Yasir Qadhi – Another Pharaoh Has Fallen – Sh On The Liberation Of Syria

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			As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu.
		
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			We begin by praising Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala for every blessing he has given us
		
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			and we especially praise him in these days
		
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			for the great joy and the victory that
		
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			we are seeing from our brothers and sisters
		
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			in Bilad al-Sham.
		
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			Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar
		
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			Kabira walhamdulillahi kathira wa subhana allahi bukratan wa
		
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			asila la ilaha illallah wahda sadaqa wa'da wa
		
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			nasara abda wa a'azza jundahu wa hazama
		
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			al-ahzaba wahda la ilaha illallah wala na
		
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			'budu illa iyah mukhlisila lahuddeena walaw kariha alkafirun.
		
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			Alhamdulillah brothers and sisters I do not think
		
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			that any person of Iman was witnessing what
		
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			we witnessed except that their hearts were alight
		
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			with joy.
		
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			Yes I know that there are many questions
		
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			that we have and you know many ambiguities
		
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			but allow us just the pleasure and the
		
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			luxury of enjoying the freedom of our brothers
		
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			and sisters who have been persecuted for more
		
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			than 65 years under one of the most
		
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			tyrannical regimes of the last century.
		
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			Wallahi it is not an exaggeration to state
		
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			that this tyrannical leader of that country and
		
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			his father before him really exemplified the Firaun
		
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			of our times.
		
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			If anybody really vied for that title in
		
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			all likelihood him and his father before him
		
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			were the closest that we saw to the
		
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			reality of Firaun as Allah describes Firaun in
		
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			the Quran.
		
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			Inna Firauna ala fil ardi wa ja'ala
		
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			ahlaha shia'an yastad'ifu ta'ifat minhum
		
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			yathabbihu abna'ahum wa yastahyi nisa'ahum innahu
		
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			kaana minal mufsideen.
		
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			And every one of these characteristics and descriptions
		
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			that the Quran applies to the classical Pharaoh
		
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			it applies to the modern manifestation of it.
		
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			This tyrannical person known as Bashar al-Assad
		
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			and his father before him Hafiz al-Assad
		
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			in the entirety of my life on this
		
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			earth I have heard nothing but horror stories
		
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			from my Syrian friends and colleagues from my
		
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			Syrian teachers the realities of the torture prisons
		
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			the realities of the repression and the lack
		
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			of freedom to be religious people being arrested
		
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			merely for praying Fajr merely because they were
		
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			seen with the wrong person merely because of
		
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			rumors that they didn't even know the realities
		
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			too and all of these stories and only
		
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			a portion of them are coming to light
		
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			and as for what is hidden that only
		
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			Allah subhana wa ta'ala knows.
		
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			Now dear brothers and sisters what are some
		
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			of the lessons what are some of the
		
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			morals that we can extract from all that
		
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			we have seen much can be said but
		
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			time is of course limited I just want
		
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			to mention a number of points that I
		
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			have been pondering over of them of the
		
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			most important of these points is the necessity
		
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			and the importance of believing in Allah subhana
		
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			wa ta'ala and of turning to him
		
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			for aid for comfort for dua for tawakkul
		
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			subhanAllah how could our brothers and sisters that
		
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			were being persecuted for decades who are not
		
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			even seeing the Sun for 45 years of
		
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			their existence how could they have maintained you
		
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			know their their courage their sanity other than
		
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			by turning to Allah subhana wa ta'ala
		
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			belief in Allah gives what nothing else gives
		
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			and when you have belief in Allah it
		
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			gives you comfort it gives you support it
		
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			allows you a courage and a bravery it
		
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			gives you optimism and hope beyond hope really
		
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			the necessity of believing in Allah is manifested
		
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			time and time again and this is yet
		
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			another manifestation of that that especially at times
		
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			of difficulty not that any of our difficulties
		
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			can compare to their difficulties but nonetheless the
		
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			importance and the blessings of belief in Allah
		
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			subhana wa ta'ala as well the consolation
		
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			that happens in fact the realization that there's
		
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			a day of judgment and the Quran actually
		
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			mentions that the preponderance of evil is an
		
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			indication that this world is not the end
		
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			all and be all Allah subhana wa ta
		
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			'ala says in the Quran that if I'm
		
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			a general Muslim in a calamity to me
		
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			in my record gave it a common do
		
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			you think we're gonna make the Muslim like
		
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			the criminal do you think that they're just
		
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			gonna live and die and that's it no
		
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			that's not gonna happen and Allah says in
		
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			the Quran I'm a general lady in a
		
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			common or I'm gonna study how to kill
		
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			most even if it are the amnesty I
		
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			don't want to clean a call for job
		
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			do you think that the one who does
		
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			good deeds and believes in Allah is the
		
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			same as the one who causes evil in
		
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			the earth do you think that the mutake
		
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			and the impious the wicked they're going to
		
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			be the same now if we don't believe
		
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			in an akhira if we don't believe in
		
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			a life after the day of judgment then
		
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			in reality it is as if the equation
		
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			is the same that those that are good
		
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			and those that are bad they live and
		
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			they die and that's it when we see
		
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			the reality of injustice that has been perpetrated
		
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			by this evil tyrannical regime when we hear
		
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			of the torture stories when we understand the
		
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			reality of what is going on wallahi we
		
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			look forward to the day of judgment because
		
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			we cannot implement ultimate justice in this world
		
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			only Allah is Maliki omid Dean what punishment
		
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			even if we were to catch this tyrant
		
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			even if we capture some of the guards
		
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			who have a stuff that Allah pillaged and
		
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			plundered and raped and and massacred dozens of
		
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			people the most you know heinous crimes the
		
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			most unspeakable violence perpetrated against innocent people even
		
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			if we capture these guards and we were
		
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			to kill them execute them what of what
		
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			good is that how is that justice and
		
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			this is why we believe in day of
		
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			judgment and we believe in heaven for those
		
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			that were persecuted and we believe in *
		
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			for those that perpetrated that persecution wallahi we
		
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			understand the wisdom of believing in heaven and
		
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			* and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentions
		
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			this in the Quran that justice is not
		
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			found in this worth or earth justice is
		
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			in the akhira also of the lessons we
		
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			extract from the realities of what we have
		
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			seen is that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			never allows tyranny and injustice to flourish yes
		
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			our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said that
		
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			sometimes Allah allows leeway for the wicked for
		
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			the impious for the tyrant but Allah never
		
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			ignores Allah allows leeway but Allah never ignores
		
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			Allah azawajal might allow some time but when
		
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			Allah takes him Allah takes him and holds
		
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			him to a severe reckoning look at the
		
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			reality of this tyrant he caused more than
		
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			10 million of his people to become refugees
		
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			and now this week he became a refugee
		
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			in his own land he was causing fear
		
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			to so many people and now today he
		
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			is living in fear and this is the
		
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			Sunnah of Allah if he called the he
		
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			Allah never allows tyranny to go unanswered rather
		
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			the one who has perpetrated violence the one
		
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			who has done so much of them Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala will hold them to
		
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			account and no nation and no dynasty and
		
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			no regime that has been guilty of such
		
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			violence shall ever flourish they might be let
		
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			go in this world for a while but
		
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			eventually Allah takes them and holds them to
		
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			account and this is inshallah good news for
		
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			our brothers and sisters who are being persecuted
		
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			around the world for our brothers and sisters
		
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			in China and the Uyghur situation for what
		
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			is happening in Palestine and Gaza for what
		
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			is happening around the world Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala will indeed show us a day
		
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			where the evil tyrants are taken into account
		
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			and where all of their evil deeds are
		
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			brought to an end and only Allah will
		
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			give ultimate justice in the hereafter also of
		
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			the wisdoms and of the morals that we
		
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			can extract from this is the hypocrisy of
		
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			those superpowers that stood by in fact indirectly
		
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			or directly aided and abetted what is going
		
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			on and the tyrant and the tyrant that
		
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			was in charge subhanAllah the reality is that
		
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			those groups that were formed as a direct
		
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			result as a reaction to the tyranny of
		
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			this person those groups even if they committed
		
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			acts that we don't agree with even if
		
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			we're talking about of course the groups of
		
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			15 years ago the pseudo jihadists and the
		
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			militant groups which I do not agree with
		
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			but those groups they were a result of
		
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			the tyranny of this person and the Western
		
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			world's prioritized the result over the cause and
		
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			they made such a big deal about those
		
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			groups and they ignored the root cause of
		
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			those groups and they made such a big
		
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			deal about the immigration of the Syrian refugees
		
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			millions and millions of people were fleeing from
		
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			this tyrant and so many Western lands were
		
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			irritated by the refugees but they didn't understand
		
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			they were causing it directly and indirectly by
		
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			supporting the cause of those refugees if Bilad
		
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			al-Sham had been safe if tyranny had
		
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			been stopped if this evil dictator sanctions had
		
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			been out against him rather than the people
		
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			of Syria if the world boycotted this particular
		
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			family rather than penalizing the people for things
		
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			that are not in their control then neither
		
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			would we have had the rise of these
		
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			radical groups nor would we have had the
		
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			refugee crises and yet as is the want
		
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			the Western superpowers blamed the symptoms rather than
		
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			the root causes because they were directly aiding
		
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			and abetting those root causes so we have
		
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			to be careful about this hypocrisy and this
		
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			reality and of course of the points that
		
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			we have to ponder over is the fragility
		
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			of the nation-state identity the fragility of
		
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			these borderlines Syria of course is a product
		
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			a direct product of the Sykes-Picot which
		
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			is a 1916 secret agreement between the French
		
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			and the British and they quite literally divided
		
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			up the modern contours of Syria the modern
		
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			borders of Syria they go back to a
		
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			debate taking place between Sykes and Pico to
		
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			British and and French attachés to the embassies
		
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			who are arguing over how to carve up
		
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			the Ottoman Empire and these false you know
		
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			imaginary lines these are not things that we
		
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			should be overtly concerned with our ultimate loyalty
		
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			and identity is based upon values and faith
		
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			it is based upon our allegiance to Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa'ta'ala and our love of the
		
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			Quran and our fact that we are all
		
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			united by the Ummah of the Prophet sallallahu
		
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			alayhi wasallam brothers and sisters much more can
		
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			be said here but now is the time
		
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			really of joy and happiness now is the
		
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			time of praising Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala and
		
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			now is the time as well of deep
		
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			introspection that we want to maintain dignity and
		
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			to preserve the freedoms of this land and
		
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			that will require some bravery and courage from
		
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			all sides and it will require a compromise
		
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			once again from all sides we do not
		
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			want to repeat of the past and we
		
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			should look at the lessons that we've learned
		
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			in the last 15 years from Arab Spring
		
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			and pre Arab Spring and post Arab Spring
		
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			and my advice to everybody is to act
		
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			in a manner that is inshallah meant to
		
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			protect the freedoms of the peoples of those
		
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			regions so that everybody can be worshipping Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa'ta'ala without penalties without any problems
		
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			without any monitoring of the governments and authorities
		
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			we want the people to be able to
		
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			worship Allah with utmost freedom that is the
		
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			real freedom right now we will just rejoice
		
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			and ask Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala to protect
		
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			our brothers and sisters in Bilad al-Sham
		
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			and to allow what happened in Bilad al
		
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			-Sham to be a catalyst for other regions
		
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			as well in which inshallah freedom and safety
		
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			and security and the rights to worship Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa'ta'ala are protected and guaranteed may
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala bless our brothers and
		
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			sisters in Bilad al-Sham and the neighboring
		
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			regions may Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala show us
		
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			in other lands as well that which will
		
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			be a comfort of our souls and the
		
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			coolness of our eyes may Allah allow us
		
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			to be instruments of khair and harbingers and
		
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			and bringers inshallah barakah and khair through Allah
		
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			azza wa jal we ask Allah to be
		
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			mafatiha al khair, keys that open up doors
		
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			of good maghaliqa sharq, keys that close doors
		
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			of evil we ask Allah azza wa jal
		
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			to grant us ikhlas, tawfiq, hidayah, and sadad
		
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			wa jazakumullahu khairan wasalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh