Suhaib Webb – How to Emulate Allahs Response to Peoples Needs – Communication and Spreading the Message

Suhaib Webb
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The speaker discusses the importance of communication and spreading a message in a teachable moment. They mention the use of the phrase "has been a long time ago" to describe the relationship between the Prophet and modernity. The speaker also talks about a video about a person being thrown out by a bathwater and the importance of avoiding negative comments in one's communication.
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Taqawmus means to wear the shirt of a

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person from Qamees.

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Like just don't answer them, you know.

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But you need to know like who you're

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giving the answer to.

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So if you think about what I said,

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I gave you like actually interesting assignment.

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Go and find those verses where Allah responds

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to the needs of people and then evaluate

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yourself, evaluate your community, evaluate your institution.

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You know the longest verses in * Baqara

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about divorce.

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What kind of services do we have for

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divorcees?

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So in many ways we learn as Imam

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Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali said, you know, one

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of the things that Allah loves to see

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is his attributes that you recognize he's given

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to you, you give to people.

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So Allah is merciful to me.

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I'm merciful.

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Allah has guided me.

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I'm passionate about guiding others.

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So this chapter comes in a teachable moment

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and it tells us a lot about sort

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of how we should think about communication and

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spreading the message.

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There's this idea sometimes that, you know, to

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be religious you have to be anti-modern.

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No doubt modernity has a lot of issues,

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but we don't throw the baby out with

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a bathwater.

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The Prophet ﷺ came into a pagan society.

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They were freaking crazy and he didn't like

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throw out everything.

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He didn't get rid of their entire culture.

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