Omar Suleiman – What If Oppression Is Our Destiny

Omar Suleiman
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The importance of protecting one's energy and causing others to feel sorry for them is discussed in a series of segments covering the negative impact of oppression on people's lives and political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political political
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We begin by praising Allah Subh'anaHu Wa

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Ta-A'la and bearing witness that none

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has the right to be worshipped or unconditionally

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obeyed except for him And we bear witness

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that Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is his final

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messenger We ask Allah to send his peace

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and blessings upon him the prophets and messengers

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that came before him his family and companions

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that served Alongside him and those that follow

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in his blessed path until the day of

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judgment and we ask Allah to make us

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amongst them Allahumma Ameen Dear brothers and sisters

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of the du'as of the Prophet Sallallahu

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Alaihi Wasallam Or at least a part of

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the du'a is وَلَا تُصَلِّتْ عَلَيْنَا مَنَّا

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يَرْحَمُنَا Oh Allah do not place upon us

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Those that will have no mercy upon us

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and of course as is commonly recited in

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the du'as Even if in the hadith

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is مَنَّا يَرْحَمُنَا مَنَّا يَخَافُكَ فِيْنَا وَلَا يَرْحَمُنَا

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Those who have no fear of you nor

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will they have any mercy upon us It's

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a common sentiment that no one wants to

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be placed under the crushing fist of oppression

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Not in their personal lives or in their

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political existence No one wants to feel the

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strength of another man above them That controls

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their movements, that controls their money, that controls

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their seemingly their dignity Their very existence in

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every way No one wants to feel like

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they are at the mercy of another human

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being Especially not a cruel human being It's

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been the theme of trying to remove oppression

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for the last year And as it seems

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to get more bleak Then the frustration and

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the despair and the anger grows And that

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sentiment of مَتَى نَصْرَ اللَّهِ When is the

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help of Allah coming?

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Which we spoke about in the very beginning

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of the genocide It hits a bit different

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now because some people are saying truly مَتَى

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نَصْرَ اللَّهِ I'm looking around, okay, this isn't

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going this way, this isn't going that way

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And سبحان الله What I want us to

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actually focus on for the rest of this

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khutbah Is what if Allah declared for you

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oppression?

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What if Allah decreed oppression upon you for

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the rest of your existence?

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At a personal level and at a political

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level What if we don't see the light

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at the end of the day?

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What if we don't see victory in our

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lifetimes?

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And سبحان الله In that same vein of

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that hadith وَلَا تُصَلِّتْ عَلَيْنَا مَنْ لَا يَرْحَمُنَ

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I was reading al-Imam ibn al-Qayyim

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رحمه الله In his مدارج السالكين And he

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says قَالَ أَحَدُ الْعَارِفِينَ That there was a

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righteous man Who said لِرَجُلٍ تَعَدَّ عَلَيْهِ وَظَلَمَهُ

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Who said to a man who oppressed him

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and who wronged him And I want you

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to memorize these words قَالَ إِن كُنْتَ ظَالِمًا

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فَالَّذِي سَلَّطَكَ عَلَيَّ لَيْسَ بِظَالِمٍ If you

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are an oppressor Then the one who put

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you above me is not an oppressor سبحان

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الله Think about the power of those words

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If you are indeed an oppressor Then the

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one who has allowed you For some wisdom

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that is beyond me To be above me

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in the material sense Is not an oppressor

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Allah is not an oppressor Allah is not

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an oppressor Even if the oppressors seem to

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reign free at times Allah سبحانه وتعالى is

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not an oppressor And you think to yourself

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Well, how do I internalize that?

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How do I equally have the same energy

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and power To both fight oppression and to

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be pleased If Allah سبحانه وتعالى has decreed

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oppression for me And you take it back

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to the very beginning of mankind The story

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of mankind Subhanallah Starts off with all of

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the diseases That are present in mankind today

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It's a story of pride It's a story

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of envy It's a story of murder It's

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everything that the angels said أَتَجْعَلُ فِيهَا مَن

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يُفْسِدُ فِيهَا وَيَسْفِي قُدِّمَا It didn't take long

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for human beings to spill blood It happened

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with the very first generation That murder happened

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And who did it happen between?

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Brothers Think about that Brothers Not people that

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are cousins Not people that are uncles and

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aunts Not friends Brothers And it's Qabil and

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Habil Cain and Abel And we could talk

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about that all day long Because it occupies

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a significant portion of the Quran for a

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reason To say this is how mankind starts

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off But I want you to see the

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final moments Through the lens of the wronged

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brother As Habil is looking back at Qabil

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This is when murder is imminent This is

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the moment before his blood is going to

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be spilled And we don't even know what

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that looks like yet As far as humanity

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is concerned But this is the final moment

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When he looks to his brother Who has

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that murderous rage in his eyes Who is

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holding his weapon towards him Outstretched And he

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says to him After telling him that I

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will not do what you do He says

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to him I

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want to let

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you bear the full sin of me And

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the full sin against me And your own

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sins I want you to bear the full

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sin of this act So that you can

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be from the people of the hellfire And

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that is the payment for the oppressor SubhanAllah

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think about that You know we never really

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think about What he must have been feeling

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in those moments When his brother outstretched his

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hand to kill him And he submitted himself

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to that moment He submitted himself to that

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decree for himself He's a human being He's

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not feeling sympathy for his brother in those

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moments And this is also very important Because

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we are not angels That doesn't mean we

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have the right to act like devils But

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it does mean that we have the right

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to feel human He said I want you

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to be punished I expect my jannah I

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expect my paradise I have full trust in

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala To grant me

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what he has guaranteed me Should this act

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of oppression meet its final end But I

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fully want you to go to * Think

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about every image of the oppressor Standing seemingly

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triumphant over the oppressed And the body language

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and the confidence And the belief in what

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comes next إني أريد أن تبوأ بإثمي وإثمك

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فتكون من أصحاب النار I want you to

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bear the full sin of this act I

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want nothing to do with this And subhanAllah

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Imam al-Qurtubi rahimahullah Lists so many deep

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reasons As to why he said إثمي وإثمك

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My sin and your sin He said one

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interpretation of that is I want you to

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bear the full sin of killing me And

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me not having to have anything That would

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negate that sin of you killing me And

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I want you to bear the punishment Of

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all your other sins too I want you

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to face Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala With

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the punishment of killing me And the punishment

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of all of your sins And you will

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be from the people of hellfire He also

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says that what it means is I want

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you to extend your oppression As long as

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you want Because the extension of your oppression

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Means the extension of my good And the

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extension of your bad The extended version of

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your oppression Take all the time that you

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need Go ahead and oppress in every way

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that you want Take it all because in

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reality You're only giving me my Jannah And

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earning yourself your * What a mindset When

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someone can fight his oppressor With the full

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anger and energy That is needed to fight

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an oppressor But at the same time to

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say I'm not afraid of you Go ahead

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Do what you're going to do Do what

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you want You're not actually hurting me And

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I hope you hurt yourself in * I

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hope you experience hellfire to the extreme And

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I know that if I'm patient I will

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experience paradise to its full promise He also

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says and he comments with the hadith Of

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Abu Hurairah radiyallahu ta'ala anhu And this

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is such a powerful one In Al-Bukhari

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Where the Prophet ﷺ said مَنْ كَانَتْ لَهُ

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مَظْلَمَةٌ لِأَحَدٍ مِنْ عِرْضِهِ أَوْ شَيْءٍ Whoever has

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committed an act of oppression Against his brother

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in regards to his honor Or something else

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قَالَ ﷺ فَلْيَتَحَلَّلْ مِنْهُ الْيَوْمِ He said let

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him beg for forgiveness now قَبْلَ أَنْ لَا

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يَكُونَ دِينَارٌ وَلَا دِرْهَمٌ إِنْ كَانَ لَهُ عَمَلٌ

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صَارِحٌ أُخِذَ مِنْهُ بِقَدْرِ مَظْلَمَتِهِ He said ﷺ

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let him beg for forgiveness now Before he

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shows up on a day When his money

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will not benefit him in any way And

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if he has any good deeds Then those

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good deeds will be taken away from him

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In accordance with his evil وَإِنْ لَمْ تَكُنْ

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لَهُ حَسَنَاتٌ أُخِذَ مِنْ سَيِّئَاتِ صَاحِبِهِ فَحُمِلَ عَلَيْهِ

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And if he has no good deeds left

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to give And this is the person that

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the Prophet ﷺ said Is al-Muflis, a

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bankrupt human being An oppressor who shows up

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His good deeds are taken Then the sins

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of the one that he wronged Will be

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put on his back May Allah ﷻ protect

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us اللهم آمين And so إِنِّي أُرِيدُ أَنْ

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تَبُؤَ بِإِثْمِي وَإِثْمِكَ Go ahead and extend your

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oppression Go ahead and extend your evil You

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are not actually harming me And this is

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the mindset That keeps a people going This

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is the difference between a shaheed And someone

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who the Prophet ﷺ said Every single time

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someone commits an act of murder How many

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years has it been since قَبِيلٍ هَبِيلٍ Since

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this immortalized conversation We don't know But let's

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just say It's been at least several thousand

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years Every murder that you see in Gaza

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Guess who's getting a share of the punishment

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in the grave He is Because the Prophet

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ﷺ said Every time someone spills blood A

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part of that goes to The brother who

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spilled blood لِأَنَّهُ أَوَّلُ مَنْ سَنَّ الْقَتْلِ Because

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he's the first one to start that trend

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To normalize that evil Can you imagine All

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the casualties of Gaza He still gets a

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share of that punishment All of the tyranny

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on earth Firaun gets a punishment Because they're

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imitating Firaun And their oppression and their tyranny

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What does this mean for us There's a

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question That often gets asked And I'm not

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going to address this question fully Which is

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do we deserve this Do we deserve oppression

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for ourselves As a community And the answer

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for now is not always But if it's

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been decreed for us We make the most

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of it Allah ﷻ has promised victory But

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Allah ﷻ has not promised That each and

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every single one of us Will live to

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see that victory on earth And we have

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to be okay with that We have to

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be able to come to terms with that

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fully Allah ﷻ promised eventual victory In the

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full physical material sense of the word But

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if we don't live to see it Alhamdulillah

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We know it's still happening Allah ﷻ never

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says وَعَدَ اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا الْهَزِيمَةَ Allah ﷻ

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never says He promised the believers That they're

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going to be humiliated Or that they're going

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to be defeated Allah ﷻ mentions that He

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has promised the believers That He will settle

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them on this earth That He will give

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them victory وَالْعَاقِبَةُ لِلْمُتَّقِينَ Victory is for the

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believers In this life and the next We

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already know Whether it's in three years Or

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it's in 30 years Or it's in 100

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years We already know That Allah ﷻ has

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promised victory But the question That I want

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us to really reason with And reckon with

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For the purpose of this khutbah In concert

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with everything That we've been talking about What

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if we don't live to see that victory?

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What if it's never freed in our lifetime?

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What if we're still fighting the same battles

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30, 40, 50 years from now?

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Will that make you question Allah ﷻ now?

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Will that make you have doubts in your

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deen?

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Will that push you to a brink of

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faithlessness?

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Will that make you think Okay, maybe they

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have a point?

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What if it doesn't happen in our lifetimes?

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What if we are martyred in the process

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Or even spared in the process?

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But we don't live to see it?

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What does it do to your faith?

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What does it do to your identity?

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What does it do to your existence?

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The answer should be Nothing but good Because

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the affair of the believer Is always khayr

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Is always good Nothing but good إِنَّ قَتْلِي

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شَهَادًا They kill me, it's martyrdom الحمد لله

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They deport me It's a chance to contemplate

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Allah Azawajal's existence out of these lands الحمد

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لله They imprison me It's a chance of

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khalwah To be secluded with Allah ﷻ الحمد

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لله Meaning if victory in the material sense

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Does not come in your lifetime You're okay

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with that You are fully at peace with

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that reality I didn't sign up for this

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Because I want to be holding a banner

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In this life of victory I signed up

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for this For the banner of the hereafter

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I signed up for this To be in

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a certain category in the akhira That's the

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mindset we have to have I didn't sign

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up for it To sing and to dance

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And to feel the jubilation of joy In

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the physical sense If it was for Allah

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ﷻ Then you will incur it In its

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full experience For the sake of Allah ﷻ

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With a smile on your face الحمد لله

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It doesn't take from my confidence In Allah's

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plan in any way If Allah ﷻ has

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decreed a personal path For me that is

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different And what I want to come to

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Dear brothers and sisters in that sense All

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of us want oppression removed And that in

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and of itself is a noble goal Oppression

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is so ugly In its bare manifest sense

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That إزالة الظلم That to remove oppression Is

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in and of itself A noble enough reason

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to push us But why do you really

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want oppression removed?

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Why do you want to see Palestine free?

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Why do you want to see Palestine win?

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Why do you want to see it?

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What do you want to see as a

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result of it?

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The American Muslim community Let's speak to our

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own little cut out here We want to

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see success For the American Muslim community What

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does that mean to you?

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What does that even look like to you?

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What does victory look like to us?

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There are very different perceptions Of what victory

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actually means Of what success actually means So

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you want oppression removed Why?

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Our Prophet ﷺ always taught us To attach

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a noble goal to a dua And so

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when the Prophet ﷺ said On the night

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of Badr إِن تُهْلِكَ هَذِي الْعِصَابَ فَلَن تُعْبَدَ

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فِي الْأَرْضِ أَبَدَ Oh Allah If you let

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this group of people be wiped out Then

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I'm afraid you won't be worshipped on earth

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He didn't say Oh Allah I want revenge

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Because you saw what they did to Khadija

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رضي الله عنها You saw what they did

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to Sumayya رضي الله تعالى عنها And I

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want that same feeling of No, none of

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that Oh Allah, if this group of people

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is destroyed I'm afraid you won't be worshipped

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on earth There is a noble goal that

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was attached to it We see it in

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the duas of Ibrahim ﷺ Every one of

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his duas Ibrahim never makes a dua Without

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attaching a reason to that dua رَبَّنَا لَا

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تَجْعَلْنَا فِتْنَةً لِلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا Oh Allah, don't make

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us a fitna for those who disbelieve To

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where they think that their victory Translates into

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truth being on their side And not realizing

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that they are steeped in falsehood We have

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a reason for our duas So when I

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ask you Why do you want your oppression

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removed?

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Why do we want oppression removed from this

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ummah?

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You need to gain some clarity there On

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an individual level Why do I want it

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removed?

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You need to gain some clarity in that

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regard And I want to say one more

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thing In sha Allah ta'ala In regards

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to specifically, once again, American Muslims I get

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it, elections are around the corner Once again,

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there is a lot of uncertainty Once again,

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there's a lot of fear What could happen

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to American Muslims here?

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What could happen to American Muslims there?

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I'm not saying that none of that is

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valid I'm actually not You're a Muslim I'm

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going to treat you that way I'm going

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to talk to you that way I'm not

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saying that your concerns About what's going to

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happen next are invalid It's okay to have

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a fear of the unknown A fear of

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the uncertainty And what comes next But what

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I want you to already put in your

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heart and your mind Is that even if

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it's the worst case scenario For us as

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Muslims Alhamdulillah Allah will be offering us an

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opportunity to build character It's not always about

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winning at a poll booth Or winning by

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raising your banner Sometimes it's about winning Through

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building clarity and building character Under difficult circumstances

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Sometimes that's how Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

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Generates the best version of ourselves here And

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the best reward for us there Alhamdulillah Let

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that part go We need to strategize We

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need to keep fighting We need to keep

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organizing We need to keep doing this and

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keep doing that Don't temper your efforts But

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do temper your expectations Alhamdulillah I'm at ease

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I'm at peace Because the shaitan that laughs

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in our faces today We're going to have

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a whole eternity Looking at those people burn

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in the hellfire And laughing at them You

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have a whole eternity To look at those

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tyrants Pay for what they have done But

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have you earned What you hope from Allah

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subhanahu wa ta'ala May Allah subhanahu wa

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ta'ala remove from us oppression May Allah

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subhanahu wa ta'ala grant us victory May

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allow us to

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be a part of that victory And should

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we not be a part of that victory

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in this life May Allah subhanahu wa ta

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'ala not deprive us of the full reward

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in the next life May Allah subhanahu wa

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ta'ala instill in us steadfastness and trust

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And may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala plant

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our hearts and our feet firm with faith

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Allahumma ameen Allahumma

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a'izal al-Islam wa al-Muslimeen wa

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adhilla al-shirk wa al-kathibeen wa dammir

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a'daa al-deen Allahumma ahlik al-dhalimeena bil

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-dhalimeen wa akhrijna wa ikhwana man baynihim salimeen

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Ibadullah an-Nallahi amru bil-adli wal-ihsan

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wa ita'adil-qurba wa yanha'an al

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-fahsha'i wal-munkari wal-baghi ya'idhukum

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la'allakum tathakkaroon fathkuru allahi yadhkurukum wa shkuruhu

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ala al-ni'ma yazid lakum wa ladhikru allahi

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akbar wa Allahu ya'nimu ma tasna'oon

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wa aqeem al-salat

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