Wasim Kempson – The Night Journey

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The importance of establishing a connection between events during Darrow and establishing a connection between the two events is emphasized. The speaker discusses the importance of reading the Prophet sallam alaihi wa sallam, which is a blessing and mercy given to the Prophet. The journey of honoring the Prophet sallal Ali bin respective was a blessing and mercy given to the Prophet. The importance of feeling like one is part of the story and finding one's true love for Allah T ser sent to them is emphasized. The importance of learning from the church's teachings and finding one's true love for Allah T ser is also emphasized.

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			Indeed, all praise and thanks is due to
		
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			Allah. May the peace and blessings of Allah
		
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			be upon his final messenger, Muhammad sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam.
		
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			Assalamu alaikum Warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.
		
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			So Alhamdulillah, I'm
		
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			I also feel very blessed and very happy
		
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			to be here
		
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			in
		
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			the one of the houses of Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala amongst my beloved brothers.
		
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			I ask Allah subhanahu ta'ala to bless every
		
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			moment that you spend in this masjid. I
		
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			ask Allah Jala Wa'ala to grant us all
		
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			beneficial knowledge
		
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			and also the ability to
		
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			act upon that beneficial knowledge. Allahumma ameen.
		
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			Now the conference, however long you have been
		
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			here,
		
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			as it been advertised, it is the seerah,
		
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			the life of our beloved Nabi sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wasallam and you.
		
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			And I think that
		
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			establishing a link between these two
		
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			is really important
		
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			in the life of every Muslim,
		
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			because we don't want to feel separate
		
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			from the life
		
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			of the greatest man, alaihissahu salam, who ever
		
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			lived.
		
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			We don't want to feel as though there
		
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			was a gap between his teachings,
		
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			what he gave to us,
		
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			the
		
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			guidance that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave to
		
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			the prophet alaihi sallallahu alaihi sallam and ourselves.
		
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			We don't want to feel that there's this
		
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			big chasm or this big gap between the
		
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			2.
		
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			We want to bridge
		
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			that gap or whatever feeling that you have
		
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			between the 2.
		
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			You want to be able to read about
		
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			the life
		
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			and understand the life of the Prophet sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam
		
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			so that it means something a great deal
		
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			to you. That it impacts your life, it
		
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			raises your iman,
		
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			you're able to pass on that noble and
		
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			beautiful knowledge to your family and so on.
		
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			So establishing that connection between the two
		
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			is really important. And I think it's really,
		
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			masha'Allah, for an excellent
		
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			title
		
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			for the conference.
		
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			And I hope that, insha'Allah to Allah, throughout
		
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			the duration
		
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			of the two and a half days or
		
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			so,
		
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			that whatever time that you spend here,
		
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			at the very end, you, inshallah,
		
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			are able to,
		
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			you know, strengthen your link
		
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			to the beloved Nabi sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
		
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			Now I'm not sure if the lectures or
		
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			the advice that's been given to you is
		
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			done chronologically, that is done in order, historically
		
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			in order.
		
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			But nonetheless,
		
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			the reminder of the time that we have
		
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			here together insha'Allah ta'ala is about Al Isra'u
		
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			Wali Mi'raj.
		
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			The night journey and the ascension.
		
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			And Al Isra'
		
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			is one part of the journey and the
		
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			Mi'raj
		
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			is the other part of the journey. You
		
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			can call it one journey if you like,
		
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			but they are 2 different
		
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			realities
		
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			in what we are talking about here.
		
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			Unlike everything,
		
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			context,
		
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			perspective
		
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			is key.
		
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			It's very important
		
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			so that when you read
		
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			about this incident,
		
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			because it is one of the most important
		
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			incidents,
		
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			I think, Allahu'alaam,
		
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			personally in the life of the Prophet sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wasallam.
		
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			No doubt
		
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			when the revelation first
		
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			it first started with the prophet alaihis salam,
		
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			everything changed for him alaihis salam, no doubt.
		
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			And the years that followed
		
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			with the revelation coming to Him, alaihi sallam,
		
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			things were changing.
		
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			The trials, tribulations.
		
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			But the isra and the miraaj, the night
		
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			journey and the ascension into the skies and
		
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			heavens,
		
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			if you look at the
		
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			timing of it
		
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			and we try to imagine the impact
		
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			that that would have on a human being,
		
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			more so the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam, it
		
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			allows us
		
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			to understand
		
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			somewhat
		
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			how blessed and virtuous
		
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			the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam was. And also
		
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			how much Allah Jallahu Alaihi wasallam loved His
		
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			Nabi sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
		
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			Now us, as when we go through the
		
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			Seerah
		
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			and we read through the events and they
		
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			are essentially when you're reading the seerah, the
		
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			reading is life, alaihis salaam, you don't want
		
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			it just to be a set of facts.
		
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			This year this happened. This year that happened.
		
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			This year this happened. Although that's important for
		
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			you to know,
		
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			but you want to feel engaged with the
		
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			story.
		
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			You want to feel engaged with the events,
		
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			even though you've read it before.
		
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			Because there are many books that you read
		
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			and you don't read it ever again.
		
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			You read an autobiography of a certain individual,
		
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			the life story of another person, you read
		
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			it once and that's it.
		
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			But the life of prophet alaihis salaam, you
		
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			want to read it again and again and
		
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			time after time.
		
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			And that each time that you read it,
		
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			you want to feel emotionally engaged
		
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			even more each time that you read
		
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			it. That's one of the goals, one of
		
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			the objectives that we want
		
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			in reading about the life of the Prophet
		
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			alaihis salatu wa sallam.
		
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			11, 11 and a half years have passed
		
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			since
		
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			the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
		
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			first
		
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			received
		
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			the first revelation
		
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			in the Cave of Hera.
		
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			11, 11 and a half years have passed.
		
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			So the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam has
		
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			gone through a number of trials,
		
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			tribulations,
		
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			unimaginable.
		
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			But nonetheless, you will read them and you
		
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			will see what these trials and tribulations are.
		
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			The journey itself,
		
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			it is a matter of iman for us
		
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			to believe in, to accept,
		
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			to have certain and conviction
		
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			upon,
		
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			as opposed
		
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			to orientalists,
		
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			as opposed to have or those who have
		
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			doubts about Islam will question this and question
		
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			that.
		
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			Even
		
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			from the,
		
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			I don't even want to give that title,
		
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			but amongst their own circles, from the greatest
		
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			of minds
		
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			that they have.
		
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			The greatest or not necessarily the greatest, but
		
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			the most well known atheists.
		
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			And that they talk about
		
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			in discussions
		
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			that you believe
		
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			that a man went on
		
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			what was an animal
		
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			and traveled
		
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			from Makkah
		
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			and almost flew
		
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			and made that journey
		
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			to Masjid Al Aqsa and then returned,
		
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			Not before going up into the skies and
		
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			the heavens and returning that
		
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			you believe a man made that journey.
		
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			The person says this in a flippant way,
		
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			in a mocking manner, that how can you
		
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			believe such a thing? The same individual,
		
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			the same individual who believes that they have
		
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			such a great mind, who believes nothing created
		
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			nothing and then that nothing created everything.
		
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			So those disbelievers who have this approach
		
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			will mock
		
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			at times
		
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			and have this doubtful approach
		
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			concerning
		
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			this particular and amazing journey that the Prophet
		
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			alaihis salallahu alaihis salallam, he went on
		
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			You may have more nuanced arguments concerning that
		
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			here,
		
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			I'm not talking about specific Orientalists,
		
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			Montgomery Watt and Muir, These
		
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			are names you may or may not have
		
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			heard of.
		
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			These are orientalists,
		
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			British orientalists who existed or lived maybe more
		
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			than a 100 years ago looking carefully at
		
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			the life of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam
		
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			and looking
		
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			at the verses of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			saying that
		
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			In the Quran it says
		
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			Masjid Al Aqsa.
		
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			Okay, let's Where's Masjid Al Aqsa? There was
		
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			no thing as that you can a masjid
		
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			at the time of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam, islam had not reached those lands.
		
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			What Masjid are you talking about? There was
		
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			no Dome of the Rock.
		
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			There was no, as you might know, Masjid
		
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			Qibili or Musa Al Maghribi. All these Masjid
		
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			that are in the compound of Al Aqsa
		
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			at the moment. What Masjid
		
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			are you referring to or is the Quran
		
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			referring to? This would be the approach of
		
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			the orientalists.
		
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			Now not to go too much into the
		
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			rebuttal of these
		
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			shubuhat
		
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			or doubts that the Orientalists brought about when
		
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			talking about this journey.
		
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			But for us as Muslims, alhamdulillah, answering and
		
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			understanding this journey
		
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			is first and foremost beginning with the Quran
		
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			that we have iman, certainty and conviction in.
		
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			And similarly more than 22 companions of the
		
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			Prophet
		
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			narrating the story in detail from different perspectives.
		
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			And when they're all brought together,
		
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			give us a beautiful
		
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			detailed
		
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			picture
		
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			of every step of the incident.
		
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			We don't need to question anything.
		
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			But nonetheless, that they have brought up these
		
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			false shubuhat,
		
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			and not understanding that for something or a
		
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			place to be called a masjid doesn't necessarily
		
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			mean that you need 4 walls and a
		
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			roof.
		
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			That the compound itself is a place
		
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			which was a place established
		
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			as or for Ibad.
		
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			Whether you look at the narrations
		
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			saying that it was obviously built after Masdud
		
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			al Haram by Arba'un al Sena of 40
		
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			years,
		
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			whether it was
		
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			Adam
		
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			or Ibrahim
		
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			this was a place of worship
		
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			and the fact that
		
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			this place may not have looked like in
		
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			its original form, but yet nonetheless is still
		
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			a place of worship. It's still a masjid.
		
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			So refuting such
		
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			shallow arguments, alhamdulillah, is easy for the Muslim.
		
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			But when we look at the incident itself,
		
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			well, as I said, the backdrop is really
		
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			important. If you look at the
		
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			alayhis salam
		
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			and the journey that he had gone through
		
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			his whole life
		
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			and how Allah
		
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			had protected Musa
		
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			even as a baby.
		
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			Being thrown into the river,
		
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			into the small basket, whatever it was that
		
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			he was placed into the river then to
		
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			be subhanAllah saved and to be brought up
		
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			in the house of Firaun,
		
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			subhanAllah,
		
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			the one who wanted to kill him.
		
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			Musa alaihis salaam went through a number of
		
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			stages in his life
		
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			until
		
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			then when Allah
		
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			saved Banu Israel,
		
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			them
		
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			in front of the sea.
		
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			To enter the sea would be, of course,
		
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			destruction for them to be drowned
		
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			and for them to turn back facing the
		
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			army of Firaun.
		
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			But no Israel saw 2 outcomes, of course.
		
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			Destruction in the sea or destruction at the
		
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			hands of Firaun on the land.
		
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			And when they
		
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			almost raised their hands
		
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			in surrender,
		
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			that's it. We've been caught. We've been captured.
		
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			That Musa alaihis salam in his response, so
		
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			powerful,
		
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			No.
		
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			That my Lord is with me and He
		
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			will guide.
		
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			He will give us a solution.
		
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			If you look at again the backdrop to
		
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			the story of Musa alaihis salam
		
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			and all that he had been through, how
		
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			Allah
		
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			had protected
		
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			Musa
		
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			time after time after time. The level of
		
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			iman and conviction
		
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			for him to say that at that time
		
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			only Musa alaihis salam would understand
		
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			the certainty of faith in saying such a
		
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			statement.
		
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			But as a Muslim, when you read the
		
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			story and you understand the backdrop and how
		
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			he when it reaches that stage, you have
		
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			an appreciation
		
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			for that particular statement of Musa alaihi salatu
		
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			wasalam.
		
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			Likewise, when we look at this incident,
		
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			when the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
		
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			upon first receiving the revelation,
		
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			calling His people,
		
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			and they rejected Him.
		
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			In fact when he first received the revelation,
		
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			alaihis salatu sallam, he was in a state
		
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			of fear, no doubt, in a state of
		
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			fear.
		
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			But the first person he goes back to
		
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			is his wife Khadija
		
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			and she is there to console him.
		
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			The wife of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
		
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			for more than 25 years,
		
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			the mother of 6 of his children.
		
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			An emotional
		
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			support
		
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			that none will know the reality of,
		
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			except the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			She was there for him from the very
		
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			start, the first one to believe in him.
		
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			To be the emotional support
		
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			that he needed, alayhis salatu salam.
		
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			And this was the rahmah, no doubt, of
		
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			Allah
		
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			to give that support
		
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			to the prophet
		
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			And it's key for us to know this.
		
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			Why?
		
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			It's key because this incident of al Isra
		
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			wal Mi'raj
		
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			occurs
		
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			not too long after
		
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			the passing
		
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			of Khadija.
		
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			Radiallahu anha. She passed away.
		
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			The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam did not
		
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			marry anybody else
		
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			while Khadija was alive radiAllahu anha.
		
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			And throughout them years that came after
		
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			that Aisha radiAllahu anha mentioned,
		
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			She said there was no one that I
		
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			was more jealous of
		
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			than a woman that was no longer with
		
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			the Prophet and that was khadeeja, khadeeja radiaallahu
		
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			anha.
		
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			The attachment and the love that the prophet
		
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			sallallahu alayhi wa sallam had for Khadeja.
		
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			So she has passed away maybe a year
		
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			prior to this incident, radiAllahu
		
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			anha.
		
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			Added to that,
		
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			that Abu Talib,
		
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			the uncle
		
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			of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
		
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			the full brother of his father.
		
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			His father, Abdullah,
		
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			the one who was most like his brother,
		
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			his father was Abu Talib.
		
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			And upon the death of Abu al Muttalib,
		
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			who is the grandfather
		
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			of the prophet who has looked after the
		
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			prophet for a couple of years, between the
		
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			ages of 6 8,
		
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			upon his deathbed
		
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			he said that my son, Abu Talib, will
		
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			take custody
		
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			of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam, 8 years
		
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			old.
		
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			And so
		
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			the one whom was
		
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			more like a father figure
		
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			in the life of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam more than anybody else would have
		
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			been Abu
		
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			Talib. He was a non Muslim.
		
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			He did not accept Islam.
		
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			But throughout the years he was there to
		
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			support him,
		
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			to educate him, to do what he could
		
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			for the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. And
		
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			even upon receiving the revelation,
		
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			he
		
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			stood by
		
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			the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. He stood
		
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			by his nephew.
		
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			He made sure best he could that no
		
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			harm, no physical harm would come to him.
		
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			So far we're looking at what more than
		
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			40 years,
		
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			more than 40 years,
		
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			42 years, 43 years, he was there, stood
		
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			by the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
		
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			as that kind of outer support,
		
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			fatherly figure support
		
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			for the prophet alaihi wasallam.
		
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			He also passed away at a very similar
		
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			time to Khadija, radiAllahu anha,
		
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			both in the 10th year
		
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			after the mission, or the first time that
		
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			the Prophet had received revelation.
		
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			Amun Husun, it is named in the seerah,
		
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			the year of sadness.
		
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			Because
		
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			both Khadija
		
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			had passed away
		
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			and Abu Talib, upon ghayd alayhis salam.
		
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			The prophet would have felt that.
		
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			That somebody so much That natural love he
		
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			had for his uncle died upon
		
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			disbelief.
		
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			And if anyone who has experienced somebody very
		
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			close to them to die upon disbelief,
		
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			that will impact your heart like you can't
		
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			imagine.
		
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			That you cannot make du'a for them. You
		
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			cannot do nothing for them.
		
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			Added to that, from the closest people
		
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			that were to the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam, the poorest of people, the most vulnerable
		
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			of people,
		
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			were killed for their belief.
		
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			They believed in the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam and they were martyred for that.
		
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			No doubt this would have
		
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			played very heavily
		
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			on the heart
		
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			of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			That they were banished out from their people
		
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			for more than 3 years.
		
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			They were boycotted for more than 3 years
		
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			between the 7th 10th year.
		
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			So the Muslims and specifically the prophet alaihi
		
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			sallallahu salam
		
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			had gone through
		
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			trials like you can't imagine.
		
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			His first two sons, Al Qasim, Abdullah,
		
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			both died as young children, that he had
		
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			to bury them both.
		
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			For a father to bury 1 of his
		
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			children,
		
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			nobody can explain that,
		
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			but the one
		
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			who experiences that, if they are able to
		
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			put that in words.
		
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			The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam did that for
		
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			2 of his sons.
		
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			Prior to the israelah and the mihraj, and
		
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			I think this is important to mention and
		
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			when I'm saying context,
		
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			because it will make you appreciate
		
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			this particular journey so much more.
		
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			That after these incidents,
		
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			his people rejected him The emotional support,
		
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			that very close emotional support of Khadija radhiyalaan
		
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			was no longer there.
		
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			The protection
		
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			after Allah
		
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			of Abu Talib amongst the other tribes, again,
		
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			was no longer there.
		
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			He goes to Ta'if sallallahu alaihi wasallam
		
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			to speak to Banu Taqif,
		
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			the closest people, tribes to Makkah.
		
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			They humiliate the prophet
		
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			in calling the children,
		
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			the young Shabaab, to pick up stones and
		
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			whatever they could choose to hurl and throw
		
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			at the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasalam to run
		
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			him out of Taif.
		
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			And that the prophet alaihi wasallam
		
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			along with Zayd ibn Harid
		
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			radiyaan
		
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			that his legs and his arms were cut
		
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			due to the
		
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			stones that were thrown at him
		
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			Eventually, he returned to Makkah
		
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			and if he was to return to Makkah
		
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			straightaway,
		
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			no doubt the Quraysh,
		
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			they were ready.
		
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			They were absolutely ready to do what they
		
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			could to kill the prophet, alaihis salam.
		
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			But the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
		
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			sought protection and a non Muslim,
		
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			mutir ibn al Adi,
		
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			he gave protection to the prophet sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wasallam for him to return.
		
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			And this continued
		
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			up until one particular night.
		
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			So this is in brief
		
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			what the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam had
		
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			faced
		
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			from the very start of the call.
		
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			Loss of life,
		
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			loss of beloved ones,
		
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			people attacking Him,
		
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			losing beloved friends.
		
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			You cannot imagine.
		
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			It's like he, alaihis salatu salam, had gone
		
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			to all or
		
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			done whatever he
		
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			could
		
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			to proclaim the message
		
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			of La ilaha illallah.
		
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			Worship Your Lord alone.
		
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			Quite simple. Leave off these false gods
		
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			and worship the 1 Who created you.
		
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			Worship the 1 who sustains you.
		
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			Worship the 1 who is deserving of all
		
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			worship. La ilaha illallah Muhammad Rasool Allah. That
		
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			is the simple call,
		
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			but they did not accept that.
		
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			And so the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
		
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			in a time where it's probably the lowest
		
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			time that you can imagine up until this
		
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			time now,
		
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			that the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam has gone
		
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			through,
		
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			at this stage
		
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			is what left to do.
		
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			The people of Makkah,
		
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			they don't accept Islam apart from a few.
		
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			The closest people, at ta'if,
		
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			they are ready to kill the prophet
		
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			What is left?
		
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			Who is left there for you?
		
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			And in a situation in your life possibly,
		
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			where
		
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			no medicine can help you,
		
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			Your parents can't help you.
		
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			No money can help you.
		
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			No worldly matter that is presented in front
		
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			of you. If the whole world, they came
		
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			together to help you,
		
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			the help that you need
		
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			is not a help
		
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			that can be given from anything or anyone
		
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			on this earth.
		
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			The only help
		
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			that can help you is the help of
		
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			Allah
		
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			That is the only thing that can help
		
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			you, And that there may be periods and
		
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			times in your life that you will recognize
		
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			that.
		
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			That the only thing that can help me,
		
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			the only one that can help me,
		
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			because you realize
		
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			that this everything that is in this dunya
		
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			is restricted,
		
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			has limits,
		
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			and can only go so far
		
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			that the true help
		
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			is the help of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			So at this time,
		
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			the prophet is
		
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			sleeping in the house of Umihane, his auntie,
		
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			Close to the Haram, close to the Kaaba.
		
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			He is awoken.
		
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			Jibril
		
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			comes to the prophet
		
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			and wakes up the prophet alayhi salatu salam
		
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			and takes him close to the Kaaba.
		
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			And
		
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			there, his chest is opened
		
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			and his chest, his heart is cleaned
		
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			and filled with Hikma,
		
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			with wisdom
		
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			and knowledge and
		
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			iman.
		
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			Allah
		
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			sends Jibril.
		
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			And what do you know about Jibril, alaihis
		
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			salam?
		
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			The one who delivers
		
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			the wahi, the revelation to the prophets
		
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			The one whom informed
		
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			the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
		
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			that the one who delivered the message to
		
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			you was the same one who delivered the
		
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			message to Musa alaihi wasallam.
		
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			So Jibril,alayhis salam,
		
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			he takes the prophet,alayhis salaam, to salam
		
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			on a journey.
		
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			Al Burak,
		
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			an animal which is
		
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			larger than a donkey, smaller than a horse
		
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			And there it is brought to the Prophet
		
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			alaihis salam. Here the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam
		
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			is awake.
		
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			He is not dreaming, he is not sleeping.
		
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			This is a physical experience for him, alaihi
		
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			salaahu alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			When did it happen?
		
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			Allahu'alaam.
		
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			There is no fixed and certain knowledge as
		
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			to exactly when this Isra wal Mi'raj happened.
		
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			Sorry to,
		
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			because then you may not know, I want
		
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			to celebrate this night. We don't celebrate this
		
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			night because we don't know the date
		
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			and it is not something that is really
		
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			celebrated inna al Islam.
		
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			So we don't know exactly when it was,
		
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			whether it is in the Rajab, or Rabbi
		
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			Athani in Ramadan, Allahu Alam. Allah knows best
		
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			when it was, but it occurred, of course.
		
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			So this animal there, Al Boraq
		
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			Have you heard of Al Barak before?
		
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			Bark is what? It's lightning, right? This animal
		
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			is called barak.
		
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			This animal moves so quickly,
		
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			as the prophet alaihis salam describes
		
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			that the journey or the movement is that
		
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			when it
		
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			moves forward its hoof, it moves like the
		
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			distance that you can see upon the horizon.
		
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			That's how fast it moves. SubhanAllah.
		
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			So just as the prophet, alayhis salam, is
		
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			about to get onto this animal,
		
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			it rains itself up.
		
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			And there Jibreel
		
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			says, Usput,
		
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			that stay still.
		
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			That there is one who is going to
		
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			ride you, no one better than him,
		
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			meaning the Prophet alaihis salatu wa sallam.
		
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			So it calms down
		
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			and it goes on this journey,
		
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			and it takes the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam from Makkah, Masjidul Haram.
		
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			As I mentioned earlier, the first verse in
		
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			Surah Al Isra,
		
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			Glory be to Allah
		
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			The one who took the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam at night time.
		
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			The servant, the slave
		
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			of Allah
		
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			meaning al Nabi salallahu alaihi wa sallam. From
		
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			the Masjid that we all know in Makkah
		
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			to Masjid Al Aqsa.
		
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			Which is the distance of at least a
		
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			month.
		
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			It takes at least 1 month
		
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			for any normal person on a caravan, on
		
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			a camel or a horse that you have,
		
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			to travel from Makkah
		
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			to Al Aqsa. It takes a month.
		
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			The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam went on this
		
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			journey and returned the same night.
		
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			The same night.
		
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			So the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam has taken
		
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			to Masjid Al Aqsa.
		
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			Here we can see
		
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			that the prophet
		
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			being asleep in the house of Umihaneh radiAllahu
		
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			anha.
		
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			Who knows what is going on in the
		
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			mind of the prophet sallallahu alaihis salam at
		
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			this particular time?
		
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			The trials and tribulations that I mentioned to
		
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			you that they occurred,
		
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			he is living under first and foremost the
		
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			protection
		
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			of Allah
		
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			That Allah
		
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			will protect you from the people.
		
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			And that Allah Azzawajal allowed that this individual,
		
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			muti ibn Abi, would be there with his
		
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			tribe
		
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			to ensure that no harm would come to
		
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			the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. So it's
		
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			almost like a temporary
		
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			stay of execution, you might say,
		
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			for the time of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam being there in Makkah.
		
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			And so then the prophet al Islam goes
		
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			on this journey, is taken to this
		
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			Masjid Al Aqsa,
		
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			but at the time is under the rule
		
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			of who? The Byzantines,
		
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			the Romans,
		
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			the Christians.
		
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			And so there when the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam arrives,
		
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			the animal, the buraq, is tied up.
		
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			And there the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam arrives
		
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			in this
		
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			sacred
		
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			and blessed
		
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			sanctuary.
		
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			Al livibaarakna
		
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			hawla.
		
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			As Allah
		
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			tells us, in this sanctuary which is blessed
		
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			all around it,
		
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			a place,
		
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			al aqsa and the surrounding areas,
		
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			sham
		
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			is mentioned in many ahadith.
		
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			Many narrations.
		
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			Certain
		
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			and important incidents
		
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			will occur
		
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			in this in this place.
		
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			The ad dajjal,
		
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			the greatest fitan to afflict Bani Adam in
		
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			the future will occur one day,
		
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			but in this area will be the place
		
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			that he will be killed
		
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			by 'Isa Banu Mariam alayhis salam.
		
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			But that is yet to happen.
		
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			So we're talking about an extremely important place,
		
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			a place that with iftar salah is offered
		
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			in this sanctuary
		
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			is equal to 250
		
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			salah.
		
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			So there the Prophet alaihi sallam arrives in
		
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			Al Masjid Al Aqsa.
		
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			Now you may know this story
		
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			and many of the narrations, it is at
		
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			least understood
		
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			that here the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
		
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			led the anbiya
		
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			led the prophets in salah.
		
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			There is also a second understanding
		
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			that the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam leading the
		
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			prophets in prayer
		
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			did not occur immediately
		
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			upon arrival of Masjid al Aqsa,
		
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			but rather
		
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			when the Mi'raj,
		
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			when the ascension
		
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			finished and that the prophet after
		
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			meeting the prophets,
		
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			then came back to earth,
		
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			then the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam led
		
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			the prophets in prayer.
		
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			So whether it occurred
		
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			at the beginning before the ascension, before the
		
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			Mi'raj or after the Mi'raj,
		
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			does not really impact anything,
		
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			doesn't change the ruling
		
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			on anything.
		
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			But it is important to mention
		
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			that the prophet alaihis salam did lead the
		
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			prophets in
		
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			in prayer.
		
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			Now remember
		
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			that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
		
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			had gone through all of those trials and
		
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			tribulations,
		
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			But this journey
		
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			is a journey
		
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			of honoring the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
		
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			It is a great reward,
		
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			a great virtue, a blessing,
		
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			a mercy given to our beloved Nabi
		
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			that no human being had ever gone
		
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			and will ever experience such an experience.
		
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			The things that he
		
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			that he saw, that He experienced.
		
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			That upon returning,
		
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			that when He salallahu alaihi wa sallam would
		
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			hear the verses of the paradise,
		
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			would hear the verses of the Hellfire,
		
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			after seeing their reality,
		
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			can you imagine how the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wasallam would feel?
		
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			You know when
		
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			you have
		
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			read verses and you read things in the
		
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			Sira,
		
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			and then for the first time you go
		
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			to Makkah and then the first time you
		
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			go to Al Madinah.
		
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			You see the Haram with your own eyes,
		
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			you see Madinah for the first time, You
		
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			may go to Uhud
		
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			and you can see this is where the
		
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			Sahaba, where they were. This is where the
		
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			Prophet
		
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			where he fought.
		
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			Is it the same
		
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			when you were just reading the stories
		
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			and the sierra in a book, when you
		
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			went there and to see it with your
		
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			own eyes?
		
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			And then you return back to your home
		
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			and the next time that you read the
		
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			Battle of Uhud,
		
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			how much more engaged you will be when
		
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			reading the story of Uhud. Why? Because you
		
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			were there.
		
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			You saw where the Sahaba
		
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			from them Hamza
		
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			where he was buried, and Musa'ib ibn Umayr
		
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			They were buried there. You saw it with
		
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			your own eyes,
		
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			the feeling and the the increase of your
		
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			conviction certainty,
		
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			because you saw it with your own eyes.
		
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			So here the prophet alaihis salam is blessed
		
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			on this particular journey with so many things
		
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			and some of them we will
		
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			describe. Now because the journey is so vast,
		
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			so many things for us to mention, we
		
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			of course cannot do it in such a
		
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			short time. But we take lesson from it,
		
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			we take some benefit from it, in the
		
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			hope
		
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			that the next time I go to read
		
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			about the story
		
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			of Al Isra wal Mi'raj,
		
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			maybe I can take that much more benefit
		
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			from it. Because I sat in a gathering
		
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			where I heard some things that maybe I
		
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			didn't hear before or there was a take
		
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			on the story
		
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			that I didn't hear before. I wasn't I
		
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			didn't hear it like that before. And this
		
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			is how Allah allows you to benefit
		
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			from beneficial knowledge,
		
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			sound authentic knowledge.
		
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			So the prophet
		
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			saw signs of Allah
		
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			As Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala mentions in Surat
		
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			Najm.
		
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			Now we know that the great signs of
		
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			Allah
		
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			were shown
		
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			to many prophets,
		
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			to Ibrahim alaihis salam, to Musa alaihis salatu
		
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			salam, similarly our beloved Nabi sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
		
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			Moreover, the signs and what he saw and
		
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			experienced
		
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			like nobody else.
		
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			So the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
		
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			is
		
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			taken up
		
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			into the the skies, the heavens,
		
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			Not the jannah that, insha Allah ta'ala, everybody,
		
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			we hope, will be there. We ask Allah
		
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			jalala to make us from its inhabitants, I
		
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			mean. But the skies and the heavens in
		
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			that
		
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			Allah created.
		
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			And that at each level
		
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			of the skies or heavens that we are
		
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			talking about,
		
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			that the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
		
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			he met a Prophet,
		
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			that he saw a Prophet.
		
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			And so for example,
		
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			as the hadith of Anas radiAllahu anhu,
		
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			and there are many, as I mentioned, more
		
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			than 22 companions
		
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			that they mention
		
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			this particular incident from
		
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			from different
		
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			perspectives
		
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			and different
		
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			viewpoints.
		
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			So in the first, Jibril
		
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			goes up with the Prophet
		
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			and nobody enters any of these skies or
		
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			heavens
		
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			except with permission
		
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			that each of these heavens, they have horas,
		
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			they have gods, they have malaykal.
		
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			And that they, sought permission
		
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			that they go into that and that they
		
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			enter that, and they said, who is seeking
		
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			permission?
		
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			It is Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam. What a
		
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			blessed individual, a blessed Prophet,
		
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			allow permission.
		
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			For the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam then to
		
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			be introduced
		
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			to Ab al Bashar,
		
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			the father of humanity.
		
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			Adam
		
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			and that they exchange salems,
		
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			They exchange words with one another.
		
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			And the same
		
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			occurrence
		
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			happens
		
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			in each of the heavens,
		
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			that permission is sought
		
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			to go into the next heaven,
		
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			that the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and
		
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			2nd meets Yahya
		
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			and Isa and in the 3rd, Yusuf
		
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			and in the 4th, Idris and in the
		
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			5th, Harun
		
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			and in the 5th Harun
		
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			the 6th, Musa and in the 7th, Ibrahim
		
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			Now the order of the prophets in these
		
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			levels is not in terms of the order
		
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			of who is greater than the other.
		
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			This is not the case.
		
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			But on each occasion that the Prophet
		
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			meets each of the prophets
		
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			and exchanges salaam between them.
		
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			And here it is explained that the prophet
		
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			meets the arwah, meets the souls
		
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			of these Prophets,
		
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			whom Allah
		
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			allows for the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam to
		
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			meet and to greet.
		
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			Except for
		
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			except for Isa, alaihi wasallam.
		
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			For there, Isa, alaihi wasallam
		
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			is there
		
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			physically in his body,
		
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			because he alaihis salam did not die.
		
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			They did not kill Him nor did they
		
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			crucify Him, but
		
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			it was made to appear to them so.
		
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			So Isa
		
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			did not die
		
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			and was alive,
		
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			and did the Prophet
		
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			met Isa physically.
		
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			So on this journey,
		
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			the Prophet sallallahu alaihi salam had
		
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			a meeting with these great prophets.
		
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			Again looking back as we mentioned, what the
		
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			Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam experienced before.
		
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			Here Allah is
		
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			giving a great mercy and a blessing
		
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			for the Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam to
		
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			see this.
		
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			Is this a journey of khawf
		
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			up until now? Is this a journey of
		
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			fear?
		
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			Yes, it is a journey of the unknown,
		
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			but here
		
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			the lesson for the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
		
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			is not of punishment and fear,
		
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			but it is one of expectation.
		
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			Of one
		
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			of intrigue to know what is happening next.
		
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			And we also know that on this journey,
		
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			the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
		
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			beyond
		
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			the 7th heaven,
		
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			is shown
		
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			Baytul Ma'amur.
		
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			The place of worship where 70,000
		
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			angels
		
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			that they enter and they worship Allah every
		
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			single day.
		
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			70,000
		
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			enter Baytul Mamur to worship Allah jalawala
		
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			and then the next day 70,000.
		
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			That those angels will not get another opportunity
		
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			to come back because of the sheer amount
		
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			of
		
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			Each day there are so
		
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			many
		
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			angels that they won't have the opportunity to
		
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			come back.
		
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			That Allah
		
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			allowed the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam to
		
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			see that.
		
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			And to go to
		
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			that low tree upon which that no human
		
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			being
		
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			will go beyond.
		
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			That beyond that was a light.
		
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			And it is here that when the Prophet
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was asked, did he
		
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			see his Lord? He said,
		
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			It is light that I saw.
		
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			So the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam reached a
		
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			place, a stage where no
		
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			human being could go beyond.
		
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			And that on this journey that the Prophet
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wasallam received
		
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			the
		
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			command to establish the 5 daily prayers. Khamsu
		
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			Allah salah.
		
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			Fifty prayers.
		
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			Then went on return to to meet Musa
		
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			and then you may well know the story
		
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			that Musa
		
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			asked the Prophet
		
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			what been what had been obligated with regards
		
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			to salah
		
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			and that the prophet salallahu alaihis salam had
		
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			accepted 50
		
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			without any debate, without any questioning, 50 salaah.
		
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			But then Musa alaihis salaam said that your
		
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			people will not be able to bear 50.
		
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			I was with the people who could not
		
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			bear that.
		
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			Go back to our Lord and to ask
		
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			for takfiq,
		
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			for a lessening,
		
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			for a lowering of the number.
		
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			So the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam went
		
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			back to Allah, rubbu alalameen.
		
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			Jalluwala,
		
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			to lighten the load of the salawat,
		
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			it was lowered lowered down to 40.
		
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			Only to go back to ask for a
		
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			lightning
		
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			lightning in the number of salawat.
		
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			And this happened a number of times until
		
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			it reached 5.
		
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			Then Musa
		
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			said go back to ask for takthif,
		
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			a lowering and lightning of the load.
		
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			But the prophet
		
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			said, I cannot ask for any more.
		
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			So the 5 salawat was then incumbent upon
		
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			the Ummah, until
		
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			the end of time.
		
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			But on this journey, as I mentioned a
		
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			little bit earlier,
		
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			that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was
		
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			shown aljannah
		
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			walnar,
		
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			the paradise.
		
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			It's naeem, it's blessings.
		
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			The hellfire,
		
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			the punishment of the hellfire.
		
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			The punishment of all those who are involved
		
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			in certain sins,
		
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			like backbiting
		
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			or Erkil or Riba or the one who
		
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			consumes Riba
		
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			or the one who commands everybody with good
		
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			and forgets himself.
		
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			And the punishment of the one who fornicates.
		
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			So, Allah showed
		
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			these things
		
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			that this is what would happen
		
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			to the disobedient
		
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			servants
		
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			in the hereafter.
		
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			So when the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
		
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			in the hadith
		
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			of Aisha radiAllahu anha,
		
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			in a hadith which is Rawahul Bukhari.
		
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			When he sees his companions
		
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			sitting amongst each other.
		
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			And they are, they're talking, just as people
		
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			talk.
		
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			And some of them they begin to laugh.
		
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			And so here the prophet alaihis salam,
		
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			he says,
		
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			That if you knew what I knew,
		
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			if you knew what I knew
		
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			That you would laugh just just little
		
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			and that you would you would cry so
		
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			much.
		
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			Now we can understand in light
		
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			with what the prophet had
		
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			experienced
		
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			on the Isra wal Mi'raj.
		
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			Something
		
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			that the prophet alaihi sallam would never forget
		
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			for the rest of his life.
		
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			What he had seen and what he'd experienced,
		
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			no human being had seen or experienced.
		
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			When he would tell his companions
		
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			about fearing Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
		
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			staying away from the punishment of Allah Subhanahu
		
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			Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam had seen that
		
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			punishment.
		
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			And that to have hope in Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala,
		
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			to have
		
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			reliance and trust
		
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			upon Allah jaluwala. He had seen the reality
		
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			of that. That in the darkest and most
		
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			difficult of times,
		
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			when the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was
		
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			in that very difficult situation as we had
		
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			explained, that the
		
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			that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala then gave that
		
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			great blessing.
		
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			Took him out of that and granted him
		
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			this journey.
		
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			So in times where as I mentioned to
		
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			you before,
		
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			where all seems lost,
		
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			don't feel that the all is lost.
		
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			That there is no impossible.
		
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			That just around the corner,
		
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			just a short time away,
		
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			there is something waiting for me.
		
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			There is something that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			will help me out of this situation.
		
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			And
		
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			in a similar narration,
		
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			in a narration which is narrated by Abu
		
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			Dhalil al Ghifari
		
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			in hadith in Sunun al Tir Midi, wahasinun
		
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			alalbani rahimahullah,
		
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			that the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
		
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			That I because I've I seen or I
		
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			see that what you don't see.
		
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			That I hear what you do not hear.
		
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			That the
		
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			earth
		
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			is
		
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			moaning and groaning
		
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			because of what
		
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			has happened, and it has a right to
		
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			do so.
		
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			And that there is no place that 4
		
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			fingers that they can be placed on the
		
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			floor
		
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			And that there is no placement like this,
		
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			except that there is an angel prostrating itself
		
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			to Allah
		
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			If you knew
		
00:43:00 --> 00:43:01
			what I knew,
		
00:43:05 --> 00:43:06
			that you would laugh
		
00:43:06 --> 00:43:07
			less frequently
		
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			and that you would cry
		
00:43:09 --> 00:43:10
			more frequently,
		
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			That you would not even If you knew
		
00:43:15 --> 00:43:17
			what I knew, you would not enjoy the
		
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			time that you have with your wives
		
00:43:19 --> 00:43:20
			in in that private time.
		
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			You would not even enjoy that, because of
		
00:43:23 --> 00:43:24
			the reality that I know.
		
00:43:26 --> 00:43:27
			Walakharajtumillasuadati
		
00:43:28 --> 00:43:28
			tajra'uunillah.
		
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			That you would go out onto the plains,
		
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			you would be calling upon Allah
		
00:43:34 --> 00:43:36
			to save you,
		
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			if you knew what I knew.
		
00:43:39 --> 00:43:42
			Now in light of what the prophet alaihi
		
00:43:42 --> 00:43:44
			wasallam experienced on this journey,
		
00:43:45 --> 00:43:47
			one can only imagine the conviction
		
00:43:47 --> 00:43:48
			of such a statement.
		
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			And I think
		
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			how to bring that example close to us,
		
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			And I think I've already mentioned
		
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			it. That each time that you go to
		
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			Al Haram, each time you go to Makkah
		
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			and you go to Madinah,
		
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			maybe there are personal times that you have
		
00:44:03 --> 00:44:06
			there, that you are looking at the Masjid,
		
00:44:06 --> 00:44:08
			or you're looking at Jabal Uhud, or that
		
00:44:08 --> 00:44:10
			you're looking at the the Masjid,
		
00:44:10 --> 00:44:13
			and you try to think about what happened
		
00:44:13 --> 00:44:15
			there once upon a time, and that you
		
00:44:15 --> 00:44:16
			are walking in the same footsteps,
		
00:44:18 --> 00:44:20
			the same air that you are breathing,
		
00:44:21 --> 00:44:23
			that people gave their lives for Allah Subhanahu
		
00:44:23 --> 00:44:23
			Wa Ta'ala.
		
00:44:25 --> 00:44:25
			You can somehow
		
00:44:26 --> 00:44:29
			There's almost a tangible feeling
		
00:44:29 --> 00:44:30
			of what you have right there.
		
00:44:31 --> 00:44:32
			This is a worldly experience.
		
00:44:33 --> 00:44:35
			This is maybe the best kind of example
		
00:44:35 --> 00:44:36
			I can mention.
		
00:44:37 --> 00:44:39
			And of course what the prophet sallallahu alaihi
		
00:44:39 --> 00:44:41
			wasallam, of course we don't want to bring,
		
00:44:41 --> 00:44:43
			there's nothing in line with that at all.
		
00:44:44 --> 00:44:46
			But again, the sierra and you.
		
00:44:47 --> 00:44:49
			The life of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
		
00:44:49 --> 00:44:51
			and you. We want to bridge these gaps.
		
00:44:52 --> 00:44:53
			We want to be able to, when we
		
00:44:53 --> 00:44:54
			read the sierra,
		
00:44:55 --> 00:44:57
			to experience and walk through
		
00:44:57 --> 00:44:59
			as though I am with the prophet sallallahu
		
00:44:59 --> 00:45:00
			alaihi wa sallam.
		
00:45:01 --> 00:45:02
			As though I am there with Abu Bakr
		
00:45:02 --> 00:45:04
			as Siddiq, as though I am there with
		
00:45:04 --> 00:45:05
			Umrahman Al Khattab.
		
00:45:06 --> 00:45:06
			That when
		
00:45:08 --> 00:45:09
			the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
		
00:45:10 --> 00:45:12
			is in the house of Al Arakan
		
00:45:13 --> 00:45:14
			with Sahaba
		
00:45:15 --> 00:45:17
			and Hamza radhiallahu anhu that they hear a
		
00:45:17 --> 00:45:18
			knock on the door.
		
00:45:18 --> 00:45:19
			And then they said who is at the
		
00:45:19 --> 00:45:20
			door?
		
00:45:21 --> 00:45:21
			And they says
		
00:45:22 --> 00:45:24
			Umre Blakatab is at the door
		
00:45:25 --> 00:45:27
			And he has his sword with him
		
00:45:27 --> 00:45:29
			And when Umar radiAllahu anhu, when he has
		
00:45:29 --> 00:45:30
			his sword with him,
		
00:45:31 --> 00:45:32
			that can mean only one thing.
		
00:45:33 --> 00:45:35
			He want to feel what is happening here.
		
00:45:35 --> 00:45:37
			He want to have that emotion about how
		
00:45:37 --> 00:45:38
			the Sahaba would
		
00:45:39 --> 00:45:41
			feel. Only for them to hamza to say:
		
00:45:42 --> 00:45:43
			If he's bringing something,
		
00:45:43 --> 00:45:45
			we will bring like it as well.
		
00:45:45 --> 00:45:46
			He has brought something,
		
00:45:47 --> 00:45:48
			we will bring the
		
00:45:48 --> 00:45:50
			same. And so we see the prophet alaihis
		
00:45:50 --> 00:45:52
			salam ask for the door to be opened,
		
00:45:52 --> 00:45:54
			and not for the sahaba to surround the
		
00:45:54 --> 00:45:55
			door.
		
00:45:55 --> 00:45:57
			But But the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam to
		
00:45:57 --> 00:46:00
			walk toward, walk towards Umar ibn Khattab himself.
		
00:46:01 --> 00:46:03
			For him to be the one to face
		
00:46:03 --> 00:46:05
			what is going to be faced. Yabnal khatab.
		
00:46:07 --> 00:46:09
			O son of khatab, what is it that
		
00:46:09 --> 00:46:11
			you have? Only for him to declare his
		
00:46:11 --> 00:46:11
			al Islam.
		
00:46:13 --> 00:46:16
			So when we take these these incidents,
		
00:46:16 --> 00:46:18
			knowing the backdrop and everything about it,
		
00:46:19 --> 00:46:21
			one finds themselves wanting to read the story
		
00:46:21 --> 00:46:22
			again
		
00:46:22 --> 00:46:23
			and again
		
00:46:23 --> 00:46:26
			and again, because you feel yourself immersed in
		
00:46:26 --> 00:46:27
			it.
		
00:46:28 --> 00:46:29
			You want to feel part of it.
		
00:46:30 --> 00:46:31
			You want to somehow
		
00:46:32 --> 00:46:33
			feel as though that you are
		
00:46:34 --> 00:46:35
			part of the story somewhere.
		
00:46:36 --> 00:46:38
			Because the sierra of the Prophet alaihis salam,
		
00:46:38 --> 00:46:39
			yes,
		
00:46:39 --> 00:46:41
			it finishes at the time when the Prophet
		
00:46:41 --> 00:46:42
			alaihis salam passes away.
		
00:46:44 --> 00:46:47
			But holding up the liwa over Islam, or
		
00:46:47 --> 00:46:49
			riot to Islam, holding up the flag, if
		
00:46:49 --> 00:46:50
			you want, of al Islam,
		
00:46:50 --> 00:46:53
			or the flag of La ilaha illallah does
		
00:46:53 --> 00:46:54
			not end there.
		
00:46:54 --> 00:46:55
			But it continues
		
00:46:56 --> 00:46:58
			and you want to feel as though that
		
00:46:58 --> 00:47:00
			you are carrying that as well.
		
00:47:01 --> 00:47:02
			More than 1450
		
00:47:03 --> 00:47:04
			years later,
		
00:47:04 --> 00:47:07
			that you are part of Islamic history,
		
00:47:08 --> 00:47:09
			That you are part of those
		
00:47:09 --> 00:47:11
			that want to be mentioned
		
00:47:11 --> 00:47:13
			They stood up for La Illa Illallah Muhammad
		
00:47:13 --> 00:47:14
			Rasulallah
		
00:47:15 --> 00:47:17
			That reading such incidents
		
00:47:18 --> 00:47:20
			are not just things that are to be
		
00:47:20 --> 00:47:22
			read in the books and that when you
		
00:47:22 --> 00:47:24
			close the book and then it stays there.
		
00:47:24 --> 00:47:27
			But these are, is a continuing living story
		
00:47:27 --> 00:47:28
			for us.
		
00:47:29 --> 00:47:30
			Did you see yourself
		
00:47:30 --> 00:47:33
			as somehow a peace in that story that
		
00:47:33 --> 00:47:34
			came much
		
00:47:34 --> 00:47:35
			much later?
		
00:47:37 --> 00:47:38
			And I ask that Allah
		
00:47:39 --> 00:47:40
			allows us to be from those people who
		
00:47:40 --> 00:47:41
			truly uphold
		
00:47:42 --> 00:47:44
			the reality of La ilaha illallah
		
00:47:45 --> 00:47:47
			And to know what it means to make
		
00:47:47 --> 00:47:47
			a sacrifice
		
00:47:49 --> 00:47:51
			in living by La ilaha illallah
		
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			And that Allah protects us from Adulallah, from
		
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			misguidance.
		
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			That Allah protects us from inharaf
		
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			in in all these forms of misguidance and
		
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			misinterpretation.
		
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			We ask Allah to protect us from an
		
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			ifaq, from hypocrisy.
		
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			We ask Allah Subhana Wa Ta'la to protect
		
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			us from al jahl.
		
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			That, you know, the darkness of al jahl
		
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			and ignorance.
		
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			Imagine a person doesn't know
		
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			the reality
		
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			and the story
		
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			of the greatest man to ever live, the
		
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			prophet Muhammad alaihi sallam,
		
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			who shaped and formed, by Allah's permission,
		
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			the world that we are living in now.
		
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			Allah
		
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			decreed
		
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			that the coming of the Prophet alaihi salaam
		
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			would shape and form the rest of humanity
		
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			and would be the source, by Allah's permission,
		
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			of us knowing
		
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			alhaquwalbatil,
		
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			of that what is truth and that what
		
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			is falsehood.
		
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			And being able to identify,
		
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			being able to know that what is beloved
		
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			to Allah and what is hated by Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			So the seerah anew,
		
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			the life of the Prophet alaihis salam was
		
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			taught to the Sahaba.
		
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			Just as they would learn the Quran, they
		
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			would teach their children,
		
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			their young children, the story of the Prophet
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
		
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			To know your Prophet.
		
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			To know your Messenger,
		
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			to know the Most Beloved.
		
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			For him to be the Most Beloved to
		
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			you, alayhi salatu salam,
		
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			then you must know him.
		
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			To know Him is to love Him,
		
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			and to be ignorant of Him means to
		
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			be far away from Him.
		
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			To be ignorant
		
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			means that you cannot truly have
		
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			a true love
		
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			for Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			If you want to gain the love of
		
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			Allah
		
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			If you are serious,
		
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			truly serious,
		
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			you want to be a serious Muslim.
		
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			I don't want to add another word, a
		
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			serious Muslim. You want to be a Muslim.
		
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			Another phrase, another thing. You want to be
		
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			a Muslim?
		
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			You want to gain, achieve the love of
		
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			Allah Tabarakahu ta'ala?
		
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			Then you need to follow and know the
		
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			Prophet alaihis salatu wa sallam. They cannot be
		
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			separated.
		
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			Don't believe that you can achieve a path
		
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			to Allah
		
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			without knowing and following the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam. They go hand in hand.
		
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			You follow and love the prophet alaihi wasallam,
		
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			you will gain the love of Allah to
		
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			Barakahu ta'ala. We ask Allah
		
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			to make us from those who truly love
		
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			and follow the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam. And
		
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			we ask Allah to barakah
		
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			to make us from those who achieve
		
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			and have the love of Allah to barakah
		
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			to a'la.
		
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			It almost sounds like an ending, but I'm
		
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			not finished.
		
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			I want to finish insha'Allah in
		
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			that when the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
		
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			and there's so much more to mention,
		
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			he returns to Makkah.
		
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			And the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam without
		
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			any hesitation,
		
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			he tells his people. He tells Umwehane
		
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			He tells the people around him the journey
		
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			that he went on just last night, which
		
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			takes more than a month to get there
		
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			and a month to come back.
		
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			And the Kufar of the Quraysh rubbing their
		
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			hands in glee and happiness
		
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			that we used to claim
		
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			insanity.
		
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			But we will have an argument for it.
		
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			Now they believe they have an argument to
		
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			say,
		
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			indeed,
		
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			Muhammad alaihi sata salam
		
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			has now gone insane to make such a
		
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			claim.
		
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			Abu Jahal, Abu Allahab, they come together.
		
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			They go to the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
		
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			and they follow him around going to the
		
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			Muslims
		
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			and the al nazthalatih
		
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			to Aqsaam.
		
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			The people are of 3 types.
		
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			The first type are those,
		
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			aladinakazebu,
		
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			those who denied it.
		
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			They denied what the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
		
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			what he claimed.
		
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			And then there were al mutaradidun.
		
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			There were those who were a little bit
		
00:52:04 --> 00:52:04
			doubtful.
		
00:52:04 --> 00:52:06
			Hadith al Islam, they were new Muslims.
		
00:52:07 --> 00:52:08
			They weren't sure.
		
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			Really? Is this being claimed?
		
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			Some of them may be very few in
		
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			number. Said, no. We don't believe that.
		
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			And
		
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			the 3rd group,
		
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			Al Mu'minoon Haqqah.
		
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			Those true believers.
		
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			The believers who truly believed,
		
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			no doubt about what had happened.
		
00:52:30 --> 00:52:31
			And at the head of them
		
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			was Abu Bakr as Siddiq.
		
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			So they go around and they're looking for
		
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			Abu Bakr.
		
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			If Abu Bakr denies,
		
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			if Abu Bakr has a doubt, the rest
		
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			will fall like dominoes.
		
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			Because we know that Abu Bakr is
		
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			the closest of companions
		
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			who was like a pillar that could not
		
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			be shaken.
		
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			So they went to Abu Bakr Sadiq radiAllahu
		
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			anhu.
		
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			Do you know what your
		
00:53:02 --> 00:53:03
			your companion, he is claiming?
		
00:53:05 --> 00:53:08
			He says radiAllahu anhu. And what is he
		
00:53:08 --> 00:53:08
			claiming?
		
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			He is claiming, and Nabi sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
		
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			that he went from Masjid al Haram
		
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			all the way to Aqsa, went up into
		
00:53:17 --> 00:53:19
			the heavens, only to return and to come
		
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			back. He
		
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			does this in one night.
		
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			He said
		
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			If this is what He says I believe
		
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			Him
		
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			without hesitation,
		
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			without a question,
		
00:53:35 --> 00:53:36
			without a fluttering.
		
00:53:37 --> 00:53:39
			And as the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said
		
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			concerning Abu Bakr,
		
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			Abu Bakr
		
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			he said he was an individual when I
		
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			showed him al islam,
		
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			he was an individual the very least who
		
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			showed
		
00:53:50 --> 00:53:52
			any form of doubt or questioning. The moment
		
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			I said to him, I showed him at
		
00:53:54 --> 00:53:54
			Islam,
		
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			he says I follow You You Rasulullah.
		
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			Abu Bakr radiAllahu Anhu was that individual and
		
00:54:00 --> 00:54:03
			because of this mokkifa, because of this incident,
		
00:54:03 --> 00:54:05
			which is mentioned in the Sahih al Al
		
00:54:05 --> 00:54:06
			Hakim
		
00:54:07 --> 00:54:09
			That for this reason here the prophet sallallahu
		
00:54:09 --> 00:54:10
			alaihi wasalam said, Abu Bakr
		
00:54:11 --> 00:54:13
			as Siddiq, the truthful one.
		
00:54:13 --> 00:54:15
			This was the incident that Abu Bakr
		
00:54:15 --> 00:54:17
			attained, was given the name
		
00:54:17 --> 00:54:18
			as Siddiq,
		
00:54:19 --> 00:54:21
			the one who affirmed the truth.
		
00:54:22 --> 00:54:25
			Because he believed, as he mentioned, radhiallahu anhu,
		
00:54:25 --> 00:54:27
			I believe in something which is far greater
		
00:54:27 --> 00:54:29
			than that. That he receives revelation
		
00:54:30 --> 00:54:30
			from a sama'
		
00:54:31 --> 00:54:33
			even further than that.
		
00:54:34 --> 00:54:35
			So if this is what he claims I
		
00:54:35 --> 00:54:36
			believe in it.
		
00:54:38 --> 00:54:40
			And then shortly after this,
		
00:54:40 --> 00:54:42
			as we know that the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
		
00:54:42 --> 00:54:43
			wa sallam
		
00:54:43 --> 00:54:44
			made preparations
		
00:54:45 --> 00:54:47
			to meet with the people
		
00:54:47 --> 00:54:49
			who came at the time of Hajj,
		
00:54:50 --> 00:54:53
			especially from the people of Al Madinah.
		
00:54:53 --> 00:54:55
			That the first agreement of 'Aqaba,
		
00:54:56 --> 00:54:58
			a number of people that embraced Islam,
		
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			12 of them.
		
00:54:59 --> 00:55:02
			And then the following year they brought more
		
00:55:02 --> 00:55:03
			of them, 70.
		
00:55:04 --> 00:55:06
			And that they were there to support the
		
00:55:06 --> 00:55:08
			Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
		
00:55:08 --> 00:55:09
			We have believed in
		
00:55:10 --> 00:55:12
			you. We believe there's 70 of them.
		
00:55:12 --> 00:55:14
			And an agreement was set up.
		
00:55:15 --> 00:55:16
			An agreement was set up. And I'll finish
		
00:55:16 --> 00:55:17
			with this inshaa'aat.
		
00:55:18 --> 00:55:19
			That these,
		
00:55:19 --> 00:55:21
			the Ansar, as we know them,
		
00:55:22 --> 00:55:24
			that they had an agreement that they would
		
00:55:24 --> 00:55:26
			protect the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
		
00:55:27 --> 00:55:29
			and they would do everything to help the
		
00:55:29 --> 00:55:30
			Prophet, alaihi wa sallam, if he moved and
		
00:55:30 --> 00:55:32
			lived with them in Al Madinah.
		
00:55:34 --> 00:55:36
			One of them he said, before we sign
		
00:55:36 --> 00:55:36
			this agreement,
		
00:55:37 --> 00:55:39
			before we sign this agreement,
		
00:55:39 --> 00:55:40
			I have one question.
		
00:55:42 --> 00:55:43
			That when we sign this agreement with you,
		
00:55:44 --> 00:55:46
			we will become the enemies of everybody.
		
00:55:47 --> 00:55:50
			Everybody in Makkah, outside Makkah, we will immediately
		
00:55:50 --> 00:55:52
			become their enemies because we are with you,
		
00:55:52 --> 00:55:53
			Rasulullah.
		
00:55:54 --> 00:55:56
			And when it is the case, it is
		
00:55:56 --> 00:55:58
			and victory is going to be given to
		
00:55:58 --> 00:55:59
			you insha'Allah.
		
00:56:00 --> 00:56:01
			That when you are given victory,
		
00:56:02 --> 00:56:03
			that you will leave us and you will
		
00:56:03 --> 00:56:04
			go back to Makkah.
		
00:56:06 --> 00:56:08
			They had just embraced Islam and they were
		
00:56:08 --> 00:56:09
			thinking, this individual,
		
00:56:09 --> 00:56:11
			if we make this sacrifice,
		
00:56:11 --> 00:56:13
			we want to be with you for the
		
00:56:13 --> 00:56:14
			rest of our lives.
		
00:56:14 --> 00:56:15
			We want You to stay with us in
		
00:56:15 --> 00:56:16
			Al Medina.
		
00:56:18 --> 00:56:19
			And so the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
		
00:56:19 --> 00:56:21
			upon hearing this, he smiles.
		
00:56:24 --> 00:56:26
			He says to them: A demo done. He
		
00:56:26 --> 00:56:28
			said: Blood is blood.
		
00:56:28 --> 00:56:30
			And he said: After everything,
		
00:56:31 --> 00:56:33
			after everything is all over and is given
		
00:56:33 --> 00:56:34
			to us by Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
00:56:36 --> 00:56:37
			I am from you
		
00:56:38 --> 00:56:39
			and you are from me.
		
00:56:39 --> 00:56:41
			I from you and you from
		
00:56:41 --> 00:56:42
			me. Medina will be my home and I
		
00:56:42 --> 00:56:44
			will never leave you.
		
00:56:44 --> 00:56:46
			And you can see that the Ansar radiAllahu
		
00:56:46 --> 00:56:48
			anhu, the support that they gave to the
		
00:56:48 --> 00:56:50
			prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam. So after this isra
		
00:56:50 --> 00:56:51
			wal miraj,
		
00:56:52 --> 00:56:53
			after all preceded
		
00:56:53 --> 00:56:55
			how Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala blessed the prophet
		
00:56:55 --> 00:56:57
			sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
		
00:56:58 --> 00:56:58
			But as you
		
00:56:59 --> 00:57:00
			well know, that the ending
		
00:57:01 --> 00:57:03
			of the Makkan period is not the ending
		
00:57:03 --> 00:57:04
			of the life of the prophet alaihi wa
		
00:57:04 --> 00:57:05
			sallam.
		
00:57:05 --> 00:57:07
			We have another almost 11 years
		
00:57:07 --> 00:57:09
			to go through in seeing some of the
		
00:57:09 --> 00:57:12
			most severest times and trials and tribulations that
		
00:57:12 --> 00:57:14
			the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam that he
		
00:57:14 --> 00:57:16
			went through. The Battle of Badr, the battle
		
00:57:16 --> 00:57:18
			of Uhud, the battle of Kandak,
		
00:57:19 --> 00:57:20
			the treaty of Hudaybia,
		
00:57:20 --> 00:57:21
			Fathu Makkah,
		
00:57:22 --> 00:57:23
			and the list goes on.
		
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			So we ask
		
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			Allah
		
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			to grant us beneficial knowledge.