Omar Suleiman – Who Do I Vote For A Message To American Muslims

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The importance of showing the truth and avoiding evil behavior in upcoming elections is emphasized. The use of duchesses and cautioning behavior is emphasized, along with the use of the "has been" concept to protect against evil and the importance of community and deeds for future generations. The success of the Sunents and the Prophet sallali alayhi being a powerful force is emphasized, along with the need for actions and deeds to be taken.

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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 bear witness that Muhammad sallallahu
		
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			alayhi wasallam is his final messenger We ask
		
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			Allah to send his peace and blessings upon
		
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			him the prophets and messengers that came before
		
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			him His family and companions that served alongside
		
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			him and those that follow in their blessed
		
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			path until the day of judgment And we
		
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			ask Allah to make us amongst them.
		
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			Allahumma ameen.
		
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			Dear brothers and sisters I begin with a
		
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			du'a that we should be making frequently
		
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			in these days Allahumma arina alhaqqa haqqa warzuqna
		
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			attiba'a Wa arina albaatila baatila warzuqna jtinaba.
		
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			Oh Allah We ask you to show us
		
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			the truth as truth and then to enable
		
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			us to follow that truth And we ask
		
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			you to show us evil as evil and
		
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			then enable us to avoid that evil Allahumma
		
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			arina alhaqqa haqqa warzuqna attiba'a wa arina
		
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			albaatila baatila warzuqna jtinaba Before I get into
		
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			the subject of today I want us to
		
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			take a step back and to first and
		
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			foremost start from the basic premise That as
		
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			Muslims one of the things that makes us
		
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			unique is that we submit our entire Existence
		
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			to Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala and in that
		
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			process we submit our hearts and our minds
		
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			We submit our emotions and our intellect and
		
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			in that is an inherent humility That we
		
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			might get things wrong and that we want
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala To lead us to
		
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			what's right and that we commit ourselves to
		
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			doing what's right once what's right has been
		
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			made clear to us There is submission.
		
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			There's humility especially when things become Further unclear,
		
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			especially when difficulty becomes so much that it
		
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			can cloud our senses Why?
		
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			Because Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala mentions to us
		
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			that shall I not tell you about al
		
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			-akhsareena a'maala Not those who have lost an
		
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			election, not those who have lost a race,
		
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			not those who have lost a position But
		
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			those who have lost their good deeds Shall
		
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			I not tell you about those who have
		
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			lost their good deeds allatheena dhalla sa'yuhum
		
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			fil hayati al-dunya wa hum yahsabuna annahum
		
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			yuhsinuna sun'aa It is not those Who
		
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			fail to exert themselves?
		
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			It's those who exerted themselves in wrong while
		
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			being sure that they were right And so
		
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			I start from that place of humility for
		
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			all of us not just in regards to
		
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			the current climate but in regards to every
		
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			climate that we have and Now to the
		
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			elections and to what's ahead of us May
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala guide us to what's
		
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			right and may Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala use
		
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			us in ways that are pleasing to him
		
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			Allahumma ameen It's not the first time that
		
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			I'm speaking about this election or what it
		
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			means or how we should move So I'm
		
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			not going to be able to say everything
		
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			in this khutbah But I do want to
		
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			share some things that are heavy on the
		
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			heart first and foremost How many people realistically
		
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			have you seen change their minds in the
		
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			last four months?
		
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			In the course of your discussions, your whatsapp
		
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			groups, your conversations online, your conversations at your
		
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			dinner table How many people have actually changed
		
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			their minds?
		
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			And if you're being honest with yourself, then
		
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			if you're lucky, maybe it's one or two
		
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			and so to say that people have their
		
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			mindsets is probably true for the vast majority
		
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			of Muslims as it is true for the
		
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			vast majority of Americans and that the rest
		
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			of this is a circus that plays out
		
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			and Unfortunately takes a lot of people along
		
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			the way and we accumulate many sins in
		
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			that process Number two, even if you've seen
		
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			someone change their minds When's the last time
		
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			you saw someone change their mind when you
		
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			call them a naive idiot or a soulless
		
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			sellout?
		
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			When you insulted them into changing their minds,
		
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			it doesn't happen.
		
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			Not online, not in real life You don't
		
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			walk through the masjid doors and say who
		
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			are you voting for?
		
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			I'm voting for this person.
		
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			You're this you're this You're that I think
		
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			you're right.
		
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			I'm gonna vote like, you know, it doesn't
		
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			happen like that in real life So let's
		
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			deal with the reality that we have right
		
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			now It's too late for me to try
		
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			to change your mind on anything, but I
		
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			hope bid me like it's had at least
		
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			something for the hearts in this last Juma
		
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			and So what I want us to do
		
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			first and foremost because it is Juma is
		
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			to go back to our du'as What
		
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			are the du'as that we should be
		
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			making in these times?
		
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			We have the du'a for guidance We
		
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			have the du'as that we are to
		
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			be making against our enemies and let's be
		
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			clear We have a clear enemy and we
		
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			should be making du'a against that clear
		
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			enemy and I want to share with you,
		
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			too One of them from Abdullah ibn Amr
		
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			al-Aas radiAllahu ta'ala anhuma He says
		
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			in the Rasulullahi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Kana
		
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			yad'u biha ula'il karimat that the
		
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			Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam would frequently make
		
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			du'a with the following words Allahumma inni
		
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			a'udhu bika min ghalabati al-dayni wa
		
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			ghalabati al-adu wa shamatati al-a'da Allahumma
		
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			inni a'udhu bika min ghalabati al-dayni
		
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			wa ghalabati al-adu wa shamatati al-a'da
		
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			The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam would say,
		
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			oh Allah I seek refuge in you from
		
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			being overwhelmed by debt From being overpowered by
		
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			my enemy and from their gloating at my
		
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			misfortune.
		
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			It's the first du'a The second du
		
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			'a is a du'a that Abu Huraira
		
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			radiAllahu ta'ala anhu also reports as being
		
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			a frequent Supplication of our Messenger sallallahu alayhi
		
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			wa sallam.
		
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			He says kana nabiyu sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
		
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			Yata'awwadu min jahdi al-bala, wa darak
		
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			al-shaqa, wa suu'il qada, wa shamatati
		
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			al-a'da He said that the Prophet sallallahu
		
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			alayhi wa sallam would frequently seek refuge from
		
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			four things Number one, jahdi al-bala, from
		
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			the severity of trials May Allah protect us
		
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			from the severity of trials, the types of
		
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			trials that Overwhelm our senses so that we
		
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			can't even see right and wrong anymore And
		
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			the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam would seek
		
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			refuge in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala from
		
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			darak al-shaqa from being met with deprivation
		
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			and The greatest deprivation is the deprivation of
		
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			faith, not the deprivation of anything else The
		
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			deprivation of faith when Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala writes down upon you.
		
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			This person is shaqi Deprived of good Because
		
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			of their insistence upon taking a path of
		
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			evil and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
		
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			would seek refuge in Allah from suu'il
		
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			qada From the difficulty from being met with
		
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			an evil decree and may Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala protect us from an evil decree
		
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			wa shamatati al-a'da and the Prophet sallallahu
		
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			alayhi wa sallam would seek refuge in Allah
		
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			from the gloating of our enemies When our
		
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			enemies see us struggling, when they see us
		
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			fractured, when they see us Unable to protect
		
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			ourselves, when they see us unable to move
		
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			in a cohesive direction and they celebrate They
		
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			make jokes.
		
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			They make memes They celebrate our impotence.
		
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			They celebrate their supposed * over us May
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala show us a
		
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			day where they no longer gloat.
		
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			Allahumma ameen These du'as are incredibly important.
		
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			Not just because du'a is the weapon
		
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			of the believer Greater than any other weapon
		
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			or tool that we have But because they
		
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			help us calibrate and they help us think
		
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			about well What is a misfortune that will
		
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			do that to me?
		
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			What is an enemy that should be defined
		
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			that way?
		
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			And so first and foremost, who is your
		
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			enemy?
		
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			And I'll tell you that if you're a
		
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			sincere Muslim and I assume that of every
		
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			brother or sister that walks through the masjid
		
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			doors Then may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			reward you for your sincerity and I ask
		
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			Allah to guide you and to guide me
		
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			to the best Course of action.
		
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			You're not my enemy Even if I think
		
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			very differently from you.
		
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			Period.
		
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			A Muslim is a Muslim.
		
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			You are not my enemy I do not
		
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			think of you as an enemy Nor should
		
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			we think of each other as enemies because
		
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			of battle lines that are not the ones
		
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			that we take from the Quran and The
		
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			Sunnah being drawn between us.
		
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			We don't do that in our community No
		
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			matter how much we disagree No matter how
		
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			severe and real those disagreements become even if
		
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			a person is a sinful Muslim, you're a
		
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			Muslim You're not my enemy.
		
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			So I start with that Your enemy is
		
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			not your brother or sister Who's trying to
		
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			figure out what to do with this all?
		
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			Your enemy is the system of evil that
		
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			forces you to try to guess who's going
		
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			to genocide less Who's gonna oppress less?
		
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			Who's gonna kill less Muslims?
		
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			That's what your enemy is.
		
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			Your enemy is that evil but in that
		
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			process anyone who tries to sanitize or downplay
		
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			the evil of any party or any Politician
		
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			that has the blood of your brothers and
		
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			sisters on their hands needs to do some
		
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			soul-searching so there's a difference between trying
		
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			to calculate in the midst of an evil
		
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			a great evil that can be overwhelming with
		
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			sincerity and Sanitizing that very evil.
		
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			Those are two very different things in whatever
		
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			calculation You're making the worst human rights atrocity
		
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			of our lifetimes playing out on our screens
		
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			has to be the number one factor of
		
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			that calculation It starts with them We're not
		
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			the people of Gaza's bad, but so are
		
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			our groceries Nor are we the people that
		
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			insult Palestinians or use the word Palestinian as
		
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			an insult?
		
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			Because there is no greater honor right now
		
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			than standing with the most honored people on
		
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			earth And those are the Palestinians that are
		
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			fighting this cruel beast right now So we're
		
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			not we're not those people and when we
		
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			make our calculations We have to make sure
		
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			that we are operating with sincerity to our
		
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			cause as an umma No matter what that
		
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			is and I want us all to recognize
		
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			that while we're glued to our screens on
		
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			Tuesday night Seeing a percentage move this way
		
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			or a percentage move that way and seeing
		
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			this political football.
		
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			I Want you to understand that at that
		
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			very moment Your brothers and sisters in Gaza
		
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			and Lebanon will be looking to the skies
		
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			to see if there is a movement of
		
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			an American bomb Some of the manufactured by
		
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			General Dynamics here in Dallas that's going to
		
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			fall on them in that moment they're not
		
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			looking at things the way that you're looking
		
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			at things and That's your brother That's your
		
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			sister and that has to be the number
		
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			one concern that is on your heart and
		
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			your mind at all times But what if
		
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			in that calculation?
		
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			We get this wrong What if we don't
		
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			take the right course of action as a
		
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			community even with the right?
		
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			Intentions and even with the right mechanics to
		
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			arrive at the right goal What if we
		
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			get this wrong not just in regards to
		
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			our vote by the way a vote for
		
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			anyone or not voting at all?
		
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			Not just in regards to that but in
		
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			regards to anything in regards to our strategies
		
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			sincere strategies through a class through Shura through
		
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			Through deeply contemplating the Sunnah together, which is
		
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			the Sunnah to try to figure things out
		
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			as a collective community What if we get
		
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			things wrong in our lives?
		
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			I want you to ponder this Hadith and
		
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			Subhanallah, it's a powerful Hadith and I don't
		
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			want to lose the context because sometimes We
		
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			can be highly dishonest if we speak of
		
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			a Hadith like this without situating it in
		
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			the context this Hadith is talking about bedded
		
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			or a hood a person that has been
		
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			in charge with holding an arrow an Archer
		
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			who has to watch the backs of the
		
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			Muslims and has direct orders from the Prophet
		
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			Sallallahu alayhi wasallam to protect themselves against an
		
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			evil tyrant it is talking about that context,
		
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			but there's something deeply profound that the Prophet
		
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			sallallahu alayhi wasallam shared with the archers and
		
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			Some of the scars say that this was
		
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			before the battle of a hood Because of
		
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			the turkeys because of the focus that the
		
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			Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam had on that small
		
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			group of people and by the way Subhanallah
		
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			in that is deeply profound that it was
		
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			a group of 50 that were the key
		
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			strategy of the rest of the ummah in
		
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			this situation and When 40 of those 50
		
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			disobeyed it changed the entire dynamics of that
		
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			battle so think about the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
		
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			wasallam speaking to you and you're one of
		
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			those archers whether it's the battle of Badr
		
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			or the battle of Uhud and Amr ibn
		
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			Abasa says I heard the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
		
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			wasallam say The
		
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			Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam said Whoever shoots an
		
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			arrow Whether that arrow hits its target or
		
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			misses its target That arrow will be equivalent
		
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			to the reward of freeing a person from
		
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			slavery Subhanallah think about that that message how
		
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			that resonates what that says to a person
		
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			Look, you're in this situation You're shooting your
		
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			arrows and to be clear because I know
		
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			how our khutbas get taken out of context
		
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			I'm not suggesting that you shoot an actual
		
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			arrow or shoot anything else at anybody else
		
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			Stick to the spirit of the hadith, please
		
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			What the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam is putting
		
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			in their minds You're gonna shoot and sometimes
		
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			you're gonna miss You're going to strategize and
		
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			sometimes your strategy will fall apart You're gonna
		
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			make determinations and sometimes those determinations are going
		
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			to be dead wrong even if everyone around
		
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			you says they are absolutely right it's gonna
		
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			happen and In this situation in such a
		
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			clear and pure situation Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam
		
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			is saying look whether it misses or not
		
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			You've just freed yourself from hellfire Because the
		
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			reward of freeing a person from slavery is
		
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			freeing yourself from hellfire as the Prophet sallallahu
		
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			alayhi wasallam said Limb by limb if you
		
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			free a person from slavery you free yourself
		
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			from hellfire So do your part Not just
		
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			tawakkal alallah don't sit there and beat yourself
		
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			up too much over the missed arrow over
		
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			the missed target It's about the spirit.
		
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			It's about who you are when you assume
		
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			that position It's about you calibrating with sincerity
		
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			and with clarity It's about you trying to
		
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			make sure that you take the right decision
		
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			I may Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala guide us
		
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			to a sawab guide us to that which
		
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			is right in all of our affairs and
		
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			with that I Want to leave you with
		
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			five things, but if they're lying to Allah
		
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			as we go into this Tuesday number one
		
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			the definition of our community needs to change
		
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			to include our global community to speak of
		
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			American Muslims as if what they do only
		
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			affects them or that their interests are to
		
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			be spoken about in Isolation is a flagrant
		
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			violation of the concept of an ummah that
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala has given to us
		
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			from the Quran and the Sunnah The Prophet
		
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			sallallahu alayhi wasallam.
		
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			It's number one number two when you're a
		
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			part of that community When you're a part
		
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			of my community, you're a part of my
		
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			community.
		
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			No matter how much I disagree with you
		
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			and So your sanctity as a Muslim in
		
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			your honor in your dignity is Still just
		
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			as sacred as any other moment in our
		
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			existence So I still love you even when
		
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			I'm mad at you and I hope that
		
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			we get to Jannah together That's the spirit
		
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			of a community inside outside number three Don't
		
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			ever throw your community under the bus or
		
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			think that you're better than your community when
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala says وَإِذَا لَقُوا الَّذِينَ
		
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			آمَنُوا قَالُوا إِنَّا مَعَكُمْ Or when they're with
		
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			the believers, they say that we're with you
		
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			وَإِذَا خَلَوْا إِلَى شَيَاطِينِهِمْ And when they're with
		
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			their devils, they say no, we're with you
		
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			إِنَّمَا نَحْنُ مُسْتَهْزِيؤُونَ We're just making fun of
		
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			them We're just you know, shooing them around
		
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			Don't ever speak to anyone outside of this
		
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			community as if you're not a part of
		
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			it It's your community.
		
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			Don't ever throw your community under the bus
		
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			And you know what that means post-election
		
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			if a pro-genocide candidate from any party
		
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			loses an election or loses a race Don't
		
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			come back and yell at the Muslims yell
		
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			at the candidate that lost their morality and
		
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			lost the Muslim vote in the process Don't
		
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			yell at the community and say the community's
		
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			fault the community's fault the community's fault.
		
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			Absolutely not We're a community of clarity number
		
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			four staying focused on our common enemy and
		
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			fighting the common evil that we've all been
		
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			seeing means staying focused on the beast in
		
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			its entirety and Striving to the best of
		
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			our ability to tame that beast in its
		
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			entirety that doesn't happen through a vote in
		
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			isolation Especially if that vote is taken in
		
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			the spirit of insecurity We have to act
		
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			with confidence sincerity and a sense of security
		
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			Number five Allah is always in charge He's
		
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			in charge on November 4th.
		
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			He's in charge on November 5th He's in
		
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			charge on November 6th.
		
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			You get the point Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala
		
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			is always in charge Inna hu laa yadhillu
		
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			man waalayt wa laa ya'izzu man adayt
		
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			No one who Allah befriends Will be humiliated.
		
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			No one who Allah takes as an enemy
		
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			will be honored Therefore we cannot seek power
		
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			or dignity through any candidate.
		
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			We seek it through our Creator alone And
		
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			we act with a sense of confidence in
		
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			that process alhamdulillah Whatever Allah throws our way
		
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			There is an opportunity for us Individually and
		
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			as a community to internalize that and to
		
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			find our path back to Jannah biidhnillahi ta
		
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			'ala May Allah guide us to what's right.
		
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			May Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala guide our intentions.
		
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			May Allah guide our thinking May Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa'ta'ala guide our strategies May Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa'ta'ala guide our deeds and may Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa'ta'ala allow us as a community
		
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			to be a pillar of strength For the
		
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			rest of the ummah and not to be
		
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			a pillar of weakness and not to be
		
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			a pillar that forgets the rest of The
		
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			house may Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala guide us
		
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			guide our children guide our future generations May
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala guide our neighbors and
		
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			guide all of those around us to that
		
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			which is best and that which is most
		
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			pleasing