Suhaib Webb – How Community Fights Stress During the Pandemic

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The speaker discusses a course they will be taking together to address the impact of the coronavirus on people and their bodies. They explain that they have been preparing a text and reading it every week, but they find it difficult to read it in a practical way. They also mention that people have been rejecting the concept of being an innovation, which is counterproductive, and that they have been preparing the text in different ways.

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			That's a question.
		
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			Yes, sir. Okay. Awesome. So, inshallah, what we're
		
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			going to do is go through a course
		
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			together. I I know that many of us
		
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			are feeling a lot of stress,
		
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			the need for community is real. You know,
		
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			nothing reveals the need for each other like
		
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			being kept away from things that perhaps we've
		
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			taken for granted for so long, and this
		
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			coronavirus is impacting, of course, a large number
		
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			of people
		
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			in the world and in New Jersey, and
		
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			we ask Allah to
		
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			protect us, Inshallah, and others, and we ask
		
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			Allah for those who may have been,
		
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			infected by this virus that Allah will protect
		
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			them and make the cure,
		
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			inshallah quickly, inshallah quickly. So,
		
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			my friend Sharif actually asked me to sit
		
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			with everybody and read,
		
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			once a week, text, Insha'Allah.
		
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			So I've been preparing the text and you
		
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			have to forgive me, that's why I'm I'm
		
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			a little bit late,
		
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			getting here.
		
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			But this is a text that I thought
		
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			we could read together really on, practical.
		
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			Oftentimes, we find
		
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			being posited in the community in different ways.
		
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			One is perhaps
		
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			making the focus of the religious leader
		
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			or the group and not really the the
		
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			focus of tasawaf, which should be Allah.
		
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			Or we find people completely rejecting tasawaf as
		
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			being an innovation,
		
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			as something which is, you know, contrary,
		
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			contradicting the Quran and sunnah.