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Thank you very much for being here.
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Thank you to the organizers for bringing me
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to Allentown.
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I hadn't heard of it before I came
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here, I'm joking.
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The topic of the discussion is Navigating the
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Modern World, Balancing Faith with Contemporary Challenges.
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And sometimes when I read this particular title
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of the topic, I often, I like to
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do tafsir of, you know, diplomatic language.
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What this diplomatic language actually means is, how
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do I choose between my nafs that desires
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a life of comfort and what the seer
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of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ teaches me, which
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is that struggle is the epitome of success.
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How do I navigate between being told that
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the epitome of success is to go to
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university, to get a good job, to make
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a lot of money, I speak American too,
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and to get a big house and to
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get everything and to say, finally I've succeeded.
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How do I wrestle between the desire to
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achieve that and the mission that Islam calls
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on me to embark on, which is to
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be a mercy to my society, to stand
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for what's right and to be proud of
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doing so, even if there is a backlash
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in doing so.
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I tell the story quite often, but I
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like it.
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I was in New Jersey, I don't know
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if people laugh, I watch the movies, the
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movies they say New Jersey, you know, get
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out of here, forget about it, you know.
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When I first, wallahi I tell you, when
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I first came to the US in 2018,
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I came for, a friend of mine was
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getting married in North Carolina, so initially I
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said I don't really want to go to
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America, I don't really have an interest in
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going, and I kept delaying the interview, and
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then he called me one day and he
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told me, did you go to your interview
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process, so I said, give me some respect
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for my dignity, you want me to go
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to the embassy and tell them please, please
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let me into your country, give me some,
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and the reason why is because Obama had
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the Muslim ban, so Obama's Muslim ban was
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that if you'd gone to Sudan or Iraq
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or these places, you couldn't use the waiver,
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you had to go to the embassy and
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do an interview process, and then Trump got
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excited and continued the process later on, but
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in any case, when I went for the
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interview, of course, they gave me the visa
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within 5 minutes, my friend beforehand said if
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you don't go, we will never be friends
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again if you don't come, she has 400
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people coming to the wedding, I've got 8,
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I told him, you're the one who went
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there, you could have chosen somebody here, when
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I landed in America, of course, I landed
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in New York, and everybody is talking like
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the movies, you know, like I'm staring at
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people, you know, they're like, hey, you know,
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sometimes, hey, I'm walking over here, you know,
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I was very excited, so I wanted to
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try one of those sketches, so I entered
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a bagel shop, when I went in the
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bagel shop, of course, I'm telling my friend
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on the plane, I say, when we land,
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we got to talk American, you know, he's
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like, Sammy, please don't go overboard, please don't
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embarrass us, so I walk into a bagel
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shop in Brooklyn, I've gone, hey, how are
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you, can I get a bagel with egg
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and cheese, please, they said, sure, can I
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get some water with that, they said, yeah,
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sure, then Abu Bakr walks in, Abu Bakr,
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of course, is like, I'm not playing these
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games the way you do, Sammy, so he
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said, excuse me, can I get a bagel
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and a bottle of water, please, they went,
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what, can I get a bagel and a
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bottle of water, what, what, what's he talking,
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what's, and I'm watching, I'm going, so he
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asks again, I've gone, water, water, he wants
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water, oh, water, yes, you can have water,
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so I was very excited about coming to
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America and the like, but one of the
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things is that when we're talking about the
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topic of what it means to be Muslim
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in America or indeed elsewhere is, how do
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you see your purpose in America, the Prophet
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Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was sent as a
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mercy to mankind, he was sent to take
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people out of darkness into light, and so
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when I was in New Jersey, because I
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learned all this American language, there was a
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sheikh who said to me, Sammy, what is
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the hardest part about these talks that you're
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giving across America, and I told him, the
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hardest part is convincing my ummah that the
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price they pay for standing for what's right
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is worth paying, I find it hard that
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I have to try to convince them to
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do what's right by teasing them with a
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dunya outcome that they will be content with,
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it's hard to tell them to do what's
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right, when the price they will pay for
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it might put them under some struggle, it's
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hard to convince them that struggle is worth
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it, and he said to me, Sammy, this
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is because Islam in many ways in the
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modern day has become quite problematic for Muslims,
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I said, Astaghfirullah bro, what's wrong with you,
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I said, you know if someone caught you
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on camera with that, you'd be cancelled everywhere,
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nobody will have you, even in Allentown, I
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didn't say that part, the Allentown bit, so
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he said, Sammy, send blessings on the prophet,
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the Egyptians don't tell you shush to cut
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you off, they don't tell you shut up,
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they don't tell you get out of here,
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what the Egyptians do is, and every time
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you say it, you're like, I did it
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5 times man, exactly, now let me talk,
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so he says to me, Sammy, how would
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you describe the relationship between the prophet Muhammad
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ﷺ in the first 40 years of his
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life with Quraish, how would you describe it,
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anyone, just shout out, excellent, amazing, he was
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Sadiq, Ameen, the golden boy, when you have
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a problem between two tribes, bring Muhammad ﷺ
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to mediate, if you have a lover, an
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amanah, your cousin is always cheating you, give
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it to Muhammad bin Abdullah, he won't cheat
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you, you want to send your brother with
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a caravan, but your brother is a sleaze
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sometimes, you know, you don't trust him, send
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Muhammad bin Abdullah, Muhammad bin Abdullah will never
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cheat you, Muhammad bin Abdullah will always look
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after the amanah, he was the golden boy,
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when he walks in, Muhammad, the noble man,
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son of a noble man, is walking in
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on us, Tayyib ya Sammy, when do his
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problems begin with Quraish?
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Does his character change?
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They know he is truthful, they know he
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is sahib amanah, they know he is a
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good man, they acknowledge his character hasn't changed,
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so what changes?
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What is it that happens when he is
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40 years of age that alters the relationship
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between him and Quraish?
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He stands up and says, La ilaha illallah,
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Muhammadur Rasulullah, stop the genocide in Gaza, stop
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burying your daughters alive, stop abusing the poor,
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stop cheating each other in business, stop cheating
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those who are weak in society, the Prophet
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Muhammad s.a.w. does not do what
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the Christian priests are doing in Mecca at
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the time, which is telling people focus on
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your personal self, keep it in the home,
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keep it private, focus on the personal relationship
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between you and God, Muhammad s.a.w.
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goes in their social issues, to their town
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halls, to their school boards, everywhere he goes
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and he tells them, guys this is how
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it should be done, this is the message
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from upon high, uphold that which is right
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and forbid that which is evil.
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He said Sammy, what was Quraish's reaction to
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that call?
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The reaction was oppression, repression, the reaction was
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a backlash, he went from overnight from being
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the golden boy to somebody being persecuted.
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Why?
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Because of the message where he was demanding
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that society changes and delivering the message saying,
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stop this injustice, stop this injustice.
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In the first 40 years, the status quo
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was fine, when he challenged the status quo
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for that which is right, there was the
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backlash.
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Don't know what's your point sheikh?
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He said, today when we want to point
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to somebody's success, the moment he pays off
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his mortgage or buys the home, we say,
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mabrook ya waladi, you succeeded, Muhammad be like
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him.
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You bought the Tesla, I don't know why
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everyone likes Tesla so much, but I'm in
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America so it is what it is.
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You bought the cyber truck, very ugly but
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in any case, you bought the stuff, I
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shouldn't say that, the views expressed on my
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own, they don't reflect those of the organizations
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that invited me.
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Sorry Elon Musk.
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In any case, when they buy the car,
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the parent sits in the car and says,
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mabrook waladi, mabrook binti, you succeeded, Allah Allah,
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drive past aunty Halima so she can see
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it as well.
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Sami, the same way we point in modern
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day to this moment where we say, this
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person succeeded, go through the seerah, point to
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that point, tell me where the prophet Muhammad
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s.a.w. succeeds.
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Measure the prophet Muhammad s.a.w. by
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the modern standards that the ummah considers success.
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Where does he rank?
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Sheikh, don't do this to me.
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He goes, what's going on?
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Is your brain the wire going all haywire?
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Is it going all, I said but sheikh,
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success is not measured by what?
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It's not measured by the material possessions.
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How is success measured then in Islam?
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Because the struggle of the prophet Muhammad s
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.a.w. does not end until his dying
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breath.
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Even when he enters Mecca, he passes away
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within a year in Medina Munawwara afterwards.
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He does not stay in Mecca.
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He does not stay from where he was
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kicked out of.
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He goes to Medina Munawwara and he passes
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away and goes back to Allah s.w
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.t. and it is said that every prophet
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is asked, do you want to stay in
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this dunya and see the fruits of your
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efforts or do you want to go back
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to Allah?
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He said, I'll go back to Allah.
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I won't stay here.
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Sammy, where does the prophet Muhammad s.a
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.w. measure up in that modern terms of
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success?
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I said, I beg you stop asking me
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this question.
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Get to the point.
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He said, who would you describe as the
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most successful person in history?
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It is Muhammad s.a.w. Now I'm
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aware that because I look like you and
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we Muslims have inferiority complexes, I am considered
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hadith daif, mutawatir.
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So I came armed with what I like
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to refer to as sahih non-muslim.
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sahih non-muslim is a compilation of non
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-muslim testimonials about Islam and the prophet Muhammad
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s.a.w. because I know that has
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more value than my words.
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I know we're the age of Dajjal, so
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the other eye is not open yet to
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appreciate it.
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My quha, he put Muhammad s.a.w.
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as the number one most successful person in
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history.
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Why?
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What does he measure the success of the
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prophet Muhammad s.a.w.? He measures him
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by the fact that he said no man
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in history.
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The prophet Muhammad s.a.w. did not
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have conquer as many lands as Genghis Khan
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did, did not conquer as many lands as
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Alexander the Great did.
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He did not have wealth comparable to Enrico
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Dandolo of Venice, but he left behind a
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spirit and legacy so great that generations after
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him would move in the name of his
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message without ever seeing him.
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They would love him though they would never
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meet him.
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They would move based on his promise.
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They would move based on what he told
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them.
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They would move based on what he delivered.
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They would sacrifice and struggle based on the
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promise that he gave them and 1400 years
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later, la ilaha illallah would be raised in
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Allentown, Pennsylvania.
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Ibadallah, the magnificence of the prophet Muhammad s
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.a.w., the success was in his ability
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and perseverance to keep going, but I'm not
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here to talk to you about the struggle.
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I'm here to talk about what might prevent
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you from struggling and I won't go on
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for too long.
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They told me we're behind schedule.
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So Sami, please don't talk for 50 minutes.
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Please talk for half an hour.
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So that means I'll talk for about two
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hours inshallah and then we can deal with
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it.
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I'm joking.
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I'm joking.
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I'm joking.
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I'm semi-joking.
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The reality is that when you look at
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the seal of the prophet Muhammad s.a
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.w., he gives his dawah in Mecca.
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He fights winds in Badr, is defeated in
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Uhud, existential crisis in Khandaq, Hudaybiyyah, the sahaba
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angry at the treaty.
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When he enters Mecca, he goes to Medina.
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But I think that when it comes to
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the perseverance of struggle during when you're here
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in America or in the or in the
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UK, his majesty's kingdom sends his regards.
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I think it's more about to what extent
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does the promise of Allah move you and
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how do you perceive Allah subhanahu wa ta
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'ala in this movement that you embark on.
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Explain what I mean.
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I know that sounds vague.
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One of my favorite surahs in the Quran
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and I don't know if you can have
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a favorite surah but other mashayikh can correct
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me.
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I love surah Taha.
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The reason why I love surah Taha is
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because when I was 16, I was flying
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back from Saudi Arabia.
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Inshallah, I get to see that country again
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inshallah at some point and see the Haramain
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inshallah.
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If you go there and see the Kaaba,
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make dua for me.
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Don't say my name in person, you might
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get in trouble but just make dua for
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me inshallah.
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When I was flying back, I heard surah
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Taha and surah Taha, there is a dialogue.
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There is an exchange between Musa alaihissalam and
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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that I loved
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so much because in this, Musa alaihissalam was
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pretty reminded me of an ordinary Muslim of
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today and I'll explain what I mean.
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There's no blasphemy in this, don't worry.
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Musa alaihissalam is going past Tua and he
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says, I've seen a fire and I'm going
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to go to this fire.
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Maybe I might find some guidance that might
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help us to get us to the location
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where we're going to.
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So when he goes there, Allah talks to
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him.
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So he talks to Allah subhanahu wa ta
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'ala and Allah shows him two signs.
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Allah says, What is in your right hand?
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It is a stick that I use for
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shepherding and there are some other uses that
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I have for it.
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He threw it and it became like a
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serpent, like a snake.
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Take it, we will restore it back to
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a stick.
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That's the first miracle.
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The second miracle, on the side.
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Put your hand on your side and a
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bright light will appear.
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We will show you two of our major
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signs.
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Now after he's spoken to Allah subhanahu wa
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ta'ala and seen the two major signs,
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Allah tells him, Go to Pharaoh, go to
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society, go out and go and convey the
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message, go out and go and talk to
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people, go out and go and engage with
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society, go out and deliver the message.
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You would like to think that if Allah
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told you to do the same thing, you'd
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say, bismillah, not Musa alaihissalaam.
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Musa says, Allahumma, expand my heart so that
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it's able to endure the struggle that is
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coming and remove the stutter that is in
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my tongue, implying that Musa alaihissalaam said to
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Rabbi subhana, Allahumma, I have a stutter.
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I don't know if I'm the best person
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to convey this message, but look at the
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next part.
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And appoint with me Haroon to go with
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me.
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In another ayah, he says, He is more
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eloquent than I am.
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Now, I just want you to imagine this
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conversation.
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He's spoken to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
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directly.
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He's seen two major signs, but his reaction
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is, Allahumma, I have a stutter and can
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you send Haroon with me?
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I don't want to go alone.
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I don't want to go by myself, Rabbi.
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Rabbi, what you're asking me is scary.
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What you're asking me is hard.
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What you're asking me is tough.
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Allahumma, I don't know if I can do
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it by myself.
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Remember, Allah has told him go, given him
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the order.
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Somebody, maybe a fringe movement of today's Ummah
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would have said, What power does Haroon have
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that Allah doesn't that you need Haroon when
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Allah told you to go?
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Realistic thing to say, right?
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So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, when I'm
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listening to it as a 16 year old,
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not now, as a 16 year old, before
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anybody cuts this clip and goes wild with
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it.
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As a 16 year old, I'm thinking, Musa,
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what are you asking Allah subhanahu wa ta
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'ala?
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Allah told you go.
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Allah told you go.
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What are you doing?
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Negotiating.
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Oh!
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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, as a 16
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year old, I did not understand that my
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Lord's mercy far outweighs his wrath.
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So I'm expecting Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
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to say, Am I not sufficient for you,
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ya Musa?
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Instead, Allah says, Musa, we are going to
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give you what you ask for.
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But there's something afterwards that he says, And
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Musa, this is not the first time that
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we've shown favor on you.
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But look at the reference point that Allah
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uses when he talks about the previous favors
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that he gave him.
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He doesn't use a reference point when Musa
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asked for something.
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He uses a point when Musa could not
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ask for anything.
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He says, when you were born, ya Musa,
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We already showered our favor when the other
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babies were being slaughtered by Pharaoh.
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When the other babies were being slaughtered, we
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rescued you, ya Musa.
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We are the ones to your sister to
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put you in a basket on the river.
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And we for your mother, for you to
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be delivered to your mother, in the belly
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of the beast.
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I always imagine that dua, Allah answers when
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you make dua.
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Here, Allah is saying, Even before you made
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dua, I'm giving you.
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Even before you raised your hands, I gave
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you.
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Even before you asked, I'm giving you.
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Why do you make dua as if I
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never gave you before?
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Why do you make dua as if I
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am not blessing you and that I only
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bless you when you make dua?
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Why do you ask me as if I
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don't give?
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You should be asking me on the basis.
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I'm always giving.
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So it's only natural that you go back
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to Allah and you ask Allah subhanahu wa
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ta'ala.
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Now I'm thinking Musa got lucky because Allah
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could have got angry with it.
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I'm 16 at the time.
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Go easy.
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But then when Allah tells them again, go
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to Pharaoh, Say, Allahumma, we're both scared to
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go to Pharaoh.
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You spoke to Allah.
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You saw two major signs.
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You asked for favors.
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Allah gave it.
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And you're both turning around and saying, Allahumma,
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I'm scared.
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Surely Allah is going to turn around and
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say, How dare you be scared?
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How dare you be fearful when I, the
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Lord upon high, have given you a command
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to do?
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Surely a Muslim is not allowed to feel
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fear.
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Surely you're not allowed to hesitate.
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Surely it's a sign of weak iman if
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I hesitate or I'm scared.
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But Allah stuns me and says, Qulna la
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takhaf, innaka anta al-a'la.
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Qala la takhafa, innani ma'akuma asma'u
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wa araa.
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Do not be scared.
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I'm with you.
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I see and I hear.
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And Allah advises them how to approach Pharaoh.
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Okay, surely Musa alaihissalam now has understood.
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But you read the next page of Surah
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Taha.
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When they arrange the competition between the sorcerers
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and Musa, Fa awjasa fee nafsihi khifatan Musa.
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Musa is surrounded by people taunting him, sorcerers
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goading him, Pharaoh threatening him.
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Allah has given him the promise, but Allah
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says in his heart, he felt fear.
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The same way you feel fear when you
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raise your voice, when you feel fear to
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go to a protest, when you feel fear
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to share a social media post, when you
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feel fear to stand up for what's right,
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when you feel fear to engage your society,
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when you feel fear that maybe they will
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treat me badly, maybe they'll insult me, maybe
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I'll be sacked.
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The same fear.
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Allah is saying that Musa felt it.
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It's normal.
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It's not weak iman.
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Subhanak Ya Rabb.
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Because Allah responds, Qulna la takhaf, innaka anta
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al-a'la.
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And Allah reminds him of the signs.
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Wa alqi ma fi yameenika, talqaf ma sana
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'u, innama sana'u kaytu sahiru wa la
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yufli'u sahiru haythu ata.
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Musa, throw the stick.
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Leave it to me, Musa.
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Just move.
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Just go.
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Just try.
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Make the effort.
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Musa, I've got this.
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Musa, go.
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Trust me, Musa.
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Trust the sign.
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Trust the miracle.
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I know you feel fear in your heart.
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But trust me, Musa.
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I know you feel fear in your heart.
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Believe in me, Musa.
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Believe in my power.
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Throw what is in your right hand and
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watch how I deal with the rest.
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Raise your voice and watch how I flip
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the hearts.
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Raise your voice for Gaza.
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Watch how Candace Owens starts defending Gaza.
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Raise your voice.
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Watch how I make Tucker Carlson say we
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need to cut funding for the Zionists.
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Raise your voice.
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Watch how I make American society flip from
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pro-Zionist to pro-Palestine.
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Move, Ya Ibadallah.
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And watch how Allah works his miracles.
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Who would, Alayhi Salaam, Yazid Qum Quwatan Ila
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Quwatikum when he sends Tana Hesse coats to
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go all across America to tell them this
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is apartheid, this is injustice, and this needs
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to end.
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Allahu Akbar.
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And when Musa...
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Now sometimes, I believe that the Quran is
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the word of Allah SWT.
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So when Musa, Alayhi Salaam, is feeling fearful
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before he throws the stick, my imagination of
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the story is not that Musa went, and
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threw the stick.
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My imagination is that he went, Why?
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Why?
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Because the following ayah says, He found that
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the sorcerers were in prostration.
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Allah doesn't say they prostrated.
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He says, He found, meaning he discovered that
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they were in prostration, meaning he didn't see
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their prostration.
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He wasn't watching them when he threw the
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stick, meaning that when he threw it, he
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threw it in a matter of faith.
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I don't see how I'm going to win
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in this situation.
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But Allah says, Throw, let me throw it.
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Allah says, Move, I will throw it.
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Allah says, Speak, I will flip the heart.
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I threw the stick, and the sorcerers are
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all in prostration.
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But I want you to look at this
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parallel.
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Musa, Alayhi Salaam, has engaged in a lot
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of dialogue with Allah SWT.
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And Allah has given him six reassurances, six.
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But look at the sorcerers who saw the
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miracle and prostrated.
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Pharaoh says to them, You believe in Musa
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before I've given you permission.
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I will crucify you, cut your limbs off
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and crucify you in opposite directions.
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And then I will show you who amongst
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us is the most powerful.
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They don't say, Allahumma, We're not, we are
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lacking in something sent to us an ally.
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They say, Wallahi, We will never prefer you
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Pharaoh over what Allah has brought us.
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Do what you wish with us.
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We will never go back to the way
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we were before.
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We will never support the Zionist again.
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We will never support your kufr again.
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Musa, Alayhi Salaam, in this dialogue with Allah
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SWT, and it's a beautiful dialogue.
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I encourage you to go back to Surah
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Taha.
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It's a beautiful dialogue.
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Why?
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Because it tells you what Allah truly is
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like.
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That Allah does not desire hardship for you.
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Allah knows that you feel scared.
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He knows that you feel hesitation.
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He knows that the price of raising your
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voice might be putting you off.
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He knows that perhaps when you raise your
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voice, there'll be consequences that you are worried
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about.
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Allah doesn't say, How dare you be worried?
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Allah says, I know you're worried, but trust
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my promise.
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Trust me to deliver.
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Trust that when you raise your voice, trust
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that when you boycott, McDonald's share price will
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drop.
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Trust that when you boycott.
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You know, I'll tell you a true story.
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When Muslims started boycotting, many Muslims, they said,
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we don't have the numbers or the power
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to be effective in boycott.
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The inferiority complex was so bad that when
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Starbucks share price dropped because of the boycott,
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many Muslims said, No, no, Sammy.
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It's not because of boycott.
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What it is, there's an ism in the
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economics and, you know, supply demand and this,
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this and it led to.
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I said, Akhi, you didn't study economics and
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neither did I.
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You are ignorant and I'm ignorant.
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Let's not talk like we know what on
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earth happened.
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Then when the Starbucks CEO came and said
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it's because of the boycott, I said, Sahih
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non-Muslim.
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There you go, Habib.
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Because this is the most authentic book in
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what you believe.
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McDonald's, Sammy, I don't think we have the
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numbers.
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I don't think we have the numbers.
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Then McDonald's CEO came out and said, please,
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please, please, stop boycotting.
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The Muslims initially, they said, well, like the
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boycott is not working.
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It's the ism, it's supply and demand.
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It's, you know, it's ergonomics and this and
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whatever and up and down and all these
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things, etc.
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Ya'am, please believe, just believe that you
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can have power.
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Believe you can make an impact.
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Bukhari and Muslim was not sufficient to make
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him believe.
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Quran was not sufficient to make him believe.
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But in Sahih non-Muslim, the chapter of
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companies in the book of McDonald's, the CEO
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said, the boycott by this ummah for the
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sake of Gaza means we have to close
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150 stores.
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Ibadallah, I met some of the owners of
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the Yemeni cafes.
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I said to them, I want to understand.
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I had to speak a bit of American
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for them to understand me.
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I got to understand, bro.
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How?
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How are all these Yemeni cafes doing so
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well?
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What's the secret?
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He said, Wallahi, Sammy, if I show you
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00:28:14
the profit and loss sheet, our success has
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only really been in the past year.
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What happened in the past year?
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What do you mean?
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Boycott.
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What do you mean?
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He said, Muslims before, they had the power
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to make us great, but they had no
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taqwa in how they spend their money.
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They were spending it elsewhere.
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But when they boycotted for Gaza, they came
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to us.
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And because we had such a windfall, we
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were able to open up across America.
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They always had the ability to make us
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00:28:38
great, but they were choosing not to.
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They were not conscious where they spend their
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money.
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And that's why I appreciate that there is
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a very big difference between reading hadith as
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a Muslim and reading hadith like a Dajjal.
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And I explain what I mean.
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Many people, they don't like this example, but
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I think it helps explain it.
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There is a hadith about taqwa that produces
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two different interpretations based on whether you read
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it as a Dajjal or whether you read
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00:29:01
it as a Muslim.
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Umar Ibn Khattab goes to Ubay Ibn Ka
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'b and he says to Ubay Ibn Ka
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'b, tell me about taqwa.
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So Ubay Ibn Ka'b says to Umar
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Ibn Khattab, Ya Umar, have you ever walked
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on a thorny path?
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Umar says, yes.
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00:29:21
He said, how did you walk on this
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thorny path?
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He says, every step I took, I would
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make sure I was not stepping on the
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thorn.
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I would look down and make sure that
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every step was in a place where there
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are no thorns.
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He said, this is taqwa, to be aware
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of every single step you are taking, every
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single penny you are spending, every single protest,
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every single word you are saying.
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And that's why, Ya Ibadallah, the whole point
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00:29:54
of this 20 minute talk is, Ibadallah, Allah
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00:29:56
has said he's all powerful.
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00:29:57
Believe it.
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Allah has said this Ummah is strong.
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00:30:00
Believe it.
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Allah has said, Those who do even an
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00:30:06
atom of good deed, Allah sees it.
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Believe it.
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Allah has said that if you move, He
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00:30:14
will increase strength to your strength, meaning that
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objectively, there will be no way you see
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where the strength will come from.
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Allah will bring it from places that you
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never even expected it.
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00:30:24
How many allies of Palestine have emerged that
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we never knew their hearts could even be
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00:30:26
flipped.
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Ibadallah, start believing in the Quran.
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And some of you might say, Sami, you're
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00:30:33
calling us hypocrites.
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I'm not, I think.
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What I'm saying is, and I put it
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to you this way.
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I was in Sarajevo, Bosnia.
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And there was an imam, he finished the
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khutbah.
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And then afterwards I said to him, imam,
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you know, we're doing our best for Gaza
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and for Sudan and for these other places.
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But I feel like people are relegating everything
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00:30:53
to dua.
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He said, dua is not the problem.
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The problem is we don't make sincere dua.
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I told him, what do you mean?
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He says, we think sincere dua is, We
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00:31:06
think it's the shouting and the spiritual high,
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00:31:07
woo, that you feel in your heart.
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00:31:09
I said, I don't understand your point.
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00:31:11
He said, have you ever seen people praying
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00:31:12
for rain?
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00:31:13
I said, yes, they do all the time
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00:31:14
in Tunis.
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00:31:16
He said, have you seen how they pray
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00:31:16
for rain?
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00:31:20
And they all go, He said, I said,
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00:31:23
yes, I love it the way everybody comes
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00:31:23
together.
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00:31:25
He said, have you ever seen an umbrella
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00:31:26
in any one of their hands?
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Have you ever seen an umbrella in any
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00:31:33
one of their hands?
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00:31:36
Because yes, Sami, if they believed Allah could
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00:31:39
deliver the rain based on the dua, surely
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00:31:41
they should have come prepared and brought the
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00:31:41
umbrella.
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But the reality is they were enjoying the
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00:31:48
sense of being sincere, but their actions betrayed
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00:31:48
them.
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They weren't actually sincere.
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Dua is not how you feel.
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Dua is the belief that Allah can deliver.
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00:31:58
It's the belief that if I boycott, Allah
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00:31:58
can deliver.
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00:32:00
If I move, Allah can deliver.
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00:32:02
If I raise my voice, I can flip
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00:32:03
the hearts.
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00:32:04
That is dua.
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00:32:06
It is on the basis that Allah can
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00:32:07
deliver.
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00:32:10
And I'll finish on this point.
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Ibadallah, this ummah has never been weak.
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00:32:19
There are many people when I go across
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00:32:20
America, you know, the ones who want to
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00:32:21
be pessimist.
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00:32:22
They want to.
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00:32:23
You know, it's in their genes.
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00:32:26
They don't want to believe in the power
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00:32:26
of Allah.
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00:32:27
They don't want to.
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00:32:29
They want to pray five times and do
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00:32:31
tahajjud, but not on the basis Allah is
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00:32:31
powerful.
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00:32:33
On the basis of complaining that Allah is
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00:32:34
weak.
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00:32:35
Astaghfirullah, Hasha.
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00:32:36
That the ummah is weak.
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00:32:40
So they will say, Sammy, the ummah is
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00:32:42
destined to be weak based on the hadith.
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00:32:43
I say, which hadith?
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00:32:45
They say the hadith where we will be
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00:32:45
weak.
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00:32:47
What hadith did the Prophet shallallahu alaihi wasallam
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00:32:48
say we will be weak?
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00:32:50
He said, one day you'll be like the
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00:32:51
foam of the sea.
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00:32:53
Tell me where the word weakness is used
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00:32:53
in the hadith.
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00:32:56
He says, the Prophet shallallahu alaihi wasallam said
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00:32:59
that one day Allah will remove the fear
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00:33:01
in the hearts of your enemies and they
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00:33:02
will come upon you like a feast.
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00:33:04
I said, okay, first of all, the fear
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00:33:05
is removed from their hearts.
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00:33:06
Ummah doesn't become weak.
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00:33:07
Continue hadith.
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00:33:11
The Sahaba respond and they say, Ya Rasulullah,
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00:33:13
will we be many on that day or
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00:33:13
few?
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00:33:16
Will it be because we are few and
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00:33:19
weak or will we be many capable of
00:33:19 -->
00:33:20
resisting?
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00:33:22
He said, you will be many.
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00:33:23
You'll have power.
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00:33:24
You'll have the resources.
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00:33:25
You'll have the finances.
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00:33:26
You'll have the manpower.
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00:33:27
You will have the talent.
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00:33:30
You will have what you need to be
00:33:30 -->
00:33:30
great.
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00:33:32
But you will be like the foam of
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00:33:33
the sea.
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00:33:33
Why?
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00:33:37
Because your hearts will be afflicted with love
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00:33:40
of comfort and you will resent anything that
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00:33:41
requires sacrifice.
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00:33:44
Meaning, it's not you don't have the power
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00:33:45
to be great.
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00:33:47
It's not that you don't have the power
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00:33:48
to do what is right.
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00:33:52
It's that the struggle that is associated with
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00:33:55
it, you will say to yourselves, it's not
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00:33:57
worth it because it might compromise the comfort
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00:33:58
that I have built.
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00:34:02
It is not worth the struggle because I
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00:34:04
don't want to jeopardize what I built.
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00:34:07
Yes, Sammy, it's happening over there.
00:34:08 -->
00:34:09
Don't bring the problems here.
00:34:09 -->
00:34:11
I want to support those who committed genocide.
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00:34:13
Don't bring it here.
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00:34:15
Sammy, leave the problems of the ummah there.
00:34:16 -->
00:34:18
I want to make dua here, but in
00:34:18 -->
00:34:19
peace.
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00:34:20
Don't bring it here.
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00:34:21
Yes, Sammy.
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00:34:26
Ibadallah, I want to leave you with something
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00:34:27
that keeps me going.
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00:34:32
It's true that we're all seeing the destruction
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00:34:34
that's taking place across the Muslim world.
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00:34:37
For those of you who have a small
00:34:37 -->
00:34:39
connection to the ummah, you are following Gaza.
00:34:40 -->
00:34:42
For those of you with a bit more
00:34:42 -->
00:34:43
of a connection to the ummah, you're following
00:34:43 -->
00:34:44
Sudan.
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00:34:46
For those of you with a greater connection
00:34:46 -->
00:34:48
to the ummah who care a bit more,
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00:34:49
you are following Rohingya.
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00:34:51
For those of you with a bit more,
00:34:51 -->
00:34:52
you are following the Igor.
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00:34:56
You are seeing all these tragedies unfold in
00:34:56 -->
00:34:57
different places.
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00:35:02
But Ibadallah, Allah says that His promise is
00:35:02 -->
00:35:03
true.
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00:35:04
Allah will deliver the promise.
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00:35:08
When people say that the ummah is weak,
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00:35:11
why did Megan Rice enter Islam if the
00:35:11 -->
00:35:12
ummah is weak and being beaten?
00:35:13 -->
00:35:15
Why did Sean King enter Islam if the
00:35:15 -->
00:35:17
ummah is weak and being beaten?
00:35:17 -->
00:35:18
What is the power that they saw in
00:35:18 -->
00:35:20
the ummah that you are unable to see
00:35:20 -->
00:35:21
as part of the ummah?
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00:35:24
But I want to leave you with this
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00:35:25
that inshallah might make you keep going.
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00:35:31
Sheikh Omar Suleiman did this thing called the
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00:35:31
Jannah series.
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00:35:35
Now as growing up as a teenager, I
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00:35:36
didn't think too much about Jannah.
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00:35:37
I just wanted to avoid hellfire.
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00:35:39
As long as, even if I'm like a
00:35:39 -->
00:35:40
bawwab, you know, like a doorman in the
00:35:40 -->
00:35:42
first Jannah, as long as I don't feel
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00:35:44
that burn of the hellfire, Alhamdulillah, people like
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00:35:46
me should not think about higher Jannahs.
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00:35:48
And then you see a man, you know,
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00:35:49
he's done all those lights, you know, the
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00:35:50
light is behind his head, you know, while
00:35:50 -->
00:35:52
he's talking and he's, you know, Jannah is
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00:35:54
like, you're like, Jannah sounds cool.
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00:35:57
And then you lay down at bed, and
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00:35:59
you lay down your bed and you start
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00:35:59
imagining Jannah.
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00:36:01
You start imagining, imagining Jannah.
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00:36:03
First, you start in the first Jannah.
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00:36:04
And what you do in the first Jannah
00:36:04 -->
00:36:06
is, you go through all of the list
00:36:06 -->
00:36:07
of the things that you want in this
00:36:07 -->
00:36:07
dunya.
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00:36:10
So let's say you go to bed about
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00:36:11
9.30pm, 10pm.
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00:36:14
By about 2am in the morning, 3am, you've
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00:36:15
exhausted the list.
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00:36:17
It's a long list, but yeah.
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00:36:20
Once you finish it, what happens is you
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00:36:22
say to yourself, what would it be like
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00:36:23
to go to second Jannah?
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00:36:26
Then third Jannah, then fourth.
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00:36:28
First Jannah is 6.15 in the UK
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00:36:28
sometimes.
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00:36:31
So, you know, you get to 6pm, 6am,
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00:36:33
and now you're in the sixth Jannah.
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00:36:34
So you think, I'm here, I may as
00:36:34 -->
00:36:35
well check out Firdaus.
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00:36:36
I may as well.
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00:36:39
So you start imagining things that you didn't
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00:36:40
know that you loved.
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00:36:42
So you start imagining Firdaus.
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00:36:44
What would it be like?
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00:36:45
Because you've already exhausted all the things you
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00:36:46
want in the dunya.
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00:36:47
You're no longer thinking about those.
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00:36:48
You've got everything you want.
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00:36:50
All the Teslas and Cybertrucks.
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00:36:55
When you're there, you start thinking, who would
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00:36:57
I like to meet that, you know, because
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00:36:59
I met my grandfather, I met, etc, great
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00:37:00
grandfather.
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00:37:01
You start imagining, what would you like to
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00:37:01
meet?
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00:37:02
Sahaba.
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00:37:04
Sa'd Abu Waqas.
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00:37:05
What was it like in Qadisiyah?
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00:37:06
Amr Ibn Aas.
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00:37:08
What was it like going to Egypt?
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00:37:09
You know, Khalid Ibn Waleed, etc.
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00:37:12
But then eventually you get to a point
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00:37:15
about 6.14, one minute before Adhan or
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00:37:16
Fajr.
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00:37:19
You meet the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
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00:37:22
And then you start conversing with the Prophet
00:37:22 -->
00:37:22
Muhammad.
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00:37:24
You start imagining all these things that you
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00:37:26
would say to the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi
00:37:26 -->
00:37:26
Wasallam.
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00:37:28
And you realize you actually start liking it.
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00:37:33
When you wake up, you start saying to
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00:37:35
yourself, I have a lot to say to
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00:37:36
my beloved Prophet.
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00:37:37
But how do I get there?
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00:37:41
And I want to finish with this story.
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00:37:45
I was in Florida and somebody stood up
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00:37:46
at the end of a talk and said,
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00:37:49
Sami, you're a motivational speaker, which is the
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00:37:51
greatest insult that anybody can give to me.
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00:37:53
Because motivational speaker means you have no substance.
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00:37:55
It just means you give me a spiritual
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00:37:55
high and that's it.
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00:37:57
I'm not a motivational speaker, ya jamaat.
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00:37:58
I like to think of my mind as
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00:37:59
substance, inshallah.
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00:38:00
Put your hand if you agree.
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00:38:01
No, don't.
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00:38:05
So after the first 13 years of the
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00:38:07
life of the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
00:38:07 -->
00:38:08
at the end of the 13 years, he
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00:38:09
said the Prophet was kicked out.
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00:38:12
You are exaggerating the power of our word.
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00:38:14
Yes, the word made Umar Khattab leave the
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00:38:14
elite of Quraish.
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00:38:16
Yes, it made Abyssinia become Muslim.
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00:38:18
Yes, it made even without an army, without
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00:38:18
money.
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00:38:20
But he still got kicked out of Mecca
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00:38:21
after 13 years.
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00:38:23
I said, ya Dajjal.
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00:38:24
He said, what?
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00:38:26
I said, ya Dajjal, why did he leave
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00:38:26
Mecca?
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00:38:28
He said he left because he was kicked
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00:38:28
out.
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00:38:29
I said, no.
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00:38:30
Why did he leave Mecca?
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00:38:34
He left Mecca because Aus and Khazraj, they
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00:38:37
came to him after the 13 years and
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00:38:41
they said to him, ya Rasulullah, we saw
00:38:41 -->
00:38:42
the TikTok.
00:38:42 -->
00:38:47
We saw the videos of your dawah of
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00:38:49
what's happening in Gaza, of what's happening in
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00:38:49
Palestine.
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00:38:52
We saw the injustices that are taking place.
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00:38:55
We are so horrified by it and we
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00:38:56
believe in your message so much.
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00:38:58
We are thinking we want to reinforce you.
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00:39:00
We want to give you our city as
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00:39:00
a base.
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00:39:03
Now, Abbas, the uncle of the Prophet, said
00:39:03 -->
00:39:05
what I imagine Muslims would have said today,
00:39:05 -->
00:39:07
which is, hey, hey, hey, what do you
00:39:07 -->
00:39:08
mean you want to give all your support
00:39:08 -->
00:39:09
to the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam?
00:39:09 -->
00:39:11
Do you realize you might be sacked from
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00:39:11
your jobs?
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00:39:12
You might struggle.
00:39:13 -->
00:39:14
All of Arabia will turn against you.
00:39:14 -->
00:39:16
You will go through a period of struggle
00:39:16 -->
00:39:19
where society will do a backlash against you.
00:39:20 -->
00:39:22
If you're not ready for it, don't raise
00:39:22 -->
00:39:22
your voice for Gaza.
00:39:22 -->
00:39:23
Don't raise your voice for Palestine.
00:39:24 -->
00:39:25
Don't give your support to the Prophet Muhammad
00:39:25 -->
00:39:26
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
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00:39:30
They say to Abbas, We know what is
00:39:30 -->
00:39:31
in this pact.
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00:39:32
We know.
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00:39:35
But we are ready to give everything for
00:39:35 -->
00:39:36
this message.
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00:39:38
The system doesn't scare us.
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00:39:43
Now, I say this quite often, but when
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00:39:46
I'm traveling, when mama calls me, you pick
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00:39:47
up easily.
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00:39:50
How are you, my son?
00:39:50 -->
00:39:51
How is everything?
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00:39:52
Are you looking after yourself?
00:39:52 -->
00:39:53
Are you this, etc?
00:39:53 -->
00:39:54
Alhamdulillah, mama, everything very good, etc.
00:39:56 -->
00:40:04
When Baba calls, Not that he was hard
00:40:04 -->
00:40:05
on us.
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00:40:05
He wasn't.
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00:40:07
It's just that the disappointment of my father
00:40:07 -->
00:40:08
weighs heavily.
00:40:09 -->
00:40:11
Baba is calling me directly, not through mama.
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00:40:15
I shouldn't take too long.
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00:40:22
Alhamdulillah, Baba, everything is good.
00:40:22 -->
00:40:22
How are you, Baba?
00:40:22 -->
00:40:24
Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, everything very good.
00:40:26 -->
00:40:28
I was watching one of your speeches in
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00:40:34
America, and I heard you telling the story
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00:40:35
of the Pledge of Aqaba.
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00:40:38
You were saying about how Abbas said to
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00:40:39
Awsan Khazraj.
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00:40:41
I said, Yeah.
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00:40:44
And he said, But you didn't.
00:40:44 -->
00:40:46
You didn't go to the whole point of
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00:40:47
the story.
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00:40:48
I said, What do you mean?
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00:40:50
You stopped before the point of the story,
00:40:50 -->
00:40:52
before the zubda of the story.
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00:40:53
Baba, I don't understand.
00:40:53 -->
00:40:56
Sami, I said to him, Baba, I told
00:40:56 -->
00:40:57
him the struggle, we're ready for this.
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00:40:58
That's not the point of the pledge.
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00:41:01
You forgot the next part.
00:41:01 -->
00:41:01
Baba, I don't understand.
00:41:01 -->
00:41:02
What was the next part?
00:41:02 -->
00:41:06
What did Awsan Khazraj ask Rasulullah after they
00:41:06 -->
00:41:07
spoke to Abbas?
00:41:09 -->
00:41:10
What did they ask him?
00:41:11 -->
00:41:14
I said, Baba, they asked him, What's our
00:41:14 -->
00:41:14
reward?
00:41:14 -->
00:41:16
For those youngsters here, it doesn't matter how
00:41:16 -->
00:41:16
old you get.
00:41:16 -->
00:41:18
The relationship with the parents stay the same.
00:41:18 -->
00:41:19
It is what it is.
00:41:19 -->
00:41:20
You know, I have kids as well.
00:41:20 -->
00:41:21
Subhanallah.
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00:41:24
I said, They asked him, What's our reward?
00:41:25 -->
00:41:25
Huh?
00:41:27 -->
00:41:29
Sami Waladi, Waladi means he's getting in a
00:41:29 -->
00:41:30
better mood now.
00:41:31 -->
00:41:34
Sami, if Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam had said
00:41:34 -->
00:41:36
to them that your reward is every khalifa
00:41:36 -->
00:41:39
will only come from Ansar and their descendants,
00:41:40 -->
00:41:42
Muslims most probably would have agreed to it
00:41:42 -->
00:41:43
because they supported him when he needed it
00:41:43 -->
00:41:44
most.
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00:41:45
I said, Yes, probably.
00:41:46 -->
00:41:49
If he had said to them that out
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00:41:51
of every zakat or every spoil of war,
00:41:51 -->
00:41:54
50% goes to Ansar and their descendants
00:41:54 -->
00:41:56
for the support they gave him when he
00:41:56 -->
00:41:57
needed it most.
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00:41:59
I said, They would probably have accepted it.
00:41:59 -->
00:42:01
So what did he promise them?
00:42:02 -->
00:42:05
Sami, I said, He promised them Al-Jannah.
00:42:06 -->
00:42:07
And what was their response?
00:42:08 -->
00:42:10
Their response was that it's sufficient for us.
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00:42:12
Sami, I see you in America.
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00:42:15
You are trying to entice the community by
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00:42:18
promising them a comfortable dunya consequence.
00:42:18 -->
00:42:20
Punish genocide and it won't be as bad
00:42:20 -->
00:42:21
as you think.
00:42:21 -->
00:42:22
Stand for what's right.
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00:42:24
It won't be as bad as you think.
00:42:25 -->
00:42:27
Stand for justice and it won't be as
00:42:27 -->
00:42:28
bad as you think.
00:42:28 -->
00:42:29
You will be able to stay in your
00:42:29 -->
00:42:30
homes and it will present.
00:42:30 -->
00:42:32
I see you, Sami, trying to sell dunya.
00:42:33 -->
00:42:34
But that is not the point of the
00:42:34 -->
00:42:35
seerah, my son.
00:42:35 -->
00:42:38
What did the Rasulullah ﷺ offer Ansar that
00:42:38 -->
00:42:40
made them give everything?
00:42:40 -->
00:42:42
He promised them Al-Jannah and that was
00:42:42 -->
00:42:43
sufficient for them.
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00:42:45
And there is no glory for the Ummah
00:42:45 -->
00:42:47
until it is sufficient for us.
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00:42:52
Sorry, I didn't mean to buy that.
00:42:55 -->
00:42:57
Ibadallah, I asked myself the question, does Jannah
00:42:57 -->
00:42:58
move you in that way?
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00:43:01
Does Akhirah move you in this way?
00:43:01 -->
00:43:03
Does the desire to meet the Prophet Muhammad
00:43:03 -->
00:43:06
ﷺ and tell him of how you struggled
00:43:06 -->
00:43:09
in his name, does that entice you?
00:43:09 -->
00:43:12
Does the promise of Rida Allah, of Allah
00:43:12 -->
00:43:14
being pleased with you, does that move you?
00:43:15 -->
00:43:18
And if it doesn't, what does that make
00:43:18 -->
00:43:18
you?
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00:43:24
Ibadallah, I appreciate that I've gone on a
00:43:24 -->
00:43:25
bit in this speech.
00:43:26 -->
00:43:27
But I did not come here to lecture
00:43:27 -->
00:43:29
you or to patronize you.
00:43:29 -->
00:43:31
I actually came here to plead with you.
00:43:31 -->
00:43:34
I came here to plead with you that
00:43:34 -->
00:43:37
the only obstacle to your success is Wahan.
00:43:38 -->
00:43:40
That justice is always a path of struggle.
00:43:41 -->
00:43:42
That the seerah is always a path of
00:43:42 -->
00:43:43
struggle.
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00:43:46
But there is an interview that I encourage
00:43:46 -->
00:43:46
you to watch.
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00:43:48
There is a Turkish boy, and I promise
00:43:48 -->
00:43:50
this is the final part, I promise, I
00:43:50 -->
00:43:50
promise.
00:43:51 -->
00:43:52
He grins at me telling me you took
00:43:52 -->
00:43:54
way more time than you promised.
00:43:55 -->
00:43:57
There is a Turkish boy who is interviewed
00:43:57 -->
00:43:59
by a presenter and the presenter says to
00:43:59 -->
00:44:01
the Turkish boy, what is your dream?
00:44:01 -->
00:44:03
He said, my dream is to meet my
00:44:03 -->
00:44:04
beloved Prophet Muhammad.
00:44:05 -->
00:44:07
And he says, what would you ask him?
00:44:08 -->
00:44:09
Now I'm watching the interview thinking I'd ask
00:44:09 -->
00:44:12
him Uhud, Badr, Hudaibiyah, I'd ask him this,
00:44:12 -->
00:44:12
that, etc.
00:44:13 -->
00:44:15
The boy, 13 year old says, I wouldn't
00:44:15 -->
00:44:16
ask my beloved Prophet anything.
00:44:17 -->
00:44:19
So the presenter says, what do you mean
00:44:19 -->
00:44:19
you wouldn't ask him anything?
00:44:20 -->
00:44:21
He said, what would I need to ask?
00:44:22 -->
00:44:23
I would thank him.
00:44:23 -->
00:44:24
Thank him?
00:44:24 -->
00:44:25
I would thank him.
00:44:25 -->
00:44:28
I would tell him, Ya Rasulullah, Jazakallah Khair,
00:44:28 -->
00:44:30
that when your people persecuted you, you kept
00:44:30 -->
00:44:31
going.
00:44:31 -->
00:44:33
When they would beat up your Sahaba, you
00:44:33 -->
00:44:34
kept going.
00:44:34 -->
00:44:36
When they stoned you in Taif and you
00:44:36 -->
00:44:37
were bleeding, you kept going.
00:44:37 -->
00:44:40
When you saw your friends being tortured because
00:44:40 -->
00:44:41
of your message, you kept going.
00:44:41 -->
00:44:44
That when your people offered you the sun
00:44:44 -->
00:44:45
in your right hand and the moon in
00:44:45 -->
00:44:47
your left hand, you kept going with the
00:44:47 -->
00:44:47
message.
00:44:47 -->
00:44:51
That when Khadija died, you still kept going.
00:44:51 -->
00:44:53
That when your heart was broken, when your
00:44:53 -->
00:44:55
uncle died and you lost your protection, you
00:44:55 -->
00:44:56
kept going.
00:44:56 -->
00:44:58
That when Abyssinia was the NATO ally, you
00:44:58 -->
00:45:01
believe that Allah could flip his heart, so
00:45:01 -->
00:45:02
you sent Ja'far to them.
00:45:02 -->
00:45:04
That when you were kicked out of Mecca
00:45:04 -->
00:45:07
and it broke your heart, you said, Wallahi,
00:45:07 -->
00:45:08
I would never have left you if your
00:45:08 -->
00:45:10
people had not driven me from you.
00:45:10 -->
00:45:11
That you went to Medina and you kept
00:45:11 -->
00:45:12
going.
00:45:12 -->
00:45:14
That when a thousand Quraish turned up at
00:45:14 -->
00:45:16
the gates of your city and said, we
00:45:16 -->
00:45:18
want to eradicate you, you looked at the
00:45:18 -->
00:45:20
300 and you said, let's do it.
00:45:20 -->
00:45:21
This message is worth it.
00:45:21 -->
00:45:23
That when you were defeated in Uhud and
00:45:23 -->
00:45:25
you saw what it did to your uncle,
00:45:25 -->
00:45:27
you didn't forsake the message.
00:45:27 -->
00:45:29
You got back up and you kept going
00:45:29 -->
00:45:30
and you continued, Ya Rasulullah.
00:45:31 -->
00:45:34
That when all of the Arabia came against
00:45:34 -->
00:45:36
you in Ahzab and they blockaded your city
00:45:36 -->
00:45:38
and you were digging the trench, you had
00:45:38 -->
00:45:40
no plan to drive them back.
00:45:40 -->
00:45:42
You just tried to buy time digging the
00:45:42 -->
00:45:42
trench.
00:45:42 -->
00:45:44
You didn't compromise on it.
00:45:44 -->
00:45:46
You didn't give up the message.
00:45:46 -->
00:45:48
You dug the trench and when Munafiqoon laughed
00:45:48 -->
00:45:51
at you, when they said, look how desperate
00:45:51 -->
00:45:54
situation he's in, you kept going saying, I
00:45:54 -->
00:45:55
see the pearls of Persia.
00:45:55 -->
00:45:58
That when Hudaybiyah was signed and your Sahaba
00:45:58 -->
00:46:00
were upset, that you kept going and when
00:46:00 -->
00:46:03
you entered Makkah, you forgave them and in
00:46:03 -->
00:46:06
your forgiveness, those people carried the deen and
00:46:06 -->
00:46:09
because of that forgiveness, because of that struggle,
00:46:09 -->
00:46:12
because of that perseverance, because you persevered and
00:46:12 -->
00:46:15
embraced it, Islam reached me and I reached
00:46:15 -->
00:46:17
here in Firdaus with you.
00:46:18 -->
00:46:19
Jazakallah khair Ya Rasulullah.
00:46:20 -->
00:46:22
That you struggled in a way that my
00:46:22 -->
00:46:25
generation hesitated to struggle, but Jazakallah that you
00:46:25 -->
00:46:27
struggled because you delivered the deen and we
00:46:27 -->
00:46:28
entered Jannah.
00:46:28 -->
00:46:31
The deen is about struggle because to them
00:46:31 -->
00:46:32
is the dunya and for us is the
00:46:32 -->
00:46:32
akhirah.
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00:46:34
Let akhirah move you in the way to
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00:46:35
do always meant to.
