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Did the Prophet ﷺ ever see you in
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a dream or in a vision?
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Did he see you on the night of
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Al-Isra and Al-Mi'raj?
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Was the Prophet ﷺ talking about you specifically
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in some of these Ahadith that we read
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about the future nations to come?
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A'udhu Billahi Minash Shaitanir Rajeem.
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Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem.
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Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen.
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Wa Al-'Udwana Ila Al-'Ala Al-Dhalimeen.
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Wa Al-'Aqibatu Lil-Muttaqeen.
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Allahumma Salli wa Sallim wa Barak al-'Abdika wa
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Rasulika Muhammadin Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam wa ala
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alihi wa sahbihi wa sallim wa tasliman kathira.
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We begin as always by praising Allah subhanahu
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wa ta'ala and by invoking his peace
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and blessings upon our beloved messenger Sallallahu Alaihi
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wa Sallam, 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 in his
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blessed path.
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And we ask Allah to make us amongst
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them.
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Allahumma Ameen.
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Dear brothers and sisters, if you have been
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following the series on Al-Aqsa that we
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have just started, we are about to come
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into the chapter of the Fada'il of
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Ash-Sham, the virtues of Ash-Sham and
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its people.
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And Ash-Sham refers to, in the broad
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sense, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan.
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And subhanAllah, one of the things about this
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chapter, about the people of Palestine, Syria, Lebanon,
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and Jordan, the people of Ash-Sham, is
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that it struck me as the genocide began,
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and as I was looking into these Ahadith,
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that these people were not even Muslim yet,
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when the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was speaking
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about very specific virtues that they had.
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I want you to just imagine that for
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a moment.
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And of course, it's not only the people
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of Ash-Sham that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
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Wasallam spoke about.
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He spoke about the Fada'il of the
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people of Yemen, for example, the virtues of
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the people of Yemen.
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These people were not Muslim yet.
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And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is in
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Al-Madinah Al-Munawwara, and he's talking about
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a territory that is under the control of
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the Romans.
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And he's already talking about the future Muslims
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that reside in that land, and how blessed
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they are, and how much he loves them,
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Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
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Now, why is this relevant to us, and
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what did I want to focus on here
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today, that I can't necessarily focus on in
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the second lecture of our Al-Aqsa series?
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This actually brings us to a very interesting
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genre of Ahadith of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
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Wasallam, where there are a number of Ahadith
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where the Messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
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will say something like, عُرِضَتْ عَلَيَّ الْأُمَمُ that
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the nations were presented to me.
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Or he would say, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, عُرِضَتْ
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عَلَيَّ أُمَّتِي my nation was presented to me.
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Or he would say, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, رَأَيْتُ
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رَجُلًا مِنْ أُمَّتِي I saw a man from
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my Ummah.
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And the Hadith continues in that way.
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The point is there is a genre where
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the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is talking about
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future nations, future peoples.
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And SubhanAllah you can find him talking about
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the Ummah in its good times to come,
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in its bad times to come.
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You can find him talking about very specific
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blessed people to come, and very specific people
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of fitna to come.
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You can find him Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam crying
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over incidents that would happen 40-50 years
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after him, right?
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Like the murder of Al-Husayn radiAllahu ta
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'ala anhu.
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You can find him talking about all sorts
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of things.
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The leader of Al-Khawarij.
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You can find him talking about Sallallahu Alaihi
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Wasallam, the global events to happen.
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And you can find him talking about things
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that would happen to people from his Ummah
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in their graves.
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And you can find him talking about people
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on the Day of Judgment.
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And you can find him talking about very
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specific scenes in Al-Jannah and Al-Nar.
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So he has this vernacular Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
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that's been given to him by Allah Subhanahu
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Wa Ta'ala, that he sees things, right?
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Now where do we read ourselves into that?
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So I want to take you to a
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hadith that's very famous.
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Then we can get into some of the
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specific categories here.
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When the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, وَدِتُوا
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أَرَىٰ أَحْبَابِي أَرَىٰ أَحْبَابِي Oh how I wish
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to see my beloved ones.
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And the sahaba of course, hearing that from
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the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, they said, Ya
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Rasulullah, who are you talking about?
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Are you talking about the muhajireen?
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Or are you talking about the ansar?
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Are you talking about the people that came
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from Mecca?
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Or are you talking about the companions from
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Al Medina?
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And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says, بَلْ
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أَنْتُمْ أَصْحَابِي No, you are my companions.
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I'm talking about people that have yet to
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come from my ummah.
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And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is praising
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these people and he's saying, الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا بِي
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وَلَمْ يَرَونِي Those who believe in me and
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they have not yet seen me, and they
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would do anything to be able to come
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to Al Medina.
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And to see the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
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And to be with the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
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Wasallam.
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And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is saying,
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هُمْ أَحْبَابِي هُمْ إِخْوَانِي May Allah make us
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amongst them.
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They are my beloved ones.
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They are my brothers.
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So the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is talking
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about a group of people to come.
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And he's very specific Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam that
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he loves us.
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And I say us with a hopeful tone.
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That we would be counted amongst them.
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That he loves us بِإِذْنِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى before
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we were even born.
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Because the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam knows that
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he has an ummah that is to come.
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That loves him Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
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And he perceives us in that Ihsan Alaihi
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Wasallam.
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In that excellence of loving us before we
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were even born.
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As he knows we are to come.
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And that we will reciprocate that love to
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him Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
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And then love has categories, right?
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قُلْ إِن كُنْتُمْ تُحِبُّونَ اللَّهَ فَاتَّبِعُونِي يُحْبِبُكُمُ اللَّهَ
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Say if you truly love Allah, then follow
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me and Allah will love you back.
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So you can't claim the محبة of the
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Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
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You can't claim the love of the Prophet
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Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
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Nor the love of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta
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'ala if you don't follow the Prophet Sallallahu
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Alaihi Wasallam.
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So there are very specific categories of اتباع
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النبي Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
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What it means to follow the Prophet Sallallahu
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Alaihi Wasallam than to qualify for his love.
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Now here is what I want us to
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do.
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Build on this very well-known narration where
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the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is talking about
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people that love him that are yet to
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come.
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And then look at the people that he
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described from these different regions and in these
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different eras.
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And the qualities that he assigned to them.
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So for example, when the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
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Wasallam talks about the people around Al-Aqsa.
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The people around Al-Bayt Al-Maqdis.
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The people that are from Al-Ta'if
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Al-Mansurah.
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The victorious group that are around the area
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of Asqalan which is where Gaza is today.
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The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam doesn't just talk
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about them from the perspective of blood or
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nationality.
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And in fact, let's just be very clear.
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You could be a Fajr Kafir from Palestine.
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And you could enter into the lowest pit
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of * fire.
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In fact, some of the scholars say if
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you fall within one of the blessed regions
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or one of the blessed categories.
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And you're a Fajr and you're a disobedient
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person.
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That makes it that much worse.
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Because just like if a blessed season comes
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upon us like Ramadan.
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And you are sinful even in Ramadan.
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Then that's worse for you.
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So if you're from Ahlul Bayt.
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What's better than being from the lineage of
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the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
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From the family of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
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Wasallam.
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And you're still disobedient.
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And you still disobey the sunnah of the
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Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
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That's a proof against you, not for you.
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And so this is not a source of
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nationalistic pride.
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That oh yeah, I'm from Palestine.
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I'm from Syria.
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I'm from this place and that place.
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Therefore I qualify.
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No, no, no.
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The earth does not make anyone holy.
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Right?
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Your deeds make you holy.
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So the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam would mention
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qualities.
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So when he says, That they are manifest
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upon the truth.
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Okay, there's a very specific manifestation of that
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truth in Gaza right now.
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And there's a very specific manifestation of that
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truth in Syria for example.
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But are you someone who is manifest upon
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the truth in your own circumstances?
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When you think about the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
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Wasallam saying, That they are a thorn in
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the side of their enemies.
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Are you someone who is a thorn in
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the side of the enemies of Allah Subhanahu
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Wa Ta'ala?
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By your insistence upon righteousness.
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By your insistence upon justice.
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Where you are.
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When the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says, That
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they are not affected or impacted.
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By those who take them as enemies.
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Nor by those who betray them.
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Are you one of those people?
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So you have to look at the qualities.
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So when the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam mentions
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for example, The people of Yemen.
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And he mentions, That they have surpassed by
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the softness of their hearts.
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You could be from Yemen but not have
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a soft heart.
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And you could not be from Yemen but
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have a soft heart.
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And you would qualify for all of the
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virtues of that reward.
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Because it's the qualities that you pay attention
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to.
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So the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam loved people
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for the righteous deeds that were to come.
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And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam happened to
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mention, The prevalence or the prominence of those
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righteous deeds.
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Perhaps through specific episodes of history.
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In very specific regions.
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But you can qualify for those righteous deeds.
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So when Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says,
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أَعِزَّةً عَلَى الْكَافِرِينَ يُجَاهِدُونَ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ وَلَا
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يَخَافُونَ لَوْمَ تَلَأَمُ Where Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta
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'ala mentions a people that, If you were
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to turn away.
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If you were to turn away.
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And the Mufassideen say, this is referring to
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the Arabs.
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Right?
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If you turn away.
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فَسَوْفَ يَأْتِ اللَّهُ بِقَوْمٍ يُحِبُّهُمْ وَيُحِبُّونَ Allah will
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bring about another group of people.
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That love him and he loves them.
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And so it's not region specific.
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It could be the Persians under Salman Al
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-Farisi.
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رضي الله تعالى عنه It could be the
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people of Habesha under Bilal.
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رضي الله تعالى عنه It could be people
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all over the world.
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That embrace the qualities.
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And you'll find that there's alignment.
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Between the qualities that are mentioned in these
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ayat.
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And the qualities mentioned by the Prophet.
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So for example, Where the Prophet says, لَا
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يَضُرُّهُمْ مَنْ خَذَرَهُمْ وَلَا مَنْ خَالَفَهُمْ لَا يَضُرُّهُمْ
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مَنْ خَذَرَهُمْ وَلَا مَنْ خَالَفَهُمْ Right?
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That they are not deterred by those who
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take them as enemies.
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Or those who betray them.
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Compare that to, وَلَا يَخَافُونَ لَوْمَ تَلَعَبُونَ They
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don't fear the blame of the blamers.
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They're manifestations of the same qualities.
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But the point is, Do you actually manifest
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that quality?
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Now here's where we get to, SubhanAllah, something
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very profound.
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And they are from this genre of Ahadith
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of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
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When you actually sit and you think to
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yourself, Was I one of those people?
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Perhaps, that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam saw
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on the night of Asra ul Mi'raj
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and that made him happy.
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Was I one of those people?
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Like was the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam one
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day having a dream?
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One night having a dream.
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Where he saw what was happening in Gaza.
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Where he saw some of the turmoil around
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the Baitul Maqdis.
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And then he saw a group of his
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Ummah standing up and rising to the occasion.
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Could I have been one of those people?
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Right?
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Or if the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam talked
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about a group of Muslims rising from the
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lands of Kufr.
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Could I have been one of those people?
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You have to actually have that ambition to
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say, maybe, just maybe, I could be one
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of those people.
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What if I fell in the sight of
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the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and I could
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have made the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam proud
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and the other side could also be true.
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What if I disappointed the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
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Wasallam?
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What if the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam described
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me as someone from the Ummah as a
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disappointment?
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Like, look at these people from this area.
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Look at these people with this quality.
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Look at the people that do this and
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do that.
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And they're from my Ummah and the disappointment
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of the Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
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May Allah spare us from that disappointment.
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May Allah not make us amongst those who
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the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam will complain about
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on the Day of Judgment.
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May Allah make us amongst those who the
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Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam will reach and he
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will be proud of alayhis salatu wasalam.
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And of course, greater than that, may Allah
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make us amongst those who meet him and
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he's proud of us subhanahu wa ta'ala.
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May Allah praise us for these qualities as
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Allah sees even what the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
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Wasallam could not see.
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Allah sees everything and he sees the hearts
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and he sees every single detail because he
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decrees every single detail subhanahu wa ta'ala.
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So let's look through some of these ahadith.
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One of them, subhanallah, is the hadith of
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Umm Haram bint Milhan radiyaAllahu ta'ala anha
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and she is the khala of Anas ibn
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Malik radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu and she narrates
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Atana Rasulullahi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam that the Prophet
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Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam came to us one day
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and he went to sleep at our house
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and the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was related
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to them Fastayqada Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam wahuwa yadhak
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The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam woke up from
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a nap in our home and he was
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laughing Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and when you read
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that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was laughing
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that should make you happy because you love
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the joy of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
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just as you cry when the Prophet Sallallahu
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Alaihi Wasallam cries as you're reading these episodes
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of the seerah so imagine he woke up
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in your house and he was laughing Sallallahu
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Alaihi Wasallam faqultu ya Rasulullah bi abi wa
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ummi ma adhakaka by my mother and my
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father may my mother and my father be
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sacrificed for you O Messenger of Allah, what
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caused you to laugh and in one narration
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may Allah keep you laughing may Allah keep
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you happy these people love to see the
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Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam happy and the Prophet
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Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says ra'aytu qawman min
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ummati yarkabuna hadhal bahra that I saw some
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people from my ummah that were riding along
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the seas meaning the first marines of the
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ummah and the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says
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kal muluki alal asirrah they were like kings
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like there is something so deeply profound that
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the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is describing this
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first group, this first batch of his ummah
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they're desert Arabs that will go out on
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the seas and they're like kings on their
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thrones and Umm Haram radiyaAllahu ta'ala said
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Ya Rasulullah, immediately she said ud'u Allah
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an yaj'ali minhum make dua that I
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be amongst them and the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
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Wasallam made the dua, he says fa innaki
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minhum you are from them so it was
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not only a dua that you would be
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amongst them the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said
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you are from those people thumma nama thumma
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istayqada wa huwa yadhak then the Prophet Sallallahu
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Alaihi Wasallam went asleep and he once again
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woke up and he laughed Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
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and I asked the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
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what he saw so the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
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Wasallam saw an extension of that dream he
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saw more, Allah gave him more in his
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dream Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and she once again
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affirmed with the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Ya
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Rasulullah, am I one of those people you're
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seeing in your dream and the Prophet Sallallahu
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Alaihi Wasallam said anti minhum, you are indeed
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amongst them and the second time he said
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Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam anti minal awwaleen, you are
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from the first you are from the first
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people that are amongst them and SubhanAllah what
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happened is that Umm Haram bint Mulhan radiyaAllahu
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anha, married Ubadah ibn Samit radiyaAllahu anhu and
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they were on the ship to Cyprus she
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accompanied Ubadah radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu on the
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ship to Cyprus and just as they got
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off the ship she fell off of her
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animal and she broke her neck and she
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passed away radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu and her
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grave is still in Cyprus now this is
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a very well known story but just think
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about the vision here right, how many more
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episodes did the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam see
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but no one was there to narrate the
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dream or he didn't share the dream with
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anyone else what did the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
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Wasallam already see of what's happening right now
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in these consequential times in history and where
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do I fall into this now what I
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want to also come to in conclusion is
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that a lot of times we're thinking once
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again these major major major qualities these major
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deeds right stepping up to the plate and
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indeed we should be an ummah of himmah
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we should be an ummah of ambition and
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we should try to step up to the
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plate and we should try to do great
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things and not settle for less but it's
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also the small things too so I want
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to leave you with these two ahadith one
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of them is the hadith of Abu Dharr
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radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu that he says that
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the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said عُرِضَتْ عَلَيَّ
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أُمَّتِ بِأَعْمَالِهَا حَسَنِهَا وَسَيِّئِهَا the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
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Wasallam said that my ummah was presented to
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me with its good deeds and with its
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bad deeds so I saw the good, the
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bad, the ugly the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
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is saying I saw the trajectory of this
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ummah and that's why the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
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Wasallam would talk about the things that unfortunately
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we'd fall into right of gluttony and greed
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and deceit and lying and becoming inconsequential despite
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our numbers and rebranding and renaming evil things
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and all of these things that unfortunately become
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qualities of the ummah despite its large number
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because the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said I
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saw its good and I saw its bad
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but then he says Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam فَرَأَيْتُ
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فِي مَحَاسِنِ أَعْمَالِهَا الْأَذَى يُنَحَى عَنِ الطَرِيقِ I
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saw something from its good that someone removing
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something harmful from the road so remember when
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the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said I saw
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a man strolling in paradise because he removed
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some other something harmful from the road so
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the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is seeing that
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something so small enters a person into Jannah
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so I saw something so small from my
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ummah to come and he said Sallallahu Alaihi
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Wasallam وَرَأَيْتُ فِي سَيِّئِ أَعْمَالِهَا وَرَأَيْتُ فِي سَيِّئِ
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أَعْمَالِهَا he said Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam that I
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saw from its evil deeds that there is
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snot in the masjid that is not buried
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now subhanallah this gives you actually something to
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think about back then they didn't have carpets
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in the masjid so if you saw something
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like snot or you saw something that wasn't
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great you buried it in the dirt at
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that time subhanallah so he's saying Sallallahu Alaihi
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Wasallam I saw these very small good deeds
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these very small bad deeds these very small
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qualities of good and bad that maybe we
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don't pay attention to another narration the Prophet
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Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said عُرِضَتْ عَلَيَّ أُجُورُ أُمَّتِي
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that verily the rewards the أجر the أجور
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of my ummah were shown to me and
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he said Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam حَتَّ الْقَذَاتُ يُخْرِيجُهَا
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الرَّجُلُ مِنَ الْمَسْجِدِ even a small peck of
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dust that a man would remove from the
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masjid I'm giving this example to say that
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it could be a small deed that you
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do that actually put you in the vision
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of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam but what
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you have to do is you have to
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place yourself in the vision of the Prophet
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Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam you have to place yourself
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in some of those qualities that the Prophet
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Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam mentions and not just to
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say I don't belong to this category or
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that category and think about this, someone says
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well I'm not from Al Bayt Nabis Sallallahu
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Alaihi Wasallam I am not from the people
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of Asham or the people of Yemen or
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the people that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
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is mentioning there I'm not from maybe I'm
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not even an Arab I don't even speak
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Arabic so I can't read the Quran in
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a certain way or I can't do this
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in a certain way or maybe I'm not
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rich so I can't give a lot of
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so all these things about people of I
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don't fall in that category maybe I'm not
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a scholar so I don't fall in the
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category of these people of so you degrade
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yourself to a point that you don't aspire
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to be of any of those categories that
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the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam mentioned and that's
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not what Allah demands from us instead we
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are a great Ummah because we are the
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followers of a great Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
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so aim high and go into this genre
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of Ahadith and think about it, could I
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have been from the dream of the Prophet
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Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam could I have qualified for
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one of those qualities that the Prophet Sallallahu
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Alaihi Wasallam praised and saw in the Ummah
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to come and then suffice yourself at the
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end with Anta ma'man ahbabt you are with
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those whom you love and so you express
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your love for the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
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and on the day and night of Friday
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you increase in your salawat on the Messenger
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Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and you seek to be
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amongst the people even though you do not
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have the deeds necessarily that put you in
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their ranks but through your love of them
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may Allah Azawajal make us amongst those who
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truly love Allah and who truly love the
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Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and who love the
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righteous until their righteousness becomes infectious in a
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good way and it takes over us and
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our deeds start to resemble them and may
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Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala make us amongst
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those who are raised up on the Day
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of Judgment from As-Sabiqoon Al-Awwaloon from
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the first in one of these blessed categories
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and may Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala allow
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us in these consequential moments to rise to
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the occasion ahead of us and to be
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amongst those special followers of the Prophet Sallallahu
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Alaihi Wasallam Allahumma Ameen Jazakum Allah Khairan Wassalamu
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Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh
