Suhaib Webb – The Masses Creed 11 Responsibility & Mercy

Suhaib Webb
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The speaker discusses the importance of learning and engaging with the idea of responsibility in Islam. They explain that the first step is maturation, emotional, and cognitive maturity, followed by puberty and signs of it. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of teaching and sharing the idea of responsibility to teach others' obligations.
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We pick up now,

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under the 5th line where the sheikh notes

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that the first obligation upon anyone,

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is to to learn and that caused us

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to really

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discuss a number of issues. Number 1 is

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at an interfaith level, how do we interact

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with scholarship and knowledge? What is an obligation

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upon each and every one of us to

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learn? Where are we obligated to ask? Right?

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Questions of the learned. Then that takes us

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into the idea if the first obligation is

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to think and the freedom of the mind

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and the engagement of the mind,

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how do we reconcile that with a notion

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of certain people, whether the heterodoxical community or

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even the Islamophobes that Islam believes in constant

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jihad. Right? Freedom of expression, freedom of religion,

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policy at a government level, you name it,

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all that's going to fall kind of under

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this condition for Muslim countries,

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and and people who live in those kind

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of environments.

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And then what's left is really to talk

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about 2 important issues. I will do now

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quickly Insha'Allah. Number 1 is who is responsible?

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The idea of responsibility. Who's responsible

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in having a relationship with God? Right? To

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believe in God and to practice as a

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Muslim. And And then what about people that

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have never been exposed,

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to Islam properly?

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What do we say about their situation in

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the hereafter as Muslims? What is the dominant

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mainstream opinion? So the first thing that we

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wanna talk about is the idea of

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responsibility,

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and the word for responsibility

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in Arabic

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is taqleef.

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Is

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means responsibility. Let me write it for you

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in English.

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Takkalif.

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And the person who is responsible

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is.

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The.

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In English,

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The is someone who is to pass a

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participle someone has made them responsible.

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The one who dispenses

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responsibility is the mukalif

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the mukalif, but the mukalif that fatha

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means the object. Now in Islam, we believe

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that there are certain conditions

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which make someone responsible

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for having a relationship with the creator, responsible

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for having a relationship with faith and practice.

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A name that you're gonna hear a lot

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is Ibn Ashir. Ibn Ashir is a Andalusian

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scholar from years ago who wrote really what

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is the seminal text as an introductory text

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in the Maliki school, which covers the issues

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of creed, iman, practice Islam,

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and Saluk or Tasawwuf Ihsaan.

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And in this incredible poem,

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he notes that the following are the conditions

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of responsibility. What makes someone responsible? Parents,

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this may be of interest to you. So

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he says,

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first part of the poem, the first stanza,

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he says,

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responsibility

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is conditioned

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on number 1, the intellect. So the first

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thing we believe which

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makes someone responsible in their relationship with Allah

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Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is maturation,

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emotional, and cognitive

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maturity.

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Again, though, that goes back to the idea

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that the first obligation is to what?

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To know

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or to think. Right? So he says be

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shocked till

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and that bar right there means because of

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her due to

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the So

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right? That every

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and what he means by is

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anything which is or

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haram

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or sunnah or Makru.

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Right? All that falls under what's called

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Right?

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So someone is responsible for establishing the commands

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of God, whether the orders

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or prohibitions.

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The first condition of that, taqleef, is what?

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Al aqal,

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is to to to be able to think

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properly.

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The second, maalboluri,

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is puberty.

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And what are the signs of puberty? He

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says menstrual blood,

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or pregnancy.

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Or for boys,

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*

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or the appearance of pubic hair

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And the last, and this this should be

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right here, actually.

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The last is what if if none none

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of those signs exist

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then when someone turns 18. Now the question

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that parents ask all the time is what

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if I have a child who's physically mature

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but not mentally mature? Or if I have

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a child who's mentally mature but not physically

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mature, we say that those people are what

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is

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called taqif naqis. Right? Taqif naqis.

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So we still treat them with some dispensation

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and some mercy.

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Right? In general, though, we see these are

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the conditions of Takli. Right?

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Intellect,

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puberty

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due to menstrual

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blood or pregnancy

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or *

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or pubic hair. And if none of those

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exist when someone turns 18, unless they still

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have issues here.

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The

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Akal never excuses anyone. The mind is always

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a condition.

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Learning

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and the use of the mind is the

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main

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We say is al aqal.

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Now, Al Qadir Iyad, he's a great scholar

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also. I mean, he's amazing. He added a

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another condition,

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to this, and that is that the information

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actually reached a person.

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Same as that word right here,

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That's a dal, so forgive me.

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Meaning that the information reached the person properly.

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Imam Al Ghazali wrote an entire book about

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this. Right?

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And and and the proof for this is

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this verse right here. You should memorize this

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verse. It's very important. From 17th chapter of

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the Quran, 15th verse, Allah says

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We never punish people until we send them

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a messenger because the messenger is going to

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give them the prerequisite information needed to start

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that relationship with God. So the question comes

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a lot of times from people, what about

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people who never heard about Islam? Or what

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about people that have heard about Islam but

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in a way which is of course not

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correct, which is most of the people.

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So the hadith of the prophet salam al

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Sahih Muslim, it's a really long hadith, states

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that those kind of people will be treated

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by God in the hereafter

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justly. We don't say that they're going to

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*. We don't say they're going to heaven.

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We say that their case rests with

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Allah Right? And in this life, we don't

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expect them to act as Muslims because they

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don't have that information, right? They haven't been

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taught

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Islam or exposed to faith. So we treat

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them with mercy and we say that their

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case

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is known to Allah

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and thereafter.

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So we're done now, hamdullah, with the first

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section

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of the 5th line of the poem. We

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talked about the obligation to learn. We talked

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about how that plays out at a communal

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level, right, when it comes to knowledge and

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engaging knowledge.

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How it plays out in an interfaith level

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with people of other faiths, not forcing people,

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you know, to become Muslim. We'll talk about,

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why apostate should should not be killed,

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in the future Insha'Allah

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and then the second and third thing we

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talked about are the signs of responsibility,

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the conditions of responsibility, and then finally what

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do we say about people who Islam has

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never reached them properly.

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Do me a favor

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this course is really starting to gain some

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traction.

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Help me out by spreading it, sharing it

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on social media,

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engaging people in conversations around it.

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It's very important that it's

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to teach the It is an obligation on

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the one who knows the obligations

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to teach the obligations. We do this for

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the benefit of our brothers and sisters in

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the community.

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