Safi Khan – Soul Food For College Students Prophetic Prayers #04

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The importance of telling Allah about his experiences and the benefits of life is emphasized, including the difficulty of telling him about his actions and the culture of Ta'if where the Prophet gives a donation to the church. The speaker also discusses a "will" incident where a man buried and prayed in a church and said, hey, you know, this is a place where people are supposed to go, but they were like, no, this is a place where people are supposed to go, but they were like, no, this is a place where people are supposed to go, but they were like, no, this is a place where people are supposed to go, but they were like, no, this is a place where people are supposed to go, but they were like, no, this is a place where people are supposed to go, but they were like, no, this is a place where people are supposed to go, but they were like, no, this is a place

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			Okay In the name of Allah, and praise
		
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			be to Allah, and peace and blessings be
		
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			upon the Messenger of Allah, and upon his
		
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			family and companions.
		
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			Peace be upon you, everybody.
		
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			How's everyone doing?
		
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			Good?
		
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			Praise be to Allah.
		
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			Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds.
		
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			So, welcome.
		
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			Welcome again, once again.
		
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			And praise be to Allah, everyone here.
		
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			Happy to have you guys, mashallah.
		
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			My boy Ibrahim, mashallah, is in the crowd.
		
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			It's always...
		
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			Umrah, when you do umrah with people, you
		
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			never really forget those people, mashallah.
		
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			So, praise be to Allah, Ibrahim is one
		
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			of our attendees at umrah.
		
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			So, praise be to Allah, Allah connects the
		
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			hearts in different ways, right?
		
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			You talk about people that have shared experiences
		
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			with you, you never ever forget those memories
		
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			and those experiences.
		
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			So, praise be to Allah.
		
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			So, inshallah, we're going to be continuing on
		
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			with our weekly series at Soul Food, where
		
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			we talk about the prayers of the prophets,
		
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			right?
		
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			The past few weeks, we have been going
		
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			through a really amazing kind of series of
		
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			du'as, starting with the du'a of
		
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			Prophet Adam, alayhis salam, and then week two,
		
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			we did the du'a of Prophet Musa,
		
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			alayhis salam, and then last week, we did
		
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			the du'a of Ibrahim, alayhis salam.
		
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			So, we're kind of like setting up for
		
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			this incredible kind of, you know, moment in
		
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			which we ask ourselves, like, who's the next
		
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			prophet?
		
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			Who's the next of Allah's messengers that we're
		
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			going to kind of reflect over their words?
		
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			And so today, you know, I thought to
		
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			myself that the best person, and subhanAllah, we're
		
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			kind of going through like a little bit
		
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			of like a trajectory here, which is we're
		
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			going through du'as of challenges, du'as
		
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			of desperation, du'as of people who found
		
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			themselves in difficult times, and because of that,
		
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			they asked Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala sincerely
		
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			to get them out of the situation that
		
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			they're in, or just even venting, venting and
		
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			talking about what's going on in their life
		
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			right now.
		
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			The du'a today that we're going to
		
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			go over is a du'a that I
		
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			don't really expect anyone to really memorize because
		
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			it's too long, but the merit of this
		
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			du'a is so incredible.
		
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			This du'a actually is a du'a
		
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			that was named by the scholars, okay?
		
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			That tells you literally, like thematically, this du
		
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			'a is very, very memorable.
		
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			Even if it's a little bit longer, it's
		
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			memorable because of what it's asking for.
		
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			The du'a is called du'at al
		
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			-mustada'afeen.
		
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			Du'at al-mustada'afeen literally means the
		
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			du'a of those who are weak, okay?
		
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			And subhanAllah, if you think about this, the
		
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			phrase mustada'afeen, it means a person who
		
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			doesn't really have anywhere else to go.
		
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			They are asking out of a desperate kind
		
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			of situation, a circumstance.
		
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			They're asking because they themselves feel like, I
		
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			really can't really turn in any other direction
		
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			besides Allah.
		
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			I don't have the power to conquer anyone
		
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			or anything in this point in my life.
		
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			I feel like all of the cards are
		
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			against me.
		
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			I feel all of the people around me
		
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			are against me.
		
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			And so the only way that I can
		
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			think to myself to make meaning out of
		
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			this situation is to accept my own weakness,
		
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			is to accept my own weakness and call
		
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			out to the one who put me in
		
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			a situation of weakness, but for a very
		
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			particular wisdom, right?
		
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			And so this is called du'at al
		
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			-mustada'afeen.
		
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			Anyone know who made this du'a?
		
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			Anyone know?
		
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			This du'a was stated by the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ himself.
		
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			So we're going to be inshaAllah going through
		
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			this du'a of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ
		
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			today and it's going to be very, very
		
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			touching and it has an incredible background behind
		
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			it, actually which we're going to read through
		
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			together.
		
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			We're going to read through a certain chapter
		
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			of the seerah together today.
		
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			Of course, obviously the goal of the series
		
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			is not the seerah particularly, but today inshaAllah
		
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			we'll have the opportunity to read through a
		
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			couple of pages of the blessed life of
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			And of course if anybody's ever, there's a
		
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			very famous statement that if you want to
		
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			love Allah, start to learn how to love
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ because if you love the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ in the way that he deserves
		
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			to be loved, you will eventually love Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala in the way that
		
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			he is deserving of being loved as well.
		
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			Allah and his messenger, right?
		
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			There are so many ayahs of the Qur
		
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			'an where they're paired together, one after the
		
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			other.
		
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			Obey Allah, obey his messenger.
		
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			One who loves Allah's messenger will love Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			There is this kind of tie that they
		
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			have with one another, the Prophet and Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			And so you see by kind of understanding
		
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			and appreciating his life, you begin to really
		
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			open up the abwab, the doors of mercy
		
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			for yourself because you realize, I mean sometimes
		
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			people will not be able to, and this
		
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			is one of the blessings of Prophets to
		
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			begin with, if Allah never even gave us
		
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			Prophets to begin with, it would be that
		
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			much more difficult on a human level to
		
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			be able to connect to this religion, right?
		
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			It would just be Qur'an, it would
		
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			just be theory, it would be kind of
		
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			like a sense of creator talking to his
		
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			creation, but through that Allah gave us mediums
		
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			like the Prophets, human beings who are able
		
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			to breathe and live and eat and sleep
		
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			and feel emotions just like we do.
		
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			And this is one of the greatest mercies
		
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			of Allah, right?
		
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			That he gave us so many of these
		
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			examples and of course the greatest of which
		
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			was the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam.
		
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			So inshallah we're going to go through his
		
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			dua today.
		
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			So what I want everyone to do inshallah
		
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			is we're going to kind of start reading
		
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			this together and we're going to inshallah make
		
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			some beautiful beautiful sense out of this incident
		
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			that took place.
		
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			So this incident that took place, I'm going
		
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			to kind of set a scene for you
		
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			guys, right?
		
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			This dua was made, and anyone in here
		
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			ever heard of the year of sorrow, the
		
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			life of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam,
		
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			right?
		
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			The year of sorrow, what was that?
		
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			Why was it categorized as the year of
		
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			sorrow?
		
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			The year of sorrow was because, sorry, yeah,
		
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			go ahead.
		
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			Very good, very good, very very good.
		
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			So he perfectly defined it, right?
		
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			The year of sorrow, was because his own
		
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			wife Khadija radiallahu anha, she passed away.
		
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			Literally, I want you guys to think about,
		
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			like you're one rock in your life, right?
		
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			The person who believed you through thick and
		
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			thin, never ever disappointed you in terms of
		
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			their loyalty, was always with you through every
		
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			situation that you ever experienced in your life,
		
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			that one person, also subhanallah, happens to be
		
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			the mother of his children, right?
		
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			The one who nurtured him and took care
		
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			of him, right?
		
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			The one who basically after he came down
		
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			from the mountain of nur, the mountain of
		
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			light, after Jibreel visited him for the first
		
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			time, she was the one that covered him
		
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			up and comforted him and concealed him and
		
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			told him that everything's going to be okay,
		
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			right?
		
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			And she, radiallahu anha, effectively actually the first
		
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			person to actually accept Islam in the community
		
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			of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam.
		
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			She passed away, okay?
		
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			After she passes away, you know sometimes subhanallah,
		
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			this is kind of like a human, it's
		
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			almost like human nature.
		
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			When one person who's close to you passes
		
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			away, there's really never replacing that person.
		
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			Everyone agree with this, right?
		
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			If a person in your life that you
		
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			love passes away, there's no replacement of that
		
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			person.
		
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			And I don't even think people are looking
		
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			for a replacement of that person.
		
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			No one ever thinks, well, you know, my
		
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			mother passed away, so now I have to
		
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			find somebody who's going to fill the void.
		
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			No, no, no.
		
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			Your mother will never be replaced by anybody.
		
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			It's impossible.
		
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			Your father will never be replaced by anybody.
		
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			Your friend who you had who may have
		
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			passed away will never be replaced by anybody,
		
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			okay?
		
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			But what the human tries to do is
		
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			that they try their hardest to find ways
		
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			to be happy, right?
		
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			Who can I latch myself onto?
		
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			Who can I find some sort of comfort
		
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			in during a time where I don't have
		
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			the person that I normally have?
		
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			And for that person, the Prophet ﷺ was,
		
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			after Khadijah, it was his uncle Abu Talib.
		
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			And the tragedy of the story is that
		
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			after Khadijah passed away, Abu Talib, some of
		
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			the ulama, some of the scholars, they say
		
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			within a few weeks even, within a few
		
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			weeks, his own uncle Abu Talib passes away.
		
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			Who was Abu Talib?
		
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			Abu Talib, although he wasn't Muslim and he
		
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			died as a non-Muslim, he was the
		
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			one who saved his nephew from so much
		
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			pain, from so much pain.
		
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			Anytime any Qurayshi like, you know, lead or
		
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			leader would try to harm the Prophet, Abu
		
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			Talib would step in front of him and
		
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			say, no, no, no, you can't.
		
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			You can't hurt my nephew.
		
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			He's my nephew.
		
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			You want to get to him?
		
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			You have to go through me.
		
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			That's the type of relationship that they had.
		
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			And then Abu Talib passes away.
		
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			So now I want you to think, just
		
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			kind of chronologically look at this.
		
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			The Prophet ﷺ lost his father before he
		
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			was born.
		
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			He never met his dad.
		
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			Lost his mother at age six.
		
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			Loses his grandfather at age eight.
		
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			Loses his wife.
		
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			And now loses his most beloved family member
		
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			left, which was Abu Talib, his uncle.
		
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			So five very, very just difficult, tragic deaths
		
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			that take place.
		
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			And you ask yourself, isn't one enough?
		
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			Aren't two enough?
		
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			God forbid three.
		
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			Think about five, right?
		
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			And by the way, just FYI, the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ and Khadijah, I didn't even add this
		
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			into the mix, but the Prophet ﷺ and
		
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			Khadijah themselves, while she was alive, they actually
		
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			lost children together.
		
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			So like I didn't even mention the kids.
		
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			So man, you think about tragedy, you think
		
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			about loss.
		
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			I mean, there is no one who lost
		
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			more than him ﷺ.
		
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			And if a person like that, if a
		
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			person like that, who was tested to that
		
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			extent, to that degree, can continue to turn
		
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			back to Allah and say, Allah, I love
		
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			you.
		
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			Who are we?
		
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			Who are we?
		
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			When we go through a difficult year or
		
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			a difficult month, who are we to turn
		
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			our backs on Allah?
		
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			When, subhanAllah, the loss of parents, of children,
		
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			of spouses, of uncles and aunts, I mean,
		
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			you name it, every person he loved, he
		
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			eventually lost in his life.
		
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			This is why, subhanAllah, you talk about the
		
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			phrase خير الخلق, the best of creation.
		
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			There is a reason why that title was
		
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			given to him.
		
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			Because you push humanity to a degree where
		
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			you think that they will break.
		
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			There is no way this person will never
		
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			come back from this.
		
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			And he kept bouncing back, he kept bouncing
		
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			back, which proves what?
		
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			The human potential is immense.
		
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			The human potential is immense.
		
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			Yes, we're weak.
		
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			Of course we are.
		
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			مصداعفين.
		
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			We're 100% مصداعفين.
		
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			We're weak.
		
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			100% we're weak.
		
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			But at the same time, Allah created us
		
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			strong.
		
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			Allah created us strong.
		
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			There are other creatures possibly that would completely
		
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			give up after these types of shatterings.
		
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			But the Prophet ﷺ kept on chugging along,
		
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			chugging along, chugging along.
		
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			And so, at this point, after the loss
		
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			of his wife and his uncle, this is
		
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			where this incident took place.
		
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			And so here it says, the author here,
		
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			he says, after a period of time without
		
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			protection, without protection.
		
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			Why was that protection no longer a possibility?
		
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			Because of the death of Abu Talib, right?
		
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			So there was no protection.
		
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			There were literally people, I don't know if
		
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			you guys knew this, but after Abu Talib
		
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			passed away, there were people who came up
		
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			to the Prophet ﷺ and they grabbed him
		
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			by his collar.
		
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			They grabbed him by his collar.
		
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			They were like, hey, who's going to help
		
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			you now?
		
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			Who's going to protect you now?
		
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			Your uncle who had like a name in
		
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			the community, who had some clout, who had
		
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			some kind of like, he had some sort
		
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			of push and pull with his aura.
		
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			He's not here anymore.
		
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			Who's going to save you now?
		
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			And they used to mess with him like
		
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			that physically for the first time in his
		
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			life because Abu Talib was no longer there.
		
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			And so he says, the Prophet ﷺ began
		
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			searching for sustainable options outside of Mecca.
		
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			His reluctance to do so for so many
		
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			years, despite the increasing hardships, truly demonstrates the
		
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			prophetic method of patience and perseverance.
		
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			The Prophet ﷺ took inspiration from Prophets before
		
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			him such as Nuh, who gave da'wah
		
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			to his people for 950 years.
		
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			However, without the protection of his uncle, the
		
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			Prophet's life was in imminent danger.
		
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			And so hijrah was imperative.
		
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			So the Prophet ﷺ realized now, he goes,
		
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			I can't really afford to sit and just
		
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			kind of stand idly by in Mecca.
		
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			I have to go find other places.
		
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			It's like when you in your own life,
		
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			you don't feel safe in a certain place
		
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			anymore.
		
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			You've got to switch schools.
		
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			You've got to bounce.
		
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			You've got to leave.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because that place isn't a suitable place for
		
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			you anymore.
		
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			That place isn't a good place for your
		
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			heart anymore.
		
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			Although that place may not be inherently bad,
		
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			but it's just not the place for you
		
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			right now.
		
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			You talk about people who leave town for
		
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			certain reasons.
		
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			It doesn't mean the town is evil.
		
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			It means that you, for your own growth,
		
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			you have to move a little bit.
		
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			Moving is not bad.
		
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			I always tell people, moving, starting a life
		
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			and starting anew, it's not a bad thing.
		
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			Start somewhere fresh.
		
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			Begin life somewhere fresh.
		
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			This is a sunnah, by the way.
		
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			The Prophet moved to Medina to have a
		
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			fresh start, to give his community hope, to
		
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			start anew, to begin something again.
		
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			And so he goes, the closest prominent city
		
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			to Mecca was Ta'if.
		
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			Little kind of personal proud moment.
		
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			For the first time, alhamdulillah, I got to
		
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			visit Ta'if in my life this past
		
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			December.
		
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			It's a beautiful city, by the way.
		
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			Beautiful, beautiful city.
		
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			It's about, if you drive from Mecca right
		
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			now, it's about like an hour and 15,
		
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			hour and 20.
		
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			You can drive outside of Mecca and reach
		
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			Ta'if.
		
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			Ta'if is a city of mountains.
		
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			It is thousands of feet above sea level.
		
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			It's mountainous.
		
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			I'll show you guys a picture, inshallah, I'll
		
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			add that in a class today.
		
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			But it is mountainous.
		
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			It's not easy, and I want you guys
		
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			to think, you're like, yeah, I just talked
		
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			about driving.
		
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			You can drive there an hour and 20,
		
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			an hour and 15.
		
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			I want you to think about walking.
		
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			Walking there.
		
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			Walking an hour and 15-minute drive, that's
		
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			not easy.
		
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			And so he said, between tensions and peace
		
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			treaties, the two competing cities enjoyed a love
		
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			-hate relationship.
		
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			The people of Ta'if were intimately aware
		
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			of the people of Mecca and vice versa.
		
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			It's kind of like having a competitive brother
		
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			that lived next to you.
		
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			You're like, you just stay there, I'll just
		
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			stay here.
		
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			Just stay in your own lane.
		
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			That's the type of vibe that Mecca and
		
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			Ta'if had with each other.
		
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			And so he says, Ta'if was therefore
		
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			an ideal base for the Prophet to explore.
		
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			He took Zayd ibn Haritha and covertly traveled.
		
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			What does covertly mean?
		
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			Like in secrecy, right?
		
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			He didn't tweet about it.
		
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			He wasn't like, all right, heading to Ta
		
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			'if, right?
		
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			Like, wish me luck, here we go, right?
		
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			Follow me, you know, like that classic TikTok
		
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			voice?
		
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			Like, so you guys were asking me about
		
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			my day.
		
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			No, no, he didn't vlog his way to
		
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			Ta'if.
		
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			He didn't TikTok live his way to Ta
		
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			'if, okay?
		
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			He's like, so you guys were asking me
		
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			what it's like to live in Mecca.
		
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			It's unbearable, gotta leave.
		
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			No, no, he went to Ta'if in
		
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			a very, very secretive manner.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because, very smart by the way, if Mecca
		
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			knew that he was going outside, going to
		
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			other towns, they'd be like, what's he up
		
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			to?
		
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			What's he up to, right?
		
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			It's like that kind of like insecure auntie
		
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			in your family.
		
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			What is she doing, all right?
		
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			Like, what is Zaynab Bedi doing?
		
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			What is she doing, right?
		
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			Like, why do you need to know, man?
		
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			Just live your life.
		
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			But like, you know, think about this, right?
		
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			And by the way, the Quraish were very
		
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			insecure.
		
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			They were very insecure.
		
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			Why were they insecure?
		
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			Because they knew that there was some juice
		
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			behind what this guy is saying, right?
		
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			Think about it.
		
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			I want you guys to psychologically break this
		
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			down.
		
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			If somebody was just talking crazy, and they
		
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			were like, you know what?
		
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			Since you're not listening to me, I'm going
		
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			to go to the town next over and
		
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			talk to them.
		
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			You're like, go ahead, try.
		
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			That's what a person of confidence would say.
		
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			But a person who's insecure, they'd be like,
		
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			no, no, no, don't leave, don't leave.
		
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			We want to keep you here.
		
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			What are you really saying?
		
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			You're saying that you're the one that's actually
		
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			insecure.
		
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			You don't want them to leave because you're
		
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			afraid that if they go out, people will
		
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			start listening to what they have to say.
		
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			This is that insecurity, the Quraish.
		
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			Another example of this, why did they try
		
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			to kill him before he left for Medina?
		
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			Think about that.
		
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			Why did they try to kill him?
		
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			If you hated a guy so much for
		
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			talking about la ilaha illallah, this idea of
		
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			one God, why won't you just say, good
		
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			riddance.
		
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			Go, leave.
		
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			Leave us in Mecca alone.
		
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			Go to Medina, do whatever you got to
		
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			do.
		
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			Why were they trying to hold him hostage?
		
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			Because they were afraid.
		
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			Deep down, they were in fear that what
		
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			he's saying actually is going to appeal to
		
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			people.
		
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			So he takes Zayd ibn Haritha.
		
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			By the way, the reason why Zayd ibn
		
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			Haritha would not alert the authorities is because
		
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			Zayd ibn Haritha, people used to call him
		
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			Zayd ibn Muhammad.
		
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			He was almost like the adopted son of
		
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			the Prophet.
		
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			He was almost like a part of the
		
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			Prophet's family.
		
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			So he's like, yeah, he's just going out.
		
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			The Prophet didn't take a horse, he didn't
		
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			take an animal with him.
		
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			He went on his own two feet.
		
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			So if you think about it, if I'm
		
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			packing up the car and leaving Daos tomorrow,
		
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			and I have a bag, a carry-on
		
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			or whatever, you'd assume that I'm going out
		
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			of town for a couple of days.
		
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			But if I'm just walking out of Qalab
		
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			and walking onto the street, what are you
		
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			assuming?
		
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			I'm going to come back.
		
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			I'm going to be back probably the same
		
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			night.
		
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			So this is the way that he had
		
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			to covertly travel with Zayd ibn Haritha.
		
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			And so he goes and he meets with
		
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			these people.
		
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			The leaders of Taif were led by one
		
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			particular person, but he had three sons.
		
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			And that one kind of ruler refused to
		
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			talk to the Prophet.
		
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			So he said, you know what?
		
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			My three sons will speak to you.
		
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			So the Prophet says, presented the message of
		
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			Islam, but all three brothers rejected the call
		
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			with the utmost contempt, disrespect, and disdain.
		
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			Not only did they reject him, they rejected
		
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			him with this passion, with this extreme hostility.
		
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			It's one thing to say no to somebody.
		
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			When you have a solicitor at your door,
		
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			they come and they're like, hey, can I
		
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			sell you this?
		
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			And you're like, no, thank you.
		
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			I'm good.
		
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			Thank you.
		
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			Or a majority of people don't even answer
		
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			their door anymore.
		
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			But let's say, for example, you're walking through
		
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			Target, and you see that one guy selling
		
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			Spectrum Mobile data.
		
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			Y'all know who I'm talking about.
		
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			Like, why do you make dua for these
		
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			people?
		
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			Or against them, I don't know.
		
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			But they're in the middle of the aisles.
		
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			They're selling Spectrum.
		
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			They're selling Reliant Energy.
		
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			And they're like, hey, who's your energy provider,
		
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			by the way?
		
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			Most people are like, nah, I'm good, man.
		
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			Sorry.
		
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			You start acting like you don't know English
		
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			for some reason.
		
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			Imagine one person's like, hey, man, back up.
		
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			I'm going to make dua against you and
		
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			your entire family.
		
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			You'd be like, whoa.
		
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			Relax.
		
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			Habibi, calm down.
		
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			Sometimes I have to treat the people of
		
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			Mecca and Medina when it comes to selling
		
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			itera in the malls.
		
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			Stop.
		
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			They don't only react to the Prophet in
		
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			a rejection.
		
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			They're hostile.
		
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			What do they say?
		
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			Literally, it says here, one of them replied,
		
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			if God chose you to be a prophet,
		
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			then I might as well tear down the
		
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			curtains of the Kaaba and remorse myself.
		
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			If you're telling me that you're the Prophet
		
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			of God, I'm going to go straight to
		
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			the Kaaba myself and I'm going to tear
		
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			down the cloth, the qiswa, is what they
		
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			call it.
		
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			I'm going to tear down the qiswa, which
		
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			is basically, it's like a suicide mission.
		
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			If you're going to Mecca and try to
		
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			disrespect the Kaaba, even with the idolaters, they
		
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			would try to hurt you because they would
		
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			still revere the Kaaba, even if it wasn't
		
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			for the right reason.
		
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			He's like, I'm going to bet you're another
		
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			prophet.
		
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			Then another one goes, has Allah not found
		
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			anyone better than you?
		
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			It's like a personal, personal insult.
		
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			You're preaching to me about religion, man.
		
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			You?
		
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			God doesn't have anybody besides you?
		
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			You're the one who's telling me about religion?
		
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			They're trying to take personal shots at this
		
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			point.
		
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			The last one, subhanAllah, if you think about
		
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			this, I'm going to share something interesting.
		
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			The last brother who spoke back to the
		
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			Prophet, he also rejected, but he didn't reject
		
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			in the same way that the first two
		
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			did.
		
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			Look at what he says.
		
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			The third one, he goes, I cannot speak
		
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			to you because if you really are a
		
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			prophet, you're too holy for me.
		
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			Because if you are a prophet, you're too
		
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			holy for me.
		
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			And if you're a liar, then you're too
		
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			beneath me to deserve a response.
		
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			So he kind of stays neutral.
		
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			What we call in Arabic, he gives like
		
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			a shart.
		
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			A shart is like a condition.
		
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			He goes, if, if you are a prophet,
		
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			man, you're too good for me, man.
		
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			You shouldn't be talking to a guy like
		
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			me.
		
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			But if you're a liar, then I don't
		
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			even want to give you the time of
		
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			the day.
		
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			But he never said you are something.
		
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			He goes, if.
		
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			Do you want to know something interesting?
		
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			This last brother, by the way, eventually accepted
		
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			Islam.
		
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			Can I tell you something crazy about that?
		
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			What lesson does that prove to you all?
		
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			If you even leave the door cracked open,
		
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			Allah will find a way to get Islam
		
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			to you.
		
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			You leave the door cracked, Allah will get
		
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			you Islam.
		
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			Just don't shut the door.
		
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			Leave it slightly open.
		
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			Did the last brother in any way say
		
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			that, yeah, I'm ready?
		
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			Yeah, let's go ahead.
		
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			Bismillah, I'm ready for my shahada.
		
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			I'm ready to testify that you're the right
		
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			prophet of Allah.
		
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			No, no, he didn't say that.
		
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			He said, if.
		
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			If you're a prophet, you're too good.
		
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			If you're a liar, then I'm not going
		
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			to give you the time.
		
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			He just gave a small indication that he's
		
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			not as hostile as his two other brothers.
		
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			And because of that small sign, Allah said,
		
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			know what?
		
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			This person has Iman in their heart.
		
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			You can tell this person has Iman in
		
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			their heart.
		
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			This is the beauty of Islam.
		
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			You ever feel that like, man, I'm beyond
		
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			the reach of Iman?
		
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			There's no way a guy like me, a
		
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			girl like me, a person like me, there's
		
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			no way that I'm ever going to reach
		
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			any sort of piety in my life.
		
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			No, no, no.
		
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			Don't ever count yourself out.
		
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			Allah has guided people who were way, way,
		
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			way worse than any of us ever have
		
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			been.
		
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			If Allah can make a person like Sayyidina
		
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			Umar ibn Khattab, the man who wanted to
		
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			kill the Messenger, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, himself, and
		
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			if Allah can make him the ameer of
		
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			the believers, who are you and me to
		
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			ever doubt that we can achieve certain things
		
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			in terms of piety in our lives?
		
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			Sometimes we are our own worst enemies.
		
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			We say like, yeah, no way, man.
		
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			I can't go to Qalam.
		
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			Are you kidding me, bro?
		
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			Like, me?
		
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			No, no, no.
		
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			I can't go there.
		
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			Me?
		
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			No, no, no, man.
		
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			I'm not like a I can't pray.
		
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			I can't make dua.
		
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			Oh, yeah, the dua of the person who
		
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			goes to the Masjid every day, that's better
		
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			than me.
		
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			Don't count yourself out.
		
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			Don't count yourself out, okay?
		
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			So, despite all of these insults, the Prophet,
		
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			Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he remained dignified in responding.
		
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			He says, okay, if you've rejected my message,
		
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			then I just have one request of you.
		
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			That's all he asks.
		
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			He says, I have one request of you.
		
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			I'm not here to like convert everybody to
		
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			Islam.
		
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			That's not what I'm here for.
		
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			I just have one request.
		
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			My request is just do not tell the
		
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			Quraysh that I'm here like soliciting any sort
		
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			of like political power.
		
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			That's not what I'm here for, by the
		
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			way.
		
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			The Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, always preface that.
		
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			I'm not here to like gain any sort
		
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			of like favors with you all.
		
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			If don't, you don't have to tell the
		
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			Quraysh that I came here.
		
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			And even if you do, you can just
		
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			tell them that I came here just to
		
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			talk about Allah.
		
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			That's it, okay?
		
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			So, he remained diligent, okay?
		
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			And so, even though the Prophet was rejected
		
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			in the most vile manner, he remained in
		
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			ta'if for another week.
		
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			And he was just kind of hanging out,
		
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			okay?
		
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			This provides invaluable insight into the prophetic methodology
		
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			of da'wah.
		
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			The Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, would always approach
		
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			the elite class first, as they have most
		
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			influence over the society.
		
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			That said, Allah made it clear on many
		
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			occasions that the sincere masses are not to
		
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			be ignored and neglected.
		
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			One such example is in Surah Abasa.
		
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			He frowned and turned away because the blind
		
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			man came to him, interrupting him.
		
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			You never know, perhaps he may be purified,
		
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			or he may be mindful, benefiting from the
		
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			reminder.
		
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			As for those, as for the one who
		
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			was indifferent, you gave him your undivided attention,
		
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			even though you are not to blame if
		
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			he were not purified.
		
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			So, subhanAllah, this is a particular ayah about
		
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			a blind sahabi, Abdullah ibn Ummat-Tum, who
		
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			wanted to learn about Islam, but the Prophet,
		
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			Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, was speaking to some dignitaries
		
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			of Mecca, and he didn't give Abdullah ibn
		
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			Ummat-Tum attention right away.
		
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			So, Allah corrected him and said, Ya Rasulullah,
		
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			don't neglect the people who are beneath the
		
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			elites.
		
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			Those might be the people who are worth
		
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			Islam, and the people who have money, and
		
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			popularity, and wealth, and all that stuff that
		
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			we value, that human beings value, those guys
		
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			might not be it, okay?
		
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			And so, it says here, no one converted
		
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			in five.
		
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			I want you guys to think about this.
		
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			Net zero.
		
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			You go to five, y'all ever tried
		
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			to do something in your life, like you
		
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			went all out, studied all night, did whatever
		
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			you had to do, prepared for the interview,
		
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			you went, and what you got was like
		
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			a bagel.
		
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			Nothing.
		
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			It was just absolutely zero.
		
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			It was a nothing burger.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Like, you come back feeling absolutely deflated.
		
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			What did I even go there for?
		
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			I just wasted my time.
		
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			Right?
		
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			You go, and you invest time, and Subhanallah,
		
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			like you time, effort, money, gas, all that
		
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			stuff, and they tell you, we'll reach out.
		
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			We'll let you know.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And that reach out never happens.
		
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			And so you tell yourself, wow, that was
		
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			a waste.
		
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			That was a waste of my time.
		
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			I'll tell you something, Subhanallah, from this story,
		
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			one thing you'll learn, nothing is actually really
		
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			an ever, actually ever a waste of time,
		
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			truly.
		
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			If Allah allowed you to experience time, and
		
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			an experience in a certain way, there's a
		
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			reason, there's a hikmah, behind why that experience
		
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			took place.
		
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			I remember, Subhanallah, somebody told me one time,
		
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			like, even my sins, my dhunub, the sins
		
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			that I committed, yes, I repent for them,
		
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			but I actually tell Allah, ya Allah, you
		
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			allowed me to experience some sour moments in
		
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			my life, because of a particular reason.
		
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			I now appreciate the khair, I appreciate the
		
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			good, I appreciate the halal, because I know
		
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			now what darkness looks like.
		
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			Sometimes you can't appreciate light if you've never
		
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			seen what darkness is.
		
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			Sometimes you can never appreciate the winter if
		
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			you haven't gone through the heat of the
		
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			summer.
		
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			In the winter time, why do people in
		
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			Dallas go outside, and they're like, alhamdulilah rabbil
		
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			alameen, right, like, snow, ice, oh my god,
		
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			isn't it beautiful?
		
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			Right, like, and like your midwestern northern friends
		
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			are like, are you okay?
		
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			It's like one centimeter of ice, like, why
		
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			are you so excited?
		
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			How can you explain to them, that if
		
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			you were to like, crack an egg on
		
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			your sidewalk, mashallah, you would have in five
		
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			minutes.
		
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			Those New Yorkers don't know about that.
		
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			Right, like, the people from New Jersey don't
		
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			know about that, forget about Canada, man, like,
		
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			Canadians?
		
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			What do y'all know, man?
		
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			Like, y'all are getting maple syrup straight
		
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			from a tree, like, we gotta go through
		
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			trials down here.
		
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			So like, how do you explain that?
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because you've experienced the opposite.
		
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			You know what it's like.
		
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			You know what it's like, okay?
		
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			And so at this moment, subhanallah, there's a
		
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			reflection here.
		
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			Said that Aisha radiallahu anha, she asked the
		
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			Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam one time, was
		
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			there a day more difficult for you than
		
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			the day of Uhud?
		
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			The day of Uhud, by the way, was
		
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			the day in which the Prophet salallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam lost a good amount of his
		
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			community in that battle.
		
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			It was a very tragic day for the
		
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			Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam, but also a
		
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			great day of learning.
		
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			So Aisha, she said, is there any day
		
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			more difficult for you than Uhud?
		
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			And the Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam, he
		
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			says, yes, indeed.
		
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			Your people hurt me greatly, and the worst
		
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			of it was the day of Aqabah, the
		
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			day and particularly the day of Ta'if.
		
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			The day of Ta'if hurt me greatly.
		
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			It was a very painful day for him.
		
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			And again, I want you guys to imagine
		
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			all of this is happening after Khadijah and
		
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			Abu Talib passed away.
		
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			Very fresh, very raw still, okay?
		
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			So one of the things here, subhanallah, is
		
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			right over here, okay?
		
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			So, here it says, numerous benefits can be
		
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			derived from the manner in which the Prophet
		
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			answered this question.
		
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			First, the fact that the Prophet described the
		
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			incident of Ta'if as more traumatic than
		
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			the battle of Uhud, where he was physically
		
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			injured and his life was threatened, indicates that
		
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			severity of emotional distress, even the Prophet acknowledged
		
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			emotional pain as bigger hardship than ferocity of
		
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			war.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			So now we'll go down inshallah to the
		
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			bottom here, alright?
		
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			When the Prophet escaped, okay?
		
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			When the Prophet escaped, mobs and finally found
		
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			some shade.
		
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			So basically what happened, I'll give you the
		
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			long story short.
		
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			As he was leaving, the people of Ta
		
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			'if were like, hey, we gotta make sure
		
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			that this guy never wants to come back.
		
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			We gotta make sure he never wants to
		
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			come back.
		
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			He thinks he can just come here and
		
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			just talk about this god of his.
		
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			We gotta make sure that upon leaving, he
		
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			never wants to revisit our place ever again.
		
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			So what do they do?
		
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			These three brothers, they basically hire the more
		
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			lowly, you would almost call them the mob
		
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			of Ta'if.
		
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			People who don't have anything better to do
		
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			with their day, they tell them, hey, go
		
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			outside of the city.
		
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			As he leaves for Mecca, as he leaves
		
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			for Mecca, he'll go back on foot.
		
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			He's gonna be slow.
		
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			As he goes back for Mecca, I want
		
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			you guys to basically create two lines, two
		
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			rows of people, almost like an escort.
		
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			And I want you to pick up the
		
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			rocks and the stones around you, and I
		
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			want you to throw it at him as
		
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			hard as you can.
		
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			But don't kill him, just make sure that
		
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			you're torturing him.
		
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			And you know how heinous this was?
		
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			They even got the kids of the city
		
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			involved.
		
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			They said, hey kids, you wanna make a
		
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			fun game out of today?
		
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			Go grab some stones and throw it at
		
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			that person.
		
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			They don't know who he is.
		
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			So the kids just start throwing.
		
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			They start throwing and throwing and throwing and
		
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			throwing.
		
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			And I'll tell you guys, subhanallah what, it
		
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			got to the point where some of the
		
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			narrations say that the amount of rocks that
		
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			were thrown at the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam,
		
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			were so many, were so many in number
		
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			that he began to, you know like sometimes
		
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			when you walk on gravel?
		
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			Is it different than walking on like normal
		
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			road?
		
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			Yes.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because gravel sometimes makes you slip because it's
		
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			like an uneven surface.
		
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			He began to slip on the road because
		
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			there were so many rocks being built underneath
		
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			his feet.
		
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			And not only that, but the stones that
		
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			began to be thrown at him would start
		
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			to hurt him.
		
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			And they would only throw, look how vicious
		
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			these people were.
		
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			They started to throw at like his lower
		
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			body.
		
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			Because if you hit somebody with a rock
		
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			at their head, it actually might cause like
		
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			a fatal blow.
		
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			But we're not trying to kill him.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because if we kill him, it's gonna start
		
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			a war between Mecca and Taif.
		
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			These people are already trigger happy.
		
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			We can't kill one of them, but let's
		
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			make his life *.
		
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			So they started throwing at his body, his
		
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			torso, his waist, his legs.
		
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			And they did this for kilometers on end.
		
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			Kilometers on end.
		
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			Zayd ibn Harithah looked at the Prophet and
		
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			said, Ya Rasulullah, let me cover you.
		
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			Let me cover you, let me cover you
		
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			up.
		
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			So he literally, like a human shield, literally
		
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			he came over the Prophet and covered him
		
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			up with his body.
		
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			Ya Rasulullah, let me stay in front of
		
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			you.
		
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			I can't look at you like this.
		
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			And the Prophet started pushing Zayd away.
		
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			Zayd, get away from me.
		
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			Get away from me, Zayd.
		
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			Ya Rasulullah, why?
		
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			They're gonna kill you.
		
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			And the Prophet says, no, Zayd.
		
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			They're not gonna kill me.
		
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			They know who I am.
		
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			At the end of the day, the Prophet,
		
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			he came from a very well-known family.
		
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			They're not gonna kill me, Zayd.
		
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			But who was Zayd?
		
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			Zayd was a what?
		
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			He was a freed slave.
		
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			Do you think an Arab at that time
		
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			would bat an eye twice to kill a
		
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			slave?
		
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			No, no, they would do it.
		
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			But he said, Zayd, they're gonna kill you
		
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			to get to me.
		
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			They don't look at your life the same
		
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			as mine.
		
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			They're gonna kill you if they can get
		
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			to me.
		
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			So get away from me.
		
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			Ya Zayd, I value your life more than
		
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			they do.
		
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			So he told Zayd to get away, and
		
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			Zayd watched in horror as they pelted the
		
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			Prophet with stones.
		
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			And this happened for a time, a period
		
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			of time.
		
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			And it happened so much so that finally,
		
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			what happened was that at the end of
		
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			all of this, the Prophet and Zayd got
		
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			to this farm in Taif where both of
		
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			them essentially collapsed from the pain that they
		
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			went through.
		
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			They collapsed, they fainted.
		
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			And Zayd, when they fell down, Zayd said,
		
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			and I'm gonna be a little bit kind
		
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			of like a trigger warning here because I'm
		
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			gonna share something that's a little bit kind
		
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			of difficult and graphic for somebody to mention,
		
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			to think about.
		
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			Zayd said that when they got to this
		
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			farm, when they finally collapsed and they fell
		
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			down because they couldn't carry on anymore, the
		
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			Prophet used to wear sandals.
		
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			That's like his choice of footwear, he used
		
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			to wear sandals.
		
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			He said that his sandals, he tried to
		
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			take them off, but they were glued to
		
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			his feet because of the amount of blood
		
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			that was on his foot.
		
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			So he had to like tear off his
		
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			sandals from his feet.
		
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			And from like the loss of blood and
		
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			whatever, they basically both essentially kind of like
		
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			were almost in and out of consciousness.
		
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			And at this point, the Prophet in this
		
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			moment is when he made his du'a.
		
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			This is when he made his du'a.
		
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			And I want you guys to look at
		
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			the nature of the du'a and I
		
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			want you guys to think about the inspirational
		
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			nature of this du'a that the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ mentioned.
		
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			This is the du'a right here.
		
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			And inshallah I'm going to share it with
		
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			you guys and we're going to go through
		
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			it inshallah line by line.
		
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			The first part of the du'a, this
		
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			is du'at al-mustada'afeen, the du
		
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			'a of those who are weak.
		
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			The Prophet ﷺ he begins and he says
		
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			Allahumma, Allahumma ilayka ashku du'afa quwati He
		
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			says, O Allah O my Allah O my
		
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			Rabb, O my Master ilayka ashku du'afa
		
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			quwati He says, to you alone I complain
		
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			of my own weakness, Ya Allah.
		
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			To you alone I complain about my own
		
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			weakness.
		
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			Look at my status, Ya Allah.
		
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			Look what state I'm in, Ya Allah.
		
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			I have nothing.
		
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			I have nothing.
		
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			I'm covered in my own blood.
		
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			I'm sitting and I've fallen in a random
		
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			farm in Ta'if.
		
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			Look at my state.
		
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			I'm complaining to you, Ya Allah.
		
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			There's no one else here that I can
		
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			complain to.
		
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			But Ya Allah, I trust you to hear
		
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			my complaints.
		
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			And then he says waqilata hiilati He says,
		
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			the scarcity of my resources.
		
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			Like, I don't have anything.
		
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			I don't have any food or water, Ya
		
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			Allah.
		
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			I'm here.
		
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			I have no plan.
		
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			I don't know what direction I'm going in.
		
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			You know, sometimes we think to ourselves that,
		
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			like, these prophets must have had it all
		
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			figured out.
		
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			They must have had it all made in
		
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			the shade.
		
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			They knew exactly what their next move was.
		
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			And for the majority of time the prophets
		
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			were very calculated.
		
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			Yes, they knew.
		
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			They were very intellectually capable.
		
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			But at this moment, the prophetism is showing
		
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			you, I don't know.
		
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			I don't know what I'm doing.
		
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			How many of you guys believe in the
		
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			fear of the unknown?
		
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			Of what's to come?
		
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			The fear of the future?
		
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			Five years down the line?
		
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			Ten years down the line?
		
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			What is my life going to look like?
		
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			This is it right here.
		
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			waqilata hiilati.
		
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			I have no resources.
		
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			I have no plan.
		
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			I have nowhere to turn, Ya Allah.
		
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			And then he says, wahuwani alannasi ya arahmarrahimin.
		
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			He says, and my humiliation before these people.
		
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			O Allah the most merciful.
		
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			Because I've been humiliated by these people, Ya
		
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			Allah.
		
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			Look at the way they just handled me.
		
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			Look at what they just did to me.
		
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			What did I do?
		
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			I went there to just tell them la
		
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			ilaha illallah.
		
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			That's all that I wanted.
		
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			How many of you guys ever feel?
		
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			Be honest with me.
		
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			And you don't have to answer this by
		
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			raising your hands.
		
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			But how many people in their mind have
		
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			in several instances in their life they've felt
		
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			misunderstood?
		
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			Think about it.
		
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			How many times in your life have you
		
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			felt misunderstood?
		
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			I didn't mean that.
		
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			I didn't want that.
		
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			You completely misread my intentions.
		
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			You misread what I wanted.
		
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			If you had known my intentions, you wouldn't
		
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			have treated me like that.
		
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			I'm sad.
		
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			I'm heartbroken because you chose to abuse me
		
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			and harm me and be rude and mean
		
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			to me because you assumed that I wanted
		
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			something else but you're misunderstanding my intentions.
		
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			So he says to Allah, Ya Allah, these
		
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			people misunderstood me.
		
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			And he says, Ya Rabb al-mustada'afeen,
		
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			the lord of the weak and my lord
		
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			too, wa rabbi.
		
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			Allah, you know subhanallah, the prophet, he hints
		
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			right here that Allah is not just the
		
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			lord of those who are pious and strong
		
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			and Allah is not the Allah of those
		
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			who have their life together.
		
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			Allah is not just the Allah of those
		
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			who have their game plan A, B and
		
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			C and D.
		
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			Like if I don't get into med school,
		
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			I'm going to go into engineering.
		
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			If I don't get into engineering, I'm going
		
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			to get into software tech.
		
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			If I don't get into software tech, I'm
		
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			going to get into whatever else like business
		
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			management.
		
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			Allah is not only the Allah of people
		
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			who have their life together.
		
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			Allah is the Allah of people whose life
		
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			is in shambles.
		
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			Allah is the same Allah who is the
		
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			Allah of kings and the Allah of slaves.
		
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			Allah does not reserve his mulk, his kingship
		
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			to be for those who know what they're
		
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			doing always.
		
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			Sometimes you're laying in bed at like 1am
		
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			at night after you scroll on TikTok for
		
00:38:10 --> 00:38:12
			2.5 hours and the CEO comes on
		
00:38:12 --> 00:38:13
			your For You page and tells you to
		
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			go to sleep and you're laying there like,
		
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			what am I doing with my life?
		
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			And there's moments where the human beings thinks
		
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			to themselves, like man, Allah would be so
		
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			ashamed of me, like does Allah even want
		
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			to associate with me?
		
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			And at that moment, I want you to
		
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			know that Allah is the one who the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ at this moment called Anta Rabbul
		
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			Mustada'afeen.
		
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			Allah, you are the Lord of those who
		
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			are weak.
		
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			And at that moment, you are a weak
		
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			person.
		
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			You feel weak.
		
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			You feel small.
		
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			You feel like there's no one that's going
		
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			to understand.
		
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			If a human being saw you, right?
		
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			You just like destroyed a bag of Doritos
		
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			like you didn't eat dinner, grilled dinner, right?
		
00:38:52 --> 00:38:55
			Like, you ate like a pack of Skittles
		
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			and like some Hot Cheetos that night.
		
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			Takis, right?
		
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			Like, no, no.
		
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			You think to yourself like, I don't want
		
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			to be presentable to humanity right now.
		
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			At least know that Allah still wants you.
		
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			Allah still wants to be your Allah.
		
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			Allah will never take himself away like that
		
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			from you, okay?
		
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			And then he says, to whom have you
		
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			entrusted me, ya Allah?
		
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			To one who does not care for me?
		
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			Or one or have you appointed me my
		
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			enemy as a master of my affairs, ya
		
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			Allah?
		
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			So he's now talking to Allah, ya Allah,
		
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			why would people treat me like that?
		
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			Sometimes we think to ourselves that if you're
		
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			a religious person, you can't question anything.
		
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			You can't question why.
		
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			No, no, no.
		
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			People who are pious don't shy away from
		
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			questioning why.
		
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			They ask why.
		
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			But you know what they also acknowledge?
		
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			Pious people ask why, but then they also
		
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			say ya Allah, I know you know why.
		
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			That's the recipe.
		
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			Pious people don't say, why Allah?
		
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			Why Allah?
		
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			This doesn't make any sense.
		
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			I don't even know if you know, ya
		
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			Allah.
		
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			No, no, no.
		
00:40:06 --> 00:40:08
			The pious person says, ya Allah, why?
		
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			I don't get it, but Allah, I know
		
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			that you have a plan.
		
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			But I don't get it.
		
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			It's okay to say, I don't get it.
		
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			I don't get it.
		
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			Why am I a senior?
		
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			And I'm 26.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Why am I like an XXL senior?
		
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			I don't know what it would be, like
		
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			a super, super senior.
		
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			Why am I still struggling to find my
		
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			passion and my career?
		
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			How many of y'all right now in
		
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			this hall right now, you have no idea
		
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			what your career is going to be still.
		
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			Think about it.
		
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			I have no idea, man.
		
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			And then you have this 18-year-old
		
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			hotshot next to you in class.
		
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			He's like, yeah, so I got like a
		
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			5-year, 10-year plan.
		
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			You're like, mashallah, right?
		
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			That's good for you, brother.
		
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			For me?
		
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			No, not me.
		
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			You know?
		
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			This is the sign.
		
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			I don't know why, but I know Allah
		
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			knows why, okay?
		
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			And He says here, subhanAllah, He says, so
		
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			long as you are not angry with me,
		
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			ya Allah, I don't care.
		
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			Allah, if you're not angry with me, then
		
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			I'm happy.
		
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			Even if other people are angry with me,
		
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			Allah, if you're not angry with me, my
		
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			heart is at peace.
		
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			He says, your favor is abundant for me.
		
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			I seek refuge in the nur bi wajhika,
		
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			the nur of your face, ya Allah, by
		
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			which all darkness is dispelled and every affair
		
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			of this world and the next is set
		
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			right.
		
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			Lest your anger or your displeasure descend upon
		
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			me, ya Allah, ghadab, your ghadab, your anger
		
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			is upon me, ya Allah, that's the only
		
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			time where I'll actually start to worry.
		
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			Is Allah angry with me?
		
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			I don't care if my professor is angry
		
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			with me.
		
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			I don't care if even sometimes my own
		
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			friends are angry with me.
		
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			If Allah is happy with me, that's all
		
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			that I care about.
		
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			He says, I desire your pleasure, ya Allah,
		
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			and your satisfaction until you are pleased, ya
		
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			Allah.
		
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			And then he ends, he says, la hawla
		
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			wala quwwata illa billah.
		
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			He says, there is no power wala quwwata
		
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			and no might illa billah, except with you,
		
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			ya Allah.
		
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			He ends the dua with that.
		
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			This dua, guys, subhanAllah, this was a dua
		
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			that was heard in the heavens.
		
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			You know what happened after this dua, by
		
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			the way?
		
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			After this dua, Angel Jibreel, alayhis salam, he
		
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			came to the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam.
		
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			Jibreel, alayhis salam, by the way, I don't
		
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			know if I ever told anybody here this,
		
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			but Jibreel's relationship with the Prophet, salallahu alayhi
		
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			wasalam, was like a very older brother.
		
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			He's like, hey man, someone messed with you?
		
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			So he hears this dua, and Jibreel, alayhis
		
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			salam, comes to the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam,
		
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			ya Rasulullah, what happened?
		
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			And the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam, is bloodied,
		
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			covered.
		
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			And he makes this dua, and Jibreel, he
		
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			says, ya Rasulullah, you give me one, one
		
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			signal of permission.
		
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			You tell me one signal, you give me
		
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			one sign.
		
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			And what did I say Ta'if's geographical
		
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			terrain was?
		
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			It was?
		
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			Mountainous.
		
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			He says, ya Rasulullah, you give me one
		
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			sign.
		
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			I will make the mountains that surround Ta
		
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			'if, and I will make them collapse on
		
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			itself.
		
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			These people will, you wouldn't hear a whisper
		
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			about these people in human history.
		
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			I can delete them off the face of
		
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			this planet, ya Rasulullah, give me one sign,
		
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			because of what they just did to you.
		
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			And the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam, he says,
		
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			ya Jibreel, I don't want that.
		
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			Even if these people treated me so harshly,
		
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			what's to say that their kids one day
		
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			will not say la ilaha illallah?
		
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			And even if their kids don't say la
		
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			ilaha illallah, who's to say that their grandkids
		
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			don't say la ilaha illallah?
		
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			Can I tell you a funny incident?
		
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			So I was in Ta'if in December,
		
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			and one of the most famous masjids, or
		
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			probably the most famous masjid in Ta'if
		
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			is a masjid called Masjid Abdullah ibn Abbas.
		
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			Ring a bell?
		
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			Abdullah ibn Abbas is a very famous sahabi
		
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			of the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam.
		
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			His grave is in Ta'if.
		
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			He died in Ta'if, okay?
		
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			So we prayed in Masjid Abdullah ibn Abbas.
		
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			A beautiful spot, inshallah.
		
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			I'll show you guys some pictures as well,
		
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			inshallah.
		
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			After we were done with our dhuhr and
		
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			asr salah, we went outside, and one of
		
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			my responsibilities as an instructor on these trips
		
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			is to kind of give lectures in these
		
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			historical sites, okay?
		
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			So after we got done with praying, we
		
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			went outside of the masjid, and it was
		
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			right next to the sign of where Ibn
		
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			Abbas was buried.
		
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			And so I had 60-70 people around
		
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			me, and the majority of them obviously were
		
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			from America, right?
		
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			They're people that traveled with us from here
		
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			over to overseas.
		
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			And so I was kind of like giving
		
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			this lecture over there, talking about the dua
		
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			'at al-mustada'afeen, talking about the dua
		
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			'at of the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam.
		
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			I said, can you imagine that this is
		
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			a place where people pelted the Prophet, salallahu
		
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			alayhi wasalam, with stones?
		
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			They cursed the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam, and
		
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			now look, one of the most beautiful masjids
		
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			in the entire world is a masjid that
		
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			we just prayed in.
		
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			And it was hilarious.
		
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			All these local, like Saudi or Khaliji people
		
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			were just like walking by, and I was
		
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			like, yeah, these people, they abused the Prophet,
		
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			salallahu alayhi wasalam 1,500 years ago, and
		
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			they're just stopping, they're like, they're like listening
		
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			into the lecture, but subhanallah, can I tell
		
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			you something that was really beautiful?
		
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			At that moment I was scared, because I
		
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			was like, oh my god, like I'm never
		
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			going to be able to come back to
		
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			Saudi ever again.
		
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			This is it for me, Safi Khan, it's
		
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			over for you at this point, right?
		
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			They're never going to grant you another visa.
		
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			So, after it was over, can I tell
		
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			you something?
		
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			There was a brother who came to me.
		
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			He was a local, he was a ta
		
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			'if local.
		
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			He came to me and he says, he
		
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			says, ya imam, he was speaking to me
		
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			in like very broken English and like kind
		
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			of partial Arabic.
		
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			He was like, ya imam, he goes, anta
		
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			min Amerik?
		
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			I was like, naam.
		
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			I was like, yes, yes, I'm from America.
		
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			He says, he goes, you remind me of
		
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			why I'm Muslim.
		
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			He goes, he goes, he goes, I said,
		
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			what do you mean?
		
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			He goes, my ancestors could have possibly been
		
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			a part of this.
		
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			And it was because of this, Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala guided us, and it was
		
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			because of the rahma, the mercy of the
		
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			Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam that I'm here
		
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			today, praying my dhuhr and asr in a
		
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			masjid that was named after one of his
		
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			companions radiAllahu anhu.
		
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			So you see the way that Allah turns
		
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			the tides.
		
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			It was because wa ma arsalnaka illa rahmatan
		
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			lil alameen.
		
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			That these people were spared that day possibly.
		
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			They were spared that day.
		
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			If you got an angel saying that I'm
		
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			going to destroy you, there is nothing that
		
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			can stop you.
		
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			And the Prophet said, no Jibreel, no.
		
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			Don't do that to them.
		
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			And so because of this, subhanallah, this dua
		
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			was one that was heard in the heavens,
		
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			right?
		
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			The lessons from this dua are many, we'll
		
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			end with this inshallah.
		
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			The lessons were many.
		
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			Number one, that it is not only appropriate,
		
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			but encouraged to turn to Allah and complain
		
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			to him about your situation and your circumstances.
		
00:47:12 --> 00:47:14
			Some people feel bad.
		
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			Is it really good?
		
00:47:15 --> 00:47:18
			Is it really okay to tell Allah about
		
00:47:18 --> 00:47:21
			my hal, about my situation, about my circumstance?
		
00:47:21 --> 00:47:22
			Is it okay?
		
00:47:22 --> 00:47:23
			Is that good adab?
		
00:47:23 --> 00:47:25
			Is that good etiquette to tell Allah that
		
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			I'm going through something that's difficult?
		
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			Shouldn't I be grateful?
		
00:47:28 --> 00:47:29
			Nu'afila akuna abdan shakura.
		
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			The Prophet said, should I not be a
		
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			grateful servant?
		
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			Yes, all of that can be true.
		
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			But guess what?
		
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			Allah is the best one, the best one
		
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			to tell about whatever you're going through.
		
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			Before it reaches the ears of people, you
		
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			should actually tell Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			If there's a need that you have, sa
		
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			'alta, fas'alallaha.
		
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			If there's a question that you have in
		
00:47:56 --> 00:47:58
			your life, fas'alallah.
		
00:47:58 --> 00:47:59
			Ask Allah.
		
00:48:00 --> 00:48:05
			Fa'itha, if you have a need, fasta
		
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			'in billah.
		
00:48:06 --> 00:48:08
			Ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for that
		
00:48:08 --> 00:48:08
			need.
		
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			The mistake that we make as human beings,
		
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			guys, is that we run to people before
		
00:48:14 --> 00:48:14
			we run to Allah.
		
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			We run to our friends before we ever
		
00:48:18 --> 00:48:19
			get a chance to talk to Allah.
		
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			Talk to Allah before you run to your
		
00:48:22 --> 00:48:22
			friends.
		
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			Because if, and subhanallah, there's a, by the
		
00:48:25 --> 00:48:27
			way, a multitude of benefits of that.
		
00:48:27 --> 00:48:30
			If it wasn't for Allah, what friends would
		
00:48:30 --> 00:48:30
			you have to run to?
		
00:48:32 --> 00:48:34
			If it wasn't for Allah, what therapy would
		
00:48:34 --> 00:48:35
			you be able to go to?
		
00:48:36 --> 00:48:39
			If it wasn't for Allah, what mentor would
		
00:48:39 --> 00:48:40
			you be able to seek advice from?
		
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			Go to Allah first before you go to
		
00:48:44 --> 00:48:45
			anybody else.
		
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			Not saying that you shouldn't go to other
		
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			people.
		
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			Go to Allah first.
		
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			Okay?
		
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			The second is, know that if Allah is
		
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			pleased with you, nothing else matters.
		
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			If Allah is pleased with you, nothing else
		
00:49:00 --> 00:49:01
			matters.
		
00:49:01 --> 00:49:04
			If you're good with Allah, I'll tell you
		
00:49:04 --> 00:49:04
			something.
		
00:49:04 --> 00:49:06
			You will be good with other people in
		
00:49:06 --> 00:49:06
			your life.
		
00:49:07 --> 00:49:09
			And if there is, per chance, a moment
		
00:49:09 --> 00:49:10
			in your life where you're good with Allah
		
00:49:10 --> 00:49:13
			and maybe somebody is upset with you, it's
		
00:49:13 --> 00:49:14
			always going to be temporary.
		
00:49:14 --> 00:49:16
			It's never going to be permanent.
		
00:49:16 --> 00:49:18
			The Prophet ﷺ makes this promise, by the
		
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			way.
		
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			If you sacrifice something in your life for
		
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			the sake of Allah, it is only guaranteed
		
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			for you that Allah will replace whatever you
		
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			sacrificed with something that's better.
		
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			It's guaranteed.
		
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			A friend that you had to kind of
		
00:49:31 --> 00:49:33
			like slowly part ways with because they were
		
00:49:33 --> 00:49:35
			bad for your deen, they were not a
		
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			great influence for you, so you had to
		
00:49:37 --> 00:49:38
			kind of take on people that were a
		
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			little bit better for you, Allah will replace
		
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			that person with people that are exponentially better
		
00:49:44 --> 00:49:44
			for you.
		
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			There is never a decision that this person
		
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			makes for Allah that ever is regrettable.
		
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			I've never heard that in my life.
		
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			I've never heard a person at the end
		
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			of their life say, man, I wish I
		
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			didn't pray that one Salah.
		
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			I wish I didn't make that one decision
		
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			for the sake of Allah.
		
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			No, no, no.
		
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			It's actually always the opposite.
		
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			It's always the opposite.
		
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			I wish I had one more minute on
		
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			that prayer rug.
		
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			I wish I had one more minute sitting
		
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			with my teacher.
		
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			I wish I had one more minute giving
		
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			Sadaqah.
		
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			It's in the Quran.
		
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			People will say, give me one more minute,
		
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			Ya Allah.
		
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			Give me one moment, Ya Allah.
		
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			If Allah is pleased with you, nothing else
		
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			will matter.
		
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			Lesson number three.
		
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			If Allah has given you a task, understand
		
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			that you have full ability and trust from
		
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			Allah Azza wa Jal to do that task.
		
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			The end of this story is actually beautiful
		
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			because after this Dua was made, everyone asked,
		
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			well, what happened?
		
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			You know what happened?
		
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			We'll talk about it real quick InshaAllah before
		
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			we stop class.
		
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			This is what happened.
		
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			After this Dua was made, this Dua ended
		
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			with a beautiful moment where when the Prophet
		
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			sat down for shade, he did not realize
		
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			that the land belonged to his Quraishi uncles,
		
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			Utbah and Shaybah ibn Rabi'ah.
		
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			They had witnessed this brutal expulsion from Ta
		
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			'if and felt pity on their kin, as
		
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			well as a sense of tribal pride.
		
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			They decided to gift him some fruits from
		
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			their orchards.
		
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			They sent one of their servants.
		
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			His name was Addas.
		
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			Let this name be very, very familiar with
		
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			you.
		
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			It's a companion by the name of Addas
		
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			radiAllahu anhu.
		
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			I actually, Alhamdulillah, went and saw this exact
		
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			same place where this happened.
		
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			So like when we were doing the tour
		
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			of Ta'if, this is where the tour
		
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			guide, he said, this is majority of Riwayat
		
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			mention that this is exactly where the Prophet
		
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			was sitting with Zayd ibn Harithah when Addas
		
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			radiAllahu anhu approached.
		
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			So he approached, he was an Iraqi Christian
		
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			and by the way, Ta'if, you know
		
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			like fruits that are indigenous to a certain
		
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			land, right?
		
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			So what's indigenous to Ta'if is, anybody
		
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			know?
		
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			Grapes.
		
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			Very random, right?
		
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			Super random.
		
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			You'd think like dates or like, you know,
		
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			something that's more kind of like desert, right?
		
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			No, no.
		
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			It was grapes.
		
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			They grow grapes like no tomorrow.
		
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			It's insane, subhanAllah.
		
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			It was probably because of the elevation, the
		
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			cooler temperatures up there.
		
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			So they grow grapes there and Addas radiAllahu
		
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			anhu brought a platter of grapes to the
		
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			Prophet and the Prophet accepted the gift and
		
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			he said, Bismillah, before he took his first
		
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			bite.
		
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			Addas, he said, he goes, yeah, yeah, yeah,
		
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			you know, he didn't know his name at
		
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			that time.
		
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			He says, yeah, what's that phrase that you
		
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			just said?
		
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			What did you just say?
		
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			And the Prophet said, this is something my
		
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			Lord has taught me.
		
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			He goes, where are you from, ya Addas?
		
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			He said, Addas, he goes, I'm from Nineveh.
		
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			It's an area of Iraq.
		
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			You know what other prophet is from Nineveh?
		
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			Yunus Alayhi Salaam.
		
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			So he goes, this is, the Prophet said,
		
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			this is the city of Yunus Alayhi Salaam.
		
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			Yunus Alayhi Salaam.
		
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			And Addas goes, how do you know about
		
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			Yunus?
		
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			How do you know about that?
		
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			And Addas, at that time, was a lone
		
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			Christian in these lands, surrounded by pagans, with
		
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			no knowledge of any Judeo-Christian prophetic lineage.
		
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			The Prophet said to him, he says, how
		
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			can I not know Yunus?
		
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			He's my brother.
		
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			He's my brother.
		
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			We're both prophets of Allah.
		
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			As soon as the Prophet uttered this statement,
		
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			Addas immediately began to kiss the Prophet Sallallahu
		
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			Alaihi Wasallam in adoration.
		
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			And at this point, he says, his two
		
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			masters, Uthbah and Shaybah, looked at from afar
		
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			in bewilderment.
		
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			When he returned, they shouted.
		
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			He goes, why are you kissing his hands
		
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			and feet?
		
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			What just happened?
		
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			Addas, he goes, oh my masters, there is
		
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			no one better on earth than him.
		
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			For he told me things only a prophet
		
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			could know.
		
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			And they responded, oh Addas, he has bewitched
		
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			you from your religion.
		
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			Your religion is better than this.
		
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			And later on, when the battle of Badr
		
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			commenced, Addas was asked to fight against the
		
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			Muslims, to which he responded, you want me
		
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			to fight that man who was sitting under
		
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			the tree?
		
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			By Allah, the mountains could not harm him.
		
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			In a truly bold move, he refused his
		
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			master's command, who both met their death in
		
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			the battle of Badr.
		
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			Imagine that.
		
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			Addas, by the way, ended up Alhamdulillah, accepting
		
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			Islam.
		
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			I want you guys to think of something.
		
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			He went to the city of Ta'if
		
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			to try to like, explain Islam to like
		
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			thousands of people.
		
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			Who did he end up influencing?
		
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			One slave.
		
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			One slave was influenced that day about Islam.
		
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			But it was because of that one heart
		
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			that was softened to Islam, that possibly Ta
		
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			'if is a city of believers today.
		
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			I want you to think about that.
		
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			Dua is a catalyst for change that is
		
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			not possible without it being made.
		
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			This is the power of what dua can
		
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			do for you in your life.
		
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			Do you think the prophet ever thought to
		
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			himself that that moment that he made that
		
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			dua that yeah, Ta'if is going to
		
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			be a beautiful city and it's going to
		
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			become Muslim and people are going to love
		
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			coming here and praying here and making dua
		
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			here and visiting here?
		
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			No one ever thought that.
		
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			But your duas can allow the impossible to
		
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			become possible.
		
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			Because why?
		
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			The impossible was by your standards.
		
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			The possible is always something that Allah Subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala can make happen.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So this is what our duas can do,
		
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			inshallah.
		
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			So this is the dua up here.
		
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			Again, anyone can look it up, inshallah.
		
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			It's called dua tul mustada'afeen.
		
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			The dua of those who are weak.
		
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			Inshallah, I encourage you.
		
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			It's a little bit of a longer dua,
		
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			but I encourage everyone to take their time.
		
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			Go back.
		
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			Reflect.
		
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			Do some tadabbur.
		
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			Reflect on it a little bit, inshallah, on
		
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			your own free time.
		
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			And just highlight it.
		
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			Which parts of this dua are really effective
		
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			and they appeal to me?
		
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			Which part of my life do I need
		
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			to make this dua?
		
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			And perhaps there are segments of the dua
		
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			that I want to use in my own
		
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			personal duas and mix and match, inshallah, within
		
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			my own life.
		
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			So this is the dua of the Prophet,
		
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			salallahu alayhi wa sallam.
		
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			We ask Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala to
		
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			make us of the people who trust and
		
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			rely upon Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala in
		
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			both strength and in weakness.
		
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			We ask Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala to
		
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			always always put our hopes in His pleasure.
		
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			We ask Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala to
		
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			always guide us back to Him no matter
		
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			what life throws at us, whatever circumstances that
		
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			we're going through.
		
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			We ask Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala to
		
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			always return us back to Him.
		
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			We ask Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala to
		
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			allow us to learn from the blessed example
		
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			of His Habib, salallahu alayhi wa sallam.
		
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			We ask Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala to
		
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			allow us to follow in the footsteps of
		
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			the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam.
		
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			We ask Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala to
		
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			strengthen our duas with the influence of the
		
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			duas of the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam.
		
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			And we ask Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			to forgive us in any moments of shortcoming
		
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			that we've had, in any moments in which
		
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			we've neglected Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala in
		
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			our lives, in any moments where we've fallen
		
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			short of giving Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			the rights that He deserves.
		
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			We ask Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala to
		
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			forgive us, and we ask Allah Subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala to accept from us رَبَّنَا تَقَبَّلْ
		
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			مِنَّا إِنَّكَ أَنْتَ السَّمِعُونَ عَلِيمٌ وَالسَّلَامُونَ عَلَى
		
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			الْمُوْسِّرِينَ وَالْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ Jazakum khairan
		
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			everybody for being here insha'Allah.
		
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			We're going to host a really, really awesome
		
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			program tomorrow night.
		
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			It's going to be our monthly college fireside.
		
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			It'll be outside insha'Allah tomorrow.
		
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			The weather seems to be beautiful alhamdulillah.
		
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			It's probably going to be like a crisp
		
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			like 60 degrees tomorrow night.
		
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			So insha'Allah for all of our kind
		
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			of college, MSA community, we'll be here insha
		
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			'Allah tomorrow at Roots.
		
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			We'll just be outside for a fireside session
		
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			insha'Allah.
		
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			It's going to be at 6.30 insha
		
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			'Allah.
		
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			So make sure you're here at Roots tomorrow
		
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			at 6.30. We'll see you all then.
		
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			Salatul Isha' is going to be at 8
		
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			.15 so we have about 4 or 5
		
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			minutes so I would encourage everyone to head
		
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			over insha'Allah to the masalah.
		
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			JazakAllah khair.