't make a mistake? The other
person was driving badly, and they died, the other person died. Yeah. And there are criminals who
get away with their crime and are living living a good life. Totally. And every one of those things
could only have happened if what was there, going for good, because none of nothing can happen
without the hammer of Allah, nothing. Now the thing is all of these in justices, they look like in
justices, they directly go against the other word of Allah. What's the other word of Allah in
		
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			justices should not take place? liars should be punished. Justice should be served in gratitude is
not an acceptable quality. So in the Word of Allah, there's a scheme of right and wrong. And in the
reality that Allah created, there seems to be a totally different formula where you see plenty of
contradiction against the word of Allah.
		
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			If Allah says, This is wrong, this is wrong. This is wrong, How come he's letting it happen on this
side in reality, you see the problem, you see that there are two conflicting things, conflicting
realities. And this is actually the this story is the furans way of merging the two realities.
Because actually, for atheists around the world, the number one argument the number one problem they
present to any believer in God, most of them Christian do doesn't matter. The issue they present is
the problem of evil if your God is so great, why is this happening? This happened? Well, how can we
regardless this happened, in fact, Muslims say this too. In fact, some some Jews that I've met have
		
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			even a more interesting take on it. They say I don't I reject God, I hate God. I was like, what
you're Jewish he goes, Yeah, but even hating him as some kind of a relationship so long as we have a
relationship with God is still a you know, connection to God. Why did he let the Holocaust happen?
Why did he send us into the Diaspora? Why did he let the federal you know enslave us why he uses why
you do this? We I hate him. I don't want to listen to him. I complain to him all the time. I tell
them I'm mad at him. You tell God you're mad at him? Yeah, I tell him I'm mad at him. Because he did
all this stuff. I was lucky. But yeah, cuz you know, that's the kind of relationship we have with
		
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			God. So who are brave of you?
		
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			But I could see where it's coming from. Right. It's coming from Well, if your Revelation says that
you are merciful, kind, generous. And then I see lack of mercy, lack of generosity, injustice allows
just but the world is unjust, the world that he created is cool.
		
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			unjust, Allah is merciful, but you see plenty of mercilessness are all around you. Allah is truthful
yet he's tolerating liars. He's tolerating deception. So how do you merge these two realities? How
do you reconcile them. And yet all of this is happening by the permission of Allah.
		
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			This is what Busan a Salaam is going to learn about a little bit, and through him us because this is
not a small crisis of faith. This is a pretty big crisis of faith. You all know that this surah is
associated with the greatest trials that will hit humanity towards the end of time. Right. And that
great trial if you study the Hadith surrounding that trial, one of its manifestations is that
believers will wake up a believer and by the time or you know, go to sleep or believe by the time
they wake up, they're not a believer, or they wake up a believer, by the time they go to sleep.
They're not a believer, they'll have a crisis of faith. They'll have an absolute crisis of faith. So
		
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			it's pretty amazing that before this sooner comes to an end, Allah deals with what will be the most
powerful crisis of faith in the story. So he finds this let's let's move quickly, he finds this
mysterious teacher.
		
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			And then he says to him, musalla, Sam system halabi Rocha, Allah and to Alemany, shall I follow you
that you might teach me? Can I please follow you so that you might teach me? In other words, I know
that learning from you is not just sitting here and listening to you. The kind of learning I need to
do with you requires what following? So you know how, for those of you that are in the sciences, you
study the theory of engineering, but there's the hands on engineering, or you can study
theoretically, you can study medicine, but then there's surgery itself and shadowing a doctor and
residency and all of that there's the hands on experience, learning our religion, the revelation is
		
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			given by way of words, isn't it? It's the word of Allah. It's the words of the Prophet sallallahu.
So that's how the religion is passed on. It's words that are being passed down, right? And then,
accenting complementing that word of Allah is the practice of prayer and all of these other things,
right? But this journey, this teacher is actually more about you following him, do what he does, or
just observe observation. Right? So he tells him, can I follow you? Hello, Tommy rocker? Shall I
follow you? I not entirely many, so that you might teach me mimma, alimta, from whatever you have
been taught, what are some some right upright things. So Russian is important here, I want to know,
		
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			because musallam is always learning, trying to better himself in Russia being someone who's
correcting themselves towards the right, towards the right course. So he as much as guidance, he is
the recipient, recipient of Allah, his book, and yet he's saying I couldn't be more guided even now.
I could for life saying I can learn there must be more upright this I can accomplish, I can steer my
course in the right direction even more. So he humbles himself and says my motivations for learning
is I want to basically I put it in Simple English, I want to become a better person. I'll follow
you, sir, I could have more rushed. Right. And he's also saying, you may have been taught many
		
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			things. But the rush that you have been taught, I'd like to take some of that. And this teacher of
his, immediately he knew him, I told him that it's going to be more 70 slides that tells us that he
already knew him. So he's expecting him. And he knows what ocean he's already drawn from. And he
knows that when you learn something from the ocean of revelation that teaches you right and wrong,
when you come to this other ocean that teaches you about or that shows you the reality of things,
you're not going to be able to bear it. So his immediate responses in the calendar Scotty Amaya
sobre la you for sure. You're not capable of patience with me.
		
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			You're not going to be able to have patience with me.
		
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			He didn't assess Mousavi Sam's learning ability. And by the way, I've said this in my lectures
before Busan a tsunami is actually pretty. It's pretty epic to say the Musashi some I don't think
you have the patience.
		
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			Because most of these tolerated living under fit with a lot of sub musar they said I'm sorry the
Israelites and slave before his eyes and not be able to do something about it for with a lot of
Southern musar they sort of traveled through muddy and in the desert with a lot of Southern will
sadly some spent many years of his life living out in Medina and not being able to go back to his
own mother with a lot of Southern will sadly some came back and heard many insults from the from
Iran and the attacks of the of the chiefs of the of the pharaohs for several years with a lot of
Southern moves our nation I'm traveled the water across the water with a lot of Southern and then he
		
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			dealt with the hypocrisy of the Israelites when he was out in the desert with Munna and salah and
the pattern and the 12 Springs with an enormous amount of Southern and his teacher sees him and
says, Yeah, you don't actually have supper for this.
		
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			You're like, are you sure cuz he's pretty sobbing
		
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			He's a pretty powerful example of somebody, but his subject has to do with this notion
		
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			what he's going to learn here even someone as powerful in his suburb as Musashi Salaam, this might
be too much for him. He can't handle this what and by the way, who sadly some represents all of us
in this world. Why? Allah will show him things about reality that we all want to know about you know
the question why how come Allah did this though? How come my brother got his green card? I got
deported.
		
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			How come my cousin got married? My even my fat cousin got married. My ugly cousin got married. I
come I can't get married.
		
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			How come this one? This one This one? How come my brother my sister is taller than me. And Allah
made me shorter.
		
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			How can this help? What was a less reasoning? Why did I Why did that even happen? Why in the world
you know one brother came to me recently. Allah protect him. He decided to invest I don't endorse it
and Bitcoin or some some some bit something right? And he just he put $10,000 in it, and he got
impatient for a week. He couldn't do it. He sold it for 10,000 he got it for the same money sold it
for the same money. The next day. It jumped up to 10,000% and he could have been a multimillionaire
overnight. And I ran into him at a shawarma place and he's telling me why did Allah do that to me?
How come What was his reason for Can you tell me like okay, I was like, hold on, let me check my
		
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			phone. Let me see what was reasonable. I was like,
		
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			I don't have access to this ocean bro.
		
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			Nobody does. We don't know why that happened.
		
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			is Allah teaching me some? I don't know. I don't know.
		
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			You know, that's gotta hurt that's got to sting but it is what it is. So here what we're gonna see
Whoo. Sally salon is being told you don't have the patience to deal with. Because what what you'll
find every time Mousavi son has the same question. You know what the question is? Why?
		
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			Why did you do that? Why? How could you? Why, why? Why? Now, the revelation of Allah, the Quran, the
Torah, before dg, all the revelations of Allah, they never answered the question What? Why? Why were
you born in this century? Why were you Why were you born to these parents? You look at sometimes you
look at your brothers, you said Why are you my brother?
		
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			Right? So you don't have the answer to why. And human beings really want the answer to why and Allah
you know what Allah the answer to why is, trust him? Allah is the answer to why in the Quran in
Revelation is Allah is Allah when Allah is Allah Rahim? Allah is Al Hakim. Unless, unless Allah is
wise, Allah is to be trusted. Allah is loving and caring. Allah. Wait, so this bad thing that
happened is still alive. Let me Yes, he is trusted. Okay. Can you explain No, that can't explain.
Just trust it.
		
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			Somebody gets sick, we say that's the whole inshallah, no problem. It'll purify your sense. There
must be some higher in it. There must be some good and some good in it.
		
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			You don't want to accept it. But the revelations tell us just trust Allah.
		
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			Musa alayhis salam is going to experience things. It's not it's not just the color of the lights.
His teacher is, you know, you go to somebody to learn your theme. You're gonna say, I'm gonna learn
the deen from someone who has better o'clock than me. Who has better manners than me who's about
who's got more patience than I do. They've got better speech than I do. I can. When I'm around them.
I feel like being a better person. I'm more calm. So he's, it's really interesting. Well, sadly,
seven, he were talking and they boarded the ship. And they in the Hadith, it tells us that a bird
came and it packed into the sea twice. Now crown chakra in the Hadith says, pack twice. And then he
		
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			took his teacher turned to musante. Salaam, how they turn to musasa. And he said, You know, my
knowledge and your knowledge is like these two drops. And the rest of it is Allah's knowledge.
Right? Which is really cool, because that means the revelation of Allah is just a drop from this
side.
		
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			And the knowledge of reality on this side that Hubbard has is just a drop from the knowledge of
actual reality. And this is important because even when he explains why the reason was what it was,
the reason is only one drop among the larger reasons. So there may be made way more to the reasons
but we're only going to get one drop out of the full reasons. The drop that he has been given the
drop that he has been given. So now as they were mmm summarizing the story, as they board the ship,
he's going to start tearing the ship open. By the way, according to the Hadeeth has happened
immediately. So he imagined this, the your knowledge and my knowledge are like this bird that just
		
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			packed
		
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			To the CDs drops is nothing compared to the rest of the ocean. And the spiritual profound moment
where Musab a son is taking in that deep, epic quote, next thing, you know, he's got an axe and he's
hammering down the bottom deck of the ship.
		
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			Like in the middle of the spiritual well imagine I'm giving this lecture right now. And all of a
sudden, I take a brick and I hurl it at the, you know, here, or I started axing down this table as
part of your lesson, you move What's going on? What are you doing? You know, and so he's in shock,
he doesn't know and he says, I kind of thought, and he kept hacking away until the water started
coming out and then at the bottom deck, so the people above can see, so they can't see it, and they
don't know what's going on. And it's just
		
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			because you've done something so terrible when you're going to drown those people. They give us a
Ryan, what are you doing this and he calmly turns to musante Solomon says, I explained to you you're
not gonna have patience with me. This part of your education Well, this is a different kind of
university.
		
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			Please just straight up tells you you're you can't you can't be patient with me. Obviously, the ship
gets damaged, they have to pull back towards land. They didn't get very far. And massage I'm still
shell shocked by what happened. They get to the beach, they see a child
		
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			there, what's your kids playing? And he's still like, trying to take in like I'm supposed to learn
them from this person. This person is gonna teach me what's right and wrong.
		
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			And by the way, from the from the revelations point of view, damaging somebody's property,
attempting to kill somebody ruining somebody's livelihood, all of these are haram or no. Absolutely,
Haram. So musar Listen, I'm having a problem with it is because all he's ever known from the
teachings of Allah disturbs him about what just happened. He shouldn't be disturbed. So what he does
is the right thing. He does the right, he can't tell. Because when you have emaan, you don't have
suffer for injustice. So when he said, you're not going to have supper with me, it's the right kind
of lack of Southern we're not supposed to have supper for injustices. And so Mashallah Sam is
		
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			actually from the human point of view. And from a believers point of view in the right, he's
actually right. And they get to the sea, they get to the beach, and he kills somebody, he kills a
child.
		
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			And if you follow the Hadith literature, it's a brutal murder. It's actually a ruthless murder. And
that's actually where I'm going to pick up from tomorrow, we're going to talk about that idea of the
murder.
		
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			But today, because I delved into the philosophical side, I just want to explain a couple of premises
to you that will make those those easier because then from tomorrow on, inshallah, we're going to
buy a little bit deeper, right? That's 74. So what I want to explain to you is,
		
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			with this story, we're going to learn that the right and wrong that Allah has taught us the right
and wrong that Allah has taught us is for us to know and us to live by while Allah created a reality
that is constantly going against this
		
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			and you have to face the contradiction to this in reality all the time it is like
		
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			I said, if the Pelican
		
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			okay.
		
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			So we have to we there's going to be two conflicting realities, and they're both coming from Allah
xojo.
		
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			According to what we know, what you're going to see happen in the world will look very evil.
		
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			But we cannot see the way Allah sees things. Allah, Allah sees, he sees the entire reality. So in
simple words, here's how I can explain it to you.
		
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			You know, there are a million possibilities, you could have killed the child, he could have hurt the
child, you could have left the child alone. And you know, with every, every choice you make, there
are multiple ramifications, right? A series of events, domino effect, right? So there's domino
effect, if you kill the child, there's a domino effect. If you leave the child, there's a domino
effect. If you don't damage the ship, there's a domino effect. If you do damage the ship, when you
damage it, every action leads to a series of other reactions, right?
		
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			Think of it this way. If Allah somehow gave you the map of every possibility, with every choice,
		
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			all the reactions that will happen, and he showed it to you,
		
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			then you would pick the same choice that actually happened as the best choice.
		
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			There, there's a because we don't see the larger picture, right? So we just see the immediate
incident. We don't see how it plays into a larger reality because we don't have the full map in
front of us who's got the full map? Allah azza wa jal, we just see this one piece, and it's leading
to one other piece, we can see 1000 pieces from now. Easy. It's a positive example of that is user
friendly Sam, it's easy one to remember. Yusuf Ali Salaam got kidnapped as a child, yes or no
		
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			That can't possibly be a good thing. But if he wasn't kidnapped as a child, he would not have been
sold into slavery. And if he wasn't sold into slavery, he would have never been falsely accused. And
if he wasn't falsely accused, he would have never been in jail. And if he was never in jail, he
would have never interpreted dreams. And if he never interpreted dreams, he would have never become
eventually the Minister of Egypt to run its finances. And if he never became the Minister of Egypt,
or in his finances, Egypt would have died. 1000s of people would have died in a drought because the
only reason Egypt survived the drought season. And you know, mass famine, and hundreds of 1000s of
		
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			pea family men, women, children dying of starvation is because Yusuf Alayhi Salaam interpreted the
dream. And so and by the way, his family would never have been reunited, and his brothers would have
never made Toba. None of this would have happened if he didn't get kidnapped.
		
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			And if he didn't get some bad stuff happened to him. But if it didn't happen to him, the bad stuff
would have happened to way more people, you understand that they would have the ramifications of the
arm that would have spread is way, way more, there's no way for us to see the whole picture. Human
being our minds aren't designed to see the whole picture. They're just not designed to see it. And
Allah will teach us in this sutra, that there are situations in our life that people do things that
are horrible. People do things that are despicable.
		
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			And when they do them, we cannot process we obviously it is unfair. But at one level, we should
fight against it. At the other level, we still know even as we're fighting against it, there's a
larger plan of Allied work. There's a two conflicting beliefs but they have to coexist for us. On
the one hand, we will fight against injustice on the other even as the injustice is happening, and
they're there, the unjust are winning, there's a larger plan, there's a benefit at work, even when
the full size was, you know, injured or hurt and almost killed. There was a larger plan at work.
Even when our mother I shoveled, the long haul was accused and her her honor was degraded. And for
		
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			nearly a month or more, she was being slandered in the entire city of Medina and our Prophet gets to
hear horrific things about his own wife being said all around the city for over the course of a
month, there was still but there must have been Hua highroller calm is good for you. None of the
people who did slender were doing something good. But the event itself had some good in it because
Allah sees what the larger picture. Unless he's the large that's the that's the reality of that.
That's the happycar that human beings don't have access to. And that's what we're going to be
showing like that curtain will be lifted a little bit on the source code of reality, we just see the
		
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			surface reality. There's a source code behind it in level show us just a little bit of that in this
story. So inshallah, from tomorrow on I'm going to try to take on iron number 74 where we're going
to look at you know, the shocking killing of a child and how that is going to give a reaction what
what reaction Musashi Sam is going to have towards it. barakallahu li walakum filco Hakeem whenever
any way he can with it with the collective saramonic what I hope to like
		
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			yeah