Omar Suleiman – Don’T Let Them Steal Your Revolution

Omar Suleiman
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The speaker discusses the history of the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam's actions during Makpaid, which were not based on victory but rather on advice of Jesus to allow people to starved for 3 years and sanctioned for 3 years. The speaker emphasizes the importance of not allowing oneself to be tariff, not allowing themselves to be rewarded for their actions, and building a community. The speaker also highlights the need to shift one's mindset to reflect the values of Islam and to focus on the value of learning from past narratives.

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			Dear brothers and sisters,
		
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			Alhamdulillahirrubalahalameen.
		
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			As we stand here in this moment,
		
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			there's been this overwhelming
		
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			spirit
		
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			of victory
		
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			and joy
		
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			for what Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has given
		
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			to our brothers and sisters in Bangladesh.
		
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			May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			Allahu Akbar.
		
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			May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			accept all of the dead Asuhada.
		
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			And may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allow this
		
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			revolution to not be hijacked by those who
		
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			want for Islam and the Muslims what is
		
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			not good for it. And may Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala
		
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			allow the people, the freedom fighters of Bangladesh
		
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			and around the world to persevere.
		
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			And may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allow us
		
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			to celebrate victory in
		
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			the way that we are celebrating victory in
		
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			Bangladesh. Allahumma Ameen.
		
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			Dear brothers and sisters,
		
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			I wanna walk back
		
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			to a moment
		
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			where the prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam arrives
		
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			in Makkah
		
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			after Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala grants him the
		
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			victory of the Fatiha, the victory of the
		
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			conquest.
		
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			And I want you to imagine that you
		
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			are watching
		
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			the prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam
		
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			as someone
		
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			who has only known the prophet salallahu alayhi
		
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			wa sallam for a few years.
		
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			And you don't know the history of that
		
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			moment.
		
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			The messenger of Allah salallahu alaihi wa sallam
		
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			sets up his tent
		
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			in an area known as Hajjun.
		
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			And if you've been to Mecca,
		
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			Hajjun is where you have the famous cemetery
		
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			of Jannatul Mu'allah, the cemetery of Al Mu'allah
		
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			where Khadija radiallahu ta'ala anha is buried,
		
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			where Abu Talib is buried,
		
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			where many of the early Meccans and Muslims
		
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			are buried.
		
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			And if you saw the prophet salallahu alayhi
		
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			wa sallam setting up his tent there and
		
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			you weren't aware of the history,
		
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			you wouldn't
		
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			know that in that very same place,
		
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			about a decade prior,
		
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			the el the elders of Mecca had come
		
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			together
		
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			and they had signed the pact
		
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			to boycott Banu Hashim
		
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			and to boycott Banu Muhtalib
		
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			and to put them
		
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			in the valley
		
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			where the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam and
		
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			his family would be starved
		
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			for 3 years
		
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			and sanctioned
		
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			for 3 years.
		
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			Eventually out of that sanction and out of
		
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			that starvation,
		
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			the death of Khadija radiallahu ta'ala anha,
		
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			and the death of Abu Talib. But if
		
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			you were watching the prophet shalallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam and you didn't know, all you would
		
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			think is that the prophet shalallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam is setting up a tent
		
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			in an area nearby the Kaaba.
		
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			Because nothing of his demeanor salallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam gave off
		
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			this idea that he was vengeful.
		
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			Nothing of the demeanor of the prophet salallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam gave off anything but grace.
		
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			But if you knew the history, you knew
		
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			the history
		
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			that in that same
		
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			area where the prophet shalaihi wa sallam pitched
		
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			that tent
		
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			as a
		
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			leader who was returning back to his homeland,
		
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			the prophet shalaihi wa sallam was once banished
		
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			and put through
		
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			some of the deepest pain of his life,
		
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			salallahu alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			If you watch the prophet salallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam then proceed into Makkah
		
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			with his nose to the back of his
		
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			camel.
		
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			Not as a man
		
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			boasting
		
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			about returning victorious
		
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			over those who once harmed him, salallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam.
		
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			But as a man who was humble to
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			and understood that victory only comes from Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala,
		
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			perhaps you wouldn't be able to appreciate the
		
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			pain
		
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			that he had been put through.
		
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			Because the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam did
		
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			not march into Mecca,
		
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			calling out the names of those who caused
		
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			him great harm and once banished him from
		
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			Mecca. The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam had
		
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			no interest
		
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			in crucifying anyone, in mutilating anyone. The prophet
		
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			salallahu alaihi wa sallam did not say to
		
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			the people of Mecca, here I am now.
		
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			Now what do you say of me? Instead
		
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			the messenger of Allah salallahu alaihi wa sallam
		
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			is is putting his head to his camel.
		
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			Think of the sight
		
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			and saying, la tathriba'alikum
		
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			al yawm. There is no blame upon you
		
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			today.
		
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			May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala forgive you.
		
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			Dear brothers and sisters,
		
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			if you were to see the prophet salallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam and how he dealt with
		
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			the prisoners
		
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			after Badr,
		
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			perhaps you wouldn't know
		
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			the pain
		
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			that those prisoners put him through.
		
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			Perhaps you wouldn't know
		
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			of the torment
		
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			that those Meccans
		
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			had put him through because of the grace
		
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			of the messenger of Allah salallahu alayhi wa
		
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			sallam.
		
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			And I want you to compare and contrast
		
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			how they dealt with the Muslims in Uhud.
		
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			How Quraysh
		
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			was unrestrained in its brutality
		
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			In tearing up the body of Hamza radiAllahu
		
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			ta'ala Anhu,
		
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			and seeking to pour alcohol and wine on
		
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			the corpses of the Muslims,
		
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			and singing the songs of revenge against the
		
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			Muslims.
		
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			All of that because they said a day
		
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			for a day.
		
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			Uhud is for Badr.
		
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			And if you think about it,
		
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			what they had done to the prophet salallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam and the Muslims before Badr
		
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			was far greater
		
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			than anything that had been inflicted upon them
		
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			in Badr.
		
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			If the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam dealt
		
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			with them with the same attitude
		
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			for the catalog of atrocities that they committed
		
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			against him and the Muslims salallahu alaihi wa
		
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			salam for
		
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			that decade prior to Badr.
		
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			Wouldn't Abu Jahl's corpse
		
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			be dealt with in the same way that
		
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			he dealt with Sumayyah radiallahu ta'ala Anha?
		
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			Wouldn't the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam shout
		
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			out to them
		
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			and say the day of Badr
		
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			for the torture of Mecca?
		
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			But he didn't do that salallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam.
		
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			Immediately
		
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			the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam turned his
		
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			attention to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			and sought
		
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			the pleasure of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in
		
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			that situation,
		
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			and how to build on that moment of
		
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			victory.
		
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			How to take that material victory
		
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			and turn it into
		
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			a longer lasting victory.
		
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			How to unify the hearts
		
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			and to turn those hearts collectively to Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			The prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam was not
		
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			beating his chest
		
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			in some
		
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			display
		
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			of human superiority.
		
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			Instead the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was
		
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			prostrating to the ground
		
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			in a display of vulnerability to Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala and seeking the greater blessings from
		
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			that victory.
		
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			The messenger of Allah salallahu alaihi wa sallam
		
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			had taught the Muslims
		
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			how to restrain their nufus,
		
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			how to restrain their selves for the sake
		
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			of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So that when
		
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			you saw them in victory and when you
		
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			saw them in defeat,
		
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			it materialized
		
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			in the exact same behavior which was fasabih
		
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			bihamdi rabbika wastaghfirhu.
		
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			SubhanAllah. Just like how on a personal level,
		
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			the messenger of Allah salallahu alaihi wa sallam,
		
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			when good news came to him, he fell
		
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			in sujood.
		
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			When bad news came to him, he fell
		
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			in sujood.
		
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			Likewise,
		
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			the nose of the prophet salallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam would be to the back of his
		
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			riding animal
		
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			in victory and in quote unquote defeat because
		
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			he was always a humble servant to Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			and seeking something else.
		
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			You see to the Meccans,
		
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			the only thing they had
		
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			to hang their hats on
		
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			was this idea of revenge.
		
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			They didn't believe in victory beyond this world
		
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			because they didn't believe in resurrection beyond this
		
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			world.
		
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			They didn't believe in any type of solace
		
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			and comfort and compensation
		
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			outside of this world because they didn't believe
		
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			in a Lord
		
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			who owns both the realm of this world
		
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			and the realm of the hereafter.
		
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			The Muslims had something different in their hearts.
		
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			They sought something greater from Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala.
		
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			Watarjunaminallahi
		
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			malayabjoon.
		
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			You want from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala what
		
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			they do not want.
		
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			And the messenger of Allah salallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam
		
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			was able to keep the Muslims calibrated
		
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			in such a way that if you were
		
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			to see them after Badr, you might think
		
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			that this was after Uhud. And if you
		
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			were to see them after Uhud, you might
		
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			think that this was after Badr. They were
		
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			constantly turning towards Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and
		
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			looking to him for that next step.
		
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			Dear brothers and sisters,
		
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			one of the things that I want us
		
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			to take with us deeply,
		
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			and I want you to listen to me
		
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			very very carefully
		
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			as we insist
		
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			that your revolution
		
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			in Bangladesh
		
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			not be stolen.
		
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			That the revolution
		
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			in any place not be stolen as revolutions
		
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			before had been stolen. Listen to me very
		
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			carefully.
		
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			It is just as important to see through
		
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			the euphoria and victory,
		
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			as it is to see through the despair
		
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			under the darkness of oppression.
		
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			It is just as important to connect to
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala when you're on top
		
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			as it is to connect to Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala when you're under the boots of
		
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			the oppressor.
		
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			It is just as important to think about
		
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			how to convert this
		
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			into a gain in the hereafter,
		
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			and to be patient with yourself, and to
		
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			be patient with the moment
		
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			when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has gifted you
		
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			a palace in this world as it is
		
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			to see the potential of a palace in
		
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			the hereafter
		
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			when you are under the crushing tyranny of
		
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			a firaoun like Assia alayhi salaam.
		
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			You have to see
		
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			in this moment
		
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			what comes next.
		
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			And you must not
		
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			allow yourselves, we must not allow ourselves
		
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			to be intoxicated by the moment so that
		
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			we forget what we're supposed to be building.
		
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			When the messenger of Allah salallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam
		
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			arrives in Al Madina Munawara,
		
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			I want you to think about this. The
		
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			messenger of Allah salallahu alaihi wa sallam
		
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			was engaged in building a society in Madina,
		
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			engaged in building a state in Madinah,
		
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			engaged in implementing ethics in Madinah, already executing
		
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			covenants with the various tribes in Madinah,
		
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			already executing covenants with the Jews in Madinah,
		
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			Already building Mu'akha, building the ties of brotherhood
		
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			between the Muhajirin
		
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			and the Ansarib Al Madinah. Already conceiving of
		
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			system after system, and building and building and
		
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			building
		
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			while a neighboring state sought his annihilation.
		
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			While his people in Mecca were plotting day
		
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			and night against him, salallahu alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			If the story of Madinah
		
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			was merely to defend ourselves
		
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			against the plots of Makkah, then Madinah would
		
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			not have been established as the model state
		
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			that we look to every single year of
		
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			the existence of this ummah to see how
		
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			we can model what the prophet salallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam modeled for us. But the messenger
		
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			of Allah salallahu alaihi wa sallam
		
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			had something
		
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			to build.
		
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			He had a message
		
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			to put forward.
		
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			And sometimes we get so caught up
		
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			in fighting a system
		
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			that we forget that we have an alternative
		
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			system.
		
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			Sometimes we get so caught up in tearing
		
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			down the walls of oppression that we forget
		
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			that we're also supposed to be building the
		
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			walls of truth and justice.
		
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			Sometimes
		
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			we get so caught up in this country
		
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			in fighting Islamophobia
		
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			that we forget that we're also supposed to
		
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			be teaching the people the beauty of Islam
		
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			and offering them Islam as a way of
		
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			life for them as well.
		
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			Sometimes
		
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			we're so busy
		
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			in the work of decolonization
		
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			that we forget
		
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			that there's a community that we're supposed to
		
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			build as well.
		
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			And that's where the test comes in.
		
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			Once you throw off the shackles,
		
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			and alhamdulillah,
		
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			alhamdulillah,
		
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			alhamdulillah,
		
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			I want you to ask yourselves,
		
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			a month ago
		
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			how many of you would have believed the
		
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			news that you're seeing out of Bangladesh today?
		
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			How many of you would have thought that
		
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			this was possible?
		
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			The same people tell us
		
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			about Palestine,
		
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			that it's impossible,
		
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			that the
		
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			genocidal state of Israel is inevitable, that they've
		
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			demolished Gaza and that they're going to take
		
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			over the West Bank. Will
		
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			be free and all of Palestine will be
		
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			free and we, bayimillahi ta'ala, as a community.
		
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			As a community, if it's not us, our
		
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			kids will pray in Masjid Al Aqsa and
		
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			it will be free, bayimillahi ta'ala.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us,
		
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			Allah
		
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			subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala says
		
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			that they wish to extinguish the light of
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala with their mouths.
		
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			And bi afwahihim
		
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			is different bi suefihim.
		
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			It's different from their whips, and from their
		
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			swords, and from their government structures.
		
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			It's what they tell you through those structures
		
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			and the messages they give you through those
		
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			whips and through those police batons
		
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			that you will never overcome them. That Islam
		
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			will be crushed and suppressed.
		
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			And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells you they
		
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			will run their mouths
		
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			and they will say,
		
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			that the people have gathered against you. And
		
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			sometimes even Muslims will inherit that type of
		
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			behavior and rhetoric,
		
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			And start to
		
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			say,
		
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			that people have gathered against us.
		
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			It's one thing when they say it to
		
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			us, it's another thing when we start to
		
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			say it to ourselves.
		
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			And Allah says and he will preserve his
		
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			light even if the disbelievers hate it.
		
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			Allah azzawajal turns your attention.
		
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			And
		
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			Allah
		
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			aza wa Jal goes on to say,
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala turns the attention
		
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			from the fact that he will preserve his
		
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			light and he will not allow it to
		
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			be suppressed,
		
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			to calling upon you to saying how are
		
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			you going to sacrifice for this religion?
		
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			What are you going to do with the
		
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			opportunity that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala puts in
		
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			us in front of you?
		
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			'Isa alayhi salaam.
		
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			Allah mentions to us. And it's the last
		
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			mention
		
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			of 'Isa alayhi salaam chronologically
		
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			in the Quran. Powerful.
		
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			When Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,
		
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			You waladeenaamanukuna
		
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			ansarallallahu.
		
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			Oh you who believe, be helpers of Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			Like Isa alaihis salam said to his disciples,
		
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			who will be my supporters
		
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			for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala?
		
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			Who will be our helpers besides Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala?
		
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			Who will support the cause of Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala?
		
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			Isa passing the baton.
		
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			Alaihi salaam. That's the last mention we have
		
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			of him in the Quran
		
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			as we're reading from start to finish.
		
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			And you know what dear brothers and sisters?
		
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			What's so powerful about that?
		
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			'Isa alaihis salam was speaking to a people
		
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			living under Roman occupation.
		
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			And 'Isa alaihis salam
		
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			was not just dealing with the corruption of
		
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			the Roman occupation, he was dealing with the
		
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			internal corruption of Bani Israel. And saying that
		
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			it's not just about lifting the Roman boots
		
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			off of our necks, it's about lifting the
		
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			poisons and the shackles from our hearts as
		
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			Bani Israel.
		
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			The same thing is true for us as
		
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			an ummah.
		
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			The same thing is true for the ummah
		
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			of Muhammad salallahu alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			If you don't have to fight the kuffar
		
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			in Makkah, you have to fight the munafiqeen
		
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			in Madina.
		
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			And you have to remove from your hearts
		
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			and remove from your thoughts
		
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			this idea that only an external enemy exists,
		
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			and only a wall
		
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			needs to be torn down
		
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			that has been imposed against us, not the
		
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			ones that we build amongst ourselves.
		
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			If you look at the body of a
		
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			hadith
		
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			And one of my teachers, subhanallah, he shared
		
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			this. He said that if you were to
		
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			study the narrations
		
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			in hadith
		
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			where the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam talks
		
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			about the rights of the brother,
		
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			the rights of the
		
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			sister.
		
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			No one of you believes until he loves
		
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			for his brother what he loves for himself,
		
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			or he is not a believer who sleeps
		
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			full while his neighbor is hungry.
		
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			And all of these ahadith about the values
		
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			of society. If you study the narrators and
		
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			when these narrations were, they were an early
		
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			Madinah.
		
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			Because these are the values that give life
		
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			to a society.
		
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			These are the values that you build structures
		
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			with.
		
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			It wasn't just the akham,
		
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			the rulings,
		
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			and the scriptural
		
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			and textual
		
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			technicalities
		
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			that came in Al Madin al Munawara.
		
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			It was the values
		
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			that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam brought forth
		
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			that you build societies upon.
		
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			You can't just focus on not being like
		
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			Makkah, not being like Quraish.
		
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			Who are you, oh Muslims?
		
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			Who are you, oh Ansar?
		
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			What are you going to build with the
		
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			opportunity?
		
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			What are you going to do in this
		
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			moment?
		
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			And we need to turn inwards
		
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			and look in our own communities.
		
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			SubhanAllah,
		
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			as we witness
		
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			in this
		
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			world full of oppression and tyranny,
		
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			Umar ibn Abdul Aziz
		
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			as
		
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			he assumed the Khalifa
		
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			and he had his moments,
		
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			he looked out
		
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			and instead
		
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			of puffing his chest out
		
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			like a man
		
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			who had just conquered the world even though
		
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			he had just been given the most powerful
		
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			post in the world,
		
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			he put his head down and he cried.
		
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			Because he said,
		
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			I swear by Allah that this world has
		
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			been filled with injustice.
		
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			And I have so much on my plate.
		
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			There's so much injustice
		
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			that I have to remove.
		
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			So much that we have to work towards.
		
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			And we have to shift our mindsets as
		
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			Muslims
		
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			about what it really means to usher in
		
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			an Islamic alternative,
		
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			an Islamic lifestyle,
		
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			an Islamic way of justice,
		
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			an Islamic way of governance,
		
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			an Islamic way of being.
		
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			Because I tell you what,
		
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			if the only thing you
		
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			do is you take corruption
		
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			and you throw some ayat of Quran on
		
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			it and put BismillahirRahmanir
		
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			Rahim on it, not only
		
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			have you not ushered in an Islamic alternative,
		
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			you have insulted the deen that you claim
		
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			to stand for.
		
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			If the only thing that you've done
		
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			is replace a tyrant
		
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			who is openly hostile to Islam
		
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			with a tyrant who wears the cloth of
		
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			Al Islam
		
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			but acts in the exact same way,
		
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			you have insulted the religion that you claim
		
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			to stand for.
		
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			We are not a people
		
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			of exteriors.
		
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			We're not a people of empty slogans. We're
		
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			not a people of banners. If I was
		
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			to ask you
		
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			to show me a banner
		
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			that the prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam carried
		
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			in Badr or in Uhud or in Khandaq
		
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			or in Fatiha Makkah.
		
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			No one of us
		
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			would be able to actually
		
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			reconstruct
		
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			what that banner looked like. We don't memorize
		
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			the slogans, but we remember the ethics of
		
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			the messenger of Allah salallahu alaihi wa sallam
		
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			and the fundamental
		
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			change in society.
		
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			A non Muslim
		
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			who lived in Yathrib
		
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			and then lived in Madina, Madina to Nabi
		
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			salallahu alaihi wasalam,
		
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			would be able without knowing anything else to
		
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			tell you about the tangible differences of that
		
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			society.
		
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			Not just that instead of Abdullah ibn Ubay
		
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			bin Sirul, we have Muhammad ibn Abdullah Rasulullah
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			If a non Muslim
		
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			were to walk into Mecca
		
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			not caring about idol worship versus tawhid
		
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			and witness the interactions of the people
		
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			before and after Fatiha Makkah, they would be
		
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			able to tell you tangibly
		
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			something has changed about the society,
		
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			something is different.
		
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			That's what we have to work towards.
		
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			That's what we have to strive towards.
		
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			I repeat again,
		
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			it is just as important to see through
		
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			the euphoria of victory as it is to
		
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			see through
		
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			the despair under the darkness of oppression.
		
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			The people of Gaza
		
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			have clear eyes, clear vision.
		
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			The people of Bangladesh bidalaihi ta'ala, many of
		
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			them who sacrificed themselves for the moment that
		
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			we are in had clear vision.
		
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			Our prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam had Basira,
		
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			had clear vision.
		
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			Let's not lose sight
		
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			of what the vision of American Muslims is
		
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			as well.
		
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			I leave you with this thought.
		
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			And I asked a few people recently in
		
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			a retreat.
		
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			I said, who remembers that great speech of
		
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			the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam
		
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			where he talked about why I am not
		
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			a sahir, why I am not
		
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			a fortune teller or a soothsayer,
		
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			why I am not a kazab, why I'm
		
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			not a liar,
		
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			why I'm not this, why I'm not that,
		
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			why I'm not a majnoon, why I'm not
		
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			a crazy man?
		
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			No one.
		
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			Because the prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam
		
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			refused to reinforce the discourse against him.
		
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			Refused
		
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			to play into the narrative against him. The
		
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			prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam always knew how to
		
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			bring it back to message.
		
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			And instead of talking to them on their
		
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			terms,
		
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			the messenger of Allah salallahu alaihi wasallam focused
		
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			on his message and his mission.
		
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			I'm not just here to fight Islamophobia.
		
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			I'm here
		
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			to demonstrate the beauty of Islam.
		
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			I'm not just here so that you can
		
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			start to believe that Islam and Muslims are
		
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			acceptable,
		
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			that Islam is not the regressive
		
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			barbaric religion that it has been made out
		
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			to be. I am here
		
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			to show you that Islam is special
		
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			and that the value that it brings to
		
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			society
		
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			is greater than the value of anything else.
		
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			May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allow us