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I want to actually ask you all a
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question.
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If you could wish for one thing for
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our ummah or for the situation you're in
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now or the place that we are in.
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If you could wish for something, what would
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you wish for?
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Yes.
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Izzah.
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Honor.
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Excellent.
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Excellent.
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Anyone else?
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Unity.
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Excellent.
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What else?
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What is it?
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Peace?
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Peace.
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What else?
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Justice.
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What else?
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Raise your voices.
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Jannatul Firdaus.
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Okay.
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Here and now though.
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Yes.
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Jannatul Firdaus for all of us inshallah.
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Leadership.
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Anything else?
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Taqwa.
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God consciousness.
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May Allah grant us all of these things.
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I want to share with you an amazing
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story.
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One time, Umar ibn Khattab radiallahu anhu, when
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he was the khalifa, he was sitting in
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a small house with some of the companions
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and he said, tamannu, wish for something.
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So one of them, he said, I wish
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the house we're in was filled with gold
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so I can give all of it for
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the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
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This is an amazing ambition and aspiration.
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To have this much money, let's use it
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for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta
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'ala.
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Sometimes people think of money, they make dua
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for wealth and they already have a lot
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of wealth.
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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
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Amazing.
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Umar radiallahu anhu said again, tamannu, wish for
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something.
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Meaning, go ahead, someone else.
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So another sahabi said something similar.
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He said, I wish this house was filled
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with gems and jewels, all types of more
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valuable things so I can give it all
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for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta
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'ala.
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Is it okay if I walk around?
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I'm sorry, I know this is being recorded.
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I'll stand here until I hear from the
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camera person inshallah.
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So the second sahabi, gems and jewels, all
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for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta
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'ala.
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And then for the third time, Umar radiallahu
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anhu said, tamannu, wish for something.
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They said, ma nadriya ameer al mu'min, we
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don't know what to wish for, oh leader
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of the believers.
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In other words, if you're asking us about
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something specific or you have a thought, we
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don't know what else to wish for.
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Tell us, what should we wish for?
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And then he said, radiallahu anhu, atamanna law
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anna hadhi dara mamlu'atun rijalan mitla abi
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ubaidatim liljarrah, I wish this house was filled
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with men the likes of Abu Ubaidah radiallahu
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anhu.
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Who is Abu Ubaidah radiallahu anhu?
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He's one of the ten companions who was
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given the glad tidings of jannah.
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And a lot of people don't know about
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this companion until they read his bio and
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then they are shocked by how remarkable he
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was in so many different ways.
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The Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, every time you
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hear his blessed name, alayhi salatu wasalam, he
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said, ala wa inna likulli ummatin aminan, every
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nation has that one person that's known to
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be the trustworthy one of the ummah.
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And he said, wa aminu hadhi umma, and
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that person for our ummah is Abu Ubaidah
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radiallahu anhu.
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Who else is he?
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One time, a group of people from Banu
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Najran, they came, they pledged allegiance, and now
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they have to go back home.
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They said, send with us someone trustworthy.
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The sahaba are sitting, imagine you're sitting in
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this gathering, and in front of you, someone
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comes to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, now
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we're gonna go back to our people, bring
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with us, send us someone who is considered
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very trustworthy.
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Imagine looking around and wondering, who's it going
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to be?
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And they see that the Prophet salallahu alayhi
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wasalam nominates and sends Abu Ubaidah radiallahu anhu.
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What else do you know about Abu Ubaidah
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radiallahu anhu?
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He's one of the people that was considered
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as Aisha radiallahu anhu tells us.
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He is one of the individuals that was
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considered as an option for the next khalifa
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after Umar ibn Khattab radiallahu anhu.
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So now we know there's this amazing companion,
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and he's so amazing that Umar radiallahu anhu
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was willing to say that if I could
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wish for something, I wish this hall was
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filled with people like that man, that great
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companion radiallahu anhu.
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Why would someone say that?
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And you know the wisdom, the iman, the
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intellect, the fitrah of Umar radiallahu anhu.
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So for him to say that as the
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khalifa means there's something noteworthy for us to
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pay attention to about what's the individual, this
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great remarkable companion radiallahu anhu would do for
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the entire ummah if we had more people
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like him, if we had that proper understanding
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of the traits of the Muslim, if we
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had an understanding of the actions of the
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Muslim.
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Abu Ubaidah radiallahu anhu is someone that we
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could spend time talking about.
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But the question is, what inspired him?
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Who was he imitating and emulating?
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Who was he following?
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The prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam.
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What's the blueprint for all of the great
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companions, men and women that we talk about?
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What was the blueprint of the young Muslims
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that we talk about?
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It was the prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam.
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Every time you hear his name, salallahu alayhi
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wasalam.
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And Allah tells us, subhanahu wa ta'ala,
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laqad kana lakum fee rasoolillahi uswatun hasanatun liman
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kana yarjul laahu wal yaum al aakhir, wadhakara
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allaha kathira.
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There is indeed for you in the messenger
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of Allah an example, meaning the ultimate example.
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For whom?
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Do you know who is going to follow
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the prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam, and take that
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as their blueprint?
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That's leadership, that's a family man, that's a
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community member.
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Who is going to follow him?
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liman kana yarjul laahu, the one who is
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actually looking for Allah's pleasure.
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wal yaum al aakhir, their sight, their eyes,
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the prize that they want is in the
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afterlife.
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wadhakara allaha kathira, and they remember Allah with
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much remembrance, that's the kind of person, the
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believer, that would follow the prophet, salallahu alayhi
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wasalam.
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And so I want to share a few
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principles here.
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These are principles, if you wish, that are
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intertwining leadership with resilience.
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Leadership with resilience.
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Number one, when it comes to leadership from
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the Islamic perspective, before anything else, is that
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you need a model.
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You need some kind of role model.
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You need some kind of blueprint.
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Islamic leadership cannot start with frameworks if the
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frameworks are not from the Islamic worldview.
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Meaning what?
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The very first principle is that you're following
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the prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam.
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You're following the messenger, salallahu alayhi wasalam.
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So your first thought when it comes to
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how do I navigate this difficult situation, what
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would the prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam, do?
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Now how would you answer that?
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You'd have to study his life.
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You have to study the seerah.
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I'm going to say something, and I don't
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mean this to offend anyone at all, I
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know it sounds harsh, but sometimes we have
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to say some things a little more directly
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than others, and this is a clear example.
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How can a Muslim say, I really love
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the messenger, salallahu alayhi wasalam, for 20, 30,
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40, 50 years, and not once study the
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seerah?
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When non-Muslims have studied his life sometimes
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for decades.
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Some of them knowing the seerah more than
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we do.
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It should cause us to feel like something
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is wrong.
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I'm saying I love him, but I don't
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care to know about him.
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I love Allah, but I don't care about
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the names and attributes and the speech of
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Allah.
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So obviously the love is the claim, but
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now there's the action.
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Imagine you tell your family member, a husband
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tells his wife, I love you.
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She's like, but all your actions speak the
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complete opposite.
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Everything you do is hurtful, neglectful, or the
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opposite, the wife towards the husband or the
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parents with their children.
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And so our actions are so important when
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we say we love Prophet Muhammad, salallahu alayhi
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wasalam, we should want to know about his
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life.
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That is the blueprint, that is the role
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model that we will follow.
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So if you want to know why Umar
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radiallahu anhu said, I wish this house was
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filled with people like Abu Ubaidah radiallahu anhu,
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you have to study the life of Abu
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Ubaidah, the life of Umar radiallahu anhu, and
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the life of the messenger, salallahu alayhi wasalam,
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to understand the context.
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Who was he following radiallahu anhu?
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What is leadership?
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When we talk about leadership, it is one
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of the most studied and one of the
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most debated topics that intertwines management with psychology,
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with philosophy and sometimes ethics and sociology as
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well, and a number of other factors.
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And in the past 6 decades, approximately 60
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plus years, there have been over 65, 65
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different classification systems for what leadership is.
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I think if I were to stop here,
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and if the entire discussion was just like
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leadership 101, and to ask you, what's a
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good leader in your mind?
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What is leadership?
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We would have very different responses, but the
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most common understanding of leadership that people have,
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unless they've studied this before, is to think
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of it from one perspective, just one of
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65, which is what?
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Trait-based.
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So a good leader has this trait, that
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trait, that trait, that trait, those characteristics, trustworthy,
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amin ul-ummah, that's why I started with
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the story of Abu Ubaidah radiallahu anhu.
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But is that the only way to look
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at leadership?
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No.
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And is that comprehensive?
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No.
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And is that the Islamic understanding?
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No, but it's part of it.
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It's one of many ways.
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When you talk about leadership, at its core,
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if you were to choose one word, with
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all these 65 different definitions and systems, to
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summarize leadership, it's about influence.
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So leadership, if you look at the mainstream
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books that are studied in leadership schools and
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industries and programs and doctorate programs and others,
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leadership, ultimately, is about influencing, usually, a group
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of other people towards a common good.
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Now you have to define all of these
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things, especially the common good.
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From the Islamic lens, that's where you need
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the Islamic worldview.
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So a leader is someone who is able
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to ultimately figure out, how do I influence
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the group of people that I could have
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responsibility over or I might just be a
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part of, to do something good.
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We have a shared goal, let's say it's
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a business, a non-profit, a humanitarian goal,
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a group of friends, you want to influence
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a group of friends to do something good,
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or for mothers and for fathers, influencing the
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family to do something good.
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Influence is not force.
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Influence is not, I'm a dictator, it's just
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going to go my way.
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Because those kinds of companies, they may succeed
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with some goals, but they will always be
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limited in their potential, and number two, the
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staff well-being will always be really low.
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So you may say, I know an Islamic
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center, they have great operations, how do you
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know that?
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Well, salah is always taking place, Ramadan is
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a great experience, they have some programs for
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the youth, but internally, internally, what's actually going
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on?
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How do you know that this is a
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really good operation?
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And I want to give you an example
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when it comes to leadership, and I'll say
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this and then we'll move on inshallah.
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Sometimes you may have a good leader that
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can get most people to do certain things,
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so they'll reach some goals.
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Are they profitable?
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Do they reach their goals?
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Yes.
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But I want you to think of numbers
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here.
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Let's say the maximum you could possibly make
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is like 100 million dollars for this company.
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One leader could micromanage, they could be really
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messed up, they could have problems in their
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approach, authoritarian, whatever it may be, okay?
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And they will make sure that that company,
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the employees, everybody, we're going to hit the
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one million dollar mark.
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Are they successful?
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One million dollars in profits?
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Yeah, they hit a million dollars, they're profitable,
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alhamdulillah.
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So you may look at it and say,
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this masjid, this non-profit, this government, this
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thing, it's running fine, why are you trying
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to change things?
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Because sometimes you may look at that limited
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success as the ultimate success when in fact
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you could have made a hundred million dollars.
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You served a thousand people in the community,
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great.
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You could have served a hundred thousand people.
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You could have helped a thousand people convert
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to Islam.
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See where the Prophet had those traits, sallallahu
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alayhi wa sallam.
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Why is this a very problematic thesis?
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Because you're working your way backwards and you're
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making the standard, the standard of today, the
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traits that today people are saying are the
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traits of effective leadership.
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What's the actual standard of leadership?
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The Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he is
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the standard, laqad kana lakum fee rasool illahi
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uswatun hasana.
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That's the standard of effective leadership.
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You look through the prism and the lens
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of Islam at the theories and many of
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these will deal with things that are not
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ethical.
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Yes, they are managerial, but they are still
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important to us.
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Another of the traits is behavior based.
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What are the behaviors of a good leader?
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And another is that of ethical leadership.
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Another is servant leadership.
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Another is transformative.
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How do you transform your followers to do
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something good so you can reach that result
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or to change something about their beliefs?
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But the most important and the most dominant
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theory of today actually is situational leadership.
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What's the summary of all of this?
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If you want to just remember this one
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inshallah.
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Situational leadership, as you can see in the
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title and the name, is about adapting your
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leadership style to the situation you are in
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to make sure you're reaching your goal.
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So what happens if you work for a
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company, you're an employer, you're a CEO, you're
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running two different departments or groups or teams.
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One of them, everyone there is committed and
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they're competent, they know exactly what they're doing.
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They don't need you to constantly micromanage.
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So you have a hands off approach, they're
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doing well, alhamdulillah.
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That's how it should be.
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But your other team, they're committed, they're passionate
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and you can tell, they show up.
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But they're just incompetent.
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They're not reaching their goals.
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They don't know what they're doing.
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You hired some people that are not effective
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at their tasks.
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So what happens?
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Because you know that field, you have to
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keep getting involved.
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You have to keep micromanaging.
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You have to keep, sometimes you'll delegate and
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then you outsource.
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So you may have committed people and you
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may have uncommitted people, but in general, competence
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is also a factor.
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So you adapt your leadership with a second
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team to do what's needed.
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Let's get them more training.
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Someone's really, really bad, track record, five to
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10 years, not going anywhere.
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We have to probably replace this person or
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delegate them to another task.
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So situational leadership from the Islamic lens is
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important to us because sometimes even within the
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family structure, mothers and fathers may look at
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their children or think of their children, may
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Allah grant everyone righteous offspring and think, I
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want them all to be like this.
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And in their mind, they have a vision.
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But every child has a unique personality, inclinations
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and traits.
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You have to work with them based on
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their traits, their leanings, their inclinations, their environments
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that are by choice and involuntary.
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So you have to work with each person
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based on where they are, based on their
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commitments, their competence, their passion, the dislike for
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certain things.
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May Allah protect our families and grant us
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wisdom in all situations.
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Leadership number one starts with taking the Prophet
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ﷺ as your role model.
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Number two, it also emphasizes the worship of
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Allah, that everything revolves around the oneness of
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God.
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People hear this and they say, come on,
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man.
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You're talking to us about leadership.
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And as you're talking about leadership, you're bringing
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up ibadah and aqeedah and theology.
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Where's the actual leadership?
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Well, if it doesn't revolve around the pleasure
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of Allah ﷻ, it's not Islamic leadership.
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If it does not revolve around pleasing Allah
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ﷻ, then it's not effective Islamic leadership.
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You may be effective from a secular naturalistic
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lens, but not in Islam.
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So pleasing Allah, li man kana yarju Allah,
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in the ayah.
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Whoever is looking to please Allah, you're following
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the Prophet ﷺ because there's a noble goal.
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He's clarifying to us how to worship Allah,
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how to please Him.
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That's the goal.
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So if you influence your children for 18
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years, right before they enter college, 17, 18
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years, their entire lives, they're raised and you're
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telling them, if you don't get perfect grades,
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you're a failure, your whole life will be
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miserable, you're gonna struggle, that's fine, raise the
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standard, alhamdulillah.
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With salah, ibadah, Qur'an school, Qur'an
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programs, Islamic studies, low standard.
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Oh, it's optional, let's negotiate.
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You don't wanna go to a Qur'an
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program, that's okay.
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Your child says, I don't wanna go to
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school in 6th grade.
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And you say, what do you mean you
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don't wanna go to school?
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You have to go to school.
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You might even try to explain to them
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why it's important, but is it negotiable?
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It's not negotiable, why?
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Because you know it's for their well-being.
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But when it comes to ibadah and the
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worship of Allah, if you're influencing others, family,
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your MSA, your masjid, to do things, and
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it does not start with the worship of
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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and His pleasure.
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You're going to find what happens after sometime
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is you're going to be off the path
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of pleasing Allah.
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Sometimes a little, sometimes a lot.
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So that child, what happens?
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You internalize.
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18 years, my parents have been telling me,
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success is my career, or marriage, or a
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good income.
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Is that part of it?
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Alhamdulillah, from a worldly lens, it may be
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good, yes.
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But that should never be at the expense
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and the compromise of the real ultimate success
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you do have control over.
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And it's not a dunya, you don't have
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control.
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Some things are in your control, some things
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change overnight.
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People have millions of dollars disappearing overnight.
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Good health vanishing overnight.
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Safety and security disappearing in a week or
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two.
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May Allah protect us all and grant us
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aafiyah.
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Say ameen.
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What you have choice over is to please
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Allah, to enter Jannah.
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In the sense that the more you worship
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Him, the more of His mercy encompasses you.
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And that mercy is what gets you into
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paradise.
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Nobody can take that away from you.
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Society cannot take that away from you.
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Nobody can lay you off from Jannah.
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You choose to worship Allah.
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So effective leadership has to start with, are
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we pleasing Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala?
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If not, think twice about the decision, the
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navigating of that situation, the struggle that you
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are going through.
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Because ultimately it starts with worshiping Allah subhanahu
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wa ta'ala.
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And of course we have many examples from
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old and young companions.
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But look at this great example.
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Most people have heard this name before.
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How many people have heard of Dar al
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-Arqam?
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The house of al-Arqam?
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Just out of curiosity, okay.
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So Dar, the house of al-Arqam radiallahu
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anhu.
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Who is al-Arqam, Ibn al-Arqam radiallahu
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anhu?
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Very young companion.
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He gave his house to the Prophet salallahu
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alayhi wa sallam to use for da'wah.
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The early stages of da'wah were private,
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the first three years.
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Who is al-Arqam?
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Some people know nothing about him, but they
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don't know why they know nothing about him.
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There's almost nothing about him in the seerah.
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But one of the main things we do
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know about this very quiet companion, he gave
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his house for the Muslims to use in
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the early stages of da'wah.
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He was approximately 14 years old.
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We have some teenagers in the audience.
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A young Muslim, he inherited the house, 14
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years old, gave that house in the first
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three years of private da'wah to the
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Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam to teach Islam
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in private.
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Do you know how many of the early
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Muslims converted to Islam and they were the
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reason that thousands later on, combined, ripple effects
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of da'wah embraced Islam?
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So you think about the sadaqah jariah that
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goes to this young companion that many people
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don't know much about because the seerah, the
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biography of this young companion is very limited.
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And yet what he did in his situation
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is he was very proactive.
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He saw an opportunity to please Allah subhanahu
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wa ta'ala and he took it.
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And sometimes young people think they don't have
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any role.
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Sometimes a 9-year-old may be told,
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yeah, when you're older you'll do this and
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that.
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You have some role.
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You're a mother and you're at home with
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your children, you have a role to raise
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a righteous child.
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There is no ummah without an ummah.
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There is no ummah that's successful without a
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righteous present mother and father as well.
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But my point is that everyone has a
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role.
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So if your role is to bring in
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a source of income for the community, to
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support good causes, go for it.
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If your role is to use your knowledge
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of IT or medicine to benefit the da
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'wah or to serve great causes, go for
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it.
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If your role is to be a student
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but you are a great representation of Islam
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and you are confident as a Muslim on
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campus at school, go for it.
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If your role is to raise a child
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and that's taking up all your time, go
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for it.
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Whatever you do, do it with ihsan, to
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please Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
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So the effective leadership in Islamic lens starts
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there.
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You have the blueprints, the worldview of Islam
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and the goal which is to please Allah
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subhanahu wa ta'ala.
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The third is that an effective Muslim leader
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knows how to forgive.
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How do you forgive your children, your husband,
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your wife?
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When there's a mistake and they're remorseful, they're
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trying to fix things, they're trying to redeem
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themselves.
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Sometimes, because of the culture and the times
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that we are in, people have an impression.
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I don't want to use the word cancel
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culture and talk about it too much because
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it's a tangent.
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But I just want you to think about
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the type of situation where someone says there's
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no hope to redeem someone who's done something
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really bad.
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But in Islam, we know someone who committed
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shirk for 50 years and walks in the
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halls today and says, I'm ready to become
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Muslim.
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It's not for you to choose to redeem
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them or not.
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All of their past is forgiven.
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And so what about everything lesser than shirk?
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Am I saying that we treat all situations
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the same?
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No.
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Am I saying justify something wrong, abuse, things
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like that?
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That's not what I'm saying.
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Don't misunderstand.
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All I'm saying is that we have to
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know in every situation how to forgive the
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one who is trying to be forgiven.
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How to allow someone to be redeemed.
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How do we know this by the way?
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The battle of Uhud.
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We talk about this all the time.
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In the last 12 months, with all that's
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happened of the amplified ethnic cleansing and genocide
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in Gaza, with what's happening in Sudan, with
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what's happening in East Turkestan, with what happened
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in Bangladesh.
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When we talk about the state of the
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ummah, we bring up these issues.
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The Prophet ﷺ was in the midst of
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a victory in the battle of Uhud.
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And then the few companions who disobeyed, they
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left their position.
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The archers.
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Not all of them.
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Some of them left their position.
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Because of this, the Muslims were flanked from
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behind.
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Many of them were martyred and killed.
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Now imagine you are the sahabi who was
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on the mount, and you disobeyed, and you
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went to chase after the spoils of war.
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And because of you, Hamza r.a was
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killed.
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Because of you, the Prophet was bleeding and
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injured.
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Because of you, the Muslims lost some of
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their morale that they lost partially this battle.
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Partially.
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Because of you, the people of Quraysh now
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think what?
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This one for that one.
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Badr, you guys won.
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Now we are in power.
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We have the momentum.
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And there's more coming to you.
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So imagine you're going back to Medina after
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you made that massive, massive mistake.
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Not to belittle it and not to exaggerate
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it.
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How would you feel?
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Some people would think, there's no hope for
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me to ever be accepted by my community
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again.
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Some people would think, how's the Prophet gonna
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treat me?
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He told me.
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He told us what to do.
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We disobeyed.
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What did Allah SWT command of the Prophet?
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What did He tell him to do?
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وَلَوْ كُنْتَ فَضًّا غَلِيظَ الْقَلْبِ لَنْ فَضُّوا مِنْ
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حَوْلِكِ In one of the verses of Ali
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Imran, the Prophet is being told, salallahu alayhi
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wasalam, if you were harsh in your heart,
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you had a grudge.
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Or on your tongue, sometimes people say, you
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know, I'm just saying mean things, but I
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have nothing in my heart.
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No, no.
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In your heart and on your tongue, they
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would have fled from you.
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فَعْفُوا عَنَّهُمْ وَاسْتَغْفِرْ لَهُمْ Pardon them, forgive them.
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وَشَاوِرْهُمْ فِي الْأَمْرِ شاوِرْهُمْ فِي الْأَمْرِ Keep consulting
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them.
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What does that mean?
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The people who disobey the Prophet, salallahu alayhi
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wasalam, the sahaba, radhiallahu anhu.
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It's as though you're hearing the live recitation,
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the wahy that's coming down and you're being
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told, they're part of the community.
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Give them a chance.
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Keep consulting them.
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Don't excommunicate them.
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Don't treat them differently now.
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Keep consulting them.
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Yes, they disobeyed Allah.
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And yes, obviously that's a very serious thing.
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But now they're redeeming themselves.
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There's remorse.
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A believer knows when and how to forgive
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others.
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Does this mean we don't learn from our
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mistakes?
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No.
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Of course we learn.
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And in fact, we have the authentic hadith
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in Sahih Muslim, لَا يُلْدَغُ الْمُؤْمِنُ مِنْ جُحْرٍ
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وَاحِدٍ مَرْغَتَيْنِ The believer is not stung twice
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from the same source.
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So, if a political party deceived a group
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of Muslims, and they're doing it again, and
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again, and again, learn from your mistakes, oh
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community.
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If that person keeps doing this to you,
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learn from the mistakes.
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They're not trying to redeem themselves.
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Learn and realize the reality of the situation.
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So, you have to know when and how
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to forgive your brothers and sisters, your family,
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your community, and your mother, your father, your
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son, your daughter, your husband, your wife.
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Every situation is different.
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But an effective leader learns and they figure
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out not just conflict resolution, but when and
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how to forgive so we can move forward
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as far as the communities go.
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Imam Al-Ghazali said something interesting.
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I'll summarize it very quickly.
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He said, to paraphrase, he said, sometimes people,
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they let themselves off the hook.
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You know, sometimes you make a mistake, or
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let's say you're driving.
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I don't want to ask how many people
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here cut people off because, let's not expose
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that inshallah to Allah.
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Let's say you're driving, you cut someone off.
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You didn't think, oh my God, what's wrong
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with me, I'm a horrible person.
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You're going off on yourself.
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No, no, you justified it.
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I'm trying to get in the lane.
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I'm trying to exit.
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This person is going slow.
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You made some excuse, okay.
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When someone else does it to you, you
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have a grudge.
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You're angry, your ego comes out.
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What does that tell you?
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Imam Al-Ghazali r.a is saying, sometimes
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we let our nafs off the hook when
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we make mistakes towards Allah or towards other
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people.
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But when our family, our friends, our community
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make mistakes, we make them big deals.
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Like we exaggerate them.
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Again, every situation is different.
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But we hold grudges, and we let ourselves
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off the hook.
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When in fact, when somebody wrongs you, they
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wronged you and affect you in this life.
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But when you wronged others, and you wronged
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your soul in terms of worshipping Allah, and
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you disobeyed Him, you're affecting your akhira.
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That's much more serious for you to have
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concern about.
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May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make us
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forgiving and wise, and how we forgive and
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how we move on from different situations.
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Allahumma ameen.
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Number four, amongst the principles of Islamic leadership
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is that of shura.
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I was very pleasantly surprised to see.
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So I'm doing, alhamdulillah, a doctorate program in
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leadership now.
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And one of the topics that keeps coming
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up in good environments is that an effective
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leader, especially today, it's changed in the last
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60-70 years.
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It's changed a lot.
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Bureaucracy, and red tape, and authoritarianism.
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Is that a good leader knows how to
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listen to the followers.
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Not just listen.
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Like, hey, you know what, oh Muslims, we're
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gonna listen to you.
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What are your concerns about the elections?
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Okay, you're concerned about Gaza?
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That's great.
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Yeah, we don't care.
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No, no, that's not someone who's actually listening
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to you.
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An effective leader listens and takes your opinion
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into consideration seriously.
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So when someone says in a workplace, hey,
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everybody share your thoughts on how we should
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move forward.
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But you start to realize, you know what,
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they just want to act, it's token.
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Token like, you know, symbolic conversation.
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It no longer means anything to you.
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You know what people start doing?
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They stop sharing.
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They stop sharing their opinions.
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That's what we see.
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Because they say in that workplace, my opinions
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don't actually matter.
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So in Islam, we have this concept of
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shura.
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In Western leadership and management theory, there's something
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called participative management, consultative management, all of that.
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Everyone is consulted in that team to see
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what do people genuinely think so we can
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actually brainstorm a good opinion and move forward
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with it.
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That I actually want to hear your views.
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So what do you do?
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You look at the Prophet ﷺ and the
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Sahaba said, we didn't see anyone doing shura
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more than him.
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That's the Prophet.
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And he did shura.
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You know the battle of Uhud that we're
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just talking about, in which the Muslims face
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a lot of hardships and losses.
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Prophet ﷺ, do you know what his opinion
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was?
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When they received news, the reports reached them,
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you know what, Quraysh, they're gathering an army.
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Do you know what the Prophet ﷺ did?
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In less than 48 hours possibly, you have
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to make a decision.
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Where do we meet the enemy?
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In Medina where we have the home court
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advantage or out in the battlefield somewhere.
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The Prophet ﷺ wanted to actually stay in
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Medina.
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Why do you want to stay in Medina?
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Long story short, you have the advantage, you
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know the city, kind of the streets, how
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to fight them, ambush them, traps.
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Everyone can be involved in some capacity.
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You have kind of the advantage.
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And also Medina is surrounded.
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You have Quba, you have the volcanic rocks,
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east and west, you have the palm tree
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south.
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So in general, it sounds like that makes
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more sense.
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And that's the Prophet's opinion, ﷺ.
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He gathered the Sahaba.
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One time there's a janazah prayer, and there's
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a Friday prayer.
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And he gathered the Sahaba and he asked
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them, what do you all think we should
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do?
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And you know who spoke?
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Not the senior companions.
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They stayed quiet, out of respect.
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You know who spoke?
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The young companions, as is usually the case.
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Expressing their opinions, their sentiment.
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And many of them are energetic, with good
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passion.
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Why are they energetic?
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They missed out on Badr.
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They missed out on Badr.
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Let's go meet the enemy in the battlefield.
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Let's go meet them out there.
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I'm paraphrasing.
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The senior Sahaba stayed quiet.
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The Prophet ﷺ heard the majority.
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The majority want to leave Medina.
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So he agreed with the Shura to take
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their opinion and move out.
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What did he do?
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He left to put on his armor.
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When he left, ﷺ, the older Sahaba started
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talking to the young Sahaba.
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Why did you express your opinion after the
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Prophet told you his opinion, ﷺ?
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This is how you know it's not symbolic
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Shura.
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It's real Shura.
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They said, go and tell him basically, you
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changed your mind.
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So they sent, I think they sent Hamza
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ﷺ to tell him, we changed our minds.
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The Prophet ﷺ said something.
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This is about the conduct, the etiquette, the
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sharia, if you will, of the Prophets.
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They have different standards.
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He said, it's not befit for a Prophet
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to put on his chainmail, his armor, and
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then to remove it until he meets the
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enemy in the battlefield.
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It's khalas.
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We made the decision.
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The majority of you expressed your opinion.
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We're gonna go out.
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And this is knowing for us, knowing that
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still they would lose many people in the
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battlefield.
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Did the Prophet ﷺ come back and tell
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the young Sahaba, you were wrong, it's your
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fault, I told you so?
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It's not a thing.
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So, if you do Shura with your family,
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your community members, your MSA, whoever it may
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be, group of friends, you're deciding on something,
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and you all agreed, we're gonna move with
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the majority or agreed this is the best
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opinion, let's move forward.
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After it happens, if it's good, if it's
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bad, regardless, don't come back and say, well,
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majority of you chose to do that.
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No.
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You made the decision.
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You had tawakkul in Allah.
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It was meant to be.
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Khalas, you tried your best.
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You used the data you had, the opinions
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expressed.
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It was not the best thing.
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That's istishara.
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And then you do your istikhara and you
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move forward.
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It was not meant to be.
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You had to go and face those experiences.
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So, move forward now when you come back
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from that situation as well.
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Shura.
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Sometimes, the greatest struggle within a marriage and
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one of the greatest expressions of frustration, usually
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when a wife says, my husband does not
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consult me or care about my opinion with
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anything at all.
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Now, sometimes people are like, yeah, maybe it's
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an exaggeration.
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She's talking about like major life decision, career,
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no.
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Curtains in the house, kitchen appliances.
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Like, why is the husband in this specific
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scenario not consulting the wife or taking into
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consideration what she wants?
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What would cause that?
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Maybe another issue.
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And you look at the other issue, you
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find there's another issue.
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00:31:32
And so, sometimes people are expressing things that
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00:31:34
we all agree in this hall, should be
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basic standard things in every family that out
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00:31:40
of love and respect, if the companions, this
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00:31:43
is not one family, the companions are being
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00:31:45
told, the young ones who don't have knowledge
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00:31:47
of the battlefields or anything, share your opinions.
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What about the one who you are married
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00:31:53
to, your wife, your husband, your children, even
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00:31:55
children at a certain age as they are
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00:31:55
growing.
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And you show them respect and love even
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if you know that they may not have
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00:32:00
life experience or wisdom.
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00:32:02
At least listen to what they have to
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say.
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00:32:05
After a certain age, those opinions, you start
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to listen.
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00:32:08
You know what, they're suggesting this, suggesting that.
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00:32:10
And don't just listen and then ignore completely.
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00:32:11
Tell them why you're going with a different
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00:32:12
decision.
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00:32:14
Otherwise, once again, they'll stop sharing.
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00:32:15
May Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
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00:32:16
make us a people of shura.
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00:32:18
And make us among those who have divine
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00:32:19
blessings in our families.
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00:32:21
And rectify all of the struggles that we
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00:32:22
find within our families.
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00:32:23
Allahumma ameen.
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00:32:27
Number five is that of wisdom.
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00:32:31
Nuh عليه السلام gave da'wah to his
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00:32:33
people for 950 years as we know.
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00:32:35
Long story short, in the Qur'an you
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00:32:37
have references to different types of da'wah.
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00:32:41
He called people, some people in public.
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So large gatherings in public.
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00:32:45
Other people one on one da'wah, private.
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00:32:48
Some people he called them to Islam in
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the daytime.
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Other people at night.
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What does this mean?
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00:32:53
The scholars say as Allah commands us, ادعو
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00:32:57
إلى سبيل ربك بالحكمة والموعظة الحسنة Call people
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00:32:59
to the way of your Lord with wisdom
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00:33:00
and good speech.
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00:33:03
Wisdom is an entire study now.
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00:33:07
Because in every single situation where somebody like
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00:33:08
in this audience may say, I have a
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00:33:09
question.
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00:33:10
And you raise your hand and say, I
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00:33:11
have this friend.
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00:33:12
How do I give them da'wah?
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00:33:14
Because they're doing A, B and C.
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00:33:15
I have a family member.
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00:33:17
They're not praying five prayers.
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00:33:18
And that's like the basic thing you need
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00:33:18
to do.
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00:33:19
I have a daughter, a son.
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00:33:20
They're struggling with this or that.
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00:33:25
Every single scenario where you want someone to
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00:33:27
listen to you is a scenario of da
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00:33:28
'wah in some form.
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00:33:30
And in a way, it's influence.
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00:33:32
But the influence is not about what.
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00:33:35
It's not just about the message, but the
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00:33:37
means of delivering that message.
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00:33:39
And this is what so many people get
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00:33:39
wrong in da'wah.
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00:33:42
You know how sometimes you see that person
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00:33:44
who's like, Hey, I don't care what people
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00:33:44
think.
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00:33:45
I don't care about your emotions.
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00:33:47
I'm gonna tell you the truth just as
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it is.
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00:33:49
And in their thought, in their perspective, what
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00:33:52
that means is like, that means I'm speaking
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00:33:54
the truth as it should be spoken and
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00:33:56
everybody else is sugarcoating.
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00:33:57
Everybody else is weak.
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00:33:59
I'm the defender of the sunnah.
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00:34:00
That's what they say.
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00:34:01
That's what they assume.
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00:34:04
So the kind of person who follows this
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00:34:06
has an understanding of what the correct message
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00:34:07
is.
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00:34:09
Maybe, sometimes they don't, right?
00:34:09 -->
00:34:12
But the delivery is an entire field in
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00:34:13
Islam that a lot of people have not
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00:34:15
studied, or they have not practiced, or learned
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00:34:16
from their mentors.
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00:34:16
So what do you see?
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00:34:19
The scholars, the students of knowledge who are
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00:34:21
raised in a good environment in terms of
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00:34:24
tarbiyah, they know to distinguish between the message
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00:34:26
and the delivery of the message.
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00:34:29
Da'wah is for you to think, how
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00:34:31
do I influence the person in a positive
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00:34:32
way to receive my message?
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00:34:34
It's not, how do I deliver my message
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00:34:35
and force them to hear it?
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00:34:37
Because you can force anyone to hear your
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00:34:37
message.
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00:34:39
But was it effective?
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00:34:41
Did you really reach their hearts?
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00:34:43
A young man, my community, he says, I
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00:34:45
went to my family members when I found
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00:34:46
out putting pictures up on the wall is
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00:34:47
not allowed in Islam.
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00:34:49
And I told him, all of this is
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00:34:49
haram.
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00:34:51
The angels are not coming to the house.
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00:34:52
You're all upon bid'ah.
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00:34:53
He started throwing out all the words that
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00:34:53
he knows.
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00:34:55
Family got upset with him.
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00:34:57
No change, nobody changed anything, obviously.
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00:34:58
Very ineffective.
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00:35:03
Years later, he finds that they removed those
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00:35:03
pictures one day.
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00:35:05
After like all the fighting.
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00:35:05
He's like, what happened?
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00:35:07
Like, oh, Sheikh so and so said it's
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00:35:08
haram.
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00:35:11
He's like, I told you that three years
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00:35:11
ago.
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00:35:13
He said, yeah, but you are so harsh
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00:35:13
with us.
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00:35:17
Sometimes it's only about the delivery method.
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00:35:21
So when you see lone wolves on social
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00:35:23
media or in a community, and they have
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00:35:28
following, usually like-minded, young, impressionable people.
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00:35:30
They're being molded because they don't understand.
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00:35:32
There are two things that matter here.
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00:35:34
There's the truth which we all agree on,
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00:35:36
has to be true, verified, all of that.
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00:35:37
Yes, authentic knowledge.
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00:35:40
The delivery message and the wisdom is an
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00:35:42
entire discipline, the art of da'wah, the
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00:35:44
art of influence, the art of leadership.
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00:35:46
If you really want to lead people to
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00:35:47
good, you have to do so in the
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00:35:48
best manner possible.
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00:35:51
It's not how do I throw my message
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00:35:52
at you, make sure you hear it.
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00:35:54
It's are you receiving it?
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00:35:55
Is your heart receptive to what I'm saying?
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00:35:58
And that's like the example simplified of connecting
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00:36:01
with someone before you correct them, for example.
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00:36:01
Connect with them.
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00:36:03
They know you care about them.
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00:36:04
That's part of influence.
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00:36:06
That's part of goodness that we should have
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00:36:06
in our hearts.
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00:36:08
May Allah grant us wisdom with Muslims, with
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00:36:10
non-Muslims, with the old and the young.
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00:36:12
So if Musa a.s. was told to
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00:36:14
give da'wah to Fir'aun, one of
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00:36:15
the worst people in history.
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00:36:18
And everyone knows who Pharaoh Fir'aun is.
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00:36:21
And he had baby boys killed every other
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00:36:23
year because he was worried about the prophecy.
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00:36:26
What about genocidal maniacs who kill baby boys
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00:36:27
and baby girls today?
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00:36:29
Men and women, old and young.
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00:36:32
Regardless of what happens, regardless of how many
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00:36:33
people die, they don't care.
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00:36:36
And so you think about Fir'aun and
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00:36:37
how evil he was, and how Allah addresses
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00:36:39
the story of Musa so many times in
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00:36:39
the Quran.
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00:36:43
You think about people justifying settler colonialism in
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00:36:46
Palestine, and the ethnic cleansing that has been
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00:36:48
ongoing for almost a hundred years now.
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00:36:50
And you think if that was Fir'aun
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00:36:52
and he was killing baby boys, and enslaving
00:36:52 -->
00:36:54
people, what about the Zionists of today?
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00:36:56
And those who support them, and those who
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00:36:58
defend them, and those who facilitate them, and
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00:37:00
those who stay quiet with regards to their
00:37:00 -->
00:37:01
oppression.
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00:37:03
We are seeing these things unfold.
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00:37:06
So when it comes to Musa a.s.,
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00:37:07
he was told to go talk to Fir
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00:37:09
'aun, qawlan layyina.
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00:37:11
Layyina, gentle speech.
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00:37:13
Why?
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00:37:15
Because that's more effective for the person you're
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00:37:15
addressing.
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00:37:17
What about your family member?
00:37:17 -->
00:37:19
What about your husband and wife?
00:37:19 -->
00:37:21
What about your community members?
00:37:21 -->
00:37:22
What about your social media followers?
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00:37:25
If Musa a.s. had to speak to
00:37:25 -->
00:37:27
Fir'aun with qawlan layyina, did he sugarcoat
00:37:27 -->
00:37:28
the truth?
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00:37:29
He still spoke the truth.
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00:37:32
But the method is so important.
00:37:32 -->
00:37:35
Influence, a big part of influence goes back
00:37:35 -->
00:37:36
to your method.
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00:37:37
And if we were to think a little
00:37:37 -->
00:37:39
more about the heart of the one you're
00:37:39 -->
00:37:42
trying to reach, perhaps inshallah ta'ala we'll
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00:37:44
find more benefit in our organizations, families, and
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00:37:45
communities.
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00:37:45
May Allah grant us that.
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00:37:46
Allahumma ameen.
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00:37:48
That was number five.
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00:37:52
Number six is that an effective Muslim leader
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00:37:54
does not compromise truth.
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00:37:55
Now, I just said what?
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00:37:57
The delivery matters.
00:37:57 -->
00:37:59
But here we are saying the truth cannot
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00:37:59
be compromised on.
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00:38:00
What is the truth though?
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00:38:02
We have to know what is true.
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00:38:05
A lot of Muslims are raised upon Islam.
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00:38:06
Alhamdulillah for that.
00:38:06 -->
00:38:09
But their parents never teach them why Islam?
00:38:09 -->
00:38:10
Why is Islam true?
00:38:11 -->
00:38:14
The proofs of prophethood, that's a rational proof,
00:38:14 -->
00:38:14
that's very clear.
00:38:14 -->
00:38:16
And the miraculous nature of the Qur'an.
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00:38:20
Both of these topics are topics every Muslim
00:38:20 -->
00:38:22
in the 21st century has to know.
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00:38:24
An introductory level at least.
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00:38:26
Alhamdulillah that you have in your community the
00:38:26 -->
00:38:28
blessing of having Shaykh Muhammad al-Shinawi.
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00:38:29
May Allah reward him.
00:38:29 -->
00:38:31
The proofs of prophet is a book every
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00:38:34
single Muslim should study at some point.
00:38:34 -->
00:38:35
An introduction to it.
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00:38:38
And the miraculous nature of the Qur'an.
00:38:38 -->
00:38:38
Why?
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00:38:41
Because we are connected to on social media,
00:38:41 -->
00:38:42
in society, around the world.
00:38:42 -->
00:38:48
So many contradictory, problematic, deviant, false ideologies in
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00:38:49
different forms.
00:38:49 -->
00:38:50
Doubts that arise.
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00:38:52
So if you don't know why Islam?
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00:38:53
What is true?
00:38:53 -->
00:38:54
And why is it true?
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00:38:58
It may become easy for someone to influence
00:38:58 -->
00:39:00
you to compromise something.
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00:39:02
That's why you'll hear Muslim saying things that
00:39:02 -->
00:39:03
you're like, that doesn't align with Islam.
00:39:04 -->
00:39:06
Yes, because the foundation of why is not
00:39:06 -->
00:39:06
there.
00:39:07 -->
00:39:10
The prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, every time you
00:39:10 -->
00:39:12
hear his name Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, was offered
00:39:12 -->
00:39:14
everything of this world that a false prophet
00:39:14 -->
00:39:15
would take.
00:39:15 -->
00:39:15
You want money?
00:39:16 -->
00:39:17
We'll make you the richest person.
00:39:17 -->
00:39:18
Stop spreading Islam.
00:39:18 -->
00:39:19
You want power?
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00:39:20
We'll make you a king.
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00:39:21
We don't even have kings in Arabia.
00:39:21 -->
00:39:23
You want to marry the best of our
00:39:23 -->
00:39:23
women?
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00:39:23
We'll do that.
00:39:23 -->
00:39:24
What do you want?
00:39:25 -->
00:39:26
He declined all of this.
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00:39:27
If you gave me the sun and the
00:39:27 -->
00:39:29
moon in my hands, I would keep going
00:39:29 -->
00:39:29
with this mission.
00:39:29 -->
00:39:29
Why?
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00:39:31
He's a real prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
00:39:32 -->
00:39:33
They came to him later.
00:39:33 -->
00:39:35
They're trying to stop the spread of Islam.
00:39:35 -->
00:39:35
They're worried.
00:39:35 -->
00:39:37
The political elite are worried.
00:39:37 -->
00:39:38
So what do they say?
00:39:38 -->
00:39:41
How about we worship your God for one
00:39:41 -->
00:39:42
year without our idols?
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00:39:44
They believe in Allah, but we'll worship your
00:39:44 -->
00:39:45
God without idol worship.
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00:39:47
But then the following year, you have to
00:39:47 -->
00:39:48
worship our idols.
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00:39:51
قُلْ يَا أَيُّهَا الْكَافِرُونَ لَا أَعْبُدُ مَا تَعْبِدُونَ
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00:39:53
To the end of the surah, that even
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00:39:54
our children have memorized.
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00:39:57
لَكُمْ دِينُكُمْ وَلِيَدِينَ To you is your religion,
00:39:57 -->
00:39:57
to me is mine.
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00:39:58
Don't compromise.
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00:40:02
So are there things that we can compromise
00:40:02 -->
00:40:03
on in Islam?
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00:40:04
Well, it depends on what you're referring to.
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00:40:06
It depends on what you're talking about.
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00:40:09
But in general, by default, when we're talking
00:40:09 -->
00:40:11
about the truth with a capital T in
00:40:11 -->
00:40:13
philosophy, no, we don't compromise on the truth.
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00:40:17
You may, yes, change the navigation style, change
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00:40:19
the approach of something of customs or...
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00:40:21
Yeah, sure, there's some areas that goes back
00:40:21 -->
00:40:23
to the scholars, not to us to decide.
00:40:24 -->
00:40:27
But in general, when you see Muslims standing
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00:40:30
strong, being principled, that's what inspires people around
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00:40:30
the world.
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00:40:34
The faith and resilience of the people of
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00:40:37
Palestine has been the reason in Southeast Michigan
00:40:37 -->
00:40:40
where I'm from, just in Michigan alone, that
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00:40:43
we've had at least 500 people convert to
00:40:43 -->
00:40:45
Islam in the last year who said it's
00:40:45 -->
00:40:47
because they learned about Islam from the resilience
00:40:47 -->
00:40:48
of the people of Gaza.
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00:40:51
And if that's in one small area of
00:40:51 -->
00:40:53
this country, what about the rest of this
00:40:53 -->
00:40:55
continent and the rest of the world?
00:40:55 -->
00:40:58
The principles you have in public may be
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00:41:00
the only reason someone is interested in Islam.
00:41:01 -->
00:41:02
Don't compromise.
00:41:02 -->
00:41:04
The brother who was interviewed for a job,
00:41:05 -->
00:41:07
a really good job, and they asked him,
00:41:07 -->
00:41:09
they already knew he's Muslim and he expressed
00:41:09 -->
00:41:10
some things about Islam.
00:41:11 -->
00:41:13
They said, do you need any days off,
00:41:13 -->
00:41:14
any time off, anything that we should know?
00:41:15 -->
00:41:16
He's like, no.
00:41:16 -->
00:41:17
They said, are you sure?
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00:41:20
So, 9 to 5, every single day, Monday
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to Friday, he said, yes.
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He used to go to Juma prayer every
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single Juma, which is mandatory for men.
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They said, any days of the week, anything
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we should know?
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He's like, no, no, no.
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What was he doing?
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He's afraid.
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00:41:33
If I say I need Friday prayer off,
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I might not get this job.
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00:41:35
Is he in desperate need?
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He had another job already.
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00:41:38
He's not in desperate need.
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00:41:39
It's not like he could have said, oh,
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00:41:40
I was worried about poverty.
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00:41:41
But that's not an excuse.
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00:41:42
But that's not even his situation.
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00:41:44
He didn't get the job.
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00:41:47
And he started bugging the interviewer for a
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00:41:49
long time just to find out, just so
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00:41:52
I can learn what was one of the
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00:41:53
reasons I didn't get hired.
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00:41:57
Qualified, everything, degrees, background, work experience.
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00:42:00
They said, well, we wanted someone very principled
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00:42:01
and bold for our company because it was
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00:42:03
a very important position.
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00:42:05
And we felt that because you weren't asking,
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00:42:07
and somebody felt that maybe because you weren't
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00:42:10
asking to leave for Friday prayer, it might
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00:42:12
have been, they were protecting themselves legally, might
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00:42:15
have been a factor in thinking about how
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00:42:17
you might compromise on the values of the
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00:42:19
company for something else.
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00:42:21
If your religion, because he had mentioned he's
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00:42:23
Muslim, he's mentioned all these things, I don't
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00:42:24
go to places where there's, I can't drink
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00:42:26
alcohol, I can't do certain things.
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00:42:28
You couldn't say, you couldn't say that you
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00:42:29
have to go for Jum'ah prayer.
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00:42:32
That one thing which in this country is
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00:42:33
at least protected, alhamdulillah.
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00:42:35
And Muslims are doing this left and right.
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00:42:38
So, show your principles, be a principled Muslim.
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00:42:40
It may be the catalyst for people to
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00:42:43
embrace Islam on campus and off campus and
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00:42:44
around the world.
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00:42:45
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala grant us
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00:42:47
that resilience, Allahumma ameen.
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00:42:49
The principles are more important than anything else.
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00:42:51
And finally, as I end on this note,
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00:42:55
a leader emphasizes in Islam, a leader emphasizes
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00:42:58
trust in Allah and always turning to Allah.
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00:43:00
No matter the situation, no matter how bad
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00:43:03
it is, if there's COVID and the entire
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00:43:05
world shuts down, the mercy of Allah is
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00:43:06
still present as it was the day before.
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00:43:10
And that last hajj before COVID, has anybody,
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00:43:12
was anyone here in 2019 at hajj?
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00:43:14
You know how it was in Arafah, right?
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00:43:15
You remember Arafah?
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00:43:17
And so many people heard the stories of
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00:43:20
the rain that came down, the abundance of
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00:43:21
rain that came down on that day.
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00:43:25
People who are sleeping, slacking off, tired, because
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00:43:26
it's a very long day, you're making du
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00:43:28
'a like all day and you're in between.
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00:43:29
Everyone was making du'a.
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00:43:32
You leave your tent, everyone's raising their hands,
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00:43:33
making du'a.
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00:43:34
People are crying, begging Allah.
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00:43:37
That was the year before COVID, before the
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00:43:39
lockdowns, to remind us that mercy of Allah
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00:43:41
that's in abundance, then is in abundance at
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00:43:42
all times, all places.
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00:43:44
When there's a genocide, there's still the mercy
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00:43:45
of Allah.
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00:43:47
In ways we don't, yes, fully understand in
00:43:47 -->
00:43:49
terms of the shuhada, in terms of the
00:43:49 -->
00:43:51
resilience, in terms of many wisdoms that have
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00:43:54
ripple effects across the world that's changed the
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00:43:56
nature and the face of the world, that's
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00:43:58
changed society and exposed a lot of evil,
00:43:58 -->
00:44:01
and people of corruption, and ineffective leaders.
00:44:01 -->
00:44:04
It's exposed the flaws in our own institutions
00:44:04 -->
00:44:04
as Muslims.
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00:44:07
It's exposed people who claim interfaith, but they
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00:44:09
don't actually mean interfaith for Muslims.
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00:44:11
They mean we need token Muslims.
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00:44:13
They mean the symbolic aspect of interfaith.
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00:44:16
They exposed politicians who said, Oh, Muslims, we're
00:44:16 -->
00:44:18
just like you, we're tolerant of all people.
00:44:19 -->
00:44:20
In sha Allah, they throw out words at
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00:44:21
us.
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00:44:22
We're like, Oh my God, he said, In
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00:44:24
sha Allah, they know our language.
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00:44:25
Let's go vote for them.
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00:44:26
And then what do they do?
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00:44:28
They kill your brothers and your sisters.
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00:44:30
They murder our family members.
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00:44:31
They mutilate our children.
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00:44:34
They kidnap, they torture, they assault.
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00:44:36
So, what's actually happening here?
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00:44:40
Fitna exposes the reality of this world and
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00:44:43
sifts the good from the bad, the truthful
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00:44:45
from the liar, the mu'min from the munafiq,
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00:44:47
and exposes leaders.
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00:44:50
Because in times of pain, leadership comes out.
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00:44:52
Your leadership and others.
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00:44:56
Because if there's tragedy, and you wait and
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00:44:57
say, What should we be doing as a
00:44:57 -->
00:44:57
community?
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00:44:59
And nobody's doing anything.
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00:45:00
You're part of the problem.
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00:45:01
And I don't mean that harshly.
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00:45:03
I mean that if you have something that
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00:45:05
you can offer, then be the one who
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00:45:06
initiates.
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00:45:08
Like the many students who did not wait.
00:45:09 -->
00:45:13
They consulted scholars, politicians, attorneys and others, civil
00:45:13 -->
00:45:14
rights movements, and said, We're going to take
00:45:14 -->
00:45:16
action within our means.
00:45:16 -->
00:45:18
All we can do as students is X,
00:45:18 -->
00:45:19
Y and Z, for example.
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00:45:21
And so everyone does what they can.
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00:45:23
Mothers who taught their children about Palestine.
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00:45:25
Today if you were to ask one of
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00:45:27
us to talk about Palestine and the history
00:45:27 -->
00:45:29
there, it would be very different than if
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00:45:31
you were to ask me a year ago
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00:45:31
on this day.
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00:45:35
Because now the word Palestine and the concept
00:45:35 -->
00:45:38
of colonization of Palestine has entered every house
00:45:38 -->
00:45:38
in the world.
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00:45:40
And there are wisdoms we cannot understand, but
00:45:40 -->
00:45:44
an effective Muslim leader keeps people connected to
00:45:44 -->
00:45:44
Allah.
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00:45:47
Every single passage in the Qur'an, Take
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00:45:48
this tafsir jam on a final note.
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00:45:50
How many minutes do I have by the
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00:45:50
way?
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00:45:52
One?
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00:45:54
That means it expired, right?
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00:45:55
Jazakallah khair.
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00:45:56
Oh, I actually literally have one.
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00:45:57
Okay, I do have one minute.
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00:46:01
Every single passage of the Qur'an, where
00:46:01 -->
00:46:06
Allah talks about calamity, pain, hardship, has something
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00:46:09
in that passage to redirect your emotions and
00:46:09 -->
00:46:10
pain to something else.
00:46:10 -->
00:46:11
What does that mean?
00:46:11 -->
00:46:12
There's hope about Jannah.
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00:46:14
There's resilience and tawakkul.
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00:46:18
استعينوا بالصبر والصلاة There's something for you to
00:46:18 -->
00:46:20
hold on to that will help you.
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00:46:23
So when you share something painful with the
00:46:23 -->
00:46:25
community, give them something to hold on to.
00:46:25 -->
00:46:28
When you share difficult news with your family
00:46:28 -->
00:46:31
on social media, give them something to do,
00:46:31 -->
00:46:32
redirect their attention.
00:46:32 -->
00:46:34
Now sometimes we share just for the sake
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00:46:34
of awareness.
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00:46:35
Such and such happened today.
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00:46:36
Calamity.
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00:46:39
إِنَّا لِلَّهِ وَإِنَّ يَرَاجِعُونَ Make dua for them.
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00:46:40
Be proactive.
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00:46:43
Share this news, something to do with the
00:46:43 -->
00:46:44
painful moments that you are in.
00:46:44 -->
00:46:47
Because the believer never gives up.
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00:46:49
Your trust in Allah is in times of
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00:46:51
goodness, relative ease in times of pain.
00:46:51 -->
00:46:53
Is giving up even an option?
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00:46:53
Yes or no?
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00:46:55
Is giving up an option?
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00:46:57
We have to hear it a little louder.
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00:46:58
Is giving up an option?
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00:47:00
Giving up is not an option.
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00:47:03
If giving up was an option, then the
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00:47:06
Muslims in 1099 when the crusaders came in
00:47:06 -->
00:47:08
and butchered Jews and Muslims and others and
00:47:08 -->
00:47:10
took Al-Aqsa and occupied it.
00:47:10 -->
00:47:12
May Allah free Al-Aqsa and allow us
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00:47:12
to see.
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00:47:13
Allahumma ameen.
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00:47:17
88 years until the path was paved with
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00:47:19
many Muslims who sacrificed.
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00:47:22
And then finally, the vehicle of Salahuddin Ayyubi
00:47:22 -->
00:47:22
rahimahullah.
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00:47:24
Not one person but a movement.
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00:47:27
If every single Muslim in those 88 years
00:47:27 -->
00:47:29
said, we give up, there's no hope.
00:47:29 -->
00:47:31
There would not have been a liberation of
00:47:31 -->
00:47:32
Al-Aqsa and other lands.
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00:47:35
The entirety of history would have a very
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00:47:35
different course.
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00:47:37
And in reality we know this.
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00:47:40
Jihad al-nafs, striving against your lower desires
00:47:40 -->
00:47:42
also is against despair.
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00:47:46
So, part of positive, effective Muslim leadership, keep
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00:47:46
moving forward.
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00:47:49
Trust in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
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00:47:52
Every single dua you make, that's not for
00:47:52 -->
00:47:52
something haram.
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00:47:56
Every single dua that you make sincerely is
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00:47:57
accepted in some form.
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00:48:00
And you may be inspiring someone.
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00:48:02
You don't know that that person is also
00:48:02 -->
00:48:04
another vehicle in those 88 years, is another
00:48:04 -->
00:48:06
vehicle to do something good, to have ripple
00:48:06 -->
00:48:07
effects in the world.
00:48:07 -->
00:48:09
And this is part of passing the test
00:48:09 -->
00:48:09
of life.
00:48:09 -->
00:48:13
In reality, brothers and sisters, effective leadership, again,
00:48:13 -->
00:48:14
there's a lot more to say, a lot
00:48:14 -->
00:48:15
more to say about this topic.
00:48:15 -->
00:48:17
But it starts with us looking within and
00:48:17 -->
00:48:20
asking, are we starting with the pursuit of
00:48:20 -->
00:48:23
Allah's pleasure, the afterlife, the blueprint of the
00:48:23 -->
00:48:26
seerah, the Prophet ﷺ, bringing people together, knowing
00:48:26 -->
00:48:28
when to forgive, knowing how to unite, having
00:48:28 -->
00:48:31
shura, making sure that the community is moving
00:48:31 -->
00:48:33
forward together, this masjid, this family, this organization,
00:48:33 -->
00:48:36
at a national or local level, that we
00:48:36 -->
00:48:37
are moving forward and we try, no matter
00:48:37 -->
00:48:40
what, to emphasize in all things the pleasure
00:48:40 -->
00:48:41
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
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00:48:43
Because ultimately in Islam, to lead is to
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00:48:45
serve and to be accountable before Allah.
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00:48:48
Every leadership position is a position of accountability.
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00:48:50
Every one of us is a shepherd and
00:48:50 -->
00:48:54
responsible, accountable before Allah for our flock, meaning
00:48:54 -->
00:48:55
for our responsibilities.
00:48:55 -->
00:48:57
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allow us
00:48:57 -->
00:48:58
to see a free Palestine and a free
00:48:58 -->
00:49:00
Sudan, a free other lands all around the
00:49:00 -->
00:49:00
world.
00:49:01 -->
00:49:02
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make us
00:49:02 -->
00:49:04
effective leaders in every land, in every place,
00:49:04 -->
00:49:05
in every context.
00:49:05 -->
00:49:07
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala grant us
00:49:07 -->
00:49:09
wisdom, knowledge, resilience, and actions.
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00:49:12
And may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala protect
00:49:12 -->
00:49:14
us from ever despairing or giving up.
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00:49:15
Allahumma ameen.
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00:49:17
Wa salli lahumma ala nabiyyina Muhammad wa ala
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00:49:18
alihi wa sahbihi ajma'in.
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00:49:20
Wassalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.
