Safi Khan – Soul Food for College Students Ignorance and Laziness

Safi Khan
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The speaker discusses the importance of Prophet bypassing guidance and following one's own desires to achieve success in Islam. They emphasize the need for people to share their experiences and reflect on the importance of following their own desires and guidelines. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of following user's desires and following their user's desires to achieve success.
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Okay. I believe we are

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live on Facebook,

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and

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we are

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now live on

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Instagram.

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Alright.

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Okay. Awesome.

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Perfect. Yes. I can hear you. Can you

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hear me pretty well? Yep. Okay. Perfect.

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Alright.

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So

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We are, again, really fortunate to be able

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to join together for, you know, for about

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20, 25 minutes today,

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to go over some of the thematic,

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lessons from

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the chapter

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the 28th chapter of the Quran Surah Al

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Qasas.

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We obviously myself and Ustadha Fatima have been,

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really blessed with the privilege of kind of

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narrating the story of Prophet Musa,

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between us 2 and, kind of having an

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audience here on Instagram and Facebook to kind

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of gain in on the reflection and the

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conversation.

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And so, Alhamdulillah, today,

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we are going to be,

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touching a little bit upon the aftermath of

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the story of prophet Musa.

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I think like we mentioned previously in the

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last few sessions of the past month that

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the story of Prophet Musa is not only

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a story that is covered in Surat Al

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Qasas, but it's covered in so many other

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chapters in the Quran,

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including Surat Al Baha, Surat Al Sharah, all

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these different Surahs that cover the, you know,

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sort of the units even to an extent

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that covers the demise of the pharaoh

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and also

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the life of Prophet Musa

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himself.

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And so now, today,

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we officially

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enter this kind of like, you know, if

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Surat Al Qasas was a book, we'd be

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entering, like, the conclusion and like the author's

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notes on it now.

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And so, you know,

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we talked about Firaoun's

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death last week, right,

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on soul food. And so today, Alhamdulillah, we're

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starting with verse 43.

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If you guys are on your your Quran

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on your phone or on your laptop or

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your iPad, whatever it is, we're starting with

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Surah Qasas verse 43 today,

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where, you know, Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, he

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starts off by kind of addressing

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the Prophet

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And this is really interesting because a lot

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of times when we're immersed into the stories

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of the Quran, we actually forget

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that,

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you know, the stories

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in the Quran are actually a conversation between

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Allah and his final messenger.

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Right? The story of Yusuf, for example, is

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Sada Fathimayun, correct me if I'm wrong. The

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story of Prophet Yusuf

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was actually narrated to the Prophet

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as a response to like a challenge

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that Jews of Medina had towards the prophet

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If you really are the prophet of God,

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then prove it. Tell us the story of

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Jacob and his sons. Right?

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And so at the end of the day,

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these stories are not just stories that are

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there for our amusement or our kind of

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entertainment.

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There are actual conversations between Allah and His

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Prophet.

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And so today we're actually going to be

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kind of rounding off this surah by talking

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about

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the

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conversation with Allah and his Prophet

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And so, Fasal Fatima,

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the first thing that we want to kind

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of discuss here, and you can kind of

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elaborate by using the ayat that we're covering

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today, which is verse 43 through 250,

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is that the first theme that we wanted

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to cover today

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is the theme that,

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you know, this Quran

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is actually a conversation between Allah and his

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prophet, that it's a miracle in and of

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itself. Right? That if it wasn't for the

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Quran, if it wasn't for, you know, the

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conversation, the relationship between Allah and the Messenger

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of Allah

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that the Prophet will have no idea about

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Musa or about Isa or about Yusuf or

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Harun or any other Prophet that came before

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him. Right? So what what do you think

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about that? Like, what's what are your thoughts

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on the idea that, obviously, this is such

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a validity of the prophet that it confirms

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his prophethood that he's having these conversations with

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Allah to begin with.

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So what's really interesting actually

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is that, you know, when we talk about

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the Quran and talk about the relationship that

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the process and we have with the Quran,

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it's something that helps us understand our relationship

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that we should have with the Quran today,

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That the Quran actually is the words of

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, like you mentioned, and

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it is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala talking directly

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to the prophet

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And when we started off Surat Al Qasas,

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we actually alluded to this or maybe we

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talked about it more explicitly, but we did

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allude to it for sure. When we said

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that, you know, Surat Al Qasas was revealed

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at a a very difficult time of the

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and it was during the hejdra when the

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prophet was making the migration, the very difficult

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migration from Mecca to Medina.

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And that alone shows that this was a

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conversation where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala was telling

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the prophet

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you got this, you can do it, it's

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difficult.

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You know, by no means was hijra easy.

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There are people who are bounty on you.

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You're like, you know, you're, you're basically a

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fugitive

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in their eyes, in the eyes of the

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Quraysh. You know, they're like shoot to kill.

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Basically, this is exactly the thought process that

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is going going down. And not only that,

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the process wasn't by himself. He was with

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Abu Bakr Siddiq

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and so now he has another life that

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he's worried about. And so Allah subhanahu wa

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ta'ala tells the story of Musa alayhis salam

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to highlight the difficulties that Musa alayhis salam

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went through and how God saw him do

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it. Right? So there's, there's that one aspect

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of the way that Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala

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will communicate with his beloved.

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Then there's the second aspect here where Allah

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Subhanahu wa Ta'ala kind of talks about it

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here. And it's really cool because Allah Subhanahu

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wa Ta'ala, you know, sometimes when we think

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about the way the crown is set up,

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we're like, okay, maybe,

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maybe the way that, you know, Allah talks

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about different things, like it will just be,

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like, very, like, very,

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explicit to the prophet Like, I'm telling you

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this so that you can know the stories

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of the past. No. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala

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calls for reflection. Allah Subhanahu Wa

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Ta'ala says,

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He says to the prophet,

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he says,

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He tells the prophet

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that you, oh, Muhammad sorry. My laptop is

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being

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unstable currently. He tells him that you, oh,

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Muhammad, marcunta, he comes to the prophet.

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Tells you, oh, Muhammad,

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you were not present. You weren't on the

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western side of the mountain. And we talked

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about this. When Allah called

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Musa, alayhis salaam, and Allah was talking to

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Musa, he said,

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What is in your right hand almost Moses.

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And Musa alayhi salam said, here, Assaya Atawaku

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alayhi. This is my staff. I walk with

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them. Do all these things. We talked about

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this. When God called Musa, alayhis salam, to

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the side of the mountain, you weren't there.

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You weren't there.

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And when Allah, when we gave our command

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to Musa and what's beautiful, I like to

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add little grammar things because grammar is fun

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when you're looking at the Quran. It's not

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fun outside of that.

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Here, actually, qadenah is in the meaning of

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when

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we entrust it. When we entrust

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it to Musa alayhis salaam to command.

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And you were not a witness to it.

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You are not amongst those who witnessed it,

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meaning the the people of Musa alayhi salaam,

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they

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saw the commandments. You know, they saw the

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tomaq. They saw these things. They witnessed it.

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And so Allah says to the prophet,

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you didn't you weren't there. You didn't witness

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it. So Allah is not telling the prophet,

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you weren't there, so you don't have nothing

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to say.

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He's telling him you didn't witness it. You

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weren't there. So how do you know all

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the things that you know?

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It's a reflective moment.

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You know? It's a reflective moment that

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we've come so far in our relationship.

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You know, this relationship that the prophet and

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Allah

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have,

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this is hijrah. Like, this is the relationship

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so far. They've come so far in that

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relationship.

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And so Allah is showing the prophet that,

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you know, these conversations that you are that

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you know of, these things that and the

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prophet was someone's own letter. He wasn't someone

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who, you know, knew how to read and

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write, so he didn't go into different books

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and scriptures and already know, okay. Let me

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read this. Let me read that. The prophet

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was unlettered.

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And so once one says you weren't there

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to witness all of these things. He says,

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He says that, but what we did was

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The Allah tells prophet

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he says we are brought into being.

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Okay?

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Many generations

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who lived lives,

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like, they've

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many generations have lived before you. Many generations

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have come. Many prophets have come before.

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See. This is what I'm doing on my

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computer. Many prophets have come before. Many generations

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have come before you, and they they've all

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lived there. And Allah then says to the

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prophet

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he says,

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He says, and then you didn't live amongst

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the people of Merian.

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Like, you weren't with the people of Merian.

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You know their struggles, but you weren't with

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them.

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He says that

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our revelation,

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our verses have been recited on to them,

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and we have always sent messengers to their

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people. But you weren't there. Like, you were

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you had witnessed these things. And then Allah

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continues. And he says, nor were you there,

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and nor were you there when

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we when, when on the side of mountain

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Sinai, like, nor were you there at that

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time.

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When we called out to Musa,

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but you but you too have been sent,

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like,

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You 2 have been given this mercy from

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Allah

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You 2 have been like, you guys have

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a broad a brotherhood.

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You guys have a connection.

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And what is that connection? To give warning

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to people.

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To give warning to a nation.

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And he says that no warner has come

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before so that they may take heed. Meaning

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that you guys share this this fraternity.

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It's not just like, you know, Musa Alaihi

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Salam existed by himself and you exist by

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yourself. You have these stories because it's a

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toolbox.

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It's what you what what I lost from

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the time I was given the prophet to

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be able to get through different things. Like

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you said, Surah Yousef. Right? That was a

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moment of questioning. And how did the prophet

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was able to answer it by Allah gave

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him that help?

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You know what's really, really awesome, mister Talbot,

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while you were kind of sharing that reflection,

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I was kind of thinking about when you

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mentioned that, like, the prophets are almost like

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they're almost like this fraternity. Right?

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And it really reminds me of, you know,

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the narrations

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of the miraculous night journey that the Prophet

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took, right? The islam wal Mi'raha jis it

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was called because, you know, we know that

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the word islam

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is something that's very, very private. It's a

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very secret journey, right? It's something between a

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believer and Allah.

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And then the Mi'raj part, you know, obviously

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means that, like,

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he ascended, right? He went up. And what's

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one of the most interesting things there

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is that when the Prophet

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was on his way up through the heavens,

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one of the prophets he did meet out

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of the 25 that were mentioned in the

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Quran

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was Prophet Musa. He saw him in front

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of him, and he knows and Osama Fathama

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can elaborate on this as well. But from,

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you know, what we studied and what we

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remember is that prophet Musa alayhis salam was

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an extremely

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tall intimidating

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broad shouldered man. Right?

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And so it was very interesting to see

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that Allah wanted and everything obviously happens. It

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only happens because Allah wills it to happen.

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And so the Prophet

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met Prophet Musa was actually supposed to happen.

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Right? They were supposed to meet each other.

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And the scholars, they actually say that the

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Islam ul Miraaj, it actually took place as

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a form of, like, reinforcement for the prophet.

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That dude, like, hey, you're here with all

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these other people that did this before you.

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Like, don't feel alone and by yourself. Like

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Gustavo Fatima mentioned is that a lot of

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times these journeys and obviously none of us

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are prophets here, sitting here. But a lot

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of times on our spiritual journeys, we do

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feel lonely. Right? There will be moments where

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like, for example, in Nasrat Fatima, I don't

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know how you feel about this, but I

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remember

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this past Ramadan is a prime example.

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You know, usually Ramadan is like, alright, I'm

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going to the Masjid with my my

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friends. I'm gonna eat Istar with my family

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and my friends, and I'm going to do

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yeah. My friends' friends and people don't even

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know who are my friends I'm hanging out

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with now.

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But this Ramadan

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was really trippy. Like, it was very strange.

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It

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felt like we were very much alone during

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this this time of our worship.

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And

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because of that, you know, we have moments

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like this, where, like, the Hijrah, you know,

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the prophet and Abu Bakr as Siddiq, they

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felt very alone. Right? They're going to a

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foreign land, to Medina, that they had never

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inhabited before.

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Islam seems very, you know, hard to hold

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on to at this moment, but Allah kind

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of gives you this reinforcement. Hey.

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You know, you're not alone. There are people

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who are right there with you, that care

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about you, that have done this before with

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you. And so this part where kind of

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he

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tells the prophet

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that you're also

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sent as an act of grace from Allah,

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right, to give warning to a people that

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have never given warning before. It's a way

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of almost tying the hearts together that Prophet

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Musa is not just narrating a story, or

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Prophet Muhammad is not just narrating a story

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of this prophet that lived generations before him.

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He's like, no. No. No. That's my brother.

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Yeah. You know? But that's my brother. And

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he actually called, you know, prophet Yunus. He

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called prophet Eunice his brother. He goes, oh,

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that's my brother from Nineveh. Right?

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And so the prophets had, like, this really

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brotherly

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notion with each other, which was really, really

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beautiful, which I thought was always really cool

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to reflect about. And so

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now,

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we kind of lead to this next ayah

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in verse 47.

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Allah, he mentions that in this ayah, you

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guys can read it out. I mean, it's

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on Facebook right now. And if you guys

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are following on Instagram, you can kinda open

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up your own Ipads or computers. You see

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in verse 47, Allah starts to talk a

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little bit about the disasters

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that befell the previous

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generations. Right?

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What happened to certain people? And if you

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guys have been following along with the stories

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from our past series, we've talked about all

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these prophets, prophet Hud, prophet Noah, prophet,

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prophet Salih,

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prophet Dawood,

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all these different prophet Luz, all these different

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people

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who

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whose communities

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struggled with a very big vice at times.

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Right?

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They struggled with either, you know, idolatry or

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they struggle they struggled with corruption of the

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heart and immorality.

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And one of the things that Allah mentions

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here is that

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the the calamities that befell them was a

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direct result of what they had done with

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their own hands.

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Right? Allah mentions in the Quran, which is

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really interesting. Right?

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You know, and it says here

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that, Right? Like, they did it to themselves.

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But they didn't brought forth.

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Their their hands literally did yeah. They literally

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have no one to blame but themselves. Right?

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And so, Assata Fatima, I wanna ask you

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this question and ask you to share a

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couple of reflections maybe from this ayah. Is

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that, how do you feel about this, right?

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Kind of a lot of us sometimes we

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go through these questions about the previous generations,

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right? Why did Allah decide to kind of,

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like, you know, end an entire generation of

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people like Prophet Noah's people? Right? One of

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the most difficult things, I remember I had

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a conversation with Sheikh Abdul

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Nasr,

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one of our main instructors of Qalam,

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about

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Prophet Noah, even his own family.

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Right? His own family decided to not listen

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to him. And as a result of that,

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he's he lost his own family during this

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flood. Right? And so what kind of thoughts

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do you have about this, where,

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you know, these people were given the message,

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they were given a messenger,

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But at the end of the day, you

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know, Allah says, you know, that they they

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decided to either act very negligently

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or they they're completely in denial of what

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Allah had given them. So how do you

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kind of reconcile this, Subha Bawma?

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I think the one of the things that

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I

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really reflect upon

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is the fact that, like, if we look

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at ayah number 46, for example,

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in the ayah where Allah says,

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That last part,

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that perhaps they will, you know, reflect. Perhaps

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they will do some remembrance. Perhaps they will

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think about their actions. Perhaps they would think

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about why is it that God is sending

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a messenger to us.

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Not about who is this. Not about

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the who

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because that's a lot of the problem that

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was happening. Right? With the with the Quraysh,

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it was like, well, you know, who made

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you a prophet?

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You know what I'm saying? Like, oh, you,

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Muhammad, like, Salasam, like, you're a great person.

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Like, you're truthful. You're trustworthy. We liked you

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before you claimed us, but you're the poorest

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of the clan.

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You know? You don't have a your father

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passed away. Your mother passed away. Like, there

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were so many things that they were not

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okay with because of the who. You have

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Musa, al Islam, where you don't come from

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this tribe.

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So who made you prophet?

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There was a lot of the who, a

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lot of the different things that,

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you know, society is teaching us about status

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and status quo that stops people from

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from reflecting and being, you know, reflective over

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the signs that God brings forth in front

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of them. And that's something that we go

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through today. You know what I'm saying? Somebody

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comes

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to you and gives you some sincere advice

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about something and you say, who gave you

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permission to talk to me?

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Who do you think you are?

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And I get it. There are mustard aunties

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and uncles who, you know, a little a

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little extra, a little bit intense. You get

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what I'm saying? Which is very true. But

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at the same

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but at the same time, when we think

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about this, we could we sit there all

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about

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the

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like, who is this person? Who are you?

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Where did you come from? What is this

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do your research. Yes. For sure. But Allah

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subhanahu wa ta'ala gives us signs. He gives

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us different

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people in our lives to serve as people

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to bring us into that that reflection and

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that remembrance. And Allah gives us different things

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that happen in our life for us to

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reflect and remember.

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You know? And so here, Allah

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says that, you know, the son of, like,

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many others in Jersey

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as a blessing, as a mercy

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to warn people.

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And this is this warning is for you

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to reflect.

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And when if you reflect, then you will

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know that you will reap what you sow.

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If you reflect properly and you listen to

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the signs that God has given you, you

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listen to the verses that Allah has bestowed

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upon you, you listen to the things that

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God put right in front of you, then

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you will make better decisions.

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That if so that they may not say.

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Allah

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says that, oh, he sent warners. He sent

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people to them out of mercy.

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He sent people to them out of mercy

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so that they don't say so that we

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don't say, oh, if a disaster comes upon

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us, we don't say, you know, oh, Allah.

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Only if you sent a messenger, then maybe

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we would have followed your message and become

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believers.

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So that we don't say that.

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So that we don't say we didn't have

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any guidance.

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We didn't know which way to go. Allah

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out of his mercy, he made sure that

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you weren't guided, that you were guided.

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He made sure that he brought a a

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guide for you, somebody to help you navigate

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life. And sometimes when we think about, you

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know, somebody helping us navigate life and someone

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telling us how things are gonna go and,

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like, how to get through things and so

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on and so forth, we're expecting their journey

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to be easy.

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You know what I'm saying? So you're like,

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okay. I believe now,

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but my life is still hard.

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Well, that's a navigation system that's not gonna

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tell you the potholes.

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They just know how where to go

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and how to get to where you're going.

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You know what I'm saying? And if you

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have a really good car, your really good

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car will help you get through those potholes,

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but it's not gonna tell you about them.

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It's not gonna tell you about every single

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one. Okay. Avoid this. Avoid that.

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Know how do you get through life. How

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do you make sure that you become amongst

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those who are believers? And that's what Allah

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sent messengers as and is important for us

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to do reflection.

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You know, sometimes just because we're Muslim now,

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that's it. That's not it. The Quran was

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revealed to Muslims.

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Yeah. That's right. Muslims.

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Yeah. Revelation was not in the Medina period.

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Yeah. Absolutely.

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And how?

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That's that's that's really incredible because, you know,

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now what's what's really interesting in in ayah

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48, I just literally just glimpsed at this

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right now, and it kinda just caught me

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by surprise is that Allah says,

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They literally said, like, what and so when

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Allah had sent them something,

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then they even complained that, why don't you

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give us something like you gave to Musa?

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And prophet Musa, what was he given? Prophet

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Musa was given a scripture, and he was

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given miracles.

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And a lot of the scholars of tafsir,

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they actually say that the people that came

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after Musa, they complained that really,

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if the rest of y'all are prophets, and

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if Allah really is Allah, then

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give us something that we can read, and

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give us like a miracle that you can

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show us. And they're basically listing out demands.

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And at this point, Assala Fademah, we're almost

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like talking here as though like, you know

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and this doesn't, by the way, just happen

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to people who are not Muslims. This happens

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to people who are Muslims as well. Right?

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That like, you know, and that's a really

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interesting thing is that a lot of these

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challenges and these requests happen also within the

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folds of Islam. Like when we make a

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du'a, we're like, okay, Allah, I'm I'm gonna

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make this dua to you real quick.

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And, I want my grade to come back

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as a 96 or above. And if it

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doesn't come back, then I don't really know

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if dua really works. I'm not Yeah. You

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know, and and that's a really, really dangerous

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game. Orla, show me a sign.

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Yeah. Exactly. Like, and and and when that

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happens, it's really scary because you're almost, like,

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challenging Allah. And one of the things that

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we actually said,

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is that

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one of the things that we need to

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be very cautious of is that, you know,

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when we see or read stories of miracles,

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right, when Musa throws down a staff and

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it becomes a snake, or when Musa strikes

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his staff on the ground, the Red Sea

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parts as though it was mountains.

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When prophet,

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when prophet,

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you know, when prophet Ibrahim alayhis salaam was

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thrown into the fire by a catapult and

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Allah told the fire to be cool to

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him that, you know, is a miracle, and

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it's amazing for us to read and see.

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But you know what those miracles really are

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to the people witnessing it is is the

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responsibility.

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Yeah. Like, you literally witnessed something that God

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did in front of your eyes. This is

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why, you can elaborate on this as well,

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is that people who saw the Prophet

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walking amongst them, right, in the communities in

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Mecca and Medina.

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Man, if you did not take

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Islam seriously at that time, then, man, that's,

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like, scary.

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Like like, I don't care. I don't care.

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I don't care if you believe in Islam,

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if you see Safiqaan walking around or, you

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know, you know, Salafaa Mullet walking around, because

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we are obviously not prophets nor are we

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prophetic.

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But you see a prophet

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walking in the same streets as your community,

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and still after that, you have the arrogance

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and the ignorance to be like, alright, what

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else? Show me something. Right?

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Man, you're not just asking for a miracle.

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You're asking for like, you're asking for like

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a disaster, literally. Like

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it's terrifying. Right? And so this is how

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Allah kind of describes the people that came

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before,

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Prophet Musa

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And this is so interesting. He describes people

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like, you know, Prophet Lut and Hud and

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Prophet Noah and Prophet Shoaib and all these

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different prophets. And then finally,

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and we want to end with these last

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couple of verses. And finally, you know, Allah

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in verse 49, Allah talks directly to the

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Prophet

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He says, he says,

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say, oh,

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Muhammad produce a book from God that gives

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better guidance than these 2, and I will

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follow it,

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if you are telling the truth. And then

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in in in aya 50,

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Allah says,

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He says,

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and if they do not respond to you,

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you will know that they truly have followed

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their own desires. And if they don't believe

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you after that,

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then truly

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they are following their own desires. And then

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Allah says,

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who is more he go he goes, who

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is more woman? As

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woman

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And he says, who is further away than

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the one who follows his own desires

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with no guidance from Allah? Right? And Allah

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gives us this kind of, like, ending, like,

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stamp right here. Like, this is kind of,

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like, drop the mic type of statement that

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if you follow your desires,

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then there is nothing that that that anyone

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can do to guide you here. There's no

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prophet that can guide you here if you

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choose over and over and over again

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to continue to follow your own desire. So,

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Salafatma, do you have any sort of reflections

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in that last ayah that you know, Allah

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kind of gives us, like, this ultimatum here?

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What do you what do you think about

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that? You can't pick and choose when you

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wanna follow the guidelines of Allah Subhana Wa

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Ta'la, When you wanna believe or when you

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want to try to rationalize

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out of, like,

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out of belief, you know? The thing was

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that the Meccans, they were very much so,

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like, oh, the Quran is fake. The Quran

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is fake. Like, the prophet

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made it up or he will go to

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these people and, like, the rabbis and the

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and the priest, and he will sit with

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them, and they give him the scripture, and

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he makes up his own things and.

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And so God said if it's so fake,

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then produce something like it.

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You know? If it's so fake, then bring

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1 ayah like it.

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If it's so fake, then bring a whole

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book like it.

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If it's something that's so made up, if

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one human being can make it up, then

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I'm sure 10 of you your brains can

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put something together.

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And so you can you can choose when

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you want to follow the guidelines of Allah

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and then when you want to follow, you

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know, your own desires.

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And the thing is that

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when you ask for miracles, when you ask

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for God to show you,

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you say, oh, Allah, show me the clear

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way or or show me a miracle or

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show me. You know, you wanna you want

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proof. When proof is brought to you, you

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have to act on that proof.

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You have to act on the fact of

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what's brought to you.

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You cannot just choose that. Okay. Well, it

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was brought to me. I'm gonna choose whether

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or not I'm gonna take it. That's not

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how it works.

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Proof is that

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the prophet

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prophet is real that Musa alayhi wasalam was

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real. And so Allah

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tells the prophetess of salam to tell the

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people,

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Then produce a book from Allah

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that gives guidance.

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It gives better guidance, like giving you better

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better

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lessons in life. Mhmm. Just being able to

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really present it. From

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both the Torah

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and the Quran. So not a lot of

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them give them 1 prototype. You give them

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2. Yeah. Read something from the Quran or

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the Torah. It doesn't matter.

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Okay?

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And I will follow it, telling the prophet

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to tell them that he will follow it.

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If you are telling the truth, then I'll

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follow you. If you you really think this

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is fake, you really got better guidance, I

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got you

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because that's the fact. He's telling them prove

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yourself. You wanted me to prove myself? Now

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you prove yourself.

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If they can't stand up to the challenge,

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then know

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know that they are following their own desires.

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That if they they refuse to back down,

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but at the same time, they won't produce

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their challenge. They won't produce what's been challenged

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with them.

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They're just it's like when you get into

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an argument with somebody,

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you need to know, am I arguing for

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the sake of arguing to prove my point

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prove my point,

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or am I arguing

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to actually bring some type of benefit to

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this conversation?

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Mhmm. You're arguing to just prove a point.

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When you realize you're wrong, what are you

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gonna do? You're gonna double down. Mhmm. You're

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gonna double down.

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Absolutely. Out of the argument?

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Yep. So, what actually want a fruitful conversation

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out of that,

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what will you do? Even if you're right,

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you will do that for yourself.

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So following Following your desires don't allow

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yourself.

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That's incredible because, you know, in the life

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of the Prophet

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there's so many narrations of people. Like,

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for example, when, you know, when,

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when Khaled ibn Walid before he was Muslim,

00:31:05 --> 00:31:07

you know, he was a he was a

00:31:07 --> 00:31:08

very, very

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just a monumental

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community member in the city of Mecca.

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And when the prophet was making umrah, right,

00:31:16 --> 00:31:19

his his his Ummat Qadah, his Ummat Qisas

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when he was denied at Hadevia the year

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before then came back to perform umrah.

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He sent a letter to Khaled ibn Wadi.

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Right? He sent a letter to Khaled ibn

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Wadi, and he goes he he said in

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that letter, just I'm kinda, like, paraphrasing it.

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He said,

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oh, Khaled, a person as smart as you,

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I'm shocked that you haven't considered Islam.

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You know? And so it proves that to

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a certain point, the Quraysh and Mecca were

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literally just not.

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Khalid bin Waleed,

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you guys are smart people. You guys are

00:31:55 --> 00:31:57

geniuses, actually. You know, Amr ibn al As

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was like a genius negotiator. Khalid bin Waleed

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was a genius military leader. And he goes,

00:32:02 --> 00:32:04

I'm just shocked that you guys are so

00:32:04 --> 00:32:07

smart, yet you guys continue to deny the

00:32:07 --> 00:32:10

truth. And so and that ultimately that actually

00:32:10 --> 00:32:12

was the the message that shook them to

00:32:12 --> 00:32:14

their core. They're like, man, are we really

00:32:14 --> 00:32:16

just, like basically, are we just haters?

00:32:16 --> 00:32:17

Are we are we are are you just

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being petty haters? We actually believe in Islam

00:32:20 --> 00:32:21

and we're just not doing it because we

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just wanna, like, have some sort of, like,

00:32:23 --> 00:32:26

kind of ego satiation that we're right. Like,

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that's the ultimate kind of question

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that's asked, right? SubhanAllah.

00:32:30 --> 00:32:31

Yeah.

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So, inshallah, we're going to stop with that

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because we're almost at, you know, 7:40.

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But this was kind of like the

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following conversation that, you know, Prophet Musa, prophet

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Muhammad had had with Allah Ta'ala after the

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story of Prophet Musa came down in Surat

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Al Qasas. And so it brings, you know,

00:32:47 --> 00:32:49

even in those 7 to 8 verses, we

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bring about so much benefit and so much

00:32:51 --> 00:32:53

meaning from it all. So may Allah Ta'ala

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accept insha'Allah from us, and may

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Allah make us people who follow the words

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of the Quran as words that are beautiful

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and applicable

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and words that we fall in love with.

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And may Allah

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accept from us all.

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We appreciate every single one of you guys

00:33:13 --> 00:33:15

in our roots community. And, may Allah reward

00:33:15 --> 00:33:16

you guys, and we'll see you guys again,

00:33:16 --> 00:33:18

insha'Allah, this weekend and the next coming

00:33:22 --> 00:33:22

weeks. Alright.

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