Omar Suleiman – Is Allah Really With Us

Omar Suleiman
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The segment discusses the history and importance of Islam, including its implementation and its impact on the religion. It emphasizes the need for people to be patient with their followers and build a community of resilience. The importance of being patient with people at risk of harm and finding forgiveness is also discussed. The segment also touches on the importance of acknowledging and embracing the OMA's (the Oaths of the Jewish Family) and embracing the Oaths of the Jewish community.
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Dear Brothers and Sisters,

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when the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam was in the cave, with a

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little Becca severe called the louder anvil.

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And they were all alone in that cave as far as human beings were

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concerned.

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And what stood between a religion of 2 billion people today and a

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religion that would have ended with the murder of two men. Were

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the feet of the enemy's right at the mouth of that cave.

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And I want you to imagine that moment

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where a bucket of Cydia called the allowance and who looks out and he

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sees the feet of the enemy.

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And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is his responsibility as

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far as he is concerned, taking care of the prophets lie some and

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protecting him.

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And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam looking terrible back at

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a study called the law it's an annual and saying the words that 2

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billion people recite today Lata Hudson, in Allah humma Anna,

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don't be afraid. Do not grieve indeed Allah is with us. There is

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no need for you to be scared. There is no need for you to be

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sad. Allah is with us. And the certainty of the Prophet

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sallallahu alayhi wa sallam the affirmation of the Prophet

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sallallahu alayhi wa sallam would bring coolness and stillness to

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the chest of any human being especially a Sadiq the one who

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affirms the truth and affirms the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa

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sallam and all that he says and all that he does.

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A few years prior to that moments, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa

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sallam was himself affirmed by none other than Allah subhanho wa

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Taala when ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada said, will he will lady either

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soja Malwa Dachau Buka wa color, Allah subhanaw taala swore

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that your Lord has not forsaken you.

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Nor has your Lord found you repulsive. And here the prophets

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lie Selim is giving this affirmation to his closest friend

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level bucketlist, the vehicle the allowance and when

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it comes down, however, to something on an individual level,

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are you confidently able to say that Allah is with us right now?

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What does it mean to say in Allah Myrna Verily Allah is with us and

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I'm not speaking about the theological construct here. I'm

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talking about in the way in which we intended when we say it, that

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Allah subhanaw taala is with us how none when I see it all,

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as a means of support and as a divine aid and if Allah is with

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you, then it doesn't matter who is against you. And if Allah is

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against you, then it doesn't matter who is with you. We ask

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this question to ourselves on an individual level, is Allah

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answering my dress? Is Allah pleased with me? Is Allah subhana

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wa Taala looking at me with his divine favor?

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But how do we actually broaden that to ask ourselves, does Allah

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subhanaw taala love us as a community?

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Is my family pleasing to Allah? subhanho wa taala? Is this a

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household that Allah looks to with his divine pleasure? Is this a

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masjid that Allah looks to with his divine pleasure? Is this a

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community a country that Allah looks to with his divine pleasure?

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Is this an omen that Allah subhanaw taala looks to with his

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divine pleasure. And I want to take you actually, to a verse that

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you recite every Friday. And so to recap, verse number 28, where

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Allah subhanaw taala says, Was that enough second Alladhina your

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own home Villa that you will actually read on our watch? What

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else How do I know I can home to reduce Xena tell Hayato dunya

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Well, total men of color who are in victory now at Saba Khanna

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umbra,

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ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada says, Keep yourself patience with those who

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call upon Allah subhanaw taala day and night, seeking His pleasure

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and do not look past them. Don't turn away from them,

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looking for the allure of this material world and don't follow

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those and don't pursue those whose hearts have been built from the

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remembrance of Allah subhanaw taala who follow their lowly

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desires and whose affair is complete loss

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and want to give you a visual to

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This as

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we know the very famous story about the love no Maktoum or the

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allow Tana animal, the blind man who came to the Prophet sallallahu

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alayhi wa sallam

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rushing to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, while the

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prophet slicin was speaking to some of the elites of Makkah,

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and Abdullah Al Maktoum are the Allah Tada and who because he

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could not see he comes to the Prophet sai someone who is

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in haste, grabbing for the Prophet sighs I'm saying yeah, Muhammad

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Ali Mariela Mikela O Muhammad, teach me from what Allah taught

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you. And he's not aware of the surrounding of the Prophet size to

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them and the meeting that the Prophet saw some just secured with

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some of the nobles of Mecca who had rejected his Dawa up until

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that point, partly because of the presence of people like Abdullah

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Al Maktoum or the Allah Tada angle.

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Either Soweto Allah

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the Prophet slice alum frowned at a blind man.

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Meaning he wasn't hurting the love no Maktoum his feelings because

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our beloved no Maktoum could not see his frown.

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But the frown of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam

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represented something that Allah subhanaw taala saw worthy of

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correcting

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that it doesn't matter what these people think of you.

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What matters is that you surround yourself with sincere followers,

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that it is not the political strength or the material strength

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of those people that will secure your spot in history, and more

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importantly, secure your spots in the hereafter. But it is in fact

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the presence of people like Abdullah Abdullah Al Maktoum of

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the alliance and I know that Allah loves to see in this community and

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that Allah subhanaw taala is indeed pleased with and how did

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the prophets lie some receive that admonishing when he would see

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Abdullah No matomo The Allah Tala I knew he would say model have

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been welcome. The man antimony Allah Who fee to the one who Allah

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scolded me on behalf of Welcome to the one who Allah admonished me on

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his behalf. He would welcome him sallallahu alayhi wa salam

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now give you another visual Qatada Rahim, Allah says that this verse

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was revealed in the general sense of course about the people like

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Salman and Pharisee get all the allowance on and on So hey, roomie

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Radi Allahu Anhu and Bill Allah murabaha the Allah Tala animal and

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those who are looked down upon, but he gave a specific sentiment,

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he said that it was revealed about us have a sofa and a sofa. Who

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were the people that resided in the masjid of the Prophet

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sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and they were at that time 700

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Take a visual shot. And imagine the masjid of the Prophet

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sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in his humble means, and he looks out

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from Allah who it was salam and he has 700 homeless people

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in front of him sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and that's who Allah

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will give victory to that's who Allah will give victory through.

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Yes.

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Yeah Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa salam ya rasool Allah whilst we're

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in our second amerihome Keep yourself patient with those

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people. Don't just be patient with them.

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In the sense that you tolerate them, but build a community of

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resilience a community of patience, because what Allah loves

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to see Todd all homework can suit Jordan. See Mountain View Julia

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Manasa sujood. They you see a people bowing and prostrating

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there is no sight more beloved to Allah subhanho wa Taala than these

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massages being full, and the people on their record are bowing

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water caralluma Allah rocking bow with those who bow, prostrating

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because there is no position to Allah that's more beloved to him

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on an individual level than the position of Sajida where you lower

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your ego, where you lower yourself to your Lord man tilava and

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whoever lowers themselves Allah azza wa jal Rafa, Allah azza wa

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jal raises that person in rank, there is no site more beloved of a

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community than that community on record and sujood we just came

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back from Hajj May Allah accept it

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from the delegation of Allah subhanaw taala as the prophets lie

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some refer to them.

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And think about how beloved the site to Allah of alpha 2 million

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people in a haram

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with their hands to the sky,

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under the heat of the sun just shoveled, dusty, as I shall the

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Allahu Anhu narrated in the Hadith glitzy crying, calling upon Allah

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subhanaw taala in their different languages, the king and the

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peasants equal in the sight of Allah Subhana Allah to Allah. And

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Allah azza wa jal says, Oh

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OH MY ANGELS

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look at these people.

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Ma Arada ha Hola.

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What do these people want?

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They want your mercy.

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They want your forgiveness. And Allah subhana wa Tada says bear

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witness that I forgiven this group of people. I love this group of

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people.

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I love this OMA

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And subhanAllah we are most pleasing to Allah azza wa jal in

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that state, when we are in our core, and in our sujood. Back to

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the iron back to the verse, I want to represents to the Prophet

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sallallahu alayhi wa salam.

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The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam

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the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, as is narrated

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Alhamdulillah hymnody Jalla seen Almighty man omeruo And Oscar

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amerihome. All praises be to Allah, who placed in my ummah,

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those who have been commanded to be patient with Al Hamdulillah for

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an ummah full of beloved and Ummah, fellow slaves and OMA full

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of Salamence I saw the Allah Tala and hundreds authentically such a

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beautiful narrations. He said one night I came, I was coming home

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from salon today Isha. And I was late.

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And when I got home, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam asked

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me and I said, Where were you? She said, when I was leaving the

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Muslims, I got caught up listening to the recitation of a man

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and the prophets like some said, let's go and listen to him

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together. So imagine the Prophet saw someone I saw the Allahu anhu,

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walking the streets of Medina, listening to the Torah, listening

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to the recitation of a man. And the Prophet SAW Selim says

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alopecia. Ha, Saddam Mola, Abby Are they for this asylum, the

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freed slave of the ephah Alhamdulillah he levy Jonathan

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Mateen, with the Hava, All praises be to Allah Who gave me in this

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ummah, a person like this new imagine? That was what was

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pleasing to the heart to the eyes, to the ears of the Prophet

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sallallahu and he was salam Alhamdulillah for an amount of

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ReCore Alhamdulillah for an ummah of sujood Alhamdulillah for an

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ummah of Islam. And as Omar Radi Allahu Allah and who said when he

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entered into Jerusalem

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and obey the law, the law Thailand who came to him

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and he told them, This isn't the best look,

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the leader of the truly free world

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because we are a people who were freed up by the city by the

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lottery by the terrible Larry Bird, from servitude to slaves to

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servitude to the Lord of all slaves. It's not a good look on

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your so the slave on the horse or the camel, it's not a good look.

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And he said to him, that nanocone as an alarm in Islam, we are a

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people who Allah gave dignity to through Islam. What inner terrain

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Allah is utterly lady edilen Allah when we seek it through anything

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else, Allah azza wa jal humiliates us.

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If you were to ask every Muslim, what's your vision for progress?

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What's your vision of the Muslim world? What's your vision of the

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Muslim community? Different people will have different ideas but

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Allah azza wa jal tells you exactly what it is.

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It's a community that is pleasing to Him. Subhanahu it's add on that

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first and foremost is sincere and their pursuits of his pleasure,

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sincere and manifesting the acts of worship, the commandments and

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the values that Allah subhanho wa Taala has given to us it starts

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from that place. And I want you to appreciate for a moment that the

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Muslims were always the underdog. We were always the ones that were

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looked past. What does that mean? In Mecca, the Prophet slicin was

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followed by the lowest of society. In Medina, as an ambassador, the

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Allahumma says the Prophet slicin was keen to build relationships

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with the Jewish community and Medina, with the people of the

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book in Medina. He was keen sallallahu alayhi wa sallam to

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build wisdom, but they looked at him. And it was one thing to say

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that the Prophet to come is not from Benny, it's the law even but

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from Benny is married.

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It's another thing to say, Wait, that's your community.

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Those 700 as a sofa.

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These migrants, they don't look like the community that Allah has

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chosen. They don't look the part. And when Muslims went to different

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parts of the world when they came to this part of the world, you

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didn't look the part.

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Why? Because your value system is

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is different and if we were a people that were relegated purely

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to aesthetics, as beautiful as this Masjid was, we would all be

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sitting on, you know, high chairs and and pulpits and benches.

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Right? We would wear golden shoes and golden slippers and golden

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hats but the reality is is that

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what's beautiful to Allah subhanaw taala are these faces on the

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grounds

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when we sit on the floor and humility to our Lord Subhana wa

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Tada. So we start from that place. What type of community does Allah

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Allah Allah azza wa jal loves a community that worships Him. Allah

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subhanaw taala loves a community that's in a state of a stepfather

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in a state of seeking forgiveness. This ayah in the Quran and certain

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calf was there enough Sokka Mala Alenia DeLuna Ramadan, Allah azza

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wa jal says will ask me in the in Santa Fe hosts Illallah Dina

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almond wa middle Saudi hottie Otto also be happy to also be stopping

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that Verily, Allah swears by time that man is in Las except for

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those who believe and do good deeds and they enjoy and patients

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amongst each other. They enjoy and truth amongst each other. They

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enjoy and patience amongst each other. And here Allah's pentasa

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was bad enough Sokka

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Mariela the near the runner up the humble guy, Dottie will actually

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keep yourself patient with those people who do I want to be on my

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side. I want believers on my side. I want to be amongst them. We're

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Ambleside Lahaina with us two min home. As a mama Shafi Rahim Allah

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said the very famous poem. I love the righteous even if I am not

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amongst them, I don't consider myself to be amongst them.

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The only Anala become Shiva

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so that maybe I can at least gain their intercession on the Day of

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Judgment. Imam Shafi Rahim Allah and he is who he is.

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He's saying I have impostor syndrome, when I'm amongst the

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righteous. And Imam Muhammad Rahim Allah says them to hippo Saladino,

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Anthem in whom you love the righteous and you're amongst them,

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we feel like imposters around you. But we want to enter ourselves

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amongst the righteous, because we want to be raised on the Day of

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Judgment with those people that Allah subhanaw taala I love so it

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starts off with that. And how is it that Allah azza wa jal

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describes them. They worship Allah in the day and in the nights

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meaning in public and in private, and public, and in private,

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because the night worship is unseen, the public worship is the

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daytime worship. It is the values of Islam, that are manifested the

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clock of the Prophet sallallahu some of the characteristics of the

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Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, if you think that Allah

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subhanho wa Taala loves a community that prays but cheats,

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that reads Quran but then lies in the next breath that comes to the

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masjid with such observance of the etiquette, but it's completely and

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entirely unethical in their daily business and in their daily

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affairs with everyone else. That puts their face on the ground and

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humility and sujood but then enters into their home with

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arrogance towards their family, if you think that's the person Allah

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is talking about, wrong person.

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That's not who Allah doesn't love a community of hypocrites.

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Because that recording that soju translates into something.

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It's a humility that overtakes your entire presence. Whilst the

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Buddha said, Can I live in a as your own out of the homeopathy?

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Well, actually, you read on our watch. Why? Because they're

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seeking his continents. They're seeking His pleasure. They're

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seeking his attention, not the attention of other people, not the

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pleasure of anyone else. All of them together, have one audience

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and that is Allah Subhana Allah to Allah Himself.

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And Allah azza wa jal says, and don't look past them. Don't look

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past them.

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prophets I said, I'm said find me amongst the weak and the

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downtrodden. Are you given victory or divine aid? Except through your

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poor ones, your downtrodden ones? But on top of that, Allah says,

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When I told her I fell on the cleaner,

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who are your role models?

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Who do you look to? Are you really following these losers? And I call

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them losers because Allah calls them losers, who have been put up

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as symbols for you as individuals or as communities, whose hearts

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have been veiled from the remembrance of Allah subhanho wa

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taala, who had become idols of gluttony and greed. Is that who

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you want to be? Is that what you want to look like? Is that your

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insecurity that as a community, you want to look like that you

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want your society to look like that you want to be that person

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and the cleaner that's up

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person that is barred from remembering Allah subhanaw taala

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what tubba who they follow their lowest desires,

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what kind of camera who photo and everything that they've pursued

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Subhanallah photo PA is another word for loss in Santa Fe has

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barely manners and loss can Amberle photofile that person is

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in loss. The prophets lie some sun on the Day of Judgment at 10 zero

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nominal loveless Do you want to know who a bankrupt person is not

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a person with no money in their bank account. It's a person who

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has incurred through their tongue so much sin, so much sin so much

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evil. There are fairies in loss, everything they earn meant

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nothing. It only became a proof against them on the Day of

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Judgment. So Subhanallah you can actually contrast Allah says the

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community that he loves the community that he has with want

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him. You read guna watch, huh? They want him Allah subhanaw taala

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says Wallah, toddler, man fell Nepal bow and the cleaner. So

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these people pray day and night, these people are not allowed to

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remember Allah Subhana Allah, these people are pursuing Allah

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subhanaw taala. These people with tobacco, there are people that

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follow their lowest desires. There are those that worship the Most

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High, and there are those that follow their lowest desires. Look

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at the contrast. These are the people that will be given victory

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in this life and the next, these are the people whose affair will

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be complete loss. Some of the scholars say the word Furuta here

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means they will fail to achieve happiness in this life or in the

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next.

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The most miserable people on Earth

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are the ones who tasked themselves with happiness. They thought they

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could create a model of happiness and they could make their own

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happiness. And when they got to their top, they realized that they

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were at their lowest

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because it didn't give them anything. The fame, the money, all

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of it nothing. It gave them complete emptiness and loss. And

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on the Day of Judgment, it is lost as well. How do we bring that back

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to ourselves? What is the community that Allah subhanaw

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taala loves? If you were to then take your brothers and sisters,

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every Hadith, or every idea, and then every Hadith where Allah

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talks about a quality that he loves, or a person that he loves,

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the more people that represent them, the more that that community

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is beloved. And so the more that you look to the Ummah and you find

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those that manifest those qualities that Allah loves, the

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more beloved that OMA is when you look at a locality, the more that

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people manifest those things, the more that Allah subhanaw taala is

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pleased with them. If you want to know if Allah subhanaw taala is

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with you.

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When the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says that Allah is with

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the believer, so long as the believer is with his brother.

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Well, then Allah is with the believers, so long as the

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believers are with their brothers.

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You can easily maximize that grow the circle, take every i Every

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Hadith where Allah says that he loves a person or he's with a

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person and say, how many people cumulatively represent that? Where

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are we as an ummah with those ethics? How much do we represent

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of those things?

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The less we represent the more that we incur the anger of Allah

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subhanaw taala the more that we represent, the more that we incur

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the love of Allah Subhana Allah to Allah. And then finally Dear

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Brothers and Sisters, when the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa

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sallam talks about unity,

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when the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam talks about a community that

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is together Subhanallah it is in complete accordance with

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everything that Allah azza wa jal mentions about those whom he

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loves, in the masjid, those whom He loves in the battlefields,

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those whom He loves in the marketplace, those whom He loves

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at all times.

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In Hola, Hibbeler Dena Yokozuna, feasability he softened cannon

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Boone Yan on morsels. Allah loves those people who fight alongside

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one another soften, think about the rows of prayer in lines and

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rows, to under humble Nyan on Marceau's. They fight together in

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his cause for good things.

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They pursue his pleasure together, and they don't let anything come

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in between them to unknown Banyana and Mara Sue's, they're like a

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well fortified structure. Likewise, Allah azza wa jal loves

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the SFX the line of prayer that is straight for the Prophet SAW

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SMM says, Do not leave gaps between you les the shape on

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interrupt your hearts, stick together the way that you are and

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your lines of prayer. Stick together. Why? Not for other than

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him, but for him subhanho wa Taala Wow Tassimo will be happily laid

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me and Walter for Rocco. Hold on to the rope of Allah together, do

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not become divided amongst yourselves. And subhanAllah Allah

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azza wa jal started in this verse by mentioning the rope of Allah,

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because the those who lost lose sight of the rope of Allah

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subhanaw taala will become divided over their lowly threads.

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I want you to think of the parallel on an individual level.

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We become distant from the most time when we succumb to our lowly

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desires.

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on a community level, we become distant from the most high when we

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succumb to our lowly egos.

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All of the divisions that you find in our communities, all of the

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divisions that you will find in our Ummah, even if they have the

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disguise,

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of being for truth, you will find under that veil of truth, a bucket

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of falsehood, bartered, ego, personal agendas division, two

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people will divide an entire society will embroiled an entire

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country in chaos will embroiled an entire oma in chaos because of

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their lowly egos. And Allah Azza Dunne says that those people that

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came before you, Walmart to follow Roku, they did not divide

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themselves in Lombardi majha Munna and after knowledge came to them

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why boldly unbeknown, arrogance, ego, personal agendas, to where

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they lost sight of the bigger picture, and the only thing they

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could see was their big egos. And communities become divided, almost

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become the owner becomes divided. Why? Because we forget that bigger

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purpose. If you don't remember your higher purpose, you get

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divided over the smaller things.

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Every small division is inflamed

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into becoming a means by which you destroy yourself as an ummah.

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And Allah Azza says FATF shallow will tend to have very hukou.

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And so as a result of that, as a as a result of that division, you

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fail, and your energy goes to waste, your rear Subhanallah, you

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think about this, how much energy is placed in Division, how much

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energy is placed in drama, how much energy is placed with the OMA

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fighting amongst itself. And as a result of that consumption of

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energy, that consumption of the heart with ego and envy, that

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consumption of the community's minds and thinking space, that

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consumption of the resources of the Ummah, who suffers,

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we all suffer. We all suffer.

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We all suffer in the process.

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And Allah subhana, which Allah will hold us accountable for that.

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And I want you to think about this. And this is something that I

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put forward to my dear brothers and sisters.

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Think about the things that cause us to argue and to fight. And

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imagine being a person sitting in a tent in Gaza right now, hearing

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the drones and the airstrikes above you having just buried 13 or

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14 or 15 members of your family, and you get access to your social

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media, and you start scrolling and you say, This is what my OMA has

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time for.

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This is what you're doing.

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This is what you're occupying yourself with. We're dying over

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here, holding down the fort literally for the entire Ummah, in

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this small strip of Huzar. That's what you're occupying yourself

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with all Muslims.

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What drives us to that? You think Allah subhanaw taala will be

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pleased with that.

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And so when the Prophet SAW Allah when he was on him says, the best

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charity is Islam is reconciliation, why you give

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charity to an individual to feed their stomach and to alleviate

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their situation.

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You give charity to the individual to remove them from incurring

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debt, you give charity to the individual to uplift them in their

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circumstances. But what a charity to the Ummah, a charity to the

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community. When you sit two people down, and you cause them to

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reconcile, and you squash their differences so that you save the

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entire community from a headache.

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What a charity to the entire community.

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A charity to their dunya enter an era

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but so few people are willing to do that. To be people of

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reconciliation, people have a sly people that sit people together.

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It's so much easier juice here to gossip and to chew into the

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deadbeat of your brother.

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It's so much harder to be that person that says I will hold this

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OMA together. I will hold this community together. When there are

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people that are fighting I will get in between I'll say remember

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why we got here. Remember what brought us together in the first

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place? Let's grab onto the rope of Allah subhanaw taala and stop

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fighting over the scraps. It's not worth it.

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We have bigger priorities as an ummah, this ummah cannot afford

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division.

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And I end with the Hadith of the Prophet slice of them, caught us

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all to rugby for us. He said, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that I

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asked my lord for three things.

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I asked my Lord,

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that He would protect us this ummah from famine, and plague.

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And Allah azza wa jal granted me that

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this Allah will not be wiped out by a plague,

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And subhanAllah you can imagine how reassuring that was to the

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Ummah under Alma resultado, the Allahu Anhu ama Ramada, the year

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of the plague, where it seemed like the OMA was going to be wiped

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out, prophesy. centum said Allah promised me, this ummah would not

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be wiped out by a plague. And here we are. 2 billion people later, I

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asked Allah that this OMA would not be wiped out by an enemy.

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Israel is not capable of defeating the OMA of Muhammad sallallahu

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alayhi wasallam Do you understand me?

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They are not capable. Our enemies are not capable of removing us

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from the face of the earth. They will inevitably fail.

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And Allah granted the prophets lie some that but the third thing

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to rob the Allah Jalla besom. They know, I asked my Lord that he

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would not allow

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their room ruined, to come amongst themselves, meaning that the

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disunity amongst them would not consume them and hurt them.

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And Allah did not give me that.

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Allah did not give the Prophet saw some

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of the wisdoms of that dear brothers and sisters, Allah azza

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wa jal will take care of our externals. Allah will fix what is

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on the outside, but he's given us enough to fix what's on the

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inside. You have to take care of your heart. Let Allah do the rest.

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Take care of your intentions. Allah subhanaw taala will take

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care of your outcomes and plan for you in your favor as an

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individual, even when you can't see the wisdom of the outcome.

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As a community, as an ummah. Take care of what is amongst

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yourselves, Allah will take care of what's outside of you. But you

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have to fix your hearts. We have to fix our issues. We have to fix

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our problems.

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And Allah subhanaw taala will not look favorably on the day of

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judgment upon a person who brought chaos to this ummah. Can you

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imagine standing in front of Allah Subhana Allah to Allah on the day

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of judgment, and you were a cause for disunity, you were a cause for

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disputes. You are a cause for the inflammation of egos. You are a

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cause for people hating one another you are a cause for people

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cursing one another. You were a cause for other people to go to

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hellfire that otherwise would have followed a path of guidance. Can

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you imagine meeting Allah azza wa jal on the day of judgment as an

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agent of division.

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As a scholar as mentioned,

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it's better for someone to pursue a haram outcome. A lowly outcome

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with a lowly means

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a gambler, Gamble's seeking something lowly. The alcoholic

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seeks something lowly. The drug lords seek something lowly, those

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that manufacture these pervasive and disgusting narratives in the

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world. They pursue something lowly.

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The concert is for the concerts.

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But don't you dare use the deen of Allah which is the most noble

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of gifts to you to pursue something lowly.

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Use what has been given to you

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of greatness to pursue something great.

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Every single one of us is an agents of unity.

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And we have to ask ourselves,

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Am I what Allah loves?

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Do I manifest the ayaats and the Hadith on an individual level of

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what Allah loves? And then my household? Is this a house that

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Allah looks at and Allah loves? And then my community? Is this a

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community that Allah loves

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And then we can say with confidence in Allah Marina, Allah

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is with us, honey and the Gaza. Glad tidings to the people of

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Gaza. The whole world can see their beautiful qualities. And so

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they can say with firmness in the Lahoma Anna, Allah is with us. Can

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we say, Allah is with us?

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May Allah make us worthy

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of him being with us. May Allah make us worthy of His love. Allah

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Hama, and Nana sadaqa Hogback will help them and your book will help.

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Luckily I'm in a new Hari buena de la Hubdoc. O Allah we ask you for

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your love and the love of those that are beloved to you, and the

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love of every deed that would bring us closer to your love as

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individuals and as communities and as an ummah. Allahumma Amin will

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still allow Masanobu Erica Nabina Muhammad Ali he will salary at

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Marian was Salam Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh

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