Omar Suleiman – The Prophets The Messiah And The Promised Land Ep. 3 Al-Aqsa Series

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The region of Jerusalem is a place where shari'ah, the holy temple, is occurring. Isaiah A.s.'s actions were pursued by his uncle's uncle and he was given the opportunity to be a princess. The holy temple is a place of sh possibilities and the holy temple is a place of sh possibilities.

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			As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu.
		
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			A'udhu billahi minash shaitanir rajeem.
		
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			Bismillahir rahmanir raheem.
		
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			Alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen.
		
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			Wa salatu was salamu ala rasooli al kareem
		
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			wa ala alihi wa sahbihi ajma'een.
		
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			Alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen.
		
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			I want to welcome you all back to
		
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			the third session of this series on Al
		
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			-Aqsa.
		
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			We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
		
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			liberate it and to make us amongst those
		
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			who liberate it and are amongst those who
		
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			are chosen to pray within its blessed sanctuary.
		
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			Allahumma ameen.
		
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			SubhanAllah, I was reflecting just as I was
		
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			preparing for this lesson that who would have
		
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			known that in the last session when we
		
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			spoke about the blessings of As-Sham as
		
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			a whole and what's included in As-Sham
		
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			that we would be seeing unfold in front
		
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			of us what is unfolding right now.
		
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			And so we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala to bless all of the people of
		
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			As-Sham.
		
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			We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
		
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			shower His mercy upon them.
		
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			We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
		
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			dissolve all of those that wish them harm.
		
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			And we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			to guide towards victory all of those who
		
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			wish them well.
		
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			Allahumma ameen.
		
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			Tonight's session is going to be a bit
		
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			longer.
		
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			We'll see how much we can get through
		
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			inshaAllah ta'ala.
		
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			But it's an incredibly important session because we're
		
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			going to be speaking about the Prophets and
		
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			the Promised Lands.
		
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			And what I want us to do is
		
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			not walk away from tonight with a dry
		
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			history lesson as to how all of these
		
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			Prophets dwelled within this land.
		
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			But instead to take the qualities that Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala emphasizes of those who
		
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			were deserving of the Promised Lands from the
		
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			followers of the Prophets.
		
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			May Allah send His peace and blessings upon
		
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			them all.
		
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			And before I go through the chronological order
		
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			and how Jerusalem comes to be through the
		
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			lives of the Prophets of Allah, I want
		
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			you to just reflect for a moment.
		
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			Who is Israel in the Quran?
		
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			Who is Israel?
		
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			Ya'qub alayhi as-salam.
		
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			And subhanAllah just think about how remarkable it
		
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			is that the story of Bani Israel, the
		
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			children of Israel, literally starts off with the
		
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			throwing of an innocent child into a well
		
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			where he will presumably die of starvation or
		
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			be picked up by someone else after which
		
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			he ends up in the land of Egypt
		
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			only to become elevated to a king and
		
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			to absorb authority of that land.
		
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			Think about the irony of that, that this
		
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			is the first story of Bani Israel in
		
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			the truest sense, is the casting of their
		
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			brother into a well and trying to rid
		
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			themselves of a brother whom they partly hated
		
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			because he was from another mother.
		
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			And then I want you to think about
		
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			this chronology of these three surahs in the
		
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			Quran.
		
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			In Surat al-Isra, Allah takes the Prophet
		
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			sallAllahu alayhi wa sallam from the desert of
		
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			Mecca to Jerusalem after the perseverance of the
		
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			Prophet sallAllahu alayhi wa sallam and a small
		
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			group of righteous companions.
		
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			Allah takes our Messenger sallAllahu alayhi wa sallam
		
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			from the desert of Mecca to Jerusalem.
		
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			And that is in part a reward and
		
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			a relief for a righteous group of people
		
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			that persevered under the most difficult of circumstances.
		
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			The next surah is what?
		
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			Surat al-Kahf.
		
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			And in Surat al-Kahf, Musa alayhi sallAllahu
		
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			alayhi wa sallam is wandering in the desert
		
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			outside of Jerusalem because of the sins of
		
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			his people.
		
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			And so you have a Prophet being brought
		
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			from a desert to Jerusalem.
		
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			You have a Prophet in the next surah
		
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			being barred from Jerusalem because of the quality
		
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			of his people.
		
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			And then in Surah Maryam, Zakariya alayhi sallAllahu
		
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			alayhi wa sallam is making dua in Al
		
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			-Aqsa that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala bring
		
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			forth a righteous generation.
		
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			And then Maryam alayhi sallAllahu alayhi wa sallam
		
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			comes bringing her blessed child, baby Isa alayhi
		
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			sallAllahu alayhi wa sallam to the courtyard of
		
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			Al-Aqsa.
		
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			And that blessed baby gives the glad tidings
		
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			in the courtyard of Al-Aqsa of a
		
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			blessed Prophet to come, Muhammad sallAllahu alayhi wa
		
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			sallam.
		
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			Just think about how remarkable those three surahs
		
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			tie in and how the story of Jerusalem
		
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			is being told to you through the stories
		
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			of those Prophets.
		
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			Now I'm gonna break this down inshaAllah ta
		
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			'ala, and I don't want you to focus
		
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			too much on the dates, the times, the
		
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			exact years.
		
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			For those of you that are note-takers,
		
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			and I know that Shaykh Abu Hurayra just
		
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			gave you a lesson on note-taking, but
		
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			mashaAllah I still see everyone's doing mental note
		
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			-taking.
		
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			So I don't know if it's just that
		
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			there's something going on here or that you're
		
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			just enjoying the blessed weather today.
		
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			But I don't want you to focus on
		
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			the numbers, I don't want you to focus
		
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			on the years.
		
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			InshaAllah ta'ala my plan is to write
		
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			this all out in a book bi-idhnillahi
		
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			ta'ala, within a year bi-idhnillahi ta
		
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			'ala.
		
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			And I'm saying that to give myself the
		
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			motivation to finish it on time inshaAllah ta
		
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			'ala.
		
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			But I want you to focus on the
		
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			way that this cycle of victory and viciousness
		
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			has continued from the earliest moments of traceable
		
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			history.
		
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			And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, إِنَّ
		
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			اللَّهَ اصْطَفَ آدَمَ وَنُوحًا وَآلَ إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَآلَ عِمْرَانَ
		
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			عَلَى الْعَالَمِينَ That verily Allah chose Adam and
		
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			Nuh and the family of Ibrahim and the
		
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			family of Imran upon all of the worlds.
		
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			And all four of them have a centrality
		
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			in Jerusalem.
		
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			And so we started off with Adam Alayhi
		
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			Salaam and his son Shief Alayhi Salaam establishing
		
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			the beginnings of what would be Al-Aqsa
		
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			forty years after Al-Masjid Al-Haram in
		
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			Mecca.
		
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			The Ark of Noah lands right at the
		
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			coast of Asham, Nuh Alayhi Salaam.
		
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			And then Ali Ibrahim and Ali Imran are
		
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			centered between Jerusalem and of course in the
		
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			case of Ismail Alayhi Salaam and Hajar Alayhi
		
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			Salaam, Mecca.
		
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			But primarily in Jerusalem.
		
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			And so you recap the very beginning and
		
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			subhanAllah what's incredible is that when you look
		
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			at the history of that land, the earliest
		
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			recorded civilization to inhabit Asham are the Natufians.
		
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			And the Natufians, and we're talking about ten,
		
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			fifteen thousand years as you go back, the
		
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			Natufians were recorded to be a civilization upon
		
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			Tawheed, upon monotheism.
		
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			Or everything about them indicates that they were
		
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			a monotheistic people.
		
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			So even the earliest recorded civilization in Asham,
		
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			in the Levant, is one of Tawheed, one
		
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			of monotheism.
		
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			And so it starts with Adam Alayhi Salaam.
		
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			And then after that, around the third millennium
		
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			BC, before Christ, not before COVID.
		
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			I know there's BC before COVID and AC
		
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			which is after COVID.
		
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			Before Christ, BC.
		
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			These blessed lands experience a flourishing civilization that
		
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			leads to this massive construction.
		
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			And the first that we can record are
		
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			the Canaanites.
		
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			Canaan, the Canaanites.
		
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			And the Canaanites established the land of Canaan.
		
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			They are Arab by ethnicity.
		
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			And so if you're going by history, the
		
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			first recorded inhabitants of the land are indeed
		
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			Arabs.
		
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			But of course, we go by faith, not
		
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			by nationality or blood.
		
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			But if you want to use that as
		
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			your metric of claim to the land, it's
		
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			a Canaanite civilization.
		
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			They spoke the most ancient form of Arabic
		
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			language.
		
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			They're actually the ones who named the most
		
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			ancient cities of Palestine.
		
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			Akka is named by them.
		
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			Haifa is named by them.
		
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			Yaffa is named by them.
		
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			And some even record Gaza as being named
		
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			by the Canaanites in some capacity.
		
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			And so they're the first civilization there to
		
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			name the cities and to establish themselves.
		
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			Around 2,000 years BC, you have where
		
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			the story gets specific.
		
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			And that is with Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam.
		
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			And Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam is fleeing from a
		
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			Babylonian tyrant named Nimrud.
		
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			Nimrud establishes the city of Babylon.
		
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			And subhanAllah, the first to destroy the city
		
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			of Jerusalem, to destroy Al-Aqsa will be
		
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			the Babylonians.
		
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			And Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam is fleeing from Nimrud,
		
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			this arrogant tyrant who believes he has control
		
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			of the heavens and the earth.
		
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			And subhanAllah, if you think about the aura
		
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			of invincibility of a tyrant, especially those that
		
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			the war criminals of today display and boast
		
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			about proudly, look at the language and the
		
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			rhetoric and attitude of Nimrud in the Qur
		
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			'an.
		
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			When he says, انا احيوا اميت, I give
		
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			life and I give death.
		
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			Watch this.
		
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			He brings an innocent man and he kills
		
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			him.
		
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			He brings another man and he spares him.
		
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			He says, see, I give life and I
		
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			give death.
		
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			The arrogant tyrant who Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam flees
		
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			from and ends up in Jerusalem.
		
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			Now subhanAllah, what's really interesting is that do
		
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			we have anything in the Qur'an about
		
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			the da'wah of Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam to
		
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			Palestine, to the people of Jerusalem?
		
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			Do we?
		
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			You can guess, by the way.
		
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			Just give me some interaction.
		
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			And if you say yes, you need to
		
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			justify it.
		
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			Bring the evidence.
		
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			We actually don't.
		
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			We don't have any recorded history of the
		
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			da'wah of Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam to the
		
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			people of that land.
		
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			The implication is that either they were not
		
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			hostile to the ways of Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam,
		
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			or that they accepted the ways of Ibrahim
		
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			Alayhi Salaam, or that there was some sort
		
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			of alignments.
		
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			But there certainly isn't a hostility towards Ibrahim
		
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			Alayhi Salaam.
		
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			We see it in Iraq.
		
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			We see it with the Babylonians.
		
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			We see it in Egypt, obviously.
		
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			Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam is fleeing Egypt.
		
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			But we don't see that in Palestine.
		
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			And Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam settles in the land
		
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			of Palestine.
		
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			And by the way, subhanAllah, look how Allah
		
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			blessed this man Alayhi Salaam.
		
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			SubhanAllah, I'm just leaving the haram, and we're
		
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			talking about the makings of Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam.
		
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			Not only did Allah give him Ismail through
		
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			Hajar, and then Ishaq, and then after Ishaq,
		
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			Ya'qub, and he's getting to see a
		
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			flourishing civilization.
		
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			He had many more children.
		
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			In fact, we know that he married again
		
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			after Sarah, and he had at least six
		
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			children Alayhi Salaam, who are buried alongside him
		
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			in Al-Khalil.
		
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			May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allow us
		
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			to have that place once again, and protect
		
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			the sacred land of the regular incursions there
		
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			in Al-Khalil.
		
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			So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala blessed Ibrahim
		
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			Alayhi Salaam to settle there, and to expand
		
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			himself within that land.
		
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			Now there's this curious case if you're reading
		
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			biblical narration.
		
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			And of course, our approach to the Isra
		
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			'iliyat as Muslims is we don't affirm them
		
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			with certainty, nor do we deny them with
		
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			certainty.
		
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			We take what aligns and can fill in
		
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			some gaps as enrichment.
		
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			And if something contradicts, then we immediately understand
		
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			that this is something that was innovated or
		
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			added later on.
		
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			But there's an interesting figure named Malki Zadik.
		
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			In Arabic, if there are any Arab Christian
		
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			converts, I actually met one very recently.
		
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			Malki Zadik, a righteous king, would literally be
		
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			the name of this figure, who supposedly is
		
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			in that land prior to Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam.
		
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			Now biblically, he starts to get assigned almost
		
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			godlike powers, like a divine figure that exists
		
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			in that land, and that helps Ibrahim Alayhi
		
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			Salaam, or helps solidify the Abrahamic way that
		
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			is there.
		
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			And I'm not going to get too far
		
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			into this, but for those of you, subhanAllah,
		
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			who want to read about this, Sheikh Safar
		
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			Al-Hawali wrote a very powerful article called,
		
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			سَبَبُ إِفْتِرَاضِ أَهْلِ الْكِتَابِ شَخْسِيَةَ مَلْكِ صَادِقٍ So,
		
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			the reason by which this figure was propped
		
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			up in Judeo-Christian thought.
		
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			And one of the things that he mentions
		
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			is that this gives a supposed divine connection
		
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			to the land prior to Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam.
		
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			And that we don't have any indication of
		
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			this figure in Islam.
		
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			He may or may not have existed.
		
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			Certainly, there seems to be some alignment, but
		
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			the idea of a transcendent human being, someone
		
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			that has godlike features, a high priest from
		
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			the heavens, doesn't add up to anything that
		
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			would align with the aqidah of Islam.
		
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			Generally speaking though, there is tawheed in the
		
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			land.
		
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			Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam refines it in the most
		
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			beautiful of ways.
		
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			He's not facing hostility in the lands of
		
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			Palestine.
		
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			Lut Alayhi Salaam is of course facing hostility
		
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			in the outskirts of Palestine where the modern
		
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			-day Dead Sea is, somewhere around that area.
		
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			Where the people of Lut Alayhi Salaam, the
		
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			nephew of Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam has proceeded in
		
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			his da'wah.
		
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			Why is this significant to start off with?
		
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			Because whoever then has the greatest claim to
		
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			Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam, has the greatest claim to
		
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			all that is truly Ibrahimi, everything that is
		
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			Abrahamic.
		
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			And the Qur'an emphasizes who has the
		
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			greatest claim to Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam.
		
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			And Allah Azzawajal makes it a point to
		
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			constantly emphasize, الَّذِينَ التَّبَعُوا Those who follow him
		
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			have the greatest claim to him.
		
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			Those who follow his ways, those who follow
		
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			him in creed and character, those who embody
		
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			his way as individuals, as institutions, have the
		
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			greatest right to Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam.
		
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			He is not someone who is claimed by
		
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			lineage.
		
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			He's someone who had a spiritual lineage.
		
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			And that's how he is claimed.
		
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			After Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam, you have Ya'qub
		
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			Alayhi Salaam.
		
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			Approximately 1800 years BC, before Christ.
		
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			Some of the scholars of tafsir mentioned that
		
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			he is the one who names it Baitul
		
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			Maqdis.
		
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			Names the area Baitul Maqdis.
		
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			And Allah Azzawajal knows best.
		
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			But he certainly continues upon the way of
		
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			his father and of his grandfather.
		
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			And if you look at Surah Al-Baqarah
		
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			where Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala mentions the
		
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			changing of the qiblah, mentions the turning of
		
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			the page of the covenant, it is the
		
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			only story of prophets where you have prophets
		
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			that are emphasizing to their children ما تعبدون
		
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			من بعدي?
		
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			What are you going to worship after me?
		
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			The transfer of the covenant of tawheed from
		
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			generation to generation.
		
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			It's actually the only prophet whose death is
		
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			spoken about in the Quran in this way.
		
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			His last words in this case is Ibrahim
		
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			Alayhi Salaam to his children, Ya'qub Alayhi
		
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			Salaam to his children.
		
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			To emphasize the importance of staying upon Islam,
		
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			of staying upon faith, the oneness of Allah
		
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			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			And so Ya'qub Alayhi Salaam imparts the
		
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			spiritual importance and maintains the way of his
		
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			grandfather and the forefather of faith, Ibrahim Alayhi
		
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			Salaam.
		
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			Now historically speaking, once you get into Ya
		
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			'qub and then Yusuf, one of the things
		
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			that is happening in the background is that
		
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			these were the years that were considered to
		
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			be the golden years of the Levant in
		
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			the Bronze Age.
		
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			The golden years of Asham in the Bronze
		
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			Age.
		
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			And so essentially the Canaanites are persevering in
		
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			that land.
		
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			They're prospering in that land.
		
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			And you have a similar ruling structure that
		
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			eventually spreads between Egypt and Palestine.
		
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			And historians term this as the rule of
		
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			the Hyksos.
		
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			The rule of the Hyksos.
		
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			And that's actually why they mention the ease
		
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			of travel at that time period between Egypt
		
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			and Palestine.
		
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			Because generally speaking, the Hyksos who are the
		
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			Easterners, who are spreading through the land, expanding
		
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			between the land of Asham and Egypt, are
		
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			allowing for the ease of travel between the
		
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			two places.
		
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			And that is why it is easy for
		
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			Ya'qub Alayhi Salaam's children to travel between
		
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			both places.
		
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			And for commerce to exist between those two
		
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			places.
		
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			1700 BC approximately, Yusuf Alayhi Salaam rises to
		
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			prominence in Egypt.
		
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			And the family migrates from Palestine to Egypt.
		
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			And this sets the stage for the eventual
		
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			return of Bani Israel to the land of
		
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			Palestine.
		
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			And this is where you now come to.
		
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			About 1250 BC, enter Musa Alayhi Salaam.
		
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			Musa Alayhi Salaam grows up amongst his people,
		
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			Bani Israel in Egypt.
		
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			But now the rule has transitioned to a
		
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			pharaonic rule.
		
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			Not to get into a tangent, subhanAllah, but
		
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			one of the most powerful proofs of the
		
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			Qur'an is that the Qur'an accurately
		
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			does not call the pre-pharaoh rule a
		
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			pharaon.
		
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			Whereas the Bible makes this mistake.
		
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			And historians will point to this in Ijaz,
		
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			the historical accuracy of the Qur'an.
		
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			So a pharaonic rule rises in Egypt.
		
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			Bani Israel has moved now to Egypt.
		
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			And they are slaves in the land of
		
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			Egypt.
		
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			And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gives them
		
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			victory over their pharaoh.
		
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			And they are right at the gates of
		
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			Jerusalem.
		
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			And this is where Musa Alayhi Salaam says,
		
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			يَا قَوْمُ اذْكُرُوا نِعْمَةَ اللَّهِ عَلَيْكُمْ إِذْ جَعَلَ
		
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			فِيكُمْ أَنبِيَاءٌ وَجَعَلَكُمْ مُلُوكًا O my people, remember
		
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			the favor of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			when He placed amongst you prophethood and kingship.
		
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			And the scholars mentioned that Musa Alayhi Salaam
		
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			was speaking about the future, speaking about the
		
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			potential amongst you, that He has not just
		
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			promised you nubuwwah, that He has taken you
		
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			from being slaves and taken you to a
		
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			place of kingship.
		
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			That you should not remain enslaved mentally to
		
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			Fir'aun and his power and his tyranny.
		
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			You have in you what Allah Azawajal has
		
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			placed in your determination, nubuwwah and mulk, prophethood
		
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			and kingdom.
		
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			يَا قَوْمُ اذْكُرُوا الْأَرْضَ الْمُقَدَّسَةَ الَّتِي كَتَبَ اللَّهُ
		
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			لَكُمْ O my people, enter into the holy
		
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			land that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has
		
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			written for you.
		
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			And unfortunately, their minds were too small, their
		
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			hearts were too weak.
		
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			They had not escaped the spiritual shackles of
		
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			Fir'aun even though Musa Alayhi Salaam let
		
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			them out of the physical * of Fir
		
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			'aun.
		
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			And so they said, يَا مُوسَىٰ إِنَّ فِيهَا
		
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			قَوْمٌ جَبَّارِينَ There are powerful people that are
		
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			there and we will not enter it, حَتَّى
		
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			يَخْرُجُوا مِنْهَا until they leave that land.
		
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			How many people were with Musa Alayhi Salaam
		
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			to give you a visual?
		
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			He had about 600,000 people with him.
		
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			All of them were unwilling to enter into
		
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			Jerusalem with the exception for two of them
		
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			that said that they would stand by Musa
		
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			Alayhi Salaam.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala just showed these
		
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			people the power of destruction of Fir'aun
		
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			by drowning Fir'aun and his army in
		
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			the seas.
		
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			He parted the seas to save them from
		
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			a far more brutal regime, from something far
		
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			more vicious.
		
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			But their faith had already gone back both
		
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			in terms of their tawheed, in terms of
		
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			their monotheism, constructing the golden calf, as well
		
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			as failing to believe in the power of
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			And so they refused.
		
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			And you can imagine how frustrating this was
		
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			to Musa Alayhi Salaam.
		
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			What do I have to do for you?
		
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			The seas were parted for you, an army
		
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			was drowned in front of your eyes, and
		
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			now you're saying, اِنَّ فِيهَا قَوْنْ جَبَّارِينَ Who
		
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			is more jabbar, as far as tyrants are
		
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			concerned, than Fir'aun?
		
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			But Allah spared you.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala saved you.
		
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			And so in this case, for 40 years
		
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			now, they have to wander in the deserts.
		
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			And this is what Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala mentions, when Musa Alayhi Salaam says, لَا
		
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			أَمْلِكُ إِلَى نَفْسِي وَأَخِي I cannot control anyone
		
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			but me and my brother.
		
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			It is me and my brother, and then
		
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			the fatah, the young man that is with
		
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			him.
		
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			I have no control over these people.
		
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			فَفْرُقْ بَيْنَنَا وَبَيْنَ الْقَوْمِ الْفَاسِقِينَ Separate me from
		
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			an evil people.
		
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			By the way, in that is a ishara
		
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			once again, a sign once again.
		
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			You don't claim Moses on the basis of
		
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			lineage.
		
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			It's a spiritual lineage, a righteousness.
		
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			He said, separate me from these people.
		
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			I am no longer of them.
		
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			They are no longer of me.
		
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			I want nothing to do with these people.
		
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			And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala answered by
		
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			making it مُحَرَّمَةٌ عَلِيمٌ أَرْبَعِينَ سَنَةٌ Forbidden for
		
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			40 years.
		
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			And this is what's known as سُنَّةُ الْإِسْتِبْدَاد
		
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			The sunnah of replacing a people that are
		
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			unworthy with a people that are worthy.
		
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			اللهم استعملنا ولا تستبدلنا Oh Allah, use us,
		
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			do not replace us.
		
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			Because what we see happening in Jerusalem right
		
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			now, we know what Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala has written in the future.
		
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			But the question we have to ask ourselves,
		
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			and I want you to keep asking yourself
		
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			as you go through the qualities, are we
		
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			worthy of this land?
		
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			Are we worthy of this victory from Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala?
		
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			And the scholars of tafsir mentioned that all
		
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			of the people of Musa a.s. were
		
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			elderly at this point.
		
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			The youngest one amongst them was 20.
		
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			And the reason why Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala gave it 40 years is that this
		
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			would be enough of a time for a
		
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			purge to happen, for a new generation to
		
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			grow amongst them that may be worthy of
		
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			what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has written
		
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			for them.
		
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			So for 40 years, they are in the
		
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			deserts.
		
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			No one knows who they are.
		
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			They have no contact with the outside world.
		
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			And that's why the ayat in Surah Al
		
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			-Baqarah come, لا يقتل بعضهم بعضا.
		
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			Not to kill amongst yourselves.
		
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			The rules of how they should behave with
		
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			each other as they reside now in the
		
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			deserts.
		
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			And Musa a.s. as we mentioned earlier,
		
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			is himself prevented from that victory, or from
		
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			seeing that entrance, that mighty entrance in the
		
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			land, not because of any wickedness on his
		
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			part, but only a physical barrier between him
		
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			and Jerusalem.
		
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			فسأل الله أن يدنيه من الأرض المقدسة رمية
		
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			بحجر.
		
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			So he asked Allah to digest the stones
		
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			thrown away from Jerusalem.
		
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			And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allowed him
		
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			that.
		
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			And he is buried تحت الكثير الأحمر under
		
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			a red dune very close to the gates
		
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			of Jerusalem.
		
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			Now this is where the story starts to
		
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			heat up.
		
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			1200 B.C. In Surah Al-Kahf, Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala mentions the story of
		
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			Musa a.s. and Al-Khadr a.s.
		
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			Just want you to start to tie stories
		
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			together.
		
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			When did the story of Musa and Al
		
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			-Khadr happen?
		
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			It happened during that time of Exodus.
		
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			During that time of wandering in the desert.
		
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			Which makes it that much more profound because
		
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			the story of Musa and Al-Khadr is
		
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			a story of Qadr.
		
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			Why do good things happen to bad people,
		
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			and bad things happen to good people?
		
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			And the workings of Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala, of His ajab, of His divine decree.
		
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			And the greatest thing on the concern of
		
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			Musa a.s. as far as the things
		
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			that are happening is the forbiddance of even
		
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			the righteous from entering into Jerusalem because of
		
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			the actions of the wicked.
		
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			But Allah has a divine scheme.
		
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			Allah mentions in Surah Al-Kahf, the fatah
		
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			of Musa a.s. The young man that
		
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			was with Musa a.s. Who was that
		
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			young man?
		
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			Have I already lost you all?
		
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			What time is it?
		
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			I'm gonna try to test how long I
		
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			can go with you all.
		
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			Once I see you wear out all together,
		
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			I'm gonna cut the lesson.
		
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			We'll continue next week inshaAllah.
		
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			Who is the fatah with Musa a.s.?
		
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			Who's the young man with him?
		
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			Yusha ibn Nun, the Prophet Joshua a.s.
		
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			SubhanAllah, just like how when the Prophet shalallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam stood on Safa, it was
		
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			the young Ali radiyallahu ta'ala anhu that
		
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			said, Ya Rasulullah, I will support you even
		
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			if everyone else turns their backs on you.
		
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			Yusha ibn Nun was a believing young man.
		
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			The young man who looked around and said,
		
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			What's wrong with you people?
		
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			Of course we'll support a Nabi of Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			And Allah azza wa jal rewarded him by
		
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			including him amongst the anbiya.
		
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			And so he was inducted into the legion
		
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			of prophets with Musa and Harun.
		
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			And now Yusha ibn Nun, the righteous fatah.
		
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			And this is where the lessons start to
		
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			pour in.
		
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			What stopped the people of Musa a.s.
		
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			from entering into Jerusalem was their lack of
		
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			faith.
		
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			And that lack of faith translated into cowardice.
		
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			They had no courage because of da'af
		
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			al-yaqeen, because of the weakness of their
		
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			certainty.
		
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			So cowardice had overcome them.
		
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			And that is the most severe form of
		
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			hypocrisy in that regard.
		
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			Allah tells you to go forth, and you
		
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			don't believe in the power of Allah, and
		
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			that's why you don't go forth.
		
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			That's the worst type of holding back.
		
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			See, different people hold back for different reasons.
		
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			But to hold back from a place of
		
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			disbelief is the worst form of holding back.
		
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			That I don't believe that Allah gives victory.
		
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			And if you don't believe that Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala gives, يَعِزُّ مَن يَشَاءُ وَيَذِلُّ
		
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			مَن يَشَاءُ That Allah azza wa jal gives
		
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			honor to whom He wants and He debases
		
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			whom He wants.
		
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			Then that's the worst form of holding back.
		
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			That's the people of Musa alayhi as-salam.
		
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			Let's go to what the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
		
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			wasallam told us about, Yusha ibn Nun alayhi
		
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			as-salam.
		
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			And this is in Sahih al-Bukhari.
		
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			Abu Hurairah radiyallahu ta'ala anhu narrates that
		
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			the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam said, غَزَى نَبِيٌ
		
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			مِنَ الْأَنبِيَاءِ فَقَالَ لِقَوْمِهِ That a prophet from
		
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			amongst his prophets went forth in battle, and
		
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			he said to his people, pause here, Ibn
		
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			Hajar rahimullah narrates that this is if you
		
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			piece the Prophet's stories together, this is Yusha
		
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			ibn Nun.
		
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			That Nabiyun al-Anbiya here is Yusha ibn
		
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			Nun entering into Jerusalem.
		
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			Now leading the children, the worthy children in
		
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			that sunnah of istibdad that have been switched
		
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			out towards Jerusalem.
		
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			But look at what he says to his
		
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			people.
		
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			This was the announcement of Yusha to the
		
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			people.
		
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			He said to them, لَا يَتْبَعْنِي رَجُلٌ مَلَكَ
		
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			بُضْعَ امْرَأَةٍ وَهُوَ يُرِيدُ أَن يَبْنِيَ بِهَا وَلَمَّا
		
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			يَبْنِي بِهَا He said, let not someone who
		
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			has just gotten married and wishes to consummate
		
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			his marriage but has not yet done so,
		
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			follow me.
		
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			Why?
		
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			It starts to make sense when you follow
		
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			the rest of the hadith.
		
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			He said, and do not وَلَا أَحَدٌ بَنَى
		
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			بُيُوتًا وَلَمْ يَرْفَعْ سُقُوفَهَا and not let anyone
		
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			follow me who is building a house but
		
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			has not yet put the roof on his
		
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			house.
		
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			وَلَا رَجُلٌ اشْتَرَى غَنَمًا او خَلِفَاتٍ وَهُوَ يَنْطَذِرُ
		
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			وِلَادَهَا He said, and let not anyone follow
		
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			me who has bought a sheep or some
		
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			pregnant she-camels and he is expecting them
		
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			to produce young.
		
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			Very interesting.
		
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			He said, if you're one of these people,
		
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			stay back.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because the second type of ضعف اليقين, of
		
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			certainty here, is someone who's too attached to
		
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			this world.
		
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			Nothing that was mentioned here is inherently haram.
		
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			But I want people who go forth and
		
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			aren't being held back by still being tied
		
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			to this world.
		
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			I want people that have overcome the distraction
		
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			of this world.
		
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			See, there are people that believe in Allah
		
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			SWT, believe in His power, but they're distracted
		
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			by the allure of this world.
		
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			And Yusha ibn Nun is saying that if
		
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			you're still stuck in the middle of these
		
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			things, then I can't have you with me.
		
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			I need people that are singularly focused on
		
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			the pleasure of Allah SWT right now.
		
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			Incredible, subhanAllah.
		
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			And so he went forth, the Prophet ﷺ,
		
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			فَغَزَ فَدَنَا مِنَ الْقَرْيَةِ that he came close.
		
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			And then as he approached the time, he
		
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			approached it at صلاة العصر أو قريبا من
		
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			ذلك or close to صلاة العصر.
		
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			He approached this town, and it's presumably Jerusalem,
		
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			at the time of عصر.
		
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			And just as he looked up at the
		
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			sun as it was setting, قَالَ لِلشَّمْسِ إِنَّكِ
		
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			مَأْمُورًا وَأَنَا مَأْمُورًا You, O sun, are commanded
		
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			by Allah, and I too am commanded by
		
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			Allah.
		
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			اللهم حبسها علينا فحبست حتى فتح الله علينا
		
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			O Allah, hold it back.
		
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			Hold back the sun.
		
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			And so Allah سُبْحَانَهُ وَ تَعَالَى held back
		
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			the sun until Allah سُبْحَانَهُ وَ تَعَالَى granted
		
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			him victory on his hands.
		
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			And he is the man that the Prophet
		
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			صلى الله عليه وسلم mentioned that the sun
		
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			has never stopped for a man besides يوشى
		
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			عبد النون as he was to conquer بيت
		
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			المقدس.
		
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			Allah held it back for six days until
		
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			he completed the mission.
		
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			By the way, subhanAllah, I always wonder, and
		
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			this is of the mysteries that Allah عز
		
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			و جل leaves in the Qur'an, perhaps
		
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			so that you don't become obsessed with the
		
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			details.
		
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			After Musa found Al-Khadr, what happened to
		
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			Yusha?
		
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			What happened to the Fata?
		
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			And it's in the same spirit of that
		
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			they will say خمسة, they will say there
		
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			are five or six or seven.
		
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			These details belong to Allah سُبْحَانَهُ وَ تَعَالَى,
		
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			but certainly what Musa عليه السلام gained of
		
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			an understanding of the قدر of Allah سُبْحَانَهُ
		
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			وَ تَعَالَى and divine nature would have been
		
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			transplanted back into the Fata of Yusha عبدالنون
		
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			عليه السلام who understands Allah commands, Allah decrees,
		
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			we go forth.
		
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			And so the qualities are not just to
		
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			believe in the power of Allah سُبْحَانَهُ وَ
		
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			تَعَالَى and to develop توكل, to develop the
		
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			trust in Allah سُبْحَانَهُ وَ تَعَالَى, but also
		
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			the quality of not being distracted by the
		
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			allure of this world as you pursue the
		
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			eternity of Jannah.
		
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			We also know from the Messenger of Allah
		
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			سُبْحَانَهُ وَ تَعَالَى that none of those who
		
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			worshipped the Baqarah, who worshipped the calf, were
		
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			amongst those who Allah عز و جل allowed
		
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			to enter Jerusalem with Yusha عبدالنون.
		
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			That this was a different generation, a smaller
		
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			generation of righteous people, the children of some
		
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			of those who disobeyed, which shows you the
		
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			possibility of redemption in the children of those
		
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			who disobeyed.
		
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			But Allah عز و جل granted them victory,
		
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			and as Imam At-Tabari رحمه الله and
		
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			others narrate that Yusha عبدالنون died at the
		
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			age of 127 after defeating seven tribes, and
		
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			he's believed to be buried in Asalt in
		
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			Al-Urdun today, in Jordan today.
		
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			Story should be over now, right?
		
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			But it's always the same cycle.
		
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			Allah grants the righteous generation victory, and then
		
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			they disobey Allah again.
		
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			Allah sends them Hizqil, Ilyas, Ruzayr, prophet after
		
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			prophet after prophet to remind them to come
		
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			back to Allah سُبْحَانَهُ وَ تَعَالَى, but wickedness
		
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			overcomes them again, and in their prosperity, they
		
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			develop spiritual poverty, and they move away from
		
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			Allah سُبْحَانَهُ وَ تَعَالَى.
		
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			Then Allah sends Samuel, the Prophet Samuel عليه
		
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			السلام.
		
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			And Samuel is asked by Bani Israel who
		
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			have now been run out once again, despised
		
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			once again, diminished once again, send us a
		
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			king that we can fight behind and reclaim
		
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			our glory.
		
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			And Allah sends Talut, Talut عليه السلام.
		
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			Talut comes forth, chosen by Samuel because of
		
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			his righteousness, and the same people reject him
		
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			because he's not from the elite tribes, nor
		
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			is he elite in wealth.
		
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			Does it sound familiar?
		
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			Think about Quraysh when they saw the Prophet
		
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			صلى الله عليه وسلم, or Bani Qurayza, and
		
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			Qaynuqa, and Nadhir, and Madinah when they saw
		
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			the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم, like him?
		
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			Now the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم was
		
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			from the most noble of lineage, but why
		
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			not us?
		
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			And he's not rich.
		
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			He doesn't have the glory of a king,
		
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			the embellishments of a king.
		
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			He's different.
		
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			Talut was poor, and he was from the
		
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			descendants of Binyamin عليه السلام.
		
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			SubhanAllah, the irony of how it just travels.
		
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			Yusuf and Binyamin from a different mother, and
		
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			so they were put to the side.
		
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			He's from Binyamin.
		
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			But Allah عز و جل describes him as
		
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			بَسْطَطً فِي الْعِلْمِ وَالْجِسْمِ that Allah gave him
		
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			tremendous knowledge and tremendous strength.
		
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			And if you want victory, you follow a
		
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			man of faith, a man of knowledge, a
		
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			man of strength that Allah سبحانه وتعالى has
		
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			chosen.
		
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			And Allah عز و جل even gave an
		
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			ayah, just as He gave an ayah to
		
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			the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم.
		
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			Ayah to the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم.
		
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			And that ayah was al-Tabut.
		
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			The Tabut was a casket of sorts that
		
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			had some of the belongings of Musa عليه
		
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			السلام and Harun عليه السلام.
		
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			And they used to keep them for barakah,
		
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			for blessing.
		
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			And the enemies who had now spread through
		
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			the land under Jalut, Goliath, the Philistines who
		
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			by the way have nothing to do with
		
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			Palestine and the Arabs.
		
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			But Goliath spreads corruption through the land, implores
		
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			a very pharaonic way of dealing with Bani
		
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			Israel.
		
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			يُذَبِّحُونَ أَبْنَاءَكُمْ وَيَسْتَحِيُونَ نِسَاءَكُمْ Once again killing
		
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			children, wreaking corruption, beating them back into their
		
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			corners.
		
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			Allah سبحانه وتعالى restores the Tabut back to
		
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			Talut in a divine fashion.
		
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			And so the angels bring the Tabut from
		
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			the seizure of Jalut to Talut.
		
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			From Goliath to Saul to Talut.
		
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			And that is a sign of Allah سبحانه
		
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			وتعالى's blessing.
		
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			And it's a sign that Allah will send
		
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			the Malaika, will send the angels to give
		
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			you victory.
		
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			Allah عز و جل will propel you to
		
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			victory so long as you remain upon that
		
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			way.
		
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			Talut goes forward.
		
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			Some of the narrations of Tafsir mention about
		
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			30,000 men.
		
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			The army of Jalut, of Goliath, is anywhere
		
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			from a quarter million to a half a
		
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			million.
		
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			Significantly larger army and mighty in strength, huge
		
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			in size, fully equipped with all of the
		
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			military equipment that was necessary at the time.
		
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			And Talut goes forth with divine providence.
		
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			And it was here that Allah عز و
		
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			جل sends another test.
		
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			The test of sincerity.
		
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			And sincerity shows in attrition.
		
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			Think about this.
		
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			Like go back to Musa عليه السلام's people
		
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			who were not worthy.
		
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			And then Yusha عليه السلام saying like, I
		
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			can't have you if you're still being pulled.
		
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			And now the greatest test of sincerity and
		
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			courage and yaqeen and certainty is attrition.
		
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			Which is what?
		
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			That after a long journey, striving in the
		
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			desert, they arrive at the Jordan River.
		
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			And Allah سُبْحَانَهُ وَ تَعَالَى mentions that Talut
		
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			says to them, إِنَّ اللَّهَ مُبْتَرِيكُمْ بِنَهَمٍ Allah
		
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			is testing you with this river.
		
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			Do not drink from this river.
		
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			That's the test.
		
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			The test of attrition.
		
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			What made the Sahaba so special in battle
		
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			was that they always had that extra push
		
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			of iman that the other side could not
		
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			understand.
		
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			That always allowed them to propel forward at
		
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			the very end.
		
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			That attrition, that resilience that Allah describes, that
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ describes, the people of Gaza
		
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			today, Al-Ta'if Al-Mansurah today, the
		
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			saved group today.
		
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			That they push to the end.
		
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			And so you're thirsty.
		
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			And the lesson is don't drink from the
		
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			water because that's the order.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Don't ask why.
		
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			Follow the rules, follow the commands.
		
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			And unfortunately, شَرِبُوا مِنْهُ إِلَّا قَلِيلَ مِنْهُمْ Almost
		
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			all of them drank from the river.
		
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			And so how many graduated from that test
		
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			of anywhere from 30,000 to 80,000
		
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			men?
		
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			How many of them graduated?
		
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			Anyone know?
		
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			Alhamdulillah, you're either learning or you're asleep then.
		
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			It's actually a hadith which shows you, subhanAllah,
		
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			the divine transfer here.
		
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			Al-Bara'a radiAllahu ta'ala says, حَدَّثَنِي
		
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			أَصْحَابُ مُحَمَّدٍ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمٍ مِنْ مَنْ
		
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			شَهِدَ بَدْرٍ That the companions of the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ who witnessed Badr said to me, أَنَّهُمْ
		
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			كَانُوا عِدَّةَ أَصْحَابِ طَالُوتِ أَلَّذِينَ جَازُوا مَعَهُ النَّهَرِ
		
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			That they were the same number as the
		
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			army of Talut that passed the test of
		
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			the river.
		
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			And that is, of course, in this case,
		
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			بِضْعَةَ عَشْرَ وَثَلَاثَ مِئَة That 310 and some,
		
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			and we know that the people of Badr
		
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			were 313 approximately.
		
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			The sahaba in Badr, the best of this
		
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			ummah were the people of Badr.
		
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			And they were 313.
		
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			And the sahaba are saying that we are
		
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			the same number as the best that were
		
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			purified.
		
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			That got to march forth towards Jerusalem.
		
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			I read that hadith and it blew my
		
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			mind.
		
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			It really did, subhanAllah, when you think about
		
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			it.
		
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			Like how the divine promise keeps on coming
		
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			back over and over and over again.
		
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			Talut with Badr, 313 sincere people than 30
		
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			,000 men whose hearts cannot be trusted.
		
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			Because that's where victory comes.
		
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			And remember when Jibril a.s. says, what
		
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			do you say about Ashabu Badr, Ahl Badr,
		
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			the people of Badr amongst you, the companions
		
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			of the Prophet ﷺ said, they're the best
		
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			of us.
		
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			And Jibril a.s. said, and they're the
		
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			best of the angels.
		
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			And here 313 men were the only men
		
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			that were worthy from the army of Talut.
		
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			And he continues, and he says, مَا جَاوَزَ
		
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			مَعَهُ النَّهْرَ إِلَّا مُؤْمِنُ That no one passed
		
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			the river with Talut except for a true
		
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			believer.
		
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			And no one stood with the Prophet ﷺ
		
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			in Badr except for a true believer.
		
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			There were no hypocrites amongst the people of
		
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			Badr.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave them a
		
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			decisive victory and of the most righteous of
		
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			those that followed.
		
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			You know there's a scene in Badr before
		
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			the battle, the two Mu'ads tapping on
		
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			the shoulder of the senior companions, Sa'd ibn
		
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			Abi Waqas, Abd al-Rahman ibn Auf, and
		
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			they're saying, which one of those Abu Jahl?
		
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			We're ready to go fight him.
		
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			Come on man, these are the people that
		
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			were with little kids that show up on
		
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			the day of Badr and say, we're ready?
		
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			And that begged their parents to go out
		
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			and to be alongside the Prophet ﷺ?
		
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			A young man arises from the army of
		
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			Talut.
		
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			And he's a young man from Bethlehem, from
		
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			Bethlehem.
		
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			And he has righteous parents.
		
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			Who is this young man?
		
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			Dawud ﷺ.
		
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			The father of Dawud ﷺ permits the rest
		
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			of the kids to go, but he doesn't
		
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			want Dawud to go.
		
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			Dawud insists on going forth and joining the
		
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			army of Talut.
		
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			He joins the army of Talut.
		
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			And he is the one who rises to
		
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			the occasion.
		
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			He is the one whom Allah ﷻ grants
		
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			victory over Jalut, over Goliath.
		
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			And as he defeats the army of Goliath,
		
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			Allah ﷻ allows Dawud ﷺ to capture Jerusalem
		
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			and to make it the capital of his
		
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			kingdom and a hub of ibadah, of worship
		
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			and spirituality and true connection with Allah ﷻ.
		
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			Dawud ﷺ who exemplifies just rule, who exemplifies
		
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			al-'adl, who exemplifies not being deceived by who
		
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			your parents are or what tribe you come
		
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			from.
		
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			Dawud ﷺ who encompasses all of the desired
		
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			qualities of man yet is not held back
		
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			by the usual desires of man.
		
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			And I want you to think about this.
		
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			If you took the way the Prophet ﷺ
		
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			praised Dawud ﷺ and his qualities, subhanAllah, that
		
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			could be an entire book in and of
		
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			itself.
		
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			That could be a risalah in and of
		
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			itself.
		
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			When Adam ﷺ saw his children, before we
		
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			were even here, and he saw light coming
		
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			from this young man, he said, who is
		
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			that?
		
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			How much nur he has.
		
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			And Adam ﷺ even gave him decades of
		
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			his own life.
		
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			So this young man needs to live more.
		
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			60 years is not enough for him.
		
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			Give him 40 of my life, let him
		
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			live a hundred years.
		
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			Because Dawud ﷺ is a man of salah.
		
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			The Prophet ﷺ mentioned khayr al-qiyam.
		
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			The best of qiyam is the qiyam of
		
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			Dawud ﷺ.
		
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			You know that concept of the last third
		
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			of the night?
		
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			Dawud ﷺ used to pray in the last
		
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			third of the night.
		
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			The best of qiyam, the best of fasting
		
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			is the fasting of Dawud ﷺ.
		
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			How much did Dawud ﷺ used to fast?
		
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			How much did he used to fast?
		
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			Every other day.
		
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			Imagine the state of the heart of a
		
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			person who fasts every other day.
		
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			By the way, the first person I ever
		
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			met in my life who actually does qiyam
		
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			Dawud is someone who is a convert to
		
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			Islam.
		
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			Who regularly has done it.
		
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			A sister that converted to Islam has been
		
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			upon it for years.
		
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			May Allah عز و جل preserve her and
		
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			keep her steadfast upon it.
		
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			Blew my mind.
		
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			Imagine the state of the heart of a
		
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			person that fasts every other day.
		
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			So his qiyam, his siyam, his shukr, اعمالو
		
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			آل داوود شكرا His gratitude that Allah praises
		
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			in the Qur'an.
		
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			He was worthy because of that.
		
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			And here is something very important too.
		
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			That if you open a version of the
		
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			Bible today and you read about King David,
		
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			he's not that person.
		
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			He's a person who's deceitful at times.
		
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			He's a person who sends out his general
		
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			to go out and die in battle because
		
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			he finds the wife of that general desirable
		
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			as he catches her bathing so that he
		
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			can steal her from him.
		
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			He is denigrated with the worst of qualities.
		
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			Look at the way that he's praised by
		
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			the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم.
		
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			Look at the qualities that have been assigned
		
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			to him.
		
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			And yes, we believe wholeheartedly that these are
		
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			not the original scriptures and texts about Dawud
		
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			عليه السلام that these were assigned to him,
		
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			that these were placed on him.
		
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			Because if you can make a person of
		
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			that lowliness of quality still capable of that
		
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			highness of victory, then our lowly qualities should
		
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			not stop us from victory.
		
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			They're not disqualifying qualities anymore.
		
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			And that is a significant departure that we
		
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			have with the narrative around Dawud عليه السلام
		
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			and other prophets as well.
		
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			So he's the opposite of that.
		
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			So Dawud عليه السلام, again, exemplifies the qualities
		
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			that were necessary to be granted that gift
		
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			praised by the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم.
		
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			He ruled for about 30 decades, and then
		
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			Suleyman عليه السلام rises, and Suleyman عليه السلام
		
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			becomes king.
		
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			This is around now 933 B.C. to
		
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			972 B.C. And this is the culmination
		
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			of the political power and the kingdom of
		
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			Bani Isra'il.
		
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			He builds masajid.
		
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			And when we say masajid, we mean places
		
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			of worship all over the earth.
		
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			Ibn Abbas صلى الله عليه وسلم mentions over
		
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			40 of them.
		
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			And he particularly invests in Al-Aqsa, in
		
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			a place of worship in the holy land,
		
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			knowing the blessing and virtue of that land.
		
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			And he makes dua at that time as
		
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			we said, that no one will come to
		
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			this masjid.
		
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			وَأَلَّا يَأْتِيَ هَٰذَا الْمَسْجِدَ أَحَدٌ نَا يُرِيدُ إِلَّا
		
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			صَلَاةَ فِيهِ إِلَّا خَرَجَ مِن ذُنُوبِهِ كَيَوْمِ وَلَدَةُ
		
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			أُمُّهُ That no one will come to this
		
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			place only to pray except that they will
		
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			leave this place, like the day that their
		
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			mother gave birth to them.
		
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			After Sulaiman عليه السلام, we now come to
		
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			the year 587 B.C. And this is
		
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			a name that I don't expect any of
		
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			you to remember, Nabakut Nazar.
		
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			You all remembered it?
		
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			But this is who many of the Mufasireen
		
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			mentioned, in the Qur'an, وَمَنْ أَظْلَمُ مِمَّنْ
		
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			مَنْعَ مَسَاجِدَ اللَّهِ وَيُذْكَرَ فِيهَا اسْمُهُ وَسَعَىٰ فِي
		
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			خَرَابِهَا The first person we know to destroy,
		
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			to have to actually destroy the remnants of
		
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			worship in Al-Aqsa.
		
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			And so this is the first destruction by
		
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			the Babylonians.
		
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			And the Babylonians would ransack much of the
		
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			lands around the Sham until they specifically honed
		
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			in on Palestine.
		
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			They besieged Quds twice, one time in 597
		
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			B.C., another time in 589 B.C.
		
00:48:16 --> 00:48:21
			And then finally, in 586 B.C., he
		
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			raids and kicks out the entire population, and
		
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			destroys all of the remnants of Bani Israel
		
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			in that population.
		
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			He depopulates it almost entirely.
		
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			So anything of Sulaiman A.S., anything of
		
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			Bani Israel at that time, is expelled.
		
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			Now here's the thing, even in Jewish tradition,
		
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			this is attributed to the deterioration of faith
		
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			and manners and character of Bani Israel.
		
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			That wickedness bears defeat.
		
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			Righteousness bears victory.
		
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			Wickedness bears defeat.
		
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			And so now, Jerusalem is under the rule
		
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			of the Babylonians.
		
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			It's at this time, to show you the
		
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			movement of the world, we're about a thousand
		
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			years before the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, that
		
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			you start to see the first appearance of
		
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			what would become Banu Qaynuqa, Banu Qurayza and
		
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			Banu Nadhir in the area of Al-Madinah
		
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			Al-Munawwarah, in the area of Yathrib.
		
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			Anticipating where the direction of light will come.
		
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			So it's actually at this point when the
		
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			Babylonians expel and depopulate Jerusalem from Bani Israel,
		
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			that some of them start to make their
		
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			way and head to that land.
		
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			The year 537, Cyrus, the Persian king, conquers
		
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			Babylon.
		
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			And he allows for the Jews to return
		
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			to Jerusalem.
		
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			And they begin to rebuild in the area
		
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			of Al-Aqsa, to rebuild the temple.
		
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			So this is 537 BC.
		
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			516, Darius the Great completes the temple.
		
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			And so under Persian rule, the second temple
		
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			is complete.
		
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			The second temple is complete.
		
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			And this is going to last up until
		
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			we now have Alexander the Great in the
		
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			year 332 approximately BC conquering Jerusalem.
		
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			So you go from Babylonian to Persian to
		
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			Greek.
		
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			And when the Greeks enter, then in this
		
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			case, the region is influenced by all sorts
		
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			of Hellenistic practices, all sorts of Greek culture.
		
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			And so the temple is there, 352, as
		
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			it was rebuilt.
		
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			The temple is there and it's going to
		
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			stand, but you start to see Greek influence
		
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			coming under Alexander the Great.
		
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			164 BC, the Hasmonean dynasty establishes rule.
		
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			I'm gonna fast forward to Isa a.s.,
		
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			coming to Jesus peace be upon him.
		
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			63 BC, Pompey the Great takes Jerusalem.
		
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			And he's a Roman general.
		
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			So the Romans, who had established now dominance
		
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			around Hashem, around Syria, in the year 64,
		
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			are able to conquer Jerusalem.
		
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			63 BC.
		
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			47 BC, Julius Caesar conquers Alexandria and then
		
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			defeats Pompey in 45 BC.
		
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			And then under Julius Caesar, Judaism is officially
		
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			recognized as a legal religion.
		
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			Under Roman rule.
		
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			And so they start to practice an allowance
		
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			of Judaism to exist under Roman rule, but
		
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			of course with Roman conditions.
		
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			Julius Caesar is murdered in the year 43
		
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			BC.
		
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			We're getting closer to Isa a.s. The
		
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			Roman civil war starts.
		
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			Herod the Great is designated as the king
		
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			of the Jews by the Roman sentence.
		
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			And so the Roman Empire installs Herod the
		
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			Great, who is technically from Bani Israel, to
		
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			rule under the provisions of the Romans.
		
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			So it's Judea as a client kingdom.
		
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			Not a fully independent kingdom, but a kingdom
		
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			that exists under a kingdom.
		
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			And so everyone knows that while Herod is
		
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			the throne in Jerusalem, that the power behind
		
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			the throne is the Roman occupation.
		
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			And Herod the Great will crush any type
		
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			of opposition.
		
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			He was a brutal ruler.
		
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			He didn't allow any type of revolution, any
		
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			type of revolt.
		
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			And so people feared the iron fist of
		
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			Herod.
		
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			But during that time, what he did to
		
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			the area of Jerusalem was he turned it
		
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			into a tourist destination.
		
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			I'll let your imagination make parallels to the
		
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			times as they come.
		
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			He turned it into a tourist destination.
		
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			He established a bazaar in the area of
		
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			the holy place.
		
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			Roman artifacts, Roman influence starts to show up
		
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			even in the area of the temple.
		
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			And so while architecturally, Jerusalem never looks more
		
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			beautiful.
		
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			The spirit is completely gone.
		
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			And this is now where you have what
		
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			the Romans practice, which was called syncretism, where
		
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			they accepted religious beliefs and philosophical teachings as
		
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			long as they were tempered by the greater
		
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			Roman political power and the greater Roman doctrine.
		
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			So what's happening to Bani Israel?
		
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			You guys have 15 more minutes left in
		
00:53:41 --> 00:53:41
			you?
		
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			The weather is nice.
		
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			The righteous amongst Bani Israel are a shrinking
		
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			breed, shrinking group.
		
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			Bani Israel though, many of them are still
		
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			sick of the political humiliation of the Romans.
		
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			They can't stand living under the grip of
		
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			the Roman Empire.
		
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			So they don't want victory for Allah.
		
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			They want victory for political dominance.
		
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			We want to overthrow the Roman system for
		
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			political dominance.
		
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			And so the weight now is on for
		
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			Al-Masih.
		
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			And Al-Masih, the Messiah is Al-Masih
		
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			Ibn Dawud.
		
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			I always chuckle when I see Ibn Dawud
		
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			like in the Haramain.
		
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			The weight is for Al-Masih, the son
		
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			of David.
		
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			Meaning someone from the lineage of Dawud Alayhi
		
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			Salaam.
		
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			And the word Messiah means anointed, chosen.
		
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			And if you look at the early Jewish
		
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			teachings, you'll find that they believed in Al
		
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			-Masih in the same way that we think
		
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			of a mujaddid, that every 100 years Allah
		
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			sends a reviver.
		
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			That uplifts them out of their political humiliation.
		
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			That revives their state of affairs.
		
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			That brings them back to a position of
		
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			power.
		
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			And so here in this case, Orthodox Jews,
		
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			till today by the way, they hold it
		
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			as one of the 13 principles of faith.
		
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			Reformed Jews actually don't believe in a Messiah
		
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			at all.
		
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			So similar to, I guess, Qur'aniyun, those
		
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			that say we only believe in the Qur
		
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			'an.
		
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			If it's not in the Qur'an, it's
		
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			not real.
		
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			Reformed Jews will point to the fact that
		
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			the Messiah or this concept of a Messiah
		
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			that has this type of specification is not
		
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			explicit enough.
		
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			Or the messianic concept is not explicitly mentioned
		
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			in the Torah, in the first five books.
		
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			Therefore, they don't accept it.
		
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			Who is this person?
		
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			A great military leader, a king that other
		
00:55:40 --> 00:55:42
			leaders will look to for guidance, that will
		
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			bring people back to the worship of one
		
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			God.
		
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			A person that will descend from Dawud a
		
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			.s. Weapons of war will be destroyed.
		
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			By the way, I'm quoting straight from the
		
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			Bible as it exists today.
		
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			These are all traits of the Messiah, al
		
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			-Masih ibn Dawud.
		
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			And they were so desperate for a Masih
		
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			to bring them out of political humiliation and
		
00:56:03 --> 00:56:05
			restore the temple and give them the promised
		
00:56:05 --> 00:56:09
			land without any type of religious consideration that
		
00:56:09 --> 00:56:12
			they even assigned the Persian king Cyrus as
		
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			a Messiah.
		
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			They called him a Masih too.
		
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			Even though he's absolutely not within the corpus
		
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			of what would fit the category.
		
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			And if you read the Psalm 137, verse
		
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			8 and 9, O Babylon, you will be
		
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			destroyed.
		
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			Happy is the one who pays you back
		
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			for what you have done to us.
		
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			Blessed is the one who grabs your babies
		
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			and smashes them against the stone.
		
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			There's a vindictive nature of overthrow, of getting
		
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			back to a place of victory.
		
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			Before Isa a.s. al-Masih, Isa a
		
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			.s. al-Masih ibn Maryam, you have two
		
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			famous claimants to being the Messiah, to bring
		
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			Bani Israel back to their place of power.
		
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			First you have Judas Maccabeus, who's about 160
		
00:57:02 --> 00:57:07
			B.C. But he's mentioned because he's very
		
00:57:07 --> 00:57:09
			successful before he's killed.
		
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			He purifies the temple of Jerusalem.
		
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			He is someone who frees Bani Israel from
		
00:57:15 --> 00:57:16
			foreign *.
		
00:57:16 --> 00:57:19
			He ushers in a temporary period of dominance.
		
00:57:20 --> 00:57:21
			And that is actually when Hanukkah is celebrated
		
00:57:21 --> 00:57:22
			every year.
		
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			Referring to his victory to free them from
		
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			foreign dominance.
		
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			And then you have Simon of Peria, who
		
00:57:31 --> 00:57:33
			to me, subhanAllah, is really a fascinating figure.
		
00:57:34 --> 00:57:37
			There was a National Geographic documentary called The
		
00:57:37 --> 00:57:38
			First Jesus.
		
00:57:38 --> 00:57:40
			And it's about Simon of Peria, because he's
		
00:57:40 --> 00:57:42
			right at the same time of Isa a
		
00:57:42 --> 00:57:44
			.s. In fact, he's believed to have launched
		
00:57:44 --> 00:57:48
			his revolt the same time that Jesus was
		
00:57:48 --> 00:57:48
			born.
		
00:57:48 --> 00:57:51
			The same year that Isa a.s. was
		
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			born.
		
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			And he was a slave of Herod the
		
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			Great.
		
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			But he rebelled, and he managed to burn
		
00:57:58 --> 00:57:59
			down multiple palaces.
		
00:57:59 --> 00:58:01
			He burnt down the palace in Jericho.
		
00:58:02 --> 00:58:06
			He managed to outsmart Herod in many ways,
		
00:58:06 --> 00:58:09
			and conquer much of his palaces, much of
		
00:58:09 --> 00:58:10
			his territory.
		
00:58:10 --> 00:58:12
			And many of Bani Israel believed that he
		
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			was the one.
		
00:58:13 --> 00:58:14
			This is our Messiah.
		
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			This is Al-Masih ibn Dawud, Simon.
		
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			But then he was caught and he was
		
00:58:18 --> 00:58:18
			beheaded.
		
00:58:20 --> 00:58:22
			And so now we're waiting, we're waiting, we're
		
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			waiting.
		
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			And we come to the family of Imran.
		
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			Bani Israel at this point had largely become
		
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			corrupted.
		
00:58:31 --> 00:58:35
			There was corruption amongst them, cheating, wickedness.
		
00:58:35 --> 00:58:39
			And that's compounded by the humiliation, the degradation
		
00:58:39 --> 00:58:42
			of their political situation that seems to justify
		
00:58:42 --> 00:58:43
			the evil amongst themselves.
		
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			We are treated this way, and so we
		
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			treat each other this way also.
		
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			And amongst them you have the shining family
		
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			of Ali Imran who Allah has chosen.
		
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			Imran, a leader, an imam.
		
00:58:58 --> 00:59:00
			And then Zakariya alayhi salam.
		
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			And Allah takes us to those moments in
		
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			Al-Masjid al-Aqsa.
		
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			And how does this work?
		
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			The wife of Imran gets pregnant.
		
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			She asks Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
		
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			bear children.
		
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			She gets pregnant.
		
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			إِنِّي وَضَعْتُ لَكَ مَا فِي بَطْنِ مُحَرَّرًا I
		
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			have dedicated what is in my tummy.
		
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			I have dedicated what is in my stomach.
		
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			Freed for the worship of Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala.
		
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			Freed from all responsibilities.
		
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			The hope was that this was the Prophet.
		
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			That this was going to be one that
		
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			would revive the ways of Bani Israel.
		
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			Bring them back to Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala.
		
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			This is all happening around Jerusalem now.
		
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			And she gives birth and of course, it
		
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			is Maryam alayhi salam, a girl.
		
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			رَبِّ إِنِّي وَضَعْتُهَا أُنْثَ I gave birth to
		
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			a girl.
		
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			وَلَيْسَ الذَّكَرُ كَالْأُنْثَ وَإِنِّي سَمَّيْتُهَا مَرْيَم A girl
		
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			is not like a boy, but I have
		
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			named her Maryam.
		
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			By the way, how many of you are
		
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			named Maryam in the crowd?
		
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			Do we have Maryams?
		
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			This is strange.
		
01:00:02 --> 01:00:03
			I don't think I've ever been in a
		
01:00:03 --> 01:00:05
			Muslim gathering this large and not seen a
		
01:00:05 --> 01:00:06
			single Maryam.
		
01:00:06 --> 01:00:06
			Alhamdulillah.
		
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			I'm going to assume that there are many
		
01:00:09 --> 01:00:10
			other shy Maryams.
		
01:00:11 --> 01:00:13
			I promise I wasn't going to make you
		
01:00:13 --> 01:00:14
			stand up or do any fundraising.
		
01:00:15 --> 01:00:18
			But when she says, I have named her
		
01:00:18 --> 01:00:20
			Maryam, there is something there that shows that
		
01:00:20 --> 01:00:21
			there is an insistence that this is a
		
01:00:21 --> 01:00:22
			special child.
		
01:00:22 --> 01:00:25
			There is a protest being registered behind that
		
01:00:25 --> 01:00:25
			name.
		
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			The name Maryam, if translated, means Amatullah, the
		
01:00:33 --> 01:00:36
			female servant of Allah.
		
01:00:39 --> 01:00:42
			أَمَةُ رَبِّي The female slave of my Lord,
		
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			if you trace its roots.
		
01:00:44 --> 01:00:45
			And I'm not going to get too far
		
01:00:45 --> 01:00:45
			into that right now.
		
01:00:46 --> 01:00:47
			Why is that so profound?
		
01:00:47 --> 01:00:50
			Because Aisha radiallahu anha mentions that Bani Israel
		
01:00:50 --> 01:00:54
			had prohibited their women from worshipping in the
		
01:00:54 --> 01:00:54
			masjid.
		
01:00:55 --> 01:00:59
			And so when she intended a boy that
		
01:00:59 --> 01:01:02
			she would dedicate to the masjid, and it
		
01:01:02 --> 01:01:05
			was a girl, وَإِنِّي سَمَّيْتُهَا مَرْيَمًۭ I will
		
01:01:05 --> 01:01:08
			fulfill my promise, my intention with this child.
		
01:01:08 --> 01:01:10
			The Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam said, لَا
		
01:01:10 --> 01:01:15
			تَمْنَعُوا إِمَاءَ اللَّهِ Do not prohibit the Amatullahs,
		
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			the female servants of Allah from the houses
		
01:01:18 --> 01:01:19
			of Allah, from masajid of Allah.
		
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			And subhanAllah, that spirit is encompassed here.
		
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			Zakariya a.s. builds for her a mihrab,
		
01:01:26 --> 01:01:32
			كَفَّلَهَا زَكَرِيَّ The husband of her aunt takes
		
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			her, builds a mihrab for her in the
		
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			masjid.
		
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			And Zakariya was a najjar, was a carpenter
		
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			as the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam said
		
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			in the hadith in Bukhari.
		
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			She worships in her own mihrab, in her
		
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			own place.
		
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			And mihrab means, يُحَارِبُ نَفْسَ A place of
		
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			harb, a place where you wage war against
		
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			your soul, against yourself.
		
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			Exerting herself in ibadah in a corner in
		
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			masjid al-Aqsa, away from the political affairs,
		
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			or from even the religious circles of Bani
		
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			Israel, as she stays in her place, growing
		
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			up in the worship of Allah.
		
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			Zakariya a.s. is looking around and wondering
		
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			where is the continuation of the promise of
		
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			Bani Israel, of the promise of goodness and
		
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			faith amongst our people in this land.
		
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			And then Zakariya a.s. كُلَّ مَا دَخَلَ
		
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			عَلَيْهَا زَكَرِيَا الْمِحْرَابُ وَجَدَ عِنْدَهَا رِزْقَةً Zakariya starts
		
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			seeing fruits and vegetables out of season popping
		
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			up always in the mihrab of Maryam a
		
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			.s. أَنَّ لَكِ هَذَا Where is this going?
		
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			Where is this coming from?
		
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			هُوَ مِنْ عِنْدِ اللَّهِ إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَرُزُقُ مَن
		
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			يَشَىٰء بِغَيْرِ حِسَابٍ This is from Allah.
		
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			Allah provides what He wills to whom He
		
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			wills, when He wills.
		
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			هُنَٰلِكَ دَعَى زَكَرِيَا رَبَّهِ Zakariya takes to the
		
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			corner of Masjid al-Aqsa and imagine that
		
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			man making dua, a 90-year-old man.
		
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			قَالَ رَبِّ إِنِّي وَهْنَ الْعَظْمُ مِنِّي وَاجْتَعَلَ الرَّأْسُ
		
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			شَيْبًا وَلَمْ أَكُن بِدُعَاءِكَ رَبِّ شَقِيًا Ya Allah!
		
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			Oh my Lord!
		
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			My hair is bursting with gray.
		
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			My bones have withered on the inside.
		
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			But I've never given up in my dua
		
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			on You because You've never let me down
		
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			in my dua.
		
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			وَإِنِّي خِفْتُ الْمَوَالِيَ مِنْ وَرَائِي وَكَانَتْ امْرَأَتِي عَقِرًا
		
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			I'm looking around, I don't see anybody.
		
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			I don't see the transition.
		
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			I don't see the succession of righteousness.
		
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			Forget about the political corruption.
		
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			What about the religious corruption?
		
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			What's gonna happen to us?
		
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			فَهَبَلِي And my wife is barren.
		
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			So give me a child.
		
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			يَرِثُنِي وَيَرِثُ مِنْ آلِيَعْقُوبِ وَجْعَلْهُ رَبِّ رَضِيًا Who
		
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			will inherit me and inherit from the family
		
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			of Ya'qub a.s. Isra'il a
		
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			.s. Everything of good that came, all the
		
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			knowledge, all the wisdom.
		
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			Let it be in this child.
		
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			And let him be pleasing to you.
		
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			Allah a.s. grants him Yahya a.s.
		
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			Yahya a.s. is born.
		
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			And Maryam a.s. little did she know
		
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			that suddenly she would be pregnant too.
		
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			And she goes to مَكَانًا قَصِيًّا A hidden
		
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			place to deliver.
		
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			Now subhanAllah, Maryam a.s. would leave Al
		
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			-Aqsa only at the time as Ibn Abbas
		
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			a.s. mentions, where she would not be
		
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			in the masjid during that time of the
		
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			month, but she would still remember Allah a
		
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			.s. مَكَانًا شَرْقِيًّا Towards the east because she
		
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			would go towards the sun outside and she
		
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			would remember Allah and still be in a
		
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			state of dhikr.
		
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			Jibreel a.s. pops up, gives her the
		
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			news of Isa a.s. She hides out
		
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			in Bethlehem about 9 miles out in Bethlehem,
		
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			where Dawud a.s. once came.
		
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			And she waits for what will happen to
		
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			her.
		
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			Isa is born.
		
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			And she came to the courtyard of Al
		
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			-Aqsa.
		
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			Imagine the scene.
		
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			Imam al-Qurtubi a.s. gives you a
		
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			deep visual.
		
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			Maryam comes after missing for so long, holding
		
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			her child.
		
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			And she wasn't allowed to speak.
		
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			Because Allah a.s. prohibited her from speaking.
		
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			Holding her child.
		
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			And the rabbis of Bani Israel come out
		
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			to her.
		
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			And they start to point fingers at her
		
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			and mock her.
		
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			And she sits in the courtyard of Al
		
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			-Aqsa holding her child.
		
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			They gathered around her.
		
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			And the baby is breastfeeding from her.
		
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			And she's there sitting on the ground as
		
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			they start to insult her and demean her
		
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			and to mock her.
		
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			And in that place, when they say, how
		
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			could you do this?
		
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			She points to the baby.
		
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			And the baby leaves the breast of his
		
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			mother and starts to speak.
		
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			By the way, this wasn't a baby that
		
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			just said, Baba, Mama, no.
		
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			The baby gives a khutbah.
		
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			I mean, subhanAllah, how profound.
		
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			This was spoken in the courtyard of Al
		
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			-Aqsa.
		
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			And he gives the glad tidings of a
		
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			Prophet a.s. to come after him.
		
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			That speech that Isa a.s. gave is
		
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			implanted on the Dome of the Rock today.
		
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			It's written in the calligraphy of the Dome
		
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			of the Rock today.
		
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			That he gave in the courtyard of Al
		
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			-Aqsa.
		
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			Maryam a.s. This is where you start
		
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			to read in history and it becomes a
		
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			little bit cloudy.
		
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			The massacre of the innocents perhaps, where Herod
		
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			sees a dream that he interprets as an
		
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			overthrow of his kingdom.
		
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			And it's believed that Maryam flees to Egypt
		
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			because of the massacre of the innocents.
		
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			And then comes back from Mosul eventually to
		
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			Palestine.
		
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			Once again, an Egypt and Palestine connection.
		
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			Now what's happening in the da'wah of
		
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			Bani Israel and around the Holy Land, and
		
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			the Promised Messiah, and everything that's to come?
		
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			The first one to lead is Yahya a
		
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			.s. Isa a.s. follows the da'wah
		
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			of Yahya a.s. And Yahya a.s.
		
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			Allah a.s. gave him wisdom and authority
		
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			at a young age.
		
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			He was a perfect young man.
		
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			An incredible scholar.
		
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			They had never seen a scholar of the
		
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			Torah like Yahya a.s. And he had
		
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			no love for this dunya.
		
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			He was uncompromisable because of his integrity and
		
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			his attachment to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			He was full of haya, so he couldn't
		
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			be tempted.
		
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			Full of modesty, he couldn't be tempted.
		
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			He didn't care for the wealth of this
		
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			world.
		
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			He had no cruelty in him, so he
		
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			showed love to his parents, and he used
		
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			to share his food even with the animals
		
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			because of the incredible mercy that Allah put
		
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			in Yahya a.s. And Isa a.s.
		
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			follows in the da'wah of Yahya a
		
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			.s. initially, who was older than him.
		
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			And Ibn Abbas a.s. narrates that they
		
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			had a conversation with each other.
		
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			And Isa said to Yahya, make du'a
		
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			for me.
		
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			And Yahya said to Isa, you make du
		
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			'a for me.
		
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			You're better than me.
		
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			Fa qala Isa, bal anta al-afdal.
		
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			Rather, you are better.
		
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			Because Allah made du'a for you.
		
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			Da'a Allahu lak, wa da'autu li
		
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			nafsi.
		
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			Allah made du'a for you, and I
		
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			made du'a for myself.
		
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			What did he mean by that?
		
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			When Yahya was born, wa salamun alayhi, yawm
		
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			ulida, wa yawma yumutu, wa yawma yub'athu
		
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			hayya.
		
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			Allah a.s. said, peace be unto him,
		
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			the day he was born, the day that
		
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			he shall die, and the day he will
		
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			be raised up.
		
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			Isa a.s. said about himself from the
		
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			cradle, wa salamu alayya, yawm ulittu, wa yawma
		
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			amutu, wa yawma yub'athu hayya.
		
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			Peace be unto me.
		
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			So Isa said, you're better than me.
		
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			In reality, Isa is better than Yahya.
		
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			But Yahya made du'a for Isa, and
		
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			this is where Ibn Abbas a.s. mentions
		
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			that the Christians took this as a place
		
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			of the baptism, which is the area of
		
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			Ghor in Jordan today.
		
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			But what does it say about Yahya?
		
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			Yahya is a man who avoided the area
		
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			of Al-Aqsa.
		
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			He avoided the temple as it was known.
		
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			He was known as the preacher in the
		
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			wilderness.
		
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			And he openly condemned Bani Israel for their
		
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			corrupt practices, and so he gained prominence for
		
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			his ability to grasp the scripture, but he
		
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			wasn't liked or favored by the actual religious
		
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			class of Bani Israel, because he was calling
		
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			them out on their corruption.
		
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			And so he preaches from the wilderness.
		
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			And the Prophet ﷺ now gives us another
		
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			visual from the inside of Masjid Al-Aqsa.
		
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			Hadith Al-Bukhari from Al-Harith Al-Ash
		
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			'ari.
		
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			Qala sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, inna Allaha amara
		
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			Yahya ibn Zakariya bi khamsi kalimat.
		
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			That Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala commanded Yahya
		
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			to speak five commandments.
		
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			So he was to command them, wa ya'mur
		
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			Bani Israel, and he was to command Bani
		
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			Israel and ya'malu biha, for them to act
		
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			upon it as well.
		
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			Wa innahu kada an yuqti'a biha.
		
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			But he was hesitant just seeing the viciousness
		
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			of Bani Israel, and how corrupt they had
		
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			become.
		
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			So Yahya was becoming hesitant.
		
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			So Isa ﷺ said, inna Allaha amara ka
		
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			bi khamsi kalimat.
		
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			Allah ﷻ commanded you with five things to
		
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			speak and to command Bani Israel with.
		
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			And if you don't do it, I will.
		
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			If you are hesitant to speak to them,
		
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			Isa ﷺ is the man who flips tables
		
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			in the temple, in Al-Aqsa.
		
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			I will do it.
		
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			Yahya ﷺ said, akhsha insabaqtani biha, an yukhsafa
		
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			bi awu'adhdham.
		
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			That I am afraid that if you do
		
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			it, the earth will swallow me, awu'adhdham,
		
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			or I will be punished as a result
		
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			of that.
		
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			So I can't do that.
		
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			Fajama'an nasa fil bayt al-maqdis.
		
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			So he gathered the people in Bayt al
		
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			-Maqdis.
		
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			Faqala ﷺ famtala al-masjidu wa qa'du ala
		
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			ash-shurafi.
		
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			That the masjid filled up.
		
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			Imagine the scene of Al-Aqsa.
		
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			The masjid filled.
		
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			People sat even on their window sills.
		
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			They sat on their balconies.
		
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			They wanted to hear what Yahya ﷺ was
		
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			going to say.
		
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			Isa ﷺ standing next to Yahya ﷺ, and
		
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			he stands up and he says, innallaha amara
		
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			li bi khamsi kalimat.
		
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			Allah عز و جل commanded me with five
		
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			things that I must do.
		
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			And He commanded you with these five things
		
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			that you must do.
		
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			And the hadith is long, but it mentions
		
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			as salah, as siyam, as sadaqa, as dhikr.
		
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			And it mentions to strive in the way
		
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			of Allah ﷻ.
		
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			So it's similar to the five pillars of
		
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			Islam.
		
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			Ibn al-Qayyim ﷺ mentions that the closer
		
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			that the shari'ah got to the shari
		
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			'ah of Muhammad ﷺ, the closer it was
		
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			in its final manifestation.
		
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			And so the five kalimat, the five commandments
		
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			of Yahya are similar to the five commandments
		
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			of Muhammad ﷺ.
		
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			I'm gonna go to the end here inshaAllah
		
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			ta'ala.
		
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			Yahya was given at some point the bishara,
		
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			the glad tidings, that his brother Isa ﷺ
		
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			was not just another prophet, but he was
		
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			a rasool, he was a messenger that was
		
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			to have a new revelation, and he was
		
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			al-Masih.
		
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			He was the awaited messiah.
		
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			So Yahya identifies Isa as al-Masih.
		
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			Now the dynamics change politically as well.
		
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			A few days after he identifies him, Yahya
		
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			ﷺ is murdered.
		
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			And he's murdered because of his integrity.
		
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			You see, Herod had three children, and they
		
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			divided the empire of the land of Palestine
		
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			amongst themselves.
		
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			One of them was Antipas.
		
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			And Antipas wanted to marry his niece, the
		
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			wife of Philip.
		
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			Her name was Salome.
		
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			Her name was Salome.
		
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			So he wanted to marry his niece Salome,
		
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			and he needed a fatwa.
		
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			Because it was against the law, it was
		
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			against the scripture.
		
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			And if Yahya says it's okay, the people
		
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			trust Yahya, which shows you subhanAllah, that if
		
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			a person maintains integrity, even if they don't
		
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			have the power of the throne, Allah ﷻ
		
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			will grant them Isa, will grant them honor,
		
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			and the people will listen to their opinion
		
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			instead of the opinion of those who have
		
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			the power of the throne behind them.
		
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			So they needed to convince Yahya to say
		
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			that this was allowed in the Torah, that
		
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			there was an exception that allowed this.
		
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			So they sent Salome to tempt Yahya ﷺ,
		
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			and it didn't work.
		
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			Sayyidin wa-Hasura, Yahya ﷺ had no interest
		
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			whatsoever.
		
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			He said, this is * and it is
		
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			haram.
		
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			So when she couldn't seduce Yahya, she was
		
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			so offended that she seduced Antipas, and said,
		
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			bring me his head for what he has
		
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			done.
		
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			I presented myself.
		
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			She was a beautiful woman.
		
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			There's a reason why her * was being
		
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			pursued by her creepy uncle.
		
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			Right?
		
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			It's not working.
		
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			And she was offended that she couldn't get
		
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			Yahya ﷺ to budge.
		
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			So now she wanted revenge.
		
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			Bring me his head.
		
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			And so Yahya ﷺ was beheaded.
		
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			By the way, subhanAllah, that is one of
		
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			the wisdoms of Allah naming him Yahya.
		
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			Because a shaheed never dies.
		
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			وَلَا تَحْسَبَنَّ الَّذِينَ قُتِلُوا فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ أَمْوَاتٍ
		
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			بَلْ أَحْيَاءٌ Don't say of those who were
		
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			killed in the way of Allah that they
		
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			are dead, rather they are alive.
		
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			Yahya means a person who forever lives.
		
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			Yahya.
		
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			So Allah Azawajal was giving the glad tidings
		
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			of shahada before he was even born.
		
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			But Yahya ﷺ was beheaded.
		
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			Isa ﷺ was sitting in a masjid al
		
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			-Aqsa at the age of 30.
		
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			As Mujahid ﷺ says, Jibril ﷺ fills al
		
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			-Aqsa with his light as Isa ﷺ sits
		
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			in al-Aqsa saddened over what just happened
		
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			to the one who preceded him in prophethood,
		
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			his righteous brother Yahya ﷺ.
		
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			And Jibril ﷺ says to him, اِنَّ اللَّهَ
		
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			يَأْمُرُكَ Allah Azawajal commands you بِإِبْلَاغِ الرِّسَالَ for
		
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			you to now go out and to deliver
		
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			the message.
		
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			And he delivered to him the Injil.
		
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			وَقَالَ الْمَسِيحُ يَا بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلُ أُعْبُدُ اللَّهَ رَبِّي
		
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			وَرَبَّكُمْ That Isa ﷺ stood up and he
		
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			said, O Bani Israel, worship your Lord, my
		
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			Lord and your Lord.
		
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			And he was given the Injil.
		
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			The Prophet ﷺ said that this took place
		
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			on the 18th night of Ramadan.
		
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			The Injil was revealed on the 18th night
		
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			of Ramadan.
		
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			So what happens?
		
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			The Masih is here.
		
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			The Prophet is here.
		
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			Now we have someone, right?
		
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			Yahya identified him.
		
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			We know who he is.
		
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			The problem is, is that their hearts were
		
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			not ready to accept him for who he
		
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			was.
		
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			Ibn Hazm said that Bani Israel was the
		
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			most wicked at its end.
		
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			They once killed 40 Anbiya in one hour.
		
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			And so if you look at the end
		
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			of Bani Israel, it became the habit to
		
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			go from takthib to qatil, from denying a
		
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			prophet to killing a prophet.
		
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			So they killed Isaiah, they killed Jeremiah.
		
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			They sawed Zakariya ﷺ into two.
		
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			And they beheaded Yahya ﷺ.
		
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			And so it became their habit to pursue
		
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			their prophets and to actually kill them now.
		
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			Not just to deny them but to murder
		
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			them.
		
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			Isa ﷺ comes and he's not liked.
		
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			You have some classes that exist from Bani
		
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			Israel.
		
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			You have those that are known as the
		
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			seducers.
		
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			And they are the temple folks.
		
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			They're attached to the temple.
		
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			They are the tax collectors.
		
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			They confiscate the money of the people.
		
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			They're of the most elite of classes.
		
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			And the irony of them is they don't
		
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			even believe in the akhira.
		
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			They don't even believe in the hereafter.
		
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			But they believe the temple is for them.
		
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			These are the people that Isa ﷺ flipped
		
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			the tables on for their hypocrisy using the
		
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			remnants of a place that was built by
		
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			Suleiman ﷺ who had the kingdom of the
		
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			world and was untainted by it.
		
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			To steal from the people and to abuse
		
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			the people.
		
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			Then you have the Pharisees who were supposed
		
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			to be the continuation of Bani Israel.
		
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			Strict to the law.
		
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			They believe in following the command.
		
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			But Isa ﷺ sees corruption in that class
		
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			as well.
		
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			Silent in the face of transgression.
		
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			He sees hypocrisy.
		
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			He sees harshness.
		
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			Now by the way, Bani Israel always has
		
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			wicked and righteous ones.
		
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			Always.
		
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			They have the most wicked of the wicked
		
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			and they have the most righteous of the
		
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			righteous.
		
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			They are, the righteous amongst them, the largest
		
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			group in Jannah after the Ummah of Muhammad
		
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			ﷺ.
		
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			And so we don't class the whole of
		
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			Bani Israel as being written off.
		
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			But this class now is a wicked one.
		
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			And so Isa is throwing the tables in
		
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			the temple.
		
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			Isa is saying to the hypocrites who preach
		
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			the law, يَا عُلَمَاءَ السُّوءِ جَعَلْتُمُ الْجُنْيَا فَوْقَ
		
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			رُوُوسِكُمْ وَالْآخِرَةَ تَحْتَ أَقْدَامِكُمْ قَوْلُكُمْ شِفَاءٌ وَعَمَلُكُمْ
		
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			دَاءٌ Evil corrupt scholars.
		
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			You have put the life of this world
		
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			above your heads and you have put the
		
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			hereafter under your feet.
		
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			You speak words of medicine but your actions
		
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			are disease.
		
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			So they hate him too.
		
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			So is he a zealot?
		
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			Which were the Bani Israel members that were
		
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			actively rebelling against the Roman Empire and taking
		
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			up arms against them.
		
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			Isa doesn't fit anybody's category.
		
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			He criticizes Bani Israel and he criticizes the
		
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			Roman occupation.
		
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			He hates the occupation, he hates the state
		
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			of Bani Israel.
		
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			So he's becoming wildly unpopular with everybody, except
		
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			for the righteous, which is a small group
		
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			of Hawariun.
		
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			And because of that, they turn on him,
		
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			because they wanted a Messiah for power, not
		
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			piety.
		
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			And so they plot to get him killed
		
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			by the Romans.
		
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			The Romans and their clients, kingdom of Bani
		
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			Israel, seek to kill him.
		
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			And Allah would not give them that last
		
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			drop of blood.
		
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			Subhanallah.
		
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			One of my teachers, he commented on this
		
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			and it was very profound.
		
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			You know when they talk about the last
		
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			laugh.
		
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			Bani Israel who became so accustomed to putting
		
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			the blade to the necks of the prophets.
		
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			Allah would not let them put the blade
		
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			to the last prophets.
		
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			And it's similar to when Ya'juj and
		
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			Ma'juj, when they've killed so many on
		
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			earth, they will throw an arrow up to
		
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			the sky to say, قَتَلْنَا مَنْ فِي الْأَرْضِ
		
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			We killed those on the earth, let's kill
		
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			the one in the heavens too.
		
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			And Allah would drop some blood on them
		
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			when they throw their arrows to the heaven
		
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			just to mock them.
		
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			But they didn't kill Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala.
		
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			And in the case of Bani Israel, the
		
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			way they didn't kill Isa alayhi salam, ظَرَّ
		
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			فَعَهُ اللَّهُ إِلَيْهِ Rather Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala raised Isa alayhi salam to him.
		
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			And the Masih will come back.
		
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			And the promised land remains.
		
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			الْأَرْضُ لِلَّهِ يُرِثُهَا مَنْ يَشَاءُ وَالْعَاقِبَةُ لِلْمُتَّقِينَ For
		
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			those who are deserving.
		
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			I'll just give you a quick rundown.
		
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			70 years after Christ, Titus destroys the second
		
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			temple.
		
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			The Roman forces destroy the second temple and
		
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			they exile the Jewish population.
		
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			They loot the treasures once again of the
		
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			temple.
		
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			And subhanAllah, مَنْ عَادَ لِي وَلِيَّ فَقَدْ أَذَنْتُهُ
		
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			بِالْحَرْبِ Whoever harms a wali of mine, then
		
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			I wage war on them.
		
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			I mean, so those that harmed their prophets,
		
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			look what happened to them.
		
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			Salome who demanded the head of Yahya alayhi
		
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			salam was swallowed in the earth.
		
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			She was one of those who Allah did
		
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			khasaf of.
		
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			And the fortunes turned once again.
		
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			The year 130, the city of Iria is
		
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			rebuilt, a Roman city.
		
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			But it forbids a Jewish and a Christian
		
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			presence.
		
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			That same area becomes a place where you
		
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			now have a temple to Jupiter and Venus.
		
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			Similar to how idols were brought into the
		
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			Kaaba.
		
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			A holy place becomes a place of shirk,
		
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			a place of outright paganism and worshipping the
		
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			Roman gods.
		
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			The year 251, the Roman emperor Odysseus kills
		
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			Alexander.
		
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			This is the time of Ashab al-Kahf
		
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			by the way.
		
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			When Ashab al-Kahf went into hiding, this
		
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			is believed to be the time around 251.
		
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			315, Constantine turns it into a Christian city.
		
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			But Christianity and the conception of Constantine.
		
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			So Roman Christianity is brought back.
		
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			And there's widespread confusion now because the practice
		
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			of Musa a.s., the true followers of
		
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			Moses, the practice of the true followers of
		
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			Jesus p.b.u.h is lost.
		
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			And there's this new twisted manifestation of worship
		
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			that takes place here.
		
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			Constantine puts a ban on those who were
		
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			Jews because Constantine separates a new religion here,
		
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			right?
		
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			From those who followed Moses but not Jesus.
		
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			And he puts a ban on Jews but
		
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			he allows once a year for them to
		
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			wail at the wall.
		
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			And so you start to see that.
		
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			Afterwards, the mother of Constantine destroys some of
		
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			the pagan temples that are built in that
		
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			area.
		
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			The year 610, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
		
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			sallam receives revelation.
		
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			And that was the same year that there
		
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			was a revolt against Raqel.
		
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			And I'll just take you to this last
		
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			scene, and you can go home and think
		
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			about it.
		
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			And I promise you tonight will be the
		
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			longest session we have of all these 10
		
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			sessions.
		
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			So I apologize.
		
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			It takes a long time to cover all
		
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			the Prophets of Allah, right?
		
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			In this regard.
		
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			But now that you've thought about who are
		
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			the people that are worthy.
		
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			I want you to imagine the year 638
		
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			in Jerusalem when Omar ibn al-Khattab radiAllahu
		
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			ta'ala anhu enters into the city.
		
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			If you're a true follower of Christ, a
		
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			true follower of Moses, and you're looking at
		
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			the demeanor, the righteousness, the piety of Omar
		
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			radiAllahu ta'ala anhu entering in.
		
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			Abu Ubaidah al-Jarrah radiAllahu ta'ala anhu
		
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			on one side.
		
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			Al-Abbas, Walid al-Nabi sallallahu alayhi wa
		
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			sallam, the father of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
		
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			wa sallam, riding his camels.
		
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			So noble they thought that he was the
		
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			Khalifa.
		
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			Because of the haybah, the awe.
		
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			When you looked at these people entering, did
		
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			you have any doubt that these are the
		
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			people that Allah wrote it for?
		
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			Those are the qualities.
		
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			A man so humble that he comes in
		
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			with his slave, a slave on the camel.
		
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			While his clothes are covered in dirt.
		
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			Because they took turns, the servants and the
		
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			Khalifa.
		
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			And Omar radiAllahu ta'ala anhu refused to
		
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			ride as he entered into the city.
		
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			And as he enters in with righteousness.
		
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			نحن قوم عزنا الله بالإسلام.
		
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			وإن ابتغينا العزة لغيره أذلنا الله.
		
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			We are a people that Allah gave victory
		
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			and honor to through Islam.
		
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			And if we seek it through anything else,
		
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			Allah humiliates us.
		
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			That's the story of Jerusalem.
		
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			And there is no place where it was
		
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			more fitting for Omar radiAllahu anhu to say
		
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			those words.
		
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			The ditching of materialism, the ditching of greed,
		
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			the ditching of oppression was necessary to seek
		
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			the true honor from Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala.
		
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			And to be made worthy of victory.
		
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			May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allow us
		
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			to be worthy.
		
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			May Allah allow us to be spiritual descendants
		
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			of all of these noble prophets and noble
		
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			people that were once worthy.
		
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			And may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allow
		
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			us to be spiritual descendants of the greatest
		
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			of all.
		
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			خير خلق الله محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم
		
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			And to write us amongst the worthy.
		
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			اللهم آمين.
		
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			جزاكم الله خيرا.
		
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			السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته.