Yasir Khan – Weekly Seerah Session The Year of Grief

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The speaker discusses the struggles of the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam, who lost his wife and two children. He emphasizes the importance of faith and optimism in addressing suffering and loss, and the need to consider the full story of what helped people to Islam. The history of Islam, including Omar Radiallahu's stance against Islam and his desire to take care of his hometown, is also discussed, along with the importance of following Sunitz Ray and focusing on strength and intentions to achieve goals.

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			All of these things are related. When we
		
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			look at the Prophet
		
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			there isn't any type of pain that he
		
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			has gone through.
		
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			And scholars say that if the Prophet
		
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			was so beloved to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
		
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			then why would he make him go through
		
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			so much pain?
		
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			Because the prophet is
		
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			a and a for us.
		
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			He's an example for us.
		
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			So this way whenever we are going through
		
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			anything in life,
		
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			immediately we think about it and we say
		
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			that, okay, the prophet
		
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			has gone through the same thing. When I
		
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			was going
		
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			to the burial,
		
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			I was talking to my sister and she
		
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			was saying that, you know, it's so hard
		
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			when you think about leaving your children behind.
		
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			It's so everybody's looking at it from a
		
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			different perspective. Some people are like, you know,
		
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			it's so hard
		
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			to have your wife pass away. Some people
		
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			are looking at it so hard to leave
		
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			your children behind. It's so hard to be
		
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			alone. It's so When you look at it,
		
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			every one of these, the prophet sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam has gone through. He was born
		
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			without the parents,
		
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			then taken away from his foster mother,
		
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			then his
		
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			the one person who was taking care of
		
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			him like a father,
		
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			Abdul Muttalib, he passes away, and then continuously
		
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			he's going through these pains.
		
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			But not just this type of pain, one
		
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			is the pain of childhood in which you
		
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			lose your beloved,
		
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			but then the other is when you become
		
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			the adult and you lose someone.
		
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			So he lost his children as well.
		
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			And not just that, at the time of
		
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			death when the prophet is
		
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			going through the pain and the agony, subhanallah,
		
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			I never thought about this until my sister
		
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			just brought it up. She said, you know,
		
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			the biggest thing that worries me is leaving
		
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			my children.
		
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			I'm thinking always about what's gonna happen to
		
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			my children.
		
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			So I thought about the pain of leaving
		
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			some the pain of losing someone,
		
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			but not the pain of leaving someone.
		
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			And so my sister brought this up. I
		
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			I thought
		
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			maybe this is why Allah
		
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			made one of his daughters, just one of
		
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			his daughters, Fatima radhiallahu anha,
		
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			stay back.
		
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			Other than that, every single person was passed
		
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			away in his life. And as we went
		
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			when I when I was just witnessing right
		
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			now in the Kaaba,
		
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			Sheikh Mohammed al Hawizi, he's crying,
		
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			picking up
		
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			his wife
		
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			and putting her in the grave.
		
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			And his son is right next to him
		
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			crying and picking up his mother
		
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			and putting her in the grave. And Sheikh
		
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			Ramadan al Sabav
		
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			is crying and picking up his sister and
		
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			putting her in the grave.
		
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			And I said, we need to start to
		
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			reflect
		
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			that one day
		
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			we will have to put or either other
		
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			people will have to put us.
		
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			Have to put whether it's our mother or
		
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			father,
		
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			it's our sister, it's our brother, it's our
		
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			children,
		
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			whatever it may be, or one day is
		
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			gonna come where other people will be putting
		
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			us over here.
		
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			And this is what we need to recognize.
		
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			Sheikh Mohammed Al Haveliz,
		
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			he was crying so much
		
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			because he said, this lady helped me when
		
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			I was coming to America. I had no
		
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			wealth. She sold her jewelry so that I
		
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			come here today.
		
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			In a little bit, we're gonna reach to
		
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			the year of Amul Husal.
		
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			The year of sorrow, the grief of the
		
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			year of grief in which the prophet sallallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam lost lost
		
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			his wife.
		
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			And he said,
		
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			she believed in me when everybody rejected me.
		
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			She supported me when everybody neglected me.
		
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			So this all that we see in our
		
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			life,
		
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			when we have the seerah of the prophet
		
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			salallahu alaihi wa sallam in our life, it
		
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			becomes easy
		
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			because you know that he's there with you.
		
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			And as Sheikh Mohammed was hugging every single
		
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			person, he continues to say, Alhamdulillah.
		
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			Alhamdulillah.
		
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			Alhamdulillah.
		
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			Where does he get this energy from?
		
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			Where does he get this iman from? Where
		
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			does he get the strength that today he's
		
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			burying?
		
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			The most beloved person to him, and he's
		
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			saying, Alhamdulillah.
		
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			Whereas on the opposite side, you will see.
		
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			We had one student.
		
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			When I asked him, I said,
		
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			Tell me the story of your family.
		
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			He was a convert.
		
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			And he said that, When my father passed
		
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			away,
		
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			my mother committed suicide.
		
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			You can't take that pain when you don't
		
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			have iman, when you don't have faith, when
		
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			you don't have an example,
		
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			when you don't have somebody, when you don't
		
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			have that hope that we are going to
		
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			see each other in jannah.
		
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			But when you have that faith,
		
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			that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is giving me
		
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			reward for this,
		
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			then you have that example of the prophet
		
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			salallahu alaihi wa sallam. Continuously, Sheikh Mohammed is
		
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			saying, alhamdulillah, and referring to the seerah even
		
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			when the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam lost
		
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			his son.
		
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			When he lost his son,
		
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			he's crying
		
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			and his heart is aching,
		
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			and he says,
		
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			He said that today the eyes are tearing
		
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			and the heart is aching.
		
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			He said, we are not going to say
		
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			anything except what Allah
		
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			is pleased with.
		
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			We are pleased with Allah
		
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			Sheikh was saying today, going back to the
		
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			seerah continuously going back to the seerah, that
		
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			today when he's putting his wife into the
		
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			grave, he said, you Allah, we are pleased
		
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			with you. You Allah, you took her away.
		
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			You took her away suddenly. We weren't prepared
		
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			for this. You took her away, but we
		
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			are happy with this.
		
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			All of this goes back to show us
		
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			that when you have a connection with the
		
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			seerah,
		
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			when you have a connection
		
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			with the life of the prophet salallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam, it will come wallahi.
		
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			I tell you this from experience.
		
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			I tell you this from my own pains
		
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			that it will come to you and rescue
		
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			you and give you the strength when you
		
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			are going to need it the most.
		
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			Otherwise, you see
		
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			people who lose their strong people who lose
		
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			their their their beloveds,
		
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			they lose their hope.
		
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			They have nothing to hold on to. Either
		
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			they go on to commit suicide,
		
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			they go on to depression,
		
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			they go on to all types of
		
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			alcohol,
		
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			drugs.
		
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			Trust me, the root cause when you look
		
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			at society of all evil is the lack
		
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			of faith,
		
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			the lack of role model, the lack of
		
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			having an example.
		
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			Because when you look
		
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			at being alone, being empty, losing someone,
		
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			you need to take care of that pain.
		
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			You need to redirect that pain. But the
		
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			only way you will redirect it is when
		
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			you have iman, when you have faith, when
		
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			you have something to look forward to.
		
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			You have something to have hope in,
		
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			and that all is developed
		
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			from learning about the sirrah, from learning about
		
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			the life of the prophet salallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam because
		
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			his whole life could have been a luxury,
		
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			could have been a ease,
		
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			But Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala made him go
		
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			through all of that. So you and I,
		
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			when we go through the struggles, when we
		
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			go through the pain, when we go through
		
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			the difficulties,
		
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			we will say this is how the prophet
		
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			salallahu alaihi wa sallam went through it. This
		
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			is how he handled it and this is
		
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			how we are going to handle it.
		
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			So when we look at this,
		
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			realize
		
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			that Sira is a means of hope for
		
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			us. It's a means of optimism for us.
		
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			It's a means of iman for us. It's
		
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			a mean of yaqeen for us.
		
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			You see, continuously
		
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			up and down happening.
		
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			Last time we discussed that the prophet salallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam
		
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			was going through so much torture, seeing his
		
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			companions going through so much tortures.
		
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			Today, Sheikh Mohammed's wife,
		
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			they saw that she passed away. But when
		
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			you look at the seerah of the prophet
		
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			salallahu alaihi wa sallam, what did we discuss?
		
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			We discussed that Ammar ibn Yasir radiAllahu anhu
		
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			had to look at his mother
		
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			being whipped and tortured to death.
		
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			So whenever we are going through pain, whenever
		
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			we are going through grief, through difficulty,
		
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			we look at the seerah and we see
		
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			somebody who's gone through more.
		
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			He's seeing his father being killed right in
		
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			front of him. He's seeing his mother screaming
		
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			and being killed right in front of him.
		
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			When the prophet
		
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			saw no escape for them, he said, go
		
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			to Habasha.
		
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			Now only 30 to 40 people are left,
		
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			and they're continuously torturing the prophet
		
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			to the point where the person who is
		
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			even torturing
		
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			the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, the prophet
		
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			of Allah makes dua for him. The 2
		
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			people who are very strong in torturing the
		
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			Muslims
		
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			was Abu Jahl,
		
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			Amrud Al Hakam.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Abu Jahl.
		
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			And then who was the second one? The
		
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			second one was Omar radiAllahu anhu.
		
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			And a prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam made
		
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			dua you Allah.
		
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			You assist
		
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			Islam with 1 of the Ummars.
		
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			He's making that dua. We mentioned the story
		
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			of Hamzah radhiallahu onwu last time. Hamzah radhiallahu
		
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			onwu how he accepted. When the prophet salallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam was getting beaten and tortured
		
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			and a lady sees it, a slave girl
		
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			sees it, and goes to Hamzah radiAllahu and
		
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			says, look at your nephew. He's getting tortured.
		
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			What's wrong with you,
		
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			You can't go and defend him?
		
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			And she go he goes and defends and
		
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			he accepts Islam and then his Islam becomes
		
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			properly established. We talked about that. Now the
		
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			story of the Islam of Umar radhiallahu anhu,
		
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			a lot of us know one story.
		
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			That story of him going to his sister's
		
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			house.
		
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			But that's not the only time.
		
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			That's not the only thing that made him
		
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			accept Islam. And we need to keep that
		
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			in mind because sometimes
		
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			we see the people who come to the
		
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			masjid,
		
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			and they take shahada and we say
		
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			and go hug them, but we don't look
		
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			at the full story of what helped them,
		
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			what brought them to Islam.
		
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			Umar radiAllahu anhu while he was torturing,
		
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			he had small small
		
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			droplets on his heart of hidayah.
		
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			Small small drops that were going in there
		
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			that was removing the rust.
		
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			And one day he went out
		
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			at nighttime, and the prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam
		
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			was by the matath, by the Kaaba, and
		
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			he was praying his salah.
		
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			And he was praying his salah, Umar radhiallahu
		
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			alaihi was hiding.
		
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			And the when Umar radhiallahu alaihi was like,
		
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			man, these words that he's saying,
		
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			he must be a shire.
		
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			And Allah
		
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			makes the prophet
		
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			in the Quran say
		
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			Then maybe he's a soothsayer.
		
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			He's not that. Maybe it's magician. Maybe it's
		
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			this. Maybe it's that. And Allah
		
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			is making the prophet recite
		
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			ayaats that refused the thoughts of Omar Radiallahu
		
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			Anhu. Omar Radiallahu is in shock. He's like,
		
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			what's happening?
		
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			That was the first time small small droplets
		
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			of hidayah is going into Omar radiallahu anhu's
		
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			heart. Even to the extent that when the
		
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			Muslims were going
		
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			when the Muslims were going to Habasha and
		
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			Omar radiallahu anhu passed by the house
		
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			of Hud, passed by the house of Layla,
		
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			and he said, where are you guys going?
		
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			And she said that you guys have tortured
		
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			us so much that we have to leave
		
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			our hometown. And Omar is like, really?
		
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			We've we've gone that far? And
		
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			he kind of showed a little bit of
		
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			sympathy. He's like,
		
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			Allah take care of you guys.
		
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			And then when her husband comes,
		
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			he said, this is what he said. He
		
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			said, wallahi, the donkey of nil khatab
		
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			will accept Islam before Omar Khattab.
		
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			That's how staunch he was against Islam that
		
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			people thought that the donkey of Khattab,
		
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			the donkey of the family of Omar Radiallahu
		
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			and who will accept Islam before Omar Radiallahu
		
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			one.
		
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			And subhanAllah,
		
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			how Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala does. When the
		
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			prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam makes this du'a,
		
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			the next day,
		
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			the Umar radiAllahu and who in the the
		
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			kuffar, they're frustrated because of the Islam of
		
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			Hamza.
		
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			They're like, man, this is gaining momentum.
		
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			Omar Radi'ahu is like, that's it. I'm done
		
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			with this. Where's my sword? Grab the sword.
		
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			Put a sword around. Now when you put
		
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			your sword in a regular town like that,
		
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			that means you're up to no good. That
		
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			means you have something planned. And he's going.
		
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			Nuaem radiAllahu anhu sees him. He's like, where
		
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			are you headed, Omer? He said, I'm gonna
		
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			go today. Get rid of Muhammad. He said,
		
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			go first take care of your own house.
		
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			Nuaem was very smart. He's trying to buy
		
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			time.
		
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			He's trying to redirect him, trying to distract
		
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			him. He's like, what do you mean? He
		
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			said, you don't know about your sister and
		
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			your brother-in-law?
		
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			And he went straight to their house.
		
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			When he goes to their house,
		
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			Khabab Abdul Arat, one of the companions of
		
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			the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he was
		
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			there.
		
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			And Fatima, the sister of Omar Radiallahu, one
		
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			who was there. And Saeed al Muzaid, the
		
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			the husband of,
		
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			Fatima, he was there. And they're doing taleem
		
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			in the house.
		
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			They're reciting the ayats of the Quran.
		
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			They're teaching each other the Quran,
		
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			and Omar
		
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			is hearing some, you know, whispers coming out
		
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			of the house. So he knocks
		
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			and when he knocks,
		
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			he goes and hides in one of the
		
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			rooms in the back.
		
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			He goes in and he's like, what is
		
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			this whisper that I hear?
		
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			He said that
		
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			it was just us talking.
		
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			He's like, no. It's not just us talking.
		
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			It's something more than that. And he attacks.
		
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			He starts to beat them. And so he
		
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			starts to beat
		
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			Saeed ibn Zayed, the husband of Fatima, his
		
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			sister, beat him to the point where she
		
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			goes and tries to, you know, save him
		
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			from him and he slaps his sister.
		
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			When he slaps his sister, he feels
		
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			so
		
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			much he feels something. I didn't do a
		
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			right thing.
		
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			And his heart softens up.
		
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			He sees at that point some of the
		
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			writings of the Quran,
		
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			Surataha.
		
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			He's like, what is this? They're like, oh
		
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			this is this is not for you. Well,
		
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			what is it? He's like, this is the
		
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			Quran. He's like, let me see it. Like
		
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			his sisters, no. You have to be tahir.
		
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			You are nudges. You cannot touch this. Go
		
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			wash yourself then you can see it. He
		
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			washed himself. He calms down. He goes. He
		
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			recites.
		
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			Like, wow. This is beautiful.
		
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			What are these words? This is beautiful.
		
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			Where is this from?
		
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			Said this is Islam.
		
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			And so when Khabab hears this from the
		
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			back room, he comes out and he's like,
		
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			oh, Omar, I think the dua of the
		
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			prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam has been accepted
		
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			for you. He's like, what dua? What are
		
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			you talking about? He said the prophet made
		
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			dua that, you Allah, you help Islam through
		
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			one of the Ummars.
		
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			And so Umar radhiallahu anhu's like, tell me
		
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			where the prophet is. He goes to the
		
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			prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam there in, Darabn
		
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			Al Arakam.
		
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			They go over there
		
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			and
		
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			they see in the small crack when somebody's
		
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			knocking that Umar is here and he's here
		
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			with his sword. The Muslim starts to distract.
		
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			What's going on? What's going on? Hamza said,
		
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			if he's here for good, great. Otherwise, I'm
		
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			gonna I'm gonna gonna kill him with his
		
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			own sword today.
		
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			And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam goes
		
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			to Umar and he said, You, Umar, when
		
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			are you gonna accept Islam
		
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			before the punishment of Allah comes on you?
		
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			And he said, Today I'm ready to accept
		
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			Islam.
		
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			And everybody says,
		
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			Now this is a big victory for Muslims.
		
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			2 of the strongest men in Makkah, they
		
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			just accepted Islam.
		
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			And Umar radhiallahu
		
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			subhanallah,
		
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			he had such guts that he was not
		
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			scared of anyone.
		
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			So he goes
		
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			and he said, who's the biggest, you know,
		
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			he who has the biggest mouth to go
		
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			and tell everybody?
		
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			So he finds out that there's this one
		
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			guy named Jamil.
		
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			If you tell him something and say, hey,
		
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			listen. I'm a tell you something. Don't tell
		
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			someone. He goes and tells everyone. Okay, Jamil.
		
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			I'm a tell you something. What is it?
		
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			I accepted Islam.
		
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			And so Jameel goes all throughout Makkah. Guys,
		
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			Umar has left the religion of forefather.
		
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			Umar has left the religion of his forefather.
		
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			And so he's now spreading the word spreading
		
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			the word and all of the people are
		
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			like, what's going on?
		
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			Umar radiAllahu anhu subhanahu, he knows which points
		
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			to hit. He goes to the house of
		
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			Abu Jahl. He knocks the door.
		
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			He's like,
		
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			oh, my nephew.
		
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			Welcome. They're from the same tribe. My nephew.
		
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			Welcome. What how can I help you? He's
		
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			like, I I was just here to tell
		
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			you that I'm Muslim now. And Wajahal just
		
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			slams the door on his face.
		
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			Now, Umar goes to the main thing that,
		
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			subhanallah, even Umar being a strong guy, being
		
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			from a very influential tribe, the people still
		
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			attacked him and they kept on fighting him
		
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			and fighting him and fighting him
		
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			until
		
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			then,
		
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			Al-'As
		
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			comes and he says that, you know what?
		
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			I take his guarantee. Nobody is allowed to
		
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			say anything to him. And so from there,
		
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			Omar radiAllahu alaihi wa sallam, who's now good.
		
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			Now from here, Omar radiya who goes back
		
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			to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says,
		
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			prophet of Allah,
		
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			is Islam haqq? He says, yes. Are we
		
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			on haqq? Yeah. So why are we hiding?
		
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			Let's go out and show the people.
		
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			And he says prophet is like, you know,
		
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			we have to be no prophet of Allah.
		
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			If we're on Haqq, we have to go
		
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			out. Hamza radiAllahu who gets in the front
		
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			and Omar radiAllahu gets in the front and
		
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			they have their first parade going in the
		
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			streets of Makkah and proclaiming their Islam.
		
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			That's why Umar is known as Al Farooq.
		
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			That's where his name Al Farooq comes. The
		
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			prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam from that day
		
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			named him Al Farooq because he says,
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala separated. Farooq
		
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			is to separate.
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala separated
		
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			between
		
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			haqq and batil through Omar Radiallahu one who
		
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			since then he was known as Al Farooq.
		
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			SubhanAllah, Umar Radiallahu anhu is not the first
		
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			of the Muslims,
		
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			not second, not third, not 4th, not even
		
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			in the top 10 or 20 or 30,
		
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			he accepted much later.
		
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			But when he entered into Islam,
		
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			he entered with such passion,
		
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			such sincerity,
		
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			such drive, such strength that subhanallah he comes
		
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			right after Abu Bakr radiAllahu anhu.
		
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			It gives us something too. Doesn't matter where
		
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			we are in life. Umar radhiahu used to
		
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			drink.
		
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			He used to beat the Muslims. He used
		
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			to do all that but when Allah gave
		
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			him hidayah,
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			took the work of Islam from him in
		
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			such a level that the growth of the
		
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			Islamic empire that has happened in the time
		
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			of Umar Radiallahu anhu was unprecedented. Didn't happen
		
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			before.
		
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			Shows us too. Doesn't matter where we are.
		
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			Doesn't matter what our past was, doesn't matter
		
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			what we did. But when we say that
		
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			now I'm going to dedicate myself to Islam,
		
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			I'm going to dedicate myself to deen. You
		
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			go with the strength, you go with the
		
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			ikhlas, you go with the sincerity,
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will take it from
		
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			you. But you have to make that intention.
		
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			You have to go with that strength. So
		
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			we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to allow
		
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			us to really follow the footsteps of these
		
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			Sahaba.
		
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			These are our forefathers.
		
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			These are the people we look at that
		
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			gives us strength.
		
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			These are the people when we look at
		
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			and we're going through pain, we said they
		
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			went through more pain.
		
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			These are the people that we look at
		
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			and we see that they have went through
		
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			the path that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala told
		
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			them.
		
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			Allah is happy with them. They're happy with
		
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			him. They took that path so we can
		
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			take that path as well. These are the
		
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			people. This is the point of Sira. The
		
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			point of Sira is to give us that
		
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			hope, to give us that strength, to give
		
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			us that motivation
		
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			that we
		
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			are the ambassadors of Islam.
		
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			We are the workers of Islam.
		
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			We can do for Islam
		
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			just like the sahaba radiAllahu anhu strove. We
		
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			can strive the same
		
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			way. It's not about who comes first, it's
		
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			not about who comes later but it's about
		
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			following the sunnah of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam in times of ease, in times
		
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			of pain, in times of difficulty,
		
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			in times of happiness.
		
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			So we ask
		
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			Allah to give us the ability to understand
		
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			the seed of the prophet and
		
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			to follow every sunnah of the prophet