Riyadul Haqq – Saving Others from Oneself

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The speakers discuss the importance of protecting others from physical and verbal aggression, suffering, and anger. They emphasize the need to be patient and cheerful in order to protect others from suffering and anger. The speakers also emphasize the importance of learning to live with oneself and spending time on oneself to save others from suffering and friendships. The speakers stress the need to revisit the concept of the mufless person and the importance of fearing legal action and not being sued. They also emphasize the need to avoid harms and not be sued.

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			And others
		
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			relate hadith from
		
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			Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-'Aas
		
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			radiAllahu anhumma.
		
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			In which the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
		
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			said
		
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			The Muslim is 1
		
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			from whose tongue
		
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			and whose hand
		
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			Are the Muslims
		
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			remain
		
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			safe?
		
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			The word Muslim
		
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			means one who submits.
		
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			And the
		
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			word is related to the root letters
		
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			Seen, lam, meem, Selima.
		
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			And one of the meanings of Selima,
		
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			Salima
		
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			Islam,
		
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			is to be protected,
		
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			to be safe.
		
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			So
		
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			because because of this connection and relationship,
		
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			there's a play on the words.
		
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			So the prophet
		
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			says,
		
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			The Muslim
		
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			is 1
		
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			from whose hand
		
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			and from whose tongue
		
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			other Muslims
		
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			remain?
		
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			Salim.
		
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			Salim,
		
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			meaning safe and protected.
		
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			And this is similar to what the rest
		
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			of the hadith actually says.
		
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			So the full hadith is
		
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			The Muslim is 1
		
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			from whose tongue and from whose hand
		
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			other Muslims
		
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			remain
		
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			salim salim I. E. Safe and protected.
		
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			Walmuhajirumanhajiramanahuwahuan.
		
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			And the Muhajir,
		
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			the emigrant
		
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			is 1
		
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			who emigrates
		
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			or who leaves and shuns or who does
		
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			hijrah
		
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			from that which Allah has forbid.
		
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			So as I've explained before,
		
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			Muhajr
		
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			is related to the root letters or the
		
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			word stems ultimately from the root letters
		
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			Hajim Ra Hajira.
		
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			And Hajarayahjur
		
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			means to leave,
		
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			to shun, to abandon.
		
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			Originally, it doesn't mean to emigrate.
		
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			And as Allah says in the Quran, An
		
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			impurity shun, abandoned, leave aside.
		
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			So again there's a play on the words.
		
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			The
		
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			Muhaajir
		
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			I. E. The leaver'
		
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			is one who actually
		
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			leaves
		
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			what Allah has forbid.
		
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			And in a similar hadith created by Ma'am
		
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			Ahmed ibn Hanbal in his Muslim from Fadalaat
		
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			al Nur Bayd radiAllahu
		
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			an,
		
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			Prophet said,
		
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			Do you know?
		
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			So should I not inform you of who
		
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			is a Muslim?
		
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			Prophet
		
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			said, should I not He actually gave this
		
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			as part of his sermon on well,
		
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			as one of his sermons
		
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			in Hajjatul Wada'ar, the farewell pilgrimage.
		
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			That should I not tell you who is
		
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			a Muslim?
		
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			The Muslim is 1 from whose tongue and
		
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			from whose hand other Muslims
		
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			remain
		
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			Salim, Salim, I. E. Safe and protected.
		
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			And
		
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			the motmin, the believer. Again, there's a play
		
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			on the words because
		
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			motmin,
		
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			I. E. The believer,
		
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			the word
		
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			ultimately stems from and is related to the
		
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			root letters
		
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			alif, mim, nun, amina, amina yatmin, which again
		
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			means to feel protected,
		
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			to feel safe. So although mukmin means believer,
		
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			amun means safety and security.
		
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			So the message is the Mu'min is 1
		
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			from
		
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			whom
		
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			other believers, other Mu'mineen,
		
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			feel
		
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			Amin
		
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			protected and safe
		
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			for their
		
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			wealth, their property
		
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			and their lives.
		
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			And again, 1 mumajiruman
		
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			Hajirul Khattaya wazdanub.
		
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			And the muhaju, the immigrant, is one who
		
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			leaves aside and who emigrates
		
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			from and who shuns and abandons
		
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			ills or errors,
		
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			lapses and sins.
		
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			So
		
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			this most famous hadith
		
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			related by Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-'As
		
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			Al-'Aas
		
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			that
		
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			prophet
		
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			said,
		
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			The Muslim is 1
		
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			from whom?
		
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			From
		
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			from whose tongue and from whose hand
		
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			are the Muslims
		
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			remain
		
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			safe.
		
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			This is this hadith is one of the
		
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			greatest teachings of Rasulullah
		
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			Also, although muslims are mentioned, this also extends
		
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			to non muslims, to the whole of creation,
		
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			to all of Allah's creation,
		
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			be they Muslim or non Muslim.
		
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			Now,
		
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			If one cannot do good,
		
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			then the least one can do and should
		
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			do is save others
		
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			from
		
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			one's
		
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			ills,
		
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			one's harm,
		
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			one's aggression,
		
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			one's pain.
		
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			And that's the
		
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			message behind the
		
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			title of this talk,
		
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			Saving Others from Oneself.
		
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			This is something we
		
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			must do
		
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			Because as human beings
		
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			we all carry
		
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			a lot of pain
		
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			and some trauma
		
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			and much sorrow.
		
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			And we bear many grievances.
		
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			Everyone does.
		
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			Everyone
		
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			feels
		
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			bettered,
		
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			slighted,
		
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			having lost out,
		
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			having been worsted,
		
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			having been ill treated,
		
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			having been
		
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			unfairly
		
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			treated.
		
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			Everyone feels like that. Everyone feels at some
		
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			stage or another
		
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			that things haven't gone the way
		
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			I wanted
		
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			in my life, in my childhood, in my
		
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			upbringing.
		
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			It's human nature.
		
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			We all have our
		
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			burdens,
		
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			sorrows,
		
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			grievances,
		
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			our anger,
		
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			our sense of
		
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			loss. And we all carry pain.
		
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			Unfortunately,
		
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			at times,
		
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			we
		
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			displace that pain.
		
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			We shift the burden of that pain.
		
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			And we try to transfer that pain
		
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			consciously or even subconsciously
		
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			onto
		
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			others. Those who are hurt will try to
		
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			hurt others.
		
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			Those who are bullied will bully others.
		
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			It comes out
		
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			the aggression,
		
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			the anger,
		
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			the pain.
		
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			We carry this pain and we
		
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			consciously,
		
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			subconsciously,
		
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			intentionally,
		
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			unwittingly,
		
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			we
		
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			inflict that pain
		
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			onto others
		
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			verbally,
		
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			mentally,
		
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			emotionally.
		
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			And one of the most sublime teachings of
		
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			Rasulullah
		
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			is
		
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			that religion isn't just about
		
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			doing good deeds.
		
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			It's also about
		
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			protecting others
		
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			from oneself,
		
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			saving others from oneself,
		
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			Saving others from one's
		
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			pain, one's aggression,
		
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			one's anger.
		
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			One's ill.
		
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			And this hadith says a lot about it.
		
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			That a true Muslim,
		
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			a true believer,
		
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			a true Muslim is one
		
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			from whom others
		
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			feel
		
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			Salim
		
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			and Salim,
		
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			meaning safe and protected.
		
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			Someone who was poisoned,
		
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			the Arabs,
		
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			anyone who was poisoned
		
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			by a snake or a scorpion,
		
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			in English would say a poisoned man.
		
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			The Arabs,
		
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			anyone who was poisoned,
		
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			they would name him Salim.
		
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			Not an official name, I. E. That was
		
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			a word they used.
		
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			So if someone was lying there in pain
		
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			and in agony
		
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			and another person came along and said, what's
		
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			wrong with him?
		
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			They know the person, his name is Zayd.
		
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			They will say, what's wrong with Zayd?
		
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			So
		
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			the those in attendance would say his salim.
		
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			So they wouldn't go through the trouble of
		
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			saying
		
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			that a snake has bitten him or a
		
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			scorpion has bitten him.
		
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			They just say he's Salim.
		
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			Salim means safe. Salim means protected.
		
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			So why would they use that word? They
		
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			would use the word tafa'ulal
		
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			as a good omen, as a good sign.
		
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			So if someone was bitten by a scorpion
		
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			or a
		
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			serpent
		
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			snake,
		
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			they would say salim, I. E. Protected and
		
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			safe in the hope that he will come
		
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			out of this safe and protected and well.
		
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			So
		
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			I'm just saying that salim means protected.
		
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			Salim means safe. So the prophet
		
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			says,
		
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			The Muslim is 1 from whose tongue and
		
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			from whose hand are the Muslims.
		
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			Feel and remain Salim,
		
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			safe and sunim protected.
		
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			And before the hand, the prophet sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam says tongue.
		
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			So even before we
		
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			think about
		
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			saving others
		
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			from our physical aggression,
		
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			we actually need to think about protecting others
		
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			from our tongue,
		
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			saving others
		
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			from the abuse and the aggression
		
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			of our tongue,
		
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			of keeping others safe
		
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			from our tongue.
		
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			And indeed
		
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			far more people
		
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			will vent their frustration
		
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			and their anger
		
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			and take out their hurt and pain on
		
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			others
		
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			verbally rather than physically.
		
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			Far more people. In fact, a minority
		
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			will become physically aggressive.
		
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			And we find that very alarming
		
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			and rightfully so.
		
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			But
		
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			emotional
		
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			abuse,
		
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			verbal abuse, psychological
		
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			abuse
		
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			is no less
		
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			harmful
		
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			and dangerous. In fact
		
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			psychologists
		
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			now
		
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			in the modern
		
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			how insidious
		
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			the effects of
		
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			non physical
		
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			abuse,
		
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			non physical aggression are.
		
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			Verbal abuse,
		
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			verbal aggression is extremely damaging.
		
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			And it can act the scars and the
		
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			wounds
		
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			of physical abuse can last a lifetime.
		
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			So
		
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			we need to learn
		
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			as the Hadith says,
		
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			to complete our Islam,
		
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			to be proper and true Muslims,
		
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			to spare others from the ills of our
		
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			tongues,
		
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			to protect others
		
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			from the aggression
		
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			and the abuse
		
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			of our tongues.
		
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			We really need to control our tongues.
		
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			Therein lies our own salvation
		
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			and the safety and protection of others.
		
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			This is a truly sublime teaching. Even if
		
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			we can't do much good,
		
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			the least we should do is
		
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			be self meditating,
		
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			self reflecting,
		
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			introspective,
		
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			concern ourselves with ourselves,
		
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			And spare others, save others from our own
		
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			pain and aggression.
		
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			And be patient.
		
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			Be cheerful
		
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			in ourselves.
		
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			We will feel rather than focus on our
		
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			negatives,
		
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			try to be positive. We will feel better
		
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			ourselves
		
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			and we will make our environment
		
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			better, our surroundings
		
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			better.
		
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			We will actually
		
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			beautify
		
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			the atmosphere in our own homes.
		
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			Imagine
		
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			how safe do
		
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			we feel
		
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			around others
		
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			and how safe do others feel around us.
		
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			There are phrases in English
		
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			people say, and even about family members,
		
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			that the rest of the family
		
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			is constantly
		
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			tiptoeing
		
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			around this individual,
		
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			Is forever walking on eggshells.
		
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			Books have been written with the title Walking
		
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			on Eggshells
		
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			as part of the title.
		
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			Walking on eggshells.
		
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			Forever tiptoeing around the other person. Why?
		
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			Anything.
		
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			A wrong glance,
		
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			a wrong word,
		
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			a wrong signal,
		
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			an incorrect posture,
		
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			a wrong shift
		
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			of movement.
		
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			Anything can actually trigger the other person
		
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			and
		
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			then they let loose with their anger, their
		
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			verbal aggression, their abuse.
		
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			If this
		
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			is the negativity
		
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			and the pain
		
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			with which this individual
		
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			is filling
		
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			the climate and the atmosphere,
		
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			even at home around their own family members.
		
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			How much of a Muslim are they?
		
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			When the prophet
		
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			says,
		
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			Others feel safe safe and protected
		
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			and secure around a Muslim and a Mopman.
		
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			Not tiptoeing. Not walking on eggshells all the
		
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			time. Not forever fearful.
		
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			And even before the hand, the Prophet sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam says
		
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			are the Muslims.
		
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			The Muslim is one from whose tongue are
		
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			the Muslims feel safe.
		
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			SubhanAllah.
		
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			The teachings of Allah and Hisr Rasool Sallallahu
		
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			Alaihi Wasallam
		
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			require
		
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			reflection
		
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			and implementation.
		
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			And speaking of
		
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			hurting others,
		
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			inflicting pain on others even with the tongue.
		
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			Allah says in the Quran,
		
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			And those who hurt believing men and believing
		
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			women
		
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			for something other than what they have done
		
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			or without anything that they have done
		
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			then indeed they have
		
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			borne the responsibility
		
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			shouldered the weight and the responsibility
		
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			and the burden
		
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			of
		
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			a great calumny
		
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			and a clear sin.
		
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			And this verse means
		
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			ascribing
		
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			to people
		
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			or hurting ascribing to people
		
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			what they are not guilty of, making a
		
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			false allegation,
		
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			lying about people,
		
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			hurting people
		
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			through one's tongue.
		
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			Verbal abuse.
		
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			In fact, the Quran goes much further.
		
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			Far from
		
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			inflicting
		
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			pain and hurt
		
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			and abuse on others through one's tongue,
		
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			Allah actually says
		
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			not even publicly, but in private. Even in
		
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			your private conversations,
		
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			your hushed conversations and your
		
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			private secretive
		
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			whisperings.
		
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			You shouldn't say anything
		
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			that grieves others.
		
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			Allah says, O believers,
		
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			when you whisper amongst
		
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			yourselves. I even in your privates communication, in
		
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			your hushed conversation,
		
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			in your whisperings to one another, 2 friends,
		
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			2 family members,
		
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			when you whisper between yourselves,
		
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			even privately without anyone else knowing or hearing,
		
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			even then
		
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			do not whisper to each other of sin
		
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			and of transgression
		
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			or of the disobedience
		
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			of the messenger.
		
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			Rather,
		
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			watanajaubilbiriwat
		
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			taqwa
		
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			speak to each other, converse with each other,
		
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			even in a hushed manner, even in your
		
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			whisperings and your private conversation.
		
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			Speak to each other of what? Whisper to
		
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			each other of what? Bilbir,
		
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			virtue, wa taqwa and taqwa.
		
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			The weariness of Allah.
		
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			And be wary of that Allah and to
		
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			whom you shall all be amassed.
		
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			And then Allah continues with the words
		
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			Majwa,
		
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			meaning
		
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			whispering.
		
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			Whispering
		
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			is from the devil
		
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			so that it may grieve
		
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			those who have believed.
		
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			What's the meaning of
		
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			that? This is the point I wanted to
		
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			get to. That Allah
		
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			has instructed us in the Quran
		
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			that far from inflicting
		
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			pain on others through verbal abuse and aggression,
		
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			You shouldn't even innocently
		
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			converse
		
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			privately with another person in a manner which
		
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			causes
		
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			grief and discomfort,
		
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			sorrow and sadness to another person.
		
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			How is that
		
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			done?
		
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			The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
		
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			explains.
		
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			Imam Bukhari, Imam Muslim and others relate from
		
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			'Abdullahu Mas'ud That
		
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			the prophet
		
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			says,
		
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			when there are 3 of you,
		
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			then 2 of you should not whisper between
		
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			themselves,
		
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			lest
		
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			this grieves the 3rd person
		
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			and this saddens the 3rd person.
		
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			You shouldn't whisper amongst yourselves until you mingle
		
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			with the rest of the people.
		
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			I. E. If there are 3 people and
		
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			they are all sitting there
		
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			and suddenly 2 of them start whispering
		
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			privately
		
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			and having a conversation in a hushed manner
		
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			between themselves to the exclusion of the third.
		
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			They may be very sincere. They may
		
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			be entirely innocent.
		
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			It may genuinely be a private matter only
		
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			between them
		
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			and it has nothing to do with the
		
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			3rd person. They aren't talking about him. They
		
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			aren't whispering
		
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			about him.
		
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			It's human nature.
		
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			Instantly the other person will feel
		
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			either,
		
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			laugh a bit,
		
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			they're
		
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			they jump to they become suspicious,
		
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			fearful and jump to conclusions
		
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			and they feel that
		
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			they talking about me
		
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			or they may be talking about me. And
		
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			even if they are strong enough to overcome
		
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			such
		
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			a whisper and suspicion,
		
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			at least they will feel suddenly that
		
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			why am I being excluded?
		
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			Why are these 2 whispering between themselves
		
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			whilst excluding me?
		
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			It's bad manners as it is.
		
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			So whatever the case, whether
		
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			this third person
		
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			feels
		
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			victimized or targeted by their whispering, even as
		
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			a suspicion or a fear,
		
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			or they genuinely
		
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			feel that why am I being excluded?'
		
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			In any case or they're just left uncomfortable.
		
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			So even if they are
		
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			composed
		
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			and
		
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			aloof
		
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			and above all of these petty
		
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			considerations
		
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			and they are strong of character and they
		
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			don't care
		
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			that,
		
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			Oh, I'm not suspicious. They're not talking about
		
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			me. Oh,
		
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			I don't mind if I'm being excluded.
		
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			But it still leaves them in a very
		
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			uncomfortable position. They are sitting there twiddling their
		
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			thumbs
		
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			whilst being excluded.
		
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			Whatever the case.
		
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			Rasulullah
		
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			says when there are 3 of you,
		
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			2 of you should not whisper,
		
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			should not do najwa.
		
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			2 of you should not whisper between themselves
		
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			the same najwa that Allah mentions in the
		
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			Quran
		
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			to the exclusion of the 3rd
		
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			until you mingle with the people,
		
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			lest this grieves him.
		
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			And in one narration by Abdullah ibn Abbas
		
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			related bible You Allah al Musilean is Muslim,
		
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			The wording is
		
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			2 people should not whisper between themselves to
		
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			the exclusion of the 3rd, that's a general
		
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			meaning of the first part of the hadith,
		
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			because
		
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			this
		
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			hurts
		
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			the believer.
		
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			And Allah dislikes the hurt of a believer.
		
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			SubhanAllah. Imagine.
		
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			So 2 people talking between themselves whilst excluding
		
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			the third
		
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			not only grieves him but in the hadith
		
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			of Abdullah ibn Abbas
		
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			this hurts him. And Allah does not like
		
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			the pain of a Mu'min.
		
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			And that's just
		
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			a very innocent private whispering hush conversation between
		
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			2 individuals
		
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			where they are not even talking about that
		
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			person.
		
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			I have no intention of hurting him or
		
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			excluding him.
		
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			That is the extent to which Allah and
		
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			His Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam has said, others
		
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			should feel safe
		
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			from
		
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			your tongue.
		
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			And
		
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			this is why Imam Tirmidhi and Imam Abu
		
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			Muhammad
		
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			both relate to Hadith.
		
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			Control your tongue.
		
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			Withhold your tongue. Control your tongue.
		
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			Let your home let your home confine you.
		
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			And weep over your sins.
		
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			It's a very beautiful teaching.
		
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			Concern yourself with yourself.
		
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			Save others
		
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			from your pain, from your aggression, from your
		
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			grievances,
		
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			from your own burdens and sorrows.
		
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			Control your tongue.
		
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			Be introspective.
		
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			Be self meditating.
		
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			Self observant.
		
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			Reflect on your own ills and weep over
		
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			your sins.
		
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			Be repentant.
		
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			But the first words are therein lies salvation,
		
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			but the first of the three things that
		
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			the prophet
		
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			said to him in reply to the question,
		
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			what's his salvation?
		
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			He said, Umlik alayk alisernak.
		
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			Control your tongue.
		
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			And indeed,
		
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			that's what we must do. The second part
		
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			of the hadith
		
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			that the Muslim is one from whose
		
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			tongue
		
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			Other Muslims
		
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			and by extension as I explained
		
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			the whole of Allah's creation, even non Muslims,
		
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			feel
		
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			safe and protected.
		
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			And the second part is
		
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			waydih
		
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			and from his hand too.
		
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			And this is why in that hadith related
		
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			by Imam Ahmed Abu Hanbalin is Muslim from
		
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			Fadalaat al Nur Ubaid radiAllahu an.
		
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			Prophet sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam in his sermon in the
		
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			farewell
		
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			well, in the farewell
		
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			pilgrimage said to the people,
		
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			'Should I not tell you, should I not
		
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			inform you who is a Muslim?
		
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			The Muslim is 1
		
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			from whose hand and from whose tongue
		
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			other muslims remain
		
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			safe.
		
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			And then the prophet sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam said, wal mumminaminaminumnaasawalah
		
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			And the believer
		
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			is one from whom
		
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			other Muslims,
		
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			other believers,
		
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			other Mu'mineen
		
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			remain
		
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			safe
		
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			and protected.
		
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			In respect, in relation to their lives and
		
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			their property and their wealth.
		
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			That's a mohmin.
		
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			That's a true Muslim.
		
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			Others should feel
		
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			safe
		
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			from our tongues,
		
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			from our hands.
		
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			They,
		
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			their homes,
		
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			their lives, their dignity,
		
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			their honor,
		
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			their property,
		
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			their wealth,
		
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			they and everything they love
		
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			and they possess
		
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			should all feel safe and protected from us.
		
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			That's the mark of a Muslim. That's the
		
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			mark of a Mu'min. That's the mark of
		
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			a believer.
		
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			Iman and Islam are not just about
		
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			prayer,
		
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			pilgrimage,
		
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			charity,
		
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			fasting,
		
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			private personal worship, and one's relationship with Allah.
		
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			Rather,
		
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			Iman and Islam
		
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			are also about creation.
		
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			And
		
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			even before the rest of creation,
		
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			our own neighbors
		
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			should feel safe from us. If our own
		
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			neighbour does not feel safe
		
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			from us,
		
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			from our tongue, from our hands,
		
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			from our ills. And every one of us
		
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			has ill
		
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			in us.
		
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			Then
		
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			what kind of belief, what kind of iman,
		
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			what kind of Islam is that?
		
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			By the testimony of Rasulullah
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
		
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			Imam Bukhari Rahmatullahi
		
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			relates hadith from the companion of Ushurayhi
		
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			who says the prophet
		
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			said listen to the hadith.
		
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			Imam Bukhari relates from Abu Shurayyah radiallahu
		
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			an
		
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			that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said
		
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			Allah
		
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			By Allah, he does not believe.
		
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			By Allah, he does not believe. By Allah,
		
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			he does not believe. By Allah, he does
		
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			not believe. Thrice the prophet
		
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			said. By Allah he does not believe.
		
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			So it was said to him, who, oh
		
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			messenger of Allah, Prophet
		
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			said, 'Alladeela yatmanujaruhu
		
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			ba wa ikah'
		
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			That person
		
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			whose neighbor does not feel safe
		
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			from his
		
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			terrors,
		
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			from his calamities,
		
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			from his afflictions.
		
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			So in moderation the sahaba said, What's the
		
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			meaning of bawayk? What are his bawayk?
		
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			What are his calamities,
		
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			his
		
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			misfortunes?
		
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			His afflictions?
		
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			What are his
		
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			bowaik? So the prophet
		
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			replied, Sharru. His evil. His ill.
		
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			So that person is not a believer.
		
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			Thrice, he
		
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			said. Whose neighbor does not feel safe and
		
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			protected from his ills.
		
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			One has to learn to live and let's
		
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			live. Be and let be.
		
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			And work hard consciously
		
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			with a concerted and conscious effort on oneself
		
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			to save others from oneself.
		
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			To save others from one's tongue,
		
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			from one's suspicion,
		
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			from one's
		
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			abuse, from one's aggression, be it verbal or
		
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			physical,
		
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			from one's problems.
		
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			To overlook, to forgive, to let go. Even
		
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			about the neighbor. The prophet
		
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			said, if a neighbor wants to place the
		
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			beam
		
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			on your wall So it's well known
		
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			that
		
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			for beams that support the roof
		
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			or even
		
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			an upper floor.
		
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			The beam
		
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			needs to rest on
		
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			walls and unless it's a detached property.
		
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			At least one
		
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			part of the beam,
		
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			girdle, or even both
		
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			part or both sides of the beam
		
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			may rest on a shared wall.
		
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			And it won't just rest partially on a
		
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			shared wall,
		
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			but it extends slightly.
		
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			So
		
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			as is well known,
		
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			part of the beam
		
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			will be The main part of the beam
		
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			will be in
		
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			one's own property.
		
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			Part of it will cover the whole wall
		
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			and then a small part of it will
		
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			the end of it will actually extend
		
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			well into the neighbor's property.
		
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			And if
		
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			you regard the
		
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			homes
		
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			of the people of old and even in
		
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			this day and age, homes and villages and
		
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			rural areas. They aren't as sophisticated
		
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			and well designed and covered up and polished
		
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			as
		
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			town dwellings or city dwellings.
		
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			So I've seen this myself.
		
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			The beams and the girders
		
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			that protrude
		
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			into the
		
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			neighbor's property
		
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			actually are visible all the time. So they
		
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			come across the wall and they're there. They're
		
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			just there.
		
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			And either one can keep on looking at
		
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			the beam
		
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			and burning from within that. That's not mine.
		
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			And why is it intruding in my airspace?
		
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			And why is it an eyesore?
		
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			Well, one can just learn to live with
		
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			it. And that's what the prophet
		
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			says here. That if the neighbor wishes to
		
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			place a beam
		
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			on
		
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			one's
		
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			own wall, not even just a shared wall,
		
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			but one's own wall or part of the
		
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			wall, then let him do it.
		
00:39:18 --> 00:39:20
			That's a neighborly thing. It's a humane thing
		
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			to do.
		
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			It's good for you.
		
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			So in that hadith, Abu Shureih radiAllahu,
		
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			and by Allah he does not believe, by
		
00:39:31 --> 00:39:33
			Allah he does not believe, by Allah he
		
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			does not believe.
		
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			It was said, who, O Messenger of Allah?
		
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			He replied, alladilayaatmanujarubwaba
		
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			Iqa, One whose neighbor does not feel safe
		
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			from his calamities.
		
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			So it was said what are his calamities?
		
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			Prophet
		
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			sharrr.
		
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			So nothing major.
		
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			Sharr. He's ill. He's evil. And we all
		
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			have ill in us.
		
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			And Imam Ahmed Muhammed relates same hadith from
		
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			Abu Hurray radhiallahu an
		
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			in which
		
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			prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said
		
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			That person from whose neighbor does not feel
		
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			safe from his
		
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			That person whose neighbor does not feel safe
		
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			from his
		
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			calamities, I. E. His ill,
		
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			he will not enter gym.
		
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			He won't enter John.
		
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			So even before the rest of creation,
		
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			our own neighbor needs to feel safe and
		
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			protected
		
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			and at peace.
		
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			At peace.
		
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			Not only from our physical aggression
		
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			and our physical
		
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			ills,
		
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			but even from our
		
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			tongues.
		
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			And as I was saying,
		
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			prophet
		
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			has
		
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			taught us to focus on ourselves
		
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			and to spare others from our pain.
		
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			There's a famous hadith which
		
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			in one form or another we've all heard
		
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			and
		
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			it's
		
00:41:28 --> 00:41:30
			we can relate to it in many ways.
		
00:41:35 --> 00:41:35
			Imam Muhari
		
00:41:37 --> 00:41:38
			relates
		
00:41:41 --> 00:41:44
			from Abu Saeedr Khudri radiAllahu anha that the
		
00:41:44 --> 00:41:46
			Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
		
00:41:49 --> 00:41:50
			you shuka'anyaqoona
		
00:41:50 --> 00:41:52
			khayramadin Muslim.
		
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			It is nigh, it is close.
		
00:41:59 --> 00:42:01
			That the best wealth of a Muslim will
		
00:42:01 --> 00:42:02
			be.
		
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			It is nigh, it is close
		
00:42:18 --> 00:42:20
			that the best wealth of a Muslim
		
00:42:22 --> 00:42:23
			will be
		
00:42:23 --> 00:42:24
			a flock
		
00:42:26 --> 00:42:27
			of sheep or goats
		
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			with which
		
00:42:32 --> 00:42:34
			the Muslim follows
		
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			the peaks of mountains
		
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			or the locations
		
00:42:41 --> 00:42:43
			of rainfall meaning valleys.
		
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			Yafirubideenihimin
		
00:42:47 --> 00:42:47
			al Fitan
		
00:42:49 --> 00:42:50
			fleeing with his religion
		
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			from trials and tribulations.
		
00:43:00 --> 00:43:03
			I say we can really relate to this
		
00:43:03 --> 00:43:04
			hadith because
		
00:43:07 --> 00:43:08
			many a time
		
00:43:09 --> 00:43:10
			we thought to ourselves,
		
00:43:11 --> 00:43:13
			oh, I wish I could just go away
		
00:43:16 --> 00:43:18
			and retire to a mountaintop
		
00:43:21 --> 00:43:22
			or retreat
		
00:43:23 --> 00:43:26
			into the depths of a remote valley,
		
00:43:27 --> 00:43:27
			surrounded
		
00:43:28 --> 00:43:30
			by nature and animals.
		
00:43:32 --> 00:43:33
			But no humans,
		
00:43:33 --> 00:43:35
			for even the beasts are better than the
		
00:43:35 --> 00:43:36
			humans.
		
00:43:37 --> 00:43:38
			People are bad.
		
00:43:40 --> 00:43:41
			Times are bad.
		
00:43:43 --> 00:43:44
			Things have changed.
		
00:43:45 --> 00:43:46
			Society is corrupt.
		
00:43:47 --> 00:43:49
			There's too much fitna fitna fitna.
		
00:43:51 --> 00:43:53
			I just want to go away from all
		
00:43:53 --> 00:43:53
			of this
		
00:43:54 --> 00:43:55
			and be alone.
		
00:43:57 --> 00:43:59
			And why do we think that? Well, there's
		
00:43:59 --> 00:44:00
			a danger
		
00:44:01 --> 00:44:02
			that we may think
		
00:44:03 --> 00:44:06
			I'm good. Everyone else is bad.
		
00:44:10 --> 00:44:11
			I'm incorrigible.
		
00:44:12 --> 00:44:13
			Society is corrupt.
		
00:44:17 --> 00:44:18
			I am pious.
		
00:44:20 --> 00:44:22
			People are impious and sinful.
		
00:44:24 --> 00:44:25
			I lead a good life.
		
00:44:28 --> 00:44:31
			And I am good. And there's just too
		
00:44:31 --> 00:44:32
			much fitna around me.
		
00:44:34 --> 00:44:35
			So, subhanAllah,
		
00:44:36 --> 00:44:37
			all of these thoughts
		
00:44:38 --> 00:44:39
			betray an arrogance.
		
00:44:41 --> 00:44:42
			A haughtiness.
		
00:44:45 --> 00:44:45
			A delusion.
		
00:44:47 --> 00:44:49
			That I am good. Everyone else is bad.
		
00:44:51 --> 00:44:54
			My life is good. Everyone else's life is
		
00:44:54 --> 00:44:54
			corrupt.
		
00:44:55 --> 00:44:56
			I am good.
		
00:44:57 --> 00:44:59
			I am still the same. In fact, I'm
		
00:44:59 --> 00:45:00
			getting better and better.
		
00:45:01 --> 00:45:02
			Whereas
		
00:45:02 --> 00:45:04
			mankind is declining,
		
00:45:04 --> 00:45:04
			deteriorating.
		
00:45:05 --> 00:45:06
			Society is deteriorating.
		
00:45:07 --> 00:45:09
			Times have changed for the worse.
		
00:45:11 --> 00:45:11
			SubhanAllah.
		
00:45:12 --> 00:45:12
			And so
		
00:45:13 --> 00:45:16
			I need to protect myself from the ill
		
00:45:16 --> 00:45:17
			effects of others.
		
00:45:22 --> 00:45:22
			But,
		
00:45:23 --> 00:45:24
			and this is why
		
00:45:25 --> 00:45:25
			Imam Malik
		
00:45:26 --> 00:45:27
			ibn Malik ibn Anas
		
00:45:29 --> 00:45:31
			relates a hadith in his Mu'utta.
		
00:45:38 --> 00:45:40
			From Abu Hurayrah Radiallahu An.
		
00:45:41 --> 00:45:43
			That Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
		
00:45:51 --> 00:45:54
			When you hear a man say people have
		
00:45:54 --> 00:45:54
			perished,
		
00:46:00 --> 00:46:01
			I. E. People have perished.
		
00:46:02 --> 00:46:03
			They have been destroyed
		
00:46:04 --> 00:46:04
			imorally,
		
00:46:04 --> 00:46:06
			ethically, religiously.
		
00:46:09 --> 00:46:10
			Then the prophet
		
00:46:12 --> 00:46:12
			said,
		
00:46:15 --> 00:46:17
			when you hear a man saying people have
		
00:46:17 --> 00:46:18
			perished
		
00:46:20 --> 00:46:22
			then he is the one who is most
		
00:46:22 --> 00:46:23
			perished of all of them.
		
00:46:24 --> 00:46:26
			He's the worst of all of them.
		
00:46:28 --> 00:46:30
			And one way of reading this hadith is,
		
00:46:34 --> 00:46:35
			That they haven't perished.
		
00:46:36 --> 00:46:36
			He has
		
00:46:37 --> 00:46:40
			caused them to perish in his mind.
		
00:46:41 --> 00:46:42
			They haven't perished.
		
00:46:43 --> 00:46:44
			They aren't corrupt.
		
00:46:45 --> 00:46:48
			He's considered them corrupt in his mind.
		
00:46:48 --> 00:46:51
			They haven't perished. He's destroyed them, I. E.
		
00:46:51 --> 00:46:53
			In his own image, in his own mind,
		
00:46:53 --> 00:46:54
			in his own imagination.
		
00:46:59 --> 00:46:59
			So
		
00:47:00 --> 00:47:02
			And this is why that famous hadith as
		
00:47:02 --> 00:47:04
			I said of Abu Said al Khudri
		
00:47:04 --> 00:47:06
			which we've heard in one form or another
		
00:47:06 --> 00:47:08
			and which we are familiar with to some
		
00:47:08 --> 00:47:09
			extent
		
00:47:09 --> 00:47:10
			that
		
00:47:11 --> 00:47:12
			a time will come
		
00:47:15 --> 00:47:17
			when there will be many fitin, plural of
		
00:47:17 --> 00:47:20
			fitna. And I've spoken about fitna in detail
		
00:47:20 --> 00:47:22
			so please refer to those talks.
		
00:47:23 --> 00:47:24
			There will be many fitna. Fitna.
		
00:47:26 --> 00:47:27
			Plural of fitna.
		
00:47:28 --> 00:47:29
			Trials, tribulations,
		
00:47:30 --> 00:47:30
			distractions,
		
00:47:31 --> 00:47:32
			tests,
		
00:47:36 --> 00:47:36
			strife, discord,
		
00:47:39 --> 00:47:40
			confusion.
		
00:47:43 --> 00:47:45
			And a person may feel that I need
		
00:47:45 --> 00:47:47
			to flee from all of this.
		
00:47:49 --> 00:47:51
			And so I wish to retreat.
		
00:47:53 --> 00:47:55
			Retire to a mountaintop
		
00:47:56 --> 00:47:58
			or retreat to a remote valley.
		
00:48:00 --> 00:48:00
			Alone,
		
00:48:00 --> 00:48:02
			away from society,
		
00:48:02 --> 00:48:03
			away from people,
		
00:48:04 --> 00:48:06
			away from all of these fitan
		
00:48:10 --> 00:48:13
			But how should we understand that hadith? Well,
		
00:48:14 --> 00:48:17
			Imam Bukhari and Imam Muslim both and others
		
00:48:17 --> 00:48:19
			both relate from the same.
		
00:48:21 --> 00:48:22
			Abu Saeed Al Khudi
		
00:48:24 --> 00:48:25
			that the prophet
		
00:48:27 --> 00:48:27
			was asked,
		
00:48:29 --> 00:48:31
			who is the best believer?
		
00:48:33 --> 00:48:35
			Who is the best believer?
		
00:48:35 --> 00:48:37
			Who of the believers is the best?
		
00:48:38 --> 00:48:38
			So the
		
00:48:38 --> 00:48:39
			prophet
		
00:48:39 --> 00:48:40
			described
		
00:48:41 --> 00:48:42
			the best of believers.
		
00:48:44 --> 00:48:45
			And then at the end of the hadith,
		
00:48:45 --> 00:48:47
			he said, or a man
		
00:48:49 --> 00:48:52
			who is in one of these valleys, who
		
00:48:52 --> 00:48:54
			is in a valley of these valleys
		
00:48:57 --> 00:48:59
			worshiping his Lord,
		
00:48:59 --> 00:49:01
			fearing his Lord.
		
00:49:06 --> 00:49:07
			And he
		
00:49:08 --> 00:49:11
			spares the people his ill.
		
00:49:12 --> 00:49:15
			He saves others and he protects others
		
00:49:15 --> 00:49:17
			from his ills.
		
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			So that's the way we should understand the
		
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			hadith.
		
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			Not just
		
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			that he flees with his religion from fitna.
		
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			Not because he thinks that I'm good, everyone
		
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			else is bad and therefore I need to
		
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			get away from them.
		
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			So I'm protecting myself from them
		
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			rather.
		
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			In the words of Rasulullah
		
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			relate in the hadith related by the same
		
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			Sahabi, Usayid al Khudri
		
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			by the same authors, Imam Bukhari, Muslim and
		
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			others.
		
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			Rather he spares others from his ills.
		
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			So not so much that he's protecting himself
		
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			from the rest,
		
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			rather he's protecting others from his own ills.
		
00:50:09 --> 00:50:10
			And so how should we understand
		
00:50:11 --> 00:50:12
			the words then yafiru
		
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			bidinihimin al fitin that
		
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			he flees with his religion from fitna? Well
		
00:50:20 --> 00:50:21
			doesn't that suggest that
		
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			he's also fleeing from fitnah?
		
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			Well, the best way of understanding that is
		
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			that he should think:
		
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			I'm not good enough,
		
00:50:35 --> 00:50:36
			I'm not mature enough,
		
00:50:37 --> 00:50:40
			I'm not responsible enough, I'm not pious enough,
		
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			I'm not
		
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			wary enough,
		
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			I'm not such a good Muslim or a
		
00:50:46 --> 00:50:47
			strong Mu'min
		
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			that I will be able to cope
		
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			in all of these
		
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			fitan
		
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			and in this corruption.
		
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			Not because
		
00:50:58 --> 00:50:59
			I'm too good for this
		
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			and I need to flee. Rather he should
		
00:51:03 --> 00:51:05
			think that because I'm not mature and developed
		
00:51:05 --> 00:51:07
			enough, I am not good enough.
		
00:51:08 --> 00:51:09
			All this confusion,
		
00:51:09 --> 00:51:10
			this strife,
		
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			this corruption
		
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			will also bring out the worst in me.
		
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			It'll bring out the worst in me.
		
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			So because I am not good.
		
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			So imagine
		
00:51:31 --> 00:51:33
			we're in the period of the we're in
		
00:51:33 --> 00:51:34
			the period of Covid.
		
00:51:37 --> 00:51:38
			We're all in lockdown.
		
00:51:39 --> 00:51:41
			Now imagine someone
		
00:51:43 --> 00:51:44
			who is unhealthy.
		
00:51:47 --> 00:51:48
			Who's unhealthy.
		
00:51:49 --> 00:51:52
			Who has numerous underlying health conditions.
		
00:51:53 --> 00:51:55
			He has weak immune system.
		
00:51:58 --> 00:51:59
			He has
		
00:52:02 --> 00:52:03
			other underlying health conditions.
		
00:52:05 --> 00:52:07
			Allah protect us all. Maybe he has high
		
00:52:07 --> 00:52:08
			blood pressure, diabetes,
		
00:52:11 --> 00:52:12
			a weak immune
		
00:52:15 --> 00:52:15
			system.
		
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			Unhealthy.
		
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			Unfit.
		
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			Aged.
		
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			As a result of which this person is
		
00:52:30 --> 00:52:31
			extremely vulnerable.
		
00:52:39 --> 00:52:41
			He shouldn't just think that
		
00:52:44 --> 00:52:46
			I shouldn't venture out
		
00:52:46 --> 00:52:48
			because I'm good and healthy.
		
00:52:50 --> 00:52:50
			And this
		
00:52:51 --> 00:52:52
			virus
		
00:52:53 --> 00:52:54
			is so contagious.
		
00:52:56 --> 00:52:57
			It's so destructive
		
00:52:59 --> 00:53:01
			that I don't want it to afflict me.
		
00:53:04 --> 00:53:05
			And I don't want it to I don't
		
00:53:05 --> 00:53:07
			want to venture out because I'm too good
		
00:53:07 --> 00:53:10
			for it. Rather his thinking should be and
		
00:53:10 --> 00:53:11
			would be
		
00:53:11 --> 00:53:13
			or would be and should be
		
00:53:15 --> 00:53:18
			that I need to protect myself and isolate
		
00:53:19 --> 00:53:19
			myself,
		
00:53:20 --> 00:53:22
			not because I'm too healthy and good for
		
00:53:22 --> 00:53:23
			the virus,
		
00:53:23 --> 00:53:24
			but because
		
00:53:24 --> 00:53:26
			the virus will bring out the worst of
		
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			me.
		
00:53:28 --> 00:53:30
			It will afflict me
		
00:53:32 --> 00:53:33
			and hurt me
		
00:53:34 --> 00:53:35
			more than other people
		
00:53:36 --> 00:53:38
			because of my underlying health conditions.
		
00:53:38 --> 00:53:40
			So on what men should think the same?
		
00:53:41 --> 00:53:43
			That if he is fleeing from society, if
		
00:53:43 --> 00:53:44
			he is retreating
		
00:53:44 --> 00:53:45
			to a mountaintop
		
00:53:46 --> 00:53:48
			or the depth of a remote valley all
		
00:53:48 --> 00:53:49
			alone
		
00:53:50 --> 00:53:52
			and fleeing with his
		
00:53:52 --> 00:53:54
			religion from fitna.
		
00:53:54 --> 00:53:56
			His thinking shouldn't be that
		
00:53:57 --> 00:53:59
			I am too good for society or I
		
00:53:59 --> 00:54:02
			am too good for all this fitna and
		
00:54:02 --> 00:54:04
			rather he should think that because of my
		
00:54:04 --> 00:54:05
			other underlying
		
00:54:06 --> 00:54:07
			moral health conditions
		
00:54:08 --> 00:54:10
			and my sins and my corruption
		
00:54:10 --> 00:54:12
			and my ills and my shell.
		
00:54:15 --> 00:54:17
			This corruption, this strife, this fitna
		
00:54:19 --> 00:54:21
			will bring out the worst in me
		
00:54:22 --> 00:54:24
			and it will destroy me.
		
00:54:25 --> 00:54:28
			And when the worst of me comes out,
		
00:54:28 --> 00:54:30
			it will be bad for everyone else too.
		
00:54:33 --> 00:54:35
			So his thinking should be
		
00:54:35 --> 00:54:38
			I'm protecting myself to some degree,
		
00:54:39 --> 00:54:42
			But more so I am sparing
		
00:54:42 --> 00:54:46
			others my ills. I am protecting others from
		
00:54:46 --> 00:54:46
			my own
		
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			ills. That's how we should understand the hadith
		
00:54:51 --> 00:54:53
			by the categorical words of Rasulullah
		
00:54:55 --> 00:54:57
			that the best of believers is one who
		
00:54:57 --> 00:54:59
			is in one of these valleys
		
00:54:59 --> 00:55:00
			worshiping his lord,
		
00:55:01 --> 00:55:04
			fearing his lord, being wary of his lord.
		
00:55:04 --> 00:55:04
			Yataqirabbah.
		
00:55:05 --> 00:55:05
			Yabudurabbah
		
00:55:06 --> 00:55:08
			has is contained in different different narrations of
		
00:55:08 --> 00:55:09
			the same hadith. And
		
00:55:11 --> 00:55:14
			he is sparing the people his ill.
		
00:55:16 --> 00:55:19
			He's saving others from himself, from his ills.
		
00:55:19 --> 00:55:21
			That's how we should understand that hadith.
		
00:55:31 --> 00:55:32
			This is such a sublime teaching.
		
00:55:35 --> 00:55:36
			Spare others from oneself.
		
00:55:38 --> 00:55:41
			Even if we can't do other good things,
		
00:55:41 --> 00:55:43
			then this is the least we should do.
		
00:55:45 --> 00:55:47
			It doesn't make sense praying
		
00:55:49 --> 00:55:49
			a lot,
		
00:55:50 --> 00:55:52
			fasting a lot, giving in charity,
		
00:55:53 --> 00:55:54
			going on many pilgrimages,
		
00:55:56 --> 00:55:58
			doing so much good apparently
		
00:55:58 --> 00:56:00
			for oneself between oneself and
		
00:56:01 --> 00:56:01
			the creator.
		
00:56:02 --> 00:56:05
			But then also having a terrible relationship
		
00:56:05 --> 00:56:06
			with creation,
		
00:56:07 --> 00:56:11
			hurting others, verbally abusing others, inflicting pain on
		
00:56:11 --> 00:56:15
			others, being aggressive towards others, suspicious of others,
		
00:56:15 --> 00:56:18
			attacking the dignity and honour of others, the
		
00:56:18 --> 00:56:19
			person of
		
00:56:20 --> 00:56:21
			others, the property of others.
		
00:56:23 --> 00:56:24
			Is that better?
		
00:56:26 --> 00:56:29
			Or rather someone who doesn't do much good
		
00:56:29 --> 00:56:32
			apparently in terms of much prayer, much worship,
		
00:56:32 --> 00:56:34
			much charity, fulfils one's
		
00:56:34 --> 00:56:34
			obligations
		
00:56:35 --> 00:56:37
			but keeps oneself to oneself,
		
00:56:38 --> 00:56:40
			Spares others one's ills.
		
00:56:41 --> 00:56:43
			Saves others from oneself.
		
00:56:43 --> 00:56:45
			And this is why
		
00:56:45 --> 00:56:46
			Imam Bukhari
		
00:56:47 --> 00:56:49
			and Imam Muslim and others
		
00:56:51 --> 00:56:53
			relate to peaceful hadith from Abu Dhar al
		
00:56:53 --> 00:56:56
			Ghifari radiAllahu and that famous companion, the Aztec.
		
00:56:57 --> 00:56:59
			I've spoken on
		
00:56:59 --> 00:57:01
			some details of his life.
		
00:57:01 --> 00:57:04
			Refer to that. He was a remarkable companion.
		
00:57:05 --> 00:57:07
			So Abu Dharr Al Ghifari
		
00:57:08 --> 00:57:09
			said to the prophet
		
00:57:10 --> 00:57:11
			You Rasulullah.
		
00:57:24 --> 00:57:25
			Which
		
00:57:27 --> 00:57:28
			deeds are the best of faith?
		
00:57:29 --> 00:57:31
			So he said it in different ways. Which
		
00:57:31 --> 00:57:31
			deeds
		
00:57:32 --> 00:57:34
			of faith are best? What are the best
		
00:57:34 --> 00:57:36
			deeds in faith? So the prophet
		
00:57:37 --> 00:57:39
			mentioned some deeds, some good deeds.
		
00:57:40 --> 00:57:41
			And later,
		
00:57:41 --> 00:57:44
			Abu Dharrar Ghafari and having heard this,
		
00:57:45 --> 00:57:47
			he said, and what if I can't do
		
00:57:47 --> 00:57:50
			this? What if I can't do that? Prophet
		
00:57:51 --> 00:57:53
			mentioned something else. And what if I can't
		
00:57:53 --> 00:57:54
			do that?
		
00:57:54 --> 00:57:54
			Prophet
		
00:57:56 --> 00:57:57
			mentioned something about charity,
		
00:57:57 --> 00:57:59
			helping others. He said and what if I
		
00:57:59 --> 00:58:01
			can't even do that?
		
00:58:03 --> 00:58:05
			So the final words of advice
		
00:58:05 --> 00:58:06
			prophet
		
00:58:07 --> 00:58:08
			gave to him was,
		
00:58:18 --> 00:58:21
			If you can't do anything else then the
		
00:58:21 --> 00:58:24
			least you should do is spare people from
		
00:58:24 --> 00:58:25
			your ill.
		
00:58:29 --> 00:58:31
			Spare people from your ill.
		
00:58:34 --> 00:58:35
			Spare others
		
00:58:36 --> 00:58:37
			from your ills.
		
00:58:37 --> 00:58:39
			For if you do this for
		
00:58:42 --> 00:58:44
			This in itself is a charity with which
		
00:58:44 --> 00:58:46
			you are charitable unto yourself.
		
00:58:47 --> 00:58:48
			Can you imagine?
		
00:58:53 --> 00:58:56
			If you can't do much good otherwise,
		
00:58:59 --> 00:59:00
			then at least
		
00:59:01 --> 00:59:01
			do
		
00:59:01 --> 00:59:03
			this much charity.
		
00:59:03 --> 00:59:05
			Be charitable to this degree
		
00:59:07 --> 00:59:08
			that you
		
00:59:08 --> 00:59:10
			do not hurt others.
		
00:59:10 --> 00:59:13
			You do not inflict pain on others in
		
00:59:13 --> 00:59:15
			any way whatsoever, even verbally.
		
00:59:17 --> 00:59:20
			Do at least this much that you spare
		
00:59:20 --> 00:59:21
			others from your ills.
		
00:59:24 --> 00:59:25
			You
		
00:59:26 --> 00:59:27
			keep yourself to yourself.
		
00:59:29 --> 00:59:31
			And you have no relationship with others unless
		
00:59:31 --> 00:59:32
			it's good.
		
00:59:34 --> 00:59:35
			Unless it's good.
		
00:59:36 --> 00:59:39
			Imam Bukarima Muslim alhamdulillahi rayma relates hadith from
		
00:59:39 --> 00:59:42
			Abu Huraira radiAllahu an. Very famous hadith
		
00:59:42 --> 00:59:45
			in which prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
		
01:00:02 --> 01:00:04
			Whoever believes in Allah and in the final
		
01:00:04 --> 01:00:05
			day,
		
01:00:06 --> 01:00:08
			let him not hurt his neighbor.
		
01:00:09 --> 01:00:11
			He begins with this.
		
01:00:12 --> 01:00:14
			Let him not hurt his neighbor.
		
01:00:14 --> 01:00:16
			As I was speaking earlier that even before
		
01:00:16 --> 01:00:17
			the rest of creation,
		
01:00:18 --> 01:00:20
			our own neighbour needs to feel safe
		
01:00:21 --> 01:00:23
			from our tongue and our hands.
		
01:00:25 --> 01:00:27
			So in this hadith, he says, whoever
		
01:00:28 --> 01:00:30
			believes in Allah in the final day
		
01:00:32 --> 01:00:34
			Let him not hurt his neighbor.
		
01:00:34 --> 01:00:36
			And whoever believes in Allah in the final
		
01:00:36 --> 01:00:37
			day.
		
01:00:38 --> 01:00:40
			Then let him honor his guest.
		
01:00:45 --> 01:00:47
			And whoever believes in Allah and in the
		
01:00:47 --> 01:00:48
			final day.
		
01:00:49 --> 01:00:52
			For Yaqul Khairan oli Ismat, then let him
		
01:00:52 --> 01:00:54
			say something good. Otherwise,
		
01:00:55 --> 01:00:57
			hold his silence. Hold his peace.
		
01:00:59 --> 01:01:00
			Remain silent.
		
01:01:00 --> 01:01:01
			Such a beautiful
		
01:01:02 --> 01:01:02
			teaching.
		
01:01:04 --> 01:01:06
			Only part your lips.
		
01:01:07 --> 01:01:09
			Only wag your tongue.
		
01:01:11 --> 01:01:14
			Only exercise your vocal cords.
		
01:01:15 --> 01:01:17
			Only raise a murmur.
		
01:01:19 --> 01:01:21
			Only create a sound
		
01:01:22 --> 01:01:24
			if you have something good to say.
		
01:01:25 --> 01:01:28
			Otherwise, hold your peace. Control your tongue.
		
01:01:29 --> 01:01:30
			Hold your silence.
		
01:01:31 --> 01:01:33
			This is a mark of faith. Such a
		
01:01:33 --> 01:01:34
			beautiful teaching.
		
01:01:35 --> 01:01:37
			Whoever believes in Allah and in the final
		
01:01:37 --> 01:01:38
			day,
		
01:01:38 --> 01:01:41
			let him not. Let him say something good.
		
01:01:42 --> 01:01:43
			Oli asmuth.
		
01:01:43 --> 01:01:44
			Oli asmuth.
		
01:01:44 --> 01:01:45
			Different wordings
		
01:01:46 --> 01:01:49
			and different notations. Let him remain silent.
		
01:01:51 --> 01:01:52
			So our relationship
		
01:01:53 --> 01:01:53
			should be
		
01:01:56 --> 01:01:59
			such that with others it's only good. If
		
01:01:59 --> 01:02:01
			it can't be good, then no relationship.
		
01:02:04 --> 01:02:05
			Be neutral.
		
01:02:07 --> 01:02:08
			Try to
		
01:02:12 --> 01:02:15
			when speaking, try to say something good. Otherwise,
		
01:02:15 --> 01:02:17
			remain silent. You don't have to say something.
		
01:02:19 --> 01:02:21
			Think before you speak.
		
01:02:23 --> 01:02:25
			Control your tongue as prophet
		
01:02:26 --> 01:02:26
			said,
		
01:02:32 --> 01:02:34
			Control your tongue. They're in thy salvation.
		
01:02:39 --> 01:02:40
			Be good with others.
		
01:02:41 --> 01:02:42
			If you can't be good,
		
01:02:43 --> 01:02:44
			then keep your distance.
		
01:02:47 --> 01:02:48
			Leave people
		
01:02:49 --> 01:02:49
			alone
		
01:02:50 --> 01:02:51
			unless it's in a good way.
		
01:02:53 --> 01:02:55
			And this is why Abu Hurairah
		
01:02:55 --> 01:02:56
			in a hadith relates
		
01:02:57 --> 01:02:59
			from the Prophet That same Hadith of Abu
		
01:02:59 --> 01:03:00
			Sayyidl Khudri
		
01:03:01 --> 01:03:04
			That a believer is in one of these
		
01:03:04 --> 01:03:06
			The best of believers is one who is
		
01:03:06 --> 01:03:08
			in one of these valleys. The wording of
		
01:03:08 --> 01:03:11
			Abu Sa'id al Khudri radiAllahu an's hadith is
		
01:03:14 --> 01:03:16
			He spares the people
		
01:03:16 --> 01:03:17
			from his evil.
		
01:03:18 --> 01:03:20
			And in the wording of Abu Hurayrah narration
		
01:03:21 --> 01:03:22
			of the same hadith
		
01:03:25 --> 01:03:28
			and he leaves the people except in good.
		
01:03:31 --> 01:03:33
			So in he engages with people
		
01:03:34 --> 01:03:36
			only in a good manner, otherwise no engagement.
		
01:03:38 --> 01:03:40
			If you want to speak, speak good. If
		
01:03:40 --> 01:03:42
			you want to engage, engage in a good
		
01:03:42 --> 01:03:43
			manner. Otherwise, no engagements.
		
01:03:47 --> 01:03:48
			And Imam Muhari
		
01:03:51 --> 01:03:51
			relates
		
01:03:52 --> 01:03:55
			in his Sahih. It's not a hadith. It's
		
01:03:56 --> 01:03:56
			a saying
		
01:03:57 --> 01:03:59
			of 'Abdullaha wa muhammadu'am,
		
01:04:03 --> 01:04:05
			who was a Thabi'i, one of the students
		
01:04:05 --> 01:04:07
			of the Sahaba radiAllahu anhu.
		
01:04:08 --> 01:04:10
			It's very beautiful saying.
		
01:04:10 --> 01:04:12
			So Imam Bukhari actually relates this in his
		
01:04:12 --> 01:04:14
			Sahih in one of his darajim.
		
01:04:16 --> 01:04:17
			That
		
01:04:18 --> 01:04:18
			'Abdullahebmar'am
		
01:04:19 --> 01:04:21
			said Remember he's a darbi, I. E. One
		
01:04:21 --> 01:04:24
			of the students or the companions radiAllahu anhu.
		
01:04:25 --> 01:04:27
			So he learned from the best of people.
		
01:04:28 --> 01:04:29
			He said,
		
01:04:32 --> 01:04:35
			said there are 3 things which I love
		
01:04:35 --> 01:04:35
			for myself
		
01:04:37 --> 01:04:38
			and for my brothers.
		
01:04:39 --> 01:04:41
			So what are those three things?
		
01:04:43 --> 01:04:44
			Number 1.
		
01:04:45 --> 01:04:47
			That they learn
		
01:04:47 --> 01:04:48
			this Sunnah
		
01:04:49 --> 01:04:50
			and ask about
		
01:04:51 --> 01:04:52
			it. Number 2,
		
01:04:53 --> 01:04:54
			that they learn the Quran
		
01:04:55 --> 01:04:56
			and they ask about it.
		
01:04:58 --> 01:05:01
			So they learn and discuss the sunnah. They
		
01:05:01 --> 01:05:04
			learn and discuss the Quran. 2 things. And
		
01:05:04 --> 01:05:05
			the third thing so
		
01:05:05 --> 01:05:06
			Quran
		
01:05:06 --> 01:05:07
			sunnah.
		
01:05:08 --> 01:05:09
			And the third thing
		
01:05:13 --> 01:05:16
			that they leave the people except in good.
		
01:05:17 --> 01:05:18
			Such a beautiful,
		
01:05:18 --> 01:05:20
			distilled, summarised teaching
		
01:05:21 --> 01:05:23
			that he learned from the companions,
		
01:05:23 --> 01:05:26
			the Sahaba radiAllahu anhu that there are 3
		
01:05:26 --> 01:05:28
			things which I left for myself and for
		
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			my brothers. Quran,
		
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			learning and just learning and asking about the
		
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			Quran.
		
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			2, learning and asking about the sunnah of
		
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			the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam. And number 3,
		
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			not engaging with the people accepting God. Leaving
		
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			the people accepting God.
		
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			One companion
		
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			came to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
		
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			Imam Abu al Muhammedal relates as hadith and
		
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			his musnad again. This was in the farewell
		
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			pilgrimage.
		
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			A companion came to the prophet
		
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			and held on to his reins.
		
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			The reins of his camel.
		
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			And he said, You Rasulullah,
		
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			tell me something
		
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			which will bring me closer to Jannah.
		
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			And
		
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			distance me from the fire.
		
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			So the prophet
		
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			said to him
		
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			so simple, SubhanAllah.
		
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			He said to him, Tell me something
		
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			which will
		
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			bring me close to Jannah
		
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			and distance me from the fire.
		
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			Prophet
		
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			said, Believe in Allah
		
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			alone
		
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			without associating
		
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			any partners with him.
		
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			Establish salah,
		
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			give Zakah,
		
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			fast in the month of Ramadan and
		
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			perform the pilgrimage of the house of Allah.
		
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			The 4 pillars, the 5 pillars of Islam.
		
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			And then
		
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			the prophet
		
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			only mentioned one more thing.
		
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			Approach the people
		
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			as you would they approach you.
		
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			And whatever you dislike yourself, spare the people
		
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			the same.
		
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			Simple.
		
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			What you want others to do to you,
		
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			with you,
		
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			how you want others to treat you,
		
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			you treat them.
		
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			What you want others to bring to you,
		
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			you bring to them.
		
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			And whatever you dislike
		
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			yourself,
		
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			spare others the same.
		
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			Save others from that.
		
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			So simple.
		
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			And as I was saying earlier,
		
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			what's better?
		
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			That's a person
		
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			does not do much good as in the
		
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			hadith of Abu Dharr al Ghifari
		
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			He says, You Rasoolullah, if I can't do
		
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			this, if I can't do that, if I
		
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			can't do this,
		
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			Prophet
		
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			said, in the least you should do. The
		
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			words aren't the least, but this is a
		
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			meaning that then I. E. If you can't
		
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			do
		
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			the aforementioned, then what should you do?
		
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			Save people
		
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			from your ill.
		
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			Spare people your ill.
		
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			For this is a charity with which you
		
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			should be charitable unto yourself.
		
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			Is this better?
		
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			I.
		
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			E. Not doing much good
		
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			but doing no harm either
		
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			or apparently doing a lots of good as
		
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			well as doing a lots of harm.
		
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			Well, the answer is contained in the hadith.
		
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			Imam Muslim Rahdulillahi relates to hadith.
		
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			From Abu Hurayrah Radiallahu An.
		
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			Prophet
		
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			said to the companions,
		
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			do you know what
		
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			is a mufless?
		
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			A penniless person? A destitute?
		
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			A good translation is penniless.
		
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			Because that's the meaning of mufless
		
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			for the students of Arabic.
		
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			A Khasiya
		
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			of
		
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			Bab Ifa'al
		
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			is ekdam.
		
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			Meaning one of the peculiarities
		
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			of
		
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			words
		
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			on the scale of ifraa.
		
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			Such as in this case, is
		
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			meaning
		
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			the feature of lacking the same thing.
		
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			So the meaning of
		
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			or
		
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			So Iflas means not even having fils, a
		
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			fils.
		
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			And what's a fils? A fils is a
		
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			piece of a coin.
		
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			So a mophilus is someone
		
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			who is so poor, so destitute that they
		
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			are literally penniless
		
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			in the sense that they don't even have
		
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			a pence. So a muflis is someone who
		
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			lacks even a fils meaning a pence.
		
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			So the prophet
		
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			said to the companions,
		
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			Do you know who is a muflis?
		
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			The companions replied that the mufless amongst us,
		
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			the destitute, the penniless one amongst us is
		
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			one who has no dirham
		
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			and no belongings, no possessions.
		
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			Truly a penniless person.
		
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			The prophet
		
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			reply was
		
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			was a curtain.
		
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			The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said, You
		
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			say that the muflis, the penniless one is
		
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			one who has no dirham
		
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			and no possession.
		
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			Well the muflis, the true muflis,
		
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			again the true muflis,
		
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			the true penniless one.
		
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			This is how we need to shape our
		
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			thinking.
		
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			By
		
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			revisiting our concepts.
		
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			And time and time again we come across
		
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			this in the hadith.
		
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			The strong person is not the champion
		
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			who's always defeating others.
		
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			So who do we call strong?
		
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			A tough person who beats and defeats others.
		
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			Prophet
		
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			said, that's not a tough person.
		
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			The tough one, the strong one.
		
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			Is 1
		
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			who
		
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			controls his anger.
		
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			That's a tough man. That's a strong person.
		
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			So someone who lashes out wildly,
		
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			engages in road rage, beats up people.
		
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			They may be tough.
		
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			They may vanquish others. They may beat them
		
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			senseless.
		
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			They may overwhelm them, overpower them.
		
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			But in the sight of the Messenger
		
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			despite his aggression, despite his defeat in others,
		
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			despite his flooring others. That's what sura'a means,
		
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			one who floors others.
		
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			He is weak.
		
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			In the mashadidul ladiyamalikunafsahuw'injalghaddab.
		
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			The strong one, the tough one
		
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			is that person who controls his anger.
		
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			The Muslim is one from whose tongue and
		
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			hands others remain safe. The motmin is one
		
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			from
		
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			who's from whom
		
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			other believers feel Amin safe and secure.
		
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			The muhajil, the immigrant, the true leaver
		
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			is not one who leaves the place, but
		
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			rather is one who leaves behind sins
		
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			and errors.
		
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			And same here.
		
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			Who's the mufflers?
		
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			Who's the penniless one?
		
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			Oh, the penniless one who's destitute.
		
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			Said, no.
		
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			Just as Allah says in the Quran,
		
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			Allah says riba
		
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			meaning usury means
		
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			originally
		
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			interest usury
		
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			is in Arabic simply means an increase.
		
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			So Allah says in the Quran,
		
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			whatever you give
		
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			of
		
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			an increase in wealth.
		
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			Meaning Riba, usury, interest.
		
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			So that it may increase in the wealth
		
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			of the people.
		
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			This does not increase with Allah. So this
		
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			is why I said we need to revisit
		
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			our concepts, our thinking.
		
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			We have to look at it from the
		
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			perspective of the Qur'an and the Sunnah.
		
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			It's very simple, isn't it?
		
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			According to us, £100
		
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			in the bank
		
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			earns 10 percent interest.
		
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			£110.
		
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			We are £10 richer.
		
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			A £100 in the bank,
		
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			give £10 in charity,
		
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			we are left with £90.
		
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			We are £10 poorer.
		
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			So simple.
		
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			Numbers don't lie.
		
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			Again, revisiting the concept. The prophet
		
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			came to Umun mumineen Aisha
		
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			There was an
		
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			animal,
		
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			a goat or a sheep. Prophet
		
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			said,
		
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			so it was parts of it were given
		
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			out in charity.
		
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			So the prophet
		
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			said to Ummun mumine Aisha
		
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			how much of it is left?
		
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			So the prophet
		
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			said that she replied, but everything's been given
		
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			away. Only this much is left. So the
		
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			prophet said no no no.
		
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			That's all left.
		
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			That's what remains.
		
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			I. E. Because that was given in charity.
		
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			What's given in charity is everlasting,
		
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			ever living,
		
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			secure.
		
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			Just as in the other Hadith, we need
		
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			to revisit these concepts. Prophet
		
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			said, man, Abdullah ibn Shihir, my Muslim relates
		
01:17:29 --> 01:17:30
			from both Abu Huraira
		
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			and Abdullah ibn Shihir
		
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			That man keeps on saying My
		
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			wealth my wealth my wealth. But he has
		
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			no wealth.
		
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			Except that which he has eaten and consumed.
		
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			Or which he has worn and worn out.
		
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			Or which he has sent forth in charity
		
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			and secured for himself.
		
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			And in the hadith of Bureya radiAllahu an
		
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			in Muslim, wuma siwadhalik
		
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			fahuwazaibunwataikuhulin
		
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			nas.
		
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			And whatever else there is besides these three
		
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			categories.
		
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			A man may be a millionaire, a billionaire.
		
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			He can only eat so much. What he
		
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			eats
		
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			and consumes
		
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			and causes to perish that belongs to him.
		
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			What he wears and wears out that belongs
		
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			to him. What he has given in charity
		
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			that belongs to him.
		
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			Even though it's no longer there.
		
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			But what remains doesn't belong to him.
		
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			Him. He's only safeguarding that for others.
		
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			And that's why the prophet
		
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			said, umasoo atharikfagaddahibunutharikkullinna.
		
01:18:38 --> 01:18:39
			So whatever
		
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			is besides these three things, he is about
		
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			to go and depart I. E. The man
		
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			and he's about to leave all of that
		
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			for the people. Allahu Akbar. So same here.
		
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			The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said,
		
01:18:56 --> 01:18:58
			Who is the penniless one? Sahaba said the
		
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			penniless one amongst us is one who has
		
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			no dirham or madar, possession to his name.
		
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			Prophet
		
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			The mouflless,
		
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			the truly penniless one, the the truly poor
		
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			and destitute individual
		
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			of my Ummah
		
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			is one who will come on the day
		
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			of judgment.
		
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			Is one who shall come on the day
		
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			of resurrection.
		
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			With what?
		
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			Bisolatin,
		
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			or Siamin, or zakatin.
		
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			With prayer,
		
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			with fasting,
		
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			with charity.
		
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			With all that reward of prayer, fasting and
		
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			charity.
		
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			Wayati.
		
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			But he will come in such a state
		
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			that in the dunya in the world
		
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			he will have Qatshepa Mehadha. He will have
		
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			verbally abused and sworn at this person,
		
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			Waqadha Fahaada
		
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			and he will have falsely accused this person.
		
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			Wa'akalamaalahaada
		
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			and he will have
		
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			unlawfully consumed the wealth of that person.
		
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			And he would have shed the blood of
		
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			that person.
		
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			And he would have hit this person.
		
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			Remarkably,
		
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			prophet
		
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			mentions murder and violence at the end.
		
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			And the misappropriation
		
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			and the unlawful consumption of wealth, 3rd.
		
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			But the first two are
		
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			the sins of the tongue, the aggression of
		
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			the tongue. He will have sworn up this
		
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			person, the first one, and he will have
		
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			falsely accused that person. So he will come
		
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			with these sins. What will happen?
		
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			What will happen to him?
		
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			So all the wronged individuals
		
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			will be compensated.
		
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			With his good deeds. So his salah, his
		
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			siyam, his zakah, his fast, his pilgrim sorry.
		
01:21:04 --> 01:21:07
			His fasting, his zakah, charity and his prayers
		
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			will go to all his victims.
		
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			His account will become depleted.
		
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			So if his good deeds perish and expire
		
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			if his good deeds expire before
		
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			the account is settled
		
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			of what he owes.
		
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			So what do you do then?
		
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			In the court of Allah, we fear being
		
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			sued in the world.
		
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			Everyone fears being sued.
		
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			Once,
		
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			I had agreed to go somewhere
		
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			with someone. Someone had promised to take me
		
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			and
		
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			another person
		
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			to Imams.
		
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			They promised to take us somewhere.
		
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			So
		
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			the night before, and this was agreed 2
		
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			weeks before, the night before they called and
		
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			said,
		
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			I'm sorry, but I won't be able to
		
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			come tomorrow.
		
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			So we'll have to reschedule
		
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			for another day. I said, Fine.
		
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			So he went on to explain
		
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			why he rang at night. He said, I'm
		
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			sorry but
		
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			where I work,
		
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			I have a very specialist job. And my
		
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			colleague, there's just the 2 of us,
		
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			In the entire company, only the 2 of
		
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			us are qualified to
		
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			operate that machinery
		
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			and to carry out that job. So it's
		
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			the company policy that only one of us
		
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			can be off work at the same time.
		
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			So I had taken the day off
		
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			but then my colleague
		
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			requested
		
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			me
		
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			to
		
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			forgo my
		
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			leave for tomorrow
		
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			and
		
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			be present so that he can take the
		
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			day off. And his explanation was
		
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			So his colleague's explanation was that I need
		
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			to go to court.
		
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			So they were friends, they said why? He
		
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			says well my mother-in-law came to visit me
		
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			some time ago. My mother-in-law,
		
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			his wife's mother,
		
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			she came to visit me and
		
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			where the fireplace is, where you've got some
		
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			brickwork around the hearth.
		
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			So she stepped on there
		
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			for some reason, maybe to look at something
		
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			on the mantelpiece or the mirror above the
		
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			mantelpiece.
		
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			But she stepped on the
		
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			the curvature of the brickwork on the floor
		
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			around the hearth and she slipped
		
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			and she slipped. She hurt her leg. So
		
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			she went back home and she sued her
		
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			son-in-law.
		
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			So he said, 'I have to go to
		
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			court tomorrow because my mother-in-law is suing
		
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			me.' So we fear being sued in the
		
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			world. Everyone's on the lookout.
		
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			One person, I've told you this before,
		
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			he said to me, Sheikh,
		
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			he had a good job
		
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			and he said,
		
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			I'm at peace
		
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			because
		
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			everything that I've earned
		
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			I haven't kept for myself.
		
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			And he worked in law.
		
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			So he said,
		
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			'I've got a house for my children
		
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			and my family.
		
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			The house is in their name.
		
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			I don't have any other possessions.
		
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			And my savings I've given in charity. So
		
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			I said, SubhanAllah. And he said, there's a
		
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			reason for that as well.
		
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			I've learned in my private life as well
		
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			as my professional life, remember he's the lawyer,
		
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			that if you have got money
		
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			everyone comes after you.
		
01:25:01 --> 01:25:02
			Friends, family
		
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			and the tax man
		
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			and the authorities.
		
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			These are his words.
		
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			Because remember
		
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			he is in law. And then he went
		
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			on to explain
		
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			that for the CPS
		
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			it costs
		
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			to pursue
		
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			cases.
		
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			So sometimes one of the reasons for saying
		
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			this is not in the public interest is
		
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			that even though the person is a
		
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			habitual criminal,
		
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			if he has no assets and he actually
		
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			costs more to prosecute,
		
01:25:35 --> 01:25:37
			Sometimes it's not
		
01:25:37 --> 01:25:39
			worth the effort,
		
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			and it's squandering resources.
		
01:25:43 --> 01:25:45
			So one of the arguments I'm only quoting
		
01:25:45 --> 01:25:47
			what he said, that one of the arguments
		
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			for
		
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			a prosecution not being in the public interest.
		
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			It's because financially, it's not viable.
		
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			It's a waste of money
		
01:26:02 --> 01:26:04
			because it can never be retrieved in any
		
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			way.
		
01:26:05 --> 01:26:07
			So he said, I've learned in my private
		
01:26:07 --> 01:26:10
			life and my professional life that if you've
		
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			got money,
		
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			everyone comes after you.
		
01:26:14 --> 01:26:15
			But if you've got nothing,
		
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			no one's interested in you. They leave you
		
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			alone.
		
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			It's just that I've given my money
		
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			to chat
		
01:26:23 --> 01:26:24
			A lot of other.
		
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			So
		
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			we are forever fearful of being sued.
		
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			And if we are sued to such an
		
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			extent, if we lose money,
		
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			then it's very easy. In developed countries,
		
01:26:38 --> 01:26:40
			people just plead bankruptcy.
		
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			They go bankrupt and fine.
		
01:26:44 --> 01:26:46
			Nobody gets their share. But in the court
		
01:26:46 --> 01:26:49
			of Allah on Yawmul Qiyamah there is no
		
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			bankruptcy.
		
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			1 cannot claim bankruptcy.
		
01:26:53 --> 01:26:54
			For in funny if his
		
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			good deeds expire before his account is settled,
		
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			then what will
		
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			happen?
		
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			Their sins will be taken from them and
		
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			placed thrown on his shoulders,
		
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			then he shall be flown into the fire.
		
01:27:17 --> 01:27:19
			So what's better?
		
01:27:20 --> 01:27:23
			Haditha udhar radiAllahu anwer a person does not
		
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			do much good, but the least he or
		
01:27:25 --> 01:27:28
			she does is save others from one's own
		
01:27:28 --> 01:27:29
			ills.
		
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			Or
		
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			as in the hadith of Wuhriyah radiAllahu an,
		
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			do a lot of good,
		
01:27:36 --> 01:27:39
			but then do not spare and save others
		
01:27:39 --> 01:27:39
			from oneself,
		
01:27:40 --> 01:27:41
			and in the end, actually
		
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			lose
		
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			out.
		
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			I pray that the last
		
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			enables us to understand.
		
01:27:50 --> 01:27:52
			May Allah be because amongst those who
		
01:27:53 --> 01:27:54
			save others
		
01:27:56 --> 01:27:57
			from ourselves,
		
01:27:58 --> 01:27:59
			who spare others
		
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			us from our
		
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			ills,
		
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			and
		
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			who are charitable
		
01:28:09 --> 01:28:10
			even by remaining
		
01:28:10 --> 01:28:11
			silent.
		
01:28:12 --> 01:28:13
			Even by not engaging
		
01:28:14 --> 01:28:15
			unless it's good.
		
01:28:17 --> 01:28:20
			And by remaining silent unless we have something
		
01:28:20 --> 01:28:22
			good to say. That in itself is an
		
01:28:22 --> 01:28:23
			act of piety,
		
01:28:24 --> 01:28:26
			an act of virtue, an act of worship,
		
01:28:26 --> 01:28:27
			an act of charity.
		
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			In fact, I'll end with one final hadith.
		
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			This all relate from Abu Ghrairah radiAllahu 'alayhi
		
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			wa
		
01:28:38 --> 01:28:40
			sallam said a man was walking
		
01:28:42 --> 01:28:44
			and he came across the branch of a
		
01:28:44 --> 01:28:46
			tree that was
		
01:28:47 --> 01:28:47
			inconveniencing
		
01:28:49 --> 01:28:50
			others.
		
01:28:50 --> 01:28:52
			So what did the man do? A simple
		
01:28:52 --> 01:28:52
			act.
		
01:28:53 --> 01:28:56
			He removed the branch from the path
		
01:28:56 --> 01:28:59
			so that it wouldn't hurt others. It wouldn't
		
01:28:59 --> 01:29:02
			bother others. It wouldn't inconvenience others. What did
		
01:29:02 --> 01:29:03
			Allah do?
		
01:29:03 --> 01:29:04
			In
		
01:29:06 --> 01:29:07
			In the wording of Bukhari,
		
01:29:07 --> 01:29:10
			Allah was grateful to that man
		
01:29:12 --> 01:29:15
			for his good deed. So Allah forgave.
		
01:29:15 --> 01:29:17
			And we learn from we learn from other
		
01:29:17 --> 01:29:19
			narrations that he entered Jannah.
		
01:29:20 --> 01:29:20
			For what?
		
01:29:21 --> 01:29:22
			For the one act
		
01:29:25 --> 01:29:25
			of
		
01:29:27 --> 01:29:29
			removing a branch
		
01:29:29 --> 01:29:31
			from the path because it was hurting others.
		
01:29:33 --> 01:29:36
			So to save oneself from sorry. To save
		
01:29:36 --> 01:29:38
			others, to spare others
		
01:29:38 --> 01:29:40
			and to protect others
		
01:29:40 --> 01:29:43
			from our hurt, our pain, our aggression.
		
01:29:44 --> 01:29:48
			Our ills is an act of virtue, piety,
		
01:29:48 --> 01:29:49
			worship, and charity.
		
01:29:52 --> 01:29:53
			And the
		
01:29:53 --> 01:29:56
			simple act of removing a branch from the
		
01:29:56 --> 01:29:58
			path, because it bothers inconveniences
		
01:30:00 --> 01:30:00
			others.
		
01:30:01 --> 01:30:03
			That in itself is such an act of
		
01:30:03 --> 01:30:04
			charity because one has
		
01:30:05 --> 01:30:07
			not inflicted pain, but removed pain.
		
01:30:08 --> 01:30:10
			And not even pain. How much pain can
		
01:30:11 --> 01:30:14
			a branch on a path cause others? It's
		
01:30:14 --> 01:30:15
			a nuisance. It's an inconvenience.
		
01:30:16 --> 01:30:18
			But that one single and simple act of
		
01:30:18 --> 01:30:20
			removing the
		
01:30:21 --> 01:30:22
			branch
		
01:30:22 --> 01:30:25
			leads a person to the forgiveness of Allah
		
01:30:26 --> 01:30:28
			and to jannah. I pray that Allah's crown
		
01:30:28 --> 01:30:31
			Allah enables us to understand. May Allah make
		
01:30:31 --> 01:30:33
			us amongst those who are true Muslims
		
01:30:33 --> 01:30:34
			and true Mu'mineen.
		
01:30:36 --> 01:30:37
			In that others
		
01:30:37 --> 01:30:40
			Muslim, Mu'min as well as non Muslim and
		
01:30:40 --> 01:30:41
			the whole creation of Allah
		
01:30:43 --> 01:30:44
			feel safe and protected
		
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			from this.