Omar Suleiman – A Night Even Better Than Laylatul Qadr

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The importance of witnessing actions of Muhammad sallali Alaihi and his followers is emphasized, along with the need to be in a state of fear to receive the reward of actions. The importance of shedding tears in the eyes of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam and recognizing priorities is also emphasized. The importance of praise for brother and sisters and allocating energy towards priorities is also emphasized. Finally, the speaker emphasizes the importance of shedding tears in the eyes of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam and acknowledging reward and responsibility for actions.

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			We begin by praising Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
		
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			and bearing witness that none has the right
		
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			to be worshipped or unconditionally
		
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			obeyed except for him. And we bear witness
		
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			that Muhammad
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wasallam is his final messenger. We
		
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			ask Allah to send his peace and blessings
		
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			upon him, the prophets and messengers that came
		
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			before him, his family and companions that served
		
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			alongside him, and those that follow on his
		
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			blessed path until the day of judgment. We
		
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			ask Allah to make us amongst them.
		
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			Dear brothers and sisters,
		
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			over the last couple of months,
		
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			we have had people from this community
		
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			that have
		
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			made a painful decision along with their families
		
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			to literally go to Gaza
		
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			not knowing whether they would be returning to
		
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			their families or not.
		
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			And, subhanAllah,
		
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			if you were to ask me a year
		
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			ago
		
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			if I would be privy to these types
		
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			of conversations at the level
		
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			that I've had to be privy to these
		
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			types of types of conversations, I wouldn't have
		
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			known how to respond.
		
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			Doctors
		
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			upon doctors, medical volunteers, people who
		
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			many many of whom grew up in comfort,
		
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			have lived extremely comfortable lives,
		
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			decided to go place themselves in the middle
		
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			of a genocide
		
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			in hospitals that are being targeted
		
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			to help our brothers and sisters in Gaza.
		
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			And almost none of them are actually Palestinian.
		
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			Muslims,
		
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			people of conscience
		
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			who sit with their families
		
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			and say, I'm going to leave all of
		
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			this behind
		
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			and go put myself there because this is
		
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			where I'm needed right now.
		
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			And I can't tell you how proud I
		
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			am of each and every single one of
		
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			them
		
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			and of their families.
		
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			SubhanAllah, witnessing this
		
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			in front of my eyes in 'id.
		
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			Many of you would not have known, and
		
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			some of the kids are even here now,
		
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			masha'Allah,
		
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			that their
		
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			fathers were actually in Gaza at the time
		
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			of Eid because they left quietly
		
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			to go on these medical volunteer missions and
		
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			come back and some of them return today.
		
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			May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala bless them all.
		
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			And may Allah protect our brothers and sisters
		
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			who have gone there. And may Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala protect our brothers and sisters who
		
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			are the original Murabitun, who have stayed there,
		
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			who have insisted on holding it down and
		
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			refused to be terrorized and psychologically
		
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			brutalized
		
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			and removed from their land. Allama ami.
		
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			Why do I begin with this type of
		
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			an introduction?
		
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			We've been talking about how Gaza has given
		
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			life to many ahadith and many stories from
		
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			the Sira that otherwise we were not familiar
		
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			with.
		
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			And we're coming out of Ramadan,
		
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			and I couldn't think of a better time
		
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			to talk about this narration from the prophet
		
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			Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and a body of narrations
		
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			that speak to this
		
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			because otherwise,
		
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			these things seem so distant from us.
		
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			And the title of the Khutba is a
		
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			night even better than Nayratul Qadr.
		
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			Some people messaged me and said, Sheikh, is
		
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			this clickbait? I said, no. It's not clickbait.
		
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			It's an actual hadith. And I'll say that
		
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			there are multiple narrations, all of whom are
		
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			traced to the companions of the prophet sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam,
		
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			about acts of worship that continue after Ramadan
		
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			in which you can realize the reward, and
		
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			I'll talk about those another time,
		
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			but a night better than Laylatul Qadr, something
		
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			actually better than Laylatul Qadr.
		
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			And it's an authentic hadith
		
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			that's narrated by Al Hakim,
		
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			and Al Bayhaki and others have considered it
		
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			to be authentic, imam al Asa'i.
		
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			Shall I not tell you about a night
		
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			that is greater than Laylatul Qadr? That is
		
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			even greater than the night of power.
		
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			So, obviously,
		
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			the Sahaba,
		
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			knowing the value of the greatest night of
		
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			the year, Laylatul Qadr I Khayram alfishahar,
		
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			Better than an entire lifetime of good deeds.
		
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			What is it, oh messenger of Allah? The
		
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			prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, said,
		
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			a guard
		
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			who stands guard
		
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			in a land of fear,
		
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			not knowing if he's going to return back
		
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			to his family or not.
		
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			Speaking about al Murabitun,
		
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			al Ribat,
		
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			And Palestine, of course, is Ardu Ribat, and
		
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			Ribat is holding down the fort. And I
		
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			want you to try to put yourself in
		
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			the mindset of a person because obviously, this
		
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			is a circumstance
		
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			that most of us will probably never live.
		
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			But to derive the spirit from it is
		
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			not important when you see the reward of
		
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			it because this is a religion where circumstance
		
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			and outcome
		
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			are not nearly as relevant as intention.
		
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			You spiritually prepare yourself for circumstances
		
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			even if you never physically get put in
		
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			that circumstance, and that is a testimony to
		
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			your truthfulness with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. What
		
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			would it be like for me to be
		
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			in that situation?
		
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			Would I be willing? What would I tell
		
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			myself? Would the reward be worth it? If
		
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			a time came? Because if you were to
		
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			talk to some of the brothers and I'm
		
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			just giving one example
		
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			of this hadith that came to life.
		
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			If you were to speak to some of
		
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			these brothers and sisters
		
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			before October of last year, they would have
		
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			never thought they'd be stepping into a genocide
		
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			today, and they've had to make certain calculations
		
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			in their mind, and their families have had
		
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			to make certain calculations.
		
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			Even though we have a false sense of
		
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			security when we go and we take our
		
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			families and drop them off at the
		
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			airport, certain that they will return to us
		
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			even when they go anywhere else. Allah knows
		
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			best where our place of death is, but
		
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			you've got to know when you're stepping into
		
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			a circumstance
		
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			I want you to imagine
		
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			walking out
		
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			to a place
		
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			where you are anticipating
		
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			the enemy attacking.
		
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			Put yourself back in khandaq. Put yourself back
		
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			in Uhrid. Put yourself back in Badr the
		
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			night before.
		
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			You have to go out there and you
		
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			have to stand there.
		
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			And from your direction,
		
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			it is anticipated that at any moment in
		
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			the night,
		
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			something can happen.
		
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			Think about Ali radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu sleeping in
		
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			the bed of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
		
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			when the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam had already
		
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			migrated.
		
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			And there was an assassination attempt that was
		
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			anticipated for the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam that
		
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			night. And Adi radiAllahu anhu sleeps alone in
		
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			that house, in that bed, knowing that that
		
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			night,
		
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			there are certainly going to be men with
		
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			spears over him, and he still does it.
		
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			Not only that,
		
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			he gets some of the best sleep of
		
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			his life
		
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			because of his certainty in Allah, subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala. What type of a spiritual
		
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			engineering is necessary to be able to be
		
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			in that type of a situation?
		
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			And what type of a calculation do you
		
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			have to make?
		
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			And when you make that calculation,
		
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			what type of contentment do you realize that
		
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			you did not even know was possible for
		
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			yourself?
		
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			Because one of the conversations that I was
		
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			able to have with the brothers who came
		
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			back, he said, subhanAllah, this elevated my spirituality
		
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			in a way that no Ramadan, no Laylatul
		
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			Qadr, no Hajj, no Umrah ever has.
		
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			This elevated my spirituality. This brought me to
		
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			a place that I didn't know in my
		
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			relationship with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Because think
		
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			about that.
		
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			Imagine being that person.
		
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			You know that you are voluntarily stepping into
		
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			a place where that might be it.
		
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			Now,
		
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			what does this have to do with us?
		
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			And how do we bring this back to
		
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			a reality? And why would the Prophet SallAllahu
		
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			Alaihi Wasallam even relate it to Daylatul Qadr?
		
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			Why would he relate it to this concept
		
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			of Qiyamul Layl, this concept of standing up
		
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			in prayer at night?
		
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			The ulama speak to multiple reasons, and they
		
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			find the implication in multiple narrations. So it's
		
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			fresh to you as someone who just came
		
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			out of the last 10 nights of Ramadan.
		
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			There's the sacrifice of comfort for a greater
		
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			reward.
		
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			There is the realization
		
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			of something greater
		
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			than your material life.
		
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			There is something
		
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			more worth it than sleep. There is the
		
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			contradicting
		
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			of a natural
		
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			desire
		
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			of your body to rest so that your
		
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			soul can find itself alive.
		
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			You're doing certain things that contradict your physical
		
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			nature for a higher spiritual goal, sacrificing for
		
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			the sake of Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, and
		
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			the prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam, put these two
		
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			things together in multiple narrations.
		
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			And so the next group of people I
		
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			want you to think about
		
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			are implied in this hadith from the Prophet
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wa sallam as well, the famous
		
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			hadith
		
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			2 eyes that will not be touched by
		
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			the fire.
		
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			And he said, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
		
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			an eye that shed tears
		
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			in all of its Lord. An eye that
		
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			shed tears in all of its Lord.
		
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			And how many of those eyes were shedding
		
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			tears in those last 10 nights? May
		
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			protect us from dry eyes and hard hearts.
		
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			Allahu ameen. How many of those eyes were
		
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			shedding tears
		
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			in these last 10 nights?
		
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			The sake of Allah.
		
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			The same word is used, haras,
		
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			harasa.
		
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			And I want you to think about this,
		
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			dear brothers and sisters. What's something that we
		
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			can implement? May Allah reward our volunteers and
		
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			our security, who while we were all in
		
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			here in these last 10 nights,
		
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			they're making certain calculations. They're out there watching
		
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			the masjid, seeing if something is wrong. They're
		
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			out there sacrificing the night of spirituality
		
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			here
		
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			because they have a reward out there and
		
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			a responsibility that's out there. That's a certain
		
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			type of mindset, and the prophet salAllahu alayhi
		
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			wasalam is able to include the reward of
		
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			both of those things in the same sentence.
		
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			One
		
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			eye is looking down
		
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			and shedding tears. Another eye is wide open,
		
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			but they're both open and closed, dry and
		
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			wet for the sake of Allah. And subhanallah,
		
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			their ilama say, look at the beauty of
		
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			this. And a watchful eye doesn't blink,
		
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			so it gets dry.
		
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			Whereas an eye in prayer gets wet.
		
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			Right?
		
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			But both of them are
		
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			Both of them are in the cause of
		
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			Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, and that's where the
		
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			beauty of this comes from.
		
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			And so that person that's on the outside
		
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			of the masjid might be realizing
		
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			the same reward, if not a greater reward,
		
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			for the sake of Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			How do we bring this back to our
		
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			own reality, dear brothers and sisters?
		
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			There are multiple narrations where the prophet, salAllahu
		
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			alaihi wasalam, talked about how to bring the
		
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			lessons of these practices, these circumstances into your
		
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			life. So when he mentions, for example, alayhi
		
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			salaat to salaam,
		
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			prayer to prayer is baat, is a form
		
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			of holding it down.
		
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			You're just fighting a different type of enemy.
		
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			When you stay in the masjid from prayer
		
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			to prayer, that's a form of ri'baat. But
		
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			the prophet
		
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			doesn't want you to become distant from these
		
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			lofty
		
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			stations in the religion because the circumstances seem
		
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			so distant from you.
		
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			There's a mindset.
		
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			There's a heart that's involved. There's a spiritual
		
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			preparation that's involved. There's a willingness
		
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			to sacrifice
		
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			for the sake of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			that's involved, and there is a realization, a
		
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			spiritual realization that either precedes that or comes
		
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			after it, but it certainly
		
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			perfects itself after a person goes through one
		
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			of these circumstances. And that is that Allah
		
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			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			who is the source of my energy, therefore
		
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			I'll give up my sleep for him.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is the true source
		
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			of sustenance.
		
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			He's the true source of security.
		
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			He's the true source of dignity.
		
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			That I will find that
		
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			nothing
		
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			that I do in these noble endeavors
		
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			is in fact in loss.
		
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			All of it is in gain because Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala is the one
		
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			who has put me in these circumstances
		
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			to test me
		
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			with my intentions.
		
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			Now why does this become increasingly relevant today?
		
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			And I'll end with this, dear brothers and
		
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			sisters.
		
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			We can praise as we should praise our
		
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			brothers and sisters, men, women, and children
		
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			who are holding it down in Gaza today.
		
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			You look at them, subhanAllah, under the bomb
		
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			saying, so we
		
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			will stay here. That is a Ribat. And
		
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			there is no doubt that that is the
		
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			greatest realization of a Hadith like this.
		
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			But we can also
		
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			bring it to our daily lives and we
		
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			can say, listen,
		
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			there might come a time where you're going
		
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			to be asked out of nowhere or you're
		
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			going to be put in a situation where
		
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			it's going to be your deen, your principles
		
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			versus your job.
		
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			How quick is that calculation going to happen?
		
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			The same one that you were standing for
		
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			at night is worth it for you during
		
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			the day.
		
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			There are going to be moments where maybe
		
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			even your safety is compromised, where you are
		
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			threatened,
		
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			where you have people come after you because
		
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			of your principles.
		
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			Right now, there is nothing more dangerous in
		
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			the vocation of activism than to be pro
		
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			Palestinian. Right? That means that every single element
		
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			of you
		
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			every single element of you is suddenly being
		
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			targeted. SubhanAllah.
		
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			Where is this coming from?
		
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			But I want you to understand
		
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			that the true realizations that are to come
		
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			out of Ramadan and the true reward that
		
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			is to be anticipated
		
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			is from you realizing the priorities
		
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			of your existence
		
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			and then proportionally
		
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			allocating
		
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			your energy towards that.
		
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			And having that conviction in your head and
		
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			that conviction in your heart
		
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			that Allah is the source of my sustenance,
		
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			Allah is the source of my security.
		
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			Allah is the source of my dignity.
		
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			And if I'm put in a situation
		
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			where I have to make that call, I'm
		
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			not going to hesitate
		
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			because Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will protect me
		
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			and Allah will provide for me.
		
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			And the hereafter is better and everlasting.
		
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			So while we praise our brothers and sisters
		
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			and we see suddenly, subhanAllah, some of these
		
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			local manifestations
		
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			that are coming out. And and I ask
		
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			Allah to reward each and every single one
		
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			of you that took that mission and that
		
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			went out there. Subhanallah, some of these brothers
		
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			went twice
		
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			already as if it's not enough. And I
		
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			ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to reward the
		
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			brothers and sisters that watch the masjid. And
		
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			I ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to reward
		
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			those that sacrifice
		
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			that calm
		
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			feeling of spirituality
		
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			for that deeper realization of it. May Allah
		
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			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala reward them all. May Allah
		
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			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala bring out something in us
		
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			as well, to where if
		
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			we are put in certain
		
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			situations,
		
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			we never hesitate to sacrifice,
		
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			And so the answer to this question, is
		
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			there a night better than Laylatul Qadr? For
		
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			that person, yes.
		
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			There's a night that's better than Laylatul Qadr.
		
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			And the last thing that I'll end with,
		
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			dear brothers and sisters here, is for you
		
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			and I, the night that Allah
		
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			looks towards you and sees your sincerity.
		
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			The night that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala looks
		
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			towards you and sees you repenting.
		
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			The night that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala looks
		
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			towards you and sees a change in you
		
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			could be the greatest night in your life,
		
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			even if it's not a night in Ramadan,
		
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			even if it's an average night for everybody
		
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			else around you. It's the day and the
		
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			night that you turn your heart towards Allah
		
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			in a certain way and you say, you
		
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			Allah, nothing
		
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			is worth losing your pleasure.
		
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			You Allah,
		
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			everything
		
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			is worth risking to gain your pleasure. May
		
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			Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, make us of the
		
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			courageous and the wise, the sincere and the
		
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			steadfast. May Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, grant us
		
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			the reward of Ramadan, the reward of Laylatul
		
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			Qadr, and forgive us for our shortcomings.
		
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			Dear brothers and sisters, I want to reiterate
		
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			that this Monday, Insha'Allah Ta'ala, is a national
		
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			strike for Gaza. I ask you to participate
		
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			in any way that you can, dear brothers
		
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			and sisters.
		
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			Sisters. At the bare minimum, no spending.
		
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			Let's actually show the power in our numbers,
		
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			insha'Allah ta'ala. Let's show the power of our
		
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			conviction and our principles. So please do, Insha'Allah
		
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			Ta'ala, participate.
		
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			Look for the information online. It's not hard
		
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			to find strike for Gaza. May Allah, Subhanahu
		
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			Wa Ta'ala, allow us to do in our
		
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			capacity what is pleasing to him and what
		
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			actually benefits our brothers and sisters that are
		
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			struggling right now in Gaza. May Allah
		
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			allow our voices to amplify their voices and
		
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			may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala count us in
		
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			their ranks on the day of judgment.