Saif Morad – The March of Honor

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The importance of Islam is highlighted, including the need for truthful partnerships and avoiding associate partners with the prophet. The speaker describes his actions and strategy, including giving keys to the holy land to Muslims and walking with his partner to lead his stylistic appearance. He emphasizes the importance of honoring Islam through other means, including sharing property and seeking respect, and the need for proactive and innovative leaders. The speakers also mention upcoming events and unified recognizes events for the upcoming year.

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			Indeed, all praise belongs to Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala. We praise him and we thank him
		
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			and we seek his forgiveness
		
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			and we rely upon him and we put
		
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			our trust in him.
		
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			And we seek refuge in him from the
		
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			evil of ourselves and the negative consequences of
		
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			our actions.
		
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			For whomsoever Allah
		
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			guides, none can misguide. And whomsoever Allah misguides,
		
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			none can bring them back.
		
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			And I bear witness with full conviction that
		
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			there is no one worthy of worship except
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and that the prophet
		
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			salallahu alaihi wa sallam is his last and
		
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			final messenger.
		
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			Oh you who believe have the right taqwa
		
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			of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala the way that
		
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			he is meant to receive from us,
		
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			and do not die except in the state
		
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			of submission as Muslims.
		
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			O people have that mindfulness, that taqwa of
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, the one who has
		
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			created you from a single soul. And from
		
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			Him He has created His spouse, and from
		
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			them both he has created many men and
		
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			women. And have that taqwad and mindfulness of
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, the one from whom
		
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			you demand your mutual rights and those of
		
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			kin.
		
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			For indeed, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is ever
		
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			watching over everything that we do.
		
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			Oh you who believe,
		
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			oh the one who has iman in their
		
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			heart,
		
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			have that fear and then mindfulness of Allah
		
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			and say that which is true and just.
		
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			For Allah will rectify your affairs and will
		
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			forgive your sins, and whomsoever obeys Allah and
		
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			his messenger,
		
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			then they are the ones who have achieved
		
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			the great victory.
		
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			The best of speech is the speech of
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and the best guidance
		
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			is the guidance of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam.
		
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			And the worst of matters within the deen
		
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			are those newly invented matters that has no
		
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			basis. For every
		
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			newly invented bad matter that has no basis
		
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			leads to misguidance, and every misguidance eventually leads
		
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			to the * fire.
		
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			My dear brothers and sisters,
		
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			after the Treaty of Hudaydiyyah,
		
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			the prophet
		
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			entered into a phase of peace with him
		
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			and the Maqams,
		
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			which allowed him now to focus his efforts
		
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			towards the other nations.
		
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			He was able to send letters to call
		
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			them to Islam
		
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			because there's a truce for 10 years between
		
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			him and the Maqans.
		
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			And from the letters he sends, is he
		
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			sends a letter to the Byzantines.
		
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			Their emperor
		
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			Caesar or Heraclius.
		
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			And he happened to receive this letter
		
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			when he was in Ilia.
		
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			Ilia is the name for Jerusalem at that
		
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			time.
		
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			He decided because God had given him victory
		
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			over the Persian, that he would go to
		
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			Jerusalem to thank him.
		
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			And as he gets this letter, there happened
		
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			to be Abu Sufyan and a bunch of
		
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			Maquians that were in the Syrian area,
		
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			because they were known to go there for
		
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			trade
		
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			during the seasons.
		
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			So Heraclius wanted to
		
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			learn about who this person is that is
		
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			sending me this letter and calling me to
		
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			Islam.
		
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			Is there anyone there who knows him, who
		
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			can tell me about him?
		
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			And his messenger goes and he finds Abu
		
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			Sufyan and his friends, and he tells him,
		
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			Come. The Caesar wants to have a meeting
		
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			with you.
		
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			And a conversation takes place between them.
		
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			In Heraclius he asked him multiple questions about
		
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			who the prophet is.
		
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			He asked him about his lineage.
		
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			And Abu Sufian, because of his friends being
		
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			there,
		
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			and if he lied, they would label him
		
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			a liar. So he decided he was going
		
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			to be truthful. And at this time, Abu
		
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			Sufyan is not a Muslim yet.
		
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			So from the questions that Heraclius Caesar asked
		
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			Abu Sufyan was about his lineage,
		
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			Was anyone in his family a king?
		
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			Who are the people that follow him?
		
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			When they follow him,
		
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			do they end up leaving the religion or
		
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			do they stay within it?
		
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			Is this person known to tell a lie?
		
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			He asked him a whole bunch of questions
		
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			to understand the character of the prophet sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wasallam. Then he asked Abu Sufyan, okay,
		
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			what does he call you towards?
		
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			And Abu Sufyan tells him that he tells
		
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			us to worship Allah alone and not to
		
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			associate partners with him, to leave off that
		
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			which our forefathers used to do, to pray,
		
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			to establish the ties of kinship, to give
		
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			the zakat, so on and so forth.
		
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			And after this interview, Caesar responds and he
		
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			says
		
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			that the qualities that you are describing
		
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			is of a man, of a prophet,
		
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			that has been told to us in our
		
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			scriptures.
		
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			But I didn't think he was going to
		
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			be from amongst you.
		
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			And if you say that which is true,
		
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			if what you're saying is true, then he
		
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			is going to occupy the lands under my
		
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			feet.
		
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			Where is he standing right now?
		
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			In Ilia, in Jerusalem.
		
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			If you say,
		
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			if your speech is truthful,
		
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			he is going to be taking over these
		
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			lands that is under my feet.
		
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			And if I was able to go to
		
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			him, I will go to him, I will
		
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			wash his feet.
		
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			But he now had this internal conflict that
		
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			do I accept this
		
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			or do I stick with my people and
		
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			my kingdom?
		
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			Because shaytaan will come and play with us,
		
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			and he will make people think that if
		
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			you accept this religion,
		
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			it's as if you're going to lose out
		
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			on something else.
		
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			And he ended up choosing his way of
		
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			life, his kingdom,
		
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			over submitting to Allah thinking
		
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			that that's going to bring him the glory
		
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			and honor in his life, but then the
		
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			end result was that not only was he
		
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			humiliated in this world, but also in the
		
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			akhirah,
		
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			because of dying upon that state of
		
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			disbelief.
		
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			Now fast forward.
		
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			This is taking place during the time of
		
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			the Prophet
		
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			when Umar
		
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			now becomes the Khalifa.
		
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			And after the battle of Yarmouk, this open
		
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			the
		
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			pathway for the Muslims to start expanding across
		
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			the Levant.
		
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			They take over Syria, they take over Hyms,
		
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			Fihl, so on and so forth.
		
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			They get to Ajnadayn which is close to
		
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			Jerusalem. Amr ibn Aas and Abu Ubayd ibn
		
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			Jabrah take over, and
		
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			they achieve victory there. And now they go
		
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			and they start marching towards Jerusalem.
		
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			And they lay siege to the fortresses around
		
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			Jerusalem.
		
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			And if we go back in history, cities
		
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			were not like how you and I see
		
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			it today.
		
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			There's big walls,
		
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			thick, high.
		
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			Their weapons
		
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			are swords, shields, spears,
		
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			maybe catapults and rocks.
		
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			You're not really gonna penetrate that very easily.
		
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			So they laid siege to those fortresses for
		
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			about 4 months.
		
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			And these are people from the Arabian desert.
		
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			They're not used to that climate.
		
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			The cold winter.
		
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			Mecca is very hot.
		
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			Medina has some type of winter.
		
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			But compared to where they are, but nonetheless
		
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			they are patient, they rely upon Allah
		
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			And then,
		
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			Sophronius who is a patriarch of Jerusalem, he
		
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			decides he's going to surrender. And Abu Ubaydah
		
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			gives him 3 choices. Either you accept Islam
		
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			willfully,
		
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			or we fight,
		
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			or you pay the jizyah,
		
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			which is the tax of protection,
		
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			that they pay a small amount which excludes
		
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			them from enlisting in the Muslim army, and
		
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			they are protected, and this is less than
		
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			zakat to begin with.
		
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			So Abu Ubayda, he they agreed to give
		
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			the jizyah. But there is a condition
		
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			that we're not going to give the keys
		
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			of the city except that we give it
		
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			to the leader of the Muslims.
		
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			So he has to come from Medina, Umar
		
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			radhiyallahu anhu has to come from Medina to
		
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			accept the keys from us. So they write
		
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			him a letter and they send it to
		
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			Umar. And Umar radiAllahu, part of his strategy,
		
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			this is a prophetic model, is that he
		
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			would consult with his companions.
		
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			Okay. What do you guys think is the
		
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			best strategy for us to implement?
		
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			Mainly, he spoke with Uthman and Ali. And
		
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			Uthman told him, you stay here, this is
		
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			the safest place for you, maybe they're going
		
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			to try to do something to you, and
		
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			why should we listen to their request?
		
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			There's no need for you to go out.
		
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			Ali says, no, you should go out. It
		
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			makes sense for you to go out because
		
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			it will make it easier for the Muslims.
		
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			It will ease the process for them, so
		
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			you should go out. So he agreed with
		
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			Ali
		
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			appoints him as a deputy in Medina, and
		
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			he heads out. Now there's many narrations in
		
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			terms of how this journey played out. And
		
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			Umar
		
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			he gets to a location close to Jerusalem
		
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			called Al Jabia. And over there he gives
		
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			a khutba, a sermon,
		
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			and he tells the companions
		
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			that
		
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			rectify your inner actions first.
		
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			Rectify the inner aspect of yourselves,
		
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			then through that your outer actions will be
		
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			rectified automatically.
		
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			It starts with the inside.
		
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			That iman has to penetrate our hearts. We
		
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			have to cleanse our hearts from the characteristics
		
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			that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is not pleased
		
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			with, and adorn
		
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			our inner selves with those actions that he
		
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			is pleased with.
		
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			And through that, naturally the response is gonna
		
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			come from the limbs. So Umar is telling
		
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			he's not just telling anyone.
		
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			He's telling the cream of the crop.
		
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			Khadid.
		
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			Amr ibn A'as and the other Muslims who
		
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			are there in front of him.
		
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			And he's telling them to focus your efforts
		
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			on the akhir. Everything you do have the
		
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			intention for the akhirah, and Allah
		
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			through that will rectify your dunya as well.
		
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			That will naturally come when your intention,
		
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			your motivation is for the sake of Allah
		
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			And he also tells them that be with
		
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			the be with the Muslim community. Don't be
		
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			that lone sheep because the lone sheep, the
		
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			wolf can easily go and prey on. So,
		
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			be part of the community.
		
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			And as he's making his way to Jerusalem,
		
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			the accounts, they depict the Umar
		
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			We have to look at who he is
		
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			at this time. He's the most important person
		
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			on the face of the earth. Not only
		
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			that, he's also the most powerful individual on
		
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			the face of the earth. And he is
		
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			going towards Jerusalem to receive the keys to
		
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			the holy land, not only holy to the
		
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			Muslims, but to the Christians and to the
		
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			Jews as well.
		
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			And he's going
		
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			bareheaded.
		
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			The sun is shining on his bald head.
		
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			Humble appearance
		
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			on a camel. He gets to a pond
		
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			where it's muddy. He gets off his camel.
		
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			He removes his shoes, puts it in his
		
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			hand, and starts leading his camel across that
		
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			water bed.
		
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			And Abu Baydah radiAllahu anhu goes to him
		
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			and he tells him that this is really
		
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			surprising, like you gotta take care of yourself.
		
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			You go to people who are expecting something
		
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			from you. And Umar
		
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			turns to him and he smacks him in
		
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			the chest and he says, Oh, Abu Ubaydah,
		
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			only if somebody else has said this.
		
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			And he made the famous statement,
		
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			That we are a nation that Allah has
		
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			given honor to us through Islam.
		
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			And if we try, no matter how hard
		
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			we try to seek respect,
		
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			honor, dignity,
		
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			through other than Islam,
		
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			Allah
		
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			will humiliate us.
		
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			Context is key.
		
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			Who is he saying this to?
		
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			He is saying to Abu Ubaydah ibn al
		
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			Jarrah,
		
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			one of the 10 that has promised Jannah.
		
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			The one who Umar Radiallahu
		
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			Anhu appointed when he became the Khalifa to
		
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			replace Khalid ibn Warid. This is an individual
		
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			that his whole focus and his dedication is
		
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			to attain the pleasure of Allah
		
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			to begin with. And when Umar
		
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			had visited
		
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			Abu Ubaydah in Syria,
		
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			he's the governor there.
		
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			Now, when you think of a governor, today's
		
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			day and age,
		
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			how do you imagine their homes to be?
		
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			How do you imagine the inside of their
		
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			houses to be?
		
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			Do they utilize the wealth of the public
		
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			to serve the interests of the public?
		
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			Or is it to also adorn their lives
		
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			as well?
		
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			So Umar tells Abu Ubaydah that invite me
		
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			to your house. I wanna I wanna visit
		
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			your home. And Abu Ubaydah
		
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			says that if you come to my house,
		
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			you're gonna cry.
		
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			You're gonna cry if you come to my
		
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			house.
		
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			Amr says, I wanna go anyway.
		
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			So when he goes into his house and
		
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			he looks around,
		
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			and he says, where's your belongings?
		
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			All I see is a saddle,
		
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			a plate, and a water skin.
		
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			Where's the food?
		
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			And Abu Ubaidah goes and he brings from
		
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			the corner pieces of bread.
		
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			And Umar
		
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			he starts weeping.
		
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			The governor of Syria
		
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			has nothing in his house.
		
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			And Abu Waideh told him, I told you.
		
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			I told you this was gonna happen. If
		
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			you're gonna come, you're gonna cry. He says,
		
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			whatever gets you to your destination.
		
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			Whatever gets you to your destination, meaning whatever
		
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			gets you to Jannah. Whatever you have to
		
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			do, do it.
		
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			And we all know the famous story of
		
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			how Umar
		
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			comes to Jerusalem with his servant. They take
		
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			turns going back and forth, who's going to
		
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			ride. And as he's approaching
		
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			Jerusalem, it's the servant's turn.
		
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			And Umar
		
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			is bringing the camel in, and the people
		
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			are waiting, and they see this humble man,
		
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			and there's somebody else sitting on the camel,
		
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			and they realize that Umar the Khalifa is
		
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			dragging the camel, and the servant is sitting
		
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			on top of the camel.
		
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			When they see this, they're taken aback.
		
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			And Abu Ubaid also goes to him, and
		
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			he repeats the same thing to him, that
		
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			we are a nation that Allah has given
		
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			honor through Islam, through the teachings of Islam.
		
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			These were individuals.
		
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			26 years ago before this,
		
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			there were nobody.
		
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			None of the countries even paid attention to
		
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			them.
		
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			These people have nothing that we want. We
		
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			don't need to waste our time with them.
		
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			But within that time frame, the prophet
		
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			comes.
		
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			23 years his prophethood.
		
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			Now we are in the 16th year after
		
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			the prophet
		
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			comes into Medina,
		
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			and they are taking over
		
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			the world.
		
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			And Sophronius comes and he takes Umar and
		
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			they form the famous covenant, which is known
		
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			as the Umaria covenant.
		
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			The treaty of Umar, in which Umar
		
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			and mind you, before this, the Persians took
		
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			over this. When the Byzantines entered,
		
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			you think they just let people be like,
		
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			hey, go do what you want.
		
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			There's no blood that was spilled. They didn't
		
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			slaughter.
		
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			But when Umar made the covenant,
		
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			based upon their conditions, and also what he
		
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			stipulated,
		
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			he gave them protection of wealth,
		
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			of life,
		
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			of their churches, of their crosses, that nothing
		
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			would be broken down, nothing would be taken,
		
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			their property would be safe, nobody would be
		
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			forced to accept accept the religion of Islam,
		
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			because nobody enters into the religion except by
		
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			choice.
		
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			There is no compulsion within the deen. And
		
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			not only that, he let their places of
		
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			worship be intact.
		
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			And this was the historic covenant.
		
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			My dear brothers and sisters,
		
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			I want us
		
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			to take some time
		
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			and reflect over the statement of Umar
		
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			in which he says,
		
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			That we are a nation that Allah
		
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			Allah the Almighty has honored through Islam,
		
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			through the teachings and implementation of this religion,
		
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			of this beautiful way of life,
		
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			which is the teachings of the Quran and
		
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			the sunnah of the Prophet
		
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			Through the implementation
		
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			and living that message, Allah has
		
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			honored us.
		
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			And just look at how much growth they
		
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			experienced in that short amount of time.
		
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			And if we try to gain that honor
		
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			and respect through other means, by compromising our
		
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			principles,
		
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			by thinking that there's another way of life
		
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			that is better than ours, There are so
		
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			many isms that is out there today, and
		
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			if we want to bring that into our
		
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			life, thinking that is superior to Islam,
		
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			Umar
		
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			said,
		
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			Then Allah
		
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			is going to humiliate us.
		
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			Because through that, they rectified not only their
		
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			inner world
		
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			and secured their akhirah, their afterlife,
		
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			but also through that, they built their dunya
		
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			as well.
		
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			Allah opened the doors of the dunya for
		
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			them,
		
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			and they benefited from it as well.
		
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			So when we look at ourselves,
		
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			and we see our level of practice of
		
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			this deen,
		
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			then where is it?
		
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			Do we think that in a different way
		
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			we're going to receive
		
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			that change that we're looking for?
		
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			And all the principles are there in the
		
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			Quran,
		
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			for both this world and the next as
		
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			well. Allah says,
		
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			Be with those be with the truthful individuals.
		
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			If you and I don't know who they
		
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			are, how do we expect to be there?
		
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			And prepare
		
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			whatever you can.
		
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			As Muslims, we have to be proactive.
		
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			We have to be innovative.
		
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			We have to be the leaders in industries.
		
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			If you look at majority of the Muslim
		
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			world, we're consumers.
		
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			We're not the producers.
		
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			But our faith teaches us we're a religion
		
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			of iqara.
		
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			It started with read, learn, educate, be those
		
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			people who are the ones who are leading
		
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			the field,
		
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			and are doing it in a way that
		
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			is pleasing to Allah
		
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			not in a way that is going to
		
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			be displeasing to Allah
		
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			And Imam Malik
		
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			had a famous statement.
		
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			Remember, this is early generation,
		
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			where he said,
		
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			That never will the latter part of this
		
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			ummah be rectified,
		
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			except with that which rectified the earlier part.
		
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			The guidelines are there.
		
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			The teachings are there. The sunnah is there,
		
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			the Quran is there.
		
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			We need to implement it into our lives.
		
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			And Allah
		
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			tells us in the Quran,
		
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			That whoever wants izzah, wants that honor, wants
		
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			that dignity, wants that respect,
		
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			then it comes from Allah
		
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			All of that belongs to Allah
		
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			And if we want it, we have to
		
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			seek it from Allah
		
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			As the prophet
		
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			said,
		
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			That whoever wants the honor of both worlds,
		
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			not just the akhirah, but even in this
		
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			world, then let them be obedient to Allah
		
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			And when we see the situation of our
		
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			brothers and sisters across the world, you know,
		
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			we heard.
		
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			We see that. We see that which is
		
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			in the Quran. But we have to also
		
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			look at history, that things take time. Sometimes
		
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			we see something,
		
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			but Allah
		
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			has the bigger picture. He has the entire
		
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			picture. And the change that He is planning
		
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			for,
		
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			maybe we're not aware of
		
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			it. And as we heard, I want to
		
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			remind you of a statement of Abu Bakr
		
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			radhiallahu anhu,
		
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			when he became the khalifa. One of his
		
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			first sermons that he gave, he mentioned at
		
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			the end of this,
		
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			That there is no good in something that
		
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			is good, which leads to eventually to the
		
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			jahannam.
		
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			That no matter how people prosper, and how
		
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			much they're enjoying and relaxing, but if the
		
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			end result is going to be in entry
		
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			into jahannam, then there's no good in that.
		
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			But the evil, the difficulties that is there,
		
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			within the difficulties that's there,
		
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			There is no evil if the end result
		
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			is Jannah.
		
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			So if people are going through the struggle,
		
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			and they're getting their ticket stamped into Jannah,
		
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			then isn't that what you and I want?
		
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			That the end result that you and I
		
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			say, la ilaha illallah on our tongues when
		
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			we leave this world. May Allah, azzawajal, rectify
		
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			the affairs of our ummah. May Allah, subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala, guide us to the truth and
		
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			keep us firm upon that path and make
		
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			us die upon that path. May Allah, subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala, shower this ummah with honor and
		
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			respect and dignity. May Allah
		
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			be there for our brothers and sisters all
		
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			across the world.
		
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			The Triangle area Masajid are working together for
		
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			a unified Eid fest this Saturday
		
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			at 2 PM at the NC State Fairgrounds,
		
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			Jim Graham building. So there'll be a lot
		
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			of things to do, so please come and
		
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			bring your children as well.
		
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			Please straighten the lines. Close the gaps.
		
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			Please make sure you fill up the rows
		
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			in front before starting 1 in the back.
		
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			Assalamu
		
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			alaikum.
		
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			Welcome to your Masjid today, 21st.
		
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			Join us tonight for dribbling down barriers
		
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			where renowned Muslim athlete, sister Bilqis Abdulqadr,
		
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			will be speaking about her fight to wear
		
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			hijab
		
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			tonight after Maghrib.
		
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			For the first time ever, 11 Triangle Masajid
		
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			and Muslim organizations
		
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			will hold a unified Eid festival.
		
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			Make plans today to attend the Eid Fest
		
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			at the NC State Fairgrounds
		
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			inside the Jim Graham building tomorrow 22nd
		
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			from 2 to 7:30 PM.
		
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			Visit
		
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			ncaed.org
		
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			to buy your tickets today.
		
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			We hope you had a wonderful Eid celebration
		
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			with your loved ones. We'd love to hear
		
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			your feedback on how we can better serve
		
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			you in the future.
		
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			We'd appreciate if you could take a few
		
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			minutes to complete this survey
		
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			found at raleymasjid.org.
		
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			Your responses will help us improve your experience
		
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			in the future.
		
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			Girls Basketball Skills Camp
		
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			led by famous Muslim athlete and legend, Sister
		
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			Bilqis Abdul Fader,
		
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			open to sisters ages 8 and up from
		
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			9 AM to 2 PM
		
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			tomorrow Sunday.
		
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			Light refreshments will also be available.
		
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			Register via railymasjid.org.
		
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			Pray, recite, play
		
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			Quran circles and activities for children of all
		
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			ages,
		
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			Mondays, Wednesdays, Saturdays
		
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			from Maghrib to Isha starting this Monday.
		
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			More info can be found on raily masjid.org.
		
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			IAR is excited to announce the upcoming launch
		
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			of the Thrive program with Imam Saif Murad.
		
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			This program aims to engage Muslim adults aged
		
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			30 plus through spiritual enrichment,
		
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			community engagement,
		
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			and networking opportunities.
		
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			We'd love your input to ensure the program
		
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			caters to your interests and schedules.
		
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			Please take a few minutes to answer some
		
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			questions so that we can serve you better.
		
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			The survey can be found in the newsletter.
		
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			Enjoy this wonderful week.