Yaser Birjas – Value Of Ilm Education

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The importance of learning and transferring knowledge in Islam is discussed, particularly the concept of Payment for Development (PDP). The speakers emphasize the need for grounded learning and solid foundation in shaping one's behavior and behavior, as well as the importance of support for the "monarch" community. They also stress the importance of bringing support to the Muslim community and encourage families to support their efforts. The growth of the community in various states and the "monarch" community are also highlighted.

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			I bear witness that there is none worthy
		
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			of worship except Allah.
		
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			Allah is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest.
		
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			There is none worthy of worship
		
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			except Allah.
		
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			To read the Quran, he said, Iqra, read
		
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			in the name of your Lord who created.
		
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			Iqra, bismi Rabbika alladhi khalaq.
		
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			Khalaq al-insana min alaq.
		
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			Iqra wa Rabbuka al-akram.
		
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			Alladhi allama bil qalam.
		
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			Allama al-insana ma lam ya'lam.
		
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			He, subhanahu wa ta'ala, chose out of
		
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			every principle that is related to mankind and
		
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			humanity and this world and this universe, he
		
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			taught us, subhanahu wa ta'ala, the most
		
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			valuable thing is knowledge.
		
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			And in these five verses, five ayat at
		
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			the very beginning of the revelation of the
		
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			Quran, the word ilm, allama, qalam, and knowledge
		
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			was mentioned about six times, more than a
		
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			number of verses.
		
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			To emphasize the importance of ilm and knowledge,
		
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			Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, says, Iqra, read
		
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			in the name of your Lord who created.
		
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			And he says, khalaq al-insana min alaq.
		
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			Iqra wa Rabbuka al-akram.
		
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			Read and your Lord is the one who
		
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			is most honorable, subhanahu wa ta'ala.
		
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			Allama al-insana bil qalam.
		
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			Allama al-insana, to read and write.
		
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			And then he says, ma lam ya'lam.
		
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			He didn't know.
		
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			So he taught us to read, to write,
		
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			to preserve ilm and knowledge and transfer that.
		
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			Why is that so important?
		
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			Because Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, knows that
		
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			when it comes to ilm, that's what brings
		
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			you closer to Allah, azza wa jal.
		
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			Didn't he say, subhanahu wa ta'ala, innama
		
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			yakhsha allaha min ibadil ulama?
		
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			Those who truly have the khashya, the awe
		
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			of Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, in their
		
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			hearts, are those who have the knowledge.
		
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			Didn't he say, subhanahu wa ta'ala, qul
		
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			hal yastawil ladheena ya'lamoon, wal ladheena la
		
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			ya'lamoon?
		
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			Are they equal, those who know and those
		
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			who know not?
		
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			No, they're not.
		
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			They can never be equal.
		
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			And Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, is teaching
		
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			us that as a lesson.
		
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			And even He promoted those who have the
		
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			knowledge, subhanahu wa ta'ala, when He says
		
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			about the ulama, yarfa'illahu ladheena aamanu munkum,
		
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			wal ladheena utul ilma darajat.
		
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			Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, will raise in
		
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			ranks.
		
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			In the dunya and in the akhira, those
		
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			among you who have faith and have the
		
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			knowledge.
		
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			Ibn Abbas, one of his students, Abu al
		
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			-Aliya, was a servant.
		
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			He was just a servant at the beginning,
		
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			but he was learning from Ibn Abbas, the
		
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			cousin of the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam,
		
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			turjuman al-Qur'an.
		
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			He is the interpreter of the Qur'an.
		
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			Abu al-Aliya became the prime student of
		
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			Ibn Abbas.
		
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			And when he comes to the halaqa, Ibn
		
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			Abbas, he tells the people around him, give
		
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			him way, give him the way, let him
		
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			come here.
		
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			And he sits next to him.
		
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			Even though in terms of the status in
		
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			the society, he might not be as noble
		
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			as they might think he is, but that
		
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			ilm brought him all the way up there.
		
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			Our ulama, they taught us something about ilm
		
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			and knowledge.
		
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			That subhanAllah, it comes to that knowledge, even
		
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			it makes some of the animals more preferred
		
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			over others.
		
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			So when you take animals of prey, as
		
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			Allah mentioned in Surah al-Mainah, subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala, about the animals of prey, He
		
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			said that, مُكَلِّبِينَ تُعَلِّمُونَهُنَّ مِمَّا عَلَّمَكُمُ اللَّهُ That
		
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			you teach them from what Allah has taught
		
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			you, subhanahu wa ta'ala, which means they
		
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			learn from you to hunt for you.
		
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			And when you send them, you send them
		
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			by the name of Allah, بِسْمِ اللَّهُ اللَّهُ
		
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			أَكْبَرُ So what they hunt for you is
		
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			halal to eat.
		
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			If an animal doesn't have that knowledge, you're
		
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			not allowed to eat that prey.
		
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			Can you imagine how much even ilm raised
		
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			the status of animals?
		
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			Brothers and sisters, it's because of that in
		
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			our deen.
		
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			Not just learning, also teaching is a very
		
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			noble thing.
		
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			Teaching, as the Prophet ﷺ mentioned in the
		
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			hadith, مُعْعَثْ مَا رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ صَلَى
		
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			اللَّهَ لَسَمْ خَيْرُكُمْ مَنْ تَعَلَّمَ الْقُرْآنَ وَعَلَّمَهُ The
		
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			best among you all are those who learn
		
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			the Qur'an and then go teach it
		
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			to others.
		
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			The best among you.
		
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			And those who guide to khayr, guidance, they
		
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			will get their reward for guiding people.
		
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			And the reward of everybody will benefit from
		
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			that guidance they're giving to others.
		
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			Can you imagine how much you multiply your
		
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			deed and your reward as well too?
		
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			Many, many folds.
		
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			By the grace of Allah ﷻ.
		
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			The Prophet ﷺ, he put so much value
		
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			on knowledge, more than wealth and money.
		
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			How so?
		
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			When the Sahaba, رضي الله عنهم, they were
		
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			able to capture 70 of the prisoners of
		
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			wars in Badr.
		
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			70 of them.
		
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			The Prophet ﷺ sent to the people of
		
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			Mecca, if you would like to ransom your
		
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			prisoners of wars, send that ransom.
		
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			So people will send money and they send
		
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			whatever they can.
		
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			And then the Prophet ﷺ went to some
		
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			of these prisoners, he goes, look, anyone of
		
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			you who can teach 10 children, from the
		
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			children of Medina, how to read and write,
		
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			you're free.
		
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			But he put value on teaching to read
		
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			and write, higher than the value of money
		
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			and gold and silver.
		
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			Why is that?
		
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			Because he knows, ﷺ, that educated people, they
		
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			make better decisions in life.
		
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			And they have a better opportunity in making
		
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			something better in this world, ﷺ.
		
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			That's why ilm, whether you're teaching it or
		
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			you're studying it, is extremely important.
		
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			Brothers and sisters, however, nowadays we live in
		
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			a society where there's a lot of competition
		
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			between civilizations and cultures and a lot of
		
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			streams and even sects among the Muslims and
		
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			all these things.
		
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			Everybody is promoting themselves right now to be
		
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			the standard of sound knowledge and sound ilm.
		
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			For the believer, for ilm to have a
		
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			value, it has to be grounded in something
		
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			solid.
		
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			And there's nothing more solid than the Book
		
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			of Allah ﷻ and the sunnah of the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			Nothing more solid than that.
		
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			And that's why the Prophet ﷺ emphasized that
		
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			many, many times.
		
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			That you cannot do any ibadah unless you
		
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			have a proof for it in the Qur
		
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			'an and the sunnah of the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			And you need to have that sound ilm
		
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			and sound knowledge in which you promote the
		
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			deen of Allah ﷻ and the practice of
		
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			that knowledge to the best of your ability.
		
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			So for that knowledge to be sound, it
		
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			has to be grounded in the Qur'an
		
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			and the sunnah of the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			Because one of the major sins that Allah
		
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			mentioned in the Qur'an, He says, that
		
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			you speak about Allah ﷻ, which you have
		
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			no knowledge of.
		
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			So nowadays there is a lot of competition
		
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			to what is considered sound knowledge.
		
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			And alhamdulillah, as we see the whole world
		
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			from around us, drowning in the oceans of
		
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			misguidance, in terms of principles and ideologies, and
		
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			many things happen, even in morality and akhlaq,
		
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			they change even the most basic things.
		
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			The most basic knowledge of biology, even.
		
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			They've changed that.
		
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			Because they have no solid foundation for that
		
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			knowledge.
		
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			They keep changing it.
		
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			But for a believer, you have solid foundation.
		
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			I go back over to the Qur'an
		
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			and the sunnah of the Prophet ﷺ, to
		
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			my deen, my iman.
		
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			This is where my knowledge comes from.
		
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			And that's what grounded ourselves in this society
		
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			and also our children, brothers and sisters.
		
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			And because of that, as Muslims started migrating
		
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			to this society, to the West and coming
		
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			to America, many of our children, when they
		
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			first came here, they didn't have any other
		
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			option but to be in public school.
		
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			And many of these parents, as they grew
		
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			up in this society, and then, subhanAllah, they
		
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			realized how dangerous that school system was for
		
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			them when they were growing up over here.
		
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			And then for their children, the first generation,
		
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			when they came over here.
		
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			The idea of creating a safe haven for
		
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			our children has become very essential.
		
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			And alhamdulillah, we had many, many pioneers in
		
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			the Muslim community in America.
		
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			They thought about this for many, many years
		
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			before.
		
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			Which is why before Allah, we have, mashaAllah,
		
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			thousands, actually, I would say, of Islamic schools
		
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			around the country.
		
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			Everywhere you go, here in Dallas, alhamdulillah, we
		
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			have many of these Islamic schools.
		
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			Chicago, they have more than 40 plus schools,
		
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			mashaAllah.
		
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			Even Florida, everywhere you go, mashaAllah, the Muslim
		
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			community is actually investing in that.
		
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			Now, why is that so important for us?
		
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			Especially in the time of ours today.
		
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			Brothers and sisters, I've been going to many
		
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			conferences and there's always that title in some
		
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			lectures and some themes of these conferences saying
		
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			the Muslim identity, the Muslim identity.
		
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			Why is that?
		
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			Because, yeah, the parents are actually concerned about
		
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			their children.
		
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			They're concerned about the identity of the kids
		
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			these days.
		
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			You know, 20 plus years ago, the major
		
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			concern was grown-up Muslims or non-Muslims.
		
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			That was one of the major concerns.
		
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			Right now, people are worried about growing up
		
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			to be a man or a woman.
		
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			But even to this basic identity of biology,
		
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			it's been challenged in this society, even in
		
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			the school system.
		
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			When they promote to children things that subhanAllah
		
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			defies the basic fitrah, which is the foundation
		
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			of knowledge here from the heart that Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala instilled in us to
		
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			know what's right and what's wrong about these
		
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			matters.
		
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			This has been challenged in the name of
		
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			knowledge, in the name of advancement, in the
		
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			name of whatever they want to call it.
		
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			But for the believer, it's a serious challenge.
		
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			Which is why a lot of people, especially
		
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			in times like ours, are actually leaving small
		
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			cities and small towns, some of them big
		
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			cities as well, to go where they believe,
		
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			alhamdulillah, I can find a good Islamic school
		
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			for my children.
		
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			They want to preserve their identity, the basic
		
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			and the religious as well too.
		
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			They want to make sure that, alhamdulillah, at
		
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			least my kids, they grow up with like
		
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			-minded families, those who are concerned about the
		
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			dunya as well as the akhira of their
		
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			children.
		
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			Alhamdulillah, for the dunya, a lot of schools
		
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			are out there.
		
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			But how many of these schools that are
		
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			out there would promote something related to their
		
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			ibadah, their relationship with Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala.
		
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			And these schools became more like the bloodline
		
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			for these families to help them promote the
		
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			akhlaq and the manners of the believers in
		
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			relation to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and
		
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			the people around them.
		
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			And alhamdulillah rabbil alameen, our Islamic schools, at
		
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			least here in Dallas, they are known to
		
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			be excellent in terms of academic performance.
		
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			It's not just a matter of religious education,
		
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			it's also when it comes to the academia.
		
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			Alhamdulillah, these schools for us bring friendship that
		
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			is very essential for our brothers and sisters,
		
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			the families, as well as our children.
		
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			And if you have kids in an Islamic
		
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			school, you know how valuable that is to
		
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			you, knowing that your daughter or your son
		
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			are going to the masjid to meet their
		
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			friends or going to this program after school
		
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			to do this and that together.
		
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			As a group of Muslim families, alhamdulillah rabbil
		
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			alameen.
		
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			A beautiful thing to feel safe with, at
		
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			least knowing that you have like-minded people
		
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			around you.
		
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			Brothers and sisters, we've come to have alhamdulillah
		
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			these Islamic schools.
		
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			It's one of those really essentials for any
		
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			community for it to be grounded as well
		
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			as moving forward.
		
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			And I know, a lot of people might
		
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			say, but Ya Shaykh, they're not perfect Islamic
		
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			schools.
		
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			They're not really Islamic, so they're Muslim schools.
		
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			And I agree with you.
		
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			I agree with you.
		
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			There is nothing perfect in this dunya.
		
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			But at least we're working for excellence as
		
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			much as we can.
		
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			We're trying our best, inshallah, wata'ala.
		
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			And it's very important that we support one
		
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			another.
		
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			Even if I don't have my kids in
		
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			that school, I need to still support the
		
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			project.
		
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			I need to support that principle, inshallah, wata
		
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			'ala, because it's crucial, and it's extremely important
		
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			for us as one community, inshallah, wata'ala.
		
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			Brothers and sisters, alhamdulillah rabbil alameen, here in
		
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			our community, fadallahi wa ta'ala, in your
		
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			masjid over here, we have the Islamic school
		
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			of Erbil, one of alhamdulillah leading Islamic schools
		
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			in the area over here.
		
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			When I first moved to this community 15
		
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			years ago, it was still, alhamdulillah, in the
		
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			inception, and it was growing.
		
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			Maybe it wasn't the largest school in the
		
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			area, but 15 years later, mashallah, you can
		
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			see the growth in the community itself and
		
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			the school as well.
		
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			And that requires our support, inshallah, wata'ala,
		
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			to make sure that the future of our
		
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			community, bismillah, continues to be bright, bismillah azza
		
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			wa jal.
		
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			This is why tomorrow, inshallah, your school, our
		
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			school, the Islamic school of Erbil, has its
		
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			fundraising, inshallah, wata'ala, to expand.
		
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			And why is this so essential?
		
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			Because we've seen the growth.
		
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			We've seen the growth, alhamdulillah.
		
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			There are a lot of families, they come
		
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			and they ask if there is room for
		
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			my children in the school.
		
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			Can I bring my kids to the school?
		
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			Can I register them in the school?
		
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			And we feel so bad to send people
		
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			back and say, you know what, no, but
		
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			you're going to have to be on the
		
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			waiting list.
		
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			And sometimes that waiting list can be very,
		
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			very long.
		
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			And with your support, inshallah, wata'ala, you
		
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			will ensure that many of these families have
		
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			the ability to be there, inshallah, wata'ala.
		
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			And even if you don't have children in
		
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			that school, your contribution, I hope, bismillah, wata
		
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			'ala, will create that environment.
		
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			So whatever khair, whatever ilm that these kids
		
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			will learn, whatever good that comes out of
		
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			it, inshallah, wata'ala, you are part of
		
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			it.
		
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			Your reward will be registered with Allah, subhanahu
		
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			wata'ala, so make sure to support your
		
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			community and support your school.
		
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			My dear brothers and sisters, as we speak
		
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			about the expansion of the school, people wonder
		
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			why do we need that for.
		
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			Just to give you an idea from personal
		
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			experience, for the past few weeks, alhamdulillah, rabbil
		
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			alameen, we have seen a lot of people
		
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			traveling and visiting the area, coming to explore
		
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			the potential of moving to the community, whether
		
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			it's to the Valley Ranch area or here
		
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			in the Irving area or anywhere else in
		
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			the DFW area.
		
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			And a lot of people, part of their
		
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			first question that they ask about, where are
		
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			the Islamic schools?
		
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			Do you guys have Islamic schools?
		
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			What type of Islamic schools do they have?
		
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			And just in this past weekend, the last
		
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			weekend as a matter of fact, I met
		
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			seven different people from different active states.
		
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			Four of them came from the Northeast, and
		
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			three from different other states, and everybody was
		
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			asking about the Islamic school.
		
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			And that means that many people, they will
		
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			come for the school as well, too.
		
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			So even if you don't have your kids
		
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			in that school, that is actually growth for
		
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			your community.
		
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			Human resources, financial resources as well, too, inshallah,
		
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			wata'ala, and hopefully, bidden Allahi azza wa
		
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			jal, more stability, more advancement for the Muslim
		
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			community in this area.
		
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			So support this project.
		
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			Barakallah fikum and join us tomorrow, inshallah, wata
		
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			'ala.
		
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			Wa min Allahi tawfiq.
		
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			Al-Fatiha.