Yaser Birjas – Aspiring For High Level Of Good Deeds

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The history of the Middle East is discussed, including the use of trees and the historical significance of a door being the key to accessing a trade route. The speaker describes the fortification of mountains and fortresses, as well as the difficulty of breaking through a battle and the importance of the Prophet's seal of approval. The speaker gives a brief history of the Khaybar and its popular nightly celebrations, including the use of a banner to someone who loves Allah and Jesus.

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			As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu.
		
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			Alhamdulillah rabbil alameen.
		
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			As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu.
		
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			Baraka nabiyyin wa muhammadin wa ala alihi wa
		
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			sahbihi wa salam wa tasliman kathira thumma ma
		
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			ba'd.
		
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			We're still reading from the chapter of al
		
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			-mubadira bi khairat.
		
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			Hastening and rushing to do good deeds.
		
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			From Riyad al-Saliheen, Imam al-Nawawi, rahimahullah
		
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			wa ta'ala, mentions in hadith number 94,
		
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			qala wa an abi hurairat radiallahu anhu, anna
		
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			rasulallah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam wa qala yawma
		
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			khaybar, la aqiyanna hadhi ra'ayata rajran yuhibbu
		
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			allaha wa rasulah, yaftahullahu ala aday.
		
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			In this hadith, the messenger of Allah, sallallahu
		
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			alayhi wa sallam, said, actually huraira he says,
		
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			on the day of the battle of khaybar,
		
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			on the day of the battle of khaybar,
		
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			the messenger of Allah, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,
		
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			said, I shall hand over this flag to
		
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			one who loves Allah and his messenger, and
		
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			Allah will give us victory through him.
		
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			So first of all, let's talk about, the
		
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			hadith still continues, but khaybar, what's the significance
		
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			of the battle of khaybar over here?
		
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			So if you remember, the battle of khaybar
		
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			happened after the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,
		
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			he secured a treaty with the people of
		
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			Mecca, in what we know as al-Hudaibiyah.
		
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			So after six years of war, five years
		
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			of war, with the people of Mecca, and
		
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			after they were defeated in the battle of
		
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			the trench, the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,
		
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			the following year, he went to Mecca for
		
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			Umrah.
		
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			He was banned from going through.
		
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			And eventually that ended with a treaty.
		
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			Part of the provision of that treaty is
		
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			that war will pause or stop for ten
		
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			years.
		
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			So there will be truce for ten years.
		
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			So now the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,
		
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			secured the southern border of Medina, and the
		
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			Meccans, the same thing, they now secured the
		
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			northern border, so they can go right now
		
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			and trade with the Sham, after they've not
		
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			been able to do that for years.
		
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			So now the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,
		
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			he finds himself free to deal with the
		
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			northern threat.
		
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			And there are two threats coming from the
		
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			north.
		
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			Number one, khaybar, and number two, the northern
		
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			Arab Christians of the north, which is closer
		
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			to the allies of the Byzantines.
		
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			So with the Byzantines, he sent an army
		
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			of 3,000.
		
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			We know of the Battle of Mu'tah.
		
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			The Battle of Mu'tah, in which three of
		
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			the leaders were killed, Zayd, Abdullah ibn al
		
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			-Rawah, and Jafar ibn al-Bitalib, r.a.,
		
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			and then they selected Khalid, who brought them
		
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			back again to Medina safely.
		
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			The other threat was khaybar.
		
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			Khaybar is...
		
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			I don't know how many of you have
		
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			been to khaybar, but if you've been to
		
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			the city of khaybar, it's a small town
		
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			still in Saudi Arabia right now, north of
		
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			Medina.
		
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			There's the old town, the old town, still
		
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			probably as it was maybe 1,400 years
		
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			ago.
		
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			You still have the same orchard, the same
		
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			forests of palm trees, and then the old
		
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			fortresses.
		
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			One of the very famous fortresses was the
		
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			fortress of Marhab.
		
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			Marhab was one of the leaders in that
		
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			area.
		
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			So khaybar was predominantly owned by the Jewish
		
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			community.
		
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			When the Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam expelled
		
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			Banu Qaynuqa'a, Banu Nadir, from Medina, they
		
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			went to khaybar.
		
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			And khaybar already had its own people there.
		
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			Khaybar was known to be on the trade
		
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			route to Ash-Sham, so therefore it was
		
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			a good business center as well, too.
		
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			And subhanallah, the land in khaybar was so
		
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			fertile that the trees, the palm trees grow
		
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			there everywhere, and the size of the dates
		
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			that comes from khaybar is significantly larger than
		
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			usual.
		
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			Like there's so much barakah, subhanallah, that even
		
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			at the time of the Prophet salallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam, when he received, one day he
		
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			received from the dates of khaybar, came to
		
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			him, Bilal brought to the Prophet salallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam from the dates of khaybar.
		
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			And when the Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam
		
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			grabbed the dates of khaybar, he was surprised
		
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			and shocked how big, mashallah, it was.
		
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			He said, I eat dates of khaybar like
		
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			this?
		
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			All the dates come from khaybar like this?
		
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			He said, no, ya Rasulallah, that's not the
		
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			case.
		
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			But we trade.
		
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			We trade the not-so-good quality, this
		
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			much of it with this little much of
		
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			that good date.
		
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			And the Prophet said, no, no, no, this
		
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			is riba.
		
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			You can't do this.
		
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			But the significance of the story here is
		
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			the quality of the khaybar dates.
		
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			And I remember visiting khaybar with the Sheikh
		
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			Safiur Rahman Mubarak Furi, rahimahullah ta'ala, the
		
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			author of the rahiq al-maktum, the sealed
		
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			nectar, himself.
		
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			We took him with us on a, I
		
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			could say, a road trip so he can
		
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			show us, you know, the entire story of
		
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			khaybar visually from that area.
		
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			And it was such a beautiful experience to
		
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			be with the Sheikh.
		
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			I don't know if I explained to you
		
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			the situation, the circumstances there, subhanallah.
		
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			But I remember that the dates of khaybar,
		
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			even that, this maybe was about 25 years
		
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			ago, probably, or so.
		
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			I can tell you that the dates from
		
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			khaybar in that time, 30 years ago, it
		
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			was so significantly large, like it's like a
		
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			small burrito, mashallah.
		
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			Literally, like one date is so big, tawarak
		
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			al-rahman.
		
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			You know, you read the majdool date that
		
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			comes from California.
		
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			Imagine this, maybe, I don't want to say
		
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			double the size, but almost double the size.
		
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			This is how good it was.
		
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			And he didn't even have to throw anything
		
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			at the tree.
		
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			It's so heavy that it falls on the
		
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			ground.
		
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			You pick it from the ground, subhanallah.
		
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			It was so amazing.
		
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			So khaybar, it was known for this.
		
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			So when the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam,
		
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			he wanted to eliminate that northern threat that
		
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			was coming from khaybar.
		
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			And now that they secured the south, he
		
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			now took an army to go to khaybar
		
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			to just finish it once and for all.
		
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			We're done.
		
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			Because if you guys remember, the reason why
		
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			the Meccans brought their allies, 10,000 of
		
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			them around Medina for the Battle of the
		
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			Trench, was because Huyay ibn Akhtab, one of
		
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			the leaders of the Jewish community in that
		
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			area, was expelled from Medina.
		
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			He went to the people in Mecca and
		
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			kind of like kept inciting them and kept
		
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			provoking them and encouraging them to fight against
		
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			the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam.
		
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			So the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, he
		
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			just said, you know what, once and for
		
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			all we're going to eliminate that threat.
		
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			So they went there.
		
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			And it was not an easy battle.
		
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			It took them about four months.
		
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			Four months the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam,
		
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			was going through one fortress to the other,
		
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			one fortress to the other, and everyone just
		
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			like, it was not that easy.
		
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			Because the area is really fortified with mountains
		
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			and fortresses, just like unbelievable terrain.
		
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			And Marhab's fortress is on the top of
		
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			a hill.
		
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			It's very steep.
		
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			So even if you try to climb up,
		
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			you can easily be a target.
		
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			So it was like, it was really a
		
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			battle.
		
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			So after some time, after all these months,
		
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			and it was so hard to break through,
		
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			the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, then he
		
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			said, He said, that's it, we're done.
		
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			Allah is going to give us victory tomorrow.
		
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			But I'm going to give this banner, this
		
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			banner right now, this flag, the flag of
		
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			the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, to lead
		
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			the army, to basically to be on the
		
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			battlefield.
		
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			I'm going to give it to someone who,
		
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			that he loves Allah and His Messenger, and
		
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			Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, will give him
		
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			victory.
		
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			Umar, radiyallahu anhu, he heard that from the
		
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			Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam.
		
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			He said, He goes, I never loved, I
		
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			never longed for leadership, but that day.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, he
		
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			said two things about this person.
		
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			What are they, Jamal?
		
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			Number one, a testimony from the Prophet, salallahu
		
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			alayhi wa sallam, that this person, he truly
		
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			loves Allah and His Messenger.
		
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			What a great testimony.
		
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			That the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, he
		
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			gives his seal of approval.
		
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			That this person, he loves Allah and His
		
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			Messenger.
		
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			Genuinely.
		
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			He's not a hypocrite, he's not lying about
		
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			it.
		
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			No, he truly loves Allah and His Messenger.
		
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			I mean, I know most of us, if
		
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			not all of us, would say, alhamdulillah, I
		
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			love Allah and His Messenger.
		
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			Right?
		
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			But how many of us can claim we're
		
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			truthful about it?
		
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			But here's the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam,
		
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			saying, this man is truthful about his love
		
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			for Allah and His Messenger.
		
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			And then he says, and Allah is going
		
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			to give him victory.
		
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			So Omar says, I never wished to be
		
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			a leader or take that position, except on
		
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			that day.
		
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			Because the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, he
		
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			said he loves Allah and His Messenger, and
		
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			second, Allah will give him victory.
		
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			So Omar, in this hadith, he was rushing
		
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			for a good deed, to be that person.
		
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			And everybody among the Sahaba, especially the leaders
		
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			and the warriors, everybody was kind of stretching
		
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			their neck, kind of showing their head to
		
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			the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, to be
		
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			chosen.
		
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			Then, the next day the Prophet, can you
		
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			imagine the Prophet says, tomorrow I'm going to
		
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			give it to somebody, right?
		
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			So how are they going to spend their
		
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			night?
		
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			Who's going to sleep?
		
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			Like, everybody's just like, my God, who's that?
		
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			Who is it?
		
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			Everybody would be wondering, even dreaming about themselves.
		
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			And when they go to sleep, maybe now
		
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			fantasizing, it would be me probably, right?
		
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			And the next day the Prophet, salallahu alayhi
		
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			wa sallam, when he called everybody, he said,
		
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			I was hoping, I would be called, and
		
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			I was expecting to be called for it.
		
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			Then, the next day the Prophet, salallahu alayhi
		
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			wa sallam, says, when he was looking at
		
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			the people, and everybody's trying to show themselves
		
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			to the Prophet, he didn't find the man
		
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			he was looking for.
		
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			So the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, says,
		
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			where is Ali?
		
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			Where is Ali?
		
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			And they start looking around.
		
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			The Hadith, he doesn't show the story, he's
		
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			complaining about his eyes.
		
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			Why is that?
		
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			He had allergies.
		
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			And I don't know how many of you
		
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			know, but Medina, in comparison to Mecca, is
		
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			an agrarian society, so there's a lot of
		
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			pollens, a lot of coarse vegetation, so there's
		
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			a lot of chance for allergies.
		
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			Khaybar is double that.
		
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			This is how much trees it has.
		
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			So therefore, when Ali went there, he got
		
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			allergies, and he couldn't even open his eyes.
		
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			They brought him, they dragged him to the
		
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			Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam.
		
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			He was led to the Prophet, salallahu alayhi
		
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			wa sallam, meaning he couldn't see his way.
		
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			They had to grab him and lead him
		
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			to the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam.
		
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			So when the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam,
		
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			he saw him, he made dua for him,
		
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			and he blew into his eyes, and his
		
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			eyes came clear.
		
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			Then the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, gives
		
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			him the banner.
		
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			He goes, take it.
		
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			The Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, gave it
		
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			to him, and he says, go forth, and
		
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			do not turn around until Allah, subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala, bestows victory upon you.
		
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			Very simple instruction.
		
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			Here you go.
		
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			Keep moving forward.
		
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			Don't turn around until you bring victory back
		
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			with you.
		
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			Very simple instruction.
		
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			So Ali, radiallahu anhu, he started marching, and
		
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			then he stopped.
		
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			And because the instruction was so clear, don't
		
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			turn around, he did not even turn around,
		
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			radiallahu anhu.
		
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			He stopped.
		
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			Without turning around, he starts calling the Prophet,
		
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			salallahu alayhi wa sallam.
		
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			He started yelling and screaming, because he knew
		
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			that if he's speaking in that direction, it's
		
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			not going to be loud enough.
		
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			So he had to raise his voice as
		
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			loud as possible.
		
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			He said, O Messenger of Allah, why should
		
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			I fight people?
		
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			What am I fighting them for?
		
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			What's the fight for?
		
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			The Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, said, Fight
		
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			them until they bear witness that there is
		
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			no god but Allah.
		
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			Make sure that we beat, so that they
		
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			say, there is no god but Allah, no
		
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			god worthy of worship but Allah, and that
		
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			Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah.
		
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			If they do so, which means they give
		
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			the testimony, then you cannot hurt them.
		
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			You can't take any of their properties, don't
		
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			touch their money, don't hurt them at all.
		
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			And Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, will be
		
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			the one that they will be answered for.
		
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			Like this is it.
		
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			If they give their shahada, they will secure
		
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			themselves from you.
		
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			So that was a very simple message the
		
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			Prophet gave Ali, radiyallahu ta'ala, and indeed,
		
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			Ali was the one who fought Marhab, and
		
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			he finished him and conquered the last of
		
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			the strongholds that they had in Khaybar.
		
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			It took, again, about four months before they
		
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			were able to secure the area, and they
		
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			divided the entire Khaybar between the warriors, and
		
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			the Prophet, salallahu alaihi wa sallam, he got
		
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			an area called Fadak, which used to bring
		
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			good dates every year for the Prophet, salallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam, Ali.
		
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			So the hadith, basically, the area where people
		
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			need to rush for the khair, Omar, radiyallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam, when he heard an announcement
		
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			for a good opportunity, even though it's in
		
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			the matter of leadership, which you're not supposed
		
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			to be looking for it, he says, this
		
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			one, I'll fight for it.
		
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			So if there is khair, look for it,
		
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			inshallah, to barak for them, pursue it.
		
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			May Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, make us
		
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			among those always for that which is khair
		
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			in the dunya, ya rabbal alameen, wallahu alameen.
		
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			Any questions, jama'at?
		
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			Subhanak, Allahumma bihamdik, ash-shara la'ilat, astaghfirullah,
		
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			wa atubu ilaih.
		
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			Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.