Omar Suleiman – The Most Important Ashura Of Our Lives

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The upcoming battlefield in Becca is a matter of timing and the Prophet gives victory to believers. The success of Islam is highlighted, including the increase in people embracing it and the importance of victory for the spiritual well-being of the people. The message of Asura on the day of Asura is to reflect on what true victory means and show gratitude to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala for the blessing of faith, the blessing of truth, and the side of faith and justice. The message is to show gratitude to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala for the blessing of faith, the blessing of faith, and the side of faith and justice.

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			We begin by praising Allah
		
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			and bearing witness that none has the right
		
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			to be worshiped or untraditionally obeyed except for
		
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			him. And we bear witness that Muhammadan Sallallahu
		
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			Alaihi Wasallam is his 9 Messenger.
		
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			We ask Allah to send his peace and
		
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			blessings upon him,
		
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			upon the prophets and messengers that came before
		
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			him,
		
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			upon his family and companions that served alongside
		
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			him and those that follow on his blessed
		
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			path until the day of judgment. And we
		
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			ask Allah to make us amongst them. Ullaatma
		
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			ameen.
		
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			Dear brothers and sisters,
		
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			as the day of Asura is on the
		
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			horizon,
		
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			I want to start from a place
		
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			where a conversation
		
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			was being had in the battlefield.
		
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			And it wasn't
		
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			a conversation
		
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			between Musa alayhis salaam and Firoun,
		
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			But it was a conversation
		
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			between an oppressed believer
		
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			and Firaun
		
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			And he is Abu Jahad, Amr ibn al
		
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			Ghisham.
		
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			And the conversation takes place in the battlefield
		
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			of Badr.
		
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			The dust
		
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			has still not settled.
		
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			And
		
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			Abdullah ibn Mas'ud radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
		
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			who represented
		
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			the epitome of the oppressed man.
		
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			He was small in his physical stature.
		
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			He was unknown in his lineage.
		
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			He belonged to the lowest of economic classes.
		
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			And he was a follower of Muhammad salallahu
		
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			alayhi wasallam
		
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			which made him the most vulnerable
		
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			class
		
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			or of the most vulnerable class in Mecca.
		
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			And one day,
		
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			he was the first man to recite the
		
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			Quran in front of the Kaaba.
		
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			And we just left the month of Nuhijja
		
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			and the scenes of the Hajj where you
		
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			saw the people in the millions around the
		
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			Kaaba reciting the dhikr of Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala. Once upon a time, he was the
		
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			only man
		
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			who stood in front of the camera and
		
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			recited the Quran out loud,
		
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			Until that same man, the pharaoh of this
		
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			ummah, stomped him
		
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			and broke his collarbone
		
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			and left him unconscious and almost dead.
		
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			And now he's in the battlefield of Badr.
		
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			The days go by and the days go
		
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			by and they are switched. A day for
		
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			you
		
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			and a day that is hard upon you.
		
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			A day of hardship and a day of
		
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			ease.
		
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			A day of a defeat and a day
		
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			of a victory.
		
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			And this time, Abdullah ibn Masood radiAllahu, who
		
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			stands on the chest of that salaam of
		
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			the pharaoh of this Ummah.
		
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			And the pharaoh of his Ummah says, laqad
		
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			al Tabaita,
		
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			work up on Saba the other way in
		
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			Nunav.
		
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			You have climbed the difficult climb, O shepherd
		
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			of sheep.
		
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			And he asked them, Lima Nalu Halaaba.
		
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			Who is winning
		
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			the battle?
		
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			Give me your commentary.
		
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			Who's winning
		
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			this battle
		
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			between the believers and the disbelievers,
		
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			between the Kuffar of Quraysh
		
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			and the believing men and women that flooded
		
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			their persecution.
		
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			The followers of Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			Lima Al Ghadada.
		
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			Who's winning this battle?
		
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			And the last words that Abu Ghahad heard
		
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			before he left this world
		
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			was Abdullah ibn Masihrim saying,
		
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			Victory belongs to Allah
		
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			and belongs to the Messenger of Allah,
		
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			O enemy of Allah.
		
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			Those were the last words that he heard
		
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			before his soul left his body
		
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			and after he was killed, the prophet sallallahu
		
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			alaihi was speaking
		
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			to
		
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			those
		
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			dead ones
		
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			who persecuted
		
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			and saying to them,
		
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			We
		
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			have found what our our Lord has promised
		
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			us to be true.
		
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			Have you found what your Lord has promised
		
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			you to be true? And so Abuja had
		
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			heard the words of defeat before he was
		
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			killed and he heard the words of defeat
		
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			after he was killed.
		
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			A Fir'awn
		
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			who left this world humiliated
		
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			and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will surely humiliate
		
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			all of the Firauns, all of the pharaohs.
		
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			Allahu al Amin.
		
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			Now we go back to Asura.
		
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			It is not an exaggeration
		
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			to say that perhaps this is the most
		
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			important time in our recent lifetime
		
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			to reflect upon the lessons of Ashura with
		
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			what is happening to our brothers and sisters
		
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			in Gaza. There may be no more important
		
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			time to really absorb ourselves
		
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			in the lessons of Ashura
		
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			and the reflection of Ashura
		
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			than this particular Ashura, the first Ashura
		
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			since this genocide in Gaza has begun.
		
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			And I want to take you
		
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			to the moment
		
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			where the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
		
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			came into a Madinah
		
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			and he asked sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
		
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			about what their fast was about.
		
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			And the Jewish
		
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			tribes of madina
		
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			were fasting
		
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			to honor
		
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			the victory of Musa alaihis salaam over Firaun.
		
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			And the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
		
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			We are closer to Musa alaihi salaam than
		
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			you. We have a greater right. So we
		
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			too will observe this fast out of gratitude
		
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			of the day
		
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			that Musa alaihis salam was given victory over
		
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			the Fir'aun. The day that the Fir'aun drowned
		
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			in the sea
		
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			while Musa alaihis salam
		
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			and his followers had the seed parted for
		
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			them. The way that this story started
		
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			was the mother of Musa, alaihis salaam, throwing
		
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			him into a river
		
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			to protect him from the brutality
		
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			of this pharaoh.
		
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			And the way the story ended was this
		
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			young man now walking between the parted seas
		
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			and then the sea engulfing and drowning the
		
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			pharaoh with the same
		
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			punishment, the same terror and tremor
		
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			that the mother of Musa once feared for
		
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			him as a baby.
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has days like this
		
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			and days like that.
		
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			And what I want you to appreciate before
		
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			we get into all of the lessons of
		
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			Surah
		
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			is that when the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
		
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			ordered the Muslims to fast this day,
		
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			Il Madila,
		
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			Makkah was still under the occupation of the
		
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			disbelievers.
		
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			They were technically still a people in exile.
		
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			They were still fresh
		
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			in the taste of the oppression
		
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			of Makkah.
		
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			They had not yet experienced
		
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			Fath Makkah. They had not yet experienced the
		
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			promise of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. The followers
		
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			of Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
		
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			were still a few people.
		
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			But they fasted that day
		
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			out of gratitude to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			for the victory that he gave to Musa
		
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			alayhi salaam. And with an understanding
		
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			that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gives victory to
		
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			the believers.
		
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			It is only a matter of when and
		
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			it is only a matter of how. It
		
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			is never a matter of if. Allah gives
		
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			victory
		
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			to the believers
		
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			but
		
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			perhaps not in the way that you want
		
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			and not at the time that you want.
		
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			But victory
		
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			is promised.
		
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			The promise of Allah. He does not betray
		
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			his promise.
		
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			Most people can't think.
		
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			Most people can't grudge.
		
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			They can't see past the circumstance that's immediately
		
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			in front of them. They can't see past
		
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			the dunya that they are living in at
		
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			this moment.
		
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			Now, SubhanAllah,
		
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			as we look at this day of Asura,
		
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			what I want you to realize is that
		
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			it is not only
		
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			that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
		
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			ordered the believers to pass that day in
		
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			gratitude to the victory of Musa alaihi wasallam
		
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			even though the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam had
		
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			not yet been given victory.
		
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			But I want you to think about the
		
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			decades of oppression
		
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			that Siraun wreaked on this earth
		
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			before the moment that he was drowned?
		
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			What happened to the 100 of 1,000 perhaps
		
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			of Shohada,
		
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			of martyrs
		
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			that's their own massacre.
		
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			What about them?
		
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			Did Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala not too give
		
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			them victory?
		
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			Did Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala not give them
		
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			what was promised to them?
		
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			They're not vulnerable mothers and children that beg
		
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			to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala whilst their own
		
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			wreaked his tyranny on earth.
		
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			A core
		
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			collection
		
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			of the catalog
		
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			of atrocity we see happening in Gaza right
		
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			now with the pharaoh of this day.
		
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			Were there not women and children that begged
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala for years and people
		
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			that waited for the destruction of Farqam?
		
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			Did Allah let them down? Absolutely not.
		
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			They had no doubt when they made their
		
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			dua
		
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			that the day would come that the Fir'aun
		
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			would drown in this life and that victory
		
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			would be achieved.
		
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			But they also understood
		
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			in the Nasr al Wahsa had
		
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			it is either victory in this world
		
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			or it is martyrdom.
		
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			And that too is victory.
		
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			You see, Azibid Masiran stood on the chest
		
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			of Abu Jahl
		
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			and sallallahu alaihi batulillah victories for Allah.
		
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			There are also other companions
		
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			who had
		
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			a spear put right through them
		
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			and they say, Fustu warabulkar.
		
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			I have succeeded by the Lord of the
		
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			cow.
		
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			That was their personal victory
		
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			that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala granted to them
		
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			of Shahada
		
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			because the moment that they left this world,
		
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			they knew that the promise of Allah was
		
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			true before their soul even left this body.
		
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			Because the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says
		
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			that the Sahih,
		
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			the martyrs, seized their place in Jannah at
		
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			the first strike
		
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			before
		
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			Asia,
		
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			alaihi salam
		
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			could feel the full thrust
		
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			of that boulder hitting her.
		
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			And this was a woman of perfect iman,
		
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			perfect faith. Did Allah not hear her dua
		
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			when she said,
		
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			Oh Allah, build for me with you a
		
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			palace in paradise. Did Allah not hear the
		
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			dua of a woman with perfect ilam
		
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			strung
		
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			as the boulder was falling on top of
		
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			her? If you were an onlooker, maybe you
		
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			would think
		
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			her dua was in nothing because you would
		
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			have seen her body shed to pieces the
		
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			way that we see our brothers and sisters
		
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			in Gaza literally shred to pieces.
		
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			But before her soul even left her body,
		
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			before she could even feel the pain of
		
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			that boulder, she already experienced the pleasure of
		
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			her paradise.
		
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			Assia had victory over the Fir'aun.
		
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			Assia had victory over the Fir'aun.
		
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			Even if the witnesses saw a defeat,
		
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			Assia was victorious.
		
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			Musa was victorious.
		
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			We know that on this day as well
		
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			that the beloved grandson of our Prophet sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam, that Hussain radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
		
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			granted him victory, but not like the victory
		
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			of Musa over Fir'aun, like the victory of
		
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			Asiya over Fir'aun.
		
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			Allah granted him a Shahadah.
		
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			And then Hussain radiAllahu ta'ala and whose body
		
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			was also dismembered
		
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			but Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala rewards the souls.
		
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			The believer has a different way of thinking
		
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			about things.
		
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			We don't believe that victory
		
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			is relegated or limited to worldly circumstances
		
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			of victory. We believe that victory is being
		
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			pleasing to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. In fact,
		
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			if Allah grants you victory over a pharaoh
		
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			in this world,
		
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			but that victory was granted to you
		
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			despite your disobedience,
		
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			despite your evil, and you had the name
		
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			Muslim on you. And you said La ilaha
		
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			illa Allah but everything about your actions represented
		
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			the opposite of La illa wah. But you
		
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			had material victory in this world, you've still
		
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			failed
		
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			because you were displeasing to Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala.
		
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			Victory is not in the worldly circumstance of
		
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			victory.
		
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			Victory is in the soul being in a
		
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			place that is pleasing to Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala. The Asura is a collection of this.
		
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			And the days of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			are not random, dear brothers and sisters.
		
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			It's not just what happened in history after
		
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			on the day of Asura, after the death
		
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			of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam with Al
		
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			Hussein radiAllahu ta'ala Anum. It's even before. As
		
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			Imam Ahmad Raqimullah, there's a narration from him
		
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			that this was the day that the Safeena
		
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			of Nuh alayhis salaam, the ship of Noah,
		
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			the Ark of Noah arrived at its landing
		
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			place.
		
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			And SubhanAllah,
		
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			on that day, people drowned.
		
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			And on that day, the only people that
		
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			were saved were those on the Safina of
		
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			Nuhr alayhi sallam.
		
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			I ask you to reflect, dear brothers and
		
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			sisters, and I come to you from the
		
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			United States of America.
		
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			And in Europe, they say that there's been
		
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			a 400%
		
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			increase in people embracing Islam since Gaza.
		
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			And I tell you that there is not
		
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			a khutba that I give in my Masjid
		
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			except that there's someone who embraces Islam.
		
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			And that since the people of Gaza have
		
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			undergone this atrocity with beautiful patience
		
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			through the ugliness of the genocide, through the
		
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			ugly of this atrocity. People have seen the
		
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			beauty of Al Islam.
		
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			They've seen the beauty of the faith of
		
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			those people.
		
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			That should not make us
		
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			want any less to bring victory to the
		
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			people of Gaza in the material sense and
		
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			victory to the people of Palestine. But that
		
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			should allow us to reflect
		
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			that more people have boarded
		
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			the Safina of Nuh alayhis salaam, the Ark
		
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			of Noah, in this time than any other
		
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			time in our lives.
		
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			More people are coming on board
		
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			where true salvation and safety and victory is
		
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			done.
		
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			The day of Asura is a day to
		
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			reflect
		
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			on the victory
		
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			of Nuh Alaihi Salaam and the people who
		
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			found safety on that ship
		
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			and to want to be on that ship
		
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			ourselves and to bring as many people as
		
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			possible onto that ship. The day of Asura
		
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			is a day to reflect
		
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			on what true victory means.
		
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			Whether it is the victory like the one
		
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			of Musa alaihis salaam over Finaum or like
		
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			the one of Asiya alaihis salaam over Finaum.
		
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			What victory truly means. And every incident that
		
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			has happened through Ashura is for us to
		
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			go back to them
		
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			and to reflect.
		
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			Now when we fast, dear brothers and sisters,
		
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			our siyam,
		
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			shamqur Ramadan.
		
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			The month of Ramadan came down
		
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			to honor
		
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			the Quran or the fasting of Ramadan is
		
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			a celebration of the Quran.
		
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			The day of Arafah which we have fasted
		
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			is a day that honors the moment of
		
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			our original covenants.
		
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			The day of Asura is to honor victory
		
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			and to show gratitude to Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala.
		
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			And someone might say,
		
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			but in this day and age,
		
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			what are we thanking Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			for
		
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			in terms of the victory
		
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			of Gaza?
		
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			First and foremost, we thank Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala for the blessing of iman.
		
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			Alhamdulillahiaminahkat
		
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			iman. Alhamdulillahiaminahkatil
		
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			Islam.
		
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			All praise and greet to Allah for the
		
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			blessing of faith, for the blessing of truth
		
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			and being on the side of truth and
		
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			justice. I don't care what the odds are
		
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			against the people of Palestine, against the people
		
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			of faith.
		
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			I ask Allah that all of us kneel
		
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			on the side of faith and the side
		
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			of truth and the side of justice.
		
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			And may Allah not let us incline towards
		
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			the oppressors in any way whatsoever. I don't
		
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			care what they have.
		
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			I care what we have.
		
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			And so gratitude to Allah that we have
		
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			the content
		
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			that brings victory in this life and the
		
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			next. That we have the substance.
		
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			As the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and his
		
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			desperate followers in Madinah started to fast this
		
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			day knowing that one day Allah would give
		
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			the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam victory like he
		
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			gave his brother Moses, his brother Musa alaihi
		
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			wasallam victory.
		
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			So we have the content and we thank
		
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			Allah for that. We reflect upon that. Secondly,
		
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			the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
		
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			How wonderful is the affair of the believer.
		
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			And nothing
		
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			or no one has this except for the
		
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			believer.
		
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			Everything that happens to the believer is good.
		
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			No one has this except for a believer
		
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			when good comes to him.
		
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			When good comes to him, he says Alhamdulillah,
		
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			he's grateful.
		
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			And that's better for him.
		
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			And when hardship strikes him.
		
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			He's patient.
		
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			And that's better for him. No one has
		
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			this except for the believer. No one has
		
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			this mindset that whatever happens to me, Alhamdulillah.
		
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			That whatever happens to us, Alhamdulillah,
		
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			so long as you are not able to
		
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			take away my being and that I attain
		
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			true victory. Alhamdulillah
		
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			Alhamdulillah
		
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			Alhamdulillah
		
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			The Sahid al Qadza
		
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			does not feel sorry for himself or herself.
		
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			The tyrant,
		
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			the Zionist tyrant
		
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			that murders our people in Gaza will certainly
		
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			feel sorry
		
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			when they encounter
		
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			what they have been promised and stuff.
		
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			And I give you this, dear brothers and
		
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			sisters.
		
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			On this day of Ashura,
		
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			and in fact, on every day,
		
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			The true defeat of Fir'aun
		
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			was not the day that he drowned.
		
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			It's what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			That al Nab, the fire. Allah states starts
		
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			this verse with, it is the fire that
		
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			they are presented to
		
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			every morning
		
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			and every night.
		
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			The Fir'aun is presented to the fire
		
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			every single morning and every night, and the
		
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			fire of * is far worse
		
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			than drowning in the sea.
		
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			Every day he is dipped into that fire,
		
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			morning and evening. We'll do one war machine
		
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			until
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala
		
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			says,
		
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			enter,
		
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			oh,
		
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			people of Threon into the worst of punishment.
		
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			And you know what, dear brothers and sisters?
		
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			Firaun had no children.
		
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			Firaun had no kids.
		
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			So who is Allah, aaswadhan, referring to when
		
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			he says, aala Firaun? Some of the scholars,
		
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			they say the people of Firoun are the
		
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			people surrounding Firoun, his generals and those that
		
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			participate in the tyranny.
		
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			And some of them said,
		
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			Those that were on his way, his religion,
		
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			his methodology,
		
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			his way of oppression,
		
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			All of these people are Al of Fir'aun.
		
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			They're all the people of Fir'aun.
		
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			The question that we ask ourselves, are we
		
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			the people of Musa al Islam?
		
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			Are we the people of Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi
		
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			Salam?
		
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			Are we the people of Ibrahim Alaihi Salam?
		
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			If we are,
		
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			These people
		
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			that have been killed
		
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			are in Jannah.
		
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			Our dead are in paradise. Your dead are
		
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			in hellfire. Look at Saraw now and look
		
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			at all of the mothers and children that
		
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			we have never heard of and what they
		
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			achieved right now. In fact, the prophet sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam even seen the hairdresser of
		
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			the daughter of Siraun and her mas on
		
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			the night of the Nisra wal Mirhamash?
		
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			How many mothers and children
		
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			that are unnamed casualties of Fir'awn are in
		
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			Jannah, eating from its fruits in joy?
		
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			And every day Firaun, even when the world
		
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			has moved on from him and his palaces
		
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			and his tyranny, every day he is dipped
		
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			in the fire 2 times
		
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			until the greater punishment
		
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			will come to him.
		
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			So why do we fast?
		
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			It's not about circumstance.
		
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			The one who eats and is grateful
		
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			is like the one who fasts and is
		
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			patient. It's not about your circumstances. It's about
		
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			your gratitude to Allah.
		
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			The one who's given worldly victory and thanks
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is like the one
		
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			who is killed and thanks Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala.
		
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			The one who loses limbs but doesn't lose
		
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			their life is like the one who loses
		
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			their life if they are patient for the
		
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			sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			The one who has a heart and an
		
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			intention to support the oppressed, to support the
		
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			truth,
		
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			to support the people of the truth. No
		
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			matter what the circumstances
		
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			are, are like those people
		
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			because their hearts are there. Allah knows who
		
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			you are. Allah knows what's in your heart.
		
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			Allah knows what's in your dua.
		
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			Victory
		
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			is promised to the believers.
		
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			Asura
		
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			is a celebration
		
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			of victory. We celebrate the victory of the
		
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			past and we anticipate the victory of the
		
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			future. And we thank
		
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			Allah for the victory of the present, which
		
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			is the victory of being upon.