Omar Suleiman – Thank God WeRe Not Them

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The United States is experiencing a rise of evil towards the people and the need for moral clarity. The importance of finding moral clarity and channeling generosity is emphasized, along with the physical characteristics of Islam and its influence on people's experiences. The speaker discusses the importance of avoiding bribery and being a source of generosity while connecting it to the ultimate source of generosity. The physical characteristics of the culture include the importance of being at odds with society and the practical step of being at odds with society.

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			Dear brothers and sisters,
		
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			the Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam says to
		
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			us
		
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			that
		
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			of the babies
		
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			that spoke from the cradle
		
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			and SubhanAllah, we know the famous stories
		
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			of Isa alaihis salam, Jesus peace be upon
		
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			him speaking from the cradle and then there's
		
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			another famous story of Jurayj
		
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			whose
		
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			whose child or the child that was alleged
		
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			to be his spoke from the cradle.
		
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			The prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam says in
		
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			an authentic hadith in Bukhari that there was
		
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			once a woman from Bani Israel
		
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			and she was nursing her child.
		
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			And as she was nursing her child,
		
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			this handsome rider
		
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			came by
		
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			and he was a man who carried himself
		
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			with strength, power,
		
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			who had the looks and the feel
		
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			of everything that you would want from your
		
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			own child.
		
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			And as she's nursing her child and as
		
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			this rider passes by,
		
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			she says,
		
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			Oh Allah, make my son like this rider.
		
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			And the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam said
		
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			that of the miracles of Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala, Allah caused that baby that was nursing
		
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			from his mother, from Bani Israel
		
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			to leave the chest of his mother and
		
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			to say, Allahumala Taja Alimiflah.
		
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			O Allah, don't make me like him. O
		
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			Allah,
		
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			don't make me like him.
		
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			And then he went back to nursing the
		
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			prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said.
		
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			Then a woman came by and she was
		
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			a slave girl in that society.
		
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			Oppressed,
		
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			beaten down,
		
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			has no place in her society.
		
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			And the woman said having just witnessed that
		
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			miracle with her child,
		
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			Oh Allah, don't make my son like her.
		
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			And the prophet sallallahu anaihi wa sallam said
		
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			that the baby left
		
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			the chest of his mother
		
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			and said, Allah.
		
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			Oh Allah, make me like her.
		
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			At this point, the mother says,
		
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			why?
		
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			Why is it that you would say such
		
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			a thing? Why would this child speak to
		
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			say, oh Allah, don't make me like that
		
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			powerful
		
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			handsome writer
		
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			and oh Allah, make me like that oppressed
		
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			slave girl.
		
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			And so the child spoke and the child
		
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			said,
		
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			as for Arraqib,
		
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			as for that rider,
		
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			then he is Jabarmin
		
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			al Jababirah.
		
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			He's a tyrant from the tyrants.
		
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			He's an arrogant man. He's a tyrant.
		
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			And as for that woman,
		
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			she is an oppressed woman.
		
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			They say,
		
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			They say to her all sorts of accusations.
		
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			You stole. You committed adultery and she's innocent
		
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			of their claims. Think about this. Oh
		
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			Allah, don't make me like him. Oh Allah,
		
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			make me like her. From the outside, it
		
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			looks like this is the place that you
		
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			wanna have in society.
		
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			But we are not a people who seek
		
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			power on this earth. We're a people who
		
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			seek the praise of the most powerful on
		
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			this earth, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			And I want you just to remember that
		
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			dua, Allahumala
		
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			tajani miflahu. O Allah,
		
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			don't make me like Him.
		
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			Because sometimes
		
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			you don't just need good examples,
		
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			you also need bad examples. And that's why
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gives us both in
		
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			the Quran. You don't just need heroes, you
		
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			actually need to see villains so that while
		
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			you're aspiring to become a hero yourself, you
		
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			don't become a villain unknowingly or slowly
		
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			by adopting the characteristics
		
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			of those evil nations or those people. You
		
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			need to know about Musa alaihis salaam but
		
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			you also need to know about Firaoun.
		
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			You need to know about Jibreel alaihis salaam
		
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			but you also need to know about Iblis.
		
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			You need to know about
		
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			the righteous that came before you. You need
		
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			to know about Abu Bakr radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu.
		
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			You also need to know about Abu Jahl.
		
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			Why? Because you don't know if you will
		
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			slowly
		
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			embed within your own personality
		
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			those characteristics
		
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			and those attributes and become like that.
		
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			As I was speaking to my own children,
		
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			subhanAllah, this week in particular,
		
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			it's a nauseating political process every 4 years
		
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			in the United States.
		
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			You see the moral bankruptcy
		
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			of both parties, you see the hypocrisy of
		
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			both parties, and you sit there and you
		
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			wonder and you watch them celebrate, and you
		
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			watch them in their joy, and you think
		
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			to yourself,
		
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			wow,
		
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			that's what a party of shaitan looks like.
		
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			I'm, like, completely disgusted. And now, in particular,
		
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			when you have a genocide playing out on
		
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			your screen, some of you might have seen
		
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			where they put the images of what's happening
		
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			in show the
		
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			contrast of
		
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			these images,
		
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			the dancing and the joy and the death
		
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			and destruction caused to those people by those
		
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			that are in dancing and in joy, and
		
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			then you see the commentary, and then you
		
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			log on online, and you see colleagues at
		
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			work, people that you thought were decent human
		
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			beings, and they're celebrating this,
		
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			and they're going along with the flow,
		
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			and there has probably never been a point
		
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			in society
		
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			or in our time where you can see
		
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			evil and righteousness
		
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			so obviously contrast against one another.
		
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			Is there anything more evil
		
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			than what you are seeing of the perpetrators
		
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			from those soldiers or beyond, and anything more
		
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			righteous than what you're seeing in Gaza? It's
		
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			never been so obvious and so blatant,
		
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			the contrast, right, of what evil and righteousness
		
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			looks like, of what wickedness and righteousness looks
		
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			like.
		
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			And SubhanAllah, as we're watching this nauseating
		
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			process play out in the last few days,
		
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			I'm talking to my own children and I'm
		
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			realizing that they're realizing something that Alhamdulillah, we're
		
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			not them.
		
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			Alhamdulillah, we're not those people.
		
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			Alhamdulillah,
		
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			Allah spared us of that hypocrisy. Alhamdulillah,
		
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			in a moment where
		
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			such a contrast is so blatant and obvious,
		
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			we
		
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			understand
		
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			what side we're supposed to be on and
		
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			we get it. Alhamdulillah,
		
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			Allah spared us from being a part of
		
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			that tyranny knowingly and of course there are
		
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			many other ways that unfortunately
		
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			we do participate. But alhamdulillah,
		
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			we have clarity because sometimes in order to
		
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			find moral clarity, you have to see such
		
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			a blatant display of moral hypocrisy. Alhamdulillah
		
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			Allahumma latajalna
		
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			miflahum. O Allah, don't make us like them.
		
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			But there's a point here that I wanna
		
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			get to.
		
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			Going back to that hadith.
		
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			That the ugliest characteristic
		
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			that can be found in a human being
		
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			is to be
		
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			is to be that particular type of a
		
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			tyrant on this earth. And I wanna sit
		
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			with this because, subhanAllah, there is something, you
		
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			know, throughout the Quran
		
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			that you find about this word.
		
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			There are names of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			that denote
		
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			a particular
		
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			Of course, all of His names and attributes
		
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			belong only to Him,
		
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			and nothing is like Him subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			But they have a quality from those names
		
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			and attributes
		
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			that human beings can channel in the most
		
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			beautiful of ways. Of course, the most obvious
		
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			being Ar Rahman,
		
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			the Most Merciful who sent to us, a
		
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			mercy to the world.
		
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			Be merciful to those that are on earth.
		
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			The one in the heavens will be merciful
		
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			to you. Al kareem, the generous one. You
		
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			want to channel generosity
		
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			and be a source of generosity
		
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			while connecting it to the ultimate source of
		
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			generosity.
		
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			And our generosity is not like his generosity.
		
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			Al haqq Al Adil, the truthful one. The
		
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			the truth, justice. Allah is the just. You
		
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			want to be a source of those things
		
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			in this earth
		
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			while connecting it back to the ultimate source.
		
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			And the way we manifest it is nothing
		
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			like what is denoted by the names and
		
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			attributes of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. He is
		
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			alone in that Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. But then
		
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			there are names
		
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			that only belong to him
		
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			and the manifestation
		
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			when it takes on a human form becomes
		
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			the exact opposite of that.
		
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			Jabal
		
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			is the name I want you to sit
		
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			with. Jabbar as it applies to a human
		
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			being. As imam al Baghawi rahiimullah
		
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			says, the easiest definition of Jabbar when it
		
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			comes to a human being
		
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			is,
		
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			The person
		
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			who does not see that there are rights
		
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			that are due upon him to others.
		
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			No one has rights upon that person. So
		
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			the more power that person accumulates,
		
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			the more that they are enslaved to that
		
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			power, and the more that they use that
		
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			power to channel their own goals and aims
		
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			on this earth, and they do not see
		
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			anyone falling within the domain of their power
		
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			as having any rights upon them. They have
		
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			complete disregard for those rights. Meaning, the more
		
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			powerful they become,
		
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			the more they disregard
		
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			those that come under their authority.
		
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			The more power they have, the more they
		
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			break.
		
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			As for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
		
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			it has an entirely different meaning. Allah is
		
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			the most powerful, Allah is the compeller. But
		
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			you know what? Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala with
		
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			that power mends.
		
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			He restores and that's one of the implications
		
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			of Al Jabbar.
		
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			That when you turn to him, he puts
		
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			you back together.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has power over all
		
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			things and he mends with that power.
		
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			Human beings on the other hand,
		
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			tend to
		
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			absorb
		
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			what Allah gives them of the illusion of
		
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			power.
		
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			And then, use it to wrong and use
		
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			it to oppress
		
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			and you need to see that sometimes to
		
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			say, oh Allah, don't ever make me like
		
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			that in any way whatsoever.
		
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			What is the proof of it with this
		
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			particular
		
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			name? Sit with it for a moment.
		
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			This woman that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam was talking about
		
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			was a woman from Bani Israel.
		
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			And we know as Ibn Al Qayyim Rahim
		
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			Allah says, the most wicked generation of Bani
		
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			Israel
		
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			was the last part of it where Allah
		
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			ahsawajal sent Yahya and Aissa. May Allah Subhanahu
		
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			Wa Ta'ala send His peace and blessings upon
		
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			them all. Zakariya,
		
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			Jesus, John, these noble prophets that Allah
		
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			sends towards the end of Bani Israel.
		
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			And as these prophets
		
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			speak about the traits that they have
		
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			or Allah speaks about their traits, Allah Azarajal
		
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			gives us a long list of what they
		
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			actually represent.
		
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			And so, Yahya alaihis salam. When Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala
		
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			describes that he has sent Yahya alaihis salam.
		
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			Walam yakunjabayun
		
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			asliya. That
		
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			Allah
		
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			has given him all of these beautiful traits.
		
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			Hannahamin ladunna wazakat and wakana taqiyyah.
		
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			A person with special compassion.
		
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			A person with special mercy.
		
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			A person who was especially God fearing and
		
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			pious.
		
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			A person of authority and wisdom and judgment,
		
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			but he is not
		
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			Jabal.
		
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			You know what he's not? He's not a
		
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			tyrant
		
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			and he is not one who is disobedient.
		
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			Something very powerful here by the way. Barlan
		
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			biwalidayhi.
		
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			He is dutiful to his parents
		
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			and he is not a tyrant and he
		
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			is not disobedient.
		
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			A few ayat after Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			talks about, Isa alaihi salam, Jesus peace be
		
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			upon him. Who speaks from the crib like
		
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			that baby from Bani Israel
		
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			miraculously
		
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			and introduces
		
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			himself
		
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			to society.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has made me dutiful
		
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			to my mother and He has not made
		
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			me a tyrant who is unblessed.
		
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			Mal Qayyim Rahim Allah says, notice by the
		
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			way, this phases
		
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			out from the same
		
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			stream which is, has not made me
		
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			one who is disobedient to my parents or
		
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			one who is not dutiful to my parents.
		
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			Allah made us dutiful to our parents. And
		
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			he says that
		
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			the most obvious feature of the moral decay
		
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			of society is how the parents are treated.
		
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			SubhanAllah. And if you read about Bani Israel
		
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			at that time, the way that they started
		
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			to treat their parents, it was obvious. And
		
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			when the prophet shalallahu alaihi wa sallam talks
		
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			about the moral decay of society towards the
		
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			end of time,
		
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			that a woman will give birth to her
		
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			master. And one of the implications of that
		
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			that the scholars mentioned is that a child
		
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			will treat their parents like a slave
		
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			because they no longer have moral constraints.
		
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			They no longer have the values
		
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			that would make them want to treat the
		
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			elders in their society in a certain way.
		
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			Everything becomes about access and opportunity and power.
		
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			And at some point, your parent becomes a
		
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			hindrance to that if you don't have values
		
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			and you don't believe in anything greater than
		
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			yourself.
		
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			And so that decay shows and so as
		
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			they introduce themselves, Yahi alaihis salaam. I am
		
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			dutiful to my parents
		
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			and Allah has not made me an oppressor.
		
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			He has not made me a tyrant
		
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			and he has not made me one
		
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			who is disobedient.
		
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			Isa alaihis salam Allah
		
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			has made me dutiful to my mother. Margam.
		
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			One of the the beautiful signs that Isa
		
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			alaihis salam was only born to Maryam alaihis
		
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			salam in a virgin birth was that he
		
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			says,
		
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			my mother
		
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			instead of my parents. And he did not
		
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			make me a tyrant and he did not
		
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			make me unblessed. The scholars say that as
		
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			for the second word,
		
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			for
		
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			Yahya alaihis salam because Zakariyah alaihis salaam was
		
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			making dua for a child that will embody
		
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			the best of all of the scholars and
		
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			all of the prophets and the righteous ones
		
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			of Bani Israel. And Allah bless Zakariyah alaihis
		
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			salaam with a child that would have a
		
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			special type of compassion for his parents. So
		
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			he is compassionate already but his compassion to
		
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			his parents is beautiful. As for Isa alaihis
		
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			salaam that the accusation of Christ, the accusation
		
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			of of Isa alaihis salaam is that he's
		
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			unblessed, that he's a curse and Isa alaihis
		
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			salam is Mubarak.
		
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			He's blessed and he carried Al Amrubal Marufu
		
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			Nahi Anil Munkar wherever he goes in joining
		
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			the good and forbidding evil. He is not
		
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			a curse to his mother nor was he
		
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			a curse to his society but he was
		
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			blessed. But the first thing they denounce
		
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			is we are not.
		
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			We are not tyrants or arrogant people.
		
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			Our Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
		
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			This is so powerful. Our Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam, as he's sitting with his companions
		
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			and a man serves some food and if
		
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			you watch the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam sit
		
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			and eat with his companions,
		
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			he sat in such a humble way and
		
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			he ate with them from the sides of
		
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			the plate and
		
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			someone looked at him in absolute amazement like
		
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			this is not how the king of a
		
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			people behaves.
		
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			And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam says to
		
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			him in authentic hadith, Inna Allah Abu Adhani
		
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			Abdul Karima. Allah Azzawajal sent me as a
		
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			noble servant. Walam yaba athni
		
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			aulam yajalni
		
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			jabaaran
		
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			anida. O kamaqal alayhis salaahu alayhis salaam. Allah
		
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			did not make me jabaaran anida,
		
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			a stubborn arrogant tyrant. That's not who I
		
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			am. That's not the ethos of Islam. That's
		
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			not what the prophets are like. That's not
		
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			what the followers of prophets are supposed to
		
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			be like. That this quality is so hated
		
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			that it's the first quality that these prophets
		
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			throw off of themselves. We are not these
		
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			people.
		
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			And on the day of judgment when Allah
		
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			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			establishes
		
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			once again
		
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			as he always is in Dominion, but announces
		
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			his Dominion
		
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			as everyone has passed.
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says, Anil Malik Anil
		
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			Malik, I am the king. I am the
		
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			king. Where are the kings of the earth?
		
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			Where are those people
		
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			who claim
		
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			power? Where are those tyrants today? Where are
		
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			those proud boastful people today?
		
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			So may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala protect us
		
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			from this trait.
		
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			And the beauty of it is that, the
		
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			more you connect yourself to Al Jabbar,
		
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			the less chance you have of becoming Jabbar
		
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			yourself.
		
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			Because you realize that He has all power
		
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			and that He restores and compels with that
		
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			power. And so when Allah azza wa Jal
		
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			gives you some sort of authority, whatever that
		
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			is, some sort of power over a situation,
		
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			you don't oppress with that because Allah azza
		
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			wa Jal does not oppress.
		
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			You don't feel proud with that because you
		
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			know that anything you have of wealth or
		
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			power or access is because Allah gave it
		
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			to you, So it actually humbles you instead
		
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			of making you arrogant.
		
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			You maintain clarity instead of hypocrisy because you
		
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			know that Allah is testing you with that
		
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			power. Allah is testing you with that authority.
		
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			Whatever it is, even if it's the authority
		
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			in your house
		
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			as opposed to giving you free reign to
		
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			do whatever you want.
		
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			And now,
		
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			in this time,
		
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			what a clear example that is right in
		
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			front of you. What a way to speak
		
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			to your kids and to say, we are
		
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			different.
		
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			There is
		
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			there is being strange
		
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			that we should
		
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			actually adopt a mindset of
		
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			of being against the curve of society. There
		
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			are very few times that Islam is gonna
		
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			go with the trend or become the trend
		
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			in society.
		
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			We're going to be at odds with society
		
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			when it comes to morality, and standards of
		
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			morality, and culture, and materialism,
		
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			and all
		
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			sorts of things. We're gonna be at odds
		
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			with society and we should embrace that. We'll
		
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			be at odds with society, with tawhid,
		
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			with monotheism and everything stemming from la ilaha
		
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			illallah. We should embrace that and all sorts
		
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			of other things. We're going to be at
		
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			odds with society. But one of the ways
		
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			that we have to be at odds with
		
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			society is this,
		
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			this idea of oppression.
		
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			You look at that
		
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			and you go you go, oh Allah, don't
		
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			make me like that.
		
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			Oh Allah, don't make me that person.
		
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			Oh Allah, don't make us like this group
		
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			of people.
		
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			Oh Allah, protect us from embodying that because
		
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			it is so hated to you. It was
		
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			so hated to your prophets
		
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			to have an element of that in their
		
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			lives.
		
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			What's the practical step?
		
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			Other than looking at our
		
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			political system as it is
		
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			and
		
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			by the way, my views only represent my
		
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			views and not the views of Rahma. Looking
		
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			at the political system and the complete moral
		
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			bankruptcy of the political system,
		
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			or looking at the presidential candidates, or looking
		
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			at this, or looking at that, or looking
		
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			at the hypocrisy of people as they speak
		
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			about Gaza and as they speak about the
		
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			genocide today and somehow find themselves still justifying
		
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			a genocide almost 200,000
		
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			dead people later and where it's undeniable.
		
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			What's the practical manifestation?
		
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			Analyze in your own life.
		
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			Every single domain of power that Allah has
		
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			given to you
		
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			and connect yourself to Al Jabbar and say,
		
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			oh Allah, don't make me Jabbar.
		
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			Don't let me be like that.
		
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			Look at the bad examples that are in
		
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			front of you and use that to educate
		
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			your own family and say, you know what?
		
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			With everything bad that's happening to the people
		
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			of Gaza,
		
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			every heartbreaking video that we see, every video
		
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			of starvation,
		
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			even the videos of children with their heads
		
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			blown into 2. I would much rather meet
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala as one of those
		
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			people than one of those people.
		
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			And I'm happy to be on their side
		
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			and not on their side. I don't care
		
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			what the power dynamics look like. I don't
		
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			care what the media looks like. I don't
		
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			care how ostracized and isolated I'm going to
		
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			be. I would much rather be on their
		
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			side than be on that side.
		
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			And it's a blessing that we have the
		
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			clarity to see so clearly what truth and
		
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			righteousness look like and what oppression looks like.
		
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			What a feat
		
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			for the magicians of the Firaun today being
		
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			the media to pull this this this act
		
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			to somehow convince people
		
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			that the people that are carrying out this
		
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			genocide daily are actually the innocent ones
		
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			and oppressed and in need of protection and
		
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			defense.
		
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			What a feat.
		
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			What a feat.
		
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			It's more than it's more than the pythons.
		
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			It's it's more than an optical illusion.
		
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			What a feat.
		
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			And what a time for us to be
		
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			alive in, but pull yourself back.
		
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			May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala put us always
		
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			on the side of the oppressed.
		
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			May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala allow us to
		
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			have moral clarity. May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			never allow us to be deluded by our
		
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			power.
		
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			May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala never allow us
		
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			to have the wool pulled over our eyes
		
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			such that we can't see the truth anymore.
		
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			May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala be with our
		
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			brothers and sisters who are oppressed in Palestine
		
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			and all over the world.
		
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			Dear brothers and sisters, I leave you with
		
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			this.
		
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			Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam said
		
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			that when the time of fitna comes,
		
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			be the servant of Allah who is oppressed
		
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			not the one that is oppressing.
		
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			Be the servant of Allah who's killed not
		
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			the one who is killing.
		
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			Even if it means that you have to
		
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			be oppressed yourself
		
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			in order to avoid taking on some of
		
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			that oppression
		
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			in your own life.
		
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			It's better to meet Allah that way.
		
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			And sometimes
		
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			you have to fast forward in order to
		
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			make sense
		
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			of what's happening in the present.
		
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			There will come a time where all of
		
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			us will hear Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala say,
		
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			ein al jabbaroon ein al mutakabbaroon.
		
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			Where are they today?
		
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			Where that's what the convention will look like.
		
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			Allah 'Azza wa Jal calling those tyrants forward
		
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			and holding them accountable. And then Allah Azza
		
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			wa Jal calling forth the oppressed to give
		
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			them justice.
		
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			May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala put us on
		
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			the right side of that and everything else.