Tammam Alwan – The Role Of A Just Ruler

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The responsibility of individuals to ensure everyone is the most important person in their culture and avoid consequences of actions is emphasized. The importance of taking responsibility and being a shepherd and responsible for personal lives is emphasized. The devastation of people across the world is discussed, including people who are killed and murdered due to actions and the loss of family members. Subhanous behavior is discussed, including people being killed and murdered due to actions and the loss of family members. The importance of peace and prosperity is emphasized, and the need for peace and prosperity in the situation of insha' spirit is also emphasized.

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			People, fear your Lord, who created you from
		
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			one soul, and created from it its wife,
		
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			and spread from it many men and women.
		
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			And fear Allah, whom you ask about, and
		
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			the Most Merciful.
		
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			Verily, Allah is ever watching over you.
		
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			And fear Allah from the evils of ourselves
		
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			and the sinfulness of our actions.
		
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			Whomever Allah guides, none can misguide.
		
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			And whomever Allah misguides, none can guide.
		
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			I bear witness that there is none worth
		
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			worshipping but Allah, alone, with no partner.
		
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			And I bear witness that Muhammad ﷺ is
		
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			His servant and His final messenger.
		
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			Allah ﷻ reminds us in the Qur'an,
		
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			in Surah Al-Imran, He says, O you
		
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			who believe, have taqwa of Allah with the
		
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			taqwa that is due to Him.
		
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			And don't die except in a state of
		
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			Islam, except in a state of submission.
		
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			And He also says, Subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			in Surah An-Nisa, He says, O people,
		
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			have taqwa of your Lord, who created you
		
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			from a single soul, and created from it
		
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			its mate, and dispersed from both of them
		
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			many men and women.
		
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			And have taqwa of Allah through whom you
		
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			ask one another and the wombs.
		
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			Surely Allah is ever over you an observer.
		
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			From Ibn Umar, may Allah be pleased with
		
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			him, he says, I heard the Messenger of
		
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			Allah ﷺ say, All of you are ra
		
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			'im and all of you are responsible for
		
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			his ra'iyah.
		
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			The Imam is ra'im and responsible for
		
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			his ra'iyah.
		
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			And the man is ra'im in his
		
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			family and responsible for his ra'iyah.
		
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			And the woman is ra'im in her
		
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			husband's house and responsible for her ra'iyah.
		
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			And the servant is ra'im in the
		
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			wealth of his master and responsible for his
		
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			ra'iyah.
		
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			And all of you are ra'im and
		
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			all of you are responsible for his ra
		
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			'iyah.
		
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			Ibn Umar, may Allah be pleased with him
		
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			and his father, Umar ibn al-Khattab, he
		
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			says, I heard the Prophet ﷺ say, in
		
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			a famous hadith, I'm sure we all know
		
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			it, we're all familiar with it, and he
		
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			says, every single one of you is a
		
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			guardian or a shepherd.
		
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			And every single one of you is responsible
		
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			for his ward or his flock.
		
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			And he says, the Imam, the ruler, here
		
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			it means the leader, the governmental leader, is
		
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			a shepherd and will be asked about how
		
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			he took care of the people under his
		
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			care.
		
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			And a man is a shepherd over his
		
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			family and will be responsible and asked about
		
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			that.
		
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			And he says, a woman is a shepherd
		
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			as well and she's going to be asked
		
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			about her husband's home and also her flock,
		
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			the children in the family.
		
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			And he says, even a servant is a
		
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			shepherd and is going to be asked about
		
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			how did you deal with the wealth that
		
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			you were entrusted with from the person who
		
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			you're serving.
		
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			And he repeats ﷺ in this hadith that's
		
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			in Bukhari and Muslim both, he says, every
		
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			single one of you is a shepherd, every
		
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			single one of you is a leader, every
		
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			single one of you is a guardian, and
		
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			every single one of you is going to
		
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			be asked and be responsible for your flock,
		
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			your ward, those who you've entrusted to take
		
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			care of.
		
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			And it's a hadith, subhanAllah, that many of
		
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			us have heard plenty of times, a reminder
		
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			of course that every single one of us
		
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			in this masjid, outside of the masjid, we're
		
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			all shepherds, we're all leaders.
		
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			And every single one of us has a
		
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			responsibility over a group and also has to
		
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			answer to someone.
		
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			And so we've laid out some of them
		
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			and I'll give more examples inshaAllah throughout the
		
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			khutbah.
		
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			The employer, if you have a business, then
		
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			everyone is under your care, you're responsible for
		
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			them.
		
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			If you're a manager, you're responsible for the
		
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			people who you're directly supervising.
		
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			If you're a teacher and you have students,
		
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			well what about the children or the youth
		
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			right now in the masjid?
		
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			You might be asking, me too?
		
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			I'm not an adult, I'm not a manager,
		
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			I'm not the leader of a government, I'm
		
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			not a father, I'm not a mother.
		
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			You too have responsibilities.
		
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			You might have a younger sibling who you're
		
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			responsible for, who you can't mistreat, and we'll
		
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			talk about that.
		
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			You might have just younger people, subhanAllah, in
		
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			the community, you come to the masjid, you
		
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			see someone else.
		
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			You might have someone in your classroom who's
		
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			physically smaller than you, physically weaker than you,
		
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			and you have the upper hand.
		
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			But the point of this hadith is to
		
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			evoke this sense of responsibility that every single
		
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			one of us has this amanah.
		
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			I'm a ra'in, I'm a guardian, I'm
		
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			a shepherd.
		
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			And I want to contextualize this hadith and
		
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			add three more reflections inshaAllah for the khutbah
		
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			within what just happened in Syria.
		
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			Many of us heard the news from just
		
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			a few days ago, alhamdulillah, over the downfall
		
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			of a dictatorship that lasted over five decades.
		
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			A father and son, whose names I don't
		
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			even want to mention on the minbar because
		
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			I respect the sanctity of this space, subhanAllah.
		
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			Who destroyed so many families, so many believing
		
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			Muslims, brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers, elderly
		
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			and young, children as well.
		
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			And now after this downfall where Muslims are
		
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			rejoicing, and they should be, alhamdulillah, alhamdulillah, the
		
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			world is rid inshaAllah of one more dictator
		
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			who was evil to the believers.
		
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			Evil to them, why?
		
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			Because they said, la ilaha illallah, Muhammadur Rasulullah.
		
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			Evil to them, why?
		
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			You see some of the reasons they were
		
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			imprisoned?
		
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			Because of praying in the masjid.
		
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			Because of not taking other than Allah as
		
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			a god.
		
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			I mean, this is the stuff, subhanAllah.
		
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			This is still happening in the world today.
		
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			We read about it in the Qur'an,
		
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			we read about it in the hadith, and
		
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			we think, oh, those times are...
		
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			No, they're still happening now, subhanAllah, in parts
		
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			of the world.
		
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			But as we rejoice, we can take this
		
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			as a time for reflection so that it
		
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			can actually help us, help me, help you
		
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			in our personal lives today.
		
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			And the first lesson of these three, after
		
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			we're all responsible, is take the amanah of
		
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			just leadership seriously.
		
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			Now, we established inshaAllah that every single one
		
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			of us is going to be asked.
		
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			Doesn't matter if you're young, it doesn't matter
		
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			if you're old, and if you're younger, train
		
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			now, so that when you become a father,
		
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			and a mother, and a manager, and a
		
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			business owner, and a teacher, and someone maybe
		
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			who's an elected official in the masjid, in
		
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			the local government, in national government, that you're
		
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			going to be ready to take that responsibility
		
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			seriously.
		
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			You know, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala teaches
		
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			us through the hadith of Rasulullah ﷺ that
		
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			there are seven shaded on the day where
		
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			there's no shade except his, subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala.
		
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			And the first one mentioned in this narration
		
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			is imamun adil.
		
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			Imam, the same word, imam, a ruler who's
		
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			just.
		
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			What does that mean?
		
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			That means you're in a position of power,
		
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			you're in a position where you could crush
		
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			your opposition, you're in a position where you
		
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			could destroy people's lives, but you say, no,
		
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			I'm going to do what's right, because I
		
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			fear Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			And so as a result, you become one
		
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			of the seven people who are shaded on
		
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			that day, which is a shade, may Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala bless us all and
		
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			our families and loved ones with it.
		
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			Allahumma ameen.
		
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			We think of different situations, subhanallah.
		
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			How many times have employees complained about things
		
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			like wage theft?
		
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			I'm working for this person, and I'm by
		
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			the hour, and I worked extra hours.
		
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			And now they go to their boss and
		
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			they say, hey, you know, I know you
		
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			paid me for 20, but actually I came
		
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			in for 25.
		
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			And they say, no, no, that's nonsense, get
		
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			out of here.
		
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			That's an example, subhanallah.
		
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			It's like, hold on, just a second.
		
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			This person's complaining to me now, I'm going
		
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			to be asked in front of Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala, let me just verify, okay,
		
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			if this is your haq, bismillah, here you
		
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			go.
		
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			How many times, because the last example was
		
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			about wealth, we were given too much change
		
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			at the grocery store or in some sort
		
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			of business transaction.
		
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			Alright, you know, I have this amanah over
		
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			this money, I'm a guardian of it, I'm
		
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			a shepherd of it.
		
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			Here's the extra back.
		
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			And, you know, one of the greatest examples
		
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			we have from the sahaba is Sayyidina Umar
		
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			ibn al-Khattab.
		
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			And in this hadith, and I just want
		
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			to tell you that it's a weak narration.
		
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			There are many weak narrations with this wording.
		
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			But because there are so many, they strengthen
		
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			one another.
		
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			So it's not a sahih, you know, athar
		
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			or anything.
		
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			It's weak, it has weakness in it, but
		
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			it's been narrated so many times that insha
		
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			'Allah ta'ala we authenticate it that way.
		
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			Where he says, radhiallahu anhu, he says, He
		
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			says, radhiallahu anhu, and he's ameer al-mu'minin,
		
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			he's the leader, where?
		
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			In Medina.
		
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			And he says, if a camel, or he
		
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			said, if a sheep, or if a lamb,
		
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			if an animal, were to fall into the
		
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			banks of the Euphrates River, right, that we
		
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			know in Iraq.
		
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			Very far away, but he's still a ruler
		
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			over that.
		
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			He's like, I'm afraid that Allah is going
		
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			to ask me about this.
		
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			And there's a common one that's mentioned about
		
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			him, but I couldn't find authenticity about it,
		
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			but it's very often mentioned.
		
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			Where he said, radhiallahu anhu, he said, if
		
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			an animal were to trip in Iraq, an
		
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			animal, not a human being, an animal were
		
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			to trip and fall in Iraq.
		
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			Because I, as ameer al-mu'minin, as the
		
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			ruler, I didn't pave the roads, you know,
		
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			no potholes like we see these days.
		
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			I didn't pave the roads, I'm afraid that
		
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			Allah is going to ask me about this.
		
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			Subhanallah.
		
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			I'm afraid that Allah is going to ask
		
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			me about this.
		
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			Just a reminder to us all, like every
		
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			single one of us, let's do muhasabah right
		
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			now and think, who am I a shepherd
		
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			of?
		
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			What have I done maybe?
		
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			Maybe I rubbed someone the wrong way.
		
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			Maybe I'm in charge of someone in my
		
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			family, in my workplace, and I said a
		
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			remark.
		
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			Just a word.
		
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			Not even a word.
		
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			Forget a word.
		
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			Just a movement of my eyes or my
		
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			hands.
		
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			I was recently reviewing and getting more in
		
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			-depth on the tafsir of surah al-humaza.
		
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			Al-humaza, we read it all the time.
		
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			And did you know that the root of
		
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			humaza, ha, mim, zay, it comes from destruction.
		
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			And this ayah refers to, in addition, symbols
		
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			like rolling your eyes.
		
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			Simple things, like someone says something and you're
		
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			like, ugh.
		
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			Something with the eyebrows, something with the nose,
		
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			something like that, something with the hand.
		
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			Even these symbols and signs with the hand,
		
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			with the facial expressions, are included in that
		
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			surah.
		
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			And then in the end, what is it?
		
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			Al-hutamah.
		
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			Al-hutamah, right?
		
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			One of the names of Jahannam and places
		
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			in Jahannam.
		
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			And hutamah, ha, ta, mim, comes from destruction.
		
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			So it's like, if you're destroying people in
		
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			the dunya with your words and your hand
		
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			symbols and your facial expressions, then beware of
		
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			being destroyed yourself.
		
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			Nas'alu Allah al-afiyam.
		
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			May Allah protect us all and our families.
		
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			Like, amazing the parallel in this surah.
		
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			And here, what is it saying?
		
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			What am I responsible for?
		
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			The second of the three.
		
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			Allah will expose your wrongs, so make things
		
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			right now.
		
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			SubhanAllah.
		
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			We're seeing the news again.
		
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			It's amazing.
		
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			We live in a time where someone pulls
		
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			up their cell phone, takes a video and
		
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			uploads it to Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, whatever
		
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			it may be, throws it on WhatsApp, Telegram,
		
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			it's suddenly forwarded within an hour.
		
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			People across the world are seeing this.
		
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			As they're opening up the prisons, subhanAllah, in
		
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			Syria, the devices used for torture, like even
		
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			if you hear about them, you don't even
		
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			see them, it's traumatic.
		
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			It's traumatic.
		
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			Like, you're traumatized just hearing the stories of
		
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			the people who were there.
		
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			Nonetheless, seeing the people who are escaping and
		
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			they're saying, you're free to go, and they
		
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			can't believe it.
		
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			They said, what do you mean?
		
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			What do you want from me?
		
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			So traumatized.
		
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			Some of them can't even speak.
		
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			Some of them are just in another world
		
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			because they've been so psychologically traumatized, so emotionally
		
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			broken because of these barbaric, heinous, disgusting acts,
		
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			subhanAllah, that they've been exposed to.
		
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			And now our brothers and sisters can finally
		
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			bury their dead who were lost.
		
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			Can finally free their family.
		
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			Can finally find out, I haven't seen my
		
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			father in 10 years.
		
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			I haven't seen my husband in 20 years.
		
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			I haven't seen this family member, that family
		
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			member, my cousin, my aunt, my uncle.
		
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			And now finally they're getting some closure.
		
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			SubhanAllah.
		
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			And Allah reminds us.
		
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			We know the story of Ashab ul-Ukhdud,
		
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			right?
		
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			Surah al-Buruj.
		
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			Again, another one in Juz Amma.
		
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			It's talking about an evil king who destroyed
		
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			all these people and threw them into a
		
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			big fire.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because they said, la ilaha illallah.
		
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			That's all.
		
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			What was their crime in his mind?
		
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			La ilaha illallah.
		
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			And it's in a town or a village
		
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			or a city.
		
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			We would have never heard about it.
		
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			But Allah eternalized the story in the Qur
		
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			'an.
		
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			And now we recite it and now we
		
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			remember it.
		
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			And we say, we know what you did.
		
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			Allah exposed you.
		
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			And there's lengthy hadith detailing the whole story
		
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			as well.
		
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			If you don't know it already, I highly
		
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			recommend going back to Surah al-Buruj.
		
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			And going back to Ashab ul-Ukhdud and
		
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			reading the hadith and the boy and the
		
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			king.
		
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			Subhanallah, we have to think about what's going
		
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			to happen to us.
		
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			Recently a murder happened in New York City.
		
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			We all heard about it, right?
		
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			A top CEO executive of a company was
		
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			murdered.
		
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			And we condemn murder.
		
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			We don't support vigilantism.
		
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			We don't support taking the law into your
		
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			own hands.
		
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			No, we condemn it.
		
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			But look, subhanallah, all the stories coming out
		
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			about him are negative, negative, negative, negative, negative.
		
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			People are saying good riddance.
		
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			I'm glad he's not in the world.
		
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			I'm not saying that, but I'm saying people
		
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			are saying that.
		
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			And suddenly everything is exposed about this company
		
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			and the evils they do.
		
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			Wallahu alam, that's what they're claiming online.
		
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			So we have to think when Allah exposes
		
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			everything that I do in my position of
		
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			power, it's going to happen.
		
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			Think back to your childhood.
		
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			Was there someone you used to bully?
		
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			Was there someone in the playground whose toys
		
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			you used to take?
		
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			Who used to push around?
		
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			Who used to call names?
		
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			Now is the time.
		
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			Make it right now.
		
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			Don't let them go to Allah and say,
		
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			so and so abused me.
		
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			So and so wronged me.
		
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			They were bigger than me.
		
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			They were older than me.
		
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			They were stronger than me.
		
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			And they took advantage of that, ya Allah.
		
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			And then we become like the muflis, laqadar
		
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			Allah.
		
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			The muflis, the bankrupt person.
		
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			Everyone is coming and taking their hasanat until
		
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			they're left with nothing.
		
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			Then they're getting sayyiat.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because of wronging person after person after person.
		
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			And the last reflection that pertains to us
		
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			after the downfall of that dictatorship in Syria
		
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			is be the bigger person and forgive mercifully
		
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			when possible.
		
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			When you're in a position of power, doing
		
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			the right thing and being just, we talked
		
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			about that at the beginning.
		
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			Imamun Adil.
		
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			You're a just ruler.
		
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			But there's a higher level.
		
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			And that level is mercy.
		
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			Rahma.
		
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			You think back, subhanAllah, to our Islamic history.
		
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			Yusuf alayhis salam.
		
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			Sayyidina Yusuf alayhis salam.
		
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			All the wrong his brothers did to him.
		
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			They threw him, a kid, they threw him
		
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			in a well.
		
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			Imagine, at night, all dark, all alone.
		
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			And then he's picked up by a caravan.
		
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			Kidnapped, you could say.
		
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			And then he's sold into slavery.
		
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			And then he's put to work.
		
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			And then a lady tries to take advantage
		
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			of his position of weakness, being younger than
		
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			her.
		
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			And he goes through all that.
		
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			And then he's falsely accused.
		
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			And then he's put in prison.
		
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			And then he's forgotten in prison even longer
		
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			for so many years.
		
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			After all that, he becomes in a position
		
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			of power.
		
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			And now he has an opportunity.
		
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			His brothers come to him.
		
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			Allah sends them to him.
		
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			I can totally destroy them right now.
		
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			I can imprison them.
		
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			I can accuse them.
		
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			I can take them.
		
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			And what does he say in the end?
		
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			May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala forgive you.
		
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			We're good.
		
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			Bring your families.
		
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			And let's just live in Misr.
		
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			Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam enters Mecca powerfully.
		
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			And he forgives everyone.
		
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			Abu Sufyan.
		
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			Forgives him.
		
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			And he would later become a Muslim.
		
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			Hind, who asked for the killing of his
		
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			beloved uncle, Hamza radiyallahu anhu, forgives her.
		
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			Wahshi forgives him.
		
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			Forgives everyone.
		
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			This is a higher position.
		
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			Salahuddin Al-Ayubi.
		
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			Yusuf Salahuddin Al-Ayubi is his name.
		
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			When he entered Jerusalem, he let the Christians
		
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			who were up to their knees and waist
		
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			with blood, after killing the Muslims a century
		
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			ago.
		
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			He said, go back.
		
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			Go back.
		
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			You're free to go.
		
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			Amazing.
		
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			Amazing that these people in power.
		
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			And again, we saw some scenes.
		
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			I don't know how true they are.
		
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			We don't know the situation.
		
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			But scenes of foot soldiers who were involved
		
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			in this dictatorship and involved in all this
		
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			evil.
		
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			And they were told, you're free to go.
		
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			Allah, He's gonna take care of you on
		
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			Yawm al-Qiyamah if you did anything wrong,
		
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			but you're free to go.
		
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			I'm not talking about the generals and the
		
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			leadership.
		
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			No, but the foot soldiers, the conscripts, they
		
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			said, you're free to go.
		
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			SubhanAllah.
		
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			How many people would do that in a
		
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			position of power where you can destroy this
		
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			person, you can do the same thing that
		
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			happened to you.
		
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			So think about that.
		
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			And yes, we can take our haqq, we
		
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			can take legal means, press charges, file a
		
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			lawsuit, do all of these things, make the,
		
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			you know, engage in some sort of action,
		
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			but there's a higher level, which is the
		
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			level of mercy.
		
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			And just to review, inshaAllah, those four lessons
		
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			before we wrap up.
		
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			One, you're in a position of leadership now.
		
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			So take it seriously.
		
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			Allah will ask you and ask me and
		
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			ask all of us.
		
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			Two, take the amanah of just leadership seriously.
		
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			Three, Allah will expose your wrongs, so make
		
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			things right now.
		
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			Don't wait for later.
		
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			And four, be the bigger person and forgive
		
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			mercifully when possible.
		
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			And although we rejoice, alhamdulillah, at the downfall
		
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			of a disgusting, crazy, murderous, barbaric dictatorship in
		
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			Syria, alhamdulillah, we are still not satisfied as
		
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			an ummah.
		
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			And we don't forget our brothers and sisters
		
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			elsewhere in the world.
		
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			Our Uyghur brothers and sisters in East Turkestan,
		
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			our Rohingya brothers and sisters, our Muslim brothers
		
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			and sisters in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan, Afghanistan,
		
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			Iraq, in Lebanon, in Egypt, in Nigeria, in
		
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			Mali, in Sudan and Somalia, and especially our
		
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			brothers and sisters in occupied Palestine and specifically
		
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			in Gaza, the largest concentration camp in the
		
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			world.
		
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			We will not be satisfied until all of
		
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			these evil dictatorships are removed and until Muslim
		
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			brothers and sisters can worship peacefully, until they
		
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			can live their lives.
		
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			And we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			to grant all the Muslims everywhere peace and
		
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			prosperity and success and help and nusr from
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			And ya Rabb, we are connected to them
		
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			because of la ilaha illallah, Muhammadun rasulullah, alhamdulillahi
		
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			rabbil alameen, qayyumul samawati wal aradeen, wassalatu wassalamu
		
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			ala rasulillahi as-sadiq al-ameen, ibadallah, ittaqullah,
		
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			wa yu'allimukumullah, wallahu bikulli shay'in alim.
		
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			Yaqulu Allahu ta'ala qul amara rabbi bilqist
		
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			wa aqeemu wujuhakum inda kulli masjidin wad'u
		
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			mukhlisina lahuddin kama bada'akum ta'udun qala
		
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			rasulullahi sallallahu alaihi wasallam sab'atun yadhilluhum allahu
		
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			fi dhillihi yawma la dhill illa dhilluh imamun
		
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			adil alhamdulillahi rabbil
		
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			alameen mudabbiril khalaqi ajma'een wassalatu wassalamu ala
		
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			rasulillahi as-sadiq al-ameen ibadallah, ittaqullah, wa
		
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			yu'allimukumullah, wallahu bikulli shay'in alim audhu
		
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			billahi minash shaitanir rajim bismillahir rahmanir rahim inna
		
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			allaha wa malaikatahu yusalluna ala an-nabi ya
		
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			ayyuha allatheena aamanu sallu alaihi wasallimu taslima Allahumma
		
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			salli ala muhammadin wa ala azwajihi wa dhurriyatihi
		
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			kama sallayta ala ala Ibrahim wa barik ala
		
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			muhammadin wa ala azwajihi wa dhurriyatihi kama barakta
		
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			ala ala Ibrahim innaka hamidun majeed wardi Allahumma
		
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			an abi bakrin al-sadiq wa umar ibn
		
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			al khattab al-farooq wa Uthman ibn Affan
		
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			ibn Nurayn wa Ali ibn Abi Talib ibn
		
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			al-murtadha wa Hamzah Asadillah wa al-Abbasi
		
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			wa waladih wa a'in al-sahabati ajma
		
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			'een wa a'in al-tabi'een lahum
		
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			bi ihsanan ila yawm al-deen Allahumma ghfir
		
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			lana wa li walidina wa li al-muslimina
		
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			wa al-muslimat wa al-mu'minina wa al
		
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			-mu'minat al-ahya'i minhum wa al-amwat
		
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			innaka sami'un qareebun mujeebu al-da'awat
		
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			Allahumma a'izz al-islam wa al-muslimin
		
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			wa a'ali kalimati al-haqq wa al
		
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			-deen Allahumma ansur ikhwanana fi suriya wa filastin
		
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			wa fi ghazza wa ikhwanana al-mustaba'afina
		
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			fi mashariq al-ardi wa magharibiha Rabbana aatina
		
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			fi al-dunya hasana wa fi al-akhirati
		
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			hasana waqina a'adhaab al-naar Rabbana la
		
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			tuzeeg qulubana ba'da idh hadaytana wahab lana min
		
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			ladunka rahmah innaka anta al-wahhab Rabbana hab
		
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			lana min azwajina wa dhurriyatina qurata a'ayun
		
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			waj'alna lil-muttaqina imama Subhana rabbika rabbil
		
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			-izzati amma yasifoon wa salamun ala al-mursaleen
		
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			walhamdulillahi rabbil-alameen Waqim as-salam If
		
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			you haven't silenced your cell phone yet and
		
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			you want to double check insha'Allah make
		
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			sure it's on silent so it doesn't disturb
		
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			the mursaleen I'm waiting for the brothers to
		
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			fill in the rows insha'Allah and come
		
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			in from the hallways so that we can
		
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			all make space for them Pray this prayer
		
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			as if it's your last prayer with focus
		
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			May Allah accept from all of us Wasawoo
		
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			sufoofakum fa-inna taswiyata al-sufoofi min tamami
		
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			al-sala wa fi riwayatan min iqamati al
		
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			-sala Straighten your lines for straightening the lines
		
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			is part of perfecting and completing prayer and
		
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			in one narration is part of the iqama
		
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			and carrying this out Are we ready in
		
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			the back?
		
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			Allahu Akbar Alhamdulillahi
		
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			Rabbil-alameen Al-Rahman Al-Raheem
		
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			Malik Yawm Al-Deen Iyyaka Na'bud Wa
		
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			Iyyaka Nastaeen Ihdina As-Sirata Al
		
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			-Mustaqeem Sirata Al-Lazeena An'amta Al-Mustaqeem