Sajid Ahmed Umar – Ramadan #24 Gems from Surah Shura

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The importance of understanding the reality of the Bible and following its teachings is emphasized, as well as the importance of sharing experiences and interdependent communities. The pandemic's negative impact on the world economy and potential recession are also discussed. The importance of protecting everyone's health is emphasized. The "naughty days" in the spiritual world is emphasized, along with the return to normalcy and transformation in the New Year. The pandemic's impact on the economy and the potential for a recession to be reversed are also discussed.

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			Equality
		
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			is not from the Quran.
		
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			Equitability
		
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			is in the Quran,
		
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			but hierarchy
		
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			is the mandate of mankind in the Quran.
		
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			However, there's no absolute hierarchy.
		
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			There's no absolute hierarchy.
		
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			That even your parents, they have a rank,
		
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			but it's not absolute. In Surah Luqman, Allah
		
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			commands us to be excellent to them and
		
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			to follow them, but if they command us
		
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			to go against what Allah
		
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			revealed, Fadaatuliruma,
		
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			there's no authority here. The hierarchy is bypassed
		
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			by the ultimate
		
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			Lord,
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			I remember I was on a plane once
		
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			reading Suramulk.
		
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			Allah
		
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			says,
		
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			Allah talks about the creation of flight,
		
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			that they're flying with wings that are
		
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			kept inwards and wings that are outstretched.
		
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			And as I'm reading it on the screen
		
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			of the plane,
		
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			there's the this plane had a back camera,
		
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			you know, the a380, they have a back
		
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			camera, and you can actually see the plane
		
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			and the wings outstretched
		
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			flying. Allah says, Nothing is holding it except
		
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			Allah.
		
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			Steel,
		
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			weighing tons
		
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			with people's overweight baggage. Imagine all this weight
		
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			and the plane takes off and it flies
		
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			with the permission of Allah Allah We begin
		
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			in the name of Allah
		
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			and we request praises and blessings upon Rasulullah
		
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			May Allah accept our deeds. Amin.
		
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			The 24th
		
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			night of Ramadan.
		
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			Less than
		
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			a week to go or a week to
		
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			go.
		
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			May Allah
		
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			bless what remains.
		
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			Ameel. So what do you guys think about
		
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			last night?
		
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			It was the night?
		
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			What's the sentiment? What's the feeling?
		
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			Maybe because we took the eye of hope
		
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			from Surah Zumr,
		
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			and then we took the eye of Istikamah
		
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			from Surah Fussilat.
		
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			It feels like it must be the night,
		
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			May Allah
		
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			grant us little qadr.
		
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			Irrespective brothers and sisters, the prophet sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam even though
		
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			we have reports of him having had a
		
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			sign of when Laylatul Qadr was
		
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			during his time, he remained in a tikaf
		
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			till the end of the month.
		
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			So
		
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			irrespective
		
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			of our feeling
		
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			and even some dreams that have been interpreted
		
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			for this year
		
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			because we've had some interpretations.
		
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			As a life on air,
		
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			Got a lot of your hamukkallah.
		
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			Even in light of some dreams that have
		
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			been interpreted for this year.
		
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			Regarding when Laylatul Qadr will be, and I
		
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			won't tell you what the interpretations
		
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			are.
		
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			So that it keeps you
		
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			calibrated
		
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			In respect of those,
		
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			interpretations,
		
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			we still need to continue every night, because
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			is worshiped during every night, and this is
		
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			from the Tarabi of the Sharia.
		
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			We don't see this only was related to
		
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			Al Qadr. Even with the hour on Jumu'ah
		
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			in which a dua is not left unanswered.
		
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			We don't know the exact hour.
		
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			We told to search for it.
		
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			So this is from the tarubi of the
		
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			sharia, that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala wants us
		
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			to gain more.
		
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			And if you do all 10 days, or
		
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			if you make dua during every hour on
		
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			the day of Jum'ah, then you will catch
		
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			the hour
		
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			and you will be rewarded for all the
		
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			other hours, and you will catch the night
		
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			and you will be rewarded for all the
		
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			nights. So we see the Tarbiyyah in the
		
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			Sharia. There's a Tarbiyyah, how we raise our
		
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			children, the Sharia raises our Ima.
		
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			So irrespective,
		
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			please remain stationed insha'Allah
		
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			and keep trying your best.
		
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			Tonight we continued with the potency of Maqan
		
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			Ayat
		
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			with iman building,
		
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			and we completed Surah for Silat
		
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			as,
		
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			we heard in Sheikh Suhayb's recitation,
		
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			and then Ashura,
		
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			and then a zukruf, and a dukhan as
		
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			we heard
		
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			in,
		
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			Hafidhambala's
		
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			recitation,
		
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			and then,
		
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			Al Jathiyah.
		
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			We made a start on Al Jathiyah,
		
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			in tonight's recitation.
		
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			In terms of Surah Ashura,
		
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			we gave it sometime last night, so we'll
		
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			go straight into Surah Ashura.
		
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			Ashura is again from the Hawamim. Remember that
		
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			discussion about the Hawamim, the surahs that begin
		
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			with hamim,
		
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			hamim, hamim. We heard this today.
		
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			Every surah that began, began with hamim, and
		
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			there is still more to come.
		
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			A Makkan Surah,
		
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			as we discussed earlier,
		
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			consisting of 53 ayaat, just 53 ayaat.
		
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			And it is called Ashura
		
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			due to a verse in it
		
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			in which Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala describes a
		
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			praiseworthy
		
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			act
		
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			of the first generation of believers. The Sahaba
		
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			radiAllahu anhu Majima'in with their leader,
		
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			Muhammad ibn Abdullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. That
		
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			Allah loved this act, and Allah is pivoting
		
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			this act for all of us.
		
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			That it is this act that will lead
		
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			to greatness,
		
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			and through
		
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			it we will plant the seeds
		
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			of proactive progress,
		
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			and that is the act of Shura,
		
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			mutual consultation.
		
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			Allah says,
		
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			When he's praising the believers, he says their
		
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			amr, their manner, their way, their norm, their
		
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			mandate
		
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			is surah.
		
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			They don't make a decision except
		
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			after mutual consultation. Allah loves this.
		
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			So a whole surah
		
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			is named
		
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			after
		
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			this process of mutual consultation.
		
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			Subhanallah.
		
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			And for those who are wondering if the
		
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			Quran has lessons on management, then here you
		
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			go. An entire
		
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			surah named after
		
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			a management mandate,
		
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			mutual consultation,
		
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			shura.
		
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			And even the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
		
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			and no doubt he was praiseworthy for this,
		
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			because this came from him,
		
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			initially.
		
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			We know during the battle of Badr, which
		
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			wasn't meant to be a battle,
		
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			it was meant to be a redemption,
		
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			because all the Muslims wealth was usurped and
		
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			taken
		
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			after they were kicked out of Makkah. They
		
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			were persecuted
		
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			to eventually leave, and what they left behind
		
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			was usurped.
		
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			So Badr was meant to be a redemption
		
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			exercise.
		
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			That's all. Not a battle. And that's why
		
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			the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam didn't leave
		
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			with the call
		
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			that was known
		
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			if a call to war, or if a
		
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			war was
		
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			anticipated.
		
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			And he went with a number that didn't
		
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			denote any
		
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			idea of a war being anticipated
		
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			or an attack being intended, but rather a
		
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			redemption.
		
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			But Abu Sufyan,
		
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			he caught on to what was going on,
		
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			he sent an urgent message to Makkah,
		
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			and he sent it in such a dramatic
		
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			way that even when the Messenger entered Makkah,
		
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			he had to enter in a manner that
		
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			created panic
		
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			with blood,
		
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			coming out,
		
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			meaning blood being seen
		
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			and shouts being made from the distance,
		
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			the distant yards to Makkah all the way
		
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			into Makkah until everybody gathered to be told
		
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			your wealth has been taken, meaning this kind
		
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			of urgency was made, they had no choice
		
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			but to
		
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			go out and they went out for war.
		
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			You see the wealth of the Quraysh
		
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			was considered sacred wealth in the lands of
		
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			Arabia.
		
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			Arabia had bandits,
		
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			desert bandits.
		
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			These bandits would hide behind sand dunes etcetera.
		
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			They would have their places and they would
		
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			steal from the caravans of the desert, except
		
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			the Quraishi wealth. This is wealth no one
		
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			would touch. They believed it was protected
		
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			by something
		
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			beyond their means, especially after what Allah did
		
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			to the Kaaba and Abraha, or for the
		
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			Kaaba when Abraha decided to come and destroy
		
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			the Kaaba.
		
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			And here you have this whisper
		
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			amidst the Arabs
		
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			of Arabia
		
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			that a people
		
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			have come to take the most prized wealth
		
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			of the Quraysh. And no doubt, the Quraysh
		
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			had their most prized wealth in this caravan,
		
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			heading for trade.
		
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			And if the Quraysh didn't retaliate, this would
		
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			lead to all sorts of problems. It's psychology,
		
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			right? If it is known that this happened,
		
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			that a people attempted it, and they were
		
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			successful, or there was no retribution,
		
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			this would plant thoughts in people's minds.
		
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			Even here, when the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
		
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			was faced with this dilemma,
		
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			he didn't just bring the Muhajirun and Ansar
		
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			onto the battlefield.
		
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			He entered them into the process of shura,
		
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			mutual consultation.
		
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			And
		
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			with a greater perspective on the voice of
		
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			the Ansar and the leaders of the Ansar,
		
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			and those from the seniors of the Ansar.
		
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			And they were trying to come to terms
		
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			with the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam's line
		
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			of conversation,
		
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			his discourse,
		
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			the manner
		
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			of his asking,
		
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			until they
		
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			deduced from the collective
		
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			interaction of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam that
		
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			you Rasulullah, O Messenger of Allah, it is
		
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			as if you are
		
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			seeking
		
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			our thoughts here, you are seeking
		
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			our feelings here, our ideas here, and they
		
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			famously said to him that we will not
		
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			be to you like the followers of Musa.
		
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			When it was said to them, go, they
		
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			said to
		
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			Musa, you and your lord go and fight.
		
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			In we will stay behind. We will sit
		
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			here and wait for you to come back.
		
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			Rather, if you tell us to go, we
		
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			will go with you, you Rasoolullah.
		
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			But this was sure, that even the prophet
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wasallam did this, and Abu Bakr
		
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			did this. In fact, Umar would never allow
		
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			the companions
		
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			to settle outside of Madinah, and he would
		
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			bring together the Muhajirun and the Ansar.
		
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			And during COVID, you heard the famous narration
		
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			of Umar. It was well spread
		
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			and well shared. And in the age of
		
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			social media,
		
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			I'm confident that you came across it, where
		
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			Umar was heading
		
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			to a place to sham,
		
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			to the best of my knowledge,
		
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			and reports of a plague
		
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			came out of that region.
		
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			And Umar stopped
		
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			his caravan,
		
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			and
		
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			he entered them into a process of shurgh.
		
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			And eventually he decided to go back,
		
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			and when he decided to go back someone
		
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			said to him,
		
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			O leader of the believers,
		
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			are you running away from the Qadr of
		
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			Allah?
		
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			And he famously said,
		
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			Yes,
		
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			I'm running away from the Qadr of Allah,
		
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			but to the Qadr of Allah.
		
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			From the firk of Umar ibn Khattab radiAllahu,
		
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			and he goes, The bhutta Qadr of Allah.
		
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			You're taking the means, it's the kadrah of
		
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			Allah as well. This is taking the means.
		
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			And then someone from the companions who was
		
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			away came and said,
		
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			I've heard the discussion and I have a
		
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			narration from the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam. And
		
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			he prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said that if
		
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			you are traveling to a place in which
		
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			there is a plague, then the people from
		
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			outside should not enter, and the people from
		
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			inside should not depart.
		
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			So Umar SubhanAllah,
		
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			his conclusion, Umar ibn Khattab radiAllahu an, his
		
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			conclusion
		
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			from the shura,
		
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			mutual consultation,
		
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			was true to the teaching of the prophet
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wa sallam before he passed away,
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. So shura, my dear
		
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			brothers and sisters in Islam, this is the
		
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			main reason why this surah is named Ashura,
		
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			and Allah is praising the Sahaba
		
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			for this act. And this is something we
		
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			need to bring into our homes,
		
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			into our educational institutions,
		
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			into our masajid.
		
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			Masha'Allah. This family friendly masjid as we hear
		
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			for most nights of Ramadan,
		
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			I can testify that they have
		
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			the process of shura,
		
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			Looks like the concord is taking off there.
		
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			They have the process of Shura.
		
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			Allah bless them.
		
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			But in some masaajid, they treat it as
		
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			a fiefdom,
		
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			as somebody's
		
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			village, as somebody's kariyah,
		
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			then they need the ashabul kariyah, as we
		
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			learnt about in Surah Yaseen.
		
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			And this is incorrect, it's the house of
		
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			Allah
		
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			Those who are responsible over it, they are
		
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			only custodians
		
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			of the house of Allah. And their mandate
		
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			is to implement
		
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			the process of Allah, and the process of
		
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			Allah is shura. And we've seen this in
		
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			the masjid even with the time of Qiyam,
		
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			masha'Allah.
		
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			The idea was floated. When should Qiyam be?
		
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			What time? What's possible? What isn't possible?
		
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			What's palatable to the majority?
		
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			Nobody should say this is bidi'a now democracy,
		
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			etcetera. Now this is shura,
		
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			and there's many processes
		
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			to conclude on the shura. But shura is
		
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			definitely different to a democracy because with the
		
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			shura,
		
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			voices are aired, but the amir makes a
		
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			decision, and his decision might go against the
		
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			the voice of the majority as long as
		
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			he's not being oppressive, his reason for it
		
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			is not personal,
		
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			his reason for it is a greater maslah
		
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			that he in his position
		
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			has ascertained,
		
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			then this is part and parcel of Surah.
		
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			Anyway, we can have a whole discussion on
		
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			on Surah. This is Surah Ashura.
		
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			Some of the chosen verses for tonight, no
		
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			doubt, verse number 1.
		
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			Tatafarrakufi Allah says, He, Allah,
		
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			has ordained for you of religion
		
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			what He enjoined upon nuh
		
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			and that which he revealed to you, o
		
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			Muhammad,
		
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			and that which he enjoined upon Ibrahim,
		
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			and Musa, and Risa
		
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			to establish the religion and not to be
		
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			divided therein.
		
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			Establish the law of Allah, and do not
		
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			be divided therein.
		
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			And this is also part and parcel of
		
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			the ideas of surah,
		
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			that when you conclude on the surah, the
		
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			decision should be based on what Allah
		
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			has established as his deen,
		
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			and do not be divided
		
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			on that which Allah has established as his
		
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			deen. And previously, we've spoken about this idea
		
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			of
		
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			people
		
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			chasing the idea
		
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			of being united upon falsehood.
		
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			That if the truth can't unite us, let
		
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			the falsehood unite us. And this is not
		
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			from the deen.
		
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			This is a mandate that
		
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			necessitates a division.
		
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			But when something is true to Qal Allah
		
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			and Qalar Rasool,
		
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			but it goes against my wish and your
		
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			wish and the decision has been made,
		
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			then we shouldn't be divided therein.
		
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			Because it is it is not something from
		
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			outside the realm that Allah
		
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			has established
		
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			as his Deen.
		
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			So again, even though this is not directly
		
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			a verse regarding Shura, but it is connected
		
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			to the idea of Shura,
		
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			That this is how the Muslims need to
		
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			operate.
		
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			And we also learn from this verse
		
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			that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has many messengers,
		
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			messages, and we've heard in previous nights in
		
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			the recitation,
		
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			Allah says,
		
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			messengers that Allah has told us about.
		
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			Messengers that Allah hasn't told us about.
		
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			But we learned that from the messengers, there
		
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			are ranks as well.
		
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			And above the rank of the prophets are
		
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			the messengers,
		
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			and above the ranks of the messengers are
		
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			the
		
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			the prophets of absolute resolve.
		
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			And the prophets of absolute resolve are mentioned
		
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			in this verse.
		
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			Ibrahim,
		
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			Musa,
		
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			Isa, and no doubt Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam is within this. And before this, Allah
		
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			says
		
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			These are the prophets of absolute resolve.
		
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			They have a status above the rest of
		
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			the messengers because they test
		
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			were of a level greater.
		
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			These are the 5 messengers of absolute resolve.
		
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			And we also learn from this
		
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			that the legacy Allah
		
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			revealed to Nuh, which is the legacy of
		
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			Nubuwa, it was transferred from his shoulders
		
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			to Messengers after him until Ibrahim,
		
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			and Messengers after him until Musa,
		
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			and messengers after him until Isa, and messengers
		
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			after him until Muhammad ibn Abdullah sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wasallam.
		
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			But after him, no messenger to come. Remember
		
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			my lesson to you the other night, the
		
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			solution for humanity is the ummah of Muhammad,
		
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			because after Muhammad, Allah transferred this legacy,
		
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			not from the shoulders of 1 man to
		
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			the shoulders of another man, but the shoulders
		
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			of 1 man to the collective shoulders of
		
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			Umma.
		
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			This is why you're the best of all
		
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			nations.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			When we look in another verse in Surah
		
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			Luqman,
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,
		
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			Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala,
		
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			when he establishes for us
		
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			the station of our parents, and by the
		
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			way, the Quran from its beginning till its
		
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			end establishes the process of hierarchy,
		
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			Equality
		
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			is not from the Quran.
		
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			Equitability
		
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			is in the Quran,
		
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			but hierarchy
		
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			is the mandate of mankind in the Quran.
		
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			However, there's no absolute hierarchy.
		
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			There's no absolute hierarchy.
		
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			That even your parents, they have a rank,
		
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			but it's not absolute.
		
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			In Surah Luqman, Allah commands us to be
		
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			excellent to them and to follow them. But
		
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			if they command us to go against what
		
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			Allah
		
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			revealed, Fada Tuhr Umah, there's no authority here.
		
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			The hierarchy is not recognized
		
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			or the hierarchy is bypassed by the ultimate
		
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			Lord,
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			or the ultimate elevated high one. Allah
		
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			the lord of the wells, Allah
		
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			You follow Allah
		
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			even if it means disobeying what your parents
		
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			are saying. So we have a hierarchy, but
		
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			it's not an absolute hierarchy.
		
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			But the point from this verse in Surah
		
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			Luqman is what
		
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			and I'm gonna tie it back to Surah
		
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			Surah.
		
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			Allah says in Surah Luqman,
		
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			follow the way of those who turn back
		
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			to me in repentance.
		
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			Follow the way of those who turn back
		
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			to me in repentance.
		
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			In Surah Surah, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			says, after he mentions the 5 prophets of
		
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			absolute resolve,
		
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			This is the same word.
		
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			One in Surah Alukman,
		
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			one in Ashura. What is Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala saying here? Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is
		
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			saying here,
		
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			difficult for those who associate others with Allah
		
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			is that to which you are calling them
		
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			to, oh Muhammad.
		
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			Those who associate partners with Allah, it's difficult
		
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			for them
		
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			to comprehend
		
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			and understand and follow what you're calling them
		
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			to, which is tawhid.
		
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			Allah says Allah chooses for himself whom he
		
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			wills,
		
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			and he guides to himself whoever
		
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			turns back to him. So whoever turns back
		
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			to him, Allah guides to Allah.
		
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			Our scholars have deduced from this.
		
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			That in Islam,
		
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			we follow the command of Allah,
		
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			and we follow the teaching of Rasulullah sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam,
		
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			and we follow the way of the Sahaba
		
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			radiAllahu anhu ajumayeen.
		
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			Why they are the ones who fit the
		
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			category of those who
		
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			turn back to Allah.
		
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			Because Allah says in Ashura,
		
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			Allah
		
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			chooses for himself whom he wills, and he
		
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			guides to himself whoever turns back to him.
		
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			The Sahaba turned back to Allah when they
		
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			accepted the message of the messenger.
		
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			In Surah Luqman,
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said
		
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			what did he say in Surah Luqman? He
		
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			said
		
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			follow
		
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			the way of those who turn back to
		
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			Allah.
		
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			So putting these two verses together, the scholars
		
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			have deduced
		
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			that following the Sahaba
		
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			is from the truth,
		
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			especially
		
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			the rightly guided caliphs from them. Abu Bakr,
		
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			umar, uthman,
		
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			uaali, radhiallahu anhu, ajumayin.
		
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			And in the hadith of the Prophet
		
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			he said,
		
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			after me you will see much fitan.
		
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			You're gonna see much fitan,
		
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			much differences,
		
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			much disputes.
		
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			He said, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
		
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			It's compulsory upon you. To follow my Sunnah.
		
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			And the sunnah of the rightly guided caliphs.
		
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			Bite onto
		
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			these ways with your mawla teeth, meaning hold
		
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			steadfast onto it.
		
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			Don't give up on it.
		
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			So here at the beginning of Surah Surah,
		
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			Allah establishes from us a fiqhi mandate or
		
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			a
		
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			mandate, a mandate of jurisprudence methodology
		
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			that we take our deen from the Quran
		
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			and the sunnah and the way of the
		
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			companions.
		
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			Verse number 2,
		
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			the ultimate verse on tawakkul. We've spoken about
		
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			tawakkul throughout our series.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says that imam Suhayb
		
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			recited it, and he even repeated it, it
		
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			was beautiful.
		
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			And this these were the words of Yusuf
		
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			alaihi salam after he was tested for 5
		
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			for 5 decades.
		
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			Conservative figures. I'm putting you 5 decades at
		
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			a conservative
		
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			metric. He says
		
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			he uses the word latif
		
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			After being tested,
		
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			bottom of a well,
		
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			abducted
		
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			away from his father,
		
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			smashed around in the slave markets of Egypt,
		
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			put into a home of idolatry and no
		
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			morals,
		
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			locked in a room with a woman who
		
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			intended him, and then she announced that he
		
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			tried to * her,
		
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			and then thrown into prison
		
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			without due diligence,
		
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			due justice
		
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			for almost 10 years.
		
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			Test after test after test after test after
		
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			test.
		
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			At the end of it all, he says
		
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			indeed my lord is subtle and gentle with
		
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			whom he wills.
		
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			Allah says in this verse here,
		
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			And as we sit here and think of
		
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			the people of Ghazalallahi, they are reading these
		
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			verses I am sharing with you.
		
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			They are reading these verses.
		
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			Allah
		
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			This is testimony from Allah.
		
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			Allah is telling you in the form of
		
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			a narrative how it is. Allah is subtle
		
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			with his servants.
		
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			Allah is gentle with his servants.
		
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			Allah is forthcoming with his servants.
		
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			He gives food and sustenance to whom he
		
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			wills, and sustenance means a lot of things,
		
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			children,
		
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			health, wealth,
		
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			financial standing,
		
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			material well-being,
		
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			and so on and so forth.
		
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			Sustenance is iman, as well.
		
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			Tawakkul
		
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			is sustenance as well.
		
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			SubhanAllah.
		
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			Look at the names of Allah that he
		
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			teaches us with this knowledge.
		
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			That the Lord who is settled with his
		
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			servants, he is the all powerful and exalted
		
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			in might.
		
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			That's his reality.
		
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			If you didn't get,
		
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			then know that is not because Allah didn't
		
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			have,
		
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			and it's not because Allah is weak and
		
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			unable.
		
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			If you didn't get,
		
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			it's because it's good for you. And we
		
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			will see this in another part tonight,
		
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			another ayah. So I'll leave this lesson
		
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			hanging,
		
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			as they say.
		
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			Ibn Qudam al Hambali once advised someone and
		
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			said,
		
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			advice on based on this verse.
		
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			He said, ibn Qudam, a very famous scholar
		
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			from the hambali madhab, a pillar of the
		
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			hambali madhab, the author of
		
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			Al Mughni, the enricher,
		
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			the book
		
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			that suffices.
		
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			He said know that the one who is
		
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			in the sea
		
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			on a plank Imagine you on the sea,
		
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			there's no coast around you.
		
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			The waves are strong.
		
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			You're not in a boat, you're on a
		
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			plank.
		
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			Muqaddama
		
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			says, know that the one who is in
		
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			the sea on a plank is not in
		
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			greater need of Allah and His kindness than
		
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			the one who is in his house amongst
		
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			his family and his wealth.
		
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			They are both
		
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			in need of Allah in the same way.
		
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			Do not think the one on a plank
		
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			in the middle of waves
		
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			fighting for his life
		
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			is in more need of Allah than the
		
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			one in his home with his family and
		
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			his wealth.
		
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			You are both
		
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			the same in need of your Lord.
		
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			SubhanAllah.
		
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			So he said,
		
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			so if you establish this in your heart,
		
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			then rely on Allah, tawakkul,
		
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			like the reliance of a drowning person,
		
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			who has no one to rescue him except
		
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			Allah.
		
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			That even when you are in your business
		
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			that is flourishing,
		
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			your home with healthy children,
		
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			and a forthcoming
		
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			wife, rely on Allah,
		
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			like the one who is drowning and is
		
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			relying on Allah. This should be your way.
		
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			Do not rely on your might, do not
		
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			rely on your skills, do not rely on
		
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			your education,
		
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			do not rely on your degree, do not
		
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			rely on your family status, do not rely
		
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			on your culture, your cultural, your ethnic background
		
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			or group. Only rely on Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala.
		
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			For everything that you have is rizq from
		
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			Allah.
		
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			Allahu Lapi from Biribati.
		
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			Allah is subtle with his slaves, he has
		
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			given you all of this.
		
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			And he's given you not because he was
		
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			pushed to, because he's gentle with you.
		
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			And if he doesn't give you, it's not
		
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			because he's unable to, it's because it's good
		
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			for you. This is Tawakkul and reliance in
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			That when we get our lives to the
		
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			stage and build our heart to the stage,
		
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			having and not having is the same for
		
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			a believer.
		
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			Having and not having is the same for
		
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			a believer.
		
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			Today we think we are tested when we
		
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			don't have,
		
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			and we are blessed when we have,
		
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			but the one who has put their trust
		
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			in Allah feels blessed when they have and
		
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			when they don't have.
		
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			Because they manage the test in a gracious
		
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			way and that is a blessing.
		
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			For them, their jannah grows when they have,
		
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			and their jannah grows when they don't have.
		
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			Their circumstances are the same. It's defined by
		
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			whether that jannah grows or doesn't grow.
		
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			Doesn't matter what I have with me in
		
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			the temporary,
		
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			what matters is what I have with me
		
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			in the permanent,
		
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			and my jannah is growing when I didn't
		
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			have, so I really have, and my jannah
		
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			is growing when I have, so I really
		
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			have. But if my jannah doesn't grow when
		
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			I have, then I really don't have, and
		
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			if my jannah grows when I don't have,
		
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			then I really have. This is taqulillah Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala, and this is the tafsir
		
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			of the verse, Allahu lataifun bi ribal.
		
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			See, sometimes it's a case that we really
		
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			don't know Allah.
		
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			That's our problem.
		
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			We don't know Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			If we truly knew Allah,
		
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			then our lives would be different, starting with
		
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			me, myself.
		
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			When was
		
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			banished after being banished after being banished, he
		
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			says, what can my enemies do to me?
		
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			I have Allah in my heart, meaning I'm
		
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			with my Lord.
		
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			If they kick me out of the land,
		
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			it's tourism. A chance for me to see
		
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			other places.
		
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			They haven't kicked me anyway,
		
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			but they've really kicked me out if they
		
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			separate me from my Lord, and that's not
		
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			in the power of any human being.
		
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			And not in the power of any human
		
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			being.
		
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			Honor and dishonor is not in the power
		
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			of any human being and even in Surah
		
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			Yusuf when the minister's wife, she says I
		
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			will jail you, she used Noon at Tawqid
		
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			athaqila.
		
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			You'll see it in my book, I mentioned
		
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			this in the Surah Yusuf book. Just to
		
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			highlight the beauty of the Quran and how
		
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			it gives us
		
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			meanings beyond meanings, but the verse is the
		
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			same. She uses
		
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			which is a double confirmation.
		
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			But when she says you will be from
		
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			the dishonored,
		
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			only one nun is used,
		
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			SubhanAllah.
		
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			Because jailing him was in her control. Dishonoring
		
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			him wasn't in her control.
		
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			But you won't see that by just reading
		
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			the aya. You have to repeat the aya,
		
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			put it on loop,
		
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			and then develop your Arabic language skills.
		
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			Or you can buy the book Insha'Allah.
		
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			So my brothers and sisters in Islam, our
		
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			risk is controlled in the heavens. A lot
		
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			of people, subhanAllah,
		
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			especially since COVID and then after COVID, the
		
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			high inflation rates, etcetera, of course, it's not
		
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			great. And this is the sign of the
		
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			times and our sins and riba and interest
		
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			and so on and so forth. But people,
		
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			subhanAllah, they hyperventilate.
		
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			Their ibadah gets affected. Their recitation of the
		
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			Quran gets never negatively impacted.
		
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			Their attitude with their kids deteriorates.
		
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			Their patience with their families deteriorate. Why? Because
		
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			of the stress of the job, and the
		
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			high cost of living, and having to pay
		
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			the bills, and so on and so forth.
		
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			But Allah
		
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			when he tells us, Allahu Latifum bi ribadi,
		
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			and then tells us Allah is the All
		
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			Powerful, the All Able,
		
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			He's telling you that you shouldn't be worrying
		
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			about your rizq
		
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			because it's Allah who is Arazaq,
		
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			the one who provides for you.
		
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			And matters of rizq
		
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			are controlled in the heavens, not on earth.
		
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			Whatever happens on earth doesn't affect what's happening
		
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			in the heavens. In fact,
		
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			don't take my word for it, take Allah's
		
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			word for it. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,
		
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			Allah has says and in the heavens is
		
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			your rizq.
		
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			In your heavens are the affairs of your
		
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			rizq.
		
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			So this in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is
		
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			from the worship of the heart, And Allah,
		
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			yesterday we said,
		
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			he restricts sometimes,
		
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			and he releases sometimes
		
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			to give you the opportunity to worship him
		
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			through tawakkul.
		
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			To worship him through tawakkul.
		
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			Falling into displace, not from the people of
		
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			Imai. And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
		
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			said,
		
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			SubhanAllah.
		
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			How clear a message can we have? He
		
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			said, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
		
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			no soul
		
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			I'll translate it as soul. We said nafs
		
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			is the soul connected to the body in
		
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			the life of this world. Just to consolidate
		
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			your knowledge from last night. In the nafsa,
		
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			no soul shall taste death
		
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			until it consumes
		
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			the last grain
		
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			that Allah decreed for it to consume. That
		
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			grain that fell off your plate onto the
		
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			floor, until you consume it, you won't die.
		
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			And once you do, you won't live. And
		
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			even if you lived, what will you eat?
		
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			So this is what we're learning, subhanAllah, the
		
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			beginning of Surah Surah.
		
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			Then Allah takes us further
		
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			with this knowledge.
		
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			He teaches
		
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			us, oh son of Adam,
		
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			oh follower of Muhammad,
		
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			oh believer in Allah, don't live your life
		
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			till the grave. Live your life till beyond
		
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			the grave. You believe in the hereafter,
		
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			live a life that makes manifest that this
		
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			belief is in your heart.
		
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			So Allah says,
		
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			That whoever desires the harvest,
		
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			the profit
		
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			of the hereafter, we will increase in him
		
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			his harvest and profit.
		
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			Meaning the one who lives as if there's
		
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			a life after this grave,
		
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			Allah will increase for you.
		
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			And whoever
		
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			lives for the life of this world,
		
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			desires the harvest and profit of the life
		
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			before the grave,
		
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			Allah says we will give that to you
		
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			before the grave. No problem. This is easy
		
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			for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. It's nothing personal
		
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			here. This is not a matter.
		
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			This is nothing for Allah.
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says for the one
		
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			who does this, wama lahu
		
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			fil akhirati
		
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			minasib
		
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			And in the hereafter, this person will have
		
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			nothing with Allah
		
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			Live for this life, go to Allah, you'll
		
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			have nothing on your scales. When you seek
		
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			the recompense
		
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			for what you did, Allah will show you
		
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			the sheet in which you were given, the
		
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			reward for what you did before you died.
		
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			The way of the believer
		
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			is to seek from
		
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			Allah,
		
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			Suratul Baqarah, the second Jews, the second quarter.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us about the
		
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			people during Hajj and the dua. Allah says
		
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			in the dua, on the Arafah, when they
		
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			call out to Allah, there's 2 groups.
		
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			There's a group that says,
		
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			Oh Allah, give us in the duniya, Give
		
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			us, we want this children, health, wealth, position,
		
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			status, fame.
		
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			And you don't find in the dua any
		
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			supplication for the hereafter.
		
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			It's as if they just want the harvest
		
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			of the dunya,
		
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			and then Allah mentions the praiseworthy ones.
		
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			Allah says, and then there are those
		
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			in the du'a
		
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			to Allah is, you Allah, give us in
		
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			this life, and give us in the hereafter,
		
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			and save us from the hellfire. The scholars
		
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			have deduced that the praiseworthy du'a is a
		
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			du'a that happens upon a ratio of 2
		
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			to 1.
		
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			Twice the amount for the hereafter,
		
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			once the amount for the life of this
		
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			wealth. Where did they deduce this from? Allah
		
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			says that the regarding the dua of the
		
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			praiseworthy ones,
		
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			They say, So one dua for the duniya.
		
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			1 dua for the akhirah. 1 dua for
		
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			the akhirah. 1:1.
		
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			Waqinna adabannar,
		
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			save us from the hellfire, away is the
		
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			hellfire, and this life for the next,
		
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			in the next, 2 1.
		
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			A 2 to 1 ratio when you make
		
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			dua.
		
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			May Allah grant us the understanding.
		
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			Ameen.
		
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			The 4th
		
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			verse, rewards give birth to rewards.
		
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			Rewards give birth to rewards. Take this as
		
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			a.
		
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			Bad deeds give birth to bad deeds. Shaytan
		
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			lies to you when He says do the
		
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			bad deed and be a righteous person after
		
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			the bad deed.
		
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			If Allah blesses you, you will.
		
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			But the guarantee is that bad deeds give
		
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			birth to bad deeds, Like the brothers of
		
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			Yusuf. Again, you have to come back to
		
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			my book.
		
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			What did they say? Let's throw him down
		
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			the well,
		
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			and after this, we will be righteous people.
		
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			But what happened?
		
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			They threw him down the well, then they
		
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			had to steal his shirt. Were they righteous
		
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			in stealing the shirt?
		
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			Then they had to kill an animal. Were
		
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			they righteous in killing the animal?
		
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			Then they had to dip the manufacture evidence.
		
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			Were they righteous when they did that? Then
		
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			they had to go to their father, not
		
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			in the day at night, so connivingly.
		
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			Were they righteous there? Then they had to
		
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			pretend like they were crying crocodile tears, were
		
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			they righteous there? Then they lied to their
		
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			father about what happened, the wolf ate him,
		
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			were they righteous there? And then they said,
		
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			you won't believe us even if we are
		
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			truthful.
		
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			Were they righteous there?
		
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			So Shaytan lied to them. Bad deed will
		
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			give birth to a good deed,
		
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			but we know the bad deeds gave birth
		
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			to a plethora of good deeds. But please
		
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			read the book now. I'm giving it to
		
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			you on on on on the.
		
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			It will read guys.
		
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			Insha'Allah.
		
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			Surah Surah, rewards give birth to rewards. Allah
		
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			says
		
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			Subhanallah, pay attention.
		
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			It is that of which Allah gives good
		
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			tidings to his servants who believe and do
		
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			righteous deeds. Say to them, oh, Muhammad, I
		
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			do not ask you for this message of
		
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			mine any payment.
		
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			I don't seek from it any financial standing.
		
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			I don't seek for it any world fame.
		
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			I'm not looking for position in preaching to
		
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			you to worship on Allah.
		
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			All I'm looking for
		
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			is
		
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			goodwill through kinship.
		
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			We have a relationship,
		
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			offer me your goodwill,
		
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			Be objective and listen to what I'm saying.
		
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			That's what I'm looking for. And then Allah
		
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			says tell them and whoever commits a good
		
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			deed, we will increase for him in goodness
		
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			therein.
		
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			Rewards and good deeds give birth to more
		
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			good deeds and rewards. This is the Ka'idah,
		
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			and this is the principle.
		
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			And then Allah says, indeed Allah is forgiving
		
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			and appreciative. SubhanAllah. You know how much we
		
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			learn from the kawati mal ayaat, these endings
		
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			of this is called kawati mal ayaat, there's
		
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			a science
		
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			in Ulsulatafsi
		
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			in in in Ulu
		
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			Mal Quran. There's a science that is studied
		
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			in the in in the knowledge of the
		
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			Quran known as Hawatim Al Ayat, subhanAllah.
		
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			The ending of verses, how Allah ends verses,
		
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			it just opens your understanding to a whole
		
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			new horizon of what the verse is saying.
		
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			So Allah says this, and at the end
		
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			Allah says Allah is forgiving. Meaning, you will
		
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			slip in trying to do the good deed,
		
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			but don't fear for your rewards. Allah is
		
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			forgiving.
		
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			And Allah is appreciative, meaning Allah acknowledges the
		
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			one who shows Allah that they seek out
		
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			SubhanAllah.
		
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			Sometimes
		
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			it doesn't go to plan. A few doubts
		
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			here, some people have health issues, they doubt
		
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			my concentration, my salah here, there. I'm trying,
		
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			yeah, Allah.
		
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			Shaitan uses that as a tool to make
		
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			you sad that your worship isn't great,
		
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			that you've lost the rewards, that you were
		
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			seeking later Qadr but you were too tired,
		
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			you slept in sujood a couple of times,
		
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			you dozed off.
		
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			It can happen. Shaitaan comes and
		
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			plays with you. These thoughts come to you.
		
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			If not now after Ramadan, when you look
		
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			back at your Ramadan,
		
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			what do you say back to Shaytaan? You
		
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			say, here, Shaytaan.
		
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			May Allah's curse be upon you.
		
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			Open Surah Surah
		
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			verse number 23.
		
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			My Lord taught me
		
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			that indeed Allah is Ghafoorun Shakur. He forgives
		
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			you for your slips and your mistakes and
		
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			your human weakness, and He's appreciative of you
		
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			trying for His sake.
		
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			How merciful is the Sharia?
		
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			How merciful is the Sharia? Of course he's
		
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			merciful because it's come from a merciful Lord.
		
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			You showing Allah that you're trying wallahi, this
		
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			is a lot.
		
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			You're showing Allah that you're trying is a
		
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			lot.
		
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			Weaknesses in the execution, Allah is Ghafoor.
		
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			Allah will forgive you. So don't stop trying
		
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			because you anticipate
		
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			the weakness, and this happens with some people.
		
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			Because of the weakness, they want to give
		
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			up. We say no, no, no, don't give
		
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			up.
		
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			Islam is a religion of positivity.
		
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			We don't change things. Things that we did
		
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			for Allah we don't stop.
		
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			We carry on and we work on improving.
		
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			This is the way of the believers.
		
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			Bayib.
		
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			Number next verse, verse number 5. SubhanAllah, we're
		
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			still on Surah.
		
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			Allah only sets us up for success, not
		
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			failure. When did I say this to you
		
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			yesterday? Correct?
		
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			Allah sets us up for success, not to
		
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			fail. The Sharia sets us up to succeed
		
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			not to fail. Allah says in his book,
		
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			listen to this about sustenance again. And I
		
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			told you we leaving one lesson hanging. We're
		
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			gonna complete it later, we're gonna complete it
		
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			now.
		
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			Allah says,
		
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			Allah says, If Allah
		
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			the knowledge of Allah because Allah knows us
		
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			better than we know ourselves.
		
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			They would have committed tyranny throughout the earth.
		
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			Allah didn't create you to fail, he created
		
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			you to succeed.
		
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			Sometimes you ask from him, he doesn't give
		
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			you. Because if he gives you, you'll fail.
		
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			SubhanAllah.
		
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			Allah says, walakin,
		
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			Allah says, but Allah gives them what they're
		
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			asking in an amount which Allah wills. Why?
		
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			Allah is kabeer again. Kawatin al ayaat. Let's
		
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			go to the ending of the ayaat, see
		
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			which names of Allah he used
		
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			for us to appreciate this ayah via, and
		
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			let's go back to the verse. Allah says
		
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			his kabir. What is kabir? Kabeer, we know
		
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			Allah knows everything, and Allah sees everything. Allah
		
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			is Aliamim, the omniscient. He's Al Basir, the
		
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			all seeing. He's Al Shaheed, the universal witness.
		
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			He's Al Raqib, the Universal Observer. And he's
		
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			Al Khabeer. Al Khabeer refers to the hidden
		
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			matters.
		
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			That which is in your heart, nobody knows
		
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			but you.
		
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			That which is in your heart, nobody knows
		
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			what but you. In fact, it's so deeply
		
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			buried in you,
		
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			you might not even know about it until
		
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			your circumstances change and you actually practice it
		
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			and you learn something new about yourself.
		
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			Allah knows it.
		
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			So Allah says Allah withholds it. He doesn't
		
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			give his slave what his slave seeks. Why?
		
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			Allah is kabir. Allah knows what's gonna happen
		
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			to the slave before the slave knows what's
		
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			gonna happen to him. Which means what my
		
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			dear brothers and sisters in Islam, we can
		
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			even flip the the the lesson here. I've
		
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			named it Allah only sets up for success,
		
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			not failure.
		
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			With my explanation you can understand
		
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			or we can come up with a new
		
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			title to this lesson that Allah always gives
		
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			you, He's even giving you when he doesn't
		
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			give you.
		
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			Have you ever thought about that?
		
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			Say I'm making Dua, I'm making Dua, Allah
		
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			make Allah is not answering my Dua. Have
		
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			you been? How do you know he's not
		
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			answering your Dua?
		
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			Sometimes in not giving you he's giving you
		
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			because if he gave you
		
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			you would have entered into a situation that
		
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			you already asked him to save you from.
		
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			So Allah by not giving you is saving
		
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			you from you, so is He not giving
		
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			you even though you feel He's not giving
		
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			you?
		
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			SubhanAllah.
		
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			When we learn about our Lord, our interaction
		
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			with our Lord changes.
		
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			Our thoughts about our Lord changes.
		
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			The Quran helps us learn about Allah.
		
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			When you read the Quran, I mean look,
		
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			we Muslims and we somebody might come here
		
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			and say, oh, Allah, you're all Muslims. That's
		
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			why you're all excited about the Quran. But
		
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			let's be honest. Even if someone was just
		
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			a person in the middle here, not Muslim
		
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			tinkering with the idea,
		
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			The common sense that's coming out of these
		
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			verses of the Quran. Wouldn't
		
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			this solidify you that, subhanAllah, this cannot come
		
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			from any man. This is from the divine.
		
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			This is from the Lord of the worlds.
		
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			There's a brother
		
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			from Sri Lanka. Let me digress.
		
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			These are blessed nights inshallah. We'll sit inshallah,
		
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			tell Allah, decrees for us to go.
		
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			His name is Mohammed Sharif
		
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			from Sri Lanka.
		
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			He, subhanallah, and his story is amazing. He's
		
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			written an encyclopedic work on comparative religion now.
		
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			Make dua for him, he's not too well.
		
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			Subhanallah, what's his story?
		
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			He was a Christian, a devoted Christian,
		
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			and an intelligent Christian.
		
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			And
		
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			in the missionary movement.
		
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			Meaning, he studied religion well
		
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			and he was a master tactician and debater
		
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			acknowledged by the priests and seniors
		
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			not only in Sri Lanka but across the
		
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			missionaries worldwide.
		
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			And
		
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			when he qualified,
		
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			they send you out. Right?
		
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			So they said, where should you we send
		
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			you? He say, send me to the place
		
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			that's the most difficult on earth to preach
		
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			about Jesus.
		
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			Which is that place? They all said Saudi
		
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			Arabia.
		
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			This is the 90s. This is the 90s.
		
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			They said Saudi Arabia.
		
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			I initially heard the story from a lecture
		
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			that someone sent me by doctor Bilal Phillips
		
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			because doctor Bilal Phillips knew this person, and
		
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			they were based in Saudi Arabia in the
		
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			nineties, And the Gulf War happened and all
		
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			this thing happened.
		
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			And then obviously, over time through Maida'awah, we
		
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			met, and we keep in touch till today.
		
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			Saudi Arabia,
		
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			how can he get to Saudi Arabia?
		
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			You can't get to Saudi Arabia, you can't
		
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			go there saying I'm coming to preach Christianity,
		
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			no one's going to give you a residence
		
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			permit,
		
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			Right? So he went
		
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			to my knowledge,
		
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			he studied accounting
		
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			to be able to go get a job
		
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			as an accountant,
		
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			as a guy to go preach Jesus on
		
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			the hardest place on earth.
		
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			Eventually he gets there. Look at the dedication,
		
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			dedications, SubhanAllah, because he sincerely believed this is
		
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			the Haqq, and he had all the answers
		
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			for all the Quran and the Torah and
		
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			all the other,
		
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			matters of other religions.
		
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			He's a master debater. You speak to him
		
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			about any religion, subhanAllah, encyclopedic.
		
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			Google, but in the human form.
		
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			And he has the pizzazz and he has
		
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			everything. Mashallah, bless him.
		
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			He gets to Saudi Arabia. What's the first
		
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			thing he does? He settles, he says, right.
		
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			To be able to succeed against the Muslims,
		
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			I need to understand their book.
		
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			It's evening time for the first time, he
		
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			gets a copy of the Quran. He's on
		
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			a mission. He's not wasting time. He's not
		
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			looking where the restaurants are, what's the latest
		
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			things here, you know, what some people do.
		
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			Yeah. Let's go. Let's see what's there to
		
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			eat.
		
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			Yeah. Oh, halal. We might as well explore.
		
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			Yeah. All the world restaurants are here. Let's
		
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			go try that medium rare steak, you know.
		
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			Number 8 on the Wagyu scale.
		
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			I'm not giving ideas here.
		
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			I'm just giving you narratives.
		
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			So
		
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			he picks up the Quran in his words
		
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			he's telling me.
		
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			He picks up the Quran. He starts reading.
		
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			And he says,
		
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			something strange happened to me that I've never
		
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			felt when I've opened any religious text. For
		
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			the first time I felt like God is
		
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			talking to me.
		
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			Alhamdulillah,
		
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			praise be to Allah.
		
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			Okay. Who is Allah?
		
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			Lord of the worlds. Rahmahun Rahim. Malikyum is
		
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			being hit hit hit. He is saying he
		
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			sat with the Quran, reading it non stop
		
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			until Fajr.
		
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			He is hearing this azaan, being called. This
		
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			is the call to the morning prayer.
		
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			That morning he goes, and he announces he
		
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			wants to accept Islam, he becomes a Muslim.
		
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			And he begins a dawah machine, in the
		
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			words of doctor Bilal,
		
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			he converts people like how, you know, subhanAllah,
		
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			like a machine that he he would he
		
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			was based in the east and doctor Bilal
		
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			Phillips was in Riyadh. This person would fly
		
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			from the east to Riyadh,
		
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			get into a taxi at Riyadh airport. By
		
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			the time he gets to the door of
		
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			doctor Bilal Phillips, he's walking with the taxi
		
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			driver saying, Sheikh, make him do the shahada.
		
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			This is the level of, dawah and dedication,
		
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			subhanAllah. This is the reality of the Quran.
		
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			I'm just digressing to make us appreciate the
		
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			ayat,
		
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			But yinat,
		
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			that we are reciting
		
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			every night and listening to every night. May
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make us from the
		
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			people of the Quran.
		
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			Now Allah says,
		
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			Another verse, stand out verse. We set up
		
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			ourselves for failure. It's not
		
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			and if it was not for Allah, we
		
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			would be wretched. Allah reveals this in Surah
		
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			Surah. That mankind sets themselves up for failure.
		
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			And if it wasn't for Allah, they'd be
		
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			wretched.
		
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			When you fail,
		
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			know and understand
		
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			that you are still in the mercy of
		
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			Allah. If it wasn't for Allah's mercy, you'd
		
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			be far worse off in a situation than
		
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			you are in right now. Allah says, and
		
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			whatever strikes you of a disaster, it is
		
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			because of your own hands, it's because of
		
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			your own actions, it's because of your own
		
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			sins. Allah says, and Allah pardons much of
		
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			what you do. If Allah didn't pardon much
		
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			of what you do, can you imagine the
		
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			disaster you'd be in?
		
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			That the disaster you're going through is because
		
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			of your actions
		
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			and if Allah didn't pardon the other actions
		
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			of yours can you imagine the extent of
		
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			your disaster?
		
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			Allah teaches us this in Surah Surah as
		
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			well.
		
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			Bayib, let us move to Azukruf,
		
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			Azukruf
		
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			89 verses, Makkan as well. I'll shorten insha'Allah.
		
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			Very quickly,
		
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			it's from the Hawameem.
		
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			And in terms of the chosen verses,
		
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			Allah teaches us that our vehicles that we
		
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			have that take us from point a to
		
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			point b, they are blessings,
		
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			but a greater blessing is getting to your
		
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			destination.
		
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			Do you ever think about this?
		
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			That the car that you have is a
		
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			blessing,
		
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			but the greater blessing is getting to your
		
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			destination.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
		
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			he reveals,
		
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			When Allah tells us the blessings of the
		
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			animals that we have, He says, So you
		
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			may settle yourselves upon their backs.
		
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			And then remember Allah's blessing and favor upon
		
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			you when you are able to sit on
		
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			their backs.
		
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			We don't appreciate this because we sit in
		
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			a car, and a car doesn't have a
		
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			soul of its of its own.
		
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			Imagine you sit on a horse that has
		
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			a mind of its own, has a heart
		
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			of its own, has a nifs of its
		
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			own. You sit on a camel, it has
		
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			its own demeanor,
		
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			and it's listening to you. You kick it,
		
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			it moves. You want it to canter, a
		
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			little move, it canters. You want it to
		
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			move to the right, you move to the
		
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			left. It's amazing how these animals can be
		
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			trained. Allah is saying
		
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			that's a blessing from Allah upon you that
		
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			you can settle on their backs, they don't
		
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			throw you off.
		
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			And then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, wataqooroo
		
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			and you say, subhanallati sakharalanahadawamakunallahuukrinin.
		
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			In
		
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			the famous dua that we read, when we
		
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			sit in a vehicle,
		
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			we say exalted is He who has subjected
		
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			this to us, who has made this animal,
		
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			this ride, this vehicle
		
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			subservient to us, and we could not have
		
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			otherwise subdued it.
		
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			And what do you see at the end
		
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			of the dua?
		
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			That indeed we are on a journey to
		
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			our Lord, ultimately.
		
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			Every journey on earth is only a reminder
		
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			that you are on an ultimate journey to
		
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			Allah.
		
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			Subhan Allah.
		
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			So here Allah is teaching us
		
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			that
		
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			the vehicles you have are a blessing, but
		
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			getting to your destination safely is a blessing
		
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			as well.
		
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			And I said the prophet had
		
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			a du'a for the vehicle, and a dua
		
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			for arriving at the place.
		
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			So we should remember this blessing from Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala,
		
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			for your perception.
		
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			And
		
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			have you ever tried saying
		
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			sitting on a horse?
		
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			Have you ever tried this?
		
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			Who sat on a horse? Come on, guys.
		
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			Plenty horses. I've seen them around wherever we
		
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			drive. No. You guys are not taking horse
		
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			rides? Cave.
		
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			How come?
		
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			Khalas, eat activity.
		
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			Go sit on a horse and say, Subhanall
		
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			Levy Sakharana Hadha. Wallahi, it's far different when
		
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			you say it's sitting in your car.
		
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			Maybe if you're sitting in a 19 eighties
		
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			that's in Allah knows best.
		
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			But when you sit in your car,
		
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			when you're sitting on an animal, yaq, and
		
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			this thing can throw you off, and you're
		
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			not an experienced rider and you say subhanalladdi
		
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			is aq. Now you read the dua with
		
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			a bit of heart.
		
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			Has a whole new vibe.
		
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			This is how life is even the Quran.
		
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			Sometimes you in a car you read a
		
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			verse it's different, in the Masjid it's different.
		
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			You go in a plane subhanAllah you read
		
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			the verse it's different. I remember I was
		
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			on a plane once reading
		
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			how Allah
		
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			in Suramurk,
		
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			Allah
		
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			says,
		
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			Allah talks about the creation of flight,
		
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			that they're flying with wings that are
		
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			kept inwards and wings and wings that are
		
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			outstretched.
		
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			And as I'm reading it on the screen
		
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			of the plane,
		
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			this plane had a back camera, you know
		
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			the a380, they have a back camera and
		
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			you can actually see the plane and the
		
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			wings outstretched flying. Allah says,
		
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			Nothing is holding it except Allah.
		
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			Steel,
		
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			weighing tons
		
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			with people's overweight baggage,
		
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			Let's not even talk about
		
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			that. Ovoid baggage Allahu Musta'an. Sometimes they hand
		
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			luggage Allahu Musta'an iaqi. It's like there's rocks
		
00:54:01 --> 00:54:02
			inside.
		
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			Somebody told me they also have another skill.
		
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			They have a scarf that they wear, and
		
00:54:08 --> 00:54:10
			then they put things in the scarf and
		
00:54:10 --> 00:54:12
			fold it and sew it. So then it's
		
00:54:12 --> 00:54:15
			extra weight on them because nobody weighs your
		
00:54:15 --> 00:54:15
			scarf.
		
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			Imagine, people are phenomenal in breaking the rules.
		
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			Right?
		
00:54:20 --> 00:54:22
			So imagine all this weight and the plane
		
00:54:22 --> 00:54:24
			takes off and it flies with the permission
		
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			of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
00:54:26 --> 00:54:28
			Allahu Akbar, Bayb.
		
00:54:29 --> 00:54:32
			Next, we are interdependent communities. Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala says, I
		
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			think this is also important because sometimes we
		
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			forget this especially in our division.
		
00:54:39 --> 00:54:41
			That when we divide we forget that we're
		
00:54:41 --> 00:54:43
			only harming ourselves Allah says
		
00:54:44 --> 00:54:46
			do they distribute the mercy of your Lord?
		
00:54:46 --> 00:54:47
			Listen to this mercy
		
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			Listen to this mercy. Allah says,
		
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			Listen to the mercy Allah is discussing here.
		
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			Allah is saying, it is Allah who apportioned
		
00:55:16 --> 00:55:19
			amongst the different people their livelihood in the
		
00:55:19 --> 00:55:21
			in the life of this world, and Allah
		
00:55:21 --> 00:55:25
			raised some above others in degrees of rank
		
00:55:25 --> 00:55:26
			and skills
		
00:55:27 --> 00:55:28
			and abilities.
		
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			Why? So that they may
		
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			make use of one another in service.
		
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			The Quran is saying
		
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			that mankind
		
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			have been placed on earth as
		
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			interdependent
		
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			communities.
		
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			We are interdependent
		
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			Meaning,
		
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			we are a people that will succeed
		
00:55:50 --> 00:55:53
			in proportion to our ability to leverage off
		
00:55:53 --> 00:55:54
			each other's strengths.
		
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			Not to mitigate other people's progress
		
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			that's why jealousy has no place in Islam.
		
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			As someone progresses and we're jealous of their
		
00:56:01 --> 00:56:03
			progress we need to be happy their progress
		
00:56:03 --> 00:56:04
			is our progress
		
00:56:05 --> 00:56:07
			their failure is our failure this is how
		
00:56:07 --> 00:56:09
			we have to see it. Allah says it's
		
00:56:09 --> 00:56:11
			from his mercy that he created you as
		
00:56:11 --> 00:56:12
			interdependence
		
00:56:12 --> 00:56:14
			You have a person who's a mechanic. You
		
00:56:14 --> 00:56:16
			have a person who's a pirate. You have
		
00:56:16 --> 00:56:18
			a person who's a pharmacist. A person who's
		
00:56:18 --> 00:56:20
			a doctor. A person who is a farmer.
		
00:56:20 --> 00:56:22
			A person who is a baker. Everybody has
		
00:56:22 --> 00:56:23
			their own skills
		
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			and we leverage off each other's strengths. It's
		
00:56:26 --> 00:56:27
			not sustainable
		
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			for someone to bake their own bread and
		
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			fly their own plane and manufacture their own
		
00:56:32 --> 00:56:34
			vehicle and and and it's it's not sustainable
		
00:56:34 --> 00:56:37
			to life. Allah says it's from Allah's mercy
		
00:56:37 --> 00:56:39
			upon you that he made you interdependent
		
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			beings.
		
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			That you leverage off each other's strength.
		
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			That this is Allah's mercy upon you so
		
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			all men can be merciful to each other
		
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			by opening opportunities
		
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			for each other, by assisting each other, by
		
00:56:53 --> 00:56:54
			helping each other.
		
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			When the local masjid says people we need
		
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			to expand
		
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			for the sake of each other let's come
		
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			together let's come together in full force.
		
00:57:03 --> 00:57:04
			Doctor Saeed?
		
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			100%. 100%.
		
00:57:06 --> 00:57:09
			So 27th night, I'm already done my my
		
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			job.
		
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			This but the point is, obviously I'm saying
		
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			it because we in the Masjid, and the
		
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			Masjid has a a program, the Salamavan.
		
00:57:18 --> 00:57:20
			Right? To try and cover this huge cost
		
00:57:20 --> 00:57:22
			not for the Masjid but for the community.
		
00:57:24 --> 00:57:25
			For the youth, for the children, for the
		
00:57:25 --> 00:57:26
			parents.
		
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			If we can leverage off each other's strengths,
		
00:57:29 --> 00:57:31
			well, we can create big things together.
		
00:57:32 --> 00:57:33
			Obviously,
		
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			the dream
		
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			and what a dream it would be especially
		
00:57:36 --> 00:57:38
			in Muslim minorities, is not to have a
		
00:57:38 --> 00:57:38
			masjid,
		
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			but a masjid that's part of a community
		
00:57:40 --> 00:57:41
			center.
		
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			That you have a basketball court, an indoor
		
00:57:44 --> 00:57:46
			swimming pool for the sisters,
		
00:57:46 --> 00:57:47
			maybe
		
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			a library,
		
00:57:48 --> 00:57:51
			for the youth with books that no parent
		
00:57:51 --> 00:57:53
			has to doubt when their child is in
		
00:57:53 --> 00:57:54
			that library and they pick up and read.
		
00:57:54 --> 00:57:56
			Books that are above par and the students
		
00:57:56 --> 00:57:59
			come to study, and it's a vibrant atmosphere.
		
00:57:59 --> 00:58:01
			And people of the same
		
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			school of thought they're inside here, meaning Muslims
		
00:58:05 --> 00:58:07
			studying together so they're part of that community.
		
00:58:07 --> 00:58:09
			They have a place of that's a dream.
		
00:58:09 --> 00:58:11
			That's ideal. We need to buy the whole
		
00:58:11 --> 00:58:12
			street. Right?
		
00:58:13 --> 00:58:15
			But let's get the money for just next
		
00:58:15 --> 00:58:16
			door.
		
00:58:16 --> 00:58:19
			But that's an amazing dream, Wallahi.
		
00:58:19 --> 00:58:21
			The dream to have a,
		
00:58:21 --> 00:58:24
			a slide park connected to the Masjid
		
00:58:24 --> 00:58:25
			that is managed
		
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			so parents can come and leave their children
		
00:58:30 --> 00:58:32
			in the slide park, or the trampoline park,
		
00:58:32 --> 00:58:34
			whilst they're in the Masjid studying. Allahu Akbar.
		
00:58:34 --> 00:58:36
			What a dream is that. And then they
		
00:58:36 --> 00:58:38
			leave, and they take their children, and go
		
00:58:38 --> 00:58:40
			home, and the children are happy, and the
		
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			parents are happy, and the children grow up
		
00:58:42 --> 00:58:44
			having happy thoughts about this place.
		
00:58:45 --> 00:58:47
			That even on the weekend, subhanallah,
		
00:58:47 --> 00:58:49
			you might have a circumstance with the parents,
		
00:58:49 --> 00:58:50
			say, come on, we're going to this restaurant.
		
00:58:50 --> 00:58:51
			They go, no, no, no. Take us to
		
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			Darasalam.
		
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			Lahoo Akbar. Imagine that.
		
00:58:56 --> 00:58:57
			We're going to the play factory in Manchester,
		
00:58:57 --> 00:58:59
			they're gonna take us to Daras Salaam, it's
		
00:58:59 --> 00:59:01
			more fun over there. If we can build
		
00:59:01 --> 00:59:02
			to that level, Allahu Akbar, that is a
		
00:59:02 --> 00:59:04
			dream, that is my dream. I'm I'm not
		
00:59:04 --> 00:59:06
			imposing on the committee here.
		
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			Our dream, Khalaas, everybody has the dream, alhamdulillah,
		
00:59:11 --> 00:59:12
			this is the dream.
		
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			And obviously managed by people who are custodians,
		
00:59:16 --> 00:59:18
			not in fiefdoms obviously. They do that which
		
00:59:18 --> 00:59:20
			is better for the community and all segments
		
00:59:20 --> 00:59:23
			of society. So the sisters have the ability
		
00:59:23 --> 00:59:26
			to, as part of the sunnah, with segregation,
		
00:59:26 --> 00:59:28
			look after their health. The students
		
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			study, and you can have the lessons, and
		
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			we can call imams, and international speakers, and
		
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			lecturers, and teachers. It becomes a a place
		
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			that is intended and aspired.
		
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			That is the dream.
		
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			Point is leveraging off each other's strengths. This
		
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			is from the message of the Quran and
		
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			Allah says this is Allah's mercy on us
		
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			that when we, subhanAllah,
		
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			suppress each other,
		
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			when we don't make dua for each other,
		
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			when we mourn the success of our brother
		
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			or sister
		
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			and we don't celebrate
		
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			their success
		
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			then we are far from the mercy of
		
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			Allah Allah says this is Allah's mercy upon
		
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			you that he created you like this And
		
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			that's why the corporate sphere is not conducive
		
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			to the Sharia sphere.
		
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			Because the corporate sphere is about
		
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			being selfless.
		
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			The sharia sphere, aafwan. But the corporate sphere
		
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			is about being selfish.
		
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			To the extent that you might even take
		
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			credit of somebody else's work for yourself. Why?
		
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			Because you want that promotion.
		
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			And, sir, we have got to be Muslims
		
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			in every environment that we go into. And
		
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			if the environment is not successful and we
		
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			have enough Muslims, let's create our own environment.
		
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			Our own corporate sphere that will be the
		
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			Sharia sphere. Why not? Everything is possible
		
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			if we have a vision,
		
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			and we recognize that we all have a
		
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			part to play. And collectively, if we leverage
		
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			well, we can do great things together.
		
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			This is from the verse 32. I know
		
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			doctor Sayid has made note. He's gonna read
		
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			the tafsir of it tonight.
		
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			Taib, having a righteous friend circle.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa we discussed this, I'm not
		
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			gonna take it in too much detail, but
		
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			the verse was recited today that really is
		
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			fearful. Allah says,
		
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			bosom buddies, on the day of qiyamah, they
		
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			will be enemies to each other,
		
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			except
		
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			the muttaqun. May Allah make us from the
		
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			muttaqun.
		
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			Subhanallah.
		
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			The pious before us would say, Imam Hassan
		
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			al Basri, for example, would say,
		
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			try your best to bring enough friends who
		
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			are from the people of Taqwa in your
		
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			life, to save yourself from the implication of
		
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			this verse on the day of Qiyamah. This
		
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			is how the people before us used to
		
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			read these ayats.
		
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			That Allah said, the only people who will
		
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			not be enemies on the day of qiyamah
		
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			or the muttaqoon, immediately they started making friends
		
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			with the muttaqoon.
		
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			You see someone who's righteous, you love them
		
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			for the sake of Allah, and you want
		
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			to try and bring them into your life,
		
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			or you be a part of their life.
		
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			And that's why brothers and sisters in Islam,
		
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			this brotherhood and sisterhood needs to carry on
		
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			in Shawwal and beyond.
		
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			It cannot be part and parcel of just
		
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			Ramadan,
		
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			and then we forget about each other until
		
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			next Ramadan.
		
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			Iman has to unite us, not just Ramadan.
		
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			Ramadan should escalate the strength of our unity.
		
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			It shouldn't be bringing us together for the
		
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			first time.
		
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			And 11 months of the year, we don't
		
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			see each other.
		
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			And that's why again a community center can
		
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			aid some of these ills. Taib.
		
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			Then Surat Al Duqan.
		
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			Surat Al Duqan, a Maqki Surah, 59 verses,
		
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			and it's translated as the smoke.
		
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			Subhanallah.
		
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			And it's named as the smoke, and Allah
		
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			knows best, as a previous threat
		
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			to the Mushrikoon of Makkah, the idolaters.
		
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			And it's in reference to severe drought and
		
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			famine,
		
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			which affects a people to an extent,
		
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			that they experience such extreme hunger when they
		
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			look at the atmosphere, it looks like smoke.
		
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			Subhanallah.
		
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			Subhanallah. So Allah
		
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			is teaching us something. May Allah save us
		
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			from this famine.
		
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			Ameen.
		
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			Now
		
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			there are some narrations about its virtue, but
		
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			all these narrations are not free from weakness
		
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			as per the testimony of the scholars of
		
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			hadith. Some have said or some narrations say
		
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			if you read Surah Al Dukhan on a
		
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			Friday, you will wake up forgiven. Or or
		
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			if you read Surah Al Duhan,
		
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			on the night of Jum'ah, sorry on the
		
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			night of Jum'ah, not on a Friday, on
		
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			the night of Jum'ah, then 70,000
		
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			angels will seek forgiveness for you. There are
		
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			these reports,
		
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			but the scholars of hadith have said all
		
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			these reports are not free from weakness, and
		
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			Allah knows best.
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, he mentions Surah
		
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			Al Qadr in Surah Al Duhan.
		
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			Many people only think
		
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			the night of power and decree and virtue,
		
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			and why do I translate it as this?
		
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			It's only in Inna and Zalnahoo Filaylatul Qadr.
		
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			Now it's also in Surat Duhan.
		
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			Indeed we were to warn mankind.
		
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			So the Quran came down during Laylatul Qadr,
		
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			and this blessed night in this verse is
		
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			referring to Laylatul Qadr. Here Allah calls it
		
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			blessed, and that's why when I translated it,
		
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			I translated it as the night of power,
		
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			the night of virtue,
		
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			blessedness,
		
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			and the night of decree,
		
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			because
		
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			Allah says in Sura Duhan,
		
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			on this night Allah makes distinct
		
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			every precise matter, meaning the qadr of the
		
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			year is released to the angels who need
		
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			to know about this year.
		
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			The food we're gonna get this year, who's
		
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			going to pass away, events that are related
		
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			to this year, the angels that are responsible
		
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			for these deliverables,
		
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			they are made,
		
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			or knowledge is given to them of these
		
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			events for the year on this night. So
		
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			layna Zurqadr is is more than just a
		
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			night that is better than a 1000 months.
		
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			It is also the night in which Allah
		
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			releases the decrees for the year. So it's
		
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			a night of power because it's better than
		
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			a 1000 months. It's a night of virtue
		
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			because it's laylat, humbaraka,
		
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			and it is also the night of decree
		
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			because it's feaha yufraqu kullu amrin haki.
		
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			That's why I translated like this. Some people
		
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			might have why does he use this this
		
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			translation? It's based on corrective reading of the
		
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			verses in the Quran. And I don't know
		
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			if you've noticed this, subhanAllah.
		
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			Have you seen in the Quran this connection
		
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			between the Quran
		
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			and the night? The Quran
		
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			and the night. The Quran and the night.
		
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			In Suratul Tuhan, laylat mubarakah,
		
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			a blessed night. Do you see this? Night
		
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			in Quran, night in Quran.
		
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			In the Quran al Fajri
		
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			kana mashhuda, the recitation of the Quran al
		
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			Fajr, meaning before sunrise, is a witness recitation.
		
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			We see this. This is just a FYI
		
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			for you guys. Then we have Surah Jathiyah,
		
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			we'll end it now insha'Allah, very soon. A
		
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			Meccan Surah 37
		
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			verses
		
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			named Jathiyah based on the verse that describes
		
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			the ferociousness of
		
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			the day of Qiyam.
		
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			Jatiyah, subhanAllah.
		
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			Jatiyah
		
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			refers to or named this because of the
		
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			ferociousness of the day of Qiyamah.
		
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			Allah says you will see every nation kneeling
		
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			on the day of qiyamah, out of fear.
		
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			That qiyamah will be so ferocious it will
		
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			break people down to their knees, and not
		
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			just people, nations in their entirety.
		
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			That's why I said the Maqan verses are
		
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			potent in iman building.
		
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			They're potent.
		
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			Allah is describing Qiyamah as a as a
		
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			imagine a nation, imagine a superpower,
		
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			has a billions of people, it has over
		
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			a 1000000000 people living in it. And you
		
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			find a 1000000000 people on their knees, and
		
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			this is just from your lifetime.
		
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			What about nations before?
		
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			Subhan Allah. So Allah says this is how
		
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			will be, and this is why the surah
		
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			is named Jathia.
		
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			Very quickly, chosen verses. Do not worship your
		
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			desires or your cultures worship Allah. Allah says
		
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			Have you seen the one who takes his
		
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			God
		
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			or who takes his desires as his God?
		
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			Allah
		
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			says the one who worships their desires, worships
		
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			their cultures, worships their whims, worships their fancy,
		
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			this is worship.
		
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			Allah is describing it as worship. You choose
		
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			to follow your desire and not Allah. You
		
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			have taken your desire as your god.
		
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			So we need to be wary of this.
		
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			Number 2.
		
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			What is the reason of revelation for this?
		
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			In fact, we'll stop here
		
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			because
		
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			I normally have 12 o'clock as the cutoff.
		
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			Allah says, oh, there's a reason of revelation.
		
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			It is said that Umar ibn Khabab radiAllahu
		
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			an,
		
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			he was insulted
		
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			by somebody
		
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			before Hijra.
		
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			And Umar
		
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			intended to reveal himself, meaning redeem himself
		
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			because of that insult physically.
		
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			So Allah
		
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			revealed this verse,
		
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			Oh Muhammad, say to those who have believed,
		
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			Omar was a believer now.
		
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			That they should forgive those who do not
		
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			have any anticipation and expectation for the days
		
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			of Allah.
		
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			Meaning, the
		
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			day
		
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			of
		
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			qiyamah.
		
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			So that Allah may recompense the people for
		
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			what they used to add.
		
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			So here the Muslims are being told to
		
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			be benevolent
		
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			upon those disbelievers who might have insulted them
		
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			before.
		
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			Now, earlier we spoke about
		
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			how the pious before us used to read
		
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			the Quran. 1 of the sheikhs, and this
		
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			is the last story I'll end on,
		
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			He mentions to us someone from our time
		
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			that he spoke
		
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			to and he said that he visited a
		
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			70 year old person
		
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			and this person
		
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			is telling the Sheikh,
		
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			telling this person that when I was younger
		
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			I was put into a cell, I was
		
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			locked up in a cell
		
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			with somebody else because of a dispute that
		
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			we had.
		
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			I was very young. This is decades ago.
		
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			We were very young.
		
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			And the other person was wrong, and I
		
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			was right, and I had my evidences with
		
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			me.
		
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			When it went in front of the judge,
		
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			I was confident
		
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			that I was right and he was wrong
		
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			and he's going to get punished. The judge
		
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			will decree the punishment.
		
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			And he says this person, he was a
		
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			difficult person. He lacked maturity. He lacked reasoning.
		
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			He was just one of those, and he
		
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			wasn't practicing.
		
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			And he says
		
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			that as for me, I would try and
		
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			wake him up for salah
		
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			even though we had this issue, but he
		
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			would not.
		
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			He goes then before Fajr one day, I
		
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			woke up, I made wudu,
		
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			and I started praying.
		
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			And Allah inspired me to read from Surajah.
		
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			So I'm reading Surajah, yeah, and I come
		
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			across this verse.
		
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			That's, oh Muhammad,
		
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			say to the believers,
		
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			forgive those who who disbelieve, who don't desire
		
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			the days of Allah.
		
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			And he says, I broke down
		
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			crying. He said, Subhanallah.
		
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			Allah revealed to Muhammad
		
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			to say to the believers this,
		
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			and this is with regards to a disbeliever.
		
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			What about me and a believer?
		
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			He says I became very emotionally
		
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			I was consumed emotionally,
		
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			and I decided to drop the case
		
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			after that salah and forgive
		
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			my brother.
		
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			From what was recited today. But inshallah, in
		
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			what we have shared is a means of
		
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			moving us in the right direction. I love
		
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			you all for the sake of Allah.
		
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			May Allah
		
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			forgive our past, inspire our futures, accept our
		
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			Ramadan,
		
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			bless what remains, make us from the people
		
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			who witness the night of power and decree
		
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			and virtue, and make us
		
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			from the with the passing of our month.
		
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			Ameen You Rabbi Aalameen.