Omar Suleiman – Taraweeh Khatira – The Dream Of Ibn Abbas (Ra) On Laylatul Qadr

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The upcoming night of the 23rd of the year is a victory for the prophet sall associates and a need for people to show their shuhada. Multiple narrations highlight the same message, including a man reciting a dream and a woman reciting a dream. The possibility of a dream for the average person is discussed, but it is unclear if it is possible. forgiveness and mercy are emphasized, and guidance on showing mercy to their brothers and sisters is requested.

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			Before I talk about
		
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			the night of 23rd,
		
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			I think that many of us have been
		
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			following the images that have been coming out
		
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			of Gaza, particularly today from the Ashifa hospital.
		
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			And I want to remind you all
		
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			that on this day, on the 23rd day
		
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			of Ramadan,
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala granted the prophet sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam fatha Makkah. The victory of
		
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			Makkah. The opening of Makkah. That was the
		
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			23rd day of Ramadan.
		
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			We ask Allah
		
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			that as he gave the prophet sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam victory on the 23rd of Ramadan,
		
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			that he give our brothers and sisters in
		
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			Gaza victory. I ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			that he continue to keep their feet firm,
		
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			that he accept their shuhada, that he heal
		
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			their wounded, and that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			show us a sign in
		
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			the defeat and the humiliation of the oppressors.
		
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			Allahumma ameen.
		
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			Dear brothers and sisters, when we look at
		
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			the narrations
		
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			about the last 10 nights,
		
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			emphasis
		
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			within the literature of narrations of the last
		
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			10 than the 23rd night of Ramadan. And
		
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			I want to talk about that for a
		
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			moment with the night time because it is
		
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			beautiful, and it is powerful,
		
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			and it is significant.
		
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			And I'll start with a narration from Abdullah
		
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			ibn Abbas radiAllahu ta'ala Anhuma, a Muslim Ahmed.
		
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			Where Ibn Abbas radiAllahu anhuma describes himself in
		
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			the Masjid of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam.
		
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			And he says that, he was overcome by
		
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			sleep. So he dozed off. So if you
		
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			get tired and you find yourself dozing off
		
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			in these last 10 nights,
		
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			don't feel too bad. That's actually part of
		
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			your That's part of your struggle with Allah
		
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			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala that you're trying to fight
		
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			through and worship Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. So
		
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			he said that, I dozed off
		
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			in the masjid of the Prophet
		
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			and then in my dream,
		
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			someone came to me and told me,
		
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			Tonight is
		
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			So he said, I woke up.
		
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			And he said, I went to
		
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			So the edge of the tent of the
		
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			prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam because the prophet sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wasallam had pitched the tent for himself
		
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			in the masjid where he would do his
		
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			And I found the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
		
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			in salah. So I went quickly and I
		
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			exerted myself in salah. And he said, radiAllahu
		
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			ta'ala Anhuma, that that was the 23rd
		
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			night of Ramadan.
		
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			Now I'm gonna get back to that narration
		
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			inshaAllah in a bit.
		
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			There's another narration from Arab Abu Talib radiAllahu
		
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			ta'ala Anhu
		
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			indicating
		
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			on another year that the prophet was walking
		
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			with him, and the prophet mentioned the appearance
		
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			of the moon
		
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			being like a plate.
		
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			And he said, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, that
		
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			that is a sign of laylatul Qadr. And
		
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			Ali, radiAllahu, said that that came on the
		
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			night of 21rd.
		
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			As he stood up and he gave everyone
		
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			the admonition
		
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			to
		
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			keep themselves dedicated and devoted throughout these last
		
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			10 nights.
		
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			He said
		
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			that he has seen a dream,
		
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			that on that year of laylatul Qadr that
		
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			he was prostrating in the mud.
		
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			He was making sujood, and there was mud,
		
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			meaning there was
		
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			rain. And he made sajdah, and there was
		
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			mud on his face
		
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			And that year, when the 23rd night came,
		
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			there wasn't a single cloud in the sky.
		
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			And then suddenly, a cloud appeared over the
		
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			masjid, and it started to rain on them.
		
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			And the Sahaba
		
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			remembered the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam face covered
		
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			in mud just as he said, SallAllahu Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam. While they too made their sujoods in
		
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			the mud with the Prophet
		
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			And that was the 23rd night.
		
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			So you won't find a night
		
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			in the literature about when the last 10
		
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			nights is.
		
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			After 27th,
		
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			that's more emphasized than the 23rd. So you'll
		
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			find it being attributed to Abu Sa'id al
		
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			Khudri.
		
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			Ibn Abbas saying the 23rd or 27th
		
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			to Aisha radiAllahu anha multiple companions. And in
		
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			fact, that's one of the strongest indications
		
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			that Lainat Qadr does, in fact, change every
		
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			year.
		
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			Because if you were to take the narrations
		
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			about the 27th night, you would say, it
		
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			has to be the 27th night. And then
		
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			if you were to take these narrations about
		
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			the 23rd night where we have a definitive
		
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			narration that laylatul Qadr did indeed happen on
		
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			the 23rd night, you would say, it has
		
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			to be the 23rd night. And so in
		
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			that is one of the most definitive proofs,
		
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			in fact, that they offset each other. As
		
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			many of the scholars say, that it does
		
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			change from year to year.
		
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			And you don't know the odds from the
		
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			evens
		
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			and exert yourself.
		
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			But here we are in the 23rd night
		
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			asking
		
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			Allah
		
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			Oh, Allah, allow us to catch
		
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			And exerting ourselves on this night
		
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			And I start with this, and those of
		
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			you that will watch this after the 23rd
		
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			night or you're in a different part of
		
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			the world, don't worry. You still got more
		
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			nights ahead of you. Those of you that
		
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			are still here, push yourself tonight because it
		
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			was on the 23rd night in the time
		
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			of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. And
		
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			the narrations, in fact, indicate multiple times on
		
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			the 23rd night in the life of the
		
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			messenger
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			I wanted to just talk about
		
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			the Ibn Abbas story though for a little
		
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			bit.
		
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			May Allah be pleased with him and his
		
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			father.
		
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			And that is that he had a dream.
		
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			So
		
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			is there something to where if you have
		
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			a premonition or you have a dream or
		
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			you have an inclination that tonight must be
		
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			the night, is there some truth to that?
		
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			Could you find yourself falling asleep
		
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			and then shayi as it appears in your
		
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			dream
		
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			to tell you that it's tonight?
		
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			Could it happen? Maybe I'll live here in
		
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			your dream too. I hope for good reasons.
		
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			Could it happen, though, that you have a
		
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			dream and that there is a voice or
		
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			you see something or you have such a
		
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			strong feeling that tonight is laylatul Qadr, is
		
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			that possible to the average person?
		
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			Ibn Abbas is not a prophet, by the
		
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			way. Right? A great companion.
		
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			None of us are on his level. He's
		
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			Haberul Ummah. He's a scholar of the Ummah.
		
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			But could it happen to the average person?
		
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			Yeah. Sure. There could be an inclination. There
		
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			could be a premonition. There could be a
		
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			feeling
		
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			that tonight was a very special night.
		
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			Now here's the thing,
		
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			and this is something that's very important and
		
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			it coincides with what we've been covering in
		
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			a dawah dua.
		
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			You are up at night saying, allahumma innaqahuwuntohiblaafafafafuhani.
		
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			Multiple times, every one of these last 10
		
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			nights inshallah.
		
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			Oh, Allah, you love to forgive. You are
		
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			the forgiver you love to forgive, so forgive
		
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			me.
		
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			You're pushing yourself the way that you don't
		
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			push yourself any other time of the year.
		
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			Could the night that you are written down
		
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			from,
		
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			from those that are freed from the fire,
		
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			be different from the night of Laylatul Qadr?
		
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			Yes.
		
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			Every one of these precious nights of Ramadan,
		
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			Allah
		
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			has
		
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			a list that comes out
		
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			of for the evening.
		
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			Those who have freed their necks from the
		
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			fire, may
		
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			Allah make us all amongst the utaka.
		
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			Every night,
		
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			there are those that are forgiven and redeemed.
		
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			It could be that the night of your
		
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			redemption
		
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			is not the night of Laylatul Qadr only,
		
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			That that could happen to you on another
		
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			night of Laylatul Qadr.
		
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			And so I say that to say that
		
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			let's say that it lines up with the
		
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			23rd or 25th or 27th, and subhanallah, you
		
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			go all out and you feel incredible,
		
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			and you even see signs of your forgiveness
		
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			somehow. And you wake up and you look
		
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			at the sun, and the sun has no
		
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			rays, and you feel like the night was
		
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			as peaceful and as beautiful
		
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			as ever,
		
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			doesn't mean it was.
		
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			Doesn't necessarily mean it was.
		
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			And even if there was still, of course,
		
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			a 5% chance, you push yourself
		
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			to the next nights, the next nights, the
		
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			next nights. You see, there is nothing actually,
		
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			and this is actually one of the greatest
		
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			things from the sunnah of the prophet sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam. I know some of this
		
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			is repetitive, but
		
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			it's
		
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			a reminder.
		
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			You never find that the prophet salallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam said, alright. We caught it this
		
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			year, so let's wrap it up.
		
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			If it happened multiple times on the 23rd
		
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			night, so what are we still looking for
		
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			for the last 7 nights?
		
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			If they already knew it happened,
		
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			he still stayed in Eretzikah, sallallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam.
		
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			He still worshiped Allah
		
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			as diligently.
		
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			So even if you knew a 100%,
		
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			and we will not know a 100%,
		
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			even if Sheikh Yasir comes in your dream.
		
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			Alright? You might just feel it. He might
		
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			just be waking you up in the masjid
		
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			and saying, get up. You gotta get up
		
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			and pray now.
		
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			Alright? But no matter what, even if you
		
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			are a 100% sure you saw a dream
		
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			and an angel came to you and said,
		
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			this is Laylatul Qadr,
		
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			even then you don't wrap it up.
		
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			What blessed nights we have.
		
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			And you know, subhanAllah, we often look at
		
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			it and we say, you know, Allah is
		
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			so merciful
		
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			that he only gave us 10 nights to
		
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			aim for.
		
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			Right? Like, you know that if you're going
		
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			hard in all 10 of these nights, you
		
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			will catch the atulqadr.
		
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			But you know what else?
		
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			If Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala gave us the
		
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			exact night every single year,
		
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			and this is the night,
		
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			The other 9 nights of ibadah and worship
		
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			and forgiveness and mercy that descend upon us
		
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			would not be given to us. So you
		
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			know what? The other 9 nights are also
		
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			a gift from Allah
		
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			We thank Allah
		
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			for the month of Ramadan. We thank Allah
		
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			'Azza wa Jal and we praise him for
		
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			all of these nights. We ask Allah
		
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			to allow us to be amongst those that
		
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			are forgiven, and we ask Allah
		
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			to allow us to be amongst those that
		
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			catch laylatul qadr. And we ask
		
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			Allah
		
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			to guide us to the ways that are
		
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			pleasing to him throughout the year and we
		
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			ask Allah
		
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			to grant victory to our brothers and sisters
		
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			in Gaza. We ask Allah
		
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			just as we seek miracles in our lives
		
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			that he show us a miracle in regards
		
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			to our brothers and sisters in Gaza. We
		
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			ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			that he empower all of the Mustadafi'in
		
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			wherever they are, the oppressed ones wherever they
		
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			are in this month of victory that Allah
		
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			grant victory to our Ummah, Allahumma Ameen.