Speaking a Word of Truth to a Tyrant

Omar Suleiman

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We begin by praising Allah bearing witness that nun has the right to be worshipped or unconditionally obeyed except for him. We thank him we praise Him and declare his oneness while also declaring our inability, and being able to thank him for all of the favors that he's bestowed upon us. Amongst those favors, and the greatest of those favors is sending Mohammed Salah army who was seldom as a mercy to the world. We ask Allah subhana wa tada to send his peace and blessings upon him the prophets and messengers that came before him, his family and companions that served alongside of him and those that follow in their blessing path until the day of judgment, we ask a

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lot to make us amongst them a lot, man, I mean, the brothers and sisters, we are in the, in the arena now of Ashura.

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As we come into this new year, and we look at the migration of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam, the history of the messenger it is Salatu was Salam. And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is commemorating the victory of musante. His set up there often similar themes that are spoken about as we enter into this new year and as we enter into the shade of the blessed day of Ashura, where the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam commanded us to commanded us to fast in celebration of the victory of Masada, his salah and of course, as we also know, on that tragic day, at the same time, the great grandson of the Prophet salallahu, it who was sometimes one of the

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chiefs of the youth have an agenda. And one of the beloved ones the closest and dearest to the heart of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was massacred, also attaining a state of victory because Allah does not judge victory or defeat by the worldly outcome as we see it. musante his son Salaam was victorious against his tyrant for their own. When he stood in front of him and he was victorious before for their own and his army was drowned. He was victorious because of the sincerity and the courage that he had, as he stood in front of their own and that trust that he put in Allah subhanho wa Taala. So whether for their own in his army drowned and were defeated or not,

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is irrelevant to whether or not musante his Salaam is victorious, likewise within Hussein, about the low tide, and when he stood in front of the face of a tyrant with the courage and sincerity that he had, despite being betrayed, by many of those that were supposed to support him, despite his body, instead, being dismembered the soul of Al Husayn and the heart of an Hussein were intact. And the victory of Al Hussein is like the victory of the people and suited to the Bruges habit of dude, those people that were murdered, for no other reason, but saying La ilaha illAllah. And so victory in the scale of Allah is different from victory in our scale.

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And in that in the story of why we fast and commemorate and thank Allah for the victory of Musa alayhis salam. And what ended up happening later on in history on that very same day, in that is a Hadith of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that imparts a wisdom and A Practical Action upon each and every single one of us.

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Those that love the messenger, it is salatu salam, those that love Mousavi Salaam, the prophet that came before him and those that love the great great the grandson of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and Hussein, where the Prophet sallallahu wasallam said an awful lot of jihad Kadima to help and the salon and that the greatest jihad, the greatest struggle is to speak a word of truth in the face of a tyrants and to fear no one but Allah as you speak that word of truth, and to seek the approval of no one but Allah as you speak that word of truth, to fear not the consequences of the tyrants, nor to be intimidated by the throne of the tyrants,

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to not want to be celebrated by the masses, for speaking to the face of the tyrant, nor to hope that the tyrant will include you in his class because he sees something special inside of you,

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but purely for a lot to stand in the face of a tyrant. And to speak a word of truth, a word of truth is not always a word of confrontation. Sometimes a word of truth is in the capacity of rectifying a tyrant. Sometimes, it is approaching a tyrant in a way that you sway him to where his tyranny stops. And that is one of the benefits from the Hadeeth is that if you are able to stop a tyrant, from committing his tyranny, by speaking a word of truth in his presence and swaying him away from his tyranny, then the effect on society is that that tyranny is uplifted without the bloodshed that usually comes in the process of trying to repel it. And so there's a societal of

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Fact of speaking a word of truth in the face of a tyrant if you are able to actually change the course of that tyrant, sometimes that's the word of truth. And sometimes the word of truth is a word of protest in the face of the tyrants.

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And sometimes that word of truth is a community's word in the face of a tyrants, that they refuse to be intimidated, and refuse to fear anyone but Allah subhanho wa Taala. Now, typically, as is the case, when you study heroes in any context, we disconnect them from ourselves because we cannot picture ourselves as Musashi his salon, with a staff in his hand, and his followers on the run behind him, and the army of the greatest tyrants. And I don't say great in an appreciating way, but great

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in regards to the severity of his tyranny, running behind you with his army and his weapons, who has shown you his ruthlessness over years and years and years and years. We can't really imagine that scene. Now, of course, as fitna unravels, a lot of things that we couldn't imagine before are happening right now. And may Allah protect us and allow us to have stability, and allow us to have firmness in our hearts, no matter what the circumstances around us are, and protect us from ever returning back on our heels in the face of something difficult. I mean, but we can't really imagine that because too disconnected and her saying, oh, the allot of time, as he goes out, and he takes

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that decision, and some of us have of the Prophet sallallahu. It was that I'm not because they question the morality of an action, but because they worried about him.

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They saw an unfavorable outcome. So trying to dissuade him not out of seeing him as taking a wrong path. But out of disagreeing with him on strategy and trying to protect him from that fate. We can't see ourselves in the position of saying, well, the low tide and who are those companions of the Prophet sallallahu wasallam that were so near and dear to him.

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So how do we connect ourselves to these stories? Well, for one, look at the other heroes in these stories, and sometimes they're not as notable, and there are different degrees and the situation of their own. It was not just musante his salon that spoke Kadima to happen in the salon. And john, it wasn't just Moses that said the word of truth. There's a series of events surrounding Musa alayhis salam, each one of them chipping away at their own. And one thing about every tyrant in history is that every tyrant is two things, both the narcissist and a coward.

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They can't take being challenged, they're intoxicated by their power.

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And their power is fully based upon material things and anyone or anything that they deem as a threat to that

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is easily taken out with absolute cruelty and with absolutely no mercy. So for their own is challenged by multiple people

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Asya and all the allow Thailand, her while he has Salaam, that beautiful woman, that woman of great faith, who managed to perfect her faith, though she was married to the worst human being to walk the face of the earth. That means there's absolutely no excuse for you to say that I can't find a man or I can't find faith because, you know, my parents aren't that religious and, you know, it's it's hard out here and you know, we're in the West and the horrible West and the West is so corrupting. And if I lived in the east, the glorious East where the event is called, The night would be good. But here stuff for the love social media, I can't I can't resist the temptation. This woman was married to

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fit in the palace of film, in the comfort of being married to fit own and in the palace of fit our own has everything served to her on a platter and not only manages to come to a place of belief, but the prophets lie some includes her amongst those who perfected her and perfected her belief.

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And she spoke a word of truth in the face of her own. And what happened to her, his own wife. You know, think about this.

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tyrants become hardened over a period of time. The more you kill, the more desensitized you get to killing. His own wife was a loyal wife, a lovely wife, a woman of high character and caliber that was not married and tuned for just a few years for a very, very long time throughout the childhood in life of musante Silla because she dare challenge his tyranny. He takes her to the desert,

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removes her close,

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ties her two ropes, pulling her in different directions, orders his bodyguards that would have previously been guarding her to whip her and lasher and torture her behind.

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Drake's her Spitz at her, curses her and eventually orders that the guards dump a boulder on top of her that would shatter her body into pieces. Before he could do that

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when she looked up to a loss of Hanoi to Ireland she said Robbie been near in the cabinet and Phil gentlemen Allah build for me a home

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a palace with you in paradise.

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And she said with you before she said the home because the main thing she was seeking is the company of Allah subhana wa Tada. And this palace that I leave behind in this world is irrelevant because I seek a Palestinian agenda.

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Allah subhana wa tada took her soul from the body before the boulder actually hit the body. And the prophets lie Selim said that the martyr sees Jenna at the very first strike, when pain is just starting to be inflicted on the martyr Allah already shows them they're placing an agenda. And when you see your place in the agenda, then nothing in this world can hurt you anymore.

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And so she escaped from this world, and her place isn't the highest level of gender. One of the women who perfected her faith, there's another hero that we wouldn't have even known about, had the profit slice. I'm not smelled her perfume, not in this world. When the prophets lie Selim was in the journey of an assault with Mirage

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on the on the night ascension and he asked to breed it his Salaam, what is that incredible smelling sense? in the room here? What do I smell? And it was not the root of ease it wasn't Jesus peace be upon him or Moses musante his salon it was, Oh, this is the hairdresser of the daughter of film. Who? The hairdresser of the daughter of film. Who is she? What's her story? She was combing the hair of the daughter of her own and she dropped the comb and she said Bismillah In the name of Allah can be met to have a word of truth.

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And the daughter Fatone said Allah who my dad, Abby, she said, No, no Allah, the Lord of your dead

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and for their own murdered her for that word of truth. She's a hero. Her place in Paradise is so high that the prophets lie Selim as he's meeting the prophets for the first time traveling through these gardens noticed her sense, an interest interacted with her Kenny much will happen the Sultan is out now that she changed the course of history.

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That as he changed the course of history with their word of truth,

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and were they victorious, that's the point. And there's another man who was actually in the story of Pharaoh. And he wasn't necessarily on the opposite side at least not openly. He was one of the believing family members secretly believing family members of their own and some of the most of them infested means that it was his cousin

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ignore me and one for their own says you know what, I'm just gonna kill moose it is to them and remove this cancer from society. He said, a tuck to Luna Rajan and your columbium are you really just gonna kill a man because he says his Lord is Allah he challenges him

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but he doesn't in the capacity of an advisor. Look, he says his Lord is alone. He brought you some proofs you're not you're not doing yourself any favors. Now he wants to save musante his salon and save this message.

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But he can't tell for their own you tyrants Are you going to kill him and his Lord is Allah He says, will you kill him and he says his Lord is Allah He points to an injustice and the ineffectiveness of the tyranny of their own. In the midst of your craziness, you're actually going to hurt yourself. You know, what usually happens with tyrants is that they get too cute for themselves, and they end up self inflicting harm, because their egos rage so much that they no longer act with any semblance of sense. You're really gonna kill musante Santa, you're gonna ruin it for yourself. Then everyone's gonna say that musante salaam is upon the truth. He's a hero. He's also Kelly metrohealth,

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endosulfan ninja. There's something he was seeking from a lot now thrown as crazy as he is could have looked at him and say, What did you say to me? Did you see what I did to my wife? You think because you're my cousin, I'm going to spare you. But the man did what he thought he could best do to steer clear of his tyranny and challenge him Kelly metal hacker endosulfan and gender for something to relate in these different places when there is tyranny around you. When there is injustice around you, what role can I play for Allah

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that could move this in different way without compromising myself in this situation. All of these are characters and all of these are figures that we look to in the story of Ashura. They did not drown for their own

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In the seas, but they did drown him in his false illusion of power, and they did attain victory and they did attain Jenna they did attain paradise and they found that reward with Allah subhanho wa Taala which is the only thing that matters when you're over there. May Allah subhanaw taala grant that to all of us alone. I mean, same thing, when you look in the story of her saying, well, the allowance

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and the Fitton, the tribulations that broke out, at that time, confusing time,

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where you have armies that are fighting against each other. And they're both saying La ilaha illa Allah, you have the holidays that are killing both of them because they don't believe that they're not Allah. Allah is valid on either side, murdering companions, murdering the women, the children, the elderly, doing things that were so against the spirits, and the law of this religion all in the name of Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, just a few years removed from the Prophet sallallahu wasallam what a time to live in.

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And there's this narrative that some people will float they'll say, Well, you know,

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the saying of the law of Thailand Oh, and I'm the Latin is available, the Allahu anhu. They were the revolutionaries. But most of the Sahaba said, Let's not cause fitna most of the companions were quiet.

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Most of the Sahaba were quiet because they didn't want to upset the system. Hey, you know what the event is being called and hamdulillah we're praying. It's okay. If there's every every single thing, elements from the nations that were destroyed before present in our nation right now, being forgiven and overlooked because we don't want to cause fitness. So we can't say anything. And this is what this is what Sunni Islam is, right? This is this is Addison Noah jamara. This is our history is one of political quietism. No, it's not.

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No, it's not.

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There's not a single one of the Sahaba that was ambiguous or morally unclear in regards to the the clear volume, the clear oppression that was taking place, how they chose to act upon it deferred, but none of them were ambiguous. Last week, the Imam spoke about Abdullah Abdullah bin Massoud. Well, the law of Thailand who was the only one who passed away the time of phenomenal the allowance and we passed away before these things happen. But you had been a bass while the Allahumma Amaro de la una,

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you had a lot more honorable Ah, so the Allahumma you had the loudness available the law 100, you had these schools, these giants, these mountains from the dean.

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And each one of them dealt with the trials and tribulation in a very different way.

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None of them, however, could be confused for being mouthpieces for the volume of their time, for the oppressor of their time, not a single one of them, had an unclear position as to where they stood on the tyranny that was taking place in front of them.

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Now, beloved, is available the law and who rose up and he established that he latha

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he fought, and he was murdered and massacred.

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And some will say, Well, I'm the love No, I'm not on the line Who said I want no part of that. He's not challenging the tyranny of the time because he didn't want to cause fitna right.

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But there's not a single person in Mecca or Medina that didn't know where I'm the love No model the law on whom I stood on the tyranny of a judge, not a single person thought for a moment you think he's okay with this? Not a single person would walk up to him and allow him and say, will you condemn the tyranny of a judge how we just massacred companions of the Prophet sallallahu wasallam and a symptomatic

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and that great tab very sorry demeanor debate, massacring people ruthlessly. You have no oma, you have anything to say about this, uh, stuff that I just read, hold on. That's not what he did.

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And Subhana Allah in the perfection of Allah's wisdom, each one of these people by the way, actually challenged the tyrant in a different way. The fact that even Omar did not take up arms against them head judge, though he clearly condemned him called him a tyrant actually drove head judge out of his mind

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it actually drove him crazy

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I'm the loving disobeyed was easy. He picked up a sword, we pick up a sword, we're ruthless. We have no ethics whatsoever will bomb the Canada we have to

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take this great companion of the Prophet sly Sutton and make an example out of him. I beloved all metal de la palma who is often scapegoated by people who become mouthpieces for tyrants, and says Well, he was different from witnesses obeyed. You know, whatever the law would do. He would call a judge in his face and in front of the public. I do a lot the enemy of God

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a judge

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I

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was giving a speech. He was a tyrant of his time.

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He was giving a speech after murdering and Miscavige

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and Omar Abdullah and Omar condemned that spoke about it and as he was giving a speech of the love No matter what the allotted time on who calls out to him in front of people this is an homage time the head right after he does that. He says yeah, I do a lot of debates a lot Oh enemy of Allah, you have ruined the house of Allah learn redo and the smack we don't want to hear anything that you have to say. So hurry up and wrap it up.

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That's our beloved Norma supposedly ambiguous on his political moral clarity now I'm the love No Omar did not think it was wise for people to fight. The way that even is obeyed, was fighting and in those moments against the head judge because he would just wipe them out the way that he wiped out those that came before them.

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But it drove had judge insane

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had judge complaints to the medic even Marwan he said, shaken pathetic, this crazy old man he was at was 86 years old at the time. 86 years old. He's not a young man anymore. He said this 86 year old man is driving me insane. I want to take them out on American warrants that don't you dare and he said and by the way, and hedge people will respect him. They won't respect you. Don't mess with that. Head judge comes and he's technically in charge of hedge but guess what the people's hearts all went to bin Omar so people kept surrounding our beloved Norma asking him questions about the fifth of Hajj following his lead, even though he's not the head of state. But that was the position

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he commanded amongst his people. And that drove a judge out of his mind.

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Because he's a tyrant. And a tyrant is a has a huge ego. He's a narcissist.

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So I've had judge orders for someone to poison an arrow and to poke the foot about the love normal Well, the Allahumma so that he would die in a way, similar to the way that 20 something year olds have heart attacks. And each of these days, he would die in a way that people would be able to say maybe he just got sick.

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Maybe something happened that we don't understand. And so I believe no, I'm not in hajj. And by the way,

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then we'll say you have says that Abdullah and Omar made that had

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to die a death of Shahada to die as a martyr law about he'd seen all of his companions massacred in these ways. He saw it Hussein will be a lot of time. And he grabbed Hussein before that, and he said to him, You are more beloved to me than myself. And Hussein was murdered and Miss obeyed, was murdered. He's losing people around him. And he asked a lot and hedge that year that alone would grant him a death of a Shaheed the death of a martyr, like his father and his companions and others around him.

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And he was poked by that arrow by that spear, and he's poison. And as he was in his bed, a judge came to visit him, seemingly concerned about him.

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And he said to him,

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how are you? He says that I'm here to check on check on you. And he says, what law whoever killed you, I'm going to kill him.

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No, I'm going to look at him and says, I doubt that because it was you.

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But he tried to posture like, I can't believe someone did this to you. And I swear that I will avenge this and no way this can't happen at six year old man, the beloved one of the prophets lie some of them. The the living sin of the prophets lie some of them. He said, I doubt it, because you are the one that killed me. And so I doubt that you're going to kill yourself.

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of the love No model the a lot of time, died the death of a martyr in hajj, in fact, because it was still in the days of Mina that he actually passed away.

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And he said on his deathbed that I only regret three things. He said, The only thing I'm going to miss from this dunya

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are the long days of fasting and getting thirsty in the afternoons. Those days of swam when you're fasting, and you're getting thirsty during the day for the sake of Allah subhanho wa Taala. Those long nights have to hedges when your feet start to hurt as you stand up in front of Allah. And he said, Well, anytime that I did not fight against that oppressive army, he actually regretted it. He wished he would have done more. But you could argue looking back that would Abdullah no model the alongside and who did was as effective and that all of these different companions played a different role in the story of maintaining a sense of moral clarity in that society. Kelly met to have kinda

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sovann and Jada was something that they all did a word of truth in the face of a tyrant. No one was an exception to that rule. And so in this situation, what is the reward of getting met to help endosulfan and what is the reward of speaking a word of truth in the face of a tyrant number one, sometimes it can be the worst thing that you could do because the Prophet sallallahu wasallam mentioned

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One of the first three to be thrown into Hellfire is a man who thought that he was a martyr or who people thought was a Shaheed.

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But All he wanted was to be lauded as one who was courageous. And a lot tells him you got that the people said, you were courageous. You wanted that to be said and it was sad, but there was no Allah and this equation,

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speaking the word of truth in front of a tyrants is when there is full trust in Allah subhanho wa Taala as you do so seeking no one's approval except for the approval of Allah subhana wa tada having no fear of the person in front of you, because they are not Allah subhanho wa Taala, who in fact, is the one who is bestowed with infinite power

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that Kelly meant to have in the salon and john, and a person that builds himself up to that point, to be able to say something like that in the face of a tyrant, you know why he's good at doing that. And you know why he can do that, because that person has been looking at the tyrant in the mirror for their entire lives and doing jihad against that tyrants, that tyrant is yourself, for the sake of Allah subhana wa Tada, that's the most difficult person to look at the one in the mirror, jihad, the neffs, and to strive against yourself for the sake of Allah, not because other people notice things about you, but because you notice things about yourself, and to work to fight all of those

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things inside of you to remove those impurities for the sake of Allah subhanaw taala. And so you've already challenged the tyrant before, and that tyrant was far greater than the one that you're challenging right now.

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from the same place the same motivation,

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speaking, doing to please Allah subhanaw taala, and not fearing the consequences, the brothers and sisters.

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Throughout history, we have seen this conundrum of tyrants that tried to legitimize their tyranny. Some of them,

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especially in the Muslim, in our Muslim history, try to appropriate scholars to do so. And almost all of them have been successful at appropriating a scholarly class to be able to do so. And one of the beautiful things about about the four emails is that all four of them resisted to become mouthpieces for the tyrants of their time. None of them were necessarily combative, or confrontational, but they all refuse to say what their tyrants wanted them to say. They all refuse to take positions that would have compromised their position.

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For the sake of a loss of Hannah Montana, remember, honey, rahimullah refused to be a judge, but he'd still give the ruler advice in America himolla refused the same thing. But they said to my medical Kamala, I said, Look, we'll hang them up but in the cabinet, he said, No, no, you don't need to do me any favors. I don't want anything from you. I want to be able to do my thing. Teach the religion and this is what will happen to him Allah we know what happened to him, he mama shofar, you know him Allah was spared from the majority of it because he lived in Egypt at that time when things were really heating up in Iraq. So he was spared from the majority of it. The point is, is that

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people know, tyrants know that the worst type of languaging that they can use is religious languaging. to quiet down that voice of hat because if you can make it happen to be silent in the face of botlane. And you can guilt people by telling them that this is actually what the Quran and Sunnah tell what tell you what to do, then all sorts of crimes can happen because there is no cover, like the cover of a last word. And if you're giving that type of legitimacy and cover, then that is a powerful form. Now there are scholars dear brothers and sisters who are silent throughout, they're not sometimes silent, sometimes not silence. They teach Tafseer they teach Hadeeth as if nothing

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else is going on in the world never for or against, they do their thing they refuse to become mouthpieces and legitimize your maturity, they just shunned the entire thing, good for them. That's not sinful. The problem is when your silence is selective.

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When you reserve strong words against people of Huk people of truth, and you only use silence with people of ballclub with people of tyranny. And in this day and age, every single one of the brutal regimes that exists in the Muslim world employs a scholarly voice or a scholarly class to legitimize their crimes. And it is so threatening to even make dua for unity.

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Checks a man who does in prison in Saudi Arabia because he may do that Allah unites the Muslims.

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That's why he's locked up and on death row, because he may do out for Islam, he may do out for the unity of hearts. And there are scholars upon scholars loading prisons in the Muslim world, not because they say anything that's controversial, but because they refuse to sing the praises and no shields.

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For dictators and tyrants that violate systematically the word of the loss of hundreds out and the rights of the people.

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It's a horrific situation we asked a lot to protect us and to protect our children in this way. So here's what I want to come to In conclusion, what is the station? What is the reward of a person?

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When they speak these words of truth in the face of tyrants, whether they're in their locality or overseas,

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wherever they are, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, say you the Shahada Hamza. The chief, the master of all Shahada, the master of the martyrs is allowed to add on what our children common in our environment. For ammo, when Uh huh. For katella.

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prophets lie Selim said Hamza, and a person who stands up in the face of a tyrant

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and commends him and forbids him rectifies him and the tyrant kills him as he does. hemsedal The Allahu anhu was the first one to take the prophets lie Selim to go in the face of Abuja and to give him a taste of his own medicine and speak up for the deen. Now, having said all the 11 who made a very significant impact on the course of Islamic history, but the Prophet slicin um, said that he who embodies the courage of Hamza will have the station of Hamza while the Allahu taala. And on the Day of Judgment, we asked Allah subhanaw taala to grant that to all of us. I mean, all we can do dear brothers and sisters beyond our dress,

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is to continue to use what Allah subhana wa tada gave to us when we speak about the tyranny that exists all around the world. But the point is that no tyrant should ever feel comfortable in their tyranny, whether they are from amongst the Muslims, or whether they are clear in their enmity towards the Muslims. At no point should a tyrant stop feeling pressure.

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And on that note, on September 22, the butcher of Gujarat, a man who is delighting in the fascism around the world today, with an enabler here in the United States, a partner in Benjamin Netanyahu, name Modi is coming to Houston to a sold out crowd of 50,000 people that are going to welcome him.

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We're going to be sending buses from around the country one here from Valley Ranch Islamic Center in sha Allah Tada. And I hope that we have over 50,000 people outside of that arena as well to let him know that he is not welcome.

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And to make him a little bit more uncomfortable, and to raise our voices for our brothers and sisters in Kashmir in whatever way that we possibly can. Whatever way that we possibly can. This does not absolve you of that. And you better check your intentions. If you're being loud for for something that is true also, to make sure that that is sincere and it is for truth. Also, I want to end on this note when I was in Houston for the Islamic convention. Some of you were there. Bernie Sanders spoke at the St. ISNA convention, and hit on pretty much every Muslim cause in the world, talked about Kashmir, talked about Yemen, talked about Philistines talk to and though he fell short

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on Philistine, as he usually does talked about the Oilers talks about all these different things. And I sat there with great joy and then great sadness. And I thought, How sad is it

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that Bernie Sanders could speak up for the Oilers, but 22 Muslim countries signed a letter to the United Nations

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approving of China's concentration camps for 3 million Muslims. And I don't need to start listing those countries A day after 37 non Muslim countries. And I use non Muslim and Muslim here loosely sent a letter to the United Nations calling for sanctions on China for their treatment of oil for Muslims, that that same night, and I'm going to be very blunt here because we know that there are certain governments that are so open, and their enmity towards the Muslims from amongst the Muslim world that will celebrate Modi and give him medals and parade him around. And some people say, Well, we got this set of governments, we got this set of governments, yes, not all of them are like, you

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got some that are horrific, and they're tyranny towards the Muslims. And you've got some that do a little bit better, but they're not angels. Because that same night, a Muslim leader was projected on the screen that Islam and celebrated a same Muslim leader who penned an op ed for Kashmir, but who also abandoned his brothers and sisters from the Oilers don't give a pass to that garbage don't make this a pakistan india issue. By the way.

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There are no issues there are no leaders here that are completely clean in this situation. Be principled in your critique, be principled and standing up for your brothers and sisters wherever they are. And for whatever reason, ask Allah subhanho wa Taala to use us for that which is good to forgive us for our shortcomings to use us for our brothers and sisters all around the world and remain make that all for his sake. I pray that Allah

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How to liberate our brothers and sisters in Kashmir and Philistine and from the Oilers and from the Rohingya and wherever they may be. I mean, all the other stuff local documentaries on Muslim infrastructure Mahalo for watching