Yasir Khan – Weekly Seerah Session The Era of Madinah

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The speakers discuss the upcoming expiration of the prophet sallim and the political entity that will be the new Prophet. The history and use of the Quraysh are also highlighted. The confusion surrounding the upcoming expedition and the importance of the Quraysh are discussed, as well as the importance of being aware of the situation and protecting oneself. The upcoming expedition is designed to gather information and take advantage of the wealth of the Muslims, but the Muslims are confused and fear the upcoming attacks creating chaos and corruption. The Quraysh have already lost their wealth and are focusing on intercepting the caravan, and the upcoming major battle of Badr is covered next week.

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			Aliyahu wa sakhi j'mayin.
		
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			Inshallah, we'll continue in the seerah of the
		
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			prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. We're reaching a
		
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			point in the seerah of the prophet sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam where the Muslim Ummah is
		
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			actually becoming
		
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			a state, is actually becoming a political entity,
		
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			and now
		
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			they will be starting to make decisions
		
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			that will not just strengthen an individual, but
		
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			will actually create a system.
		
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			And
		
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			in many ways, we follow that system that
		
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			was created all the way
		
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			of the period of that we're going to
		
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			be talking about now.
		
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			You see, we have about 8 years left
		
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			of the life of the
		
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			prophet to cover, and if you realize up
		
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			till now,
		
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			we are discussing
		
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			different incidents of the seerah of the prophet
		
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			but we are not really discussing anything that
		
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			we really see of Islam today.
		
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			We're just discussing different different stories,
		
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			scattered pieces,
		
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			but now the next 8 years,
		
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			everything comes together and we start to understand
		
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			what we see today from Islam,
		
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			and that is a system.
		
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			That isn't just like, okay, one person individually
		
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			doing something or another person individually doing something,
		
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			but it's rather a complete system, and that's
		
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			what we see. So last time we discussed
		
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			that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, he changed the
		
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			qiblah for the believers
		
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			from facing Baytul Maqdis to facing
		
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			the Kaaba.
		
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			And
		
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			now that this happened, we can't just say
		
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			that, okay, it just happened and that's it.
		
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			But there's a significance to this and there's
		
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			symbolism in this
		
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			that now that the prophet
		
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			and the believers are facing the Kaaba,
		
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			it's basically symbolizing that sooner or later, the
		
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			Muslims are gonna get control of Mecca once
		
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			again, and that the Muslims are gonna start
		
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			to become the leaders of the Mecca because
		
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			you don't face
		
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			a prophet of Allah does not face something
		
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			except that Allah will
		
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			give him victory in that. So we see
		
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			that the prophet
		
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			is
		
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			basically giving that,
		
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			okay, there's going to be a victory.
		
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			Now one of the major things that happens
		
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			now that is the first
		
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			manifestation
		
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			of that victory,
		
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			as we all know, is the Battle of
		
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			Badr.
		
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			But before Badr happened, there were so many
		
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			different incidents that led to Badr, and today
		
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			we just want to kind of cover what
		
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			were all those incidents that led to them,
		
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			and we see the meticulous planning of the
		
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			Prophet
		
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			throughout every single
		
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			period, throughout every single step he's planning, and
		
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			he is taking his due diligence, and he's
		
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			doing whatever he can
		
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			and not just saying that, Oh, I'm a
		
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			prophet of Allah, so whatever happens, Allah will
		
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			protect me. Rather,
		
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			he has his complete faith in Allah but
		
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			he is doing whatever he can to make
		
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			sure
		
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			that he uses all the means available to
		
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			the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			So we see that
		
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			number 1, we recognize that up till now,
		
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			when we covered the Makkan phase, we realized
		
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			that the Quraysh, they have taken all the
		
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			wealth of the Muslims.
		
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			They have confiscated their lands.
		
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			They have basically
		
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			driven them out of Makkah without anything.
		
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			And so the Quraysh have become quite rich.
		
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			They have a lot of wealth. And remember,
		
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			we discussed in the very beginning
		
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			that the Quraysh only had two means
		
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			of basically investing their wealth, of growing their
		
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			wealth, and sustaining their economy.
		
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			It wasn't something within home. It wasn't something
		
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			that they basically got because they stayed in
		
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			Makkah.
		
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			But rather, it grew and grew and grew
		
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			because they used to do 2 business trips.
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us about these
		
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			2 business trips in Surah Quraish.
		
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			Right?
		
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			In winter, they used to go to
		
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			Yemen, and in summer, they used to go
		
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			to
		
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			Sham, to Syria, and they used to invest
		
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			this wealth. And as we've discussed before,
		
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			that
		
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			going to Syria, going to Sham, you're basically
		
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			going north,
		
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			and Madinah also comes in north. So in
		
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			order for you to go to Sham, you
		
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			have to pass by Madinah.
		
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			So now their economic development,
		
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			their growth, their investment, everything depends on passing
		
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			through Madina.
		
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			And although the Muslims so far,
		
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			they have not really done anything
		
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			to really, you know,
		
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			show that, okay, we're going to battle against
		
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			you. Now slow and slowly and slowly, the
		
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			Muslims are going to start to show that.
		
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			And that's because if you don't,
		
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			the people are gonna think you're weak and
		
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			they're gonna continuously
		
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			attack you. So when we talk about
		
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			there are 2 incidents that happened with
		
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			One is
		
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			and one is
		
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			So the one that we all know about,
		
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			the major battle that the Muslims won and
		
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			all of that, That is Badr al Kubra,
		
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			the major battle of Badr, but there's also
		
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			the and we need to basically understand that
		
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			as well. And the point of understanding that
		
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			is so that we may realize that the
		
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			prophet
		
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			isn't just planning in vain,
		
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			but and isn't just planning because he has
		
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			some evil plans,
		
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			but he's planning because there's active
		
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			plans going against Islam, going against Muslims and
		
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			if they don't do anything against it, if
		
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			they don't show their strength and their power,
		
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			then slowly, slowly, this is going to increase.
		
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			So
		
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			when it comes to Badr,
		
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			first of all,
		
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			what is Badr?
		
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			Badr is actually a name of a person.
		
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			His name was Badr
		
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			and he was a person who dug up
		
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			a well
		
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			in a specific field.
		
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			And people started to benefit from that well
		
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			well and everything, so the whole entire area
		
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			started to get to know by that area
		
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			that that is
		
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			Badr. The whole area is Badr. Many of
		
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			you may have gone to it. It's right
		
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			between
		
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			Mecca and Madinah. It's actually closer to Madinah,
		
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			maybe about an hour and 15 minutes or
		
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			so drive from there. But it's right between
		
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			Mecca and Madinah closer to Madinah. And, again,
		
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			it's just the name of a person, but
		
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			the whole area got to know to be
		
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			known because of this person.
		
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			Now
		
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			this area,
		
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			the Badr the first incident that happened, the
		
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			Badr al Surah, the small incident of Badr
		
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			actually doesn't have anything to do with the
		
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			major battle of Badr. The only reason why
		
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			it's known as Badr is because it happened
		
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			in this area. So because of that, it's
		
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			known as that. But what actually happened? What
		
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			happened is one of the allies of Purush,
		
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			one of the allies of Purush, they came
		
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			into Madinah
		
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			or to the outskirts of Madinah, and they
		
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			basically
		
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			stole
		
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			some of the camels from the Muslims,
		
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			and they also killed some people. Right? The
		
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			prophet
		
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			head out with about 70 of his companions
		
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			to reach up to these people, but of
		
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			course, there were only very few in numbers
		
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			and they basically,
		
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			they basically went away and the Muslims were
		
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			not able to catch up to them. So
		
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			this is basically,
		
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			the whole incident. As you can see, it
		
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			doesn't really have much to do
		
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			with the actual battle of Badr.
		
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			What happens is when this is now happening
		
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			that people can just come into Madinah,
		
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			take everything, it kinda has this thing that
		
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			okay the Muslims are weak. You can go
		
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			and do whatever you want, however you want.
		
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			And also the Muslims are not aware. And
		
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			the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam teaches us
		
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			over here that, no, a Muslim must be
		
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			aware, a Muslim must be active,
		
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			a Muslim must know
		
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			whereabouts
		
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			of everything and be using the asbaab to
		
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			protect themselves. So the Prophet
		
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			makes a group. This time, in this period,
		
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			he makes multiple different groups to go out
		
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			and scout, to go out and get the
		
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			information, to go and see what's going on.
		
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			And one of the major things that happens
		
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			over here is the
		
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			is the expedition
		
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			called
		
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			And Nakla is actually a place all the
		
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			way close to Makkah. What happened is the
		
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			Prophet he
		
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			gets about 8 of his companions,
		
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			and he writes a letter. He says that,
		
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			I want you guys to go towards this
		
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			direction,
		
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			towards Mecca, and here's a letter.
		
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			Don't open up this letter until you guys
		
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			reach that place.
		
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			And so this letter, they have now, the
		
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			Amir of this Jahish is Abdullah bin Jahash.
		
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			He's a cousin of the prophet
		
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			The small group of about 8 people, they
		
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			start to go towards
		
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			Makkah. When they reach Nakla,
		
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			they open up this ladder to see what's
		
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			going on. And the Prophet
		
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			tells them, not
		
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			before a place, telling them that I want
		
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			you to go all the way up till
		
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			the outskirts,
		
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			and all the way the outskirts of Mecca,
		
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			and I want you to get some information
		
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			of what the Quraysh are up to. What
		
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			are they planning? What's going on?
		
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			And I don't want you to go into
		
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			any battle. I don't want you to go
		
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			into any arms, anything like that. And another
		
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			thing is, I want you to make this
		
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			completely voluntary.
		
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			So ask all of the people who are
		
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			in this expedition,
		
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			if any of them want to leave, let
		
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			them leave. None of them actually have to
		
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			participate in this. So Abdul Jabez,
		
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			he reads this, and he said that we
		
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			are instructed to go all the way close
		
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			to Makkah.
		
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			Go all the way by and basically get
		
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			the information.
		
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			If any of you want to go home,
		
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			you guys can go home. And if you
		
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			guys want to participate, you can participate.
		
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			At this, all the companions are like, we
		
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			will participate.
		
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			Now, the
		
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			every 2 companions, they were sharing 1 camel.
		
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			And
		
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			one of the other companions,
		
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			one time they were sleeping and when they
		
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			got up, their camel was taken by somebody.
		
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			So they basically tell the rest of the
		
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			army, the rest of the expedition, a group
		
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			of 6 people, you guys continue.
		
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			We won't, but you guys continue. We will
		
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			look for another camel, and once we get
		
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			something, we will come with you. So now
		
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			the rest of the Muslims, they start to
		
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			go. When they're going, they see that there
		
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			is a small caravan,
		
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			few camels filled with all types of goods
		
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			and everything
		
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			and this is basically
		
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			the wealth of the Muslims.
		
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			They're coming
		
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			and this is a golden opportunity for them
		
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			to basically attack because there's only a few
		
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			people, they can get all the wealth and
		
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			it will be something,
		
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			you know, the the first time that the
		
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			Muslims are actually getting their wealth back. And
		
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			so it's a really good opportunity,
		
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			but they're actually in a very severe
		
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			two conditions. Number 1, they're very close to
		
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			Makkah.
		
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			Right? Number 2, and which is the most
		
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			important thing, or actually number 1, you could
		
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			even say, even the prophet of Allahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam told them that, listen. This is
		
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			just to go and get intelligence.
		
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			It's not about fighting. But the Muslims see
		
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			this as a golden opportunity.
		
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			They see this as like, okay. You know
		
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			what? We can actually
		
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			benefit the Muslims through this if we get
		
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			all this wealth and everything.
		
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			So they're in this confused situation, and what
		
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			makes it very confusing actually
		
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			is that it's the last day of Rajab.
		
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			And the Rajab is one of the
		
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			one of the sacred months, the Quraysh and
		
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			the even the,
		
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			they still believed in the 4 months to
		
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			have sanctity,
		
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			to be sacred. You're not allowed to fight
		
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			in this. You're not allowed to do anything
		
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			during this time.
		
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			Any type of battle, any type of blood
		
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			shedding, anything. The Muslims the the Puris till
		
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			this time consider
		
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			the Haram,
		
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			right, where the is, where the Kaaba is,
		
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			all of that to be a sacred place,
		
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			and they considered the 4 months to be
		
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			sacred as well. Now the Muslims are confused
		
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			what what do we do. There's only a
		
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			few literally a few hours left because it's
		
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			about other time, it's gonna turn Maghrib, and
		
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			if they if it happens,
		
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			then, you know, it's gonna be outside it's
		
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			gonna be within the Rajab. And if this
		
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			happens,
		
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			this is gonna make such a case for
		
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			who? For the Quraysh to spread the word,
		
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			to make a negative PR,
		
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			public relations, to spread the news against the
		
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			Muslims and, oh my god, they did this,
		
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			and how horrible are they? They're the worst
		
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			people. They did this. They did that. And
		
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			they're really going to basically
		
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			create this negative image of the Muslims.
		
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			Unfortunately, the Muslims decided. They were like, you
		
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			know what? We're gonna take our chances. They
		
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			took our chances, and they killed the person.
		
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			They killed the person, and they took all
		
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			the
		
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			back to Madinah.
		
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			When they took the to Madinah, the Prophet
		
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			was so upset.
		
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			He said, I don't even wanna look at
		
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			this
		
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			We're not going to benefit from this. And
		
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			Abdullah ibn Jairus radiAllahu anhu is like, it
		
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			was the hardest days of his life,
		
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			because it's almost the prophet
		
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			is so disappointed
		
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			that I told you clearly
		
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			that you are going to just go get
		
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			intelligence, just go get information.
		
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			There's nothing about going and, you know, doing
		
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			anything to, you know, attack or anything like
		
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			that.
		
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			And
		
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			the Muslims did that. Abdullah bin Jahish radiAllahu
		
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			anhu is like, those were the darkest days.
		
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			I didn't know what to do.
		
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			Right? It says that the prophet isn't
		
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			talking to me, nobody I I just feel
		
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			the most guilty person alive.
		
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			And they felt like this until Allah
		
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			revealed an ayah.
		
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			Revealed an ayah talking about the Quraysh,
		
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			that you guys are talking about
		
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			killing?
		
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			You guys are creating
		
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			You guys are creating
		
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			such
		
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			chaos and corruption
		
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			that you have kicked people out of their
		
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			house. You have occupied their place. You have
		
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			taken their wealth. You have done all of
		
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			that. This is much worse than death. It's
		
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			and killing itself.
		
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			And so when this comes and the Abdullah
		
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			bin Jahash radiAllahu 1 who's basically relieved
		
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			out of this, you know, guilt
		
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			that he's holding because he thinks that he
		
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			has done such a sin that he won't
		
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			be forgiven, but Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, he
		
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			reveals the ayah and Abdullah bin Jahashrul the
		
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			Allah one who is freed of this. So
		
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			we see that You see, an incident happened
		
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			to the Muslims. The prophet didn't
		
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			just say, okay. Let it happen.
		
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			Rather,
		
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			he waited.
		
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			He said, I'm going to send different expeditions,
		
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			different small small groups, a group to south,
		
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			a group to north, all of these different
		
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			groups because we have to make sure that
		
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			we are prepared.
		
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			We know what's going on, how it's going
		
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			on, and that is exactly what they did.
		
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			Also, now what's happening is
		
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			another
		
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			small
		
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			expedition and that is called.
		
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			And what happens over here is that the
		
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			Muslims,
		
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			again, as I said, have lot their all
		
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			of their wealth is locked up in Mecca.
		
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			And what do the Muslims do now? The
		
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			Muslims take all this wealth and they send
		
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			it to Sham, they send it to Syria
		
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			so they could invest it. So that this
		
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			way, they can actually
		
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			go, get different trading goods, come back and
		
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			sell. So the Prophet
		
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			finds out about this, and he finds out
		
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			that this is the biggest caravan that the
		
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			Quraysh have ever had. It's 1,000 camels.
		
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			There are this 1,000 camels, if you do
		
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			the calculation today, it's worth more than $5,000,000.
		
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			If you are able to bring this money
		
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			into to Madinah,
		
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			this will have 2 very important
		
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			influences.
		
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			Number 1, the economy of the Quraysh
		
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			will cripple.
		
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			And if this happens,
		
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			they no longer will continuously think about attacking
		
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			the Muslims
		
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			because till now, they have spared no effort
		
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			in attacking the Muslims. And the wealthier they
		
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			get, the more they're going to intensify
		
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			their efforts against the Muslims.
		
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			So this is one thing. The second is
		
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			when this wealth comes to Madinah,
		
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			this will allow the Sahaba to become a
		
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			little bit independent.
		
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			This will allow the Sahaba to take a
		
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			breath.
		
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			It will allow them to get their wealth
		
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			back. So the Prophet
		
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			he hears about this. When he hears about
		
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			this,
		
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			that this expedition is coming, this is going
		
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			this this caravan is coming and it's going
		
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			towards shab, the Prophet
		
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			at this point,
		
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			he talks to his companions. Now understand one
		
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			thing, understand the dynamics of Madinah.
		
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			The dynamics of Madinah
		
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			is such that you still have some people
		
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			who are not Muslims.
		
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			You still have people who have their alliance
		
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			with the Quraysh.
		
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			You still have Munafiqoon,
		
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			hypocrites.
		
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			So the
		
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			prophet does not just make a general announcement
		
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			and says that, alright guys, we're going and
		
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			we're going for this exact plan or anything
		
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			like that. It says that the prophet
		
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			actually did not announce
		
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			where he's going, why he's going, anything like
		
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			that. He just said, Guys, we gotta go
		
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			for a very important matter. Whoever is ready
		
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			right now, we have to leave.
		
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			And some of the companions are like, Oh,
		
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			prophet of Allah, we have our camels and
		
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			stuff somewhere else. Let us go get it.
		
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			They're like, no. No. No. No. You nobody's
		
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			going anywhere.
		
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			Whoever is ready right now has their camel,
		
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			everything is ready, we are leaving right now.
		
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			And so they head out. You see, this
		
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			shows us number 1,
		
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			the intention of the prophet
		
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			was not to fight.
		
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			The intention of the prophet
		
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			was
		
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			not to fight or anything like that because
		
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			he's just going to intercept the caravan
		
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			so that this way, they may get some
		
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			of their wealth back. And this caravan is
		
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			being headed by Abu Sufyan, and he has
		
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			about 40 bodyguards, but to be honest, for
		
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			a 1000 camels, that's not enough, and this
		
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			was a golden opportunity for the Muslims.
		
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			Now the Muslims starts to head out.
		
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			They have no idea.
		
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			Later on, the prophet tells
		
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			them what the reasoning for this was. And
		
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			so the prophet
		
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			tells them what the reasoning was, but unfortunately,
		
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			at this point, Abu Sufyan has already found
		
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			out, and he has taken another route and
		
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			the Muslims missed them.
		
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			The Muslims missed them, the Muslims were not
		
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			able to get that caravan, they were not
		
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			able to get this.
		
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			But what we learned from this is that
		
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			number 1, look at the meticulous planning of
		
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			the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Number 2,
		
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			the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam didn't just
		
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			leave the kuffar and the, you know, the
		
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			the the people to keep on attacking and
		
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			no action done.
		
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			He sent
		
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			out
		
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			he sent out expeditions such as that of
		
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			Nakla.
		
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			He sent out different companions. And even now
		
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			when there's an opportunity,
		
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			he goes out and tries to benefit from
		
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			this opportunity.
		
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			Then
		
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			we see that even though the prophet
		
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			comes back and they don't really get anything
		
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			in this, we have to understand, he goes,
		
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			he makes some alliances with some tribes and
		
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			anything, but the planning that they went with,
		
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			it did not happen. And it goes to
		
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			show us something, something very important,
		
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			and that is look, the prophet sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam, even though he's a prophet,
		
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			it's not that every single minute of his
		
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			life he got a miracle.
		
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			It's not that every single time he got
		
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			a victory, okay, you won in this, you
		
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			get whatever you want. It wasn't like that.
		
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			And we have to understand that even in
		
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			our life, it's not always going to go
		
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			our way.
		
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			It's not always going to be the way
		
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			we plan.
		
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			And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is the best
		
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			of planners.
		
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			If he's allowing the prophet salallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam to go through all of that struggle
		
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			at the end not to achieve the, the
		
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			intended outcome,
		
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			then we should understand that even for us,
		
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			when we go through that, we should not
		
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			give up. And this then leads on to
		
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			the major battle of Badr that, inshallah, we
		
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			will cover next week what happened in the
		
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			major battle of Badr because that was the
		
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			turning point for the Muslims.
		
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			That is when the Muslims actually get strength.
		
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			The world finds out about them. The people
		
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			who are not believing in Madinah, they begin
		
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			to believe. The they
		
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			get weakened. The Quraysh, they get weakened. And
		
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			that is when we see
		
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			the system of Islam
		
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			being established
		
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			and we benefit from that system till today.
		
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			So up till now, it's all background background
		
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			background information
		
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			and starting with the major battle of Badr,
		
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			that's when see major developments. So inshallah, we
		
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			will cover that next week. May Allah give
		
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			us the ability to understand.