Yasir Qadhi – How did the Mongols Become Muslim- The Story of Berke Khan

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The Ross Loudon event describes the collapse of the largest empire known to the world, the Middle East, and even Europe. The Golden Horde had four provinces, each with a name for it, and had a leader, Berke Khan, who embraced Islam but was not the leader of the Golden Horde. The Golden Horde had a system of laws called the Yasa, which emphasizes not force their people to do so. The history of the Golden Horde's actions, including their journey to Iraq, actions against Muslims, and their actions with the Vol carriers, highlights the importance of not force their people to do so. The Vol carriers were converted to Islam and the conflict between the Muslim community and the Catholic church impacted the region. The segment ends with a news program and a news program advertised for the upcoming week.

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			As we're all aware, I've been under the
		
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			weather for a few days.
		
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			I've been told that there's no problems, inshallah,
		
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			for interacting with other people.
		
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			It's been a week.
		
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			So this is just recovering, inshallah, with the
		
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			sore throat.
		
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			But because of this, the khatr will be
		
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			shorter than usual.
		
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			But the topic is one that, inshallah, I
		
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			just wanted to introduce you to so that
		
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			you can, as usual, pique your curiosity and
		
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			find out more about what I think to
		
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			be a very interesting incident and anecdote in
		
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			Islamic history.
		
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			One of the most iconic historic incidents that
		
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			every human being is aware of is one
		
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			of those historic realities that even if you're
		
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			not a historian, you know something about this,
		
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			and that is the Mongol invasion.
		
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			And I've spoken about the Mongol invasion a
		
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			lot of times.
		
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			Genghis Khan invades the whole globe and the
		
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			world.
		
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			Today's anecdote is not about that invasion.
		
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			It is about a footnote about something that
		
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			happened two generations afterward that, inshallah, it gives
		
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			us hope.
		
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			It gives us hope that Allah Subh'anaHu
		
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			Wa Ta-A'la utilizes ways and mechanisms
		
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			beyond what we can imagine.
		
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			And just to set up the stage, a
		
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			lot of people don't realize that actually Genghis
		
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			Khan was very familiar with Islam.
		
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			He actually, in his own personal life, believe
		
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			it or not, seems to have had an
		
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			element of respect with Islam and the Muslims.
		
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			And in fact, if you know your history,
		
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			when Genghis Khan first consolidated his tribes of
		
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			Mongolia, actually he was very respectful of the
		
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			Muslim dynasty, of the Khawarizms, of the dynasty
		
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			in Uzbekistan, of the Samarkand rulers.
		
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			And he sent them a delegation of merchants
		
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			as a token of respect.
		
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			Unfortunately, the merchants weren't treated very nicely.
		
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			They were embezzled from funds.
		
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			So he sent an emissary.
		
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			He sent a dignitary, an ambassador, to negotiate
		
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			that, hey, Sultan, you better take care of
		
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			what happened here.
		
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			And unfortunately, the governor, the Muslim governor, did
		
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			something very cruel.
		
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			He actually executed the ambassador.
		
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			And that is what triggered Genghis Khan to
		
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			invade the Muslim lands.
		
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			All of this occurred because, fact of the
		
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			matter is, our side did not live up
		
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			to international treaties and protocols.
		
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			Actually, Genghis Khan interacted with Muslims and he
		
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			was respectful of Islam.
		
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			Even later on in his life, he didn't
		
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			have a grudge against Muslims per se.
		
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			And I say this because the story actually
		
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			deals with this incident or reality.
		
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			And that is that after the death of
		
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			Genghis Khan, Genghis Khan had consolidated the largest
		
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			empire known to mankind.
		
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			It literally, the entire Eurasia, the entire Russian
		
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			empire, along with much of Europe, along with
		
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			much of even aspects of the Muslim lands,
		
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			he had consolidated it into one.
		
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			Before he died, he had four sons.
		
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			And he said, each one is gonna take
		
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			one of these provinces, one of these areas,
		
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			so that I don't want you to fight
		
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			amongst yourselves.
		
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			And the westernmost was called the Golden Horde.
		
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			He gave that to his eldest son.
		
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			The westernmost, meaning the one that is now
		
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			Russia, Poland, Lithuania, he gave it to his
		
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			eldest son, and that is the Golden Horde.
		
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			And the others he gave to other sons.
		
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			And each one of them continued the empire.
		
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			The goal was, don't fight amongst yourselves, fight
		
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			outward.
		
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			And subhanAllah, as you're aware, Genghis's grandson, Hulagu,
		
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			what did he do?
		
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			He took the command of his grandfather, and
		
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			he went towards the Muslim lands, and he
		
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			invaded Baghdad, he laid siege to Baghdad, he
		
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			raped and pillaged Baghdad, he destroyed the Abbasid
		
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			empire, and Hulagu Khan continued onwards, all the
		
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			way his forces continued, because that was the
		
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			province that was for the Muslims.
		
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			He continued onwards until he had decimated the
		
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			entire lands of Islam, until he reached all
		
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			the way to Egypt.
		
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			Can you imagine from Mongolia, making all the
		
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			way to Egypt, until the Mamluks stood up,
		
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			and in the Battle of Ain Jalut, delivered
		
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			the first blow against the Mongol Empire.
		
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			Now, a lot of people stopped their history
		
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			here.
		
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			I'm gonna begin from here, about an incident
		
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			that Allah Azawajal utilizes ways, Allah works in
		
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			mysterious ways, we cannot fully understand.
		
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			Because in the end of the day, we
		
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			think Ain Jalut stopped the Mongols.
		
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			Think about it, how can one small battle
		
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			in Egypt stop the Mongols?
		
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			How can one battle all the way in
		
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			the periphery lands stop an entire empire?
		
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			Multiple factors were at play.
		
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			And today we're gonna mention one seminal factor
		
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			that Allah used to save the Muslim lands.
		
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			Because if Allah had willed, this would have
		
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			been the end of Darul Islam.
		
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			But Allah will protect the ummah, and Allah
		
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			will never allow the ummah of the Prophet
		
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			Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam to be completely decimated.
		
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			What happened, subhanAllah, as Allah says in the
		
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			Quran, وَيَرْزُقُ مِنْ حَيْثُ لَا يَحْتَسِبُ Allah will
		
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			give you sustenance and help from places you
		
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			never expected.
		
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			One of the most bizarre realities, historical realities
		
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			took place right now.
		
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			And that is one of the leaders of
		
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			these four provinces.
		
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			We said there are four provinces, right?
		
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			The one that was the Western most is
		
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			called the Golden Horde.
		
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			So each one had a name to it.
		
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			You had the Blue Horde, the Golden Horde,
		
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			the Ilkhanids, you had each one had a
		
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			name to it.
		
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			The Golden Horde, which is actually the furthest
		
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			from Darul Islam.
		
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			It's the Russian, the Ukrainian, the Lithuanian, the
		
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			Polish one.
		
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			The leader of the Golden Horde, his name
		
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			was Berke Khan.
		
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			Berke Khan unbelievably embraced Islam as the grandson
		
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			of Genghis Khan.
		
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			The grandson of Genghis Khan, the actual biological
		
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			grandson of Genghis Khan.
		
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			He was, he interacted with his grandfather.
		
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			He was a part of the Grand Council
		
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			of Khans.
		
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			Pause here.
		
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			Genghis Khan had established a council, a khanate
		
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			of his entire family members, such that there
		
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			would not be civil war.
		
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			So everybody of his clan, the senior members,
		
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			would be a part of a tribal council
		
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			that would resolve the thing so that there's
		
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			no civil war.
		
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			Berke Khan was a member of that elite
		
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			guard.
		
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			He was higher than a politician.
		
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			He was the royal family.
		
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			Berke Khan, the biological grandson of Genghis Khan,
		
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			the one in charge of the Golden Horde.
		
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			This is a well-known fact, but unfortunately
		
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			most Muslims don't know their history for reasons
		
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			that were not fully certain because the problem
		
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			is again, we don't have chroniclers from inside
		
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			that much.
		
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			We're talking about people that visit, people that
		
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			interacted.
		
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			We don't have the amount of stories that
		
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			we need.
		
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			But we do know without a doubt that
		
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			Berke Khan embraced Islam.
		
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			Not only did he embrace Islam, but from
		
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			all accounts, he was a pious, practicing, God
		
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			-fearing Muslim.
		
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			The biological grandson of Genghis Khan and the
		
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			cousin of Hulagu Khan.
		
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			The first cousin.
		
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			This is again, Hulagu Khan is the grandson,
		
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			right?
		
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			And Berke Khan is the grandson.
		
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			So the first cousin of Hulagu Khan embraces
		
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			Islam.
		
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			And how did he embrace Islam?
		
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			There's a number of theories.
		
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			One of the theories is that he was
		
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			interacting with the traders.
		
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			Again, the standard theory that most converts of
		
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			that time frame, the honesty, the integrity, the
		
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			akhlaq of the traders, of the Muslims that
		
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			would come impressed Berke Khan.
		
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			But there's also a very well-attested reality,
		
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			which is that Berke Khan also was very
		
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			much influenced by some of the Sufi tariqas
		
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			that he interacted with.
		
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			That he saw in them piety and honesty
		
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			and taqwa and zuhd that really impressed him.
		
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			And he began questioning them and their answers
		
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			about tawhid, their answers about Allah, their answers
		
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			about the meaning of life.
		
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			It resonated with him and he decided to
		
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			embrace Islam.
		
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			And so as the governor, sorry, as the
		
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			emperor of the Golden Horde, he's not a
		
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			governor, he is the emperor.
		
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			As the emperor, he embraces Islam, but his
		
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			people are not Muslim, right?
		
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			So he didn't force Islam on his people,
		
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			which is why to this day, all of
		
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			those lands are majority non-Muslim.
		
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			Really interesting, right?
		
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			He didn't force Islam on his people, but
		
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			what did he do?
		
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			He began importing scholars.
		
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			He began creating or building masajid.
		
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			He began financing madrasas.
		
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			Where?
		
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			In the heart of the Golden Horde, which
		
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			is now, you know, Bilad al-Rus, which
		
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			is now Russia and Poland and these places.
		
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			He began building madrasas in the middle of
		
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			nowhere.
		
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			But because you're the ruler, what's gonna happen?
		
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			People began to convert.
		
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			Some of his wives converted, some of his
		
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			children converted.
		
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			He began to bring in ulama and scholars
		
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			that are now gonna be teaching the people.
		
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			Now, the majority of his people did not
		
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			embrace Islam because he was an open-minded
		
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			ruler.
		
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			He didn't, obviously, he's not gonna force his
		
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			people to do that, right?
		
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			But what happened as a result?
		
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			The Golden Horde became the first of all
		
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			of the kingdoms of the Mongolian Empire to
		
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			convert to Islam.
		
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			And then after that, the second and the
		
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			third followed suit.
		
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			Out of the four kingdoms, out of the
		
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			four called Ilkhanates, out of the four provinces,
		
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			eventually three of them became Muslim.
		
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			And this is how Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala literally saved the ummah.
		
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			It wasn't just the battle of Ain Jalut.
		
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			No, the very invaders, the very people who
		
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			ransacked, the very people who pillaged, their children,
		
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			their grandchildren, literally embraced Islam and began.
		
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			So Berke, one of the things that he
		
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			did when he embraced Islam, of course, they
		
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			used to follow a system of laws called
		
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			the Yasa.
		
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			There's an interesting point here.
		
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			The Mongols had a system of Shari'a
		
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			called the Yasa, right?
		
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			When Berke embraced Islam, he abolished the Yasa.
		
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			And he said, we're gonna establish the Shari
		
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			'a in these lands.
		
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			So he started establishing the Shari'a.
		
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			When Berke embraced Islam, he said from now
		
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			on, no more temples are gonna be built
		
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			here because they used to be pagans.
		
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			He said, no, we're not gonna finance any
		
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			temples.
		
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			So he began building masjids.
		
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			Some of the masjids that were built in
		
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			that time frame, maybe not the original structures,
		
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			but some of the remnants of those structures
		
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			are still present to this day.
		
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			More than 1,200 years ago, the ones
		
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			that he founded, obviously the exact same structure
		
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			has been modified, but the same location, the
		
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			ones that he founded are still over there
		
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			to this day.
		
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			And when he converted as well, one of
		
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			the things that he did was that he
		
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			established ties with multiple Muslim provinces, principalities of
		
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			his time frame.
		
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			SubhanAllah, what an irony here that when his
		
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			cousin invaded Baghdad, he had already embraced Islam,
		
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			but his journey to Islam took a while.
		
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			You can imagine, it's not gonna be one
		
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			day.
		
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			He was already a Muslim and his cousin
		
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			Hulagu has surrounded Baghdad.
		
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			When he hears that Hulagu is attacking Baghdad,
		
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			it actually increases his iman.
		
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			He becomes enraged as a Muslim.
		
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			Can you believe?
		
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			You know, it reminded me of Hamza radiallahu
		
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			anhu.
		
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			If you remember the story of Hamza, that
		
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			all of the antagonism made him a better
		
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			Muslim, right?
		
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			He became angry, how dare my cousin is
		
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			attacking Muslims and killing them for no reason.
		
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			I will have to answer to Allah for
		
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			what he is doing.
		
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			Like he felt a responsibility that my family
		
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			member is doing this.
		
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			And so unbelievably, while Hulagu is surrounding Baghdad,
		
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			do you know what Berke Khan did?
		
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			Berke Khan sent ambassadors and emissaries to the
		
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			Muslim rulers, establishing ties with them.
		
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			He was one of the people who sent
		
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			emissaries to the Mamluks.
		
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			And it is even said, we're not 100
		
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			% certain, it is even said, he sent
		
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			the military equipment and training such that the
		
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			battle of Ain Jalut that took place, perhaps
		
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			Berke Khan played a role.
		
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			Again, I'm being academic here because we're not
		
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			100% certain how much happened because we
		
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			don't have eyewitnesses.
		
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			But without a doubt, he sent emissaries, he
		
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			apologized on behalf of his family, look, I
		
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			have nothing to do with him, that's another
		
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			cousin of mine.
		
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			And then listen to this, Berke Khan went
		
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			to war against Hulagu Khan because of his
		
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			ransacking of Baghdad.
		
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			Did you know this?
		
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			There is an internal civil war amongst the
		
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			grandsons of Genghis Khan.
		
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			Why?
		
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			One of them is a Muslim and the
		
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			other is a pagan.
		
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			And the Muslim is saying, I'm going to
		
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			have vengeance about what you've done against my
		
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			Muslim brothers.
		
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			And the first time, the family of Genghis
		
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			Khan, the first time the four kingdoms went
		
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			to war together, the first time was over
		
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			this issue.
		
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			Otherwise, Genghis Khan when he died, one of
		
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			his biggest fears was, I don't want my
		
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			sons and grandsons to go to war.
		
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			So he had a very intricate design which
		
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			worked until one thing, Genghis Khan couldn't predict
		
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			Islam.
		
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			Genghis Khan didn't have Islam in the equation
		
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			that when a person converts to Islam, then
		
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			he doesn't follow the laws of Jahiliyyah.
		
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			He's not going to follow just because he's
		
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			my cousin.
		
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			I'm going to not touch him.
		
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			No.
		
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			Now that Berke converted to Islam, can you
		
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			believe Berke took an army to fight against
		
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			Hulagu?
		
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			At least five wars took place between Berke
		
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			Khan and Hulagu Khan, so much so that
		
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			Berke actually passed away in one of these
		
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			wars.
		
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			And Berke died in 1267 in what is
		
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			now Uzbekistan because of the battles that took
		
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			place.
		
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			He fell ill in a very cold environment.
		
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			He didn't die because of the wound, but
		
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			he just fell ill.
		
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			It was just a cold or something.
		
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			And so he is buried outside of the
		
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			Golden Horde.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because he was busy fighting his own cousin
		
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			Hulagu because the one had invaded Baghdad and
		
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			the other one has to avenge that death.
		
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			So, of course, with Berke's death and obviously
		
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			the Islamic nature of the Golden Horde diminished,
		
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			but it didn't eliminate.
		
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			Once you opened up the door, Islam remained.
		
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			And that is why.
		
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			Listen to this, brothers and sisters.
		
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			Many of you are familiar with the fact
		
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			that there are pockets of Muslims in those
		
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			areas.
		
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			Have you ever wondered where they came from?
		
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			Why are there Tatars, you know, in Russia,
		
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			in Poland?
		
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			Where do you know?
		
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			In Poland, which is a Catholic Christian country,
		
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			there is the second largest group of faith
		
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			is Muslims.
		
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			What are they doing in Poland?
		
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			Did you know this?
		
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			I went to, I've been to Poland.
		
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			Poland has, I don't know how many percentage
		
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			think, don't quote me the 15, 20 percent.
		
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			I mean, a good percent.
		
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			Don't quote me.
		
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			I could be wrong here, but a good
		
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			percentage of Muslims.
		
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			How did they end up in Poland?
		
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			It is from the descendants of the Golden
		
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			Horde.
		
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			The descendants of some of them are the
		
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			biological descendants and others because the safe space
		
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			was created, the Muslims came there.
		
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			And so those people, because of Barkay Khan,
		
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			they were the ones who had remained up
		
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			until now in Russia, over five and a
		
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			half million Tatars.
		
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			They're called, the Russians called them Tatars, right?
		
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			So there's Polish Tatars, there's Russian Tatars.
		
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			Those Tatars, where are they from?
		
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			What is the origin?
		
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			They go back to the Golden Horde.
		
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			This time frame of Barkay Khan.
		
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			Perhaps some of you are even familiar with
		
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			the famous Volgar, the Bulgarian Muslims.
		
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			Right now, the Bulgarian Muslims is a bit
		
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			more interesting story.
		
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			The Bulgarian, the Volgar, in Arabic, they were
		
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			called the They were a race of the
		
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			Slavs.
		
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			The Bulgarian Muslims converted before Barkay.
		
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			But when Barkay ruled over the Golden Horde,
		
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			these Muslims came under his rule.
		
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			And so he was the one who allowed
		
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			them to flourish, brought them teachers, made mosques
		
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			for them.
		
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			So again, to be accurate here, the Volgar,
		
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			Bulgarian Muslims, they were Muslims before Barkay Khan.
		
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			But their Islam had diminished.
		
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			They had almost forgotten their Islam.
		
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			Barkay comes along.
		
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			And because he's a Muslim, he revitalizes their
		
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			Islam and he allows them the flourishing.
		
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			To this day, there is a community, believe
		
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			it or not, in Bulgaria.
		
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			Out of all the places, there is a
		
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			community of Muslims.
		
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			Now, again, this is predating Barkay.
		
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			But Barkay was the one who fortified, built
		
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			mosques for them.
		
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			You will find mosques that Barkay basically financed
		
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			and helped because of the fact that he
		
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			had embraced Islam.
		
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			And so the point being that, subhanallah, how
		
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			bizarre, but this is how Allah's Qadar works,
		
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			is that how could the Mongolian invasion be
		
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			stopped?
		
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			From within their own ranks, they went to
		
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			war.
		
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			From within their own ranks, Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala created one of his own grandsons
		
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			who stood up and said, no, you cannot
		
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			do this.
		
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			You are hurting and harming innocent people.
		
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			And so instead of fighting outward, Barkay turned
		
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			his army inward.
		
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			He went back into Mongolia, fighting towards the
		
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			very people where he came from.
		
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			And civil war took place amongst the descendants
		
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			of Genghis Khan.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because one of them as a Muslim said,
		
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			I cannot allow you to do this.
		
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			Now, in that battle, in that series of
		
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			battles, a lot of damage was inflicted.
		
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			However, nobody came out the victor.
		
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			But what it did do, it stopped the
		
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			onslaught of the Mongols because now they're battling
		
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			amongst themselves.
		
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			So now they're no longer fighting outside.
		
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			And then with the death of Barkay and
		
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			then even Hulagu died after this.
		
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			So then it kind of impeded the progress.
		
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			But it opened the door for Islam.
		
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			And as I said, after a while, eventually
		
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			the other two, the other two, the Ilkhanids
		
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			and the Chad guys.
		
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			So you have the Golden Horde, the Ilkhans
		
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			and the Chad guys.
		
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			Three of them, the Chad guy, you know,
		
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			there's the common last name in India and
		
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			Pakistan, Chagatai, Chagatai, Chad guy.
		
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			So the the third of them also embraced
		
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			Islam.
		
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			And then their descendants began to influence many
		
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			other dynasties.
		
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			You're all aware Timur Lane and the rise
		
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			of the Timurids, obviously the Mongols of India
		
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			as well.
		
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			Right.
		
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			These are all dynasties that are some of
		
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			them are biological and others are taking the
		
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			the spirit of that, you know, Golden Horde
		
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			and the Islamic identity coming straight from them
		
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			and then resurrecting it.
		
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			Much of the architecture, much of the language,
		
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			much of the culture that we associate with
		
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			Timur Lane and his dynasty, with the Mughals.
		
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			And of course, the word Mughal itself comes
		
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			from Mongol.
		
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			Literally, the people, Babur was a biological descendant,
		
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			you know, of Genghis Khan as well.
		
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			And he's taking from the Golden Horde.
		
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			He's taking from the Muslim identity of Barkay
		
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			Khan.
		
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			So subhanallah, how Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala works
		
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			in mysterious ways that we don't know what
		
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			is going to happen.
		
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			Why say this?
		
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			Because so much is going on right now.
		
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			Just open your eyes and see the reality
		
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			of the world.
		
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			We don't know.
		
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			There doesn't seem to be an external political
		
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			force.
		
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			There doesn't seem to be a superpower that's
		
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			going to come.
		
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			But Allah will always protect his religion.
		
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			And Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala will, يرزقه من
		
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			حيث لا يحتسب And I have no doubt
		
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			that something will happen.
		
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			Perhaps, perhaps one of the superpowers, one of
		
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			the leaders, one of the influential people will
		
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			convert to Islam.
		
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			We already have so many converts in the
		
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			social sphere.
		
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			Maybe it's only a matter of time in
		
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			the political sphere, somebody will convert.
		
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			And when that conversion happens, just like with
		
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			Barkay Khan, it might not change the entire
		
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			dynasty.
		
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			It didn't do that, but it left a
		
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			mark.
		
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			It left an indelible mark that influenced history
		
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			and it still influences history to this day.
		
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			So do not lose hope in the promise
		
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			of Allah.
		
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			Always put your trust in Allah.
		
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			Always do what you can and realize Allah
		
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			will protect his ummah either this way or
		
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			that way.
		
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			But somehow Allah will protect his ummah.
		
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			Your job is to do the best.
		
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			Learn from history.
		
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			This ummah has never been wiped out.
		
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			It will never be wiped out.
		
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			This is the promise of Allah subhanahu wa'ta
		
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			'ala.
		
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			May Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala allow us to
		
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			see the return of Izzah and glory.
		
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			And inshallah, we'll continue next Wednesday.
		
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			Jazakumullah khair.
		
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			Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.
		
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			Allahumma salli wa alayhi wa sallim