Suhaib Webb – Summer Nights Faith & Ihsan (Part Three)

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The speakers discuss the importance of learning from the Bible and the church's responsibility to teach the Christian community. They stress the need for discipline and learning to be aware of Islam's teachings and avoid political ideology. The importance of understanding the natural and physical world to see the light of Islam and finding faith and hope in achieving spiritual goals is emphasized. The speakers also emphasize the importance of learning to be a strong believer and focusing on one's actions rather than past experiences. Finally, they discuss the fruit of knowing Allah's existence and the importance of living life, including focusing on faith and hope.

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			I see you here. Happy birthday to Manis.
		
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			Everybody wish
		
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			wish my amazing niece,
		
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			a happy birthday.
		
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			Bless her and give her a long
		
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			incredible life.
		
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			Assalamu alaykum to everybody. Welcome to our nightly
		
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			program
		
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			here at Swiss.
		
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			Our
		
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			gatherings
		
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			that are happening on the regular here. On
		
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			all of our social media
		
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			outlets.
		
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			And we've been going through every Tuesday, Wednesday,
		
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			and Thursday night, a short gathering together, a
		
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			short time together to dedicate to Islamic studies.
		
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			Islamic Studies are very important. Tuesday nights are
		
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			dedicated to faith and Ihsan. Wednesdays are dedicated
		
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			to, like, contemporary issues. And then Alhamdulillah,
		
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			our our Thursday night is dedicated
		
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			to working on our hearts and creating
		
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			a capacity for worship. Alhamdulillah.
		
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			Tonight, we're talking about faith and Ihsan,
		
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			and that's very important because oftentimes faith is
		
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			taught in a way that creates divisions,
		
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			and we don't wanna do that here at
		
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			we want to make sure
		
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			that we're teaching faith in a way that
		
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			strengthens
		
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			our community, strengthens
		
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			our relationships with one another,
		
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			and increases
		
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			us, alhamdulillah,
		
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			in our higher and our ability
		
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			to do good.
		
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			The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he located
		
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			this idea of faith in Hassan in a
		
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			very beautiful hadith, which was said to
		
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			a very young
		
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			companion.
		
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			At that time, ibn Abbas, his nephew, was
		
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			very young.
		
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			And the prophet
		
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			said to him, I'm going to teach you
		
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			some words of wisdom.
		
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			I want to teach you some some words
		
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			of wisdom.
		
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			And
		
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			his nephew,
		
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			you know,
		
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			said, of course, teach me. And he said,
		
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			Ihfa'lihlaha
		
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			yafak,
		
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			which means
		
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			be mindful of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			and Allah who Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			will take care of you.
		
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			Like, SubhanAllah.
		
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			Imagine imagine this kind of
		
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			statement
		
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			given to say to you
		
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			Be mindful of Allah.
		
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			Be mindful of Allah,
		
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			and Allah
		
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			will take care of
		
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			you. Be mindful of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
		
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			and you will find Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			in front of you.
		
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			If you ask,
		
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			ask Allah.
		
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			If you seek help,
		
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			seek the help of Allah. And that's the
		
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			type of iman that we want.
		
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			That's the type of relationship we wanna have
		
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			with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So this
		
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			Tuesday night
		
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			is dedicated to faith at Ghassan,
		
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			not to divisions, not to fighting, not to
		
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			talking about people, not to attacking that person.
		
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			No. No. Tuesday nights,
		
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			our goal is to be from the
		
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			Allah
		
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			says in the Quran
		
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			Allah
		
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			loves the people of
		
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			And Allah
		
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			says,
		
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			from those those people who live lives of
		
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			Ihsan, there is Husna, meaning Jannah.
		
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			So
		
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			we we want to appreciate
		
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			the the powerful
		
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			opportunity that we have
		
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			to
		
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			be together
		
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			and to focus on
		
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			And the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
		
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			he said, Yesen
		
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			is to worship Allah
		
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			as though you see him.
		
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			And if you can't see him, at least
		
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			he you know he sees you.
		
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			So we wanna start this
		
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			3rd session with that goal in mind. And
		
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			I mentioned the evidence for
		
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			found in the statement of the prophet
		
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			to a young person. So if you're young
		
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			and you're watching, you have to be very
		
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			careful that
		
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			the world doesn't tell you, well, you're young.
		
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			You don't have to worry about faith. You're
		
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			young. You don't have to worry about religion.
		
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			You're you're young. You don't have to worry
		
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			about obedience. If you die tomorrow, you're old
		
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			today.
		
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			And the smart young person is the one
		
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			who uses
		
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			and employs
		
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			their youth for Allah.
		
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			That's why the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
		
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			he said, Saba'a
		
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			7.
		
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			They will be shaded by Allah on a
		
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			day when there's no shade but the shade
		
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			of Allah. And one of them is the
		
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			young person,
		
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			nasha'a.
		
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			The use is their youth for Allah.
		
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			Use is their youth for Ibad. How many
		
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			young people they're using and wasting their youth
		
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			worshiping everything and serving everything, but Allah is
		
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			serving good.
		
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			So the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
		
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			he says to Sayedid ibn Abbas salatiallahu anhu
		
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			at that time, ibn Abbas is under 13
		
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			years old.
		
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			He says, You hulam,
		
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			oh young man, Inmi wa'alimooka
		
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			kalimat.
		
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			I'm gonna teach you some words of wisdom.
		
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			You fa'adillaha
		
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			yafak.
		
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			Be mindful of Allah,
		
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			and Allah will be mindful of you. And
		
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			he take care of your relationship with Allah.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will take care of
		
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			his relationship with you.
		
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			Whoever is dudufo to Allah, Allah gives them
		
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			a and
		
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			exit out of any situation. So this is
		
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			Ihsan.
		
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			This is the type of that we wanna
		
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			have. When our focus is on Allah, the
		
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			obedience of Allah, being dutiful to Allah, serving
		
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			people,
		
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			and being those who serve others and heal
		
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			a fractured world. So that's the goal of
		
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			our class together that we spend
		
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			insha'Allah over the next few weeks. Sheikh
		
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			Ahmed Al Tardir, the book that we're reading
		
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			from, he says,
		
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			The Shayi opens up his book. He says,
		
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			It is an obligation upon the responsible person.
		
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			And last week we talked about responsibility.
		
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			Ma'arifah.
		
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			The word ma'arifah is translated as to know.
		
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			But it's important to understand there's a difference
		
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			between il and ma'arifah.
		
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			We say about knowledge.
		
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			Is something that was preceded by ignorant.
		
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			Is something that was not preceded by ignorance.
		
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			That's why we say Allah Alim.
		
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			But marifa,
		
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			masabaqahu
		
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			al jahlu.
		
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			Marifa is something that was preceded by ignorance.
		
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			So that's why the word marifa is from
		
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			the word Af. Af means something hot.
		
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			Something
		
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			that,
		
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			you know, sticks out.
		
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			That's why I say
		
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			and that's why
		
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			we say about the customs of a people.
		
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			It sticks out. So
		
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			is learning something that's obvious.
		
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			Learning something that's obvious. So we say
		
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			It means Allah's existence is obvious.
		
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			Allah's existence
		
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			is obvious. We just have to pay attention.
		
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			But
		
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			and so the sheikh, he says
		
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			that the first way
		
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			the work first way to step in to
		
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			being a person who lives a life as
		
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			though they see Allah even though they can't
		
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			see him. They know he sees them.
		
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			Is to push into learning about who Allah
		
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			is.
		
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			To push in. And Al Qadi Abu Bakr,
		
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			he says that the knowledge of Allah is
		
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			not something you can dream, not something you
		
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			can feel. It's not a notion.
		
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			The knowledge of Allah has to be learned
		
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			from the Quran and sunnah.
		
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			From the the book of Allah
		
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			and the messenger of Allah.
		
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			Allah says about the Quran that he can
		
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			keep tabul now right buffet. No doubt in
		
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			the book.
		
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			He says about the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
		
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			The prophet doesn't speak from his desires.
		
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			So you have an opportunity with me now
		
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			to learn
		
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			a classical textbook that's taught in the Azhar.
		
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			Right now, can you imagine how lucky you
		
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			are?
		
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			Years ago, we had to travel to learn
		
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			this. You have an opportunity.
		
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			And it's rare to be able to learn
		
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			in an organized way. So take it seriously.
		
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			Try to attend every time. Try to take
		
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			notes. Try to focus. Try to learn.
		
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			Because one of the things I worry about
		
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			is I see quite a few people online
		
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			arguing with the Christians, arguing with other religions,
		
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			and they use the bible
		
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			or they use Christianity
		
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			to argue with the Christians. That makes me
		
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			think, do they really know Islam? Because if
		
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			you know Islam,
		
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			you don't need to use the Bible to
		
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			argue with Christians. If you really know Islam,
		
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			you don't you don't have to use
		
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			their stuff. Also, it's disrespectful to them. They
		
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			have their own scholarship.
		
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			But if we know Islam,
		
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			we can spread Islam with Islam.
		
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			And everything else is like salt on the
		
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			food.
		
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			That's why Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, says to
		
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			the prophet,
		
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			Say the truth. But if I haven't learned
		
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			if I haven't learned the truth, how can
		
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			I spread it? So then I have to
		
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			use other things around me that don't demand
		
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			that I'm disciplined because learning takes discipline. To
		
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			go into a dojo takes discipline. So it's
		
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			much more easier to sort of skip around
		
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			learning Islam
		
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			and just
		
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			talk.
		
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			But there is an art to this. There
		
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			is a fun, the funun of Dawah,
		
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			and the first obligation is to learn. It
		
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			doesn't mean we can't use those other things,
		
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			but that shouldn't be the main course of
		
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			our Dawah.
		
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			A very simple argument you can say to
		
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			any Christian is we're gonna learn today
		
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			from Islam.
		
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			So sheikh Ahmed Abdardir and and and that's
		
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			emblematic of the fact that we don't know
		
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			our deen. We actually know other people's stuff
		
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			that we won't know more than we know
		
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			our own stuff. That's a problem.
		
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			If I wanna spread the light, I have
		
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			to use the light. I can't use darkness
		
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			to spread the light, man.
		
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			So I want you to take it seriously.
		
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			He says
		
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			it's an obligation upon the responsible person
		
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			to learn.
		
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			What is an obligation
		
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			to god?
		
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			That's the first step. And my first step
		
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			towards is
		
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			to learn
		
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			because no one can be a better Muslim
		
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			than the prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. No
		
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			one can be more aware of Allah than
		
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			the prophet Alaihi Salam and all of the
		
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			prophets from Adam
		
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			to Abraham, to David, to Moses,
		
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			to Mohammed,
		
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			to
		
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			say that Jesus,
		
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			alayhi salaam.
		
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			So I have to to to learn as
		
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			the prophets learn and walk as the prophets
		
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			walk and step as the prophets step and
		
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			push in as the prophets push in. And
		
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			there's something important
		
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			that all of the prophets, alayhi musalatu wa
		
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			salam, were taught. That's
		
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			why Allah says,
		
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			We taught you what you didn't know, Talking
		
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			to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			And the prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
		
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			has said,
		
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			that knowledge is acquired by learning.
		
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			And one of the dangers we had to
		
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			be careful of now since 2016, especially in
		
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			the world
		
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			Because politics has taken such a role in
		
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			society
		
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			that
		
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			the ideas of secular politics
		
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			and the language of secular politics
		
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			has seeped into everything
		
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			and even religion.
		
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			And in many ways, this may,
		
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			you know, deliberately
		
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			secularize the Muslim mind who now is thinking
		
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			with a a Western
		
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			political
		
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			epistemological
		
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			framework.
		
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			So no longer do we say, hubidah,
		
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			fisc,
		
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			then we say liberal conservative.
		
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			Our language
		
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			is the greatest
		
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			indicator of our our being the victims
		
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			of colonization.
		
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			The words that we use to describe things,
		
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			the terms that we use to talk about
		
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			things are an indication of what occupies our
		
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			spiritual
		
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			and intellectual
		
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			space. So now it's very common to hear
		
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			Muslims even when they talk about each others.
		
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			Even when they talk about others, they won't
		
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			use religious terminology.
		
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			They will use secular political terminology.
		
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			If you want to engage in decoloniality,
		
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			learn Arabic.
		
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			If you want to push into decoloniality,
		
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			learn the language of the Quran because
		
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			every revolution that happened in the Muslim world
		
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			started around the halaqaq of the book of
		
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			Allah,
		
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			the Quran.
		
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			So take these opportunities that you have tonight
		
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			seriously.
		
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			Take notes
		
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			and you're learning a very important text.
		
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			But if I'm occupied by political nomenclature and
		
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			secular ideology to the point that that that
		
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			now becomes my the of my mostlalahat,
		
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			The the the, you know, the reference for
		
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			the terms I use. This is the greatest
		
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			indication that I am
		
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			untethered and unmoored from
		
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			revelation
		
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			and occupied and used
		
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			by agents of colonality.
		
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			Even maybe in the name of something good.
		
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			So be careful.
		
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			So the sheikh, he says,
		
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			the first obligation is to know, to learn
		
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			what is an obligation for us as Muslims
		
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			to believe about god. I have a very
		
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			interesting experience because I said earlier, I worry
		
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			about people who make dua using
		
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			the sources of other religions
		
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			exclusively.
		
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			You we should make dawah to Islam with
		
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			Islam. We should make dawah to the haqq
		
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			with the haqq. We should make dawah to
		
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			the light with the light. And I'll give
		
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			you an example. The book that I'm teaching
		
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			you now, I translated it.
		
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			It's a book that I said is taught
		
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			on the ezom to young children.
		
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			I translated it into English, and there was
		
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			a a non Muslim woman, evangelical Christian sister
		
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			in Georgia
		
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			who I was at a camp and she
		
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			saw my book and she said,
		
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			brother, can I have a copy of your
		
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			book? I said, absolutely.
		
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			Man, this woman, she took this big book
		
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			home and the next day she came to
		
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			the camp.
		
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			Man, she had the book and she had
		
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			so many notes. It looked like a subway
		
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			that had been, like, filled with her feet.
		
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			And she said to me, I read this
		
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			book from the beginning to the end. It's
		
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			a short text.
		
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			And listen to what she told me.
		
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			She said, Muslims are different than Christians.
		
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			I understand now after reading your book.
		
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			She said, Muslims
		
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			believe in God,
		
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			and we believe in Jesus.
		
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			And then she said, did I just say
		
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			that? I said, yes. You did. You just
		
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			said that, and I caught you.
		
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			And I said, what did you mean by
		
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			we believe in God
		
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			and you believe in Jesus?
		
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			And she said, the
		
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			God of Islam
		
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			is truly
		
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			beyond creation.
		
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			The God of Islam is like nothing in
		
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			this world.
		
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			Whereas Jesus was a man. Acts 2/22.
		
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			I said,
		
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			so that's what I meant by we have
		
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			the tools. We just have to learn our
		
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			tools and our our toolkit
		
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			to be number 1, able to strengthen our
		
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			own faith and our own amen. But number
		
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			2,
		
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			to spread the deen.
		
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			So what is the first obligation Sheikh Ahmed
		
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			Al Gardir? He mentions in Al Aqida at
		
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			Tawhidia, he says,
		
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			The first is we believe
		
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			Allah exists.
		
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			We say,
		
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			His existence is an obligation
		
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			because without his existence, nothing else would exist.
		
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			We know this from 2 angles.
		
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			Number 1, from the Quran
		
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			and from other religious texts that Allah has
		
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			revealed himself. But we know the final book
		
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			is the Quran.
		
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			Allah
		
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			says
		
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			That indeed I am Allah. There's no god
		
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			except me. So establish prayer for my remembrance.
		
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			The Quran invites us to learn about god
		
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			in 3 ways.
		
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			Number 1 is learning the Quran and learning
		
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			the sunnah of the prophet
		
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			So we learn about Allah through the Quran
		
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			and through the sunnah of Sayla Akwan.
		
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			The Quran tells us about God. The prophet
		
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			tells us about God.
		
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			The Quran says there's nothing in creation like
		
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			Allah.
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says
		
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			there's nothing like Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			We know that the prophet
		
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			when he would make dua. He will call
		
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			on Allah
		
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			Allah by his beautiful names, by his beautiful
		
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			attributes.
		
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			For
		
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			example, the famous dua of Sayid Muhammad
		
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			and the prophet he said, for example,
		
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			The only one who can forgive is you.
		
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			The only one who forgives sins is Allah.
		
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			Subhanahu wa ta'ala. So we learn about Allah
		
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			through the Quran and through the sunnah of
		
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			the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And that's
		
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			why I say
		
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			when he was asked, what is the quickest
		
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			way to get to Allah? He said through
		
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			his words, through the Quran.
		
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			So
		
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			that's the first. The second
		
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			is to think about the creation around us.
		
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			And to look at the natural world and
		
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			the physical world.
		
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			Islam is not at war with science. Science
		
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			is at war with Islam. Western science is
		
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			at war with Islam, but Islam has never
		
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			been at war with science.
		
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			Over and over in the Quran,
		
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			Allah
		
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			who commands
		
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			us to not only think about Allah generally,
		
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			but to think about him specifically.
		
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			And very rarely
		
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			will someone ask you to think about them
		
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			in detail. Like people when they present themselves,
		
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			they don't really want you to know who
		
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			they are, right, in the beginning. So they
		
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			just, you know, what they do, their CV,
		
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			their jobs,
		
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			whoever.
		
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			But then subhanallah,
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala invites us not only
		
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			to think about him generally. Who Allah Al
		
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			Rahman Al Rahim Al Malik Al Qudus Al
		
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			Salam and Mumin.
		
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			Subhanahu wa ta'ala. But Allah also
		
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			asked us to think about him in details.
		
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			He doesn't hide anything from himself.
		
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			So now, Allah, do we think about
		
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			Allah does not only ask us to think
		
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			about him generally. He also ask us to
		
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			think about him specifically.
		
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			And that shows you that someone is being
		
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			honest with you. Investigate me.
		
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			Investigate.
		
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			Think again and think again and think again
		
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			and think again and look and look and
		
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			look and look.
		
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			That's why religious teachers should be transparent and
		
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			open when people ask ask questions, answer their
		
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			questions. If you don't know, you don't know.
		
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			It's not about your ego. Let the ego
		
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			go for the sake of Allah.
		
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			The best answer anyone can give someone is
		
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			I don't know. As the prophet said,
		
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			that knowledge is 3. One of them is
		
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			to say, I don't know. And
		
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			the prophet himself on numerous occasions, he said,
		
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			I don't know to teach the adept of
		
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			being humble with the transcendent complete knowledge of
		
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			Allah.
		
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			So the second is to think and ponder
		
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			on Allah's creation. And that's why the Quran
		
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			encourages us to think about it generally.
		
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			In the creation of the heavens and the
		
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			earth is general.
		
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			And in the alteration of the day and
		
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			the night is like the details.
		
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			The
		
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			the the the signs
		
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			for those people of clear intellect. So now
		
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			we learn 2 ways
		
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			that we learn about Allah. Number 1,
		
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			stood the Quran and sunnah.
		
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			Number 2,
		
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			is through thinking and pondering on creation.
		
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			And number 3 is to learn
		
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			theology.
		
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			To learn,
		
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			to study. You should study a text
		
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			in
		
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			normative
		
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			theology.
		
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			Alhamdulillahi rabbilaremi
		
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			from a teacher, from a sheikh. I see
		
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			people in the comments asking who I am,
		
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			what's my background. Listen, focus on Allah.
		
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			Focus on Allah. Focus on the lesson. Don't
		
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			focus on people. You know, to focus always
		
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			on people is a fitna. To focus on
		
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			Allah is Jannah. How many Muslims now they're
		
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			busy talking about people. SubhanAllah, talk about Allah.
		
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			Talk about Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Don't waste
		
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			your time in this fit in online of
		
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			who's who, what's, what, this, this, most of
		
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			our lives.
		
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			But about Allah Azzawajal, Alhamdulillah,
		
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			the Quran
		
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			And the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi wa Salam, Sallallahu
		
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			Alaihi
		
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			wa Ari Saqisum. And also is this person
		
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			a scholar? Is this person a scholar? You
		
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			know, when I started my studies,
		
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			I never said, Is that person a scholar?
		
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			I said, Does that person know more than
		
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			me? Because I'm not ready for a scholar.
		
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			Right? A scholar is like you go in
		
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			and trying to ball out with Jaylen Brown,
		
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			but you're not even ready for the D
		
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			League.
		
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			Don't think about, is this a scholar or
		
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			is that a scholar? You're not ready for
		
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			scholarship.
		
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			Ask yourself, does that person know more than
		
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			me? If that person
		
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			knows more than me,
		
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			then
		
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			I will I will learn from them. Look
		
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			at
		
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			Say the Imam Malik in Medina, one time
		
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			he was walking with his students and they
		
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			found a man who was a shepherd.
		
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			And Imamatic, he went to me, he said,
		
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			Assalamu alaikum, Sheikh.
		
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			He gave him the greeting. This is my
		
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			Sheikh.
		
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			And Imamatic students were shocked. They said, how
		
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			can Imam Malik,
		
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			how has he given salaams to a simple
		
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			shepherd and calling him his teacher?
		
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			So they asked Imam Malik, how how are
		
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			you
		
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			how are you
		
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			giving salams to this person?
		
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			And Imam Malik, he said, that's my teacher.
		
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			He taught me the fiqh of dogs. How
		
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			to recognize the difference physically between a puppy
		
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			dog and adult dog, Fahadah Sheikin.
		
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			So avoid
		
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			this toxic
		
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			stuff online
		
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			and ask yourself
		
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			and ask myself,
		
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			does that person know more than me? Then
		
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			I should learn something from them.
		
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			Look SubhanAllah
		
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			at Sayidina Musa,
		
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			even though he's a prophet
		
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			and Hadr
		
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			is not a prophet.
		
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			Let's say in the Musa,
		
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			Moses, when he learned that someone knew something
		
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			he didn't know, he traveled to him. He
		
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			didn't say, are you a scholar? Are you
		
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			a prophet? Are you a Rasul?
		
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			Can you teach me a little bit of
		
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			what you know?
		
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			So avoid this. If you see people who
		
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			know more than you, learn from them. Take
		
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			the good lead.
		
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			So the first obligation we said
		
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			is to know that Allah exists.
		
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			How do we know that Allah exists? Number
		
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			1, through Quran and Sunnah. Number 2, through
		
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			natural world, the physical sciences.
		
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			And number 3, by learning from the
		
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			and the and teachers who are qualified to
		
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			teach us.
		
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			It's very important.
		
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			So he
		
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			says,
		
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			The first thing he said, fayajibu lillahi alwujud.
		
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			We say, wajib alwujud.
		
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			Allah's existence is fault.
		
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			It's an obligation.
		
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			It's an obligation based on text and also
		
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			the intellect. The text we send numerous text,
		
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			they tell us Allah exists.
		
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			But number 2,
		
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			we know the law of thermal thermodynamics
		
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			matter does not is is constantly in the
		
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			state of destruction.
		
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			Matter did not create itself nor can it
		
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			destroy itself. So if matter cannot create nor
		
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			destroy, that means something created matter.
		
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			And something
		
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			will I I memorized the book. Sorry. I
		
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			don't have the book with me. I memorized
		
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			this book.
		
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			Something
		
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			is causing it to exist and something is
		
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			causing it
		
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			to be destroyed because matter cannot do it.
		
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			So whatever, pay attention,
		
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			Created matter is not matter.
		
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			And that's how we respond to Christianity.
		
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			Jesus
		
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			is
		
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			matter.
		
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			Jesus lived in a physical space. Jesus lived
		
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			in a physical time.
		
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			He walked like a human being. He talked
		
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			like a human being. He ate. He slept.
		
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			So our response to Christianity
		
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			is that Jesus cannot be god because he
		
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			was subject to physical laws. He was subject
		
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			to material laws, and god
		
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			matter doesn't create itself nor destroy itself. So
		
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			god is beyond
		
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			matter.
		
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			God is not like creation.
		
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			And the only, you know,
		
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			stringent adherence to this type of that we
		
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			find is Al Islam.
		
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			There's nothing like Allah. So here we say
		
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			the existence of Allah
		
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			is found in number 1, in Quran and
		
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			Sunnah.
		
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			Number 2, I gave one example of many.
		
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			That we can use what I call
		
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			Right? Al Barahim.
		
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			Those evidences that we can use from time
		
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			to time. Like I said earlier, using other
		
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			religions.
		
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			If you're a scholar in those religions and
		
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			you're trained in their those religions to prove
		
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			a point is fine. If you're a Jahil
		
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			in other people's religion, if you're ignorant about
		
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			Christianity or Judaism,
		
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			don't
		
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			use their religion to argue with them. That's
		
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			disrespectful to
		
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			them. And you make us look bad.
		
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			What is the fruit of that? Because we
		
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			wanna talk about now what what should how
		
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			should knowing Allah exist impact us?
		
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			How does that lead to Ihsan?
		
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			If we looked at the Quran,
		
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			we find a few examples.
		
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			Number 1,
		
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			it should lead us to become humble and
		
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			repent and turn to.
		
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			If we know that Allah, the true soul,
		
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			one God exists,
		
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			We should translate that into repentance
		
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			and reverence
		
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			and turning to Allah and obeying Allah.
		
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			Look at saying When it hit him that
		
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			Allah exists.
		
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			In Nani heard the verse. In Nani and
		
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			Allah hula illa illa Anafahabudani
		
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			Wa Aqeemas salaat aliddiqun.
		
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			I am Allah. There's no god except me,
		
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			so establish
		
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			prayer from our remembrance.
		
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			He was transformed.
		
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			His heart became soft.
		
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			And he went from someone who wanted to
		
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			murder the messenger of Allah
		
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			to loving the messenger of Allah.
		
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			He went from someone who was
		
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			the dedicated enemy to the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam
		
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			to being his greatest supporter.
		
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			Why?
		
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			The fruit of knowing that Allah exists
		
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			should cause us to leave sin
		
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			and repent
		
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			and establish obedience. That's what one of our
		
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			teachers used to say.
		
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			If you speak Arabic, it's nice, it rhymes.
		
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			That the fruit of knowing Allah exists
		
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			is to leave sin.
		
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			That the fruit of knowing Allah exists
		
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			is to leave sin.
		
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			The second fruit of knowing that Allah exists,
		
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			is bravery on the haqq.
		
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			And not to fear
		
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			any repercussion when it comes to the rights
		
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			of Allah.
		
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			That's why we find this
		
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			those magicians
		
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			who are blinded by the power of pharaoh.
		
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			They were blinded by the power of pharaoh.
		
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			The only thing that could remove their ability
		
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			to see
		
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			was the light of Allah.
		
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			The only thing that could remove their ability
		
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			to see the grandeur of Firaun
		
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			is when they had Marifa of Allah.
		
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			Allah says
		
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			That when it hit them,
		
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			that the one causing
		
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			this staff to turn into a snake
		
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			is the creator of everything.
		
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			They fell into sujood.
		
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			And they said, what?
		
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			Immediately, they said, we believe
		
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			in the creator of all things.
		
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			The creator of Musa and.
		
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			You're welcome, brother. No problem. Appreciate you sharing,
		
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			man.
		
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			Glad you're here listening.
		
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			So they heard
		
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			the truth
		
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			and they fell and prostrated.
		
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			What about us now as youth?
		
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			If we're addicted to marijuana,
		
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			if we're
		
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			using, you know, weed,
		
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			if we are drinking alcohol, if we're looking
		
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			at *,
		
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			if we're doing something haram, are we not
		
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			better than those magicians?
		
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			Are we blinded by the magic of this
		
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			dunya to the point that we no longer
		
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			see
		
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			the signs of Allah and the names of
		
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			Allah in creation
		
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			has the grander and power of the temporary
		
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			world blinded our hearts and our minds
		
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			just like those people who are blinded by
		
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			the grander of.
		
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			If we go back to Tawhid
		
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			and we sent to ourselves on Tawhid,
		
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			everything falls into place.
		
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			And just as those magicians were emancipated
		
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			from the sorcery of Firaoun,
		
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			those young people who turn to Allah
		
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			will be emancipated from the sorcery of this
		
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			temporary world.
		
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			And that's why we saw so many young
		
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			people, that
		
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			Encampments.
		
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			And tomorrow, I will be there also
		
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			protesting Netanyahu
		
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			in Washington DC
		
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			because they saw the truth.
		
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			The lies of the dunya were exposed,
		
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			And the only truth is Allah. That Ilaha
		
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			Illallah.
		
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			The last example, alhamdulillah,
		
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			that one mentioned
		
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			is somebody that has ma'rif of Allah
		
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			is not only someone who
		
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			is repenting and turning back to Allah.
		
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			Also brave, they don't sell out. They're not
		
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			blinded by the intimidation of this dunya because
		
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			they know
		
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			that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is
		
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			Who are those who who have reverence to
		
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			Allah? Those who know Allah.
		
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			Those the more they know him, the more
		
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			they're dutiful to him. That's why the prophet
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said, by Allah, I
		
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			am the most knowledgeable of Allah and the
		
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			most fearful of Allah.
		
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			The knowledge
		
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			has fear and hope.
		
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			Subhanahu
		
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			Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			The last
		
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			fruit of knowing that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			exists
		
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			is hope.
		
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			Because when I know Allah exists
		
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			and I know who is Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala,
		
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			I will
		
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			never lose hope.
		
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			That's why
		
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			Allah says,
		
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			Indeed,
		
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			those friends of Allah, they have no fear.
		
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			They have no grief.
		
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			And Allah
		
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			In the Suratul Kahf says, and who hopes
		
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			to meet Allah
		
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			must do good.
		
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			So the sign of hope is Ibadah.
		
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			The sign of hope is worship. The sign
		
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			of hope in Allah's promise
		
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			is that I never give up.
		
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			That's what one of my teachers used to
		
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			say, if you lose hope in yourself,
		
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			place your hope in the one who created
		
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			you. SubhanAllah.
		
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			Like, if you lose hope in yourself,
		
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			place your hope in Allah. If you don't
		
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			have enough security with yourself,
		
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			leave it to Allah.
		
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			Subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala. So the last the last quality
		
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			that we're gonna talk about, there's numerous qualities
		
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			from knowing Allah exists, subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			is turq wuthluwuhu lub, iaqamatata'a
		
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			war rajah.
		
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			He's leaving sin,
		
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			establishing worship,
		
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			being brave,
		
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			and never losing hope.
		
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			Never losing hope.
		
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			We'll stop now.
		
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			Next week, we'll talk about Al Qadamwal Baqah.
		
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			2 other things that we have to believe
		
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			about Allah is that Allah has no beginning
		
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			and no ending.
		
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			Today, we talked about Allah's existence.
		
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			That his existence is wajib because nothing would
		
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			exist without him. Allah
		
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			says, no Quran, Allah created everything
		
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			Subhanahu wa ta'ala. Good, evil, pain, suffering, happiness,
		
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			sadness.
		
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			You name it. He created as a blessing
		
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			and as a test
		
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			for us.
		
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			Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			The opposite of that is that he doesn't
		
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			exist and this is kufr. So we have
		
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			to believe Allah exists.
		
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			What is kufa is to believe
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala doesn't exist.
		
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			So ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and you
		
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			said bidna lahak.
		
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			We talked about how do we how do
		
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			we know Allah exists? We talked about 3
		
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			ways.
		
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			Add a 4th way is your experiences.
		
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			Right? Life teaches you.
		
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			So the more you worship, the more you
		
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			stand up for the truth, the more you
		
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			do good, the more you will see the
		
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			help of Allah in your life.
		
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			So learning Allah's existence
		
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			through Quran and sunnah, through focusing and thinking
		
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			on the natural physical world,
		
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			learning theology from a teacher, a Muslim teacher
		
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			who's qualified.
		
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			And number 4, live your life, man.
		
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			You will learn about Allah through living.
		
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			Allah says, Go and travel in the earth.
		
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			Look at those people that came before us
		
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			who rejected us, who were mighty in power.
		
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			Who are they now?
		
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			They're gone.
		
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			So also traveling to the earth, living your
		
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			life,
		
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			being patient.
		
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			See this as a process and not an
		
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			event. Don't too put too much pressure on
		
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			yourself. Grow in your faith slowly.
		
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			Don't try to grow overnight
		
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			and make the focus of your learning faith,
		
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			worship
		
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			and focusing on Allah. Everything else will take
		
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			care of itself.
		
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			So someone's asking how often do you come
		
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			online? Alhamdulillah. I come online Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursdays
		
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			at 11
		
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			New York City time. Please share with others.
		
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			I'm so shadow banned.
		
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			They can shadow ban us, but they can't
		
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			stop the noor from being in our lives.
		
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			And we ask Allah to bless all of
		
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			you. So every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday night.
		
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			Tuesdays is for faith and.
		
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			Wednesdays is for contemporary issues. So tomorrow night,
		
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			we'll finish talking about
		
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			Muslim women marrying non Muslim men. We've been
		
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			going through that in 2 sessions.
		
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			And the third the third thing that we
		
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			talked about, Alhamdulillah,
		
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			is the,
		
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			Thursday's
		
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			spirituality
		
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			and purification of the heart, working on our
		
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			soul.
		
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			We ask
		
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			Allah to bless us.
		
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			We ask Allah to help the people of
		
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			Palestine,
		
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			the people of Sudan, and the people of
		
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			Congo.
		
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			We also pray for our sister, sister Massey,
		
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			who was publicly executed
		
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			by the police in Chicago
		
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			and her family.
		
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			We pray for our brothers and sisters in
		
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			Bangladesh,
		
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			the student movements.
		
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			I can speak a little
		
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			We ask Allah
		
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			by all of his names and attributes
		
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			that he give the
		
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			students and young people and people of righteousness
		
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			in Bangladesh victory
		
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			over
		
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			all of
		
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			these challenges that they're facing.
		
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			Ameen Yaww.
		
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			So if you have any questions, you can
		
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			type them in. Alhamdulillah.
		
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			If not, Barak Allahum Fikum. We'll see you
		
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			guys tomorrow. I post also these reporting on
		
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			YouTube
		
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			so you are free to observe them there.
		
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			Hope to see people tomorrow in DC at
		
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			the protest against,
		
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			you know, who,
		
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			and to be present and to be, you
		
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			you know,
		
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			participating
		
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			in those protests.