Omar Suleiman – Your False Sense Of Security From Gaza And Beyond

Omar Suleiman
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The West Bank has restricted people's rights in zone C due to restrictions on people's rights and the horrors of the murder of an American Muslim. The lack of trust in the community and the dangerous government actions are also discussed. The importance of feeling safe in Allah's plan is emphasized, along with reciting the Pro boem and taking one's concerns to prayer. It is suggested that individuals need to be more aware of their rights and security, including trusting their faith and being a source of safety for others.
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We begin by praising Allah

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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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alaihi 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. Allahum Amin.

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Dear brothers and sisters,

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there was a brother that was recounting to

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me a story

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about

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a house

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that was being built in what is known

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as zone C

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in the West Bank of Palestine. May Allah

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subhanahu wa ta'ala free the entirety of Palestine.

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Allahumma Ameen.

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So for those of you that are not

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familiar, obviously

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our attention has been turned towards Gaza

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in the wake of this genocide

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and one of the most nefarious elements of

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the propaganda

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that has perpetuated this genocide is to separate

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Gaza from the entire cause of Palestine, the

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entire cause of Palestine.

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And, of course, it's not just hanging the

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carrot over the head of some so called

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2 state solution.

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While there is a continued settlement expansion into

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Palestinian territory. But most Muslims, most people

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are not actually literate or educated about

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the way that this expansion

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of this colonial entity has functioned

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over the last few decades.

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And so if you look at what's known

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as the West Bank today, they have zone

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A, zone B, and zone C, and you

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can read about it from the human rights

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organizations.

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There is not a single zone in which

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people have their full self determination or people

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have their full rights being realized.

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But zone C, which makes up 60%

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of the West Bank today,

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is where the rights of people are even

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more restricted relative to those outside of zone

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C.

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And this brother was sharing something truly insightful.

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He said, you know, you work your entire

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life to build this house,

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and just like every single one of us,

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you work your whole life to be able

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to put a house up, or to purchase

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your first car, or to give your kids

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an education, whatever it may be.

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But it takes longer, obviously, when you don't

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live in an affluent state.

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You work your whole life

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to be able to construct this house,

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and because you're in zone C, at any

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moment, literally, settlers can just walk in, boot

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you out of it, or it can be

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demolished because someone in your neighborhood,

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right,

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angered the wrong person or your oppressor just

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felt like it. And I want you to

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think about this conditioning. And so in his

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situation,

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his house was destroyed very quickly. So imagine

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working decades

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to build your house, and forget about an

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insurance plan, you don't even have citizenship. You

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don't have an identity. There is absolutely no

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sense of security

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in that state.

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And your house is destroyed.

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And so

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a brother was

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really in awe of just the contentment that

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he seemed to have. I mean, can you

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imagine one of us in that state?

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You work 60 years

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to get your first family home for your

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entire family generations, the happiness and the joy

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when you walk in, and then your oppressor

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just feels like walking into it and demolishes

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it,

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and they can spit in your face figuratively,

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literally, while doing it, and you have

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absolutely no legal recourse? How anger angry,

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frustrated, and jaded would you be? But he

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was so content.

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And what was his answer?

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And of course, this shouldn't detract from

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the monstrosity

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of this political situation. May Allah

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end it. Allahumma Ameen. But what was his

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answer as a man of faith with that

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smile on his face and contentment?

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He said, you know what?

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In this area, we all have the expectation

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that while

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we are building our homes, that at any

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moment they could be destroyed and so we

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don't get so attached.

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That's the answer of a Wadi of Allah.

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That's the answer of a friend of God,

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of someone who actually understands

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that, guess what?

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It's not just that area

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that's zone C.

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The entire dunya is actually zone C. The

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entire world is actually zone c. It's just

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that we operate under an illusion

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that our houses are somehow more secure

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and that we have an entitlement. And whether

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we like it or not, we buy into

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this

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idea, this framework, this global framework that if

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you live in a certain part of the

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world or you hold a certain document, you're

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more entitled to safety and security and rights

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than other people. We we benefit from that,

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living in the United States of America.

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But the whole world is actually zone C,

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and the way that that man approached it

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is actually incredible, because in reality, he is

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not a slave to his home, whereas so

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many of us become enslaved to our possessions,

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to the things that we think we occupy,

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to the things that we think we own.

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I was looking at a couple in Gaza,

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and you might have seen the weddings in

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the refugee camp. I mean,

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I was watching it, and I couldn't stop

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watching it, and it was, to be honest

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with you, a welcome break from the beheaded

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children from these bombs.

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And I'm looking at them, forcing a smile

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on their face,

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and they still have that

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buzz of the drone right over them, and

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you know that at any point that drone

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could be an airstrike.

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I mean, what is the chance of you

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even living to see the next day? Forget

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about living to see the next stage of

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your wedding, your honeymoon, or having your first

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child, or whatever that is, what do you

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actually look forward to?

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But subhanAllah, they put the camera on the

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young man, and he had the most beautiful

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smile on his face, the smile of a

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groom that you would have in any other

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place in the world.

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And he said that we in Gaza

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have always lived in prison.

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It's just that the prison guards have become

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more violent.

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We were never operating under the illusion that

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we are free.

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We were never operating under the illusion that

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we have another day to look forward to

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or we have another moment to look forward

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to. That's an indictment of the rest of

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us.

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But it shows you that that mindset

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has given them something,

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that you know what? They don't operate with

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the false sense of security

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that so many of us do.

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We just witnessed

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the tragedy

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of the murder

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of an American Muslim, Aisha Noor. May Allah,

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subhanahu wa ta'ala, have mercy on her. By

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the way, she died coming out of Jum'ah.

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She was murdered coming out of Jum'ah in

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Palestine last week. I made the announcement here

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on Friday about her death.

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She was murdered coming out of Jum'ah

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in Palestine. May Allah accept her as a

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shahid, forgive her for all of her shortcomings,

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and may Allah elevate her. Allahumma Ameen.

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Now her blood is not more precious than

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every other Palestinian that's been martyred

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in this genocide.

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But I want you to think about this.

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For how long

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have those of us who have that American

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passport, and I actually thought about bringing my

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American passport and holding it up in front

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of you. How long have we operated under

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this illusion that this document gives us any

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real source of security or protection?

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Because the reality is is that if you're

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an American,

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Israel can kill you, and America will fund

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the murder and then defend the murder and

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make sure there are no consequences for the

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murder.

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Maybe that document

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wasn't what you thought it was.

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Maybe that citizenship

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wasn't what you thought it was. The idea

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of free speech, the securitization

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under every single administration, especially George Bush onwards.

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The the government has been shutting down organizations,

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targeting individuals.

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I've got my American passport. It means nothing

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when they actually start to target you, but

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there's this illusion

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of freedom, this illusion of security that we

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have with that oh so treasured document.

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That doesn't mean

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that we shouldn't use

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every single legal instrument

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to insist on the full rights of being

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an American citizen if we have that passport

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and then using it for the benefit of

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those who undoubtedly,

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collectively are in a worse situation.

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But what it does mean is that, you

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know what, a little bit of that security

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has been shaken.

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Maybe I'm not as protected as I thought

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I was

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because this government has directly droned and killed

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Americans,

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has directly bombed Americans, and is,

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in an ongoing fashion, defending the murder of

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Americans overseas.

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Maybe it doesn't mean what I thought it

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meant, and you know what? Alhamdulillah,

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that's good.

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That's good.

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Let it break the illusion.

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Let it break that sense of security that

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we have. It doesn't mean it's not a

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monstrosity what happened to our sister, that we

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shouldn't continue to insist once again on putting

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them to the test of the of their

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own citizenship, this paper when it was granted

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to us.

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But at the same time, spiritually,

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maybe it's a good thing

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that we start to say, You know what?

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Maybe this passport wasn't worth what I thought

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it was worth. Perhaps, dear brothers and sisters,

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our American Muslim

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calculations,

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our politics

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over the last 2 decades

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have become a little bit too much about

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securing the interests of American Muslims only, maybe

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even to the detriment of Islam and the

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Muslim world and humanity.

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Maybe it's become too much about us securing

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our cut out here. You listen to the

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rhetoric about this election, and no, I'm not

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gonna tell you who to vote for from

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the menba.

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Use your own sense and your own fitra

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and your own moral conscience.

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But you listen to the calculations and the

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rhetoric,

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and you think about what that means and

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what is embedded in what we are saying,

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maybe it's become too much about making sure

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that my kids can live at home in

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safety, my kids can go to school in

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safety, which I want so badly.

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I want them. But I don't just want

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it for them.

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But maybe our political calculus has become shifted,

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and maybe it's a little bit of a

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humble pie for us

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to say,

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maybe you shouldn't be thinking too much about

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this,

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and you should be thinking a little bit

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broader. Because when we talk about American exceptionalism,

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which has shown itself in America's foreign policy

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to the detriment of the rest of the

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world, maybe there's American Muslim exceptionalism as well,

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where we've only been thinking about ourselves as

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an American Muslim community, and perhaps we need

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to broaden that framework

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to think about more than ourselves.

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I want to bring this to something personal

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and spiritual, though.

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What is the sense of security that we

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should have? Believe it or not, this wasn't

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intended to be a political khutbah. What is

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the sense of security that we're supposed to

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have? When Allah

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says,

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'A'amintu manfus samayi yarsi ra'ikum hal Sibah.' Allah

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mentions to us, do you feel safe when

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you're above ground, when you look up and

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the skies seem Okay, that the Earth will

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not swallow you? Or do you feel safe

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when you are on stable ground and you

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look up to the sky, that the sky

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will not rain down upon you that which

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will cause you pain?

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There is a problem,

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a spiritual problem fundamentally,

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that could be behind this,

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where we put our sense of safety and

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our security

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in other than Allah

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Now by the way, there are 2 categories

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that we have from this. One of them

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is feeling safe from Allah's plan if you

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are an oppressor.

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The other one is feeling safe in Allah's

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plan.

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The first one is feeling safe from Allah,

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Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala's plan, and Allah, Subhanahu Wa

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Ta'ala mentions to us about the tyrants.

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They thought their fortresses would protect them from

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Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. You could build every

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single structure in the world.

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If you are an oppressor,

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your day will come to you.

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You could build every physical structure in the

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world, every political structure in the world. If

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you are an oppressor,

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your day will come from Allah Subhanahu Wa

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Ta'ala. And Allah Azzawajal says, And

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this is powerful that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala

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would let it come to them from a

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place they never even expected.

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They didn't even make that calculation

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when they were thinking about how to fortify

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themselves. If you are an oppressor,

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do not feel safe from the plan of

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Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. The plan of Allah

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is there.

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And if you're not an oppressor, may Allah,

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Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, never let us be oppressors

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to anybody.

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If you're not an oppressor,

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then you also need to learn to feel

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safe in Allah's plan. And this is where

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Umar, radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu, mentioned the fitna of

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the sword of Khaled, radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu, that

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the Muslims who are righteous people

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might have started to assign

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too much to the sword of Khaled, radiAllahu

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ta'ala, rather than the power of Allah, Subhanahu,

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Ta'ala, and Omar, radiAllahu, anhu, said, I'm worried

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about that. Fa yukiluna ilay. They might become

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entrusted to a sword rather than the Lord

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of the heavens and the earth.

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Entrusted to a political power, entrusted to some

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sort of military might, entrusted to a skill

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set, and that's dangerous.

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You could be entrusted to what you find

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your dependency on that's not just speaking about

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military power and force.

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If your tawakkul is in your job,

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Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala might relinquish you to

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your job. If your tawakkud is in your

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own abilities and your own speech and your

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own cognizance and whatever it may be, Allah

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Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala might entrust you to those

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things. If you seek security from those things,

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Allah Subhanahu

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might allow you to actually try to gain

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your security from those things. If you seek

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it in your abilities, Allah

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might entrust you to your abilities.

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If you have certain standards of beauty and

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acceptance,

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and maybe you're living up to those standards

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right now,

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but Allah might entrust you to those things

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and they'll never be enough for you.

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And eventually, it comes crumbling down. So it's

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also about feeling safe in the plan of

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Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala

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that no matter what you do, no matter

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what means you take, no matter what you

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possess,

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your true faith, your true sense of security

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lies only in Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. You

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know, when we look at the Hijra of

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the Prophet SallAllahu Wa Salam, the migration of

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the Prophet Sallallahu Wa Salam from Mecca to

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Madinah, It's often used as a primary example

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to say, 'Iaqal, what's aaqal?' The very famous

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Hadith to tie your camel and then put

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your trust in Allah

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and the Prophet

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indeed tied his camel and he put his

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trust in Allah.

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He crafted out a path for himself. He

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tried to escape his persecutors in every single

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way. He did his due diligence. But Ibn

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Abbas radiAllahu ta'ala Anhuma says what?

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When the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam left

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from Mecca to Medina, he left Mecca for

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Medina fearing no one but his Lord, and

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he prayed his 2 rakas and then he

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made his way. Meaning what? It wasn't the

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plan that the Prophet, sallaihi sallam, put his

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trust in.

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That's not where he was deriving his sense

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of confidence and his sense of certainty. He

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was deriving it from his prayer while still

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doing his part to properly plan, But his

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sense of security, his sense of safety did

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not come from

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that.

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Meaning what? When I leave my home,

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I take my precautions.

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I do what I have to do to

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protect myself. But when I feel my real

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comfort is when I leave my home and

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I say, Bismillah to Wakaltu Allah Allah Allah

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Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah

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Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah

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Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah.

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That's where the confidence actually comes from.

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It's not looking around to make sure I've

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got this all covered.

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I'm looking over my my shoulder properly. Where

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does your confidence and your sense of security

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actually

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come from? And so there is no contradiction

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between

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wataawakal,

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and wana yataawakal a Allah fahu ahaspa. Whoever

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puts his trust in Allah, Allah will be

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enough for them. So I want to end

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on a practical note.

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There are 7 ways

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that I'll just put forward just for us

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to think about because we might think to

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ourselves, where do we go from here? What

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does it mean? How do I actually start

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to spiritually gain a sense of security and

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safety from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala

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rather than, you know, these other things? Because

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we're human beings at the end of the

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day, we naturally incline

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towards what feels very material in our hands,

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the people or the positions that we can

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cling to when we find ourselves in trouble.

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And I want to remind you all, lillahilamro

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minqabilwaminba'at,

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that to Allah belongs the affair before and

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after.

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When Allah

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talks to Nuh

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and his son,

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say to your son, when he says, I'll

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go to the mountain to protect me from

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the water, there is no protection that you

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have min amrillah, from the affair of Allah.

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It remains the affair of Allah before and

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after, not just after Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala

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gives you victory,

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but before as well, it remains the plan

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of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Number 1,

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recite the duas and the afkar

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specifically that deal with the removal of anxiety.

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The prayers and the supplications specifically, on

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a regular basis, oh Allah, I seek refuge

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in you from anxiety

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and from grief. Recite those duas regularly and

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do not relinquish them and think about what

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you're saying when you make those duas. Number

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2, take your concerns to your prayer and

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make your prayer a source of resolve. If

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you don't bring those insecurities

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into your salah, then you're not going to

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develop the resolve from your salah to be

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able to deal with them. So bring them

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into your duas. Ask Allah

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in your salah, in your sujoods

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to resolve those for you. Number 3,

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cover your bases so that you don't have

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regrets later on about your own holes. Why?

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Because if you did your best and it

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still didn't go according to plan, at least

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you feel assured in knowing that Allah's plan

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overtook you for a greater reward.

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Number 4, and the next 3 deal with

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people.

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Take inspiration from those who have less than

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you, yet find more security than you. When

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you feel like you're losing resolve, look at

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the people in Gaza and be inspired by

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their resilience

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just as you are motivated and angered by

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the atrocity that's been committed against them. Number

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5,

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have people assure you

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that can clearly

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still see

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without

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believing that everything is falling apart,

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that can affirm you in the midst of

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your tragedy

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from a clear headed perspective.

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That's not the same as someone affirming you

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in your sin,

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but instead someone affirming you with Allah Subhanahu

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Wa Ta'ala's greater plan. You need to have

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those voices. Wasbarnafsakima

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aladeena yadoona rabdahu. Keep yourself patient with people

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that aren't in the midst of your insecurity

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or your anxiety perhaps, and they can give

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you

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words of encouragement and resolve. Number 6, be

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a source of safety to others that have

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less than you because by being a source

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to others, Allah will increase you in your

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own and your focus will remain on things

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that are greater than yourself. And that's, subhanAllah,

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the blessing of constantly thinking about the Ummah

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because when you're constantly thinking about the Ummah,

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you think less about yourself. It puts your

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personal issues in perspective constantly,

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automatically, subconsciously.

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Number 7. Remember that the loss of safety

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is just like the loss of every other

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blessing.

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If a person bears it with patience, they

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will find its reward in the hereafter. So

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when Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, says that I

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do not combine for my servants, khufaynwalaamnein.

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2 feelings of fear or 2 feelings of

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safety. If you feared Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

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here, you will not fear him there.

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If you felt secure from his plan here,

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then you will not feel secure from it

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over there. May Allah

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grant us safety and security. Al aafiya fadunya

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wal akhirullahamaamin.

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And my last reminder, dear brothers and sisters,

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that just like Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala can

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take away

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in a way that you would have never

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expected,

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He can also provide for you in a

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way that you would have never expected. I

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just want you to reflect on this.

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Allah says about the punishment to those tyrants

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that hide behind their fortresses

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faataamoolahuminhayzu

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lamyahtasibu

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That

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Allah brought the punishment to them from places

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they would have never expected.

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But Allah

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says in regards to relief,

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Allah will provide for you from places you

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never expected.

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Allah will punish them

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from places they never expected.

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Allah will provide for you

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from places that you never expected. May Allah

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Subhanahu Wa'ala grant us and our brothers and

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sisters, the weak ones and the oppressed ones

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all over the world, safety and security, and

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make us a means of that for them

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as well.

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