Omar Suleiman – Al Bara’ Ibn Malik (ra) The Underestimated Hero – The Firsts

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			Salam testament Kathira Charla Tada Dear Brothers and Sisters, this is the last person we will be
speaking about from the blessed and family of anisimov article The allot of time
		

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			and he is indeed an incredible human being and someone who
		

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			inshallah Tada we can learn some very unique lessons from and before I speak about Al Bara, the
brother of Ns today, while the Allahu anha. I want to actually mention Subhanallah that sometimes
when we talk about superheroes, we speak about the past and we don't think they exist amongst us
today. And I actually had the blessing of interviewing, speaking with a friend Fatima, who many of
you have followed in India whose home was demolished in India as our brothers and sisters in India
are facing a genocide. At the moment they are on genocide alert over 200 million Muslims on genocide
alert May Allah subhanaw taala protect them Allahumma Amin and
		

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			a free hamdulillah Brahmin I recorded something in Charlotte's I will be putting out tomorrow but
the night Ana tomorrow morning inshallah. So please do tune into that and watch with your families
and Chatelet on so that you can become more educated about the plight of our brothers and sisters in
India and sha Allah and its connection to what is happening to the rest of the Ummah and how it
pertains to us in particular. So inshallah that will be tomorrow. This will be the last lecture of
the first that we do before the Hijjah and sha Allah tion and then we'll break for about a month in
sha Allah to Allah and start back in August in the law. We're on episode 80 hamdulillah some of you
		

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			have been been here from the start and have that amount of blimey and so we're on episode 80. Now,
may Allah Subhana Allah allow us to continue to live with these blessed people in our memory and in
our hearts and also to follow in their footsteps a lot, man. I mean, so today we're talking about Al
Bara ibn Malik Ibn another. Radi Allahu Taala and who the brother of Anas ibn Malik Radi Allahu
Taala and who al Bara Now how many of you have heard the name of Al Bara before in the spirit of the
Prophet slice on how many of you have heard this name and
		

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			not many of you it seems but when you hear the name of Allah, it's actually very important. It's not
talking about this book. Okay. Al Bara when it's spoken in Hadith literature in the seat of the
Prophet slice alum, it's referring usually to underbara had been as it all the Allahu Tada al Bara
been as it was a much more famous Bora or a little bit more liberal than acid or underbara had been
Matador. This brother of Anis Abdulmalik actually has no Hadith narrated to him. Okay, so he's
actually not very famous at all. There is not much narrated about Alberto de nada Claudia louder and
however, what is narrated about him is so unique and gives us some pretty unique lessons in the
		

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			lucky Tirana that we can take so this is a different book than the one that you will hear in the
books of Hadith including sometime al Bara been as narrating from another diplomatic, okay, may
Allah be pleased with them all. Now, as we said about about Robin Malik, there's a difference of
opinion about whether he is NSS brother through just his father or also through his mother. And the
more correct opinion is that also Elaine is his mother as well. And so you'll see some of the Solane
Come out of him as well. So he is, according to the correct opinion, multiple narrations from the
100 Rahimullah to add an Aries this as well, and others that he is an Asus full brother, he is the
		

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			full brother on a sub nomadic or the Allahu Taala and he is his older brother. Therefore his mother
is also on Celine, while the Allahu Taala Anna, who we learned so much about and sha Allah to Allah,
what you'll see today of that spirit of sacrifice also is just a unique manifestation of the
children of M saline, or the Allahu taala. And however, this man has such a unique story. So for one
we know virtually nothing about him prior to us know, almost nothing. We know nothing about his
conversion to Islam. So you got the story of slain bringing us we know nothing about his story of
actually converting to Islam. The first time he actually shows up is in the Battle of efforts.
		

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			That's the first time we actually start to see a mention of him and all of the battles so he was not
present embedded, presumably because he was too young. But then he's presence in every battle and
becomes famous for his presence in battle. Okay, so we know nothing about him before Islam. We know
nothing about the actual conversion to Islam of Barack nomadic or the Allahu taala. And we know
nothing about his participation or lack of participation in embedded. But then you have the stories
of him in battle. And he's one of those companions very interestingly enough, who literally his
entire Sierra is in battle. All right, like family life, not there. Any personal stories with the
		

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			Prophets license?
		

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			really not there. It is battle after battle after battle but in a very unique way.
		

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			When we talked about rabada terminal sama total the Allahu Taala and home this whole family was just
sacrifice right? Always by the sight of the prophets I seldom and always willing to put themselves
first, the description of herba to consommateur, the Allahu Tada and who was what? Tall, dark,
handsome, strong, imposing features when he walked into a room. Everybody was quiet. When
everybody's doing assignments, walked into a room, right? He had Haber, he had haber means a sense
of awe when Obi Wan Osama walked in a room everyone knew this was a special man. And they sat down
and they listened to him and he could broker treaties he could lead armies I mean urbandoor The
		

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			Allahu Taala and who has an imposing presence before Islam and even more imposing after Islam right.
Listen to the description of Al Bara are the Allahu Allah Allah Allah. Al Bara was extremely short,
extremely thin, they said that there was nothing pinchable on the body of an Bharata the Allah Tala
animal, no bones, no nothing on his bones, no flesh on his bones. His appearance was unkempt, he had
he was dusty. He owned two garments. He spoke very little, his hair was all over the place. When
people looked at him, they degraded him, they belittled him. He was very pale, and he wasn't very
handsome. That's the description of his physical appearance. You're like, why are you talking about
		

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			this?
		

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			Because there's a particular Hadith that actually pertains to him. And you may have heard in the
angel series, we talked about it in the judgment day series as well, where the prophets lie some out
of all of the companions only mentioned his name as an example of this person. The prophets lie some
said Kim Min s Sharath. About how many people are there that are unkempt, that are covered in dust
that are turned away from people's door. Tim Rainey law, Yoda who law who law UC Santa Ana law he
learned about law, he only owns two garments. And no one pays any attention to this person, meaning
people would belittle and degrade this person they would think he's a nobody in society. He looks
		

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			like a peasant. He doesn't have anything physically that gives him a sense of dominance in society.
But that person is so special. Now UC Santa Ana Hola, Barbara, no eczema and Hola. Hola. Barbara
means it's not just the person who's moved yabba dabba who has answered your eyes, it means that
that person has reached a position with Allah subhanaw taala.
		

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			That when they take an oath upon Allah, they know that Allah will fulfill their oath. They're so
close to Allah, they have exceeded in the ranks so much that when they say yeah, Allah, I ask of you
this, Allah subhanaw taala does because of where they are in terms of their rank. The prophets lie
Selim said, Minho, Malborough nomadic, he pointed to Al Bara Marechal the Allahu Anhu and said, in
my ummah, that's al Bara, Abdul Malik in another narration, the prophet slice and mentioned these
people, right, and this was something the prophets lie some consistently does, consistently does.
He's asking the Companions when they see someone passed by prophets lie some says, What do you say
		

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			about this person? They said the oddest little loves persons honorable. If he speaks, we all listen
if He intercedes, his Shiva, his intercession is accepted. The guy could propose to anyone for
marriage, he would be married. And then another person passed by in the prophets lie some said, What
do you say about this person, say Allah, so Allah, this person's little nothing. If he speaks, no
one listens to him if He intercedes no one cares for his intercession. And if he proposes for
marriage, he's not going to be able to get married. And the prophets lie some said, That person is
better than an earth full of that person.
		

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			That person that you look at and you degrade and you think is a nobody is better in the sight of
Allah subhanaw taala than the Earth full of that person that you just showered with praises, meaning
even a rather typical sama to the Allah Tada. And what made him beautiful, was Islam, his character,
his faith, and that's where all of that came in. All the other stuff would have been nothing he
could I mean, Abuja had also was a
		

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			big, strong, handsome men. Right, but his rejection of faith and the ugliness of his character made
him ugly in the sight of Allah subhanaw taala and debased and degraded to the Muslims and for
history, right? So the only person that the prophets like some names as an example of this type of
person is Al bharatmala, called the Allahu taala. And
		

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			he's not eloquent. He's not someone who's going to be in the prestigious gatherings. He's someone
who would be belittled before Islam
		

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			Um, he's not someone that particularly has, you know, an attractive appearance. He's not someone
that looks very strong. But Subhan Allah lo Oksana Allah Allah, Allah, Allah Allah He is answered in
his euro, the man says Allahu Allah and Allah answers him
		

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			And subhanAllah for that reason
		

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			you don't find any you have over 1000 of his brother and a symptomatic well the Allahu Anhu saying,
but the prophets lie some said this in that you don't find a single one from Allah or the Allahu
Tada and not one despite on Sudan Radi Allahu Taala Anna despite Anna Sivan radical the amount of
Taliban who not one of Al Bara or the Allahu Tada I'm saying I heard from the Prophets lie some this
I heard from the Prophets lie some that the only two words the man knew was ALLAH and Jana, right?
They said that this is a description of them. And one of the books is that now Yeah, Illa Allah will
Jana, Allah and Jana, I love Allah and I want Jana, which shows you Subhanallah that when you're
		

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			reading in the history of these people, you don't always have to be, you don't always have to be
this perfect mold of a hero.
		

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			Heroes come in different shapes and colors and sizes, and in different levels and classes and
status. And this man that we're about to celebrate is indeed that person about the Allahu Taala and
who, however, there is something about Al Bara or the Allahu taala. And who as well, is that his
appearance was not just deceiving in that you might think he's not special, but he's actually
incredibly special in his relationship with Allah. The man was incredible in battle. I was gonna say
he was a beast. I don't want that to be misinterpreted. Who knows who watches this lecture later on
and they don't understand this language. But when he was in battle, he was something else. Al Bara
		

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			or the Allahu Taala and the fact that his enemy would underestimate him like you see I need all the
Allah hotel and homecoming and I'm going to the hospital the Allah annual coming you know, the
description of ideal the Allah I know is that if you took two hands and you put them around his
bicep, your fingers would not connect. That was the strength of Satan that needle the alongside
animals. So you're talking about Zubaydah. You're talking about these companions. They saw Al Bara
in the battlefield like oh piece of cake, he was not a piece of cake in the battlefield. The man was
so courageous that he single handedly will win battle after battle after battle after battle. Part
		

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			of the reason why is that the enemy always underestimate him. So the prophets I some tells the
Muslims don't underestimate Alibaba Radi Allahu taala. And who asked for the enemies, they're going
to be in trouble every time and Bharat will the Allahu Anhu shows up on the battlefield because
they're going to think something of him and then he's going to just wreak havoc on the battlefield.
That is his reputation as we will see in a very unique way. Now, just from a technical perspective,
some of the few narrations that we have with him, as we said ahead onwards, Al Bara is in every
single battle, okay, he's also one of those who attended battle Ridwan, the pledge under the tree
		

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			which is which are the people that Allah mentioned that He is pleased with the companions that Allah
mentioned, that He is pleased with the people who attended, they are totally one. He is one of the
people that did not flee from the battle of quinine. There were very few people that did not flee
from her name. But well, the Allahu Anhu was one of those handful of people that stayed with the
Prophet slice Allah, and the Battle of her name, and did not flee. He also he was the person that
would sing to the camels on a journey.
		

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			All right. Now, this is very interesting, because some of you are like, What are you talking about?
And I don't want you to sing your, to your cars, right. But when you go on these battles, right,
these expeditions, you got to also attend to the camels, right. And the camels had a particular
tune. So you had to know the tune of the camels. Camels are very smart and intelligent animals by
the way. I remember when I first moved overseas, they're like, don't mess with a camel because
they'll find you 10 years later, find out where you live, and they'll do something to your house. I
was like, Alright, I get it. The Bedouins understood. So he was the person who when he would go out
		

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			with the Prophets lie some of them he would be in charge of singing to the Campbell's. Okay, and so
the Allahu Taala and who says and the libera nomadic or the a lot of time and who can I yeah, do the
region. What can jasha Yeah, Dubin, Nisa, there's another name that's very famous and Joshua. Well,
the Allahu Anhu. So Anna says that when we go out on a journey, Al Bara would tend to do meaning he
would sing to the camels that were carrying the men and and jasha Radi Allahu Anhu would swing to
the camels that were carrying the women and they both had beautiful voices. Okay, so a brothel the
Allahu Anhu had a beautiful voice and just had a beautiful voice. And that's the famous Hadith the
		

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			Prophet slice and I'm sad. Yeah. And Joshua Rawai like, so Akaka Bill kawari. And just take it easy
with the camels that are carrying
		

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			These precious vessels by warrior. He's talking about the women. Why because of the camels sped up,
and just had such a voice, that if he made the camels go too fast, he could make the women fall off
of the camels. Okay, that's the shadow of this hadith that seems to make the most sense. There's a
long discourse here that I don't care to get into right now. But it just shows you you know, at
least you can imagine this person, he's in charge of keeping the camels motivated because you got to
keep your animals motivated. It's like giving premium gas or unleaded gas to the car. You've got to
have that guy. Because the prophets I'm used to take him for that purpose. And there are other
		

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			narrations from Anasazi Allahu taala. And that suggests that he would sometimes be the only person
that was in charge of all of the camels in a battle. Now, what is his most famous feat? So
everything as I said about him is in battle, there's literally no story about barato the Allahu Anhu
in the short biography that doesn't exist in a battle, but there are lessons for all of us in the
lifetime. The first one again, do not be little the person that's in front of you, you don't know
what that status is with Allah subhanaw taala. And so just because we sometimes assign rank based
upon material or visible or manifest things, Allah subhanho wa Taala has assign value for different
		

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			things so do not do not look away from people do not look past people you don't know which person is
special in the sight of Allah subhana to add, but then it's the courage here. So the most famous
battle of Ebola or the low tide I know is the battle of Alia mana the Battle of Alia mana. Now I
want to give you some context of the Battle of India moment. If you go back to the story of washi we
spoke about the Battle of your mama and others.
		

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			The brother of almond ricotta well the Allahu Taala and Jose didn't follow the law and who died in
this battle multiple companions died in the battle of Alia mama, it was a very difficult battle. The
battle of the ye Mama was against a man by the name of Musa al Khattab mill Salem, the lion was
Salem at the false prophet. Now what a lot of people don't understand about Marseille lemma is that
Maceda did not just claim to be a prophet, He would murder people viciously, ruthlessly. I mean
crucify people that did not accept His prophet hood after the prophets lie Selim. And he rose in the
time of the prophets lie some of them he started to wear his hat in the time of the prophets lie
		

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			some he wrote a letter to the prophets like Selim, from Mustela, ma rasool Allah to Muhammad Rasool
Allah, even addressing the prophets lie some that way. And of course, the prophets lie some called
him Al Khattab, the liar, and we'll say lemma was a brutal opponents, a brutal false prophet, and he
came from Beto Hanifa, which was one of the most difficult tribes with the prophets like Selim. And
so Ben Hanifa out of their tribalism, they said Kedah Ben Hanif that the the liar of bento Hanifa is
better than the Sadhak than the truthful one of Quraysh. Like we know he doesn't make sense. We know
most most of them even had his own Quran.
		

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			And what was his Quran all about food.
		

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			All of his Quran was about food, right? He just Surah after Surah after Surah about food, he used to
eat a lot. All right. And people would laugh at him and mark him but you know what? He's our guy
because he's from our tribe. He's from our people. And we'll say Lama would slaughter people. I
mean, slaughter people, entire caravans for not acknowledging him as a prophet after the prophets
lie Selim, Abu Bakr Radi Allahu Taala and who was the first one to officially go into battle with
him. And this most famous battle was the Battle of India mama and mill Salem had people he had arms
he had warriors Okay, and he had an entire cut out of land where he could where he could you know,
		

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			attract and lower his enemy and then just viciously killed them. And Pamela you know, the Battle of
India mama to give you some some context to it as well. This is the battle where so many fathers
Quran were killed. That actually led to Ramadan katapola The Allahu Anhu to suggest Abu Bakr Radi
Allahu Anhu let's go ahead and produce multiple mishaps of the Quran because so many her father
being killed we don't want I mean, it was inconceivable that all of the fog would be killed. But you
know what, we need to have copies of the Quran written as well. You know, we need to initiate this
quicker so that it does not become vulnerable to what's happening right now. I will record on the
		

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			alota annual dispatches first and foremost Ekrem ibn Abi jehlen Nkrumah Radi Allahu Taala and even
Abijah had to fight against Muslim Eric Rama goes in the first thrust and he actually fails. Okay,
so multiple casualties on the Muslim side. And it was it was very, very concerning. Then I will back
it on the allotted time and who sounds highly dependent on either of the Allahu Taala and and how
little of the Allah animal has al Bara? Even Malik Radi Allahu Anhu with him. Now one of
		

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			The ways that Messina was winning this battle was that he had this fortress and it was nicknamed
headache or to promote the garden of death. Why? Because if even if you got him you were gonna die.
So they had a really strong fortress. They would shoot arrows from that fortress and throw all sorts
of weapons. You know, catapults from that fortress, but no one could get into that fortress.
		

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			So but no Malik, this is his most famous then
		

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			he says Takata didn't lead. He says, Look, I'm really small. He says, strap me to a shield. And
catapult me into the fortress.
		

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			And I will open it from inside.
		

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			And then you can attack
		

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			me think about that. Like, wait, what?
		

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			catapult me in to the fortress. And I'll make my way to the door to the gate of the fortress. I'll
kill the guards. I'll get the fortress open.
		

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			And I'll let all of you in.
		

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			Now, of course, like to a lot of people like this is bravery. But it's also reckless. We can't do
that. Right? Like I mean, what? What do you mean? You're gonna die? And I was like, I don't care. He
says Jamar started Muslimeen. Only lay him on Muslims. Throw me at them. Go ahead and throw me at
them. So eventually, they agreed to the plan.
		

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			They tie a bra while the longtime and who they strap him to a shield.
		

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			And they catapult him into how do you cut to the moat the garden of death. And guess what it works?
		

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			Alvarado, the Allahu Taala and who lands on top of them.
		

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			And he's able to kill enough people and kill the guards of the fortress and bust open the gate. And
the Muslims could storm it.
		

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			So it worked. And he didn't die. Subhanallah so I mean, it was it was a very interesting situation
that happened with him. So he I mean, they're they have the sense of confidence. And of course
there's an element of surprise here like you don't expect a guy to fall on top of you. Right like
you're expecting arrows some Brock's not a human being. But look at this man. Look at the courage.
Look at the bravery of this man. Right. And so there were 20,000 people in this fortress by the way.
Okay, in total, and Alborada are the Allahu Taala and who flies in and Subhanallah his it's his
shock and what he's able to do and because of his size and because they said he was extremely agile,
		

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			right? He's very small. And so he was quick. He was able to cause all sorts of problems for them.
And the Muslim storms. He didn't stop there.
		

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			Elvira Scarlett who is their most severe warrior who's the person on their side that's the scary
person who's who's their boogeyman
		

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			and his nickname they actually Musa had a man by the name of him that his nickname was came out of
your mama the donkey of your mama huge guy
		

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			you know used to do with people I know that sounds like a movie but it's actually history
Subhanallah Hemmati mommy said Mrs. Obama there's this man that will say them his right hand man
basically his personal bodyguard will say them as personal bodyguard was this gigantic main man that
they called him out of your mama His name is actually not mentioned just the donkey of the amount
		

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			so but said after I let you all in, I'm gonna go to him.
		

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			I'm gonna find him.
		

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			And subhanAllah he shows up musei lemma is behind he model Yamama because Macedo was a coward right
our profits ice I'm used to be in the front was Satan was all the way in the back hiding behind his
his man his guy
		

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			al Bara walks up to him. The guy thinks it's a joke. You
		

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			and Al Bara I mean by the way I'm just gonna be real here this history is kind of * he
literally chops him down and kills him.
		

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			Okay, single handedly chops the man down and kills him moslem has taken by surprise that gave the
opening to washy to throw the spear
		

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			will Salem and kidnap and as we said watching who killed Hamza on the Allahu Anhu and then repented
became Muslim. He said I killed the best of people with the spear and the same spear that he killed
the uncle of the Prophet slice I'm with so cotton to hide on us. I killed the best of people and he
said Patel to shut runners. I killed the worst of people. This is my Toba to Allah. I took out Hamza
I'm going to take out Muslim and kids up. So it was Al Bara chopping down? Hey mod on yo mama, the
personal bodyguard of Macedo that opens the way for this to happen according to multiple documents
of this but he it's not like he was
		

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			and hurt. Al Bara are the Allahu taala. And I mean, he's the hero of this battle in multiple ways
people spoke about him and they sang his praises from this battle a battle the a lot of times I know
they said that he was wounded with over 80 wounds in the Battle of Yamama. But he did not die over
at wounds he suffered, but he did not die. They said half of them were arrows and half of them were
sorts. I mean, but the guy was cut up everywhere Subhanallah somehow he survived it and look at the
honor of him highly dependable the little the alongside and who stayed with him for an entire month
to nurse him and to take care of him because how little the lower attributed the victory of India
		

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			mama to him.
		

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			So he talked about a pretty significant stance from Alborada the low tide and and we're just getting
started by the way, but that's his most significant stance. I mean, just this idea of the way that
Allah Subhana Allah created different people for different things. That's what he did well the
alongside Antoine had a little the law and who loved him so much and honored him so much he spent a
whole month with him, nursing his wounds, taking care of him and attributing that thanking him for
what he did in the Battle of Alabama. Now I want to talk about the Allahu Anhu becomes Khalifa. All
right, now you're gonna hear something really really interesting. Shouldn't this guy be a commander?
		

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			Shouldn't this guy be an army general? I mean, he's this heroic. He's this brave? Shouldn't he be in
charge of a big army like little the little town? What do you think?
		

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			Armor is a wise man. Right?
		

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			I'm gonna I'm gonna Cotabato the Allahu Tada and who? When he becomes Khalifa. He sends a letter to
all of his governors and law to start middle Bara, Allah Jason Manjushri Muslimeen do not use al
Bara as a commander of any army from the armies of the Muslims.
		

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			Why do you think that is? actually want to hear some? Yeah.
		

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			He's a bit over the top.
		

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			Almost all the a lot. I know. He says for inner home Malika.
		

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			I mean, that's what he writes. He says he will get people killed.
		

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			He's, he's, he's courageous. He's brave. But he can't lead an army. Because if he leads an army,
then he might project his own courage and his own bravery on everyone else behind him. And the
general has to kind of be a strategist right? He's got to play things a little bit slow at times a
little bit, but I had one you know one speed.
		

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			He just went and so I modeled the Allah Tala. I know again, so interesting. Subhan Allah Amato, the
Allahu Anhu says, No one use him as a commander of any army, because you'll be leading them to
destruction. Keep using him and he praised him. He says keep using him. You know, as a soldier, he's
the best soldier that you can possibly have. But be careful with him. Because if he's leading a
battalion if he's leading army, he's gonna get people in trouble he's gonna get people killed which
shows you Subhanallah by the way, the wisdom of owner culpability Allah Tala annual Alma is all the
law. I know you could write books of leadership from I'm gonna help Pablo the law of town on right
		

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			and people have, you know, just his his foresight, his vision, his wisdom, His balance, his
understanding of circumstances, the way he he's able to steer the Muslims through famine and plague
and through the Romans and the Persians, all types of things are all modeled the law, I know how he
handles policy on the inside and on the outside, right, his domestic and his foreign policy. You
could all learn it, you could learn it from American law, the law on which shows you that's just
because someone is an amazing Muslim, doesn't mean that they're fit for every position. That's also
from the genius of honorable Hopital, the longtime man who has that you don't put people in
		

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			positions that aren't suited for them, just because they're good people or because they're righteous
people. That's not how the prophets I'm dealt with things. And that's not how the Companions dealt
with things. So this was not a knock on an baratos personality. It wasn't a knock on his status with
Allah subhanaw taala. That's not where he's best suited. He's not going to do you best as the
commander of an army. Another lesson that we learned from Ramana hottub Radi Allahu taala. And who,
in this regard with within Bara or the allowed seller and now Elvira was was such a great warrior,
though, that he posed a few issues because sometimes, he disproportionately, you know, accounted for
		

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			casualties on the other side.
		

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			And so when they distributed the spoils of war, sometimes there were too many spoilers for
everybody.
		

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			Because Barack disproportionately would take out from the enemy. I mean, he was just that good of a
fighter of a warrior in the field, and Subhanallah, one of the battles of Attabad ain al Bara was
actually the one who you know,
		

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			the Persian commander because Bahrain was under the Persians at the time. The Persian commander his
name was models van marzban had like this whole posse around him of like the best warrior
		

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			of Persia. Albert single handedly just went through all of them including marzban.
		

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			And almost all the Allah Tala had to actually make a decision about all the spoils of war with him
right about the even distribution, sort of evening them out and he didn't care like and but all the
law and who wasn't doing this for worldly things. This was how Allah subhanaw taala created him. And
this was the way that he continued forward. So he single handedly took out the Persian commander by
the name of marzban. Also the Battle of God the sea if you read about the most difficult battle of
the Muslims, against the empires of the day, the Battle of Akkad the sea it was the most difficult
battle that they had the Battle of apostasy it was extremely difficult. God the SIA was where
		

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			multiple companions died in the hundreds, where you had the Persians bring out sort of their full
force against the Muslims in this battle. And subhanAllah one of the things that used to always
happen with a brothel the Allahu Taala animal is that throughout the battle people would come to a
bar and say yeah, but axiom Allah robic.
		

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			Take an oath upon your Lord make you out for victory, because we know that your DUA is answered. So
the Companions would be reminding a brothel the Allahu Tada animal while he's going around slicing
in the field. And you know, this, this little, this little physical persons of Hala with with just
this massive impact in the field, they remind him to make dua to Allah subhanaw taala that about all
the a lot of time and who would make the loudly and they used to take comfort in hearing the drought
or the allow to enhance so he was also instrumental in the Battle of Akkad the sea and there are
multiple battles in this regard, and it's of no medical the alone time and
		

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			he has a narration about his brother and so we have these narrations from Anacin interacting with
his brother but
		

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			and also the Allahu Taala and who said
		

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			one time I entered upon my brother, the hello to Alan bharatmala called the Allahu Taala and who
were who almost Stelton Allah chirashi wa who will Yun Shi do a br 10 Min a sheriff can know yet to
run, be hidden. Said I entered upon him and it looked like he was dying. I thought my brother was
going to die. And he was singing these lines of poetry. And these were the war songs. This is what
the man does. So he was singing battle songs. Now on someone is dying. Right? You want to tell them
what c'est la ilaha illa Allah read the Quran. You know, so anisul The Allahu Anhu thinks he's going
to die. And here he is singing the songs of battle. I'm recounting some of the moments in the
		

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			battlefield which is what he knows. So Anasazi, Allah Tada. And who says, Rahim Allah, Abdullah,
Allah who will be here now who are hydro Minho, Al Quran said, may Allah have mercy on you, my
brother, Allah has given you something better to read in these moments. Why don't you read Quran
right now? You know, gentle nudge, if these are your last moments with which it appears to be than
with the Quran,
		

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			and NSL the Allah data and who said he looked at me full confidence. He says, a total humble and
more to Allah philosophy. You think I'm going to die on my bed?
		

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			You think I'm gonna die here? He said, Lau Allah. He said No, by Allah, Allah will not deprive me
		

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			of death in the battlefield. He said that I have been able to overcome over 100 by my own hand, and
that is not including those that I overcame with the prophets of Allah, Allah who was standing by my
side, Allah is not going to take Allah is not going to deprive me of that depth.
		

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			And subhanAllah and I saw the Allah and who says, sometime after that he healed and he got back a
lot all the a lot of time and who got back.
		

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			And this is where Subhanallah when you talk about the heroic nature of this young man, and a
contribution, and I don't want you I mean, some of you are probably like, what are we getting out of
all the battle after battle after battle next next time we'll talk about Ebola human on Saudi will
de la and we'll talk about some of the nice stories, personal interactions and solids out again, but
we got to honor our heroes and their legacies of the Allahu Taala and Hong Kong. In a famous Merica
a famous battle was called the moniker of twister to stop was also a difficult battle against the
Persians and a time of honorable culpability Allah Tada Anhu and the Muslims were about to lose that
		

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			battle.
		

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			And so they yelled out to Alberta or the Allahu Taala animal. And they said yeah, but no UC Santa
Ana Arabic, a Barack Obama Ah, if you take an oath upon your Lord, He will answer for XM and Arabic
so take an oath upon your Lord. So by law, the law and who raises his hands, and he says XM to add
aka Rob Lana. nocturna activehome Oh Allah I call upon you. I'm asking you for victory. Give us
their backs. I'm asking you for victory. Oh Allah
		

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			And so the Muslims advanced and then they started to get beaten back again.
		

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			And they said to Al Bara axiom Allah rob the Cobra taken off upon your Lord so he did it again the
exact same thing. And then a third time Alborada the Allah and who did it and Al Bara or the Allahu
Taala and who said Allah hum oxen, Maliki Arab lemma nocturna ACTA who will help me be Nabil IC? o
al Haqqani Bina B IC, O Allah, I asked you for victory. And let me be with your prophet. Let me
follow your prophet. Like I'm ready to go now at
		

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			this point now at about all the allotted time set he had a moment in his day
		

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			where he missed the profit slice element. You know, at this point he's asking for shahada let me
follow now into the ranks of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam let me be with the Prophet
slicer.
		

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			Now Subhan Allah, this is
		

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			this gets a little bit vivid, but it's it's very important. And I said numerical, the Allah Tala
annual says I was with my brother. And the Persians had this strategy.
		

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			I mean, it's really it's really vivid, by the way from NSL de la Tada. I know, it's actually
shockingly vivid. But he says, Don't worry, I'm going to keep it. PG and shallots are in this
regard. But he said they had hot hooks, they had burning hooks that they were throwing over the
gates, and they were catching people with these burning hooks, right? They were trying to catch
people. And they pull them over. So it's burning iron, right? And they're throwing them over and
they're catching people catching people catching people. So they're tossing them and that was one of
the strategies that they used in Anasazi, Allahu taala. And who said,
		

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			I got caught by one of the hooks
		

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			SubhanAllah. He said, I got caught by one of the hooks. And he said, and they would just pull you
back to them. And that was it. You'd either die from the heat or the catch of the hook or they'd
kill you when you were caught over. And he said, My brother Al Bara or the Allah Tada and who jumped
on me. And he removed me from the burning iron with his own two hence Subhanallah like, look at that
Kirche look at that selflessness. Look at this love. Removed me. He unhooked me with his own two
hands until there was nothing left on his hand. Subhanallah like it burned his hands, just saving my
life. So he saved the life of Anissa dramatical the Allahu taala.
		

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			And he started shortly after that he was killed.
		

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			So the last memory of * of his brother was him saving his life. He unhooked me from that hook and
he was martyred in that battle. And the Muslims were granted victory. So Subhanallah they actually
went on to win that battle, which was his.
		

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			His that was that they win the battle of two star and that he gets to join the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam. His last action on this earth was saving the life of Anissa medical the law of
time.
		

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			If that's not beautiful and profound, I don't know what is Subhanallah and, and so the Allahu Anhu.
His last image of him was that and this was just 20 years after Hijra. And I want you to just think
Subhanallah about this again, you don't have Hadith from abroad or the Allahu Taala and you don't
have 1000 Hadith from Ebola. But what if anisopliae Allah and who died that day?
		

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			That whole legacy of Hadith that we have and Anna Sidney manacle, the Allahu Taala and who over 1000
edits.
		

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			Allah Allah decrees that moment, snap decision, right split split decision, and he has to go in that
in that moment, make that snap decision to go into save anastomotic all the allot of time that I
know and put himself at risk. The entire decade's worth. This is 20 years after his widow. Okay, so
Anasazi, Allah Tada and who would have been 30 years old in this moment, and so the Allah lived
another 70 plus years after this moment, the entire legacy of Anissa automatical, the Allahu Taala
and who was at risk at that moment and that entire contribution that reaches us and so that's why
when you're talking about underestimated and unsung heroes, the fighting against musei lemma, and
		

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			being instrumental in that battle was a significant contribution to the preservation of the Quran.
		

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			And the saving of the life of Annecy, Abdul Malik Radi Allahu Taala and who was a significant
contribution to the Sierra and the Sunnah, that reached us of our beloved Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam.
		

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			So when you talk about owing someone hamdulillah for Allah Abdul Malik hamdulillah for that moment,
where Allah azza wa jal inspired him to save the life of Anicet nomadic or the Allahu Taala and who,
to where he got to go join his Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam as the Shahid that he wants it to
be, and he left behind as Anasazi. Allah I know who would tell us everything we wanted to know about
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam for seven decades after hamdulillah
		

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			That for that contribution, may Allah subhanaw taala reward Liberato the Allahu Taala and, and be
pleased with him May Allah azza wa jal be pleased with him. May Allah subhanaw taala join us with
the companions with the family and our beloved Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and for those
that Allah, Allah Allah Amin Zachman located on Sharla Tana, I will go ahead and take questions and
show
		

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			yes
		

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			no, but himself so who were the strong words that surrounded but he himself was the strong warrior,
so he didn't need anybody around?
		

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			He was really strong himself.
		

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			Yes.
		

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			If you can raise your voice and Shaw, I can hear you
		

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			was
		

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			excellent, what made his you're accepted? You know, like, what made him so close? We don't know.
Clearly, I mean, these these acts of courage, there's something special being generated inside of
him, right? But that's actually the point that the prophets lysozyme is making is that so many of
the ODR so many of those people that are close to Allah, they're protective of their relationship
with Allah. They're so protective of their relationship with Allah like you wouldn't assume anything
of them. And especially if they have an unassuming presence in society they're very quiet he's very
quiet right? I mean, not a single Hadith well Bharat spoke up in the gathering. Allah, Allah Jana
		

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			Call me when his battle. That was his life. It's incredible. Subhanallah like, I'm not interested in
anything else. Just call me when it's time for battle, and I'll be that guy.
		

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			But the fact that he's so unassuming, the prophesy son was saying, you don't know the relationship
that man has with Allah. And with the Olia, many of them are silenced because of how much they
talked to Allah.
		

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			They're enjoying their conversation with God. And the more that you enjoy your conversation with
Allah, the more that you tend to find conversation with people not being very satisfying. And so
that's a personality type. And I think this is the beauty of the Sahaba of the prophets, like Selim
is, men and women, they're so different. Right? And their path to gender, their path to greatness is
so different. Like if you study we've done 80 lectures so far, every biography fits a different
personality type, you know, men and women, you know, there's also lane and there's Khadija right?
May Allah be pleased with them. There's unasyn, there's a bra. These are two brothers that are I
		

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			mean, from the same mother and father, and Subhanallah, very, very different people like and so the
law of the brothel, the law and love like entirely different trajectories, there's nothing really
narrated about anisul de la and on the battlefield, that wasn't his thing. He was called the model
so the last line Salam, he was the, in the service of the Prophet sly some in life and in death.
Subhanallah but that was anuses path to Allah subhanho wa taala. So may Allah be pleased with all
the companions? Yes.
		

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			Are a lot of cars.
		

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			There are a lot of
		

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			them
		

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			can you repeat the question? I'm sorry, one of the one of the There we go. This helps the handler,
you got the mic now. So yeah.
		

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			Thank you. Could it be considered a one of the den de La Nouba that Allah combined these people,
these very special households to be the companions of the medical biller? Yeah, haven't seen
anything like that after his time? Yes, I believe it was a very happy who said that if the only
miracle and proof of the Prophet slice on him was his companions, the fact that without power, the
prophesy son was able to gather this group of people, this class of people and put them all in this
position, like kapha, that's in and of itself, a sufficient proof, like the profit slice, and I'm
having this generation of people and inspiring them all to their best to their best version of
		

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			themselves. And then creating that community, without any of the instruments of power is in and of
itself, a proof of his prophethood SallAllahu it was something that everyone had a role to play in
the community of the Prophet slice of it. I mean, it's genius. It's prophetic. It's divine
Subhanallah every single person to the Arabs and Bharat would have had no use. Right? Oh, he's, you
know, he's the skinny, wiry, he has nothing he's not he's not prominent. He's not prestigious. He's
not eloquent. He's not strong. They would have tossed them aside, but Subhanallah I mean,
		

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			Two of the most honored people have been Mr. Little De La Arnhold brought law, the law. I know Bill
out of the law and hubub law, the law, like everyone finds a place in the community of the prophets
lie Selim and gets propelled towards this greatness that we're still talking about today. So it's
definitely a proof of Prophethood because the prophets like some inspired that in them, you know,
how much did they love the prophets lie Selim that they're thinking about him in these moments? You
know, he specifically he didn't say, oh, Allah shahada and that moment, he intended it but you know,
it happened even a Viet. I want to be with my prophet. And so while you have all these loving hadith
		

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			of Anasazi, Allah and we're talking about Rasul Allah sai Salam, dreaming of the Prophet slice, I'm
every night Alvarado, the law I know how to deepen his heart. He just didn't talk about it. It was
something that he had in his heart. And from that moment came, yeah, Allah want to be with the
Prophet. And Allah granted him that. Exactly. Alright, any brothers questions? Yeah.
		

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			Can you raise your voice?
		

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			Do we know anything about his childhood zero?
		

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			When I'm talking about like, this was a hard lecture to prepare. This was a hard lecture prepare.
Because you sit when you search a bra in any database, you get the Broadmoor Hospital, but
		

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			he's not even in some of the books in this regard. Right. He's you have to scrap pieces, and I could
not find anything about his childhood, to the point that we don't even know if the name is his mom.
I mean, that that if that's not obscurities, panela I mean, we don't even know. For a fact though.
It's it seems to be the case. That he's honest. His brother both through mother and father. Exactly.
I thought I saw a hand here. Yeah.
		

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			Any of the what is his age? So the age? It seems to be that he was he was definitely older than
anisul The Allahu taala. And so it seems to be he was older than Anna's. And Allahu Allah. It seems
like he was probably a teenager when the Prophet saw when he accepted Islam when the Prophet size
and came to Medina, which would have explained why he didn't fight and better, so he was slightly
older than anisopliae longtown on
		

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			the aged shahada 20 years after his advice. I mean, he would have been in his early 30s right his
30s mid 30s, early 30s At that time
		

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			Yes, sir.
		

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			How did honest dot I mean, honest, his brother died.
		

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			How did Anistar how to ns? His brother died.
		

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			You talk about this brother? Yeah, honest brother. I missed his brother. He died in this battle this
last battle after he saved on us his life.
		

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			Exactly.
		

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			Yeah.
		

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			Good question. So the when the province lies on Sudan while the Allahu Anhu put and this will be
allowed on her forehead and said make the right for him and the profit slice I made her out for the
family was he included in that? Maybe not in that specific drought but like how many times did the
Prophet slice and make do out for that family? I mean, he literally go to their houses just to pray
for them. So that whole family is blessed And subhanAllah like, you can't you can't disconnect like
what was what was nourished and nurtured in these people? Like, when when when I told the story of
Amsterdam Radi Allahu Anhu I saw somebody like whoa, wow, that level of selflessness is like unheard
		

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			of. It's too much almost right. It's a level of sacrifice that we're not accustomed to. It's like
the ultimate manifestation of the unsought look at our sons. Look at her sons, you know, subhanAllah
look at her kids and what they what they do, how they live. So there's something to be said about
the DNA and the dirt that gets transferred here in this family and this is this is another fruit of
almost the name of the Allah and that's how she taught her kids right? That's another fruit of them.
So they mill the Allah Tada and her with her child.
		

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			And may Allah make him you know, from her scale? Yes.
		

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			Yes, Al Bara even Malik was older than unassuming Malik. Great question, Abdullah. Exactly.
		

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			Yes.
		

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			As
		

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			long as he never lost the battle
		

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			by the way, like it's battle after battle after battle, he never lost and the Muslims knew when he
was there, they weren't gonna lose.
		

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			It was sort of understood. His drought was gonna get them through and then his antics would get them
through. But
		

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			Subhanallah you know, it's one of the beautiful things about him I'll take one more question shot
from the sisters maybe or
		

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			take
		

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			that
		

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			know so yeah, what lesson do we take? I'm telling you Subhanallah
		

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			like, there are people in our midst, so young
		

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			Sister Efrain. 22 years old
		

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			22 years old, her father is in prison. She watched her house destroyed.
		

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			Like I was talking to, I mean, some, like I talked to her and I'm like, Who? Who is this? She's so
settled, calm, composed. I mean, I'm like, there are people in our midst of courage. Learn half of
Allah hilang masala, don't fear, except Allah subhanaw taala. Don't fear the blame of the blame or
the tyranny of the tyrant or the oppression of the oppressor or the backbiting of the back biter, or
the slander of the slander. That's where we take this. This is this is what certainty looks like.
And this is what courage looks like. And so I think with every one of them, there is a lesson in
courage less than bravery that we can take the nighttime
		

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			and certainly as oppression is growing in the world, the importance of Muslims to challenge that
tyranny to challenge a lot of meanings and not be afraid, building data from them. Because at the
end of the day, our paradise is in our hearts. But it's paradise was in his heart. And I think
that's the main lesson we take from that. Is that gonna love it, but I'll say this as well ponder
one of the things when you when you hear you read a biography, as you ponder, what are some lessons
that I didn't mention that you can take, and I think it's important Inshallah, to double down to
zero, to actually reflect upon the Ceylon and upon the biographies of the companions. If there's any
		

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			questions from the sisters, last one.
		

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			Did he ever get married? It doesn't seem like he ever got married.
		

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			He would have drove his wife.
		

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			She probably would have been very, very nervous all the time. Right? Allahu on him, but I could not
find any documentation of a wife in this regard. But yeah, think about the blood pressure when he
leaves the house.
		

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			So his legacy is different. Subhanallah his legacy is very different. But we all owe him because we
can say as us and also the last is and I'm from Anna's from the Prophet size, and that's one of the
things we all have. May Allah be pleased with the companions? May Allah sent His peace and blessings
upon the prophets like Selim and his family. May Allah azza wa jal join us with them Allah Amin
Zachman, la Faden Sharla. Tata we will resume with Ebola you will Ansari hold the LA hotel and Hall
sometime in August inshallah so stay tuned Santa Monica when it comes time to catch up