Omar Suleiman – The Truth Needs No Lies

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The speaker discusses the recent prediction of a solar or lunar eclipse and the importance of the Prophet's weightless message. They emphasize the need for people to be clear about their actions and not to give the Prophet a chance to speak to people about Islam. The importance of belief in Islam is emphasized, along with the need for people to be clear about their actions and represent the way of one's life. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of maintaining moral high ground and not lying to oneself.

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			For that introduction.
		
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			My beloved brother, Isham. May Allah bless you
		
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			and bless your family.
		
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			And thank you to that AI bot,
		
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			because
		
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			that could have gone a very different direction.
		
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			So I'm happy with the way that that
		
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			went.
		
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			I wanna begin by thanking each and every
		
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			single one of you for being here. Honored
		
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			guests,
		
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			honored ambassadors,
		
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			staff,
		
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			leaders here at QF.
		
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			I wanna thank my beloved brother, doctor Zakir
		
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			Naik, Sheikh Farooq Naik as well for being
		
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			here. May Allah bless all of you.
		
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			And all of the students,
		
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			I gather it's a pretty busy time around
		
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			here. As I was walking around the hallway,
		
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			I almost walked into about 5 graduations. So
		
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			congratulations to all of the graduating classes,
		
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			and to their families,
		
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			and congratulations to all of you for finishing
		
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			your final exams.
		
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			With that being
		
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			said, I'm actually gonna begin with a question.
		
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			How many of you have ever seen a
		
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			solar or a lunar eclipse?
		
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			Can you raise your hands?
		
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			Did you all witness the one in Ramadan?
		
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			No.
		
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			So I wanna take you back just about
		
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			a month ago
		
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			where we witnessed
		
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			a very clear
		
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			eclipse
		
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			in Dallas, Texas.
		
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			People flew from all over the country. Every
		
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			single hotel room was taken
		
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			to witness
		
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			this eclipse.
		
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			And I'd never seen one before, at least
		
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			not as clear as the one that I
		
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			would see that day.
		
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			Now it also happened to land in the
		
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			last 10 days of Ramadan,
		
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			And so half of the people thought that
		
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			it was Laylatul Qadr, the other half thought
		
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			that it was Yomul Qiyamah.
		
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			So it's like an interesting dynamic to see
		
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			the way that the community is oriented. A
		
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			very hopeful outlook,
		
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			and a very very pessimistic outlook that
		
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			it either means the beginning or the end,
		
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			but it can't mean anything in between.
		
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			And I remember it came around salat al
		
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			duhr,
		
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			and
		
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			I walked outside,
		
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			and I looked up at it, and I
		
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			caught this clear glimpse of it.
		
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			And subhanallah, I thought to myself, what a
		
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			powerful sign.
		
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			And for the first time, I actually appreciated
		
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			the context in which this happened in the
		
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			life of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			With all of us knowing that it was
		
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			coming,
		
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			with all the forecasts and the preparation, and
		
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			the clouds, and knowing exactly when, and having
		
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			the preparation with the glasses, and the timing
		
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			set,
		
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			it was still absolutely
		
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			stunning.
		
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			Imagine being in the middle of the desert,
		
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			with absolutely no warning,
		
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			and then suddenly you look up,
		
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			and there's a solar or a lunar eclipse.
		
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			Wouldn't you think that it was the end
		
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			of the world?
		
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			Wouldn't you think, Wow, what a strange thing
		
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			to happen?
		
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			Wouldn't you
		
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			understand why the Prophet
		
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			was rushing everyone to the masjid
		
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			to take the sign from Allah
		
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			as a reminder once again that Allah is
		
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			in control of time and space, and Allah
		
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			controls the fixed and the variable. And the
		
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			things that you take for granted
		
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			can suddenly
		
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			become things that are completely unpredictable.
		
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			And all of that is a reminder of
		
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			the day in which the earth beneath us
		
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			is changed,
		
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			and we stand before our Lord
		
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			in a completely different setting. You would understand
		
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			it
		
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			if you if you truly were able to
		
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			contextualize it. But why am I starting with
		
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			this, and how does it relate to the
		
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			topic?
		
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			What makes this that much more stunning in
		
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			the time of the Prophet is that it
		
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			coincided with another event.
		
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			If you knew the Prophet shalallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam in Madina,
		
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			in fact even if you knew him in
		
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			Makkah, a few years after he received revelation,
		
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			you wouldn't have known the prophet sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam as a new father
		
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			for the previous
		
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			6 children.
		
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			You would have known
		
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			that he has lost some of his children.
		
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			He has buried some of his children, sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			But suddenly, close to the end of his
		
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			life,
		
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			Allah blesses him with a baby boy.
		
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			And this was the only time that you
		
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			got to surround the prophet
		
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			when he was blessed with a child, especially
		
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			for the ansar of madinah who loved the
		
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			prophet
		
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			more than they loved themselves.
		
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			And I want you to imagine the mood
		
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			in Madina,
		
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			when the Prophet
		
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			has a baby boy, and he names him
		
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			what?
		
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			Ibrahim.
		
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			Ibrahim. He said, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, I
		
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			am the answer of the du'a of my
		
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			father Ibrahim.
		
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			The way that we name our children after
		
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			our fathers,
		
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			Ibrahim, I am the answer to the prayer
		
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			of my father Abraham.
		
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			And now he has a son, and he
		
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			names Ibrahim. And everyone in Medina is so
		
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			happy
		
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			to see the prophet
		
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			as a new father. He's done tahneek for
		
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			your children.
		
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			He has made the adhan for you. He
		
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			has come to your home to visit you.
		
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			The whole community is in celebration.
		
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			And then the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam receives
		
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			the news that Ibrahim is sick.
		
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			And he comes out alaihis salatu as salam,
		
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			and as Anas alayhi alahu anhu describes the
		
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			scene,
		
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			he holds his son,
		
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			and Ibrahim
		
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			breathes his last breaths in the hands of
		
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			the
		
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			prophet You see a dying child, and you
		
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			see the prophet
		
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			in pain holding his child,
		
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			breathing his last.
		
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			And the tears of the prophet
		
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			start to fall,
		
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			until his beard becomes wet.
		
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			And it's a very vivid description. The tears
		
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			of the messenger
		
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			are falling on his child
		
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			as he holds him.
		
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			And
		
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			here
		
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			the prophet
		
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			gives us
		
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			the famous narration on how to grieve.
		
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			The heart grieves.
		
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			The eyes shed tears.
		
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			We are sad over your death, oh Ibrahim.
		
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			But we only say that which is pleasing
		
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			to Allah
		
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			You get the context?
		
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			You just saw your superhero
		
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			who you love more than yourself holding his
		
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			dead child. And you might feel as helpless
		
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			as a parent who lost their own because
		
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			you wanna comfort the prophet salallahu alayhi wa
		
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			sallam, but it's also
		
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			You too cry?
		
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			Wait, this hurts you too?
		
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			Now in that context,
		
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			imagine
		
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			on that day,
		
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			looking up at the sun and the moon
		
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			eclipse,
		
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			What would you assume is happening?
		
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			You would assume,
		
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			surely,
		
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			the supernatural
		
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			sign
		
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			that is occurring in front of us has
		
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			something to do
		
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			with the pain that the Prophet shalallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam has suffered, with this tragedy that
		
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			the Prophet has
		
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			suffered. And the Prophet rushed to the masjid,
		
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			and he led them in salatul huzuf.
		
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			And after he prays,
		
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			the Prophet of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
		
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			he could have let the people start to
		
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			talk because the word started to get out
		
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			that this happened because of the death of
		
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			his son.
		
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			And the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam stands
		
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			up,
		
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			and he says,
		
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			The sun and the moon do not eclipse
		
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			for the death of anyone,
		
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			nor for the life of anyone.
		
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			They are 2 signs from the signs of
		
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			Allah. And so when you see it eclipse,
		
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			then exert yourself in prayer.
		
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			For the very first time, I really gained
		
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			an appreciation for this hadith in the moment.
		
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			And I'll tell you exactly how it relates
		
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			to this topic.
		
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			There was a sentence that came to my
		
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			head, and I'm going to share it with
		
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			you.
		
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			Real prophets
		
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			don't need fake lies to prove themselves.
		
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			The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
		
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			had he been what they claimed he was,
		
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			could have milked the situation.
		
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			What clearer sign than when my son dies,
		
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			the sun and the moon eclipse right afterwards?
		
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			If anyone had any doubt, any skepticism, I
		
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			couldn't show you asra wal Mi'raj. I couldn't
		
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			show you so many other things. But this,
		
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			look. He could've at least let them talk
		
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			and assume,
		
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			but he felt it was imperative sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam at that moment
		
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			to say, no, no.
		
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			This doesn't happen for the death of anyone,
		
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			nor for the life of anyone. But these
		
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			are two signs from the signs of Allah.
		
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			Exert yourself in prayer.
		
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			A real prophet
		
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			doesn't need fake lies.
		
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			He doesn't need any fake signs.
		
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			A real prophet doesn't need fake signs.
		
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			He's listening to people recite poetry around him,
		
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			salallahu alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			And as the Ansar sing their praise of
		
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			the Messenger, salallahu alaihi wa sallam, one of
		
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			the lines of
		
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			poetry says, He knows what is tomorrow. And
		
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			the prophet shalallahu alaihi wa sallam says, No,
		
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			no, no.
		
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			Don't say that.
		
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			No one knows what happens tomorrow except for
		
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			Allah
		
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			This is a man shalallahu alaihi wa sallam
		
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			who gives you signs. We're seeing some of
		
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			the signs of the day of judgment play
		
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			out in front of us as clear as
		
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			night and day.
		
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			Part of being rasulullah
		
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			is that he prophesizes.
		
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			Much of the revelation that came to him
		
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			in the Quran
		
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			talked about historical events that would happen
		
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			in the future.
		
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			Predictions,
		
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			prophecies of that which is to come.
		
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			The story of the Roman and the Persian
		
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			empire.
		
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			The prophet could have said, I have an
		
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			interpretation. I kind of know what's tomorrow, but
		
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			I don't know exactly what's tomorrow. No. No.
		
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			No. Don't say, he knows what's tomorrow. Take
		
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			this line out.
		
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			Only Allah knows what's tomorrow.
		
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			He is a messenger of Allah, sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam. He is secure in his message.
		
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			He doesn't need to embellish
		
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			any further
		
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			what is already
		
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			the most potent beauty of the Quran, that
		
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			it is Al Haqq,
		
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			the truth revealed
		
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			by the truth. Subhanahu wa ta'ala. He doesn't
		
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			need to embellish anything.
		
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			Does he need to have a big house
		
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			You know there's a complex,
		
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			right? For the Prophet
		
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			to impose himself as a leader
		
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			upon the people with the way that he
		
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			dresses perhaps. They wanted the Prophet
		
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			to sit differently. They wanted the Prophet to
		
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			dress differently.
		
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			They found themselves ashamed at times that the
		
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			prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam was the hungriest amongst
		
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			them.
		
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			Even in hadith Jibril,
		
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			Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam refused a chair
		
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			to sit while they all sat on the
		
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			floor. So what did they do? They put
		
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			some dirt and tried to turn it into
		
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			a mound.
		
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			So that there was some distinction, because they
		
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			said when a would come, when an ambassador
		
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			would come, they wouldn't know which one of
		
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			us is Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. I
		
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			don't need that.
		
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			The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam lived in
		
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			a hijrat.
		
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			The prophet was secure in himself. Even when
		
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			he's dying, don't turn my grave into a'id.
		
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			Don't build this huge massive tomb for me.
		
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			I don't need that. Send your salawat on
		
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			me wherever you are, it will reach me.
		
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			It will reach me.
		
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			I don't need it.
		
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			Now you understand
		
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			what makes him so stunning
		
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			That when you saw him, you weren't just
		
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			captured by his beauty.
		
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			You were captured truly by his essence.
		
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			Know, the scholars talked about, they said, Who's
		
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			more beautiful? The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Salam or
		
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			Yusuf Alaihi Salam?
		
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			Said, The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Salam
		
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			had the jamal of Yusuf alaihis salam. He
		
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			had the beauty of Yusuf alaihis salam. And
		
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			truly the way he's described sallallahu alaihi wasallam
		
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			is a stunning
		
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			man
		
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			I mean, when you looked at him, everything
		
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			about his features was absolutely stunning and captivating.
		
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			But they said that the beauty of the
		
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			Prophet was covered in his
		
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			in his essence, in his honor, in his
		
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			respect. His was covered in his jalal
		
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			His beauty was covered by a cover of
		
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			glory. So much so, that you find the
		
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			narrations of the sahaba
		
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			that I can't just Some people say, I
		
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			never looked at the prophet I never stared
		
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			at him because I put my head down
		
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			when I was in his presence. It was
		
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			too much.
		
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			He was so respectable.
		
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			He was honorable
		
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			not because of
		
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			what he projected
		
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			of a worldly superiority,
		
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			but because clearly he is a man on
		
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			a mission
		
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			sent with something of truth.
		
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			And that's why
		
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			when Tufayd ibn Amr Dawsi came from a
		
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			daws
		
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			and he's a respectable man, a doctor,
		
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			and he's someone who's the chief of his
		
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			tribe. The people of Mecca wanted to preempt
		
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			the meeting with the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam.
		
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			So what did they tell him? They said,
		
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			He's a sorcerer.
		
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			Said, Look, if he talks if tufail hears
		
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			him speak, we're in trouble
		
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			because a respectable man will know a respectable
		
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			man. An honorable man will know an honorable
		
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			man. He'll see him and he'll know something's
		
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			up. We have to fill his ears with
		
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			a bunch of nonsense
		
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			before he gets to him. And what do
		
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			we have to deal with constantly
		
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			when we're talking to people about Islam? First,
		
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			you gotta pour out all the garbage that
		
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			they've heard about Islam
		
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			before they can hear you. You have to
		
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			disarm,
		
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			remove the layer. Now let me tell you
		
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			about Islam, after telling you everything Islam is
		
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			not.
		
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			So they wanted to fill his ears with
		
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			so much,
		
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			that he wouldn't give the prophet a chance
		
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			because they knew if he gave the prophet
		
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			a chance, we'd be in trouble. It would
		
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			speak for itself.
		
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			So they said, he's a sorcerer. So what
		
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			did he do? He put cotton in his
		
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			cotton in his ears. Think about a man
		
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			walking around with ear plugs doing tawaf.
		
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			You know what he said? He said, I
		
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			looked up the prophet shalallahu alaihi wa sallam,
		
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			and I said, he doesn't look like a
		
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			sorcerer to me.
		
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			He doesn't look like the soothsayer. He doesn't
		
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			look He doesn't have that look. Let me
		
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			hear what he has to say. And then
		
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			that was it.
		
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			Abdullah
		
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			Abu Musalam, the chief rabbi of Madinah, the
		
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			chief rabbi of Madinah, the most respectable Jewish
		
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			scholar.
		
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			He knew the signs were there, but he
		
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			said, as soon as I saw the prophet
		
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			shalallahu alaihi wa sallam,
		
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			I knew that's not the face of a
		
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			liar.
		
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			He looked the part sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			Real prophets
		
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			don't need fake signs.
		
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			He looked the part. And then when he
		
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			opened his mouth salallahu alayhi wasalam, it confirmed
		
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			what you could already tell about him.
		
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			With all of that, dear brothers and sisters,
		
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			let me bring you to the verse of
		
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			the Quran
		
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			that I'd like to discuss and decipher in
		
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			today's
		
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			context, especially
		
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			with what is happening in Palestine. But first
		
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			let's just start with Islam.
		
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			After the most
		
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			profound and captivating verse in the Quran,
		
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			Until the end of the ayah.
		
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			An ayah that is so beautiful that if
		
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			you were to read it to anybody
		
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			in the world, Muslim or non Muslim,
		
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			they would be able to appreciate this beautiful
		
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			comprehensive description of God. Even if they weren't
		
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			Muslim, they would say, what a beautiful description
		
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			of God that you have. What a coherent,
		
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			compelling, comprehensive,
		
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			beautiful description of god that you have.
		
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			The next verse after that verse is,
		
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			There is no compulsion in religion.
		
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			Truth has already been made apparent from falsehood.
		
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			You don't need
		
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			to embellish this further. The truth is already
		
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			clear.
		
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			There's no compulsion in religion. And subhanAllah, there
		
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			are two stories
		
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			that are encompassed in this verse.
		
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			The first part of it,
		
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			Many of the scholars talked about
		
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			the reasons for its revelation, and they talked
		
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			about stories that happened around the revelation of
		
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			that verse because there were different realities as
		
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			time went on in Islam. In Makkah, you
		
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			had a bunch of children who embraced Islam,
		
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			and their parents were oppressing them. And so
		
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			that's one dynamic you have to work through.
		
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			And then in Madinah, you have a different
		
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			dynamic altogether.
		
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			And one of those narrations that al Masruq
		
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			ibn Ajda mentions
		
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			is that there was a man whose 2
		
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			children before the Prophet
		
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			declared prophethood
		
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			Work this out with me. Okay? Before the
		
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			prophet shalallahu alaihi wa sallam received revelation,
		
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			his 2 sons became Christian.
		
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			Now by the way,
		
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			Christianity
		
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			is far superior
		
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			to the idol worship of Mecca.
		
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			And back then you have
		
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			the the the people, the the the people
		
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			who were monotheists.
		
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			They were hanifs. They believed in one God.
		
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			Some of them like Waraqab Nunofal became biblical
		
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			scholars. They were looking for the truth in,
		
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			and they were trying to see through
		
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			the scriptures of the people of the book.
		
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			And so it's likely that their embracing of
		
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			Christianity
		
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			before the prophet receives Islam comes from a
		
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			place of great nobility.
		
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			Look how complex the situation is.
		
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			So the father of these two boys
		
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			hasn't seen his sons for a long time.
		
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			They traveled to the lands of the Christians,
		
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			right? Somewhere into the Roman Empire.
		
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			And their father embraced Islam. So he was
		
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			an idol worshiper when they became Christian. Their
		
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			father embraced Islam,
		
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			and then he sees his 2 sons coming
		
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			to Madinah, in the delegation of the Christians
		
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			holding crosses.
		
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			After Islam.
		
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			Subhanallah. How the tables have turned.
		
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			So he goes up to them,
		
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			and he he's very aggressive with them, and
		
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			he says, I will not leave you until
		
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			you bear witness that he is the Messenger
		
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			of Allah. Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. So first,
		
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			he was angry at them because he was
		
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			an idol worshiper. Now he's angry at them
		
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			because he's a Muslim, and you have to
		
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			become Muslim right now.
		
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			And Masruk says, this is around the time
		
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			that the verse was revealed,
		
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			No, no. There's no compulsion in religion. The
		
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			prophet
		
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			said, No, you don't. This is not how
		
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			this works. This is a religion of iqnah,
		
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			not a religion of This is a religion
		
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			that convinces you, not a religion that compels
		
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			you. This is not how this works. Why?
		
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			The truth doesn't need to be forced down
		
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			anyone's throat.
		
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			Give them a chance to hear, and they
		
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			will embrace it themselves.
		
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			Sit them down and say, By the way,
		
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			let me tell you about rasulullah sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam, and take you to meet this
		
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			man
		
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			He comes from the spirit of the same
		
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			religion
		
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			that you embrace, perhaps seeking monotheism.
		
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			And here he is the brother of Isa
		
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			alaihis salam, Rasulullah,
		
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			the Prophet of Allah as well.
		
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			So come listen to him. But they tried,
		
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			or he tried a different approach.
		
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			No. No. We don't need this.
		
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			And subhanallah,
		
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			this is the power of the message.
		
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			Allah
		
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			did not require of the Muslims to spread
		
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			Islam
		
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			by forcing people to become Muslim. It is
		
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			actually antithetical
		
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			to the message of Islam. So even when
		
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			there is battle, when there is jihad, when
		
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			there is conquest, and all these historical realities
		
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			in Islam, the population is not to be
		
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			subjected to Islam. They don't have to become
		
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			Muslim. Persia remained
		
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			Zoroastrian
		
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			for a very long time. Muslims were the
		
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			minority even after
		
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			the conquest of Persia. Because there was this
		
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			idea that we don't force people to say,
		
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			Treat them fairly.
		
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			They have the jizyah, they have their way
		
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			of living, their religious communities are preserved. But
		
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			no. We're not gonna force them to become
		
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			Muslim. Now,
		
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			are there bad examples in Islamic history where
		
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			that wasn't applied? Absolutely.
		
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			But we have a pretty good sample size.
		
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			And we take pride in Umar bin Khattab
		
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			entering Jerusalem,
		
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			and not going in there
		
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			and saying, this church has got to go.
		
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			Fax saying the opposite.
		
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			When he's invited to pray 2 rakahs in
		
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			Bethlehem,
		
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			in the holy sepulcher, and he says, No,
		
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			no. If I pray 2 rakahs here, I
		
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			know how Muslims are. Later on, Muslims are
		
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			gonna come and turn this place into a
		
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			masjid. Let me walk out and pray 2
		
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			rak Let me pray my salah there.
		
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			And subhanallah, there we have masjid Umar.
		
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			I don't need to force you to become
		
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			Muslim. You'll see the beauty of Islam yourself
		
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			in due time. It will come to you
		
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			as well. This is what the scholars mentioned
		
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			of the hadith of the Prophet shalallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam, ajibarabuna
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is amazed by those
		
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			Those who entered Islam
		
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			after being in chains. It's not a literal
		
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			chaining people and forcing them to become Muslim.
		
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			What is the prophet
		
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			talking about? That after battles took place in
		
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			these places,
		
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			the children
		
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			of many of those who fought Islam, in
		
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			fact some of those who fought Islam and
		
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			were defeated militarily,
		
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			became the greatest torchbearers of Islam.
		
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			The carried
		
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			Islam. The Persians, the former slaves,
		
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			they carried Islam.
		
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			They loved the religion, they embraced it, they
		
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			became the scholars of this tradition. Imagine,
		
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			Allah
		
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			sees these people, they enter into Islam so
		
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			beautifully. They didn't take it by compulsion.
		
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			But they took it after being convinced,
		
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			and then became its greatest practitioners.
		
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			Allah
		
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			does not need this to happen.
		
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			The end of this ayah, by the way,
		
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			because the other story
		
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			So imagine the father who's trying to force
		
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			his kids
		
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			to become Muslim
		
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			after they became Christian.
		
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			Allah mentions,
		
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			in this verse, the trustworthy handhold,
		
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			that is referring to an opposite scenario.
		
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			Qaysib Nabdad says that one time
		
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			a man walked into the masjid, and he
		
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			had these signs of beautiful humility. So he's
		
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			talking about the 2nd generation of Muslims, the
		
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			tabi'in. So this man walked in, and he
		
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			had these beautiful signs on him of humility
		
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			and and worship.
		
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			And so the people started to say,
		
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			That guy is from the people of paradise.
		
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			So he said, I got curious, so I
		
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			went up to him and said,
		
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			the people are saying you're from the of
		
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			Jannah. He said, SubhanAllah, people shouldn't say what
		
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			they don't know.
		
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			And he said, but
		
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			the reason they say that
		
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			is because I had this dream once.
		
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			By the way, the man is Abdullah Abu
		
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			Salam
		
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			the rabbi of Madinah who became Muslim. Said,
		
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			I had this dream in the time of
		
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			the Prophet
		
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			that I was in this garden,
		
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			and in the middle of the garden there
		
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			was a pole.
		
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			The bottom of the pole was in the
		
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			earth.
		
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			The pole extended
		
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			all the way through the heavens, and at
		
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			the top of it, there was a hand
		
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			hold.
		
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			And so I walked to the pole,
		
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			this beautiful garden,
		
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			and I looked up, and then I was
		
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			told, ascend.
		
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			And I said, how am I gonna get
		
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			there? And then an angel picked me up
		
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			all the way to that handhold, and I
		
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			gripped onto that handhold, and then I woke
		
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			up holding onto that handhold.
		
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			So, I told the Prophet shalallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam what happened.
		
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			The Prophet shalallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
		
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			Islam
		
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			He said that this garden is the garden
		
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			of Islam. This pole is the pole of
		
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			Islam. And he says, As for that handhold,
		
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			It is the trustworthy hand hold that Allah
		
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			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala talks about in the Quran.
		
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			It is
		
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			And he said,
		
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			You're going to be upon Islam until you
		
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			die.
		
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			You're not just a rabbi who got caught
		
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			in the moment.
		
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			No, no. You're going to become a scholar
		
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			of Islam. You will remain on Islam until
		
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			you die. Subhanallah. The opposite equation. You have
		
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			a man that tried to force his kids
		
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			to become Muslim, and you have a rabbi
		
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			who had every reason not to become Muslim
		
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			from a worldly perspective,
		
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			who saw through all of it, who embraced
		
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			Islam, and became one of the greatest scholars
		
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			of Islam.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala speaks to this reality
		
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			of the truth speaking for itself.
		
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			Why is it, O people of Makkah,
		
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			Allah
		
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			lectures the people of Mecca, and says, What
		
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			is wrong with you all?
		
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			Consider that this may be from Allah
		
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			and a witness from the children of Israel
		
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			has embraced it, and he believed, and you
		
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			had pride.
		
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			What's wrong with you all? This is your
		
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			own brother.
		
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			This is your tribesmen. You know his character
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. You knew him for
		
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			all of these years. You should've been the
		
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			first to recognize the truthfulness of this man
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. But you disbelieved, you
		
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			had pride.
		
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			Why? What happened to you? What got in
		
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			the way?
		
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			Whereas this man,
		
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			all the way in Madinah,
		
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			a Jewish rabbi who has everything to lose
		
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			in terms of position,
		
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			immediately says, this is the truth. What's wrong
		
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			with you?
		
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			A man comes all the way from Persia,
		
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			escaping
		
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			the chains of his father, escaping death, goes
		
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			around the whole world to end up being
		
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			enslaved
		
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			over 13 times, until he's in Madinah to
		
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			embrace the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Salam
		
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			al Farasih radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu, What's your problem
		
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			that you can't see this man? You can't
		
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			understand the truth that's in front of you?
		
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			Here's the Quran recited from afar, and hears
		
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			about Rasulullah
		
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			never actually meets him face to face, but
		
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			falls into tears recognizing
		
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			the truth.
		
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			And says,
		
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			Had I not been in the situation of
		
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			kingdom, I would've gone to him
		
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			so I could carry his sandals for him.
		
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			Why is it that he recognizes and you
		
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			can't recognize?
		
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			Is the problem
		
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			with the truth, or is the problem with
		
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			the barriers that you have put between you
		
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			and the truth?
		
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			The barrier of tribalism,
		
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			the barrier of wealth,
		
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			the barrier of power,
		
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			the barrier of ego. Is the problem with
		
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			the message of the Prophet
		
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			or is the problem
		
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			with the recipients or the intended recipients of
		
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			the message?
		
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			And Allah is saying, you are blinded
		
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			by your own
		
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			idols. You are blinded by your own tribalism.
		
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			You are blinded by your miscalculations.
		
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			The tribalism is getting in the way
		
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			of something so obvious to you,
		
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			something so self explanatory.
		
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			Now let's bring it back to this ayah.
		
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			There is no compulsion in religion. The truth
		
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			does not need to be forced down anyone's
		
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			throat.
		
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			Truth has been made clear from falsehood.
		
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			There are different words for truth in the
		
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			Quran.
		
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			There is guidance,
		
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			so there is
		
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			guidance and being astray.
		
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			There is alhaqqwalbatal,
		
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			truth and falsehood. And there is arusht wal
		
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			ghayi,
		
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			clearer guidance
		
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			and clearly being lost.
		
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			And the scholars mentioned that of the beauty
		
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			of this is that arusht is the most
		
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			obvious manifestation
		
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			of truth. It is when a person clearly
		
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			is acting upon rightful guidance, when their path
		
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			has clearly been laid out for them, and
		
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			they are doing all of these things
		
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			with divine
		
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			guidance,
		
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			and divine planning behind them,
		
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			and achieving the most beautiful
		
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			of realities.
		
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			Is that a person has been guided
		
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			in regards to their actions, not just in
		
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			regards to their knowledge. They get it. Allah
		
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			is moving them in directions.
		
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			Means that you look at a person who's
		
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			guided, and you say, That person is on
		
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			to something.
		
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			Is
		
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			May Allah
		
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			give them victory.
		
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			Is
		
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			When even a person who is full of
		
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			the most garbage Zionist influence and propaganda can
		
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			look at them and admire them if they're
		
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			honest with themselves and say, what do they
		
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			have?
		
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			What is that?
		
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			Ar Rashad is the obvious fulfillment and purpose
		
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			of truth. Ar Rashad
		
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			was how the companions carried themselves when they
		
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			went when they went to other lands, that
		
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			other people looked at them and said, Wow.
		
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			They're onto something.
		
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			Malcolm X at Hajj Medaka Shabaz
		
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			was asked this question about how Islam
		
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			conquers.
		
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			And he said, Islam
		
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			and I quote, Islam has made inroads into
		
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			countries it never conquered. It just entered and
		
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			then spiritually conquered.
		
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			Because the proof was in the pudding. The
		
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			proof was in the manifestation.
		
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			You looked at the Muslims and you said,
		
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			There's something there.
		
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			They're onto something.
		
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			Is that clear guidance.
		
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			Is the clearest form
		
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			of the clearest form of being astray.
		
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			Meaning, you can see the example of someone
		
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			who clearly has no purpose, no integrity, no
		
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			principles,
		
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			no fulfillment,
		
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			no real life.
		
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			The difference between
		
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			the living and the dead. It is clear
		
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			as night and day when you look at
		
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			the output. The people
		
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			of Arusht are so different from the people
		
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			of Al Ghay.
		
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			It's obvious.
		
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			And Allah says,
		
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			It is already been made clear. The evidence
		
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			has been laid bare, and the output of
		
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			that evidence has been made laid bare as
		
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			well. The people,
		
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			they represent it as well. You can see
		
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			the manifestation
		
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			of both of those two realities.
		
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			So those who disbelieve in all of that
		
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			which has been set up as a partner
		
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			besides Allah and believe in
		
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			they are holding on to that trustworthy handhold.
		
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			There
		
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			is absolutely nothing that will come in between
		
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			them and that trustworthy
		
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			handhold. The truth is compelling. The truth is
		
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			beautiful. The truth is self explanatory.
		
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			You don't need
		
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			anything more
		
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			except to look at it. So the question
		
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			is, why do people stray so far away
		
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			from the truth?
		
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			And this is where the Quran also gives
		
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			the explanation.
		
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			You can't force someone who doesn't want to
		
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			believe
		
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			to believe, because you can't tell someone how
		
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			beautiful the sky is if they insist on
		
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			closing their eyes.
		
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			I can't help you.
		
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			If you don't wanna see it,
		
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			I can't make you see it.
		
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			And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says that it
		
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			goes back to being a matter of the
		
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			heart.
		
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			They
		
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			said, our hearts are wrapped.
		
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			We're not interested
		
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			in hearing what you have to say.
		
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			Can you imagine,
		
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			Abdullah Abu Ubay bin Salul
		
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			sitting in the masjid of the prophet for
		
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			9 whole years listening to his khutbas and
		
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			still not embracing Islam? Not only still not
		
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			embracing Islam, still wanting to undermine him at
		
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			every single corner.
		
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			What's the difference between the story of Abdullah
		
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			Abu Ubayb bin sitting in the masjid of
		
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			the prophet
		
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			for almost a decade, and dying
		
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			a disbeliever,
		
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			a malicious disbeliever,
		
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			a hypocrite,
		
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			and Thumama
		
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			who was a hostile chief to the Prophet
		
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			shalallahu alaihi wa sallam. But he sat in
		
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			the masjid for 3 days and said, Okay.
		
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			I get it now. I wanna become Muslim.
		
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			What's the difference between the 2?
		
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			You have to want the truth for it
		
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			to be granted to you. That is actually
		
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			of the beauty of guidance, is that when
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says that you will
		
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			not be guided except that he permits it,
		
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			Guidance is too valuable for Allah
		
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			to force it on you. You have to
		
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			at least express to Allah
		
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			a willingness
		
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			to be guided, a desire to see the
		
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			truth, then Allah
		
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			will open your heart to the truth.
		
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			But at the bare
		
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			minimum you have to want
		
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			it.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, when they turned
		
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			away, Allah turned their hearts away. Allah is
		
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			not gonna force it on you. You don't
		
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			want
		
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			it? You don't have to have it. But
		
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			the truth will still stand clear as night
		
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			and day. The evidences will be laid bare.
		
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			The beauty will still shine and you will
		
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			not be able to cover it no matter
		
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			what. So what happens?
		
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			There are people that just don't wanna see
		
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			it.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala diagnosis in another way.
		
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			There are people that have purchased misguidance
		
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			with guidance.
		
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			Allah gave you the currency of guidance, and
		
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			you went and you bought error instead.
		
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			I want you to think about this, dear
		
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			brothers and sisters.
		
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			In my reality,
		
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			I see people who see the beauty of
		
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			Islam,
		
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			who see the beauty of
		
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			what the prophet
		
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			has brought forward,
		
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			who see the beauty of living a lifestyle
		
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			in accordance with the lifestyle of the prophet
		
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			coming from
		
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			absolutely
		
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			contradictory backgrounds.
		
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			And then you see someone who had a
		
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			salam given to them from the day that
		
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			they were born. Their parents taught them how
		
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			to read Quran. Their parents taught them how
		
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			to pray.
		
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			And you purchase
		
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			misguidance with guidance.
		
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			Let me take this away, and let me
		
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			go buy this instead.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Do you not see the value of what's
		
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			been given to you?
		
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			There are also those, and this is what
		
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			the scholars mentioned of the beauty, subhanAllah, of
		
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			how Allah Azzawajal
		
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			mentions sometimes,
		
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			is that there's a difference between purchasing misguidance,
		
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			and there's also a person who's been bought.
		
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			So let's come down
		
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			to Islamophobia
		
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			and Israel.
		
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			Let's talk about
		
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			the blinders
		
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			that are on people's eyes.
		
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			Let's talk about a world in which people
		
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			can sell
		
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			every single moral fiber that has been bestowed
		
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			upon them to purchase
		
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			error.
		
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			You wanna talk about those who have been
		
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			bought
		
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			by falsehood?
		
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			Look at every single politician in the United
		
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			States that's been purchased by APAC.
		
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			That is called being bought by falsehood.
		
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			A person who has their own children
		
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			at home. And you know what? They run
		
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			home, and I guarantee you that some of
		
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			them, if not all of them, genuinely love
		
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			their children, and genuinely cry when their kids
		
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			fall down,
		
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			and get a cut on them,
		
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			or when they have to go to the
		
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			hospital,
		
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			or when they die. But have absolutely
		
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			no issue
		
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			looking into a camera and saying, I don't
		
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			care about the kids of Gaza.
		
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			Those children don't matter to me.
		
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			Those children hold no value to me.
		
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			Those are the people who have been bought
		
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			out.
		
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			Purchased
		
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			by lies.
		
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			Purchased by propaganda.
		
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			Become mouthpieces
		
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			of the greatest forms of evil
		
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			that we have ever witnessed in our lives.
		
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			These are not just the mouthpieces of the
		
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			propaganda
		
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			that we see today. And you wonder as
		
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			you see otherwise decent human beings
		
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			justifying genocide across your screen.
		
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			But it's people that sell their souls, literally,
		
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			to industries
		
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			of bottled, industries of falsehood.
		
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			Whether it's political,
		
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			or cultural, or social, or religious. And you
		
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			wonder, wow. How did an otherwise decent human
		
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			being become so
		
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			evil,
		
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			become so
		
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			sick.
		
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			Because for some,
		
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			they've been purchased by falsehood.
		
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			Now when it comes to Palestine, when it
		
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			comes to Palestine
		
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			and Islam,
		
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			you think of everything that the Islamophobia industry
		
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			has put forward to try to demonize Islam,
		
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			to try to vilify the Muslim community.
		
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			And despite all of that, we cannot keep
		
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			up with the amount of people that are
		
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			embracing Islam.
		
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			It is absolutely
		
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			stunning
		
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			to see how many people can see through
		
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			all of that.
		
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			The 1,000,000,000 and 1,000,000,000 and 1,000,000,000 of dollars
		
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			that say, don't even consider this to be
		
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			an acceptable
		
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			religion, to be an acceptable way of life.
		
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			Don't even approach the idea of it possibly
		
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			being truth.
		
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			Yet somehow they're becoming the world's best Muslims.
		
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			The people of Gaza
		
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			are supposed to be humiliated on camera
		
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			as they are dying, yet they are inspiring
		
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			spiritual life around the world.
		
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			Despite every single
		
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			form
		
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			of propaganda
		
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			employed, the tools of propaganda
		
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			employed against the Palestinian people and Islam, which
		
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			nurtures the Palestinian people and nurtures their resistance
		
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			to this tyranny, despite
		
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			all of that.
		
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			People are coming to see the truth of
		
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			Islam.
		
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			People are coming to see the truth of
		
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			Palestine.
		
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			Now here's the thing.
		
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			The truth eventually shines.
		
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			It eventually breaks through
		
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			the layers of falsehood
		
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			for those who are seeking truth,
		
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			for those who want to open their eyes,
		
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			for the Abu Luhbal Salams of the world
		
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			today,
		
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			that despite having every reason to not believe,
		
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			are sincere in their pursuit of truth and
		
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			truthful narratives, of the truth of faith and
		
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			the truth of politics, of the truth of
		
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			the way that the world works, and they
		
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			managed to peel back those layers.
		
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			And they manage to peel back those layers.
		
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			And that frustrates
		
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			the purveyors of falsehood. So what do they
		
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			do? They lie more.
		
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			The lies get more outrageous.
		
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			And then the suppression of the truth becomes
		
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			more outrageous.
		
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			And you know what?
		
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			I say this to us as Muslims,
		
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			that we have to maintain the moral high
		
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			ground at all times. We don't need to
		
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			lie.
		
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			We don't need to lie about 40 babies
		
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			being cooked in ovens.
		
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			We have thousands of babies that have been
		
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			cooked on your screens.
		
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			We don't need to lie to you about
		
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			what actually is happening
		
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			in regards to the Palestinian people. We don't
		
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			need to lie to you about history. Let
		
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			history speak for itself.
		
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			The prophet
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wa sallam held the moral high
		
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			grounds in regards to being a Muslim. They
		
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			are not our teachers.
		
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			The messenger of Allah
		
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			refused to employ the same tactics against him
		
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			that they employed against them.
		
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			He refused to apply the same tactics against
		
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			them that they applied against him.
		
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			Think if the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
		
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			divulged some of the secrets of Abu Jahl
		
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			and Abu Lahab.
		
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			Some of the secrets
		
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			of Umayyah.
		
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			Because wasn't he the secret keeper sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam? Wasn't he al Amin? Think about
		
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			how many times Abu Lahab or Abu Jahal
		
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			and these people confided in the Prophet sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam with something deeply personal to
		
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			them. The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam didn't
		
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			get nasty with them. No, no. We don't
		
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			do that. Imagine if the Prophet shalallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam took the bodies of Abu Jahal,
		
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			and an akhna subnu shraikh, and he cut
		
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			them up, and he put them up, and
		
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			did tamfil.
		
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			Crucified them on sticks to send a message
		
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			to the Meccans, don't try this again.
		
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			Instead the Prophet
		
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			freed their children,
		
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			and kept his hand open to them, and
		
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			his heart open to them. We're not like
		
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			you.
		
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			The truth doesn't need falsehood.
		
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			Our message
		
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			is too pure to be tainted
		
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			by what contradicts it. This is true about
		
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			Islam. This is true about Palestine.
		
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			This is true about Ghazza. This is true
		
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			about truthful narratives. Let the truth speak for
		
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			itself, and make sure that you represent it
		
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			truthfully.
		
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			Oh you who believe, be mindful of Allah
		
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			and be with the truthful.
		
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			Let the way that you carry yourself in
		
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			business, in your interactions, in the way that
		
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			you speak
		
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			be truthful.
		
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			Show that nobility and that dignity.
		
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			Do not become foul like they are foul.
		
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			Don't lie the way that they lie. Don't
		
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			resort to their tactics.
		
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			And you know what ends up happening? Subhanallah.
		
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			In one of the conversations
		
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			between haraql and Abu Sufyan before Abu Sufyan
		
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			became Muslim is look at the people.
		
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			Are they growing or are they decreasing? Despite
		
00:42:12 --> 00:42:14
			all of this persecution,
		
00:42:14 --> 00:42:16
			are the number of followers growing
		
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			or are they decreasing? And Abu Sufyan had
		
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			to admit,
		
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			despite being, at that time, the biggest Islamophobe
		
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			possibly alive,
		
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			that they keep on increasing despite our persecution.
		
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			They keep growing in number. And he said,
		
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			that's the sweetness of faith.
		
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			It enters into the heart, and then nothing
		
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			can suppress it. You can't do anything about
		
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			it.
		
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			There are more people in the world saying,
		
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			than ever before.
		
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			There are more people in the world saying,
		
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			Free Palestine,
		
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			than ever
		
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			before. They are so afraid that they're trying
		
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			to criminalize
		
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			words and slogans,
		
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			redefine them, misinterpret them, disperse,
		
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			suppress,
		
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			because nothing is working, because you can't keep
		
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			putting lipstick on a genocide.
		
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			You can't put lipstick on a part side.
		
00:43:04 --> 00:43:06
			You can't lie about the prophet
		
00:43:06 --> 00:43:08
			this long, eventually people will actually read about
		
00:43:08 --> 00:43:10
			him. You can't tell them what's in the
		
00:43:10 --> 00:43:12
			Quran this long, eventually people will check out
		
00:43:12 --> 00:43:13
			the book themselves.
		
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			You can't keep lying, and expect the lies
		
00:43:16 --> 00:43:17
			to hold. Eventually,
		
00:43:17 --> 00:43:20
			they will fold. And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			will make sure that the truth rises. Once
		
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			again, as it always does century after century,
		
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			time after time. And I wanna leave you
		
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			with one last message. You know, Orwell said
		
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			something that was very profound. He said, the
		
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			further
		
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			that a society drifts away from truth,
		
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			the more it hates those who speak it.
		
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			The further a society drifts away from truth,
		
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			the more it hates those who speak it.
		
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			If you wonder why there's so much suppression
		
00:43:46 --> 00:43:48
			of Islam and the Muslim community in different
		
00:43:48 --> 00:43:49
			parts of the world, that is a sign
		
00:43:49 --> 00:43:51
			of the power of Islam.
		
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			If you wonder why there's a suppression of
		
00:43:53 --> 00:43:55
			the message of Palestine around the world, that
		
00:43:55 --> 00:43:56
			is a sign
		
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			of the message of Palestine.
		
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			And you can see by the way,
		
00:44:04 --> 00:44:06
			the Elon Papes of the world,
		
00:44:07 --> 00:44:07
			and the people
		
00:44:08 --> 00:44:08
			that
		
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			speak from
		
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			the legions of apartheid against apartheid,
		
00:44:14 --> 00:44:16
			and say that our history is constructed
		
00:44:16 --> 00:44:19
			upon falsehood and oppression and occupation.
		
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			And you
		
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			don't see
		
00:44:25 --> 00:44:26
			many Palestinians
		
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			or Muslims
		
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			that are saying, yes. They have no right
		
00:44:31 --> 00:44:32
			to this land. They have no right to
		
00:44:32 --> 00:44:35
			defend themselves. They have no right to this.
		
00:44:35 --> 00:44:37
			They have no right to that. Although, unfortunately,
		
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			we do live in a world where probably
		
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			of the most disgusting creatures in the world
		
00:44:41 --> 00:44:44
			is a Muslim Zionist. And those are 2
		
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			very contradictory words. They exist.
		
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			And you have anti zionist Jews,
		
00:44:53 --> 00:44:54
			people
		
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			that have seen
		
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			the falsehood of the narrative that was given
		
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			to them,
		
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			and that are discovering the truth. The point
		
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			is, dear brothers and sisters,
		
00:45:03 --> 00:45:05
			cling to the truth, and imagine yourself in
		
00:45:05 --> 00:45:07
			this world with the ideologies, the political, the
		
00:45:07 --> 00:45:09
			social, the cultural ideologies.
		
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			Imagine yourself like Abdullah Abu Salam,
		
00:45:13 --> 00:45:14
			holding on to
		
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			holding on to that trustworthy handhold.
		
00:45:18 --> 00:45:20
			When Islam becomes unpopular,
		
00:45:20 --> 00:45:23
			when our value system is deemed regressive,
		
00:45:23 --> 00:45:26
			when our causes are deemed barbaric, when our
		
00:45:26 --> 00:45:26
			community,
		
00:45:27 --> 00:45:28
			and our ummah is
		
00:45:29 --> 00:45:30
			misrepresented
		
00:45:30 --> 00:45:31
			and maligned,
		
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			When they say about the prophet what they
		
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			say. When they say about the Quran what
		
00:45:36 --> 00:45:37
			they say,
		
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			I'm holding on to this trustworthy handhold.
		
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			Until the day that I die,
		
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			Oh Allah, oh turner of hearts, make our
		
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			hearts firm upon your religion. Make our hearts
		
00:45:54 --> 00:45:57
			firm upon the truth. Let us be people
		
00:45:57 --> 00:45:59
			of truth. Let us uphold the truth. Give
		
00:45:59 --> 00:46:02
			victory to the people of truth, and let
		
00:46:02 --> 00:46:05
			us stand with them in a free Palestine,
		
00:46:05 --> 00:46:07
			and pray in a liberated Masjid Al Aqsa.
		
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			Liberate the hearts and the minds of people
		
00:46:10 --> 00:46:11
			from the poison
		
00:46:12 --> 00:46:14
			of Zionism, from the poison of the propaganda
		
00:46:14 --> 00:46:17
			that has dehumanized our people. Liberate their hearts
		
00:46:17 --> 00:46:19
			and their minds from the Islamophobia that has
		
00:46:19 --> 00:46:21
			stopped them from seeing the beauty of Islam.
		
00:46:21 --> 00:46:24
			Guide our hearts. Guide our minds. Guide our
		
00:46:24 --> 00:46:26
			eyes. Guide our actions, guide us to that
		
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			which is pleasing to you.