Safi Khan – Soul Food for College Students What is Guidance

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The importance of covering multiple verses of the Bible and the Holy Spirit is emphasized in Islam's teachings and curriculum. The speaker emphasizes the need to be patient and not allow others to bring their own character out of their world. The importance of practicing peace and not denying one's views on the world is also emphasized. The focus is on college students and those who believe in the Bible and the Holy Spirit.

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			Today, we're gonna be continuing our study of
		
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			Suratul Qasas.
		
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			It will just be me today, Insha'Allah.
		
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			So today, we'll cover verses 51
		
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			through 56,
		
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			inshallah. So we'll be covering about 5 verses
		
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			and these verses are very,
		
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			beautiful. They're very important for us to cover.
		
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			We're gonna jump right into it because just
		
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			because they have so much packed into it
		
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			and I wanna be able to to make
		
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			sure that we cover all of it. So
		
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			previously,
		
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			we talked about, the previous versus last week.
		
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			And in those versus last week, we we
		
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			had myself and stat stuffy. We have such
		
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			an amazing discussion in regards to you know
		
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			the previous nations and also how allah's talk
		
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			to people how Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala called
		
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			people who were coming who, you know, refused
		
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			to come. What was the responsibility of the
		
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			prophet and how the Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			console the prophet
		
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			In the verses this
		
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			week, we we see that Allah
		
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			is continuing halfway continuing that conversation.
		
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			So Allah says,
		
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			Allah
		
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			says, he says, we have we have cause.
		
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			Okay. He says that we have caused our
		
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			word
		
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			to come to them so that they may
		
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			be mindful. Okay.
		
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			We have caused our word,
		
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			We have caused the word
		
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			to arrive to them, to come to them
		
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			so that,
		
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			la'allahu, perhaps they will be yet to be
		
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			turned on people who are mindful, people who
		
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			think. And what's interesting here is that these
		
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			verses
		
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			are implicating
		
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			that,
		
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			for the guiding people that Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala has continuously
		
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			provided guidance. That these verse are this this
		
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			verse is showing that Allah has continuously
		
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			provided guidance. You know, sometimes we think that,
		
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			okay. Well,
		
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			like, in in certain situations where we're talking
		
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			about the guidance and the message that was
		
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			upon that was bringing down, and we're talking
		
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			about the Quraysh and we're talking about so
		
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			many people, sometimes we think that was never,
		
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			maybe it's possible that this is the first
		
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			time they're hearing the message. Maybe it's possible
		
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			that they were never familiar with this message
		
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			in the 1st place when that's not true.
		
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			You know? So that's how sometimes
		
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			when it came to the Quraysh, they were
		
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			familiar with certain points. And it may be
		
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			that those points weren't necessarily
		
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			that they were familiar with certain things of
		
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			Islam that Islam brought forth. And it may
		
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			not be that they completely understood the depth
		
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			of it, that they completely understood everything that
		
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			it entailed, but they were very familiar with
		
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			it. Like, for example, they were familiar with
		
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			the stories of Luqman the Wise. You know,
		
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			they were familiar with, you know, Jews and
		
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			Christians because Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, had previously
		
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			brought down scripture. He had previously presented the
		
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			oneness of Allah, the monotheistic
		
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			faiths. So Allah Subhanahu
		
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			Wa
		
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			Ta'ala
		
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			says
		
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			that we have caused our word to come
		
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			to them. You know? Was on us in
		
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			the past tense, that we have caused our
		
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			word to come to them.
		
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			So perhaps that they they will be mindful.
		
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			And this is these are talking about
		
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			those who are,
		
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			this is talking about the word coming to
		
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			those
		
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			who actually had their hearts open to it.
		
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			Okay? They actually had their hearts open to
		
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			accepting the message in which I was gonna
		
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			tell you, was bringing forth to them. That
		
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			they were familiar with it. They had heard
		
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			it. They had this very familiar this really
		
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			close familiarity with it. They had heard it
		
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			many time and many times, and they weren't
		
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			people who were going to close the door.
		
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			They weren't people who were gonna slam the
		
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			door in the face of these messengers that
		
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			will come to teach you more about the
		
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			religion. And now once, continues in I number
		
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			52, he says,
		
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			though to those to whom we gave the
		
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			scripture
		
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			before believing it. You know? So Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala says, you know, ate nahum
		
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			umul kitaba is referring to the righteous people
		
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			amongst the people of the book.
		
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			That these people
		
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			have been given the the scripture before, that
		
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			they have been given the book, and they
		
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			believed in it. K. We gave them the
		
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			scripture before they believed in it. Like, they
		
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			they were given the picture the scripture, and
		
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			they both believed in it. And this verse,
		
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			it shows
		
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			the how some people
		
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			who were
		
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			who were against the Quran,
		
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			that there were some people, the creation, some
		
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			other people from the Quran who were against
		
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			the Quran. And them being against the Quraysians
		
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			was not because of any
		
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			true will, you know, any true reasoning. They
		
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			didn't have any true reasoning to be a
		
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			guest upon. Rather, they were just,
		
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			they were just averse to the crime for
		
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			the sake of just being averse to the
		
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			crime. They didn't have any true stance
		
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			there, that it was what the crime brought
		
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			forth, the things the crime was saying, the
		
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			things that the prophet was bringing,
		
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			the values that they were bringing, that these
		
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			were such things that they were actually familiar
		
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			with, that it wasn't something that was completely
		
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			out of the water. It wasn't a way
		
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			that they were completely, you know, not familiar
		
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			with it. And another thing that we realized
		
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			is that Islam came as a reformation of
		
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			the heart. It came to make people better
		
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			people. It came to make, you know, to
		
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			make a society that was as wretched
		
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			as, you know, terrible, as
		
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			horrible
		
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			as the society of Mecca or the Arabian
		
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			Peninsula
		
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			to make it a better place, to make
		
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			people's hearts better. And so here you see
		
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			that was is saying that these people, they
		
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			had
		
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			a they had a,
		
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			they had an attitude that they are ready
		
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			to adopt the Quran by the time that
		
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			the Quran gave came to them. And the
		
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			thing is, it's emphasized here where Allah says,
		
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			that this is that they will say that
		
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			this is the truth from my lord, and
		
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			we'll talk about that in the next ayah.
		
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			That they will say that this is the
		
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			truth from our lord. So when when they
		
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			got these verses, they didn't turn away from
		
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			the prophet. And this is con continue a
		
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			continuous
		
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			consolation to the prophet, because remember, we started
		
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			off the story talking about the prophet, making
		
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			hijra, and talking about how things were very
		
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			difficult for him and how, you know, the
		
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			story of Musa alaihi wasalam came as a
		
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			way to teach the prophets as a way
		
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			to show the prophets that difficulties does happen.
		
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			Difficulties do happen, but it doesn't mean that
		
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			we stop there. And so now, as Panta,
		
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			I've shown the prophets that there are people
		
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			who turn to you. There are people who,
		
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			when you recited the Quran to them, that
		
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			they believed in what you recited.
		
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			When it's when it is recited upon them,
		
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			when it's recited to them,
		
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			they say,
		
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			We believe in
		
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			it. That indeed this is the truth from
		
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			our lord.
		
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			Word.
		
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			That before it came, we have already devoted
		
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			ourselves to him. We have already submitted ourselves
		
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			to Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. And so here,
		
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			we're show it's showing us that the people
		
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			of the book,
		
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			that they have believed in the Quran even
		
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			before the the revelation
		
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			or the prophecies were found. There's another surah
		
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			there's another verse in surah to Baqarah where
		
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			Allah
		
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			says,
		
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			that those we gave
		
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			we gave scripture.
		
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			Okay? Those we gave scripture
		
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			know it as well as they know their
		
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			own.
		
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			Knows knows it as well as they know
		
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			their own sons.
		
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			And but some of them hide the truth
		
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			that they know. That they know the scripture
		
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			is the truth. They know that this Quran
		
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			is the truth. And they know it as
		
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			well as they know their own sons, but
		
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			they decide to hide the truth. And so
		
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			here, Allah Subhanahu is bringing the opposite group
		
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			of people. That these are the people that
		
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			as soon as the verses are recited upon
		
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			them, that they believe in the Quran. But
		
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			what they're saying is that we've always believed
		
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			in one God. We've always believed in in
		
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			one messenger. And so it's showing that there
		
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			are people of the book who believed in
		
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			the prophet,
		
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			believed in the message that the prophet,
		
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			and were not averse to the message in
		
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			which the prophet,
		
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			was not averse to the scripture, the Quran
		
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			that was brought to them. And Allah
		
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			then says the reward of these people.
		
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			Allah says they they will be given their
		
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			reward
		
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			twice over.
		
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			They will be given their reward
		
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			twice over.
		
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			For what they were steadfast or what they
		
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			were patient against. That this wasn't an easy
		
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			process, that they were patient. They were set
		
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			steadfast.
		
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			And they they they
		
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			they
		
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			they repel the the evil with good. Okay.
		
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			They repel
		
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			the They took out the evil. Okay. They
		
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			took out the evil with good. And then
		
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			Allah
		
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			says, and out of what we provided for
		
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			them, they would give. Now
		
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			let's let's stick on this aya a little
		
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			bit because this class is primarily for college
		
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			students. And the thing is that sometimes when
		
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			we talk about these IS, we don't as
		
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			as college students, stuff like that, we don't
		
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			know how they would,
		
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			apply to us. We don't know how they
		
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			would, how we would use them in not
		
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			everyday life.
		
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			Allah says that these are the people that
		
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			they will be given 2 rewards,
		
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			because of how they were patient,
		
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			and they repel evil with good. That they
		
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			they get rid of the evil with good.
		
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			This is something that every person could do.
		
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			Okay? This is something that every person could
		
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			do. This refers to
		
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			the the,
		
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			making sure that they up this refers to
		
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			those who came in the past, how they
		
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			oppose
		
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			their ancestors when they will say something bad
		
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			about the religion, when they will say something
		
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			bad about Islam, when they were in try
		
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			to insult the prophecy, the prophet of Islam,
		
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			when they were trying to, you know, be
		
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			a certain when they were doing certain bad
		
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			things, then they will show true decency and
		
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			they will show for your friends. So they
		
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			were chose true decency and they will defend
		
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			their religion. For us, how can we put
		
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			this into practice? Well,
		
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			the first thing is that when people come
		
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			and try to abuse our our religion, when
		
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			people come and say things, you're in college,
		
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			people are gonna say things. They're gonna say
		
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			things about, you know, you wearing a scarf.
		
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			They're They're gonna say thing about about you
		
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			praying. They're gonna say all kinds of things.
		
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			How do you
		
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			deal with those things that are being said?
		
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			Do you become a nasty person as well
		
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			and say bad things towards that person as
		
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			well? Do you decide to use, you know,
		
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			foul language as well? How do you repel
		
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			the evil that is coming towards you? How
		
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			do you deal with people who are negative?
		
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			How do you deal with people who bring
		
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			about bad? How do you do that? Well,
		
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			you do it by dealing with people in
		
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			a decent way. That having true decency. That
		
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			it doesn't require for us to get our
		
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			point across to to defend our religion and
		
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			things of that nature. We don't have to
		
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			become people who are foul. We don't have
		
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			to become people who are who are nasty.
		
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			People who say things that are not okay.
		
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			People who, you know, we don't have to
		
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			fight fire with fire. That we can deal
		
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			with people in a nice way. And then
		
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			it says,
		
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			And from what we have provided for them,
		
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			that Unficun, they spend from it. They spend
		
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			from what we have provided for them. Here,
		
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			there is no marker. It's not talking about
		
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			zakat. You know, zakat, there's a marker. And
		
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			in zakat with that marker, you have a
		
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			certain threshold that you reach and then you're
		
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			you're have to spend from there. But here,
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is telling us that
		
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			you give
		
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			from what he has provided you for whatever
		
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			amount of money you have, whatever thing that
		
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			you have that you're able to to give
		
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			out, then you give out from it. Okay?
		
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			You give out from it. You don't have
		
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			to be the richest person. You don't have
		
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			to be the one who makes the most
		
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			money. You don't have to be someone who's
		
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			even working. That has given all of us
		
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			something, and we all have something that we're
		
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			able to give within our needs. And,
		
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			And then he continues about and and it's
		
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			explaining
		
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			how
		
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			how it is to be a person who
		
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			repels evil with good. Allah
		
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			says that when when they hear
		
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			this
		
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			frivolous talk, when they hear a loved one
		
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			means, like, talk that is just useless. Like,
		
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			talk that is just, you know, vowels, useless.
		
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			Nobody really you don't need to be listening
		
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			to it. Nobody really needs to be listening
		
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			to this. Okay? When they hear nonsensical
		
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			talk,
		
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			that they turn away from it. That they
		
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			turn away from it. Okay? When they hear
		
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			frivolous talk, when they hear people talking about
		
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			other people, when they hear people talking about
		
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			the religion, when they hear people just debating
		
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			and trying to just do things that debating
		
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			for no reason, debating just for the sake
		
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			of arguing, you know, talking just for the
		
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			sake of talking, talking about people, frivolous talk,
		
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			just straight love what, just straight
		
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			nonsensical talk, then they turn away from it.
		
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			They don't engage. They don't get trapped. Okay?
		
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			They don't sit there and start arguing back.
		
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			They don't try to fight fire with fire.
		
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			And they say
		
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			that for us is our deeds. We have
		
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			our deeds.
		
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			And you have your deeds.
		
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			Then peace be with you.
		
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			Peace be with you.
		
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			That we do not seek the company of
		
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			ignorant people. In Surat al Furqan, Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala also talks about this when he
		
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			describes the Ibaldir Rahman, when he describes the
		
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			slave, the beautiful slaves of Allah, the beautiful
		
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			servants of Allah. And when he describes that,
		
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			he's talking about
		
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			Allah
		
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			says that when they hear
		
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			a person when a person comes to you,
		
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			comes to them who is
		
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			straight Jahir, who is somebody who is very
		
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			ignorant, someone who just
		
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			just is just a troublemaker.
		
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			When a troublemaker comes to them,
		
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			Do they say peace to that person? What
		
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			are we learning here? We're learning that Allah
		
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			is teaching us how to deal with the
		
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			people in the world. Allah is teaching us
		
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			how to deal with the different people in
		
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			the world. He's teaching us how to deal
		
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			with in Internet trolls. He's teaching us how
		
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			to deal with people who come to us
		
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			and talk to us in a way that's
		
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			not okay. He's teaching us how to deal
		
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			with people who don't have any weight in
		
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			the things that they're saying. They just wanna
		
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			say it. Okay? They they just wanna talk
		
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			to us and they just wanna say it.
		
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			They just wanna argue for no reason. Allah
		
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			is teaching us how we deal with these
		
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			people,
		
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			that we don't need to argue with every
		
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			single person.
		
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			When people are on the Internet and they're
		
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			talking bad about your religion or they're talking
		
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			bad about you or they're, you know, sending
		
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			sending tweets or whatever the case may be,
		
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			that there are some people that the the
		
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			best thing to do is just to step
		
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			away from the conversation.
		
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			It's just to step away from them. That
		
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			the best thing to do is to go
		
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			away. And then, Allah
		
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			here, what does he say? How did they
		
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			step away? How do I turn away from
		
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			these conversations?
		
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			You do you, I do me to each
		
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			film, And it's not in a condescending way.
		
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			It's not saying, like, oh, yeah. Like, you're
		
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			you're going to *. They're not this and
		
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			that. No. I lost one time as you're
		
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			saying that these people just leave the people
		
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			that they know that there's no getting to
		
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			them, meaning that you can be advising somebody
		
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			or you can be talking to somebody. Some
		
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			people just wanna argue.
		
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			Some people just wanna come to you, or
		
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			they just wanna continue to argue with you.
		
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			And in those things, in those times, with
		
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			those people, it's important to just say, okay.
		
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			You got it. I'm a do me. You
		
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			do you. Let's agree to disagree.
		
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			That they say peace upon them.
		
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			Peace upon you.
		
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			That I don't wanna be in the company.
		
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			We don't wanna be in the company of
		
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			those who are ignorant. We don't wanna be
		
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			in the company of ignorant people. And then
		
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			the last ayah, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,
		
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			and this ayah is so powerful.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,
		
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			That you cannot guide you, oh, prophet
		
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			You cannot guide those whom you love. You
		
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			cannot guide everyone you love.
		
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			It is Allah who guides whoever he wills.
		
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			And he knows best those who will follow
		
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			the guidance.
		
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			And this verse is so beautiful because the
		
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			prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he was very
		
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			concerned.
		
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			He concerned himself very heavily
		
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			with the responsibility
		
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			that he was given. He concerned himself
		
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			very heavily
		
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			with the responsibility
		
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			that he was given to help the people
		
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			come to guidance,
		
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			to bring the message to the people. And
		
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			so Allah gives him all these verses first.
		
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			First Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala give him all
		
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			these verses. He says that,
		
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			that we have caused our word to come
		
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			to them over and over again so that
		
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			they may be mindful. But the ones who
		
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			did come,
		
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			those who we gave the scripture to before,
		
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			that they believe in the Quran. They believe
		
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			in it. There are some people who are
		
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			people of the book, and they they were
		
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			aware of it and they believe in it.
		
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			When the verses are recited upon them.
		
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			They say we believe. We
		
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			believe in it. We believe in the Quran.
		
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			This is the truth from our
		
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			And we were beef way before this. We
		
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			have already devoted ourselves to him. We have
		
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			already submitted ourselves to him. Will that if
		
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			you're doing that, I just got home routine.
		
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			And these are the people that will get
		
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			2 rewards. We lost several because of how
		
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			patient there were because of how steadfast they
		
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			were, because of how consistent there were. We
		
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			had to not own. I've been hesitant to
		
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			say the and they repel the the negative
		
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			talk, the evil talk, the nasty talk that
		
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			came to them, the things that people will
		
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			say about the religion, the bad things, all
		
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			the bad things they repel them with good.
		
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			They didn't fight fire with fire. They repelted
		
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			with good.
		
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			And that they
		
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			would spend, they would give to others out
		
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			of what
		
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			Allah had provided them. Okay? They would give
		
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			to others out of what Allah
		
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			had provided to them. And
		
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			when they would hear a frivolous talk, when
		
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			they would hear people talking crazy, talking, you
		
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			know, in a way that was not okay,
		
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			saying things just want to argue for the
		
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			sake of
		
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			arguing.
		
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			That they would turn their face away from
		
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			it.
		
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			They and they will say,
		
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			For us, it's our deeds. Like, we do
		
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			what we do.
		
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			And for you, it's your deeds. Every
		
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			every single one of us is gonna have
		
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			to answer to Allah.
		
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			I'm not gonna have this useless argument with
		
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			you because it's just that useless.
		
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			It's just that useless. These people don't wanna
		
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			listen. They just want to argue and they
		
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			wanna bring you out of your character. So
		
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			don't let them bring you out of your
		
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			character.
		
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			Peace be unto you.
		
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			We don't seek to be in the company
		
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			of those who are ignorant. We don't seek
		
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			to be in the company of ignorant people.
		
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			And then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells the
		
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			prophet, you have these people. That's what Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala show the prophet,
		
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			you have these people who turn to Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala, who listen to the Quran,
		
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			who who really took it as the truth.
		
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			And and this is not,
		
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			the other people that don't want to be
		
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			guided.
		
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			No matter how much you love them, no
		
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			matter how much you care about them, no
		
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			matter how much you want them to believe,
		
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			no matter how many times you recite the
		
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			message upon them, it is not your responsibility
		
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			to guide anyone.
		
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			That that is the responsibility
		
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			of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. That only Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala can be able to guide
		
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			somebody.
		
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			That you do not have the ability
		
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			to guide someone even if you love that
		
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			person.
		
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			But Allah,
		
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			he guides to whom whomever he wills.
		
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			And
		
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			he knows best those who will follow guidance.
		
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			And this last verse that we're gonna cover
		
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			here today is so important for all of
		
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			us to really internalize and to think about.
		
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			That sometimes we think that arguing with people,
		
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			we think they're pulling out all of these
		
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			facts constantly,
		
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			bombarding them with, like, maybe WhatsApp messages and
		
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			forwards and things of that nature. That's gonna
		
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			make a person see our point of view.
		
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			That there are sometimes you do the best
		
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			you can in the conversation, and after that,
		
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			it's completely over. You'd say your point and
		
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			you keep it pushing. That you don't have
		
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			the ability to change someone's mind. You don't
		
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			have the ability to change someone's heart. That
		
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			that is only with the power of Allah.
		
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			Only Allah
		
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			has only Allah
		
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			can do that. Only Allah can change someone's
		
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			mind. Only Allah can change someone's heart. And
		
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			so when we are dealing with people, when
		
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			we're dealing,
		
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			you know, with people, when we're talking to
		
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			people, we should not go into these conversations
		
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			thinking that we can change people because we
		
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			can't.
		
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			We cannot change anyone.
		
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			But what we can do is say our
		
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			peace and what we can do is say
		
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			that we believe. And what we can do
		
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			is practice to the best of our ability
		
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			to give from that which we which Allah
		
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			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has provided to us,
		
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			to when people want to argue with us,
		
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			when people wanna bring us out of our
		
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			character, don't allow them to bring you out
		
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			of your character. Don't allow them to, you
		
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			know, take you out of who you are.
		
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			Don't allow somebody to get you to the
		
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			point where you become, you know, a mean
		
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			or a vile person. Don't allow somebody to
		
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			do those things. That rather, what you do
		
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			is you hold on to those values and
		
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			things that God has given you and you
		
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			continue to be the best person that you
		
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			can possibly be. So I pray that Allah's
		
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			point of time allows us to be able
		
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			to act upon these verses. I pray that
		
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			Allah's point of time makes these people who
		
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			are steadfast. I pray that Allah rewards us
		
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			and gives us the best in this life
		
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			and the next.