Tamara Gray – I am Khadija

21 October 2022

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Speaker 1 discusses the importance of knowing one's identity to be empowered and to pay for their community. They suggest that knowing one's identity can help them feel like they are empowered and are spending their time with their community.

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Just as we should all be able to say I am Abu Bakr, just as we

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should all be able to say I am Omar, I we should all be able to

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say I am Khadijah. You can tell yourself you are Khadijah, if you

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have the strong belief of Khadijah, if you are empowered, if

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you are empowered by your belief in Muhammad, sallAllahu, sallam,

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if knowing, knowing that he was the greatest human being that ever

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walked on the face of the earth, if that gives you the energy to

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embrace your community, to care for them, to pay for them, to

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spend of your money and your time and your emotion and your

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intellect and your life and your energy. If knowing who he is gives

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you that, then you can say, I am Khadija radila. One.

"I really think this is one of the greatest causes one could support"

Mufti Ismail Menk