Suhaib Webb – Palestine, Resilience & Victory

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The importance of the Qwhd in Islam's teachings is discussed, including its use to express one's spiritual teachings and the struggles of the United States during the pandemic. The segment also touches on the importance of strong community support for people affected by the pandemic and the need for guidance and assistance. The segment ends with a call to protect everyone and rebuild the United States.

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			Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim, alhamdulillah wa salallahu
		
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			wa salam ala Sayyidina Muhammad wa ala as
		
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			-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh Euphoria, happiness
		
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			and celebration have permeated the world, particularly the
		
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			hearts of Palestinians, whether Muslim or Christian, and
		
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			especially the Muslim community, alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen.
		
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			What I wanted to talk about briefly is
		
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			some reflections we can make through the lens
		
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			of the Qur'an and through the lens
		
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			of Sayyidina al-Ikhwan ﷺ, through the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ's sunnah.
		
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			You know, subhanAllah, in the Qur'an, Allah
		
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			ﷻ in the 30th chapter, He notes that
		
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			the believers were happy when two disbelieving armies
		
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			had fought, the Persians and the Romans, and
		
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			one defeated the other.
		
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			Allah ﷻ says, وَيَوْمَئِذِ يَفْرَحُ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ بِنَصْرِ اللَّهِ
		
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			It's a really beautiful verse.
		
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			It says, and on that day, when they
		
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			became aware of this defeat, the believers became
		
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			euphoric, became joyous.
		
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			With what?
		
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			بِنَصْرِ اللَّهِ With the help of Allah.
		
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			There's another way to understand this.
		
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			It could also mean بَأْسَبَبِيَة That they became
		
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			joyous with all those things that Allah caused
		
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			to happen to make that victory a reality.
		
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			So what we understand is that, subhanAllah, if
		
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			it's a behavior of the companions of the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ to celebrate the victory of one
		
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			disbelieving army over another, we should also celebrate,
		
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			alhamdulillah, the victory that the Palestinians, alhamdulillah, have
		
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			achieved as the most neglected, forgotten community, suffering
		
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			from massive malnourishment and poverty.
		
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			The infrastructure was destroyed.
		
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			Everything was wiped out.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave them victory,
		
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			walhamdulillahi rabbil alameen.
		
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			And we celebrate بِنَصْرِ اللَّهِ Our celebration is
		
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			conditioned on the help of Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala or those things that Allah has
		
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			caused that brought about victory, falhamdulillahi rabbil alameen.
		
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			That's very important because some people, you know,
		
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			since October 7th, I heard people say مَتَىٰ
		
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			نَصْرُ اللَّهِ أَلَىٰ إِنَّ نَصْرُ اللَّهِ أَقْرِيبُ As
		
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			* Baqra verse 241.
		
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			But I think people misunderstood this verse and
		
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			I'm going to get a little technical but
		
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			there's a reason for it to show you
		
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			how the qiraat help bring a beautiful cadence
		
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			to our interpretive capabilities and understanding of the
		
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			Quran and seeing in our lives.
		
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			This verse مَتَىٰ نَصْرُ اللَّهِ is not a
		
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			question of doubt and how we know that
		
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			is because it says حَتَّىٰ يَقُولَ الرَّسُولُ وَالَّذِينَ
		
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			آمَنُوا مَعَهُ That until the Prophet ﷺ or
		
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			a prophet and those who believed with that
		
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			prophet said, it would be impossible for us
		
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			to believe that a prophet or those with
		
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			him from the faithful would have doubt in
		
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			the help of Allah.
		
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			So that's not the meaning of the verse
		
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			and that's where the qiraat comes in from
		
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			the seven we have the qiraat of the
		
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			Imam al-Nafi' that doesn't say حَتَّىٰ يَقُولَ
		
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			it says حَتَّىٰ يَقُولُ مَرْفُوعُ There's a reason
		
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			for this it's really beautiful because if we
		
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			say حَتَّىٰ يَقُولَ it means like in the
		
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			future like they they know it's going to
		
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			happen but they're anxiously awaiting it and with
		
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			حَتَّىٰ يَقُولُ it means قَدْ مَضَىٰ The help
		
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			has already happened so when we bring both
		
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			qiraat together we understand that the faithful believe
		
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			that the help of Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala was is and will always be there
		
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			and that's the great resilience that we saw
		
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			in the Palestinian people subhanAllah may Allah ﷻ
		
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			continue to bless them and that's why you
		
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			know some ulama noted that the hadith of
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ that there always be a
		
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			group from that ummah who will be victorious
		
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			on the truth is the people of that
		
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			area subhanAllah the gift of resilience as it's
		
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			called you know in the Quran Allah ﷻ
		
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			praises the people of resilience and knows that
		
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			it is a important component of our tarbiyah
		
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			that we as a community have to cooperate
		
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			on so across the globe we saw people
		
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			despite the horrible lack of leadership from Muslim
		
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			countries we saw Muslims on the ground college
		
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			students you name it coming together to support
		
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			Palestine in any way they could amplifying their
		
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			voices as much as they could وَتَوَاصَوْا بِالْحَقِّ
		
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			وَتَوَاصَوْا بِالصَّبْرِ and we learned something from the
		
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			Palestinian people that we may be living in
		
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			comfort and we may be living in incredible
		
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			affluence and we may be living in in
		
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			what we would say our safe situations but
		
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			are we as resilient on the truth as
		
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			they were and as they are and that's
		
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			why in Surah Baqarah it's really amazing Allah
		
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			ﷻ says وَالصَّبِرِينَ
		
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			here if you pay attention all of the
		
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			nouns before الصَّبِرِين are the like the subject
		
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			الصَّبِرِين the grammar changes it takes a yet
		
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			becomes the object why because this is a
		
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			form of praise and the verb is not
		
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			mentioned meaning I specifically recognize الصَّبِرِين or I
		
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			the Quran speaking on behalf of Allah ﷻ
		
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			أَمْدَهُ I praise and laud who out of
		
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			all the things that we mentioned the people
		
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			of resilience سُبْحَانَ اللَّهِ سُبْحَانَ اللَّهِ how Allah
		
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			ﷻ blessed him to be resilient and the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ reminds us that in the famous
		
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			hadith that Allah has not given something better
		
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			to people than resilience we ask Allah ﷻ
		
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			another lesson that we take is Allah ﷻ
		
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			is noting in the Quran that with taqwa
		
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			we can overcome any obstacle with being dedicated
		
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			to the obedience of Allah ﷻ we are
		
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			able to overcome any difficulties Allah
		
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			ﷻ says that whoever is dedicated to being
		
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			obedient to Allah ﷻ Allah will give them
		
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			a way out of any situation we saw
		
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			that سُبْحَانَ اللَّهِ in Palestine people praying people
		
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			fasting people holding on to the acts of
		
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			worship under such incredible situations I remember last
		
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			year people sent me questions about the validity
		
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			of their fast and you know how would
		
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			they fast and how would they break their
		
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			fast and this came from Palestine سُبْحَانَ اللَّهِ
		
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			and here we are once again and this
		
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			is not to make us feel guilty this
		
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			is to awaken us living in opulence living
		
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			in comfort are we dedicated to the obedience
		
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			of Allah ﷻ our little issues our little
		
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			problems when compared to the meta problems that
		
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			the Palestinians faced our brothers and sisters in
		
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			Sudan faced and recently the students in Bangladesh
		
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			faced who overcame tremendous odds no one's talking
		
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			about their effort to throw out Sheikh Hasina
		
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			we see that people who have a lack
		
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			of resources are rich with taqwa and that
		
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			those of us who may have opulence without
		
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			taqwa Allah ﷻ we are we are completely
		
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			impoverished سُبْحَانَ اللَّهِ so let us be inspired
		
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			to rededicate ourselves to what matters we saw
		
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			so many things around us fall apart so
		
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			many politicians so many people we thought were
		
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			friends of the community so many expectations we
		
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			even had from Muslim leadership fail us and
		
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			it hurts but that is a necessary component
		
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			of tests and trials Allah ﷻ says when
		
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			the Qibla was changed some people they turned
		
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			on the heels when Isra and Mi'raj
		
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			happened some people left Islam Allah ﷻ says
		
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			that Allah will distinguish what is right from
		
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			what is wrong what is filthy from what
		
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			is pure so this moment also is a
		
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			moment of what we call tajrid where the
		
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			reality of life has been exposed to us
		
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			and allows us to re-center our values
		
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			our trust in our relationships because the hypocrites
		
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			have been exposed and the people who maybe
		
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			they were hypocrites but they did not stand
		
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			up and they did not take on a
		
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			cause for which there is no moral dilemma
		
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			whatsoever also the hadith of the Prophet ﷺ
		
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			know that if entire nation came together to
		
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			help you they could not help you unless
		
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			Allah allowed them and if entire nation came
		
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			together to harm you they cannot harm you
		
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			unless Allah allowed but we see the سُبْحَانَ
		
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			اللَّهِ that the Palestinians had no one but
		
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			Allah ﷻ to defend them and to take
		
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			care of them and look after them and
		
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			once again it's a reminder for an ummah
		
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			that has been looking for help and assistance
		
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			in every direction except Allah ﷻ emulating others
		
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			who let us down wanting to be like
		
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			others who failed us seeing that as what
		
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			really constitutes living a good life all of
		
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			that was exposed as habaa and manthoorah as
		
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			the Quran says just like carton wool had
		
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			absolutely no value so let us pull back
		
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			a little and look at our loyalties and
		
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			look at where we put our trust and
		
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			realign that around the struggle of Palestine in
		
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			particular and other struggles and that allows us
		
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			to see who's on the truth and who's
		
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			on the falses another incredible lesson is that
		
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			you know Muslims we were maligned constantly to
		
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			be a the object of a ridicule the
		
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			object of suspicion and that's because people are
		
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			jealous they are jealous because what Allah has
		
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			blessed us with and one of the greatest
		
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			blessings we have is our character the prophetic
		
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			character and we live that prophetic character it
		
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			shines bright and it touches many people many
		
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			people were impacted even my own family who
		
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			are not Muslim did a three did a
		
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			complete 180 excuse me and and now are
		
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			totally realigned in a way which is brought
		
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			them nearer to the deen alhamdulillah but but
		
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			but also brought them in alignment with justice
		
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			because the true cause of justice has very
		
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			little allies subhanAllah from Allah's creation because most
		
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			people are not thankful as the Quran mentions
		
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			and what we see today is as hostages
		
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			are being freed on both sides just compare
		
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			just compare like the hostages that are being
		
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			freed on behalf of Palestinian people back to
		
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			the occupying entity look at the condition of
		
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			those hostages compared to the thousands of hostages
		
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			that have been held by the occupying entity
		
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			for in some cases decades coming out with
		
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			mental illness coming out malnourished coming out physically
		
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			abused and physically assaulted being ridiculed been sexually
		
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			assaulted so we have to ask ourselves which
		
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			community is truly prophetic and which community has
		
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			truly aligned with the noble values of humanity
		
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			throughout the last 75 80 years and it
		
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			becomes very clear that alhamdulillah we are a
		
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			community of incredible adab and akhlaq and that
		
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			when we hold on to that character and
		
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			it's not easy to hold on to it
		
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			because jannah is is is one of the
		
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			promises of good character we can transform the
		
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			world subhanAllah we can transform the world it
		
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			it should escape nobody that the people of
		
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			maqluba you know one of the favorite dishes
		
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			of our Palestinian family is maqluba a dish
		
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			which is turned upside down through all that
		
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			they've gone through may Allah accept all those
		
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			who have been killed and all those who
		
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			are lost and give them the highest level
		
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			of jannah and may Allah families who lost
		
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			i had a friend who lost 22 family
		
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			members innocent family members children many of them
		
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			in one weekend how the people of maqluba
		
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			have turned the earth on its head and
		
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			exposed the reality of the notions of power
		
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			the notions of justice who really has the
		
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			right to lead the world morally and prophetically
		
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			it's the Muslim ummah and we have to
		
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			ask ourselves then if we look at our
		
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			own society we have to really look into
		
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			this very deep question and that is what
		
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			type of people are we are we aligned
		
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			with the prophetic values like the Palestinians were
		
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			over the last year are we aligned with
		
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			high morality as they have been even with
		
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			people who they were holding as captives while
		
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			their own family members were being killed the
		
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			Palestinians and war was happening and murder was
		
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			happening and still they treated those people with
		
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			dignity the axiom which we respect and appreciate
		
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			all human beings the last lesson i think
		
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			that's really important for us to reflect on
		
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			at least for those of us here in
		
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			the west the united states is building a
		
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			stronger community now i say that because this
		
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			is not over we have college students that
		
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			have been kicked out of school or suspended
		
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			under academic probation that people have lost their
		
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			jobs at all levels all levels all levels
		
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			of society are we in a place that
		
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			we can support those people are we in
		
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			a place where we are strong enough as
		
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			a community when certain communities are unjustly threatened
		
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			we can step in and offer them jobs
		
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			offer them support offer them an outlet that's
		
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			the job of the believing community so moving
		
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			forward now we have to think about alhamdulillah
		
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			how do we scale in a way because
		
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			unfortunately world powers are doing nothing for Palestine
		
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			subhanallah their neighbors are doing nothing for them
		
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			even though it is a sharia obligation upon
		
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			them to assist them as best they can
		
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			through negotiations through assisting them with aid and
		
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			so on and so forth how are we
		
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			going to scale and how are we going
		
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			to focus on our unity that will give
		
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			us the critical mass to push forward as
		
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			a community of light as a community of
		
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			prophetic education as a community of guidance ask
		
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			allahu subhanahu wa ta'ala may allah bless
		
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			all of us we ask allah to protect
		
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			the palestinian people we ask allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala to give them security safety and
		
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			help them rebuild and reclaim what is rightfully
		
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			theirs barak allahu feekum wa jazakum allahu khayran