Tamara Gray – #AnseTalks Muharam Is About Fresh Starts

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The speaker discusses the upcoming New Year and how they are receiving new people from the um lil. They talk about the importance of having a fresh start to the New Year and how they want to approach it by having a new Christmas celebration. They also mention their past experiences as a teenager and how they want to bring their new Christmas celebrations to the New Year.

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			Our new year begins in Muharram,
which is the third of three sacred
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			months that come in a row. It's
right after Hajj. We can think
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			about people going back from Hajj
within and and we are receiving
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			the people that are coming back
from hash those of us who didn't
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			go we're receiving them. They're
coming to us. And this is a whole
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			new start for the ummah. This is a
new start for the ummah. How is it
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			a new start for the ummah? It's a
new start for the Ummah because if
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			you are the one who went to Hajj,
you have a clean, fresh, empty
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			pages book. And if you are
receiving your relatives and
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			friends and community members who
have been in hajj, your your
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			community, is filled with people
that have a fresh start, and so
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			together, we can have this fresh
start. How do we as a culture
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			approach a new year? I know for
every year of my life, when I was
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			a teenager and January would come
around, I would be thinking about
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			my new year's resolutions. That's
what I'd be thinking about my new
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			year's resolutions. And for us, as
now, when I became a Muslim, I
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			still think about resolutions,
because a resolution is connected
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			to what it's connected to a fresh
start,
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			and it's in that is connected to
Toba, to Toba and forgiveness.