Suhaib Webb – Lessons From Isra & Miraj

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The importance of finding stability in life and a culture of liberality is emphasized, along with the need for a culture of liberality. The challenges faced by Muslims in their religious education, including language use and the loss of their Prophet sallati, are discussed. The importance of proving oneself through actions and learning from past experiences is emphasized, along with the success of Islam as a means of fulfillment and productivity. The segment concludes with a brief advertisement for a program on Islam and a discussion of the importance of learning from loss and the success of Islam in society.

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			So I was asked to talk about this
		
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			topic that we're going to start here monthly
		
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			We actually have a text for you that
		
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			we'll bring next time.
		
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			It's a small text.
		
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			It's not big.
		
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			So don't worry.
		
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			Alhamdulillah written by Imam Al-Muttaqi on What
		
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			it means to be near Allah and that's
		
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			a very important topic in a time where
		
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			the material world is At least it appears
		
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			very unstable The foundations of many things we
		
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			thought we could trust especially since October 7th
		
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			have really revealed themselves to be very fragile
		
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			in and outside of the community internationally and
		
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			locally So I think that that text is
		
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			like a really nice book because one of
		
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			the things that our school that we function
		
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			Focus on is functionality not abstractions like that.
		
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			You're practicing Not just thinking.
		
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			Imam Al-Khazari said Like the fruit of
		
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			knowledge is worship and oftentimes we get caught
		
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			up in sort of platitudes and big ideas
		
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			and big thoughts But at the end of
		
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			the day like if I'm living foul, it
		
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			doesn't matter, right?
		
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			It's the end of the day if fortnight
		
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			is keeping me from making Fajr.
		
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			I got problems Right if Netflix bingeing got
		
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			me, you know keeping me from making it
		
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			to Fajr.
		
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			I Need to check myself So it's fundamental
		
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			level what we try to focus on is
		
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			Functionality, so I think you'll find the text
		
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			is not an abstract text But it really
		
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			provides you with a roadmap of how to
		
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			find stability by being near Allah Subhanahu wa'ta
		
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			'ala in this world and what that means.
		
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			What does it mean to be near Allah?
		
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			He defines it He talks about it.
		
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			He goes into detail and what I like
		
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			about it is it almost presents it Like
		
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			it's the back of a cereal box.
		
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			Here's like your macros.
		
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			Here's what it means to be near Allah
		
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			Here's how you understand if you're near Allah
		
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			and he addresses some of the common things
		
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			the reductivism that we find now Oh, I
		
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			didn't get a feeling.
		
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			What do you worship Allah for a feeling
		
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			or do you worship Allah?
		
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			So one of my teachers used to say
		
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			man Yeah, I bought a little half a
		
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			car.
		
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			Yeah, I bought a hat like whoever worships
		
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			for a feeling worships the feeling But the
		
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			Sahaba didn't feel good when they were being
		
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			tortured, but they worshipped Allah so how do
		
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			we reframe and pull away from sort of
		
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			that I Would say shallow definitions of what
		
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			it means to have that relationship and get
		
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			into a deeper more intimate relationship with the
		
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			Creator tonight what I would talk talk about
		
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			because we're not going to start to text
		
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			is a very important topic and that is
		
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			the Islam the marriage of the Prophet sallallahu
		
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			alayhi wa sallam and how that ties into
		
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			nearness to Allah in a more general way
		
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			and some of the principles we can take
		
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			from that story this month of Rajab and
		
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			Allah where most scholars agree this happened and
		
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			How that can help you and I think
		
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			about especially what's going on in the last
		
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			few weeks people feel very unstable But also
		
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			over the last year Specifically since October 7th
		
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			We pray for Gaza that Allah will free
		
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			people of Gaza and Palestine as well as
		
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			Sudan and the Congo and everywhere else and
		
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			here Those challenges have rocked the community in
		
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			many ways first of all Islam encourages us
		
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			to think about history as Something that we
		
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			use for constructive and critical reflection something that
		
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			we are able to allow to sort of
		
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			soak into our minds if you will and
		
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			Generate itself through our actions, and that's why
		
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			I worry and I say this respectfully as
		
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			someone who Taught in the Academy and now
		
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			is working potentially on a PhD in the
		
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			Academy is Sometimes I worry that even in
		
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			the Academy we allow ourselves to supplement words
		
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			Not in the Academy because we have to
		
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			write a certain way in the university system
		
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			but now even in Masajid we are replacing
		
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			religious nomenclature with secular nomenclature and this Reveals
		
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			itself in two ways number one most Muslims
		
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			and most Americans now are using political vocabulary
		
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			So now when you talk about a bad
		
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			Muslim You don't say that's like a person
		
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			of bid'ah or that's the class if
		
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			you say what that's a what?
		
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			liberal so that is a sign of colonality
		
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			One of the greatest signs of a colonality
		
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			is that I've lost my vocabulary.
		
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			I no longer have a connection to the
		
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			words that my religion Affords me to use
		
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			in order to emancipate my mind From the
		
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			challenges of language that are met within the
		
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			society.
		
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			I live in and To think about how
		
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			important words are just think about Adam alayhi
		
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			salatu salam.
		
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			What's the first thing Allah taught him is
		
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			what?
		
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			wa allama adama asmaa kullaha is words So
		
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			a Muslim in America that is unfamiliar with
		
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			at least basic foundational religious nomenclature Religious vocabulary
		
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			would be like Adam if Allah did not
		
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			teach him the names of all things What
		
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			will happen to you?
		
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			And so that's why sometimes in religious scholarship
		
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			its job is to furnish you with kalimat
		
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			as Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala gave words to
		
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			Adam fata laqaa adama min rabbihi kalimatun is
		
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			one of the qiraat from ibn kathir That
		
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			the kalimat came to Adam Allah commanded the
		
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			kalimat those words of repentance you go to
		
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			Adam Allah commanded those words you go to
		
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			him and you teach him and also the
		
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			Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam numerous narrations He'll
		
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			use a word on the sahaba will say
		
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			what does that word mean?
		
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			But also now as an extension of Islam
		
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			and the prophetic office The job of scholars
		
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			especially in America is to provide you a
		
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			language That allows you to synthesize your faith
		
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			with your world and this was exposed in
		
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			the last year When students across this country
		
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			begin to protest and when students begin to
		
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			organize?
		
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			they look to Shu and they look to
		
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			Imams and even during the Election not necessarily
		
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			for answers, but words and That's why most
		
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			of the time we know two words really
		
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			well halal and what?
		
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			Haram, but there's like seven words when it
		
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			comes to rulings So the the importance of
		
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			investing in education is to push in To
		
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			it having a a meaningful relationship through meaning
		
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			that empowers you to function to be functional
		
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			so in the Quran we have words for
		
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			history that we don't use and they are
		
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			years used synonymously with history and We should
		
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			think about them and dr.
		
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			Ismael Farooqi a lawyer Hamill and Shakaha was
		
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			here triple it May Allah Subhan Allah put
		
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			light in his grave one of my teachers,
		
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			MashaAllah Taught the importance of an Islamic language
		
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			Islamic wording So for example in the Quran
		
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			Allah Subhan Allah uses the word Ibra for
		
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			historical occurrences Ibra Is a word Abra Sabeel,
		
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			which means to cross to pass over Abra
		
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			Sineen Abra Shuhur it happened over these last
		
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			few years it happened over these last few
		
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			months Why because and this is very beautiful.
		
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			It's very different than his story because his
		
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			story is told by who has power his
		
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			story But Abra is something that I learn
		
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			about history Something that I learned about my
		
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			past that literally travels from the instructor to
		
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			the students Then it travels to my mind
		
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			it travels to my heart and if it
		
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			reaches its goal Whatever I've learned from history
		
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			should travel to my actions.
		
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			It's a very beautiful word man And it's
		
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			much more deeper and holistic and then say
		
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			just simple words about the past Another word
		
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			that the Quran uses for historical moments is
		
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			Ayaah Signs And signs are those things that
		
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			direct us on how to live Yurshid aw
		
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			yuwassilu ilas sawab aw yurshid ilas sawab for
		
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			Muslims those signs are things that direct us
		
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			to how to live right That's why the
		
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			majority of the stories in the Quran are
		
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			about the Yahud because we are Most likely
		
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			to be like them because we have the
		
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			knowledge and we are an adjudicating religion that
		
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			has law So hence we need to be
		
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			careful that we are not like maghdoobi alayhim
		
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			and that can happen So that's why the
		
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			story is always mentioned to remind us of
		
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			how not only to live but how not
		
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			to live Allah subhana wa ta'ala Made
		
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			a third of the Quran according to Imam
		
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			Ibn Taymiyyah is stories Subhanallah a third of
		
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			the Quran is stories and The words used
		
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			for these stories and for the shorter genre
		
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			of historical accounts Again are very powerful like
		
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			qasas If you ask most people they say
		
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			a qasas means story, qasas doesn't mean story
		
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			in ancient Arabic if I say a qasastu
		
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			bi athari It means I followed him to
		
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			follow furtadda ala atharihima qasasa Sultaqaf We followed
		
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			him Step by step by step because when
		
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			we follow someone's life or follow someone's story
		
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			We should take the good and the bad
		
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			as though we're traveling with them mashallah and
		
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			learning from their experiences That's why even now
		
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			in community organizing one of the most important
		
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			things we can do to overcome collective community
		
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			trauma is storytelling There's a great article in
		
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			Atlantic a few weeks ago on the lost
		
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			art of riwayah The lost art of storytelling
		
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			I remember my great-grandfather was a storyteller
		
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			you could sit You're just you can just
		
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			make up a story like pow From his
		
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			dome you tell a story that has value
		
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			that has a lesson that has a meaning
		
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			Allah subhanallah in the Quran commands us to
		
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			think about the importance of history when he
		
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			says wadhakir hum bi ayaamillah And remind them
		
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			of the days of God The scholars commented
		
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			that the days of God are those days
		
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			that Allah helped the righteous supported the believers
		
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			and vanquished the enemies of truth That's why
		
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			the sahaba radwanallah alayhim Very early on I
		
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			mean this is the early sort of iterations
		
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			of hadith literature come out of what the
		
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			sahaba sitting together and talking about al maghazi
		
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			The battles of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
		
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			sallam In this battle and this happened and
		
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			that battle this happened this happened and this
		
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			happened and so on and so forth and
		
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			so forth and oftentimes we find them reflecting
		
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			historically say to I should said the worst
		
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			day of the message of Allah in Sahih
		
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			Muslim was the day of Taif Sallallahu alayhi
		
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			wa sallam and Even the Prophet is called
		
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			seerah Because in rhetoric the Arabs named things
		
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			by what they do They name human beings
		
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			incense I tell my wife this all the
		
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			time because we forget mashallah.
		
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			We're called incense But also we're called basher
		
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			because we show our emotions and our skin
		
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			They call a car what?
		
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			Sayara from the same word is seerah Why
		
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			because what are you doing a seerah?
		
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			Because it it moves you Why would they
		
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			call the life of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
		
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			wa sallam the seerah Because it's though you
		
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			are in The car with the message of
		
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			Allah now in our context or you're riding
		
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			with the message of Allah Sallallahu alayhi wa
		
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			sallam.
		
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			That's what one of our teachers used to
		
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			say man canna fee vayti He's sooner that
		
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			your midi.
		
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			Faka anna nabi fee vayti Like whoever has
		
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			the book of a termite in their house.
		
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			It's like the Prophet lives with him Sallallahu
		
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			alayhi wa alayhi wa sahbihi wa sallam So
		
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			that takes us now to one of the
		
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			more important historical events That happened in the
		
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			life of our beloved Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
		
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			sallam, which is a very restorative moment in
		
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			his life I mean the early part of
		
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			the life of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
		
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			sallam is very much about managing catastrophe and
		
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			the you know acute feeling of instability That's
		
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			how his life starts Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
		
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			His tribe had become weak Banu Hashim Their
		
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			strength had become weak their economic sort of
		
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			role had become weakened He loses his father.
		
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			He loses his mother.
		
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			He loses his grandfather He loses his wife.
		
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			He loses his uncle.
		
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			I mean in many ways and that's why
		
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			my problem with romanticized History if we're to
		
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			be honest the early life of the Prophet
		
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			sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is about managing loss
		
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			and Dealing with tragedy and If you were
		
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			to think about it this way in his
		
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			lifetime the odds for a child surviving who
		
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			lost his mother and father The cards were
		
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			stacked against him Sallallahu alayhi wa alayhi wa
		
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			sahbihi wa sallam from birth To the time
		
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			he makes hijrah That portion of his life
		
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			one of the mainstays of that is how
		
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			do you manage loss?
		
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			How do you deal with tragedy?
		
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			Sallallahu alayhi wa alayhi wa sahbihi wa sallam
		
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			and what we learn from Al-Isra wa
		
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			Mi'raj Are things that if we think
		
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			about Constructively can be transformative can have that
		
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			Ibra the Ibra effect Number one he lost
		
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			so many things Alayhi salatu salam and one
		
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			of the narrations he describes Sayyidina Khadija radiyallahu
		
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			anha as the one who provides for me
		
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			She's my Rizq Radiyallahu anha and he used
		
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			to love her so much That in Sahih
		
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			Muslim when her sister Hala would visit his
		
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			home in Medina and Hala she she resembled
		
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			her sister Hala bint Khuwaylid and So one
		
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			time she came actually to his home and
		
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			it caught him off guard and he said
		
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			Hala Hala It reminded him of Sayyidina Khadija
		
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			even though she had passed away After numerous
		
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			years then Sayyidina Aisha asked him like what's
		
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			this?
		
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			He said you know she supported me when
		
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			no one supported me.
		
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			She believed in me when no one believed
		
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			in me She was there for me when
		
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			no one was there for me Sallallahu alayhi
		
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			wa alayhi wa sahbihi wa sallam He lost
		
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			his uncle and if you think about this
		
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			he lost his emotional support His financial support,
		
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			but he also lost his like the community
		
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			the lobbyist The one that has the ability
		
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			to go into community and sort of lobby
		
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			on his behalf is his uncle That's why
		
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			the the discussions about killing him really start
		
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			to wrap.
		
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			You know ramp up after the death of
		
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			his uncle Sallallahu alayhi wa alayhi wa sahbihi
		
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			wa sallam So he loses emotional support, financial
		
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			support, and he loses like political support But
		
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			Imam Ibn Atta Allah says Rubbama ataakak faqad
		
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			manaak Wurubbama manaak faqad ataak In the Hikmah
		
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			he says maybe Allah gave you but he
		
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			kept you from something and maybe he kept
		
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			you from something But he gave you something
		
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			more.
		
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			Ghalib the great Urdu poet He said you
		
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			know if you question Allah's giving and taking
		
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			from you Think about Musa who goes to
		
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			a bush to get fire and comes back
		
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			with a fire of Prophethood Wa asaa an
		
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			takaruhu shai'an wa huwa khairu lakum Wa
		
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			asaa an tuhibbu shai'an wa huwa sharru
		
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			lakum Wallahu ya'lamu wa antumu la ta
		
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			'lamun Allah, I love something is bad for
		
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			me I hate something is good for me
		
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			at the end of the day leave it
		
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			to Allah And that's one of the challenges
		
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			we have leave it to Allah Sahibul Hikmah
		
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			says arih nassaka minal tadbeer Give yourself a
		
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			break from planning everything Like leave it to
		
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			Allah work hard, but leave it to Allah
		
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			So the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam between
		
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			loss tremendous loss he also has to Restrategize
		
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			and move from Mecca to Taif and here
		
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			we see a very important concept don't give
		
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			up if you're on the haq He could
		
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			have given up You know he had less
		
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			than 60 followers at that moment of Israa
		
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			Al-Mi'raj Imagine it was not going
		
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			viral how many people you post on social
		
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			media?
		
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			And you look all the time how many
		
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			likes how many likes how many likes who
		
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			commented how many likes who?
		
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			Now people want to buy like subhanAllah even
		
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			you know buy friends that they don't even
		
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			know from North Korea or wherever South Korea
		
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			You know really?
		
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			But they feel good about themselves.
		
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			I had a student one time.
		
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			He was only 14 He posted something had
		
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			22,000 likes so I said to him
		
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			like are you okay?
		
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			He's like ah imam.
		
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			I bought these likes I was like you
		
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			actually do that.
		
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			He was like.
		
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			He's like.
		
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			Yeah.
		
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			I was like.
		
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			How do you feel like mashallah?
		
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			I'm you know I feel great It's 14
		
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			right so I said to him like but
		
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			how many of those people know you he's
		
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			like none I was like I know you
		
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			and you're still great They don't know you
		
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			doesn't mean you're great He's like man, don't
		
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			blow it for us If you're not dealing
		
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			with reality even I don't know what to
		
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			tell you but the metrics of social media
		
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			in the age of exhibition have created a
		
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			sense of value which is false and And
		
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			that is best articulated by our inability to
		
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			push through When we face adversity But anyone
		
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			on the way of the message of Allah
		
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			sallallahu alayhi wa sallam will face Different levels
		
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			of adversity within themselves within their family within
		
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			their community and within society it has to
		
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			happen So the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
		
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			doesn't give up Because there's something very important
		
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			My teacher told me this years ago When
		
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			he wanted me to memorize the Quran I
		
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			told him how can I memorize the Quran?
		
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			I'm from Oklahoma like we don't even speak
		
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			English Like let alone like memorize this holy
		
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			book He said if you feel insecure with
		
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			yourself feel secure with Allah and That's the
		
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			height of trust So Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alayhi
		
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			wa sallam Doesn't give up in the face
		
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			of material loss because the command overrides what
		
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			you see The command of God overrides the
		
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			results we see in front of us So
		
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			whether I have a thousand followers whether it
		
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			goes viral whether it's accepted by everybody Doesn't
		
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			mean we're not concerned about style and impact
		
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			of course we are But the superficial concern
		
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			with being sanctioned by public acceptance May render
		
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			us incapable in Ineligible for the sincerity and
		
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			fidelity which are requirements for prophetic work Because
		
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			prophetic work if it knows it's the haq
		
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			it doesn't stop Because it's with Allah Not
		
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			with the people and this is what it
		
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			means to worship Allah as though you see
		
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			him even though you can't see him You
		
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			know he sees you Ibn Atta'Allah has
		
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			a great hikm.
		
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			He says It's actually beautiful what he says
		
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			here, and you have to pay attention because
		
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			it's a little complex He said there's a
		
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			great gulf between the one who uses Allah
		
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			to prove creation and the one who uses
		
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			the creation to prove Allah المستدل علي عرف
		
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			للحق The one who uses Allah to prove
		
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			reality around them is the one who knows
		
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			the truth لأهلي وأثبت لوجود الأصول and who
		
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			can take it back to its essence ومن
		
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			يستدل علي and the one who needs God
		
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			or needs the world to prove God He
		
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			said something very powerful لعدم الوصول إلي that
		
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			person hasn't reached God yet Understanding God He
		
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			says When did God he say disappears that
		
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			you need to prove him Allah subhanahu wa'ta
		
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			'ala is Transcendent the haq when did he
		
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			disappear so you need to use something to
		
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			prove him when everything is his creation Allah
		
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			And what when did he Become so far
		
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			from you that you have to use things
		
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			in the world to draw near to him
		
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			It should be the opposite and I want
		
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			you to pay attention to what I'm saying
		
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			even if it's complicated for you Understand that
		
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			Islamic theology is much more distilled Rabbani and
		
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			deep with God and Tawheed than anything else
		
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			out there And if you're furnishing your mind
		
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			with snapchat and tik-tok and all those
		
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			things out.
		
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			It's fine.
		
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			We're all on there but if I don't
		
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			have the names that I talked about earlier
		
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			and Understanding that I don't have have that
		
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			I talked about earlier that I'm learning as
		
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			you're here tonight MashaAllah, then what is furnishing
		
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			my understanding of God in Islam is probably
		
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			the world I live in the things around
		
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			me Like marriages oftentimes people come they complain
		
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			about the marriage and subhanAllah feels like I'm
		
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			watching a show on oxygen I Mean they're
		
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			telling me a story, and I'm like man
		
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			I did I did not see that on
		
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			one of them shows man like 90-day
		
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			fiance is whatever like I've heard the story
		
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			before Oh, yeah, I watch it all that.
		
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			I know you do But you have to
		
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			ask yourself, what do you make tilal of?
		
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			What I make tilal of will tell me
		
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			who I am so the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
		
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			wa sallam knows Yes, the deal who I
		
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			don't would you look up the Khalaq Nice
		
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			to deal with a Khalaq.
		
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			I'll allow the Khalaq.
		
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			We would you look up and makhlouq He
		
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			looks at the world to Understanding to hate
		
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			not the other way around and of course
		
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			that's a process It's not easy, and it
		
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			shouldn't lead to irresponsibility It should leave actually
		
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			to it lead to actually deeper appreciation and
		
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			a more mitigated role as a citizen in
		
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			society But the outcome of that is oh
		
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			if I'm on the right path, and I'm
		
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			responsible, and I'm not harming people I'm not
		
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			gonna stop Because Allah said fest a pin
		
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			camera on it Continue as you've been commanded,
		
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			so it doesn't give up and say well
		
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			Islam is not popular Whatever forget that dude.
		
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			I'm done.
		
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			It's been real only got two followers, man.
		
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			I'm out No, he goes to Taif And
		
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			he goes to Taif and what happens he's
		
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			rejected by children, man Khairul Khalq Kullihim The
		
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			best of creation rejected by children physically assaulted
		
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			by kids Like could you imagine if I
		
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			came here tonight?
		
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			And I was I was walking at a
		
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			bunch of kids start on rocks at me,
		
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			and I started bleeding.
		
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			I would leave Like I'm out.
		
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			Kahwa cafe.
		
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			I'm done.
		
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			I'm gonna you know whatever man feels well
		
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			not anymore But I you know wherever I
		
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			can go that's not on the BDS list.
		
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			I'm going I guess I'm going home But
		
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			the point I mean the point is right
		
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			we would all leave The Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu
		
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			sallam makes dua for them Then he goes
		
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			back to Mecca, and it's just at this
		
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			moment that the Israa Mi'raj happened around
		
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			this time Why what's the lesson for you,
		
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			and I especially in this age of Islamophobia
		
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			Islamophobia is you know Nancy?
		
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			I think I saw her years good friend
		
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			of mine.
		
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			We were in Boston together You know we
		
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			were at death threats Fox News did a
		
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			story on me You know what I came
		
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			to a conclusion at that time that Islamophobia
		
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			is not only interested in conditioning the public
		
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			participation of Muslims But at its greater level
		
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			and remember this parents Islamophobia wants to condition
		
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			our private practice of Islam so even in
		
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			our home.
		
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			Oh don't join the MSA You won't get
		
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			into a good school So now we're sanctioning
		
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			Islam in our home as an extension of
		
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			the fear of Islamophobia May Allah protect us
		
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			Even overseas you get a beard you start
		
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			wearing a hijab Ah, you're a sheikh, you're
		
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			a preacher, you became a mullah sahib Right,
		
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			I just want a beard.
		
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			I just want a kufi So Islam has
		
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			been not only militarized in the public square,
		
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			but even in the homes of Muslims the
		
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			Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is taught something
		
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			at that moment that we can benefit from
		
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			and that is Ya Muhammad If everyone on
		
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			the earth rejected you because of the truth
		
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			If everyone has turned away from you on
		
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			the earth because of the truth you are
		
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			carrying from Allah and You can take this
		
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			to you sister if everyone in that high
		
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			school is turned away from you Everything on
		
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			campus is turned away brother If your family
		
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			has turned away If you're being ridiculed by
		
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			anyone at work or other parents are ridiculing
		
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			you because you want your kid to become
		
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			Hufadh Here we can now take a lesson
		
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			from Israa Al-Mi'raj that if everyone
		
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			on the earth rejects you because of falsehood
		
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			Those in the heavens have accepted you because
		
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			of Haqq and that if you don't have
		
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			material friends in front of you that you
		
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			can count on your finger But you're living
		
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			a righteous life and a responsible life with
		
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			good character Know that Allah says in the
		
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			Qur'an, Allah is his friend, Jibreel is
		
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			his friend and the righteous are his friend
		
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			and the Malaik are the friend of Muhammad
		
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			sallallahu alayhi wa sallam That's why Imam al
		
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			-Shafi'i when he was being attacked by
		
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			people.
		
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			He said I talk to Allah If I
		
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			find myself alone I talk to Allah so
		
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			Finding in this is it seems contradictory because
		
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			oftentimes people tell us their religion You know
		
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			untethers you from your individuality to the extent
		
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			that you lose yourself But actually it's through
		
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			the knowledge of Allah that we attain the
		
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			knowledge of self when I don't follow who
		
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			knows their Lord knows themselves and That leads
		
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			to an anchored personality, which is centered in
		
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			calm in the face of the constant flux
		
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			of life So that's the first lesson Tried
		
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			to start at MSA at my school people
		
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			made fun of me.
		
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			So what?
		
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			Those are number those in the heavens alhamdulillah.
		
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			They're praising you.
		
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			They're they're making dua for you They're you
		
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			know, you're being remembered in gatherings greater than
		
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			these gatherings Oh, I wasn't invited to this
		
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			party, but they're gonna do haram I went
		
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			here and I did zikr of Allah the
		
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			Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said whoever remembers
		
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			Allah in a gathering Allah remembers them in
		
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			a gathering yeah Allah So one of the
		
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			ways that we can buttress Ourselves from the
		
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			fear because what is the fear of social
		
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			acceptance is that social inacceptance means loneliness and
		
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			Loneliness is like the second leading cause of
		
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			death now in America sad.
		
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			There's a great book called bowling alone But
		
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			for us We can mitigate that to a
		
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			certain degree By being with Allah being on
		
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			principle being confident The last lesson and we'll
		
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			stop here and we'll open it up for
		
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			questions Is there something very beautiful that happens
		
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			on al-israa al-mi'raj and it
		
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			forces us to ask a very deep question
		
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			What is intrinsically valuable to me what makes
		
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			me feel valued and I'm 52 years old.
		
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			I can't believe it subhanAllah alhamdulillah.
		
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			I'm now official cha-cha Cha-cha Jahan
		
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			Alhamdulillah Yeah, but don't ask me for nothing
		
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			in order.
		
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			I'll make a fool of myself but subhanAllah,
		
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			you know I Thought about this for a
		
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			long time that throughout life The more we
		
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			are connected to values are Things that we
		
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			habituated, and I know it sounds like dad
		
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			talk Things that we habituated when we were
		
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			young So my wife she said to me
		
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			like every time at night you come home
		
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			you have to read like why every time
		
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			Is that something I had to do in
		
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			the Azhar?
		
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			That's I had to do in the kutub
		
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			with the Sheikh That's like I found I
		
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			find that like if I don't read I
		
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			feel like I'm losing value like if I
		
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			don't study I feel like on the way
		
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			here.
		
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			I read a shot of here on the
		
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			way from Tacoma Park to here I want
		
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			to use my time.
		
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			I read part of the al-fi also
		
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			pneumatic what I need to use my time
		
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			Not not because odes guys, so no no
		
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			that is a habit that started when I
		
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			was 20 19 years old man and Because
		
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			that habit has been there so long It
		
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			equates to value for me So how you
		
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			live now trust me is actually very important
		
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			because you're formulating what you will find value
		
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			on later on in life That's why I
		
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			said wallah alhamdulillah became Muslim when I was
		
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			young so I can memorize the Quran Because
		
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			I find value in that like if I
		
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			miss that I feel like I've done something
		
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			not not in a Unhealthy guilt way, but
		
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			the guilt that keeps you from eating a
		
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			sandwich at three o'clock in the morning
		
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			way right a healthy sense of responsibility So
		
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			look at yourself now and write down not
		
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			now when you go home What gives me
		
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			intrinsic?
		
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			Value this is going to help animate you
		
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			as a person to not only make you
		
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			more fulfilled But you'll be a better spouse.
		
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			You'll be a better parent.
		
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			You'll be a better imam.
		
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			You'll be a better person because you know
		
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			yourself and You know things about yourself Number
		
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			two you want to ask yourself.
		
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			What are my negotiables?
		
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			What am I flexible on?
		
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			the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam Teaches us that
		
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			in the greatest moments of our life Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa'ta'ala recognizes us by our habits
		
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			what I'm basically talking about is look at
		
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			your habits look at my habits What habits
		
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			like till now I have trouble going to
		
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			sleep before 2 o'clock in the morning.
		
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			I used to be a DJ at 17
		
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			I used to come home at Hajj My
		
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			mother said where you been church you ain't
		
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			been in no church boy Right why you
		
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			smell like that?
		
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			What else?
		
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			Incense what kind of incense is that?
		
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			strong incense son, but the habits that we
		
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			develop and That's what the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
		
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			wasallam said as related by Sayyida Aisha the
		
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			best actions are those done even if they're
		
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			little but consistently I'm really trying to say
		
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			something.
		
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			I hope it's coming across That no matter
		
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			what habits you have I have a relative
		
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			That has really bad habits.
		
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			We're Irish Scottish, so we we got in
		
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			our blood man, right that gin is calling
		
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			us, right and Not the gin you thinking
		
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			about different gin in the store.
		
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			They're both the same though And I remember
		
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			one time he told me man if I
		
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			don't drink.
		
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			I don't feel like I had a complete
		
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			day Because he's been drinking since we were
		
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			15 I Said if I don't read the
		
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			Quran he told I don't start preaching preaching
		
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			man.
		
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			You got upset at me But the point
		
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			is that is a habit that we both
		
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			developed when we were young and there's memories
		
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			Associated with your habits by the way.
		
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			I remember my teachers who died I remember
		
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			teachers I read to I remember living in
		
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			Egypt and going to bed.
		
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			There's a way that I read into the
		
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			blind Shaykh I remember you know the Shaykh
		
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			I had from Sudan I'm you know you
		
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			remember you tie memory to those habits that
		
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			you developed that brings even a more beautiful
		
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			cadence to the moment but that's where you
		
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			find value and That's where people will recognize
		
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			you and know you My oldest daughter Shu
		
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			Shu to Shifa Shu Shu you know You'll
		
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			hear more about her because we have these
		
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			interesting conversations because I told her you need
		
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			to learn this one Yeah, it's very rare
		
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			a spahani wash from a flavor.
		
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			She said Bob.
		
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			I know convert So what I mean, I'm
		
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			not you're crazy about this stuff, bro I
		
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			was born with this with a crescent in
		
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			my mouth, but you for you the Crescent's
		
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			interesting.
		
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			I don't have whatever a Crescent Okay next
		
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			Right, but I remember when she was young
		
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			she drew a picture of me when I
		
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			was in the Azhar of me reading the
		
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			Quran She drew like a little baby picture.
		
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			You know the lines and stuff Then we
		
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			moved back to America.
		
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			She drew a picture of me holding the
		
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			cell phone See something because your habits are
		
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			who you are and people recognize you by
		
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			the habits you acquire So if we look
		
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			at Islam marriage And what I want you
		
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			to do tonight when you go home is
		
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			what do you have it?
		
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			Don't don't destroy yourself.
		
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			I'm not encouraging you to do that, but
		
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			let's parse There's got to be a few
		
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			things we can work on The province of
		
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			Allah what he was Salama in the greatest
		
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			professional accomplishment of his career is Islam marriage
		
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			It's called a apt He's not called the
		
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			Habib of the of Allah the Messenger of
		
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			Allah the Prophet of Allah is called what
		
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			so behind a levy asra The Abdi and
		
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			in the most difficult moments in the Quran
		
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			and the moments of the Quran where the
		
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			Prophet sallallahu Alaihi wasallam his life is recorded
		
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			as his greatest success Aba done either Salah
		
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			Allah calls him apt apt apt Allah's servant
		
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			Allah's servant Allah's servant.
		
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			Yes.
		
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			He's the Prophet of course alaihissalam, but his
		
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			habit was Ibadah What's our habit What is
		
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			our moniker and Allah says when I thought
		
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			I'll go to Jinnah what is that you
		
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			love?
		
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			The abudu I didn't create you except to
		
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			worship.
		
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			How far am I away from what I
		
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			find important and what I have as a
		
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			habit Compared to what Allah has commanded me
		
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			the last point is If you speak Arabic,
		
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			it's actually very beautiful You should ask yourself.
		
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			Why isn't that called ladle to Israel what
		
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			a roach?
		
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			How the whole a little why mirage Because
		
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			it's through sacrifice.
		
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			It's through sticking to principle.
		
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			It's through staying close to worship that we
		
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			achieve achieve a success that transcends this world
		
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			and I'll show you how I heard this
		
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			from Sheikha the battle katani Allah.
		
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			I'm from Scandinavia That it's called little to
		
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			Israel mirage because mirage has a unique meaning
		
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			a roach means to go up and come
		
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			down But mirage means to go up and
		
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			never come down again What I found out
		
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			like a vicaric So it's to a life
		
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			which is committed to principle as best we
		
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			can Not not perfection Perfect perfection is not
		
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			something we're asked to achieve but effort and
		
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			then creating a set of habits that trigger
		
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			worship and devotion to Allah we are raised
		
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			in this prophetic way and If we face
		
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			rejection or difficulties in school Or at our
		
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			job or at home If we're on the
		
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			principles that we've been taught alhamdulillah as best
		
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			we can Allah will raise us Until we
		
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			reach the maqam of Sayyidina Muhammad, and we're
		
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			with the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in
		
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			the hereafter Barakallahu feekum, wa jazakum allahu khairan.
		
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			May Allah bless all of you.
		
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			Ask Allah to Forgive us.
		
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			I just wanted to say one thing about
		
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			our sister Esra I don't know some of
		
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			you know, but instead of DC which I
		
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			founded with Lauren some years ago Alhamdulillah in
		
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			DC We have a community member who is
		
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			actually on one of the planes the plane
		
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			in DC not in Philadelphia now I'll make
		
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			it easy for everyone that was impacted and
		
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			And They found her, alhamdulillah, her body Yesterday
		
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			her father was with us at Juma time
		
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			And he was making dua and we're making
		
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			dua that her she will be found and
		
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			just as we said Ameen Wallahi, her uncle
		
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			came and said she was found subhanAllah But
		
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			we ask Allah to accept her as a
		
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			shaheed She was married.
		
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			She has an amazing husband brother Hamad.
		
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			May Allah bless him and There's no words
		
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			that can encapsulate this.
		
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			There's no theology that can describe this We
		
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			just make dua and we leave it to
		
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			Allah, but if you can please Asra Hussain,
		
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			if you can just like make dua for
		
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			her Allah will grant her Jannah and Allah
		
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			swt will forgive her and give sakinah to
		
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			her family Wassalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh