Omar Suleiman – What If I Cannot Look Anymore

Omar Suleiman
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The speaker discusses the sentiment of the Quran and how it can be used to reduce the sense of sinfulness. They explain that the Quran is not meant to be heard in the background and that people's attention span is different from the speaker's. The importance of reflect on the Quran and the attention span with divine revelation is emphasized. The speaker also discusses the tragic loss of a deceased father's family and the negative impact of the digital world on people, emphasizing the importance of not reacting to images and moments in activating oneself and spreading awareness. The importance of acting within one's capacity and not letting emotions run out without warning is also emphasized.

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			We begin by praising Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			and bearing witness that none has the right
		
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			to be worshipped or unconditionally obeyed except for
		
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			him. And we were bear witness that Muhammad
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wasallam
		
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			is his final messenger.
		
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			We ask Allah to send his peace and
		
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			blessings upon him. The prophets and messengers that
		
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			came before him, his family and companions that
		
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			served alongside him, and those that follow in
		
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			his blessed path until the day of judgment,
		
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			and we ask Allah to make us amongst
		
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			them.
		
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			Dear brothers and sisters,
		
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			there was an auntie that
		
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			spoke to me last week and I want
		
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			to start with her story and then come
		
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			back to it.
		
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			And she conveyed
		
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			a very interesting sentiment.
		
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			She said to me,
		
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			sheikh, am I sinful
		
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			if I don't look at the images that
		
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			are coming out of Gaza anymore
		
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			because I can no longer consume
		
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			those images?
		
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			Am I sinful
		
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			if I don't look at those images anymore
		
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			because I am on antidepressants
		
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			because I cannot handle
		
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			those images.
		
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			I'm gonna leave that inquiry
		
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			for a few minutes insha Allah ta'ala and
		
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			move on to a framing that I pray
		
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			will help us address this question in light
		
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			of a deeper question.
		
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			There is this sentiment that I can't look
		
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			and I can't look is not the same
		
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			as I don't want to look.
		
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			And there's a difference between not wanting to
		
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			look because you feel helpless and you cannot
		
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			do anything for the people that you are
		
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			seeing on the screen
		
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			and I don't want to look because it
		
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			ruins my own happiness, my own day and
		
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			inability
		
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			to function and I'd rather not know
		
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			because out of sight is not always out
		
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			of mind.
		
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			Out of sight is not always out of
		
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			mind.
		
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			And so it brings us to this idea
		
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			of meaningful
		
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			consumption. What does meaningful consumption look like? And
		
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			I wanna give you a few scenes
		
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			that might seem like they're unrelated
		
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			at the onset.
		
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			I want you to first and foremost think
		
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			about the Quran.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says
		
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			That when the Quran is recited, then listen
		
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			attentively
		
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			and be quiet so that mercy may come
		
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			to you.
		
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			It may be that some people as they're
		
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			driving to Jum'ah
		
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			are having conversations and the Quran is on
		
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			in the background.
		
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			It may be that you walk into a
		
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			store and the Quran is playing in the
		
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			background
		
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			while no one is actually paying attention to
		
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			what's being recited and there's no intention to
		
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			pay attention
		
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			to what's being recited.
		
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			It may be that a few people are
		
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			praying and it's been common in our gatherings
		
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			that a group is praying maghrib or isha
		
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			and the rest of the gathering is having
		
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			their conversations
		
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			as if they are competing with the recitation
		
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			from the salah.
		
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			I want you to put that on the
		
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			side.
		
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			And then I actually wanna take you back
		
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			to something subhanallah I remember experiencing
		
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			that I felt very strange and I know
		
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			it came from a good place but I
		
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			remember feeling like it was very strange. I
		
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			remember when I was studying overseas and the
		
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			war of Iraq
		
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			happened
		
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			and
		
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			the scenes which is very common now,
		
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			the news channels being turned on and the
		
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			devastation playing in the background of a dinner
		
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			gathering.
		
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			And while you see people that are devastated
		
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			on the TV screen
		
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			and everything falling apart in their lives,
		
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			another group of people having dinner and inevitably
		
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			in the very beginning when you get to
		
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			the gathering, people sit on the couch, look
		
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			at the TV and they say, and
		
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			then they start talking to each other.
		
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			And eventually,
		
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			the devastating scenes become background
		
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			noise as well.
		
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			I want you to think of another thing.
		
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			We have seen the uptick of homelessness
		
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			in our lives.
		
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			Beggars wherever you go.
		
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			And we have accustomed ourselves that when you
		
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			pass by those things, keep your head down
		
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			and don't look at it.
		
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			And there may be some reasoning to it
		
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			that you can't give everybody everything and it's
		
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			hard to, you know, to really get into
		
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			who's deserving and who's not deserving but the
		
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			point is a very unnatural
		
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			intentional
		
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			ignoring of what is happening.
		
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			What is it with our attention span to
		
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			what is meaningful?
		
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			And why is it that eventually we tune
		
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			things out? And at what point does indifference
		
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			become sinful? And so I wanna give you
		
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			a principle
		
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			that to be meaningfully present with something for
		
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			a short time
		
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			is more beloved to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			than to leave something on in the background
		
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			for a long time.
		
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			And so I actually start with the Quran.
		
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			When Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala refers to the
		
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			idea that when the Quran is being recited,
		
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			listen to it, listen
		
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			to
		
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			it. And Allah
		
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			makes very clear, be quiet.
		
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			So that mercy may come to you. That
		
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			it is indeed according to the majority of
		
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			scholars
		
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			sinful in fact to have the Quran playing
		
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			in the background just as background noise. This
		
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			is different from someone that's reviewing hifth while
		
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			they're going about their day and they have
		
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			it on so that they can try to
		
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			reflect upon it or try to review their
		
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			hifth. This is different from someone that is
		
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			trying to reflect. But the idea of just
		
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			reducing it to noise could actually become sinful
		
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			because it creates the wrong type of relationship
		
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			between you and the Quran.
		
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			The Quran
		
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			is not meant to be heard in the
		
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			background, it's meant to penetrate
		
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			deeply into your heart.
		
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			And so to reflect and listen meaningfully
		
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			for a few minutes is better than just
		
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			having it on somewhere and talking over it
		
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			especially becomes sinful.
		
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			Right? If that's what it's reduced to.
		
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			Because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala doesn't want you
		
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			to just hear it.
		
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			Allah azza wa jal wants you to reflect
		
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			upon it. There is an attention span with
		
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			divine revelation.
		
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			The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam had that
		
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			attitude. The prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam had that
		
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			approach to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's word being
		
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			descended upon him and being recited around him
		
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			alaihi salatu waslam where it immediately caught his
		
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			attention
		
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			and it was as if nothing else
		
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			was in the background
		
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			once the Quran was being recited. And subhanAllah,
		
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			the ilhamah mentioned, look at the profundity of
		
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			this that the prophet shalallahu alaihi wa sallam
		
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			used to receive the Quran
		
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			from Jibreel alaihis salam
		
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			in a way that would flatten the mountains.
		
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			But if he heard ibn Mas'ud radiAllahu anhu,
		
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			or Abu Musa ash radiAllahu anhu, or Abad
		
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			bin Bishr radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, or Hudayf ibn
		
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			al Imam radiAllahu anhu. Reading the Quran, the
		
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			prophet shalallahu alaihi wa sallam was immediately penetrated.
		
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			He immediately stopped
		
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			and he listened to alaihi salatu wassalam and
		
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			he paid attention
		
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			and he interacted with it in a deep
		
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			and profound way. But the idea of the
		
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			prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam hanging out with
		
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			the companions in the Quran being recited somewhere
		
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			in the background, it's not there because that
		
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			creates the wrong type of relationship.
		
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			That's not mindful consumption and reflection of the
		
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			words of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			Those are the ayaat of Ar Rahman, the
		
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			ayaat of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala as in
		
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			the verses of the Quran and
		
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			there are also ayaat as in signs of
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala all around us at
		
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			all times.
		
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			And there are different signs.
		
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			And of those signs
		
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			is tragedy.
		
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			Of those signs
		
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			is difficulty.
		
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			And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam wanted
		
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			his companions to get the point
		
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			that never
		
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			stroll or scroll past something without thinking about
		
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			what just happened,
		
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			without being meaningful and mindful about what you
		
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			just saw, about what you just heard. SubhanAllah,
		
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			even when it comes to
		
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			even when it comes to funerals,
		
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			the prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam
		
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			was the one that would go, that he
		
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			would be in the grave alaihi wasalam to
		
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			receive his companions and the prophet salallahu alaihi
		
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			wasalam told us to visit the graveyard because
		
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			it reminds you of death. Go to it.
		
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			The prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam would would've frowned
		
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			upon someone who was talking about something other
		
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			than the affair of death during the janazah.
		
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			And you see it happening where people start
		
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			their conversations.
		
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			The body is not even buried yet and
		
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			people are already talking about something else.
		
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			See it all the time. It's strange. It's
		
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			weird. It's counter fitra.
		
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			It's an opposition to who we're supposed to
		
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			be.
		
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			But that's not our messenger sallallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam.
		
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			He gave the sahaban attitude where when the
		
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			janazah was happening, it was as if there
		
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			were birds on their heads.
		
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			Why? Because they were silent in their dua,
		
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			immersed in their individual dua.
		
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			Make dua for your brother, fa inna hul
		
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			aana yustal he's being asked right now.
		
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			Ask Allah to grant him firmness. And people
		
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			were in their dua immersed in the affair
		
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			at hand. And the prophet salallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam did not want people to lose that
		
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			even when it wasn't the janazah of one
		
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			of the sahaba. So if there is an
		
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			equivalent to scrolling,
		
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			the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasalam sitting
		
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			with his sahabah
		
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			and the janazah of a Jewish man in
		
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			Madinah passes by.
		
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			The natural Muslim reaction was that's not our
		
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			janazah. It's just like someone on a highway,
		
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			right, coming by, the hearse comes by, you
		
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			don't interrupt your phone call, you don't It's
		
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			just something passing by, something across our screen,
		
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			something across our sight.
		
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			But the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam stood up.
		
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			He stood up and he said, alaihi salatu
		
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			waslam, he's narrated 3 things. He said, number
		
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			1, alaihis salafsan, is it not a human
		
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			being? Is it not a human soul?
		
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			Number 2, kumna lil malaika, we stood for
		
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			the angels.
		
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			Number 3, the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasalam was
		
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			narrated to have said,
		
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			death is not a light matter.
		
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			Death is severe. I don't want you to
		
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			get used to this idea of sitting
		
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			and a janazah passes by even if you're
		
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			not gonna follow that janazah and participate in
		
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			any ritual and make du'a for the dead.
		
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			I don't want you to get used to
		
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			the idea of a janazah passing by you
		
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			and you just sit and continue on with
		
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			your conversation
		
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			as if nothing just happened, as if Allah
		
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			did not just strike you with a stern
		
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			reminder.
		
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			Something I witnessed just a few weeks ago,
		
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			I was in a Muslim country, let me
		
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			not say what Muslim country it is, that
		
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			always
		
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			goes the wrong way. I was in a
		
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			Muslim country and there was it was a
		
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			tourist site, a big famous mas'id and it
		
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			was a tourist site
		
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			and there was a janaza
		
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			that was to happen in that famous masjid.
		
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			And so the body of the person that
		
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			had passed away was outside in the courtyard
		
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			of the masjid and a few family members
		
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			standing around crying.
		
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			And because people were in their tourist mindset,
		
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			people were walking around them with their phones
		
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			and and filming them.
		
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			If you've been to Jannah Al Baqir in
		
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			Madinah,
		
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			people are being buried in Madinah. You have
		
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			a crying father burying his child, you have
		
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			people burying their brothers and sisters and their
		
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			parents, and you have people with their cell
		
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			phones trying to catch it all on footage.
		
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			It's strange.
		
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			It's not who we're supposed to be.
		
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			There's a human problem. There's a Muslim problem
		
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			of how you interact with what is in
		
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			front of you of a very serious affair
		
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			that you're supposed to look, but not just
		
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			look. Look in a certain way. Look with
		
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			a certain lens.
		
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			Look with your heart,
		
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			and be mindful about what you're seeing.
		
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			The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was not
		
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			a person who could stroll by a person
		
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			in tragedy
		
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			or who a person would come to, alayhi
		
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			salatu wa sallam, and he would do nothing
		
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			for. SubhanAllah, very powerful narration that comes to
		
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			my mind sometimes
		
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			in this regard and I and I thought
		
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			about it with this sister that I mentioned
		
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			in the beginning of this khutbah. There was
		
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			a woman by the name of Bujayed radiallahu
		
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			ta'ala Anha. She's one of those who gave
		
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			allegiance to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam early
		
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			on. She was an Ansari woman
		
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			and the Ansar had that beautiful spirit.
		
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			Giving selfless spirit. That's what they're praised for
		
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			in the Quran.
		
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			And she said,
		
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			That a man comes and he stands at
		
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			my door, a poor person comes to my
		
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			door and I don't have anything to give
		
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			him. What do I do?
		
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			The prophet
		
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			says to her,
		
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			he says,
		
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			even if you don't have in your house,
		
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			which is literally a burnt sheep's foot.
		
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			Like what value is a burnt sheep's foot
		
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			to a person?
		
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			He's saying, if that's the only thing you
		
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			can find in your house,
		
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			then the prophet
		
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			said, put it in his hands.
		
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			Put it put it in his hands so
		
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			that he doesn't live leave your home empty
		
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			handed. Subhanallah, if that's all you have to
		
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			offer
		
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			in this situation, is that you could go
		
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			and you could find a burnt sheep foot,
		
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			just don't let someone come to your door
		
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			with their hand open
		
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			and then you send them away empty handed,
		
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			that it wouldn't be good for you.
		
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			That is the prophetic ethic. How much we
		
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			can act upon it,
		
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			that's a different story.
		
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			Now, what does this have to do with
		
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			the moment
		
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			that we're in right now where things become
		
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			so distant,
		
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			things become so digital, things become
		
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			so extra.
		
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			We are inundated
		
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			with imagery
		
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			of tragedy
		
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			all the time,
		
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			and sometimes we don't know how to interact
		
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			with it anymore.
		
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			And
		
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			you know, I I I was heartbroken at
		
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			the idea of a Sudan,
		
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			all eyes on Sudan. It was a hashtag
		
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			because no one's even had their eyes on
		
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			a Sudan
		
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			throughout this entire tragedy of devastation.
		
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			When people have to say, look at us.
		
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			Look at what we're going through.
		
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			Then that shows you the devastation in the
		
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			world today. When you open up your feed
		
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			on social media and you see another
		
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			Palestinian's
		
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			child blowing off or in pieces.
		
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			It's not normal.
		
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			We've seen more people in pieces in the
		
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			last year than we've probably seen in our
		
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			entire lives unless we lived in a war
		
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			zone,
		
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			And you're trying to audition
		
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			dead Palestinians for the empathy
		
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			of heartless people in the west to say,
		
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			look at this you hypocrites.
		
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			Look at this.
		
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			This is your money.
		
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			These are your weapons. This is your policy.
		
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			Look, look, look, and eventually it gets exhausting.
		
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			And you don't know what to do with
		
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			that anymore. At this point now, what do
		
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			I do when I'm inundated with these images
		
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			and at this point, I'm just shut off?
		
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			I can't even look anymore. I just scroll
		
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			quicker
		
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			because when I see it, it breaks me.
		
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			I can't look at the video. I can't
		
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			look at the picture. I don't know if
		
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			I wanna share it. I don't know if
		
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			I wanna see it.
		
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			At that point, dear brothers and sisters, and
		
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			this is where I wanna bring this to,
		
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			I wanna first and first and foremost remind
		
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			you.
		
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			1st and foremost,
		
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			it doesn't matter how much you stare,
		
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			what matters is how much you care.
		
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			You're not sinful
		
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			for the amount of minutes or hours that
		
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			you spend watching that stuff.
		
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			You're sinful for neglect.
		
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			And so, it's not that Allah
		
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			will hold you to task
		
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			for how many minutes you spent looking.
		
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			Because just like if one ayah of the
		
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			Quran passes you by and you stop and
		
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			you read that ayah of the Quran and
		
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			you deeply reflect on it and you make
		
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			du'a for that ayah of the Quran, if
		
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			you come across just one of those images,
		
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			one of those stories and you stop and
		
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			you make du'a,
		
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			You have the name of that person. You
		
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			put your phone to the side. You put
		
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			your computer away, and you make dua. And
		
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			you exert that brokenness
		
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			and emotion into a sincere supplication with Allah
		
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			And if the name of that person was
		
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			mentioned, you mentioned that person's name in your
		
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			dua and you connect to that person just
		
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			like you would have gotten the news if
		
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			your own son or daughter just died.
		
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			Then that is far more beloved to Allah
		
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			then.
		
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			You're not tasked for that.
		
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			You don't have to do that part.
		
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			And I'm not saying neglect it altogether,
		
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			nor am I inviting selfishness.
		
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			Look. There is a reality here
		
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			that it's important for us
		
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			to consume of it what is necessary to
		
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			activate us and to spread awareness, but
		
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			you're not tasked
		
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			with a certain amount here. You're tasked with
		
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			how much you care. You're tasked with how
		
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			much you do. You're tasked with how much
		
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			you allow that to activate you in a
		
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			certain way. And if it shuts you off
		
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			at some point,
		
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			that's not where Allah
		
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			barrier is.
		
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			It's not where the threshold is met.
		
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			But don't neglect it altogether.
		
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			Don't neglect it altogether.
		
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			Also don't scroll and this is this the
		
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			algorithm of the devil, it is the algorithm
		
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			of shaitan
		
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			that you scroll
		
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			from people dying
		
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			and crying
		
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			to people laughing and in joy.
		
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			You scroll
		
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			from devastation
		
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			to complete meaningless
		
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			nonsense that's that's often degenerate.
		
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			Degenerate nonsense.
		
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			And that's how the algorithm feeds you
		
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			because it desensitizes
		
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			you and it makes you indifferent to it
		
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			all. That's not who we are.
		
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			Don't scroll from the dead baby
		
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			to a laughing idiot.
		
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			Scroll from the dead baby to some moments
		
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			with the Quran and du'a.
		
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			Go from that image
		
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			to a moment of reflection
		
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			because otherwise that social media is gonna kill
		
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			whatever is left of your fitra just like
		
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			it's doing for everything else. Whatever is left
		
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			of your natural goodness will go with that.
		
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			Don't stop that human
		
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			element that Allah azza wa jal put inside
		
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			of you to meaningfully engage when you do
		
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			see. It's far more beloved to Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala.
		
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			And then I come back to this,
		
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			the conversation of
		
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			with the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			It's not just a burnt sheep's foot
		
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			that you can physically give.
		
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			Let not one of those images confront you,
		
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			except that you give something equivalent to the
		
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			burnt sheep's foot of your emotion, of your
		
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			du'a, of your action.
		
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			I know it's hard for us to continue
		
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			to act.
		
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			It's hard for us to continue to do
		
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			whatever is in our capacity.
		
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			But Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, calls upon us
		
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			to act within our capacity.
		
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			Fear Allah as much as you can.
		
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			Jahidoo,
		
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			strive.
		
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			Waladhinajahadoo
		
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			fina lanahdyanamsubulalaa,
		
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			and you'll be guided
		
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			to the next path.
		
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			Strive in your capacity.
		
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			Keep on going and doing what you can.
		
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			Do not let the fatigue of emotion
		
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			lead to
		
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			the fruitlessness of your efforts.
		
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			Don't let it crush your efforts.
		
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			Keep going, doing what we can as a
		
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			community.
		
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			And at the end of the day,
		
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			we know
		
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			that we see them
		
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			and Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, sees them.
		
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			And the difference between
		
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			our sights
		
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			and the sight of Allah,
		
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			and there is no comparison of our sight
		
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			and the sight of Allah
		
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			but in this regard,
		
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			especially,
		
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			is that Allah
		
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			will compensate them accordingly,
		
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			and Allah
		
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			will not let their pain go to waste.
		
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			Watched that 5 year old boy
		
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			breathe his last breath
		
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			2 days ago.
		
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			Killed by devils, greeted by angels.
		
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			While we're grieving him,
		
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			he's already being greeted by Allah
		
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			into his new abode and his new home.
		
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			If we don't have that
		
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			we will shut down when we don't see
		
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			justice in this world. But we have that
		
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			tawakkul,
		
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			that trust in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, that
		
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			divine justice is inevitable
		
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			and it's all encompassing.
		
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			And that of his divine justice
		
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			is that he would take us to task
		
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			if we did not do what was upon
		
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			us when we see such blatant injustice in
		
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			front of our eyes. May Allah Azzuzal forgive
		
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			us for our shortcomings. May Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala forgive us for our shortcomings. May Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala allow our hearts, our minds,
		
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			our eyes, our efforts to be activated for
		
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			His sake. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allow
		
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			us to do for our brothers and sisters
		
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			what will benefit them by His permission. And
		
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			may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			allow us
		
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			to not be taken to task
		
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			for the shortcomings that we have and forgive
		
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			us for our shortcomings
		
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			and instead, may Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, guide
		
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			us to the tasks and to the ways
		
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			that are pleasing to Him. And may Allah
		
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			'azhu wa za'l keep those intentions sincerely for
		
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			his sake and may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			keep those efforts blessed and may Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala guide us to collective action that
		
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			is good and may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			protect us from collective indifference.