Shaun King – Part 2 of We Come From Warriors Speaking in Jordan about the Martyrs of Mutah

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The speaker discusses their upcoming visit to Muta and their belief in the story of their partner, peace be upon them, being on the same page. They also discuss the importance of confronting injustice and using words rather than words to achieve a better understanding of their heart. The story of Zayd, a black- toll-free man who lost his war and lost his friend Jafar, is also discussed. The speaker emphasizes the importance of peace and being inspired by their beliefs in bringing people to Christ.

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			As-salamu alaykum, it's good to see you.
		
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			I've traveled this morning from Istanbul to Amman,
		
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			Jordan just for an overnight trip and I'm
		
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			in, for me, one of the most sacred
		
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			places I've ever been in my life.
		
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			I cannot wait to tell you the story
		
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			of where I am.
		
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			It's so important for where we are in
		
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			the world right now.
		
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			It's so important for our faith and for
		
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			those of you who are watching who may
		
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			say, well, Sean, I'm not a Muslim.
		
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			What does this matter?
		
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			What I'm about to tell you is a
		
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			story of one of the most important battles,
		
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			important moments in all of Islam.
		
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			So, well, Sean, why does that matter?
		
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			Well, there are two billion Muslims in the
		
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			world.
		
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			And so all of us, if you're Muslim
		
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			or not, we should understand the faiths and
		
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			religions of the world, their history.
		
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			One of the beautiful things of having lived
		
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			my life as a Christian is I understand
		
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			my way around both faiths.
		
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			I understand the history of both faiths and
		
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			they're so deeply intertwined.
		
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			And so today I am in Muta.
		
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			This was a painful, painful place for our
		
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			prophet, peace be upon him, because in this
		
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			battle, which came early in Islam, three of
		
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			the most beloved companions of our prophet, peace
		
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			be upon him, were slain here, very close
		
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			to where we are right now.
		
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			I just prayed and I've had a walk
		
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			around and I've been studying this place for
		
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			several weeks now, just in preparation for this
		
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			opportunity.
		
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			And I asked my Imam, Dr. Shadi, I
		
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			said, Dr. Shadi, if there's one place I
		
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			could go in all of Jordan, where should
		
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			I go?
		
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			And he said, Sean, you must go to
		
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			Muta.
		
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			Let me show it to you.
		
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			Please forgive any mispronunciations that I may have.
		
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			And I'll tell you what I have said
		
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			before.
		
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			Anything that I get right is really just
		
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			thanks to two people, Dr. Shadi and Imam
		
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			Omar Suleiman.
		
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			Anything that I say that's wrong or false
		
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			or is slightly off, it's all my fault.
		
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			I haven't been taught wrong.
		
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			I'm just a new Muslim.
		
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			Many of you know, I'm actually a historian
		
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			by training and, you know, my undergraduate and
		
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			graduate degrees are in history.
		
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			And so on this travel show of mine,
		
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			which I never thought I would do something
		
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			like this, but the beauty of being banned
		
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			from Instagram is it's caused me to see
		
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			the world anew and with fresh eyes.
		
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			And I'm really here today to tell you
		
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			the history of this place.
		
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			Let me show you around.
		
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			There is a beautiful masjid here now.
		
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			I'm about a little less than two hours
		
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			from Amman, Jordan, where I flew in.
		
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			And there are the graves here in this
		
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			facility that I'm in right now of Jafar
		
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			and Zaid.
		
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			And I'm going to tell you their stories.
		
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			You know, sisters and brothers, I filmed a
		
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			video just yesterday.
		
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			It's on my channel.
		
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			Please subscribe if you get a chance.
		
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			Leave comments when you can.
		
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			Share them when you can.
		
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			I filmed a video from the Topkapi Palace
		
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			in Istanbul.
		
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			And one of the things that I showed
		
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			you were swords of our Prophet Muhammad, peace
		
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			be upon him, swords of companions, Khalid, Abu
		
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			Bakr, swords from Ali, you know, just from
		
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			Omar, from Uthman, you know, just I wanted
		
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			you to see that as Muslims, we come
		
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			from warriors.
		
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			Yes, we say it is a religion of
		
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			peace because Islam gives you peace in your
		
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			heart and in your mind.
		
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			But I'm going to repeat to you what
		
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			I've said many times.
		
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			There is a Hadith of our Prophet, peace
		
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			be upon him, that's changed the way I
		
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			see the world.
		
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			I've always fought against injustice, but like most
		
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			of you, I fought against injustice in the
		
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			exact opposite way than our Prophet, peace be
		
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			upon him, actually compels us.
		
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			Like most people in the world, I first
		
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			fought injustice in my heart, then with my
		
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			mouth and sometimes with my hands.
		
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			But our Prophet, peace be upon him, says,
		
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			no, when you see injustice in the world,
		
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			first confront it with your hands.
		
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			And if you fail, then confront it with
		
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			your words.
		
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			If you fail confronting it with your words,
		
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			then confront it with your heart.
		
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			And a lot of people, when they say
		
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			this Hadith, they stop there.
		
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			But there are a few words after that.
		
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			It actually says confronted with your heart, which
		
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			is the least of all of these.
		
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			Too many of us say, God knows my
		
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			heart.
		
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			And yes, God does know your heart.
		
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			But our Prophet, peace be upon him, said,
		
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			your heart is the least of all of
		
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			these when it comes to confronting injustice.
		
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			Use your words, but use your hands first.
		
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			And so I'm going to take you now
		
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			to the tomb of Zayd.
		
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			Zayd was the son of our Prophet, peace
		
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			be upon him.
		
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			He was taken into the family of our
		
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			dear mother Khadijah, of our dear Prophet Muhammad,
		
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			peace be upon him.
		
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			Before prophethood, Zayd was welcomed into the family.
		
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			In fact, Zayd, who had been sold off
		
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			and traded in a slave market, his father
		
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			came looking for him.
		
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			And Muhammad, again, at this time, our Prophet
		
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			Muhammad was not yet a prophet.
		
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			And his father found Zayd.
		
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			It was a beautiful, beautiful moment.
		
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			His father had searched for him.
		
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			His father was a just good man.
		
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			And his father finally found Zayd.
		
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			And he said, Zayd, you know, you need
		
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			to shake off the shackles of slavery.
		
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			And of course, but Muhammad, who was not
		
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			yet a prophet, peace be upon him, said,
		
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			no, no, he is free to go with
		
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			you.
		
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			We are not holding him against his will.
		
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			And Zayd said to his father something very
		
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			profound.
		
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			No, there's something special about this man, about
		
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			this family.
		
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			They actually treat me better than they treat
		
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			their own biological children.
		
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			Alhamdulillah.
		
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			He said, I want to stay here.
		
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			His father understood.
		
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			Zayd is known as the beloved of our
		
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			Prophet, peace be upon him.
		
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			To know Zayd is to know our Prophet,
		
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			peace be upon him.
		
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			They were they were hand in hand like
		
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			this.
		
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			And for many of us who care even
		
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			about racial justice, you know that our dear
		
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			Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, was so
		
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			intentional about surrounding himself with people from all
		
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			races, nationalities, backgrounds.
		
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			Zayd was a dark skinned man, by some
		
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			accounts, the darkest of all the companions.
		
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			And he was literally the right hand or
		
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			left hand of our Prophet.
		
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			They fought side by side in battles.
		
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			They they ate together.
		
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			They they slept in the same home together.
		
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			They dined together, not dozens, not hundreds, thousands
		
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			of times.
		
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			We would struggle to find any man who
		
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			spent more time with our Prophet, peace be
		
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			upon him, than Zayd.
		
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			And so Zayd, who fought in every single
		
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			battle, was a commander, was was given was
		
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			given ownership, oversaw battalions of troops.
		
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			And when it came time to fight a
		
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			battle here in Muta, which is we're now
		
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			here in Jordan, I told you about an
		
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			hour and a half from Amman, the Byzantines
		
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			here had done a grave injustice to the
		
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			Muslims, had slaughtered an emissary that had been
		
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			sent here, just a not just a grave
		
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			offense, like it was an evil deed.
		
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			And so our Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon
		
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			him, sent nearly 3,000 Muslims to come
		
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			here to Jordan, to Muta, to confront them
		
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			over this grave injustice.
		
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			And he said, his words were, I will
		
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			put Zayd, may Allah be pleased with him,
		
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			I'll put Zayd in charge of the army.
		
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			And if Zayd falls, Jafar, I'll talk about
		
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			Jafar in just a minute, Jafar can follow
		
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			up and take the helm if Zayd falls
		
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			in battle.
		
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			And if Jafar falls, Allah forbid, if Jafar
		
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			falls, Abdullah will be here to take over
		
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			for Jafar.
		
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			And when they got here, there were 3
		
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			,000 Muslims, which is a strong, a strong
		
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			number.
		
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			And they got here, some accounts say between
		
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			100 and 250,000 soldiers were waiting for
		
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			them.
		
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			And they had to make a powerful decision,
		
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			and I want to talk about that before
		
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			we walk in.
		
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			They had to make a profound decision to
		
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			say, okay, we are 3,000, they are
		
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			150,000, what do we do?
		
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			And the brothers decided, Zayd decided, we will
		
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			honor the words of our prophet, peace be
		
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			upon him.
		
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			Zayd, we will honor the words of my
		
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			father.
		
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			We will stay here and do what we
		
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			were commissioned to do.
		
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			We fight for what we believe in.
		
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			Sisters and brothers, do you understand?
		
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			The Hadith said, when you see injustice confronted
		
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			with your hands, and you've heard me say
		
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			this, the Hadith does not say we have
		
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			to succeed.
		
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			In fact, it gives room for failure.
		
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			It says, if you fail, then use your
		
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			words, then your heart.
		
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			Zayd knew we are here to confront this
		
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			injustice with our hands.
		
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			Zayd got here, outnumbered, not three to one,
		
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			not four to one, not 10 to one,
		
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			outnumbered 30 to 50 to one.
		
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			And instead of deciding to turn around and
		
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			abandon ship, they said, no, we will fight.
		
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			And the beloved of our prophet, who, I
		
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			mean, who, I cannot tell you the depths.
		
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			I mean, you know how beloved he was
		
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			by how much responsibility he was given by
		
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			the beautiful things our prophet, peace be upon
		
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			him, said about Zayd.
		
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			As I go in here, you're going to
		
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			see the tomb of Zayd.
		
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			And I'll have to lower my voice.
		
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			I have a microphone on, but it's a
		
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			sacred place.
		
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			And so I just want you to understand
		
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			that these aren't myths.
		
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			These aren't legends.
		
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			This actually happened.
		
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			And so our dear brother Zayd, may Allah
		
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			be pleased with him, is here.
		
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			His body is here.
		
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			As we know, our sisters and brothers that
		
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			are leaving, just putting their shoes on, as
		
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			I just took mine off, that the body,
		
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			the body, the remains of Zayd, who was
		
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			wounded over and over and over again, who
		
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			was carrying the banner of our prophet, peace
		
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			be upon him, was slain right here in
		
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			Mu'tah.
		
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			But he was slain here.
		
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			Hear me.
		
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			He was slain honoring the words of our
		
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			prophet, peace be upon him.
		
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			There is no, there is no better way
		
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			to die.
		
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			Yes, as a martyr, because we believe that
		
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			this life is temporary anyway.
		
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			What better way to live your life than
		
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			honor the words of our prophet.
		
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			Sisters and brothers, let me show you where
		
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			I am.
		
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			This is the tomb of Zayd.
		
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			Again, it is our belief.
		
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			We are, hear me, we are not bodies
		
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			with souls.
		
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			We are souls first and foremost.
		
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			We are souls with bodies.
		
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			Our bodies are temporary, but our souls are
		
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			forever.
		
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			I walk around here to show you.
		
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			I so badly wish that I was smart
		
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			enough to read this.
		
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			Many of you may have heard me say,
		
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			I often have regret that I did not
		
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			become a Muslim so much earlier.
		
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			I was 16 when I first visited a
		
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			masjid and started, I was really 15 when
		
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			I started thinking about becoming a Muslim, having
		
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			just read the autobiography of Malcolm X.
		
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			16 when I first visited Masjid Bilal in
		
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			Lexington, Kentucky.
		
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			But it's, it's the timing of Allah.
		
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			Let me show you.
		
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			Security wanted me to come close.
		
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			And when I, security wanted me to show
		
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			when I put my nose here, they wanted
		
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			me to smell the sweet aroma that comes
		
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			from this.
		
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			Let me, let me show you.
		
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			Okay, so I will do it for you.
		
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			You can smell it.
		
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			It's a, it's a beautiful, sweet fragrance emanating
		
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			from, from the tomb of Zayd, the son
		
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			of our prophet Muhammad.
		
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			The family who he trusted to lead first
		
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			in battle in Muta.
		
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			Let me show you.
		
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			I will, I will try to come close
		
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			and, and get the best view that I
		
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			can.
		
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			I'll show you there's a, there's an entrance
		
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			on the other side over here and a
		
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			lock.
		
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			And at the moment I find myself here
		
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			all alone.
		
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			Me, the body of Zayd, who was slain
		
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			in battle at Muta.
		
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			Here there's a, a lock here.
		
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			And you can see where it has a,
		
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			just an enormous heavy lock and a bolt
		
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			and you could unlock it and open it,
		
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			which is a sacred responsibility of the keepers
		
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			of this space.
		
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			If I can, I'll get close to try
		
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			to show you what's inside.
		
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			It's, the tomb is covered with a green
		
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			cloth.
		
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			So if you see the green that is
		
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			covering the tomb of Zayd and the color,
		
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			there's a green cloth that has a decorative
		
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			gold design at the bottom, but it's, it's
		
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			hard to see this.
		
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			There's the, the gate here, and then there's
		
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			glass beyond the gate.
		
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			I've been in here several times today and,
		
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			but, but never alone.
		
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			And I'm, I'm honored to share this space.
		
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			It's, it's humbling because this was a man
		
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			who acted on the orders that he was
		
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			given, who trusted the words of his father,
		
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			of his prophet, peace be upon him, and
		
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			live them out.
		
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			And died fighting for what he believed in.
		
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			Sisters and brothers, I, it is my belief
		
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			that Allah did not give us the examples
		
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			of Zayd, of Jafar, who I'm about to,
		
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			I will have to hold back my tears
		
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			as I tell you the story of Jafar.
		
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			These were, these were married men with families
		
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			who risked it all, boldly carrying the banner
		
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			of our prophet, peace be upon him, carrying
		
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			the banner of Allah, carrying the banner of
		
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			Islam.
		
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			But they actually lived out the courage of
		
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			their convictions.
		
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			I say, assalamu alaikum habibi.
		
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			May Allah be pleased with you, pleased with
		
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			your decisions, pleased with your life, pleased with
		
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			your sacrifices, pleased with your days.
		
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			Oh, it's, it is the prayer of my
		
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			heart that one day we will walk together
		
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			in Jannah with Zayd.
		
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			May Allah be pleased with us, may Allah
		
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			accept us so that we spend one day
		
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			in Jannah will be a blessing.
		
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			I, I have so much more to show
		
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			you.
		
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			You know, I've always, I've always had a
		
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			tender heart as a man, but now it
		
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			is, you know, I think Gaza has made
		
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			me much more emotional because we've seen so
		
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			much trauma and so much pain.
		
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			And I find myself on some days just
		
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			weeping and security here.
		
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			Assalamu alaikum.
		
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			Yes.
		
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			Yes.
		
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			Yes.
		
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			Thank you brothers.
		
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			Yes.
		
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			These brothers are doing security and other brothers
		
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			that are visiting here.
		
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			So I'm grateful that I had that time
		
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			alone for just a moment.
		
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			But I, I'm a, I'm a gender hearted
		
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			man.
		
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			Most people know me as someone who was
		
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			so serious, but I find myself, you know,
		
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			for a while I found myself crying almost
		
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			every day at the injustices of Gaza.
		
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			And now I find myself even emotionally moved
		
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			when I find out that our prophet peace
		
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			be upon him, that he was hurt by
		
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			what happened here in Muta.
		
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			There was something for those of you who
		
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			are not Muslims, what I'm about to tell
		
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			you will sound crazy, fanciful, maybe even ridiculous.
		
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			But for those of us who believe, and
		
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			for me, it's not hard to believe because
		
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			before I was a Muslim, I was a
		
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			Christian and any person of the book, any
		
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			religious person believes outrageous things.
		
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			That's why it requires faith, right?
		
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			Well, it is, it is written by witnesses
		
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			that our prophet peace be upon him, who
		
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			was, you know, thousands of miles away from
		
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			Jordan, who was nowhere near Muta.
		
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			If you know the story, the seer of
		
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			the life of our prophet, peace be upon
		
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			him, you know that he and the angel
		
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			Jabril that many of you will know as
		
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			Gabriel had a deeply interactive, close relationship that
		
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			just blows my mind.
		
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			And it's been so profound for me because
		
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			I believe, I've always believed in the angel
		
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			Gabriel.
		
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			And while our prophet was thousands of miles
		
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			away, it was said by witnesses that Jabril
		
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			was showing him supernaturally what was happening here
		
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			in Muta.
		
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			And Jabril, Gabriel, the angel, showed our prophet,
		
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			peace be upon him, that his son Zayd
		
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			was slain and the heaviness overcame him.
		
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			But there was a beautiful man, a wonderful,
		
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			devout human being that I have just grown
		
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			to have so much admiration for.
		
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			There was a dear, dear brother named Jaffer,
		
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			who, this matters to me, it may matter
		
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			to you, who lived in Africa for 12
		
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			years, who lived in Abyssinia, which we know
		
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			is in Ethiopia, who lived there, who was
		
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			welcomed by the king.
		
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			Jaffer was not only welcomed by the king
		
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			of Abyssinia, but it was the testimony of
		
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			Jaffer who I have to pause and say,
		
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			our prophet, peace be upon him, said that
		
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			no man on earth looked more like the
		
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			prophet, peace be upon him.
		
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			They were cousins, blood cousins, genetic cousins.
		
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			There was no man on earth that looked
		
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			more like our prophet, peace be upon him,
		
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			than Jaffer and had the character of our
		
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			prophet, peace be upon him, than Jaffer.
		
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			What compliment could ever exceed such a thing?
		
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			Not just because they look just alike, but
		
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			to say that no man on earth has
		
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			the character of the prophet Muhammad more than
		
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			this man, Jaffer, who went to Abyssinia when
		
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			Muslims were being oppressed and brutalized and beaten,
		
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			went to Abyssinia on behalf of Muslims, traveled
		
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			from Mecca and Medina, traveled to Ethiopia, to
		
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			Abyssinia, and presented Islam to the king of
		
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			Abyssinia, who accepted Islam and said to the
		
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			men who came to Abyssinia to try to
		
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			sway the king to not only not believe
		
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			Jaffer and not believe the Muslims, yes, but
		
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			to kill them or to hold them or
		
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			to turn them over so that they could
		
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			be murdered.
		
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			And the king of Abyssinia said, no, no,
		
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			no, not only will I not turn them
		
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			over, but don't you dare ever come here
		
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			to do anything to them again.
		
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			And Muslims found refuge in Abyssinia.
		
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			Many stayed there for a short period of
		
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			time, but Jaffer and his family stayed there
		
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			for nearly 12 years.
		
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			His children were born there.
		
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			Just this beautiful man who was not only
		
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			physically handsome, but was known as a friend
		
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			of those who were poor and downtrodden.
		
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			And so Zayd was murdered, slain.
		
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			He was carrying the banner and the banner
		
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			dropped onto the ground.
		
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			And our dear brother Jaffer picked up the
		
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			mantle and rushed in to battle.
		
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			Gravely outnumbered, 50 to 1, rushed into the
		
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			middle of the battle and was slain.
		
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			The testimony is, and it's painful.
		
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			I'll share it as I go in.
		
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			I'll take my, take my shoes off.
		
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			There's a security here and there are many
		
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			sisters and brothers who are in here because
		
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			Jaffer is, Jaffer is revered in Islam.
		
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			As-salamu alaykum.
		
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			Jaffer rushed into battle here in Mutah, having
		
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			picked up the standard, the mantle, the flag,
		
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			if you will, of our prophet Muhammad peace
		
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			be upon him, the standard, the mantle of
		
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			Allah, of Islam.
		
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			Picked it up, rushed into battle and was
		
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			stabbed from many different angles.
		
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			Some testimonies say that our dear brother Jaffer
		
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			was stabbed over 70 times all over his
		
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			body.
		
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			But first they cut off his left arm.
		
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			Jaffer dropped the mantle, picked it up with
		
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			his right arm and continued continued carrying
		
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			the mantle into battle.
		
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			They chopped off his right arm and witnesses
		
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			say that with just the stubs of his
		
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			arms, picked the mantle back up.
		
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			Listen, let me, let me speak clearly to
		
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			you.
		
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			I don't, I'm not crying yet but when
		
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			our prophet peace be upon him spoke to
		
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			his companions and said there will be a
		
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			day where the nations of the world will
		
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			feast upon Muslims like diners at a table,
		
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			like a, like at a feast.
		
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			The companions scratched their head and said, they
		
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			were 200,000 Muslims at that point.
		
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			The companion said, will we be so few
		
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			in number that the nations of the world
		
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			could just eat us for lunch?
		
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			And our prophet peace be upon him said,
		
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			no, not quite the opposite.
		
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			We will be uncountable.
		
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			There'll be so many of us, we will
		
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			be like the foam of the ocean.
		
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			And, and our prophet peace be upon him
		
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			said, but there will be one in our
		
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			hearts.
		
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			When I saw that, I said, one, what
		
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			is one?
		
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			And I'm so, I have to laugh because
		
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			a companion of our prophet, part of the
		
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			Sahaba said, oh prophet, what is one?
		
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			That was the same question I had.
		
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			He said, weakness.
		
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			There will be weakness in your heart and
		
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			Muslims will love this world so much and
		
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			will have such a fear of death that
		
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			the nations will not even be afraid of
		
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			them.
		
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			Sisters and brothers, Jafar, his body is here.
		
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			He was, when, when Jafar came back from
		
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			Abyssinia and met the prophet again for the
		
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			first time in years, peace be upon him,
		
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			our prophet was exceedingly happy.
		
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			I mean, he said, I, I don't know
		
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			what makes me happier, just seeing Jafar or
		
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			that we've just won such a significant battle.
		
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			This is before Muta.
		
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			And soon after that, of course, when they
		
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			were sent to Muta to battle and Zayd
		
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			was slaughtered, slain in Muta.
		
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			It was Jafar that picked up the mantle,
		
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			but lost his left arm, lost his right
		
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			arm and sisters and brothers picked up the
		
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			mantle with stubs.
		
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			This is who you come from.
		
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			Do you understand me?
		
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			This is our inheritance.
		
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			This is, we, we, we come from warriors,
		
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			sisters and brothers.
		
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			We, we come from men and women who
		
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			fought for what they believe in.
		
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			Right here.
		
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			It's, this is actually just a beautiful, beautiful
		
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			monument to Jafar.
		
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			It's gorgeous.
		
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			Let me show it to you.
		
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			And then I'll tell you a little bit
		
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			more about his story.
		
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			I'll try to stand back so you can
		
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			see the size and scope of it.
		
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			There's just a beautiful high ceiling here and
		
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			just gorgeous.
		
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			And the tomb of, of Jafar is inside
		
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			this kind of empty space to the left
		
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			and to the right.
		
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			And his tomb is right here in the
		
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			middle section is covered with just a beautiful
		
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			cloth.
		
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			It from my eyes, it appears to be
		
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			a black cloth with gold and silver embroidery
		
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			and all, all over it.
		
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			The camera won't quite do it justice, but
		
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			it's, it's a gorgeous, gorgeous space fitting to
		
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			a man who gave it all.
		
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			Jafar was literally carrying the mantle with no
		
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			arms.
		
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			Here you see the lock for anyone who
		
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			ever has to go in and dust it
		
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			off or maintain it.
		
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			Um, Jafar was carrying the mantle with what
		
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			was left of his limbs, carrying it.
		
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			And as he carried the mantle with no
		
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			limbs, he was struck from behind by a
		
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			cowardly soldier and slain there on the battlefield.
		
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			And the angel Jabril showed this to our
		
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			prophet, peace be upon him, supernaturally in real
		
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			time.
		
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			And our prophet peace be upon him, having
		
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			already announced to the people that Zayd has
		
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			been slain, now stands up and announces that
		
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			Jafar, who was known as the friend of
		
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			the poor, who loved who loved just being
		
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			in the presence of poor people and would
		
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			give everything he had to them.
		
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			May we live up to this example of
		
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			Jafar.
		
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			You know, when we say the names of
		
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			these companions, we say things like, may Allah
		
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			be pleased with them.
		
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			But I'm, I'm so, may Allah be pleased
		
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			with him.
		
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			But I'm so confident that Allah is pleased
		
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			with him.
		
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			The children of, of Jafar, the wife of
		
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			Jafar were all close with our prophet peace
		
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			be upon him and his family.
		
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			And, um, they were so glad to see
		
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			him because he had to come and deliver
		
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			the news that Jafar had been slain and
		
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			Jafar's children, uh, ran up to our prophet
		
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			peace be upon him.
		
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			And, uh, he was so playful and, and
		
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			so warm and kind.
		
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			Uh, some of them literally jumped on his
		
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			back and were just, that's how he was
		
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			like family to them.
		
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			It was family.
		
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			And, um, yeah, Jafar's wife knew that something
		
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			was wrong because our prophet peace be upon
		
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			him grabbed the children and began to smell
		
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			their hair.
		
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			And it was just a different type of
		
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			countenance and behavior.
		
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			And she knew that he was there to
		
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			deliver the news.
		
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			And he told her that Jafar had been
		
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			slain.
		
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			She cried out and the angel Jibreel said
		
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			something to our prophet peace be upon him,
		
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			that he said to the family of Jafar
		
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			and the companions repeated for the rest of
		
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			their days that in Jannah, Allah replaced the
		
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			limbs of Jafar with wings.
		
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			That he no longer had arms.
		
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			He now had wings, not metaphorically, proverbially, not
		
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			just as inspiration, but he was now a
		
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			man with wings.
		
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			This is, this is the tomb of Jafar.
		
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			Sisters and brothers, who are we?
		
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			What does it mean to be a Muslim?
		
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			Did these men give their lives just for
		
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			us to name our children after them?
		
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			Just for us to be motivated, to be
		
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			Muslims, but not actually live like Muslims.
		
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			What does it mean to be a Muslim?
		
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			If not to carry the mantle of Allah,
		
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			if not to rush into battle, following the
		
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			words of our prophet peace be upon him.
		
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			Nothing has broken my heart more than seeing
		
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			our sisters and brothers in Gaza, which is
		
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			so close to where I'm standing right now.
		
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			I could be, I could be in the
		
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			West Bank in an hour right now.
		
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			I could be in Gaza in three hours
		
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			right now.
		
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			And they are asking for us.
		
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			They're saying, where are the Muslims?
		
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			Are you a Muslim?
		
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			You know, I said, from the floor of
		
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			the Hagia Sophia mosque, I said, I didn't
		
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			have the luxury of one day standing before
		
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			Allah.
		
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			And Allah said, Sean, what did you do
		
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			with your hands?
		
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			I don't have the luxury of saying, oh
		
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			Allah, but I had, you know me, oh
		
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			Allah, I have no hands.
		
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			I have no arms.
		
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			I do.
		
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			Jafar had arms and used them, gave them
		
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			to him, willfully to do the work of
		
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			Allah.
		
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			I have a little more to show you,
		
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			but they were not just two companions that
		
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			were slain, but many.
		
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			And these two men are just beloved of
		
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			our prophet.
		
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			But there's one more man whose tomb is
		
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			here.
		
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			A wonderful poet, my Imam Sheikh Omar Suleiman
		
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			calls him a warrior poet.
		
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			And he was, I can't wait to tell
		
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			you his story.
		
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			So sisters and brothers, I'm just a few
		
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			hundred meters away from the tombs of Zayd
		
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			and Jafar.
		
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			And we've gone just around the corner.
		
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			There is also a beautiful masjid here.
		
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			And here is the tomb of the warrior
		
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			poet, as Imam Omar Suleiman calls him.
		
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			And indeed he was a poet.
		
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			In fact, in many ways, he was like
		
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			a battle rapper.
		
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			He was literally writing poetry, disses about their
		
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			enemies and bragging about Islam, bragging about Allah,
		
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			bragging about his prophet Muhammad peace be upon
		
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			him.
		
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			And I mean this very earnestly, like he
		
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			was very much involved in like Islamic battle
		
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			raps.
		
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			And he was writing poetry before he became
		
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			a Muslim.
		
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			He was just writing famous, beloved poetry that
		
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			even our prophet peace be upon him knew
		
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			and recited.
		
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			There's a beautiful message from Imam Omar Suleiman
		
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			about this, where he said it is really
		
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			those words and that example that gives us
		
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			permission to support art that is not Islamic,
		
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			but does not undermine Islam.
		
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			That our prophet peace be upon him loved
		
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			the poetry of Abdullah.
		
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			Abdullah bin Rahwa.
		
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			And forgive my pronunciation.
		
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			I'm trying and I'm practicing.
		
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			But Abdullah was beautiful, famed, beloved poet, who
		
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			when he embraced Islam, became a poet for
		
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			our prophet peace be upon him.
		
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			Use your gifts, whatever your gifts are, use
		
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			them for Allah.
		
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			Use them.
		
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			I'm a talker, so I'm going to talk.
		
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			I'm a historian, so I'm going to tell
		
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			you the history.
		
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			And our prophet peace be upon him, when
		
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			he sent 3,000 Muslims to Muta, here
		
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			in Jordan, where I am now, he says,
		
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			Zayd, Zayd, my son Zayd will lead you,
		
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			as he always did.
		
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			And if by chance he falls, then Jafar
		
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			will lead and pick up the mantle.
		
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			And if Jafar falls, Abdullah will lead you.
		
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			And as we know, and as we saw,
		
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			Zayd fell.
		
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			Jafar picked up the mantle and was slain
		
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			on the battlefield, but was given wings in
		
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			Jannah.
		
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			And we are here now at the tomb
		
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			of our dear brother, companion of our prophet,
		
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			a poet, a warrior, who would recite his
		
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			poetry on the battlefield.
		
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			Alhamdulillah, to motivate, to do two things, to
		
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			motivate the sisters and brothers, this men and
		
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			women fought for Allah.
		
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			Do you understand me?
		
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			Was it just brothers?
		
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			Here is his tomb, because our dear brother
		
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			Abdullah was also slain here in Muta.
		
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			I could not imagine to see Zayd slain.
		
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			Abdullah must have known he was that much
		
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			closer to having to pick up the mantle
		
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			himself.
		
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			To then see Jafar slain, I could not
		
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			imagine.
		
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			As I told you, the prophet himself, peace
		
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			be upon him, said, no man on earth
		
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			resembles me more physically and has my character
		
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			more than Jafar.
		
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			He was slain, breaking the heart of our
		
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			prophet, who cried tears over his slain brother
		
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			Jafar, his cousin.
		
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			And then it was the duty, the responsibility
		
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			of Abdullah, the warrior poet, who was literally
		
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			in Muta reciting poetry, to do two things,
		
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			to strike fear in their opponents and to
		
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			inspire the men and women who had gathered
		
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			together to take a stand for Allah.
		
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			He is here.
		
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			Now, as we say, you heard me say
		
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			earlier, we are not bodies with souls.
		
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			We are souls, permanent souls with temporary bodies.
		
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			This is the temporary body of Abdullah.
		
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			Let me show you.
		
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			Unlike the other two tombs, here I'm able
		
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			to get close.
		
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			I will not touch it because I don't
		
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			know if it's custom or practice, but I
		
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			could if I wanted to.
		
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			There's no fence or barrier around it.
		
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			And there's something profound about that, that this
		
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			was just a man who took a stand
		
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			for Allah.
		
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			He was a poet.
		
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			He was a warrior.
		
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			He was a fighter.
		
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			He was a man of faith, of courage,
		
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			of dignity, tenacity, of integrity, who again saw
		
00:44:00 --> 00:44:05
			injustice and confronted it with his hands.
		
00:44:08 --> 00:44:11
			After Zayd was slain, after Jafar was slain,
		
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			it became Abdullah's responsibility to take up the
		
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			mantle, the banner of the Muslims in the
		
00:44:21 --> 00:44:22
			battle of Mutah.
		
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			Soon after Zayd was slain, after Jafar was
		
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			slain, may Allah be pleased with them, Abdullah
		
00:44:33 --> 00:44:39
			picked up the mantle, stormed into tens of
		
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			thousands of soldiers and was slain himself.
		
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			Sisters and brothers, Allah has not required victory
		
00:44:47 --> 00:44:47
			from us.
		
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			He requires effort.
		
00:44:50 --> 00:44:53
			Allah does not require even success from us,
		
00:44:53 --> 00:44:56
			but requires the commitment.
		
00:44:57 --> 00:45:01
			It says, when you see injustice confronted with
		
00:45:01 --> 00:45:06
			your hands, sisters and brothers, listen, I'm here.
		
00:45:10 --> 00:45:15
			There is in here just the withered body,
		
00:45:16 --> 00:45:21
			the withered remains of a human being, creation
		
00:45:21 --> 00:45:22
			from Allah here.
		
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			It was not superhuman.
		
00:45:27 --> 00:45:29
			Jafar was not superhuman.
		
00:45:30 --> 00:45:31
			Zayd was not superhuman.
		
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			They were just, they were just men with
		
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			blood in their veins, with breath in their
		
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			lungs.
		
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			I'm struck as I'm here because the tombs
		
00:45:43 --> 00:45:48
			of Jafar and Zayd were surrounded by a
		
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			grand fence.
		
00:45:52 --> 00:45:55
			Here, being able to be up close, I'm
		
00:45:55 --> 00:45:59
			struck by the small size, not that he
		
00:45:59 --> 00:46:00
			was a small man.
		
00:46:00 --> 00:46:02
			I'm not, it's just to say he was
		
00:46:02 --> 00:46:03
			just a man.
		
00:46:06 --> 00:46:10
			There is, I wish it was 4D because
		
00:46:10 --> 00:46:13
			there's a sweet, beautiful fragrance in the air.
		
00:46:13 --> 00:46:14
			It just hit me.
		
00:46:14 --> 00:46:16
			I've been in here for several, I've been
		
00:46:16 --> 00:46:18
			here for eight minutes and seven seconds, but
		
00:46:18 --> 00:46:20
			now it has hit me.
		
00:46:24 --> 00:46:26
			It's a moving thing.
		
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			I, when our sisters and brothers in Kashmir,
		
00:46:35 --> 00:46:38
			in Gaza, in the West Bank, in Sudan,
		
00:46:39 --> 00:46:42
			in the Congo, in India, when they call
		
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			for us, when they call for Muslims, are
		
00:46:45 --> 00:46:45
			you a Muslim?
		
00:46:48 --> 00:46:49
			Have you taken your Shahada?
		
00:46:52 --> 00:46:54
			Do you believe that there is only one
		
00:46:54 --> 00:46:57
			God and the prophet Muhammad is his messenger?
		
00:46:57 --> 00:46:58
			Do you believe that?
		
00:46:58 --> 00:46:59
			I believe it.
		
00:47:00 --> 00:47:02
			He believed it.
		
00:47:04 --> 00:47:07
			Listen, I'm not saying that he didn't have
		
00:47:09 --> 00:47:11
			bravery for days.
		
00:47:11 --> 00:47:12
			Of course he did.
		
00:47:12 --> 00:47:14
			But do you think that this man had
		
00:47:14 --> 00:47:15
			no fear?
		
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			Of course he did.
		
00:47:18 --> 00:47:20
			Do you think Jafar had zero fear?
		
00:47:20 --> 00:47:22
			Do you think Zayd had no fear at
		
00:47:22 --> 00:47:23
			all?
		
00:47:23 --> 00:47:24
			No, it's not that.
		
00:47:25 --> 00:47:30
			It's that your fear of death cannot, cannot
		
00:47:30 --> 00:47:33
			be so strong that it keeps you from
		
00:47:33 --> 00:47:36
			acting on the will of Allah.
		
00:47:38 --> 00:47:41
			Sisters and brothers, I can only quote a
		
00:47:41 --> 00:47:43
			few Hadiths because I only know a few.
		
00:47:43 --> 00:47:44
			I'm a new Muslim.
		
00:47:45 --> 00:47:48
			I've been a Muslim for six months.
		
00:47:51 --> 00:47:54
			But when we talk about, when the prophet
		
00:47:54 --> 00:47:57
			Muhammad, peace be upon him, said that, I
		
00:47:57 --> 00:47:59
			believe it was a prophecy about us today.
		
00:48:00 --> 00:48:02
			We are proud when we say that we
		
00:48:02 --> 00:48:04
			are nearly two billion strong.
		
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			There are nearly two billion of us.
		
00:48:07 --> 00:48:11
			I believe that prophecy about the foam of
		
00:48:11 --> 00:48:12
			the ocean is about us.
		
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			And sisters and brothers, you were not created
		
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			by Allah to be the foam of the
		
00:48:20 --> 00:48:20
			ocean.
		
00:48:21 --> 00:48:22
			What is the foam?
		
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			You can just bat the foam of the
		
00:48:24 --> 00:48:25
			ocean away.
		
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			There is no strength in the foam.
		
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			It is, it is froth.
		
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			It is air and bubbles.
		
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			It is nothing.
		
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			And our prophet, peace be upon him, said,
		
00:48:39 --> 00:48:42
			there will be so much weakness in the
		
00:48:42 --> 00:48:44
			heart of Muslims that we will be like
		
00:48:44 --> 00:48:46
			the foam of the ocean.
		
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			I, I cannot accept that.
		
00:48:50 --> 00:48:52
			I cannot accept it for myself.
		
00:48:52 --> 00:48:54
			I cannot accept it for you.
		
00:48:54 --> 00:48:56
			But you have to decide yourself.
		
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			No, no, no.
		
00:48:59 --> 00:49:01
			Allah did not create me to be the
		
00:49:01 --> 00:49:02
			foam of the ocean.
		
00:49:02 --> 00:49:02
			And here's the thing.
		
00:49:03 --> 00:49:06
			If, if that is describing us today, may
		
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			we be the generation, not our children, not
		
00:49:10 --> 00:49:12
			our children's children, but may we be the
		
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			generation that says, no, I will not be
		
00:49:15 --> 00:49:16
			the foam of the ocean.
		
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			Maybe we, we be motivated by our sisters
		
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			and brothers around the world who said, no,
		
00:49:23 --> 00:49:24
			no, we will fight.
		
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			We will pick up the mantle of Allah.
		
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			We will pick up the mantle of our
		
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			prophet, peace be upon him.
		
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			And we will fight for freedom.
		
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			We will fight for Islam.
		
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			We will fight for dignity.
		
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			We will not be weak.
		
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			One will not be in our hearts so
		
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			much that we will be feasted upon by
		
00:49:43 --> 00:49:44
			the nations.
		
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			There are too many of us for that.
		
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			Sisters and brothers, if 1% of us
		
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			decided to no longer be the foam of,
		
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			if 1% of us decided to be
		
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			warrior poets, if 1% of us decided
		
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			to be like Abdullah, to be like Jafar,
		
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			to be like Zayd, if just a fraction
		
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			of us, injustice would almost disappear in the
		
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			world because we don't stand for it.
		
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			We confront it with our hands.
		
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			I hope, I hope this has inspired you.
		
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			There's more that I'm going to show you
		
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			here on my trip in Jordan, but I
		
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			wanted to show you and tell you some
		
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			of the story of these three slain companions
		
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			of our prophet, peace be upon him and
		
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			may Allah be pleased with them.
		
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			But I've told you these stories.
		
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			I left my family in Istanbul, came here
		
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			to Turkey and I came here to Jordan
		
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			by myself because I want to inspire you
		
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			to not be the foam of the ocean.
		
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			I want to inspire you to live like
		
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			this man, to not have one weakness in
		
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			your heart.
		
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			Do you understand me?
		
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			That is not the will of Allah for
		
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			us.
		
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			Sisters and brothers, I believe in Allah.
		
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			I believe in the words of our prophet.
		
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			Let me say this.
		
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			I believe in you.
		
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			I believe in us and I believe that
		
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			we will not just be talk, not just
		
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			be heart, but that we will confront injustice
		
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			with our hands.
		
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			Even if one day someone is at a
		
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			tomb with your name on it saying, Hamdulillah.
		
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			This dear sister stood up for Allah.
		
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			This dear brother stood up for our prophet,
		
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			peace be upon him.
		
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			This dear brother, listen, one final story.
		
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			I was so moved by this that when
		
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			I read it, I literally called Imam Omar
		
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			and said, did I hear this correctly?
		
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			This was, I believe, during the last hajj
		
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			of our prophet, peace be upon him, the
		
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			final hajj of our prophet.
		
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			And as he stood at the Kaaba, which
		
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			we hold up as the holiest site in
		
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			all of Islam.
		
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			As he stood at the Kaaba, he said
		
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			to the Muslims of the day, Muslims had
		
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			come in the final hajj, Muslims had come
		
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			from all around the world.
		
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			Muslims were from many nations and our prophet,
		
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			peace be upon him, said to the Muslims,
		
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			the blood of just one Muslim is more
		
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			sacred than the Kaaba, is more sacred than
		
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			the Kaaba during hajj, is more sacred during
		
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			the Kaaba during Ramadan, the blood of just
		
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			one of us.
		
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			So my question was, sisters and brothers, if
		
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			they were coming to take over the Kaaba,
		
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			would you go defend it?
		
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			Most people said, yes, I would go defend
		
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			it.
		
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			But our prophet, peace be upon him, said,
		
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			actually, the blood of just one Muslim is
		
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			more sacred actually than the Kaaba.
		
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			Do you understand what I'm saying to you?
		
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			What I've loved about Islam is that it
		
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			is so plain, it is so clear, you
		
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			don't have to guess how to be a
		
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			Muslim.
		
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			Our prophet, peace be upon him, spells it
		
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			out.
		
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			The Quran spells it out, the Hadiths which
		
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			have been authenticated, spell it out.
		
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			And we have Abdullah, we have Jafar, we
		
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			have Zayd, we have the companions to be
		
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			inspired, to show us the way.
		
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			As-salamu alaykum.
		
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			I must go, but I hope you've learned
		
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			something, I hope it's touched your heart, and
		
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			I'll see you again, Inshallah.
		
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			Take care.