Salah Mahmoud – Collin County Imams Q&A

Salah Mahmoud
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The importance of following Allah's guidance on taking strategic actions to minimize harm is emphasized, as it is designed to be part of the state and not just a means to minimize risk. The importance of being vigilant and aware of one's own strengths and weaknesses is also emphasized, and the need to be vigilant and consider the surrounding environment. The importance of not being afraid of implementing deems and not being afraid of the consequences of their actions is also emphasized. The importance of providing real food and water to guests is emphasized, and dressing up and not missing a row at a restaurant is also emphasized. The trend of "willing" for young brothers and sisters to collectively go collectively at a restaurant is also emphasized, along with pressure on Muslims who walk in during the Darlin time and the pressure on them to do so.

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			Dates. So in 9/11,
		
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			some people did bring some flour to the
		
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			masjid.
		
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			And I was the only one in the
		
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			masjid.
		
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			And then I found this. I says, oh,
		
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			those people, they wanna bomb the masjid.
		
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			So I just ran away, and
		
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			I made a problem. I was about, you
		
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			know, you know, to call the police because
		
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			now there is something threatening me. But they
		
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			were neighbors, and they were trying to say
		
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			that we know that you are in our
		
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			community.
		
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			You invite people to peace, and we know
		
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			for sure that you are not among those,
		
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			terroristic
		
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			terrorists terrorists
		
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			who are,
		
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			making it hard for others and those who
		
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			kill others. We believe that you are Muslims,
		
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			and you love peace. So this is an
		
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			appreciation
		
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			of,
		
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			our belief and what you,
		
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			invite people to, and we believe that you
		
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			came with a message of peace.
		
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			The last thing that I wanna also mention
		
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			and tackle,
		
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			do we,
		
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			or are we allowed to come to the
		
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			masajid or the fear should capture our hearts
		
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			and we prevent our kids, especially
		
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			to come to the masajid.
		
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			It's something that is widespread. Many people try
		
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			to follow this trend because it matches with
		
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			their desires, and the shaitan works on that,
		
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			they know as well. Now Ramadan is coming,
		
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			so there is no need to go to
		
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			Tarawiyah. It's gonna be something scary.
		
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			So, you, Ikhwan,
		
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			our deen is our our blood and our
		
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			flesh.
		
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			The 2 extremes are not,
		
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			you know, appreciated in Islam,
		
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			are not accepted in Islam. Whether I take
		
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			the matter easily without any precautions
		
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			at all and just, you know, without protecting
		
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			myself, this is something that is not accepted.
		
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			The prophet Mohammed
		
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			says, If you have a donkey or a
		
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			camel and you are afraid about it, you
		
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			tie it up.
		
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			You do your best. You should protect yourself.
		
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			Our masjid should, you know, find a way
		
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			to protect ourselves in the masjid and protect
		
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			our people who come to the masjid. But
		
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			at the same time, we should not be
		
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			away from the masjid. The shaitan is there,
		
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			and the prophet Muhammad
		
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			said it especially to us.
		
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			The wolf eats from the sheep, the one
		
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			that goes astray. The one who keeps himself
		
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			and his family
		
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			away from the masjid, away from the activities
		
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			of the masjid, away from the Muslims,
		
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			giving himself and his family excuses. If we
		
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			go to the masjid, now the masjids are
		
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			labels, they know it's gonna be dangerous,
		
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			and then they come and complain to the
		
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			imams after years,
		
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			my son, my daughter is dating. They know
		
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			they they know we need to return them
		
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			back to Islam.
		
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			Brother, sister, you did this first when you
		
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			keep them away
		
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			and now it's very hard to bring them
		
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			back to the deen.
		
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			May Allah
		
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			make us among those who always have this
		
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			balance
		
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			and may Allah
		
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			protect all the Muslims. May Allah protect our
		
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			youth. May Allah
		
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			give us the knowledge about the deen and
		
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			the pride of, you know, that we should
		
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			learn about our deen.
		
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			Whenever the prophet, salallahu alaihi wa sallam, would
		
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			lay his head at night to go to
		
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			sleep, the prophet, salallahu alaihi wa sallam, would
		
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			recite this dua always.
		
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			O Allah, I surrender myself to
		
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			your decision.
		
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			I've
		
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			turned my face towards you.
		
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			I surrender
		
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			all of my affairs
		
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			to your
		
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			decision?
		
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			There is no
		
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			refuge.
		
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			There is no
		
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			place
		
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			for protection. There is no protection. There is
		
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			no refuge. There is no safety
		
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			from you.
		
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			From?
		
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			You. The prophet
		
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			is addressing Allah.
		
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			Now it is our belief
		
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			that
		
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			every blessing,
		
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			every good,
		
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			every not so good,
		
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			every gain, every achievement, every setback, every misfortune,
		
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			all of these things are custom tailored for
		
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			us
		
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			in our qadr
		
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			before we are born.
		
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			We accept that, right, as Muslims.
		
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			This is not the light at the end
		
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			of the tunnel, but for a Muslim, this
		
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			is the light
		
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			this is the light
		
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			that illuminates that tunnel.
		
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			That at the end of the day, everything
		
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			comes from
		
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			Allah and it comes for a reason.
		
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			It comes for a reason. Just one example.
		
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			For some people,
		
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			it takes some people to have a serious
		
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			health complication
		
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			such as a heart attack, for example.
		
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			To realize that,
		
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			oh, I need to live a healthier lifestyle.
		
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			The cost of going through the pain and
		
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			suffering of a heart attack or any of
		
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			other type of sickness.
		
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			But what was the what ended up being
		
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			the result and the silver lining of that?
		
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			That now a person gets to recalibrate
		
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			their the decisions they make on a day
		
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			to day on a meal basis. Right?
		
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			So everything that comes,
		
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			everything that happens to us, everything that falls
		
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			in our lap and everything that hits us
		
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			in the head, all of that is from
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			So the prophet
		
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			is saying
		
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			There is no place, there is no shelter,
		
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			there is no refuge
		
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			from whatever comes from you
		
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			except towards you.
		
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			Do you understand that?
		
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			So for a person
		
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			to
		
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			want safety and protection and refuge from any
		
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			and everything that may happen, that hap that
		
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			comes from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
		
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			the only solution is to go towards Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala. There is no running away
		
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			from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. There is no
		
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			turning our back from
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. When we pray in
		
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			salah, we have to face
		
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			face,
		
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			chest, entire front body towards the qiblah.
		
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			We have to face Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			We have to turn towards Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala. Now with that being said
		
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			with that being said,
		
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			the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam,
		
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			his iman faith and tawakul being on Allah
		
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			never deterred him
		
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			from being strategic,
		
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			from thoroughly planning out and calculating
		
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			every move and decision that he made
		
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			especially
		
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			during times
		
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			of extreme hostility.
		
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			The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam just one
		
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			example,
		
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			the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam when
		
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			an assassination when the when when the Quraysh
		
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			called a hit on the prophet sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam's life.
		
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			The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
		
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			he after making arrangements,
		
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			the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam,
		
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			he head towards Madinah?
		
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			Did he?
		
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			The prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam, his hijrah
		
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			kicked off when?
		
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			When he received information that there was going
		
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			to be a hit on his life, an
		
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			imminent hit.
		
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			So where did the prophet salallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam go?
		
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			Where did he go?
		
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			He went to Madinah. Right? Hejira.
		
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			Okay.
		
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			But the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam didn't head
		
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			in the direction of Madinah. He didn't go
		
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			north. He started off going Yes. South.
		
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			Why? Because the expected move
		
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			was to go north.
		
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			So the prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam strategically
		
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			through the guidance of Allah
		
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			made this strategic plan
		
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			to go in the opposite direction to keep
		
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			an element of surprise.
		
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			The prophet
		
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			when he established Darul Arakam
		
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			Darul Arakam, the place where the early Muslims
		
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			would congregate to learn and teach their religion,
		
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			this place was located across enemy lines in
		
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			the tribe of Abu Jahl in Banu Mahzoum
		
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			where
		
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			all of the early Muslims would secretly go
		
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			minding their own business and then they would
		
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			be outside this door and next minute inside
		
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			the door and
		
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			they would continue the process of sharing revelation.
		
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			So the prophet in
		
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			spite of his faith and tawakkul in Allah
		
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			being the standard,
		
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			in spite that, the prophet
		
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			always calculated
		
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			his move,
		
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			always strategized,
		
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			and not just by himself through the guidance
		
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			of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, but the prophet
		
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			salallahu alaihi wasalam was instructed to
		
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			seek the advice of those around you.
		
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			Everyone has something
		
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			to bring to the table. The prophet salallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam was instructed and encouraged to
		
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			tap into that talent.
		
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			Now why do I mention all of this?
		
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			Is that
		
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			we understand as Muslims that everything comes from
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			and we never turn our back on Allah
		
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			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. But that doesn't mean we
		
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			lay down,
		
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			open our arms and embrace
		
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			any and everything
		
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			that
		
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			may come our way without any type of
		
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			strategy except for the fact that, hey, if
		
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			it is meant to be, it is meant
		
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			to be.
		
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			If the prophet
		
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			conducted himself in this manner,
		
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			Islam would have taken a different path.
		
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			If the prophet
		
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			reacted and acted haphazardly,
		
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			things would have been different.
		
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			But the prophet
		
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			acted strategically.
		
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			So, yes,
		
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			our faith and our tawakul is in Allah
		
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			We
		
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			believe that if the whole world gets together
		
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			to cause me harm, they can't put a
		
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			finger on me unless Allah will so. And
		
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			if everyone in the world wants to protect
		
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			me and save me from coming in harm's
		
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			way, if it's meant to be, it's meant
		
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			to be.
		
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			You can have all the features, safety features
		
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			in your car
		
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			and still get hit by an 18 wheeler.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Now as Muslims,
		
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			following the strategy of
		
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			following the sunnah of being strategic,
		
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			us as Muslims,
		
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			a part of our faith in
		
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			needs
		
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			to be
		
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			a part of our displaying our faith in
		
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			in Allah
		
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			has to be through the display of
		
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			taking
		
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			those measures
		
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			and utilizing those means to minimize
		
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			the risk
		
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			of
		
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			harm finding us or praying upon us.
		
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			So, for example, Imam Azhar mentioned, if you
		
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			see something, say something.
		
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			The whole concept of
		
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			is what? What is the concept of
		
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			What does mean?
		
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			To remember Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Do we
		
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			only remember Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in prayer?
		
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			Do we only remember Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			33, 33, or 34 times after and then
		
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			it's over? Do we only remember Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala through our athkar in the morning
		
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			and evening?
		
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			No. That is a verbal expression
		
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			of what we are meant in this the
		
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			state that we are meant to be in
		
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			all the time. A Muslim is constantly
		
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			conscious
		
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			of
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			and everything around them.
		
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			A Muslim is not
		
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			a ghafil,
		
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			where they're heedless, where they're unaware of what
		
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			is going on around them. Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala if, you know, if you when we
		
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			read the Quran, Allah tells us what? Look
		
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			at the skies, look at the mountains, look
		
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			at the animals, look at the vegetation, look
		
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			at the trees,
		
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			don't you travel. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			instructs
		
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			us to be vigilant
		
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			and observing of our surroundings.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So likewise, just as the prophet sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wasallam was strategic in everything to minimize the
		
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			risk,
		
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			Likewise, we need to do that as Muslims
		
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			as well.
		
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			As Muslims, we need to be
		
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			aware of our surroundings.
		
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			When we find ourselves in any other setting
		
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			outside the masjid, we need to look around
		
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			and be vigilant.
		
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			We need to see if
		
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			someone is looking at us in a weird
		
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			way. We need to see if someone is
		
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			following us. We need to be vigilant about
		
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			these things instead of being on our phones.
		
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			1 of the
		
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			people who want to cause and inflict harm
		
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			on people,
		
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			their number one priority, their number one target
		
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			targets are people
		
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			who are
		
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			heedless, people who are not paying attention,
		
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			people who are distracted by something. These are
		
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			people who become the easy target.
		
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			And this is not what Islam teaches us.
		
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			Islam does not teach us to be an
		
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			easy target.
		
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			Islam teaches us
		
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			to be vigilant
		
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			and also to conduct ourselves in a way
		
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			that people don't think we are easy targets
		
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			or victims. When the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
		
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			came with the sahaba the year after he
		
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			was declined
		
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			from from performing umrah
		
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			and when they finally came back, the mushrikeen
		
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			were mocking the sahaba and the prophet sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wasalam that, oh look, all of this
		
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			move to Madinah has made them weak.
		
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			When we go for umra, the men,
		
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			when you go for umrah, when you go
		
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			for tawaf,
		
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			what do you do
		
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			in
		
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			your first tawaf for umrah?
		
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			There's something different about that
		
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			as opposed to when you go back out
		
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			of ihram for umrah for for tawaf.
		
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			What do you do? What do you do
		
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			with your with the top part of your
		
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			ihram?
		
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			Right? You expose your right shoulder and your
		
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			right arm.
		
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			Can someone share with me the the the
		
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			wisdom or the reason behind why that is
		
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			done?
		
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			The prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam ordered these sahaba
		
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			when he heard the mushrikeen mocking them, when
		
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			they were sitting on the hilltops looking
		
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			at at the Muslims, how these weaklings are
		
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			doing tawaf. The prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam said,
		
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			expose your right arm and also there's a
		
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			little bit of a shake, right, a little
		
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			bit of a swag, if you will,
		
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			that's involved
		
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			in the first part of that tawaf.
		
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			For what?
		
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			To display what? That we are not weak.
		
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			We are strong.
		
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			And
		
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			if there is anyone
		
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			who can claim to have strength,
		
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			is the Muslim ummah because we have revelation.
		
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			We have the source of strength. We have
		
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			the source of guidance.
		
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			So a Muslim can never be weak and
		
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			never can can never portray themselves as weak
		
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			and portray themselves as being a victim.
		
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			As a Muslim, we must be vigilant, we
		
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			must be conscious of our awareings and we
		
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			must
		
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			take measures
		
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			individually,
		
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			on a family level, on a community level
		
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			to ward off
		
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			any type
		
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			of threat
		
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			that may come up that may come upon
		
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			us simply because, what,
		
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			someone may think that we are weak.
		
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			Are we weak?
		
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			We are not weak.
		
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			We have strength
		
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			that is guided not by weights,
		
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			but we get our straight by what? Our
		
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			strength by
		
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			Right?
		
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			We are we are lifting
		
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			So we are guided by We gain our
		
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			strength by
		
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			So we have to take these measures
		
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			and find again, there's no protection and no
		
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			safety
		
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			from Allah
		
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			except towards
		
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			Allah And I pray that Allah
		
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			guides me and guides all of us towards
		
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			finding that safety
		
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			and harnessing that straight safety and preserving that
		
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			safety.
		
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			One thing I do wanna mention is that,
		
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			subhanAllah,
		
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			as the 3 shi'ukti talked about the importance
		
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			of not being afraid
		
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			of,
		
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			of really implementing our deen. You know, subhanAllah,
		
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			after 9/11, we know that,
		
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			the Sikh community,
		
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			the Sikh community,
		
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			they are,
		
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			they have a sort of a resemblance with
		
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			Muslims because of the beer, because of the
		
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			turban, so forth. And as a result, there
		
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			are a lot of people from the from
		
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			the Sikh community that have also lost their
		
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			life.
		
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			And but if you go to the Sikh
		
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			community and you talk to them, they would
		
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			tell you that despite what has been going
		
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			on, because of what has been going on,
		
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			this has made us only more this has
		
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			made us only more
		
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			firm in our faith.
		
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			This has made us
		
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			more firm in our faith.
		
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			So if there is a person
		
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			who does not believe in Allah and his
		
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			prophet
		
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			they don't have and
		
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			yet these times
		
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			create creates courage in them and strength in
		
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			them,
		
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			then as a Muslim,
		
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			when we have we
		
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			have to be strong.
		
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			We have something that gives us that that
		
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			strength, that internal strength.
		
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			So why be afraid in these kind of
		
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			times,
		
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			You know, we have to be consistent and
		
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			we have to be steadfast,
		
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			next to close to our deen.
		
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			The next question I do have for all
		
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			through Shayuk, we don't have too much time.
		
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			By the way, if you have any questions
		
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			at the end, inshallah,
		
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			you can ask. Just raise your hand Insha'Allah.
		
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			But the next question I do have,
		
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			we have to pray
		
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			at 9:30.
		
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			We have As Ramadan comes,
		
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			we see a lot of practices in in
		
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			society.
		
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			We have community iftars, there are some families
		
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			that get invited. They have so many invitations
		
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			to iftar and so forth.
		
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			Not only that but,
		
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			you know, late at night we have many
		
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			of our Muslim youth. They also go out
		
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			out,
		
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			at the time of suhoor.
		
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			They go to different restaurants and so forth.
		
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			So and we know and for for those
		
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			of you who may not know,
		
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			last year we heard about a very sad
		
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			situation of a Muslim sister in the Virginia
		
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			area who lost her life. It was during
		
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			that time, that Suhur time when she went
		
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			out.
		
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			So I wanna ask all to shiub to
		
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			please pitch in to this that,
		
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			you know, first of all, this whole culture
		
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			that we have in our community
		
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			about iftar.
		
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			Number 2 is going out and having these
		
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			collective suhoorus.
		
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			Oh, and not only that but then in
		
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			the masajid, we have all nighters. Sometimes we
		
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			have brothers all nighters, sisters all nighter. Please
		
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			shed some light on that matter.
		
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			I'm gonna take 3 minutes. I know we
		
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			get 5, I'm gonna take 3 minutes. But
		
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			the first minute I'm gonna spend on the
		
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			first question just give you 3 pointers.
		
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			The Quran serves as a gauge.
		
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			Like your fuel gauge.
		
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			And there's a verse in the Quran
		
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			that highlights the problem.
		
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			The fact that places of worship are being
		
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			violated today is a sign
		
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			that the Muslim community's
		
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			faith is weak,
		
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			and that we are failing.
		
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			I'm first. I'm not pointing finger at you,
		
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			I'm first.
		
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			I'll point that weakness on myself.
		
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			There was a time in Abu Darda radiAllahu
		
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			ta'ala sallam,
		
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			just read the story of Abu Darda.
		
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			Abu Darda's house burning down. Read it on
		
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			Google. Find it. Yeah. Abu Darda
		
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			He People came to him and said, your
		
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			house has burned down. He said, my house
		
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			hasn't burned down. 3 people came to him
		
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			and said, no, my house hasn't burned down.
		
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			And when the 4th one came and confirmed
		
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			the fire was there, when it came to
		
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			your house it stopped. They said, why? He
		
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			said,
		
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			I cannot translate this for you. Time is
		
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			less.
		
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			Just Google Abu Darda's house burning down. He
		
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			said, I read this du'a every morning, the
		
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			prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam taught me, and
		
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			I know,
		
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			I know
		
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			Allah is protecting me and my family. And
		
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			if you believe that this is a fantasy,
		
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			Mufti Takki Usmani's life was just threatened
		
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			last month?
		
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			Yes? Yeah.
		
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			His shot was his car was shot at,
		
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			his guard was killed.
		
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			And you know what he was doing at
		
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			that time before the shooters emerged? He was
		
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			reciting suraqaf. And you know what he read
		
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			that morning? The same du'a I just read
		
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			to you. Allah protected his life because a
		
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			Muslim's protection is through their faith first and
		
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			only through their faith. And when we protect
		
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			ourselves,
		
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			we protect the society, we protect churches, and
		
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			synagogues, and temples, and masjids. Today we're not,
		
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			unfortunately. Let's go to Ramadan.
		
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			2 minutes.
		
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			1 and a half minutes.
		
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			Brothers and sisters,
		
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			stop making
		
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			Ramadan a party.
		
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			I beg you, it's not a party.
		
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			Stop
		
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			pushing the cultural envelope
		
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			of telling your spouses to make the dishes
		
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			that are not made in 11 months.
		
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			We're crazy. I'm sorry. We're crazy people.
		
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			It's a month where you are physically gonna
		
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			go and check into the ICU of Allah.
		
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			Where? Sisters?
		
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			Sisters?
		
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			ICU. Brothers, where? ICU. Now if someone calls
		
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			you, hey bro, we're hanging out tonight watching
		
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			the Clippers, you know, defeat the Golden State
		
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			Warriors tonight, you're coming down. No. I'm in
		
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			the ICU. I'm sorry.
		
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			I'm sorry. You're in the ICU? I'm not
		
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			gonna bother you.
		
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			Let us stop bothering each other in Ramadan
		
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			with this
		
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			unfortunate culture of food and feasting.
		
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			The most important time of your Ramadan is
		
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			from Asr al Maghrib. It's all in chitchat,
		
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			gossip, and discussions.
		
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			Many time we go to our iftar dinners
		
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			and restaurants, no one even prays their Maghrib.
		
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			We have made a mockery of Ramadan, and
		
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			that is why our kids hate Islam,
		
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			they hate Ramadan,
		
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			they don't come from Jummah, they don't come
		
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			for Eid prayer because we ourselves are making
		
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			a joke out of it. So I'm putting
		
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			together I've put together a 9 step strategy,
		
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			which we're talking this week, and a practical
		
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			course of Ramadan.
		
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			But at the end of the day, one
		
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			of them is don't invite me to anyone's
		
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			house. I'm not going to your house. You
		
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			wanna celebrate, we'll celebrate after Eid. We're not
		
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			celebrating during Ramadan. So stop that culture. And
		
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			the final thing with nabra, what we learned.
		
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			Now we're seeing a a rise in a
		
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			trend. We had the Desi culture and the
		
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			Arabian culture, now we have the American culture.
		
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			The Perkins, the Denny's, and the IHOPs.
		
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			Right? Everyone's going there. Now I'm not here
		
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			to talk about food and ethics, but let
		
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			me tell you, those 3 restaurants, I don't
		
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			see no ethical standards in them. There's a
		
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			lot of cross contamination
		
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			between the bacons and the pancake, and take
		
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			my word for it.
		
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			So eat your suhoor at home,
		
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			eat your suhoor together in the masjid if
		
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			it facilitates that. And for the children,
		
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			the teenagers, I know school's gonna end for
		
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			college students in the 2nd week of Ramadan.
		
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			And for Frisco ISD, I think we're finishing
		
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			on the 30th May, which gives them 4
		
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			days.
		
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			If you're going to the masjid,
		
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			be true to your parents.
		
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			Do what you're supposed to do, and do
		
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			only that.
		
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			Don't come for a child a kid's program,
		
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			a teenage event, and then go walking off
		
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			at night with your friends. That's exactly what
		
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			happened to Nabra. And that's how she got
		
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			behind because she had asthma, she couldn't run
		
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			as fast, and we know now.
		
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			We know now.
		
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			She was raped, and she was killed.
		
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			Brothers and sisters, Sheikh gave a very good
		
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			hadith. The wolf preys
		
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			on the lone sheep.
		
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			Stay together,
		
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			do things together,
		
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			be ethical,
		
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			be truthful,
		
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			and insha'Allah,
		
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			remember Allah, we will be protected. Keep Ramadan,
		
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			Ramadan, and not an Eid, so then Eid
		
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			will be an Eid, and Ramadan will be
		
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			Ramadan, inshallah.
		
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			I remember the last year we had the
		
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			most successful,
		
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			Makkah program in Ebbuk,
		
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			and Imam Nadeem said a wonderful thing
		
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			then, a wonderful statement.
		
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			The problem
		
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			used to be,
		
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			salallahu alaihi wasalam, he's a mercy for mankind
		
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			as Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, mentioned that. Allah
		
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			gave him from his names
		
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			that he's.
		
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			The prophet Muhammad, salallahu alaihi wasalam forgave the
		
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			people who,
		
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			try who who who who who forced him
		
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			to leave his beloved place, Mecca and Hudal
		
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			Madinah, who tried to kill his Sahaba, who
		
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			killed his beloved uncle Hamza ibn Abdul Muttalib
		
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			and he is
		
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			Allah.
		
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			Guide my people because they do not know
		
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			the prophet
		
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			Muhammad used to forgive a lot and we
		
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			learn from him that. Imagine when Jibril
		
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			says dua
		
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			and the prophet Muhammad
		
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			says dua
		
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			for the person
		
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			who is alive during the the time of
		
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			Ramadan
		
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			and he is away from the mercy of
		
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			Allah. His sins are not forgiving
		
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			and he will enter hellfire
		
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			and on that dua that is said by
		
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			Jibril, the prophet Muhammad
		
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			said Amin. Why dear brothers and sisters? For
		
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			a lot of reason. We waste Ramadan because
		
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			we focus on the culture during the time
		
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			of Ramadan. It's the time to socialize,
		
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			one night here, one night there. Imagine if
		
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			the sister
		
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			spend 5, 6 hours while she's fasting to
		
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			prepare
		
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			food. What
		
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			is
		
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			and may Allah have mercy upon this person
		
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			who wrote this book Husn al Muslim.
		
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			He chose the best name.
		
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			Adkar
		
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			is Husnu al Muslim, is the fortress.
		
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			Did we try with our kids
		
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			and did we ask them every
		
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			every every day and every night? Did you
		
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			say, I call it the golden package, the
		
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			golden package
		
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			100 times
		
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			100
		
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			times 100 times
		
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			100 times the dua that the sheikh mentioned
		
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			of.
		
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			All these avakar is it's it's a it's
		
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			something that we have as a Muslim that
		
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			no one else have.
		
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			And why don't we teach our kids to
		
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			be protected
		
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			by that instead of wasting
		
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			all our time in cultural thing that are
		
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			not increasing our iman and instead of losing
		
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			weight after Ramadan,
		
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			we are gaining weight because we eat a
		
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			lot the dishes that we see only in
		
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			Ramadan
		
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			and subhanallah,
		
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			everybody's focused on that. The sister, instead of
		
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			getting getting reward, because if the sister cooks
		
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			the food and she has the intention
		
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			to that she's trying to help their family
		
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			to eat from halal and to enjoy the
		
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			food, she will be rewarded. Instead of that,
		
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			the sister is busy and she's in distress
		
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			because she needs to make a lot of
		
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			food because
		
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			the other family invited them the last week
		
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			and they they made a lot of food
		
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			so they are competing.
		
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			The second important thing that
		
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			related to,
		
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			gathering in the masjid and eating in the
		
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			masjid.
		
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			So this is something that is highly recommended
		
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			because of the hadith that we all know.
		
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			The one who provides food for a fasting
		
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			Muslim, he has a word similar to this
		
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			fasting Muslim without decreasing
		
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			anything from the word of this fasting Muslim.
		
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			El Azzed Nasalah,
		
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			yes. This is the point. Most most most
		
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			of the people, they focus on two things,
		
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			water and dates. People compete to the masjid
		
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			and bring a lot of dates and a
		
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			lot of water. Brothers, after dates and what?
		
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			Who's who's gonna feed the people now? Do
		
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			you think that this is sufficient? That's good.
		
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			But we need actual food. We need biryani.
		
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			We need to know, not a spicy biryani,
		
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			but we need some food to to to
		
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			eat. But everyone compete to bring What is
		
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			that? No, no, no. Go ahead.
		
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			So
		
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			so we we need to eat actual food.
		
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			I I I end with this.
		
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			Ibn al Jawzi or ibn al-'Azid al-'Abdi Salaam,
		
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			he said, you can fast the whole
		
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			and you have a reward of a whole
		
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			year. How?
		
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			If we provide food for 1 person,
		
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			it is hasanah that is multiplied to 10
		
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			hasanat.
		
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			So if we fa if we provide food
		
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			for
		
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			36 Muslims, it is equal
		
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			to giving and fasting for a whole year.
		
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			If we give food for 36 people,
		
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			this means that we are fasting and gaining
		
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			their word of a whole year of fast.
		
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			If we provide food for a full masjid,
		
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			300, 500, 1000 people imagine their word. Can
		
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			we afford it? Yes. We can. Instead of
		
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			inviting people and competing and fixing the best
		
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			food at home, so let us just just
		
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			do it in the Masjid Insha'Allah. Some would
		
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			say, oh, the people who come to the
		
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			Masjid are, you know, are rich. They they
		
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			don't know, they are not poor. It doesn't
		
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			matter. Said,
		
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			he used to gather the sahabr at one
		
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			of them and among them are the people
		
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			who are wealthy and have money. He says,
		
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			it's better than free in a slave. Imagine
		
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			free in a slave has a great worth.
		
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			So this is something that we should care
		
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			for, we should take care of. This is
		
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			an investment with Allah if you provide food
		
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			for people overseas who are suffering a lot
		
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			with $10 with $100,
		
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			you can feed the family for a whole
		
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			month. Can you imagine this? How we can
		
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			change Allah's word and actually are all in
		
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			the need
		
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			of that. And then for the kids and
		
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			leaving the Masjid,
		
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			Allah will ask us
		
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			about our kids. As parents, we should make
		
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			sure that they are in a safe place
		
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			and at the same time,
		
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			yeah, kids, all our kids, all our daughters
		
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			and all our sons,
		
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			please listen to your parents because they love
		
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			you and they are worried about you and
		
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			if something happens, those are the people that
		
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			you break their hearts. Listen to them and
		
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			Allah will reward you because they love you
		
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			and they are worried about you and they
		
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			cannot have a peaceful time without you in
		
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			their life. JazakAllah.
		
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			This is just, I wanna wrap up. Insha'Allah.
		
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			So if you have any questions, there's one,
		
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			one thing I quickly wanted to say about
		
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			this subject matter.
		
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			What happens in many cases that we go
		
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			to a lot of these iftar,
		
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			dawats and so forth.
		
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			First of all is that
		
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			what I've seen in many cases is that
		
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			people go there, they enjoy themselves.
		
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			And what happens in many cases is that
		
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			after that they become so lazy in coming
		
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			to the masjid
		
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			that they end up going back home. And
		
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			what has happened unfortunately is that See, you
		
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			know, during the time of when
		
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			he gathered all the sahaba
		
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			for inside,
		
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			at at the masjid,
		
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			all the sahaba would come and they would
		
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			pray together.
		
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			But it is very unfortunate that today many
		
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			of us have been exposed to this information
		
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			that
		
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			is not important.
		
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			Is not important.
		
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			Is only a sunnah. So if if it's
		
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			only a sunnah Oh, if it's only a
		
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			sunnah, I don't have to pray it.
		
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			Oh, what the prophet says,
		
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			If this is something that does not motivate
		
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			us, I don't know what will motivate us.
		
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			If we know that I can be standing,
		
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			and this is me standing before Allah,
		
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			This is my time to meet Allah Subhanahu
		
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			Wa Ta'ala, and we push it away simply
		
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			saying that, Oh, it's a sunnah only. Don't
		
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			worry about it. So this is something that
		
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			first of all we need to understand is
		
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			that even if we go to a dawat,
		
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			we should not make it into a, into
		
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			a habit. Even if we go, make sure
		
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			that after that you finish, try to finish
		
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			as soon as possible, get to your masjid,
		
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			and get ready for salatulawiyyah.
		
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			Next thing is suhoor.
		
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			You know,
		
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			last year there was a sister who called
		
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			me
		
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			towards the end of Ramadan.
		
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			She said that she went to a local
		
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			restaurant. Okay? She went to a local restaurant.
		
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			And what she told me was very disturbing.
		
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			She said that as I she goes that
		
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			I was there
		
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			and there were a lot of other muslim,
		
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			boys and girls that had come over there
		
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			to have suhoor. Now, first of all, one
		
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			thing 1 one one trend that we have
		
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			starting to see happening quite a bit is
		
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			muslim young brothers and young sisters going collectively.
		
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			Sitting next to each other,
		
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			in the name of Islam,
		
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			we're putting together Islamic programs, let's sit next
		
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			to each other, this is not allowed.
		
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			This is not allowed. We have to understand
		
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			our limitations.
		
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			If the Muslim sisters wanna go, fine. But
		
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			as Imam Azar mentioned, the best thing is
		
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			to sit down with your family and partake
		
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			suhoor with them.
		
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			Even if you have to go, you go
		
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			if you're a sister, you go with the
		
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			sisters. If you're a brother, you go with
		
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			the brothers.
		
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			But at the same time what she told
		
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			me was this,
		
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			she says that 2 people walked in. She
		
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			said that there are 2 women who walked
		
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			in at that time. They walked in towards
		
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			the end of Suhur time.
		
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			And at that restaurant
		
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			there was only the It was early in
		
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			the morning of course. So there was a
		
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			waitress and there was only 1 guy in
		
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			the kitchen.
		
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			And you can't imagine
		
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			when your when your entire restaurant
		
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			is filled with Muslims and there are hungry
		
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			Muslims. Okay? There are hungry Muslims. And they're
		
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			about to fast for the next 13, 14
		
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			hours.
		
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			They are ordering, they want their food right
		
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			away. Everyone came in early, everyone has ordered
		
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			their food, the food has come in. There's
		
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			a lot of pressure on these two people.
		
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			These two people when there there's 2 women
		
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			who walked in, they gave their order. It
		
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			was towards the end of suhoor. They had
		
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			put a lot of pressure on the waitress
		
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			and the cooker.
		
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			Now the cook cannot cook that fast.
		
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			He has other orders to take place other
		
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			orders to take care of. What did that
		
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			What did those 2 women do? They got
		
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			up
		
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			and very openly in front of everyone began
		
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			to verbally
		
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			abuse that woman.
		
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			And not just verbally abuse, not like getting
		
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			upset.
		
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			Profanity.
		
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			This is the month of Ramadan.
		
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			In the month of Ramadan,
		
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			where we're supposed to exhibit the best character.
		
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			Exhibit a character,
		
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			sabr and so forth.
		
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			This is the way we're behaving?
		
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			Is this what
		
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			Islam teaches us?
		
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			Is this what the prophet has taught us?
		
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			So we have to be very careful about
		
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			these things.
		
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			It is only 5 minutes after salat. I
		
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			saw,
		
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			the brother he had his question up, his
		
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			hand up. He had a question.
		
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			We'll probably just take probably just 1 or
		
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			2 questions or 3 questions at the most,
		
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			and then inshallah, we will have someone to
		
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			make, give the adhan and we'll start inshallah.
		
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			You had a question?
		
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			So just to reiterate what the brother is
		
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			saying, and this is what Sheikh Jabali had
		
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			mentioned earlier.
		
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			This dua, the dua of the prophet
		
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			these are very powerful supplications.
		
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			So, the dua is
		
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			Anyone who recises 3 times morning, evening inshallah,
		
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			Allah will protect them.
		
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			Any questions from anyone actually?
		
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			Is there anyone who has any questions?
		
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			Yes.
		
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			You're gonna speak a little louder. I'm sorry.
		
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			Okay. Insha'Allah,
		
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			so the brother is saying that last year,
		
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			Epic took some brothers for suhoor.
		
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			Can it be avoid it can be avoided.
		
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			Insha'Allah, we will look into that, exactly what
		
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			happened and so forth and can it be
		
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			avoided or not. Rather, insha'Allah have the suhoor
		
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			here insha'Allah. Yes.
		
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			So I so the question, brother Ziyad is
		
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			asking is that, is there any programs going
		
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			on in the month of Ramadan at the
		
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			masjid for non Muslims?
		
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			I do know that,
		
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			there is,
		
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			an interfaith iftar taking place
		
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			at, IACC.
		
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			What is it? Imam, do you know when
		
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			it is? ICC? Yeah.
		
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			Do you know when it is?
		
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			Maybe. So,
		
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			I would say this is that, IEC IECC
		
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			is holding an iftar, an interfaith Iftar event,
		
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			Insha'Allah.
		
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			Epic is also holding
		
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			1 inshallah too. It's called sharing Ramadan.
		
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			That will be taking place, in I believe
		
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			May 18th inshallah, but I have to confirm
		
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			that.
		
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			And so
		
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			that is the you know, if there's any
		
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			masjid that is having,
		
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			a sharing Ramadan or
		
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			Iftar event, the best thing is to take
		
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			them to there.
		
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			Also, you can bring them over to your
		
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			own home too.
		
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			So May 16th, inshallah. I remember I don't
		
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			wanna go into there's not that much time.
		
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			Several years ago, there was the imam of
		
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			the West Fayed Al Masjid, Imam Yacine Sheikh.
		
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			Some of you may remember,
		
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			he had actually talked to a pastor about
		
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			Ramadan.
		
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			His name was, Wes Magruder.
		
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			He actually this man, he went, he talked
		
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			to Imam Yacine
		
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			about his thoughts about fasting
		
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			in Ramadan.
		
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			And lo and behold, this pastor,
		
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			yes, pastor,
		
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			he fasted for all 30 days in the
		
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			month of Ramadan.
		
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			He fasted all 30 days in the month
		
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			of Ramadan. Every single day he would write
		
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			about his experiences and so forth. So if
		
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			we know that we have neighbors that, you
		
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			know, it's a source of dawah, bring them
		
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			to the masjid in the month of Ramadan
		
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			if there's an event, or try to bring
		
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			them over to your home. That is the
		
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			best thing. To build a more intimate relationship
		
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			is even better.
		
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			So having said that, we don't have enough
		
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			time. We don't have any more time. We'll
		
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			conclude.
		
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			I wanna say
		
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			to all the for coming
		
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			out, taking time out of their busy schedules,
		
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			and coming over here. Some people think that
		
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			the only thing that imams do are.
		
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			Uh-uh. There's a lot of things that they
		
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			do. They have a very, hefty busy schedule.
		
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			Inshallah.
		
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			So
		
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			once again,
		
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			to all of them. We are gonna have
		
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			a Makkah event inshallah. It's gonna be taking
		
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			place, in at ICC inshallah.
		
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			When?
		
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			May 24th Inshallah. It will be, of course,
		
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			after we are Inshallah.
		
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			After Inshallah, there's another lecture,
		
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			by our guest, who was the guest today,
		
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			Yusha Evans. Ziyad, please. Adan.