Omar Suleiman – How Close Are You To The Prophets

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The concept of "iled components" in the Bible is discussed, with emphasis on the importance of the experience of the first time Jafar spoke about it. The speakers stress the importance of leaning into it and sharing experiences. The historical context of the goal of eventually worshipping Allah Subhan projects on the people and events is also discussed, highlighting the importance of practicing, understanding, and clinging to the Prophet's words. The presence of Allah Subhan projects in the culture of the United States is also emphasized, with the hope that achieving closeness is a powerful signal.

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			But I wanna start from this verse in
		
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			Surat Ali Imran.
		
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			The verse is,
		
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			I believe, verse 68.
		
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			I'm not doctor Zakir Naik. Mufthissab tries to
		
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			be like him sometimes
		
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			and slips with his verse numbers,
		
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			but I believe verse 68 but it is
		
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			the verse in Na'ul Nasibi Ibrahim Lallatheena
		
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			Tabaruhu
		
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			wahathal
		
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			Nabiyu
		
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			That verily those who have the greatest right
		
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			to claim Ibrahim alayhis salam
		
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			are those who follow him,
		
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			and this prophet
		
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			and the believers, and verily Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala is the protective friend
		
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			of the believers.
		
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			I wanna let you know exactly why I'm
		
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			starting from this place in particular,
		
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			Because as we see what unfolds in the
		
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			land of Palestine, in the land of Palestine,
		
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			may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala free it all
		
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			from the river to the sea, Allahu alaamin.
		
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			There is this annoying
		
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			pushback, this annoying retort
		
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			that
		
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			some Europeans
		
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			who have tried to construct
		
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			within our land
		
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			European style resorts
		
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			and European style cities
		
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			and import people that are foreign to that
		
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			land
		
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			and remove the people of that land,
		
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			that there is this constant claim that is
		
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			being made that even some Muslims
		
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			tend to inherit
		
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			an inferiority complex.
		
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			Now the thing about an inferiority complex
		
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			is that it's not necessarily
		
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			based upon the concept itself, but it's based
		
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			upon how you feel towards that concept. Let
		
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			me put it to you this way. You
		
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			might feel uncomfortable
		
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			speaking about Isa alaihis salam, about Jesus, peace
		
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			be upon him, as your own
		
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			around a Christian
		
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			who worships Isa alaihis salaam and who says,
		
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			Jesus, Jesus, Jesus constantly. Right? You might feel
		
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			a sense of discomfort, like you almost have
		
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			to apologize
		
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			for claiming him and talking about him as
		
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			your own, as if you know what? We
		
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			believe in Aissa alayhis salaam
		
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			as he taught
		
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			about himself alayhis salam. We follow him the
		
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			way that his followers followed him. We worship
		
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			like Isa alayhis salam. It's not disrespect
		
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			to you to say that I love Isa
		
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			Alaihi Salam. He's my prophet,
		
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			and we follow him, and we shouldn't feel
		
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			bad for talking about him like
		
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			our own in the sense of feeling a
		
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			great sense of affinity towards him, and not
		
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			backing away from him nor shying away from
		
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			the idea that we worship as he worshiped,
		
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			Alayhis salam. He is the prophet of Allah
		
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			who was born by his word, who will
		
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			be sent back to restore truth on this
		
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			earth. He is from Ulul Azmi min abusul.
		
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			He is from the greatest of the messengers
		
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			of Allah, Our Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam who
		
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			is closer to us than ourselves
		
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			said that there is no 1 closer to
		
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			Jesus, peace be upon him, than me because
		
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			the prophets are brothers and there is no
		
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			prophet between he and I.
		
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			We feel a great closeness to him, a
		
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			great affinity, so we should not apologize,
		
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			nor should we almost, you know, nor should
		
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			we put all the qualifiers upfront when we're
		
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			talking to someone
		
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			who claims that Isa al Islam, who mentions
		
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			Isa al more, as if we have to
		
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			be let into the room to talk about
		
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			him. We don't have to be let into
		
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			the room to talk about him. The 1
		
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			who sent him
		
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			revealed
		
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			about him
		
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			to our Ummah.
		
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			Why am I starting with this? Because you'll
		
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			start to see there's a genre of verses
		
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			and ahadith that came down in this regard
		
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			to address the way that people might have
		
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			been feeling.
		
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			And this verse,
		
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			many of the ri'ma said,
		
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			zakalaha.
		
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			This verse many of the scholars of Islam,
		
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			scholars of Tafsir
		
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			said, came down
		
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			around the same time
		
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			that the Muslims were in al Masih.
		
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			It's a very strange concept.
		
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			So I'm gonna explain it to you this
		
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			way.
		
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			When the Muslims were in Abyssinia,
		
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			what was the religion of al Zama and
		
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			Najazir?
		
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			It's Christianity.
		
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			He was a devout Christian.
		
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			They were around bishops.
		
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			They were around people who knew the scripture.
		
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			They were still new in Islam. They didn't
		
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			know too much
		
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			about Isa alaihi salam just yet. Most of
		
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			what has been revealed about Isa alaihi salam
		
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			came in Medina when the Muslims were encountering
		
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			the people of And Iran didn't exist yet.
		
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			Right? So there is limited information that the
		
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			Muslims have about Islam. The most that's revealed
		
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			about Isa at that point is Surah Marily.
		
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			That's that's what we know about Isa the
		
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			Surah Marim, which doesn't have great biographical
		
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			detail about Isa
		
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			You're amongst the people who read about him,
		
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			who worship him, who know him so intimately
		
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			in accordance with the scriptures that came down
		
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			to that.
		
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			So you can feel a bit intimidated
		
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			by that environment
		
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			to dare to speak about Risa Alaihi Salam.
		
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			Now when you start to unveil
		
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			the interactions
		
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			between Jafar
		
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			and Adan
		
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			Jaines,
		
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			he starts to find a lot of our
		
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			depth in the conversations.
		
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			So for example, many of the scholars say
		
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			that
		
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			the first time that An Najafshi heard Quran
		
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			was actually not.
		
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			If you realize there are set of interactions
		
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			between Jaipur
		
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			and Anadasi.
		
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			And so the first time, according to some
		
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			of the scholars who have seen that seal
		
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			of the first time and Najashi asked them
		
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			to recite to us something of the Quran.
		
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			Jafar chose Surat Al Hakkavut,
		
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			Surat Al
		
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			Law, absolutely takah
		
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			in some of the narrations. The point is
		
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			that he decided to know something other than
		
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			Surah Al Mahin. He started with that point
		
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			and Abu al Din al-'As
		
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			forced the issue radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu from the
		
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			Assa
		
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			and said to a Najashi, you should ask
		
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			these people what they say about.
		
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			You should ask them what they say about.
		
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			And it was then that Jafar alayhi wa
		
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			sallam who says, we say about him what
		
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			Karak Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam taught us
		
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			about him and what was revealed to him.
		
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			And Najashi says, what is it that was
		
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			revealed to you about him? And then he
		
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			starts to recite, was Urfikit
		
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			Ali marina
		
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			until the end of the story of Isa
		
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			it's only about 15 verses.
		
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			But when it was recited,
		
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			immediately Al Najashi is taken aback,
		
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			his eyes filled with tears.
		
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			Those that have been in pursuit of Isa
		
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			Alaihi Salam, and they just knew something was
		
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			off.
		
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			They knew something was off. And I can
		
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			tell this out a lot.
		
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			I just met
		
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			Sultan yesterday,
		
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			who, Insha'Allah, will be publicly announcing our song,
		
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			who is very influential
		
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			and was a devout Christian,
		
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			found Islam, Hamidah, Yintasbeh Shahad. And 1 of
		
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			the things that he was saying, yasmir,
		
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			he was saying, SubhanAllah,
		
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			people won't believe me when I say that
		
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			I became Muslim because of Jesus.
		
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			I think it's salah.
		
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			So beautiful what we have, which is sayraba.
		
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			You you know, it's really, some of the
		
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			early books of Sheikh Medina, where
		
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			he's he was doing the work when very
		
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			few people were doing it. Right? That global
		
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			work about Jesus, peace be upon him. He
		
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			actually introduces 1 of his books, and I
		
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			can't remember which 1 it was at the
		
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			moment, but he says that he actually sat
		
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			next to a good Christian.
		
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			And he recited Surah Mariam from the Quran,
		
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			and he said, read to me about Mariam
		
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			from your scripture. And he said, be honest,
		
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			which 1 would you like to give to
		
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			your teenage daughter? Which 1 would you feel
		
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			better about giving to your teenage daughter to
		
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			read, to get introduced to Mary Jesus? And
		
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			he said that the man as a theologian
		
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			couldn't help but admit,
		
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			I prefer this version.
		
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			It's absolutely beautiful.
		
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			It's gorgeous.
		
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			It's thorough. It's coherent. It's comprehensive.
		
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			And so step into it, lean into it.
		
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			This is your prophet. This is a prophet
		
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			that was sent, not you as your Ummah.
		
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			You're not the Ummah,
		
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			but he was sent to you by your
		
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			Lord in all the day of judgment when
		
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			you are Shumaga Arnas.
		
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			May Allah make this amongst them. When we're
		
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			witnesses upon the people, guess what we're doing?
		
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			We're standing next to the prophets.
		
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			Nuh alayhi salaam and his people
		
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			have a debate. We step in. We say,
		
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			we know
		
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			who alaihis salaam.
		
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			Musa alaihis salaam and his people have an
		
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			argument. We step in. We know Musa alaihi
		
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			salam. He did what he was supposed to
		
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			do. We step in on behalf of Marissa
		
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			alaihi salam. We're there as witnesses
		
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			upon the people, on behalf of the prophets
		
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			of Allah.
		
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			Right? So lean into it. This is your
		
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			prophet.
		
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			You love
		
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			him. You have
		
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			a theology
		
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			that incorporates
		
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			him perfectly,
		
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			beautifully, that an honest
		
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			and a sincere part and monumental city, that
		
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			makes a lot of sense.
		
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			I always loved Jesus, but I didn't understand
		
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			the train rate. You know how many times
		
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			I've heard about pity about a racist thought.
		
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			I knew it.
		
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			I always loved the reason I saw some
		
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			of you in here making converts to some
		
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			and you have that experience. So I always
		
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			love living.
		
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			But it just didn't make sense. Now it
		
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			makes sense.
		
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			Now I can still love them without having
		
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			the internal conflict.
		
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			Lean into it. Right?
		
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			Now here's what I'm saying or why I'm
		
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			starting with this about the Quran. It's not
		
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			that some of the scholars say that the
		
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			I
		
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			in the that those who are closest to
		
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			Ibrahim
		
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			are those who follow him.
		
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			Some of the scholars say that that is
		
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			because
		
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			the people in Makkah and the Jewish tribes
		
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			in Medina
		
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			both tried to say to Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam
		
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			and his Ummah from different directions,
		
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			we have a guaam, Ibrahim
		
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			is 1 of us.
		
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			Can you imagine? Abu Jahan and Abu Daha,
		
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			they claim him. They claim him in a
		
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			different way. They claim him from a place
		
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			of lineage.
		
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			And then you go to Medina and then
		
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			you have
		
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			rabbis
		
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			who are thoroughly read in the Torah
		
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			That I can quote you all sorts of
		
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			details about him.
		
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			You know a few things about him, but
		
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			what you know about him is correct.
		
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			What they? And they can throw a book
		
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			at you literally.
		
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			And I lost some time to have it
		
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			and say, don't feel inferior to them.
		
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			Don't take a a back seat,
		
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			not when you're with an Anjashti and the
		
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			Christians in Abyssinia, nor with the Jews in
		
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			Medina, nor with the pagans in Mecca,
		
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			your prophets.
		
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			Don't let anybody else tell you that you
		
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			don't have a right to them because you
		
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			would claim none the way that Allah sent
		
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			them.
		
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			So feel that closeness,
		
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			demonstrate that attachment.
		
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			They are yours
		
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			and you are theirs because we are all
		
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			for Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and they fit
		
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			within that divine scheme. And so this verse
		
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			was revealed
		
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			paralleling the Muslims in Abyssinia according to some
		
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			of the scholars from the Muslims
		
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			not being surrounded
		
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			with the people of the book in Medina
		
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			who are saying, come on. What do you
		
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			guys know about Prologs?
		
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			What do you know about Abraham? What do
		
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			you know about his,
		
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			you know, about about the chosen people? What
		
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			do you know about who he has promised
		
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			this to and who he has promised that
		
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			to? And the same mind games
		
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			get played with us now, with
		
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			the whole land of Palestine,
		
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			with Jerusalem.
		
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			And SubhanAllah,
		
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			the way that
		
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			I think it's important for us to intervene
		
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			at times,
		
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			whether we're talking about Risa Alaihi Salaam
		
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			or Ibrahim alayhi salaam or Musa alayhi salaam
		
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			alayhi
		
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			salaam.
		
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			What makes your starting point of history
		
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			near authentic to mine? Because from a historical
		
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			method perspective,
		
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			we can trace the goals.
		
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			You're parodying a narrative that wasn't born until
		
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			this century
		
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			from a completely unorthodox
		
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			paradigm foreign to your faith.
		
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			We have an authentic unbroken chain for 1400
		
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			years. Why should I start from your departure
		
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			point in history and then try to argue
		
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			with you on the basis of that departure
		
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			point? It's like someone says, oh, that's, you
		
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			know, how dare you talk about it? You
		
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			know, this conception of the prophets.
		
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			Like you have to start from the biblical
		
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			conception,
		
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			and then try to fit
		
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			in the Islamic conception. No, no.
		
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			I reject everything you say about a prophet
		
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			of Allah that's not befitting of Abu Dhabi
		
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			Allah. Everything.
		
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			I don't have to prove to you that
		
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			Dawud alayhis salam
		
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			is innocent of the crimes that you associate
		
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			him with. I don't have to prove to
		
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			you
		
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			that he
		
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			did not send a general out because he
		
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			wanted the general's wife. So he sent the
		
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			general out to murder
		
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			so that he could take the wife of
		
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			the general. I don't have to prove to
		
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			you that Alhur alaihi salam was not a
		
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			drunkard.
		
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			Your entire conception of prophethood does not fit
		
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			the divine scheme. We start from a insistent
		
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			coherent departure point in history.
		
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			And that's why when the prophet
		
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			comes into a Medina.
		
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			And who gets to claim Moses? Who gets
		
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			to claim Musa alayhi salaam?
		
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			And they are fasting the day of Ashura.
		
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			And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says,
		
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			You are closer to Moses.
		
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			We love Musa Harishwar.
		
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			We will take this as a day of
		
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			fasting.
		
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			It wasn't a confrontational
		
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			statement.
		
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			It was a confidence statement.
		
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			Very different things.
		
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			Very different things. Like the prophet when you
		
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			imagine him saying that
		
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			he's not getting up in people's face.
		
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			He's saying it to his community.
		
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			Hey, don't sit there and watch from the
		
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			sidelines.
		
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			We love Musa alayhis salaam. We love Musa
		
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			alayhis salaam. We are closer to Musa alayhis
		
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			salaam. The mistake that we make with Jerusalem,
		
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			by the way, with Al Khuds.
		
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			Our history in Jerusalem
		
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			does not start with the commandment of Allah,
		
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			doesn't
		
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			start with the Al Quds.
		
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			The whole history
		
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			of the prophets of Allah
		
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			that were sent, that Balaji alaihi salaam,
		
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			the first prophets that we know of that
		
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			lived and died in in Palestine. May Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala liberate it. The first prophet
		
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			we know of that lived and died in
		
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			that lands.
		
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			Right? For sure. There are other tafasir about
		
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			other prophets that came before, but he's the
		
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			first 1 we know of. Don't we say
		
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			that they were all Muslims?
		
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			So why are you starting your history with
		
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			Jerusalem from Islam?
		
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			No. Yes. So the name of Islam lived
		
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			there. Yes. The prophets were there, and they
		
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			built for the worship of Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala a masjid, a place where Allah is
		
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			to be worshiped, where a prosperity takes place.
		
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			Yes, righteous people have come and gone. We
		
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			claim
		
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			all of those who worship Allah in the
		
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			way that we worship Allah
		
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			Therefore, we feel an attachment,
		
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			we feel a connection.
		
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			That attachment and that connection has never meant
		
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			for us bulldozing people and murdering people and
		
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			displacing people and cutting people off. That's the
		
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			way you deal with your conception.
		
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			And so both your connection is deviant and
		
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			the way that you deal with your connection
		
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			is deviant. We never did that.
		
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			But we're not gonna start our history from
		
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			the Southern Battles.
		
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			We're gonna go back.
		
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			We're gonna go way back to our father,
		
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			alayhi salaam,
		
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			Ibrahim alayhi salaam.
		
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			Ibrahim He is the father of the prophet
		
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			Now
		
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			let's talk about this concept. So
		
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			the closer
		
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			the closest to Nabi'in are those who follow
		
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			him. The closest to Musa are those that
		
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			follow him. The closest to Risa are those
		
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			that follow him. And Allah
		
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			says about the prophet
		
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			what?
		
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			The prophet is closer to the believers than
		
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			themselves.
		
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			Muhammad
		
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			is nearer to us
		
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			than ourselves.
		
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			And so there is this word that keeps
		
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			on coming up,
		
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			Who gets to make the claim?
		
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			Who gets to demonstrate
		
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			closeness?
		
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			Let me tell you, SubhanAllah.
		
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			In this day and age, we are 1400
		
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			years removed from our beloved prophet Sallallahu
		
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			Alaihi Wasabeel.
		
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			Is there a central authority
		
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			of Hashemites,
		
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			the children of
		
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			the
		
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			descendants of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam, that by and large make a claim
		
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			that the community yields to that we do
		
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			DMA task to try and prove that this
		
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			person is Hashibi and this person is not.
		
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			And that's where we yield our authority to?
		
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			Or do we look to those who cling
		
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			to the way of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam and the way that his family,
		
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			alayhi salatu was salam,
		
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			practiced.
		
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			Do we look to that? And that's how
		
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			we denote authority in our community.
		
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			It's how we denote authority in our community.
		
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			There are people that love the Prophet
		
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			more than themselves.
		
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			And they have absolutely no bloodline to them.
		
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			And who follows the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam put in quantum to kibbun Allah
		
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			follow the prophet
		
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			are those that get to make the closest
		
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			claim to him
		
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			Those that will be closest to him on
		
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			the day of judgement
		
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			are those that follow him, are those that
		
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			are plentiful in their salawatawhan
		
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			and sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
		
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			are those that have the best character in
		
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			following the best example of character in him
		
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			That's the claim of closeness.
		
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			So start from this verse.
		
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			And that's why a 1 says,
		
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			And this prophet think about the power of
		
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			language here, the function of language.
		
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			Speaking to people of the book, people that
		
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			locked the idea of a prophetic connection, of
		
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			the connection of the promised lights up on
		
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			these arrows from Mecca, a pagan society.
		
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			They mock the idea of a connection,
		
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			and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is saying Hazan
		
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			Nabi.
		
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			This prophets,
		
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			this is
		
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			why not the 1 that you all have
		
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			imagined
		
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			and because he didn't show up the way
		
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			that you wanted them to, you denied him
		
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			because he didn't come out from Bani Islahi.
		
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			You didn't like him. This prophet right here,
		
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			This prophet
		
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			has the closest connection to the not
		
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			you.
		
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			And those who believe
		
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			And verily Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			is the protective front
		
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			of all of the believers.
		
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			But I want us to actually build this
		
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			coherent connection,
		
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			and I want to start from a few
		
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			places. Number 1, that idea of who's closest
		
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			to Ibrahim,
		
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			Closeness to Ibrahim alaihis salaam.
		
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			Number 2,
		
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			that of the beauty
		
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			of how the Ibrahim Alaihi Salam was describing
		
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			in the Quran is that everything that Ibrahim
		
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			Alaihi Salam achieved
		
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			in terms of equality,
		
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			those are achievable qualities
		
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			in lesser proportion
		
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			to this.
		
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			Everything that he achieved,
		
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			there are achievable
		
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			qualities
		
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			that we can implement our daily lives
		
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			to this Ummah, but in the force.
		
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			Number 3, Allah
		
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			said to follow Ibrahim in
		
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			creed and in character.
		
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			And Allah says that you have an Ibrahim
		
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			waswatun hasanah.
		
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			You have a good example in his character.
		
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			You have the creed of Ibrahim Alaihi Salam
		
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			and the person who mastered it most is
		
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			the most blessed son of Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam,
		
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			Muhammad Sallallahu
		
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			Alayhi Salaam, whose life is in great detail
		
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			to you. Alright? So
		
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			let's kind of walk this back.
		
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			I wanna actually start from this particular place.
		
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			Ibrahim alayhis salam has certain titles in Islam.
		
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			1 of them
		
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			is Al Khareid.
		
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			He is the friend of Allah
		
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			Is it possible
		
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			for you to be a friend of Allah?
		
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			Yes or no?
		
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			Absolutely.
		
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			And what do we call the friends of
		
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			Allah in
		
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			our list?
		
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			Alawiyah.
		
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			The Alawiyah.
		
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			Right? They are friends of Allah
		
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			You ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to take
		
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			you in, to be your guardian, to be
		
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			your protective friend.
		
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			You cannot achieve
		
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			being a Waleed of Allah
		
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			unless you are a Abdul Allah
		
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			You start from rebudiyyah
		
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			you start from a place of great servitude
		
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			to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
		
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			and then in the process of that servitude
		
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			to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
		
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			you attain friendship
		
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			with Allah
		
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			Okay? So it starts with servitude.
		
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			It graduates to
		
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			friendship.
		
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			And this is a scheme that we've we
		
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			have in terms of our practice and in
		
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			terms of our position.
		
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			In terms of our practice, you start from
		
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			being a Muslim.
		
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			You go from Islam,
		
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			and then you graduate from Islam to Iman,
		
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			as Ibn Majid Raheem Allah said. You start
		
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			from practice,
		
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			and then you have faith where you internalize
		
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			what you are practicing.
		
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			And then when those 2 things are married
		
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			beautifully,
		
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			you have Ihsan
		
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			excellence.
		
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			That refers to your practice, which is that
		
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			you worship Allah as if you can see
		
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			him, that the external and the internal are
		
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			in such harmony with each other.
		
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			That is as if you can see
		
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			the longer that you can see in the
		
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			mind himself somehow went to heaven. And that
		
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			is your ultimate guide at that point. That
		
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			refers to output.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Muslim
		
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			On the position side of things, the Maqam,
		
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			the ranking, so that's practicer's position.
		
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			You are an Ibnud Allah
		
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			and to be in a state of Urbudiyyah
		
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			to be in a state of servitude is
		
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			to submit
		
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			yourself to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala holy
		
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			entirely.
		
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			Enter into the way of Allah
		
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			Allah
		
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			entirely enter into submission entirely.
		
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			To Shaytan. Don't follow the footsteps of Shaytan.
		
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			Ibrahim alaihis salam is a Muslim.
		
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			He's a person who entered into Islam entirely.
		
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			The footsteps of Shaytan for Ibrahim
		
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			were different from your footsteps of Shaikhon.
		
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			His footsteps were much more significant.
		
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			Why? Because the footsteps of Shaikhon for Ibrahim
		
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			is, why are you gonna sacrifice your son?
		
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			And that's a hard pill to swallow.
		
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			Hajjal, why are you gonna let him do
		
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			this to your son?
		
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			Ismaili, why are you gonna let your father
		
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			do this to you? The whispers and the
		
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			footsteps of shaybaan are plenty and they are
		
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			severe and they're far more consequential,
		
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			but
		
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			Allah
		
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			says when he says to Ibrahim,
		
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			Aslim,
		
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			submit yourself.
		
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			Ibrahim says, I submit myself to the Lord
		
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			of the worlds. Don't ifs or buts. There
		
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			is no
		
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			wow. No. No. Allah says,
		
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			Submit, he said, like, submit, oh, Allah.
		
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			So in terms of ranking, you go in
		
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			as
		
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			complete rebudia to Allah
		
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			You graduate in position to be a friend
		
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			of Allah
		
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			To be of the odiyan of Allah
		
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			And the Awliya are Asfiyal. Azari'a radiAllahu ta'ala
		
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			im Musa. They're hidden amongst the people. No
		
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			1 knows who Awliya of Allah
		
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			is. Like, you don't get a badge. You
		
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			don't get a code. You don't get a
		
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			mustache turban.
		
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			Alright?
		
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			You don't get you don't get anything to
		
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			denote that. Allah
		
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			has hidden his Aliyah amongst his Ibaat,
		
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			right? Akhfa Aliyah
		
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			fiya idadih. You see what Anil radiAllahu Anhu
		
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			was saying? The awliya are a smaller group
		
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			of their Iba'ads.
		
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			The friends of Allah are smaller
		
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			amongst the servants of Allah. So you don't
		
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			know what you're dealing with the Ibaad of
		
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			Allah. Ay yuhumma
		
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			waliunillah
		
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			Which of them is a wali of Allah
		
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			The person next to you might be a
		
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			Wali of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Your mom
		
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			or dad might be a Wali of Allah
		
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			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Your child might grow up
		
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			to be a Wali of Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala. You don't
		
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			know. You have no idea.
		
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			But you are concerned with graduating into a
		
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			state of wilayah to be a friend of
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			Now the Guwahi Alaihi Salaam achieved a friendship
		
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			with Allah
		
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			that is specific to him, that special talent.
		
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			That is al hadith
		
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			to be that close,
		
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			exclusive.
		
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			In other
		
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			words, he says that the word hadith
		
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			only it's like your best friends and only
		
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			Allah
		
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			can have more than 1 Khalil.
		
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			But for us, you can't have more than
		
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			1 Khalil.
		
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			That's why the prophet said about Abu Bakr
		
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			as Siddiq
		
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			that had Allah not already taken me as
		
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			a khalil, I would have taken Abu Bakr
		
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			as a khalil,
		
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			but
		
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			Allah already took me as a hari.
		
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			So only Allah
		
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			can have more than 1 hari.
		
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			A person cannot have more than 1 tari
		
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			in their nature. It's a very intimate friendship
		
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			with Allah
		
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			The point that I'm trying to make here
		
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			is that for us, what we are aiming
		
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			for when we study the life of Ibrahim
		
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			Alayhi Salaam
		
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			is widaim.
		
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			He has a special friendship with Allah.
		
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			You are studying the life of the friend
		
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			of
		
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			Do you want to be in a state
		
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			of friendship with Allah
		
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			If so, try to live your life like
		
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			the Gulai
		
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			is highlighted
		
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			and friends show themselves,
		
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			generally speaking,
		
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			in good times or in bad times,
		
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			dark times.
		
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			That's when you learn who your friends are,
		
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			right? You learn who your friends are
		
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			in dark moments.
		
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			And so generally, Ibrahim Alaihi Salam's life, you're
		
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			seeing tragic moments in his life,
		
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			but in those tragedies,
		
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			you're seeing closeness to Allah
		
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			You're seeing a friend of Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala arise.
		
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			Why is this significant to us? From a
		
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			place of Tassir, the zubak to the verse
		
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			that they don't figure out with in 68
		
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			or 69.
		
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			68 verse 68. And so and in Raba.
		
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			Because
		
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			the
		
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			Allah is the of the believers.
		
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			Allah walks you back
		
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			to
		
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			after Ayat al Kursi.
		
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			Allah
		
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			Allah is the friend of those who believe
		
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			he takes them
		
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			from darknesses
		
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			to light.
		
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			Those who disbelieve,
		
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			their their
		
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			protective friends
		
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			are those
		
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			silly
		
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			gods. Godlike figures that they think are gods
		
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			that take them away from Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala, that they have set up instead of
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala their idols, their tyrants,
		
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			their trends, all of that can fall into
		
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			tahoots by the way, if you look at
		
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			it in its broadest meaning.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			And Allah says,
		
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			Whoever disbelieves in all of that and believes
		
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			in Allah
		
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			You have held on to the trustworthy handhold.
		
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			Right? There's absolutely no breaking
		
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			of that trustworthy gamble, must involve all of
		
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			your all of them. And now, all of
		
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			us, since our transitions to what?
		
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			Can anyone tell me what's the next verse?
		
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			I know it's a lot in my website.
		
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			I need to break down, Sean. So I'll
		
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			just finish up with this point.
		
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			Where does the law take us?
		
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			You wanna see what a friend of Allah
		
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			looks like who's been taking from darkness to
		
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			light, who's been taking from confusion to clarity
		
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			versus someone who has been relegated to darkness
		
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			and confusion.
		
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			Look at this situation where Abu al al
		
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			Khwariz Tabak is arguing
		
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			with this person
		
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			who claims to be a godlike figure.
		
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			And he brought him stood in front of
		
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			that tower and said, my lord, it is
		
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			like and my lord.
		
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			You wanna see our leading. Allah just talked
		
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			about. You wanna see what a friend of
		
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			Allah looks like in a difficult situation
		
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			with all the supports
		
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			of power. And you might not be considering
		
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			the psychological
		
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			impact. Again, the inferiority conflict is the media
		
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			that a Muslim could be feeling like, All
		
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			these people know there's a lot. We speak
		
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			Hebrew. They speak the language of Ibrahim.
		
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			And we're the followers of the.
		
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			How is that possible? How do we assist
		
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			upon that? Right? When we lead into it.
		
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			And Baha'i alayhi salaam is in front of
		
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			this brutal tyrant and he doesn't have the
		
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			structure of power or mantle, but he has
		
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			the power of clarity.
		
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			And he says my word is love and
		
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			my word is love. All of that, he
		
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			over eats
		
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			he said I'm good wife and I get
		
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			it done. Watch this.
		
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			Watch what I'm gonna do real quick.
		
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			What does he do? He brings someone who's
		
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			given a death sentence.
		
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			And he says, you're free to go.
		
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			Then it brings someone entirely innocent and it
		
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			executes.
		
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			Now if you're
		
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			gonna, this is no longer
		
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			just a discussion of of of,
		
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			you know, theology. This is a theological
		
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			discussion.
		
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			This is someone flexing
		
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			their ego,
		
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			flexing their muscle,
		
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			intoxicated by their power, countless,
		
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			hairless, reckless.
		
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			You know, these people worship themselves.
		
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			You see Benjamin Netanyahu. Did you you see
		
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			a Koran in action.
		
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			You see and by the way, there's a
		
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			and
		
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			sometimes I can't tell which is done within
		
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			the White House and big phone. I'm telling
		
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			you. But there's always 2 of them. Right?
		
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			They're always kinda hanging around each other.
		
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			Okay. The way his time and speed off
		
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			each other. It's never a time alone, but
		
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			pay attention. Time a lot.
		
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			You think that he cares about his hostages?
		
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			They're irrelevant to him.
		
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			Carifest about Palestinians,
		
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			Palestinian life. But everything, when you get calm
		
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			down and when you come down intoxicated by
		
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			your little ego, your little power, and you
		
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			worship your power, everyone is just a tool.
		
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			So it's literally pieces
		
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			of pieces of people on the table.
		
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			Pause.
		
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			I don't see anybody's human beings
		
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			because I'm gonna eat this thing in the
		
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			heart. So there's a psychological element here. Right?
		
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			And then the alarm starts up. My lord
		
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			gives life and bid enough. And so let's
		
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			watch this. I could fly from my.
		
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			And while he married enough, so I was,
		
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			oh,
		
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			yeah. Go ahead. On the last of time,
		
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			what's the heart causes the sun to rise
		
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			from the east and start in the west.
		
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			Go ahead and make it rise from the
		
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			west.
		
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			And the man was completely
		
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			taken aback. Why did my psychological
		
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			torture not work on me?
		
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			Why are they evil?
		
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			I don't like when I can't torture someone
		
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			or torment someone or psychologically
		
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			twist someone
		
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			to obey me. Why aren't you listening
		
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			to throw out power? What is the what
		
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			why is my brute force not working?
		
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			It's the clarity of the 1 making the
		
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			army. Like, how did you say that to
		
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			me after what I just did in front
		
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			of you?
		
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			How do you have the internal clarity and
		
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			that internal strength? Aren't you afraid of me?
		
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			Absolutely not.
		
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			That's why the Palestinian
		
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			child frustrates the Zionist.
		
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			Aren't you afraid of me? No.
		
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			You're 10 garbage.
		
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			I don't care about your power. You don't
		
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			have any power. Your power means nothing.
		
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			Kill me. You sent me the agenda. Go
		
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			ahead.
		
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			If it frustrates them, it flusters them. Don't
		
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			be terribly careful. It's not just the strength
		
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			of your organism. It's the strength of the
		
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			person making you on
		
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			armed. And the greatest
		
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			deprivation
		
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			for you is the law will not guide
		
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			you in your own transcripts.
		
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			You are cut off from you, God.
		
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			Cut off the Allah Subhanahu alaihi.
		
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			This person is guided. He's a
		
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			of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala. This is the front of Allah, Yom
		
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			Hiz.
		
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			And the Ibrahim alaihis salam leaves unscathed,
		
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			untouched
		
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			by that tyrant. The point that I'm making
		
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			in the way of Islam
		
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			is that Allah transitioned to the story of
		
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			Ra'am after the saying,
		
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			Allah
		
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			is
		
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			the of those who believe
		
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			and diverse in
		
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			There is a constant,
		
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			emphasis on this idea. May Allah
		
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			make us from the friends of Allah