Yasir Qadhi – Our Role Towards A Genocide

Yasir Qadhi
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The speakers discuss the suffering and suffering caused by persecution against Muslims during the COVID-19 pandemic, including their parents and children, loss of comfort, and suffering of their hearts. They stress the importance of obtaining faith and staying patient, finding comfort in people through words of comfort, and not being punishment. The speakers emphasize the need to transform oneself in light of the situation and show acceptance and passion for it, protecting individuals and their families, and strategizing to support their cause. They also emphasize the importance of showing acceptance and passion for the situation and providing aid to others.

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			What happened to the people who perpetrated all
		
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			of that evil against Bilal? Every one of
		
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			them met their fate in this dunya, and
		
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			we saw this reality in the Sirah, in
		
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			the battle of Badr, in the battle of
		
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			Khanda, in the conquest of Makkah. We clearly
		
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			saw what happened to those who did this
		
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			persecution.
		
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			Persecution.
		
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			Dear Muslims,
		
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			to Allah we complain
		
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			of all that is transpiring in the world
		
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			today.
		
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			To Allah, we complain
		
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			of our weakness.
		
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			To Allah, we complain
		
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			of our humiliation.
		
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			To Allah, we complain
		
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			of even
		
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			having to beg others for recognition,
		
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			of having the opportunity to humanize
		
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			our grief.
		
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			To Allah, we complain
		
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			that we don't even have a nominal space
		
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			on a national platform
		
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			where every single race and religion is represented
		
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			except for our religion, and except for our
		
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			race, and except for our people. We have
		
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			to beg even for attention.
		
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			To Allah we complain
		
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			of all the images that we are seeing,
		
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			of the mothers who have been widowed,
		
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			of the orphans crying and searching for their
		
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			parents amongst the rubble,
		
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			of fathers holding up their charred and disfigured
		
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			babies as they have been completely
		
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			obliterated to beyond recognition.
		
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			To Allah we complain
		
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			of our own
		
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			desensitization.
		
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			Who could have ever imagined
		
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			a time
		
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			when we are sitting in the comfort of
		
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			our rooms,
		
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			scrolling through entertainment,
		
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			scrolling through news items,
		
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			and an image comes up that is so
		
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			horrific,
		
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			that is so crude,
		
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			that is so vulgar, that wallahi, if a
		
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			Hollywood movie were to fake that image, that
		
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			movie would come with a disclaimer that children
		
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			should not watch that movie. But this is
		
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			not fake images we are seeing. We are
		
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			seeing real bodies of children. We are seeing
		
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			dismembered
		
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			toddlers that have been blown to shreds. And
		
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			we Allah to Allah, we complain
		
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			of the desensitization
		
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			even amongst us that we scroll through that
		
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			feed, and we look at that image, and
		
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			we say astaghfirullah,
		
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			and we move on to another tidbit. May
		
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			Allah forgive us. We might laugh. We might
		
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			cry. We might move on, and life goes
		
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			on. To Allah, we complain of the hardness
		
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			of our hearts. To Allah, we complain
		
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			of the true pathetic nature of the situation
		
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			we are in. Brothers and
		
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			sisters, every single time we think the situation
		
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			cannot get any worse, subhanallah,
		
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			the bar continues to go lower and lower.
		
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			And every single time, we have to remind
		
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			ourselves,
		
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			every Every single time, we have to remind
		
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			ourselves
		
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			what exactly are we doing. How do we
		
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			find comfort in this crazy world? How do
		
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			we make sense of all of this irrationality
		
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			that is taking place? And one of the
		
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			primary advice that I give myself and all
		
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			of you,
		
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			rediscover
		
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			the beauty of the Quran
		
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			and the verses dealing with suffering and pain.
		
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			Rediscover the beauty of the seerah of the
		
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			prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam.
		
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			Rediscover the beauty of the stories of our
		
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			own companions and sabi'un that came before us.
		
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			SubhanAllah.
		
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			We grew up reading these verses. We grew
		
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			up reading the seerah. We grew up being
		
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			taught the stories of the sa'aba, and we
		
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			absorb them. But when we look at them
		
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			again and we understand them in light of
		
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			what is going on, wallahi, it is as
		
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			if we have never read the Quran. It
		
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			is as if we have never understood the
		
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			sierra. It is as if we have never
		
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			benefited from the stories of the sahabah. They
		
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			take on new meaning. They give us new
		
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			life. They give us a comfort that we
		
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			never knew we could get. And, subhanAllah, here
		
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			we are. Here I am struggling. How do
		
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			you cope with this grief? How do you
		
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			come to terms with this reality that we're
		
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			seeing? And what comes to my mind is
		
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			who am I compared to the prophet salallahu
		
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			alayhi wasalam?
		
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			And yet
		
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			he also saw such difficult images. He saw
		
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			them with his own eyes. He's walking in
		
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			Makkah. How much did he see? And we
		
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			know how compassionate he was. We know how
		
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			soft his heart was. We know he would
		
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			stay awake the whole night in tahajjud,
		
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			crying to Allah to protect his ummah, making
		
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			du'a to Allah for the Shafa'a's ummah. He
		
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			loved us so much. He told us every
		
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			prophet has been given one special du'a, and
		
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			every prophet has made that du'a. But as
		
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			for me, I have kept my one dua
		
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			that Allah promised me, and I have not
		
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			used it in this world. I will use
		
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			it for my ummah that Allah shall forgive
		
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			my ummah on the day of judgment. He
		
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			loved us so much, he would cry the
		
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			entire night making du'a to Allah that Allah
		
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			bless his ummah, forgive his ummah, protect his
		
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			ummah. How do you think he felt
		
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			when he walked by Bilal ibn Abirabbah
		
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			being dragged
		
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			in these stones of Makkah, ahadun, ahad, ahadun,
		
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			ahad. How do you think he felt when
		
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			he saw Yasir and Somayyah being tortured?
		
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			Our books of Sira mentioned that in early
		
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			Islam, Abu Jahl and others, they banded together.
		
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			They couldn't persecute Abu Bakr. He was too
		
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			noble. They couldn't touch Uthman ibn Affan. He
		
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			came from a rich tribe. So what did
		
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			they do? They took out their anger on
		
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			those that had no protection. They found the
		
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			slaves. They found the low caste in their
		
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			system, and they tied them up. They put
		
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			them right in front of the Kaaba. Yasir
		
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			and Sumayyah husband and wife were tied up
		
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			in chains. They were put in the sun
		
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			without food and water. Our prophet, salaw al
		
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			salawam, would pass by them. They would be
		
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			whipped. They would be tortured. Can you imagine
		
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			how he felt seeing the blood? And this
		
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			was an elderly woman, Sumayyah, was 65 years
		
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			old. Can you imagine? She is an elderly
		
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			woman tied up to a post and a
		
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			chain. She's being whipped and tortured. Yasir would
		
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			be beaten. He would lose consciousness.
		
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			And our prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam would
		
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			see this for days on end, and he
		
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			could not do anything in that context other
		
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			than give them sabr, give them glad tidings.
		
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			Sabran a la yaser fa'innamo idukumuljannah.
		
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			Be patient, oh family of Yasser. All I
		
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			can do, I guarantee you, you will have
		
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			Jannah. That's all he could do. And a
		
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			time came, as you all know, when the
		
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			torture reached such a severe level that they
		
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			decided to execute. They made a public
		
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			display of executing Yasir and Sumayyah. They called
		
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			together the people of Makkah, and they made
		
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			a debacle. They made a circus. They made
		
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			a spectacle
		
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			out of torturing people to death, laughing and
		
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			shouting as if it's some type of pleasure
		
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			occasion. And they took a spear, Abu Jahl,
		
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			may Allah give him what he deserves. Abu
		
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			Jahl took that javelin, and astaghfirullahalahaoolalaqut
		
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			salabilla.
		
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			He shoved it between her legs until he
		
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			killed her. And Yasid is watching his wife
		
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			die like this, and they began torturing him.
		
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			They began they began using the whip and
		
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			the stick on him. Even it is said
		
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			they tied him to different horses until finally
		
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			he as well dies. And the son Ammar
		
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			is sitting there. He sees his father. He
		
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			sees his mother. Now the whole crowd turns
		
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			on him. He was just a child. What
		
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			do you think he would do? He wasn't
		
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			able to bear that pain, and he gave
		
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			up because I believe in your gods, I
		
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			believe in your gods. And then he comes
		
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			rushing, crying to the prophet salallahu alayhi wa
		
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			sallam, You Rasulullah,
		
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			he's just seen his mother and father
		
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			decapitated. He's seen his mother and father tortured
		
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			to death. Can you imagine his heart? And
		
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			he's also worried, You Rasulullah,
		
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			I uttered words of Kufr. I said I
		
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			believe in their gods. You Rasulullah, what's gonna
		
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			happen to me now? And our prophet salallahu
		
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			alayhi wasalam consoled him. Wasn't iman strong in
		
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			your hearts? Yes, You Rasulullah, they forced me.
		
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			So he said, don't worry. If they return
		
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			to torturing you, you can return to saying
		
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			what you have said. And Allah revealed in
		
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			the Quran, whoever is forced is forgiven.
		
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			The point is, it's not the first time
		
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			torture has happened. It's not the first time
		
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			brutality has been demonstrated. And this is the
		
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			reality
		
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			of all those who choose the path of
		
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			Allah
		
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			They will be persecuted.
		
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			They will be tortured. There were other sahaba
		
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			as well. Khabab ibn al Arat, another slave,
		
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			that his master
		
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			would tie him up, and his master would
		
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			burn him with burning coals. And later on
		
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			in life, he would lift his shirt up,
		
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			and he would show the sahaba what happened
		
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			to him. And Umar ibn al Khattab once
		
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			saw, and he goes, wallahi, we did not
		
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			realize this was happening. Because at the time,
		
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			Umar was not a Muslim when Khabab was
		
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			being persecuted. And he was shocked to see
		
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			that his whole body, there was not a
		
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			hand span, there was not even 2 fingers
		
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			on his body, except that the scars could
		
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			be seen. Suhaib and others, the amount of
		
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			torture given to them is beyond what we
		
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			can comprehend. And our prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam,
		
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			one day these same people came to him
		
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			and they said, You Rasulullah, for how long?
		
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			You Rasulullah, for how long can we be
		
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			patient? You Rasulullah, make du'a to Allah to
		
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			get rid of all of this pain and
		
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			suffering. Make du'a to Allah that this goes
		
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			away. And it is as if they expected
		
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			the prophet salassam to snap his fingers. It
		
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			is not in the hands of the prophet
		
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			salassabi. He can only make du'a. He can
		
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			only ask, but it is Allah who decides
		
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			when victory comes. And so he gave them
		
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			comfort. He gave them encouragement. He said a
		
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			day will come. A day will come when
		
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			this matter will be completely dominant. A day
		
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			will come when you shall have peace and
		
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			security, and a woman shall travel from the
		
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			furthest regions of this land, from Hadramaut to
		
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			San'a, too faraway regions. A woman will travel
		
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			in the middle of the desert, and the
		
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			country will be so safe and secure. No
		
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			one will harm her, except maybe the wolves
		
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			will attack her sheep. He gave them good
		
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			news and encouragement
		
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			when they could not see any encouragement, when
		
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			they could not see any hope. And this
		
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			is what we need to learn. This is
		
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			what we need to extract from the seerah.
		
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			There must always be hope even in hopeless
		
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			situations. We must obtain courage even when the
		
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			situation appears there can be no courage. Look
		
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			at the reality of all of the previous
		
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			prophets. Look at the reality of the Sahaba.
		
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			Look even at our Prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam
		
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			and the tortures that he under undergo in
		
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			his own lifetimes.
		
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			No doubt, it was just as painful for
		
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			them, even more so than it is painful
		
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			for us. And so we remind ourselves, oh,
		
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			Muslims, we remind ourselves that from these trials,
		
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			from these tragedies,
		
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			always
		
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			benefit comes, always good comes. And look at
		
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			what happened. Those Sahaba who went through those
		
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			trials and tragedies, those that went through them
		
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			and saw them firsthand,
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala chose them to be
		
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			the best of all people. Allah gives victory
		
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			to those who are patient. Have we forgotten
		
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			what the Quran tells us? Hasibitum untadkululjannah?
		
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			Did you think you would enter jannah for
		
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			free when the people before you were tested
		
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			and the prophets were tested? Wazulziru.
		
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			They were shaken to the core. Hata yakula
		
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			rasoolawaladeenaamru
		
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			ma'amatma tanasurullah.
		
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			Until even the prophets and the people who
		
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			believe would say, where is the help of
		
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			Allah? Where is the help of Allah? It's
		
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			not the first time we're being tested. It's
		
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			not the first time people are wondering where
		
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			is the help of Allah, and what does
		
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			Allah say? Allah inna nasrallahi
		
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			kareeb. Know that Allah's help is kareeb. Know
		
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			that Allah's help is ever close. Have we
		
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			forgotten what the Quran tells us?
		
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			We are going to test you. Allah has
		
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			told us. The Quran is clear. You're going
		
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			to be tested with what?
		
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			With the loss of property and a loss
		
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			of life. Your lives will be taken away.
		
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			Your properties, your homes are gonna be demolished.
		
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			Then what does Allah say? Wabashiras
		
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			sabireen.
		
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			Give glad tidings. Congratulate
		
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			those that have sabr. Allah tells us in
		
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			the midst of all of this chaos, in
		
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			the midst of all of this pain and
		
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			suffering, I shall choose a few and I
		
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			will raise their ranks and give them glad
		
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			tidings. Exactly what our prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam said, be patient, oh family of Yousa,
		
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			your place is up there in Jannah. Give
		
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			them empathy. Give them words of comfort. These
		
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			words are not meaningless. These words demonstrate
		
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			we have faith in Allah. These words demonstrate
		
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			pain is not eternal. Suffering shall come to
		
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			an end, And what will come after that
		
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			will always be everlasting bliss for those who
		
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			die shahids. And for those who live, Allah
		
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			will choose them in this dunya and the
		
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			akhirah, and Allah will raise their ranks. And
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala mentions those that were
		
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			persecuted before. Allah says,
		
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			We wanted to give them * in the
		
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			earth.
		
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			Allah says, we wanted to give dominion and
		
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			power to those who were persecuted. This is
		
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			straight from the Quran. Allah chooses
		
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			those that are persecuted in this world. If
		
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			they die, they shall have their pleasure with
		
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			Allah. And if they live, they shall have
		
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			their pleasure in this dunya and with Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala. It's always a win win
		
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			for the believers. We must find comfort in
		
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			the Quran and in the sirah and in
		
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			the lives of the Sahaba and Tabi'un.
		
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			Realize it is at times like this that
		
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			our faith is tested constantly. We see these
		
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			images, we hear of this news, and our
		
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			iman is tested, but we are not being
		
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			tested like they are being tested. Our test
		
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			is different than theirs. At the very least,
		
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			all Muslims, at the very least, our iman,
		
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			our taqwa, our spirituality,
		
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			it must be affected by what is going
		
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			on. At the very least, we need to
		
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			transform ourselves in light of what is going
		
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			on. The test of the people in Palestine
		
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			and Ghazza, the test of the people around
		
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			the world is at a different level than
		
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			ours. We ask Allah to bless them and
		
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			make it easy for them. And we also
		
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			ask Allah to not test us like they
		
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			were being tested because I don't know if
		
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			I could pass that test. I don't know
		
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			if I'm capable of being in that test.
		
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			Our test is much less. Our test is
		
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			a different type of test. And of the
		
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			mecca of the realities of those tests is
		
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			are we understanding what is going on? And
		
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			are we reacting with empathy? Are we giving
		
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			words of comfort to the people around us?
		
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			We have to remind ourselves of the purpose
		
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			of this dunya. These images,
		
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			these realities,
		
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			these massacres,
		
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			this genocide,
		
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			it must create an impact in our lives.
		
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			Oh, Muslims, to be blunt, you cannot be
		
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			the same person today that you were last
		
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			year. If you are, then something is wrong.
		
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			You cannot be the same person today than
		
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			you have been for the last 10 months.
		
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			You have to see what is going on,
		
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			and it needs to impact you at the
		
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			spiritual level. You need to raise your own
		
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			game, your own bar. You need to demonstrate
		
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			to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. You recognize your
		
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			test is different, but it is a test
		
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			nonetheless. A test of our iman, a test
		
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			of our belief in Allah's qadr and wisdom,
		
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			a test of our tawakkul,
		
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			a test of our activism. What exactly are
		
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			we doing? All of this should impact us.
		
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			And I have said this multiple times of
		
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			the greatest wisdoms of these types of tragedies,
		
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			of the greatest blessings, because it is a
		
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			blessing in its own way, of the greatest
		
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			blessings, Allah
		
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			wa ta'ala uses these tragedies,
		
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			uses this type of pain to extract from
		
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			us, to make us better than we ever
		
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			were. This is the reality of tests and
		
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			trials. 1 of the goals of tragedy, one
		
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			of the goals of suffering is that we
		
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			become better people as a result of that
		
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			tragedy. And if we do become better people,
		
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			then in reality, that is not a tragedy.
		
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			Anything that brings us closer to Allah, anything
		
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			that strengthens our faith and resolve, anything that
		
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			makes us better believers, it is not a
		
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			punishment. It is a blessing in an indirect
		
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			way. We're not asking for the pain of
		
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			this dunya. But if the pain of this
		
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			dunya brings about the eternal pleasure of Allah,
		
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			then it is worth that pain and suffering.
		
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			And this is a maxim and a rule
		
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			that applies to everybody. All Muslims,
		
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			what is happening in the world today, it
		
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			needs to affect us at every single level.
		
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			At the spiritual level, at the emotional level,
		
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			it needs to affect us. We need to
		
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			reassess our own humanities. Wallahi, I am worried
		
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			about my own heart and your own hearts.
		
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			How is it that we can see these
		
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			images and then move on with our lives?
		
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			I wonder. I believe that if these images
		
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			that we are seeing of these these children
		
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			and these toddlers blown up, I believe if
		
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			the average person of the last generation
		
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			ever saw such an image, it would scar
		
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			them for days weeks. They would be in
		
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			a trance for weeks not able to speak.
		
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			They have never seen anything like this, and
		
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			yet here we are watching such images
		
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			daily.
		
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			Every single hour, another image comes, and we
		
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			scroll by as if it is nothing. I
		
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			worry about the state of my heart. Wallahi,
		
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			I worry about what it's doing to our
		
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			own humanity,
		
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			and we have to con constantly remind ourselves
		
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			that this is not normal. It should not
		
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			be normal to see a father pick up
		
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			his 2 year old son that you can't
		
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			even recognize as a human being. The flesh
		
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			and blood is completely mangled up. It is
		
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			absolutely abnormal that this is taking place, and
		
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			the world is turning a blind eye. The
		
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			world has lost its senses. It's lost its
		
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			humanity.
		
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			We cannot afford to lose our humanity. We
		
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			cannot afford to lose our iman and taqwa.
		
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			We have to constantly bring ourselves back to
		
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			our religion, find comfort and meaning in our
		
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			faith. Understand
		
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			that even if tyrants are winning right now,
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will always call the
		
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			tyrants to task. What happened to those that
		
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			killed Yasir and Ammar and Sumayyah? What happened
		
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			to the people who perpetrated all of that
		
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			evil against Bilal? Every one of them met
		
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			their fate in this dunya. And we saw
		
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			this reality in the Sirah, in the battle
		
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			of Badr, in the battle of Khanda, in
		
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			the conquest of Makkah. We clearly saw what
		
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			happened to those who did this persecution, and
		
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			what they will meet on the day of
		
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			judgment is much worse than this dunya. We
		
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			also find comfort in this as well. Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala will not allow to to
		
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			have this tyranny go in waste. Allah will
		
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			not allow the tyrants to go unanswered, and
		
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			Allah will reward
		
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			every single child that is an orphan,
		
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			every single mother that lost her children, every
		
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			single father that was was separated from their
		
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			own family, Allah will give them ajalbih ghayi
		
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			hisaab. But what are we doing? What are
		
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			we doing to stop this? What are we
		
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			doing to make sure this does not happen
		
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			again? This is where once again, we remind
		
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			ourselves of the Sirah, of the tactics of
		
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			the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
		
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			We cannot be silent and we must do
		
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			whatever we can. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala mentions
		
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			in the Quran,
		
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			latublaoonafi
		
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			amwalikumu anfusikum
		
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			You're gonna be tested. Latublaoonna
		
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			You're gonna be tested in your souls, in
		
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			your money, and in your lives. Walatasmaoonna
		
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			minal ladinaootu kitaba minqabblikum waminal ladinaashraqu
		
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			And you're gonna hear a lot of nasty
		
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			things from those who reject Allah. This is
		
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			in the Quran. They're gonna say vulgar things.
		
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			They're gonna justify the killing of babies. They're
		
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			gonna dehumanize you. They're gonna they're gonna eliminate
		
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			you from the bastion of humanity.
		
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			They're constantly gonna call you terrorists and whatnot
		
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			when you try to defend yourselves. Allah is
		
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			saying you're gonna be tested. Your lives will
		
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			be taken away. Your houses will be destroyed.
		
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			You're gonna hear a lot of bad things
		
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			from people who don't believe in me. Then
		
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			what does Allah say? Waintasbiruwatattaqoo
		
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			fa inna dhalikamin aazmin umur. And if you
		
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			show sabr and you have the upper hand
		
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			with your piety, if you respond to their
		
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			ignobility
		
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			with nobility,
		
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			if you respond to their hatred with spirituality,
		
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			waintasbiruwatattaqoofa
		
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			inna dhalikaminazmirumur.
		
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			If you show sabr and you demonstrate taqwa,
		
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			that is the essence of what you need
		
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			to be doing. So in this madness that
		
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			we see around us, constantly remind yourselves, I
		
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			need to demonstrate sabr and taqwa. I need
		
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			to be the better person. I need to
		
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			constantly be involved and engaged. And at the
		
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			very least level, I need to be a
		
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			better person I am today than I was
		
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			when all of this began. I need to
		
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			demonstrate to Allah that what is happening around,
		
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			it is affecting me, it is making me
		
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			comprehend and understand. I have a role to
		
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			play. My life is not just about nafsi
		
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			nafsi and my rizq and my sustenance and
		
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			my car and my house. I have a
		
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			higher purpose. I have to be connected to
		
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			the ummah and to this religion. And if
		
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			the people of Gaza, and if what is
		
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			happening around the world, it inspires us to
		
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			raise that bar, then perhaps
		
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			in that raising of the bar will be
		
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			our excuse and our salvation. May Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala bless me and you with and
		
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			through the Quran, and may he make us
		
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			of those who is versus they understand and
		
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			applies halal and haram throughout our lifespan. Ask
		
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			Allah's forgiveness. You as well ask him for
		
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			his Dhighfar and the Rahman.
		
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			Alhamdulillah.
		
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			All praise is due to Allah, the one
		
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			and the unique.
		
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			He it is whom we worship, and it
		
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			is His aid that we seek. He is
		
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			the Lord of the oppressed, and He hears
		
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			the prayer of the weak.
		
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			Of the lessons we learn from the seerah
		
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			is that
		
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			a Muslim
		
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			must always be concerned about and attempt to
		
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			help other Muslims.
		
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			This is a reality that the Quran is
		
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			very clear about. Wal muminoona wal muminato ba'udum
		
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			auriya Uba'a. The believing men and women are
		
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			protectors of one another. They're helpers of one
		
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			another. And so at some level, we must
		
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			always attempt to help and protect everybody around
		
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			the globe.
		
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			But what that protection is
		
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			and what that comfort is will vary from
		
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			person to person. Because in the end of
		
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			the day, we can only do so much.
		
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			La yukalifullahu
		
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			nafsanillahu
		
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			saha. Allah is not putting on us a
		
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			burden with more than what we can bear.
		
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			Aid is mandatory,
		
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			but what that aid is will change from
		
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			time to place, from situation to situation.
		
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			Help is obligatory.
		
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			Du'a is obligatory.
		
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			But the way that is manifested, how that
		
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			help is done, what that help is, it
		
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			will be different depending on who you are,
		
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			depending on your strength, depending on your power,
		
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			depending on your capabilities.
		
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			And notice from the Sira, in the time
		
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			of Makkah, what could the prophet salallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam do when these sahaba are literally
		
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			being tortured to death? What could he do?
		
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			You will say, but he moved to Madinah,
		
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			he had strength there. We say even in
		
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			Madinah, even in Madinah, there were times and
		
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			places where he could not militarily
		
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			and politically help. And he was Rasulullah
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wasallam. He had established the Islamic
		
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			state. There is an Islamic Republic of Madinah,
		
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			but still in the treaty of Hudaybiyyah,
		
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			when the Quraysh put that really unjust condition,
		
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			that Dhulm condition, that if a Muslim converts
		
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			from Makkah after this treaty, you cannot help
		
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			them. That was in the treaty of Hudaybiyyah.
		
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			Any Muslim who converts after signing this agreement,
		
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			you have no political loyalty towards them. This
		
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			was in the treaty. The prophet tried his
		
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			best to negotiate, but the Quraysh refused.
		
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			And so he had to accept because he
		
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			wasn't able to have a different type of
		
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			treaty or a better treaty. And indeed what
		
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			happened,
		
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			Abu Basir
		
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			escaped from Makkah, and he ran all the
		
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			way to Madinah. He was being tortured. There
		
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			were scars on his body. He entered into
		
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			Madinah. And the prophet
		
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			said to him, oh, Abu Basir, you know
		
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			our treaty. I you're not supposed to be
		
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			here. And Abu Basir said, but you Rasulullah,
		
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			you don't have to turn me back. That's
		
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			not a part of the treaty. So the
		
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			prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam said, well, as
		
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			long as they don't come, I'm not gonna
		
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			turn you. So he he was living up
		
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			to the letter of the law. The letter
		
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			of the law was that you you don't
		
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			have to return him, but you're not inviting
		
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			him. He was there on his own. Abu
		
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			Abbasid said, I'm just living amongst you. I'm
		
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			not taking your aid. Indeed, the Qurays sent
		
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			2 people. And the Quran said, You Rasulullah,
		
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			the treaty well, they didn't say Rasulullah Sayy
		
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			Muhammad. The treaty says you cannot have a
		
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			person in Makkah come to Medina. We have
		
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			we have him. We want him to come
		
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			back. And the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam
		
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			turned to Abu Basir, and he gave him
		
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			a cryptic a cryptic response. He said
		
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			that,
		
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			the the the the it's a it's a
		
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			very eloquent expression. I'm gonna translate it in
		
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			simple English. He said that, what a great
		
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			person you you are if only you had
		
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			help that could help you. Meaning, I cannot
		
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			help you right now. You have potential. What
		
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			a great person you are. If only you
		
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			had help that would help you. Abu Bhusiur
		
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			understood, and he managed to escape from the
		
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			captors, and he ran away. He fled away.
		
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			And he did not turn back to Makkah,
		
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			but neither could he live in Madinah. And
		
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			And Abu Jandal as well, another companion who
		
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			was being tortured, he too attempted to come
		
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			and he was not allowed. So he
		
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			he grouped up with Abu Basir. Abu Basir,
		
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			Abu Jandal, they formed a group neither in
		
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			Makkah nor in Madinah, and the prophet salallahu
		
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			alaihi wasalam could not send military aid to
		
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			this enclave, to this group. He could not
		
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			militarily protect them because it went against the
		
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			treaty. He made du'a for them. He indirectly
		
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			helped them. He gave them words of comfort,
		
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			but he could not militarily
		
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			help them. We learned this from the seerah.
		
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			Different people have different rights and responsibilities,
		
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			and people are tested with different rights and
		
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			responsibilities.
		
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			So for us here in this land, we
		
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			must make dua for our brothers and sisters
		
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			in ghazah. We must lobby for them. We
		
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			must use our words like the prophet salallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam used. We must defend their
		
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			rights to do what they are doing. And
		
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			wallahi, we will defend their rights bluntly and
		
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			boldly, according to every single law of the
		
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			world, according to international law, according to common
		
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			sense, according to what every society does. When
		
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			your family is killed, when your house is
		
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			bombed, when an enemy invades, of course you're
		
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			gonna stand up and attack back. It is
		
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			their right to do so, and nobody has
		
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			the right to take that away from them.
		
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			We will defend their right to be human
		
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			beings and to defend their lives and their
		
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			children. And that is something we will stand
		
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			up here and say boldly and loudly, our
		
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			religion, international law, common sense, your own culture,
		
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			and every single fiber of humanity says, when
		
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			your children are bombed, when your wives are
		
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			killed, when you are expelled from your lands,
		
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			you have every right to stand up and
		
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			defend
		
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			in any way possible. We will say this
		
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			loudly and clearly, but that is not we
		
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			are not there. They are there. We make
		
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			du'a for them. We defend their rights. We
		
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			are here. We will lobby as much as
		
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			we can. We will raise public awareness. We
		
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			will send aid as long as we're allowed
		
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			to send aid. We're gonna call the people
		
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			that support these deeds war criminals. We will
		
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			not vote for them and endorse them in
		
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			office. We're gonna make sure only the right
		
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			people come and stand up to be our
		
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			politicians. We do what we can in this
		
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			land. But in this land, as people of
		
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			this land, we too have treaties like the
		
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			prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam had a treaty
		
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			with the Quraysh. And a part of those
		
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			treaties entails we will not get involved militarily.
		
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			That's not what we can do at this
		
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			time and place. Yet I say loudly and
		
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			clearly, those people whom Allah has blessed and
		
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			tested with power, those people who were in
		
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			charge of political institutions
		
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			and armies, what are they doing? It is
		
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			their responsibility.
		
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			And the moment they make it legal, and
		
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			the moment they open the door, then we
		
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			hope and we pray
		
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			every single able person amongst us will take
		
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			up that call. And I say this unequivocally
		
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			and loudly without any shame and embarrassment. It
		
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			is a duty on every
		
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			single person of conscience to understand what is
		
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			taking place as a genocide.
		
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			How can we sit here and allow it
		
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			to take place if the opportunities
		
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			are created that will help us defend them?
		
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			But until that is done by people who
		
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			are responsible,
		
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			because the average Muslim, the average human cannot
		
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			pretend to be a government, cannot pretend to
		
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			be a khalifa, cannot pretend to be an
		
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			army. It's not my responsibility
		
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			or yours to create that type of system.
		
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			But when the people who are in charge
		
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			allow that to happen, when the with the
		
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			people whom Allah has blessed and tested with
		
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			power, when they allow that mechanism, that changes
		
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			the whole situation. And, yes, we can and
		
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			we should generically raise these realities to them
		
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			and say to them, what is the purpose
		
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			of having 50 Muslim countries and 50 armies?
		
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			What is the purpose of having all of
		
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			these resources if you see this tragedy happening
		
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			and you do not even lift a finger
		
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			to get involved to defend innocent women and
		
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			children. That's our job to speak to them,
		
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			but it is not our job to snap
		
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			our fingers and pretend we are a country,
		
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			we are a power, we are a military.
		
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			No. I cannot do this. You cannot do
		
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			this. Allah did not give me that responsibility.
		
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			And to do this opens the door for
		
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			chaos and opens the door for that's we
		
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			learned from the Sira. The prophet didn't open
		
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			this door in Makkah. And even in Madinah,
		
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			he had to have keep the treaties maintained
		
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			as we must do as well. The bottom
		
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			line, all Muslims,
		
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			we're living in very, very difficult times, and
		
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			our iman is being tested, and our bravery
		
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			is being tested, and we have to be
		
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			brave within the confines of the law. I'm
		
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			not asking anybody to go to jail. I'm
		
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			not asking anybody to get into trouble. I'm
		
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			not asking anybody to sacrifice their entire lives
		
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			for something that is not gonna be a
		
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			benefit, but awkwardness
		
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			and pushing the boundaries and raising these conversations.
		
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			This needs to be done. And, subhanAllah, some
		
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			amongst
		
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			us who really do,
		
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			do extra and and their livelihoods are gone
		
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			or they have to go to jail, well,
		
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			good for them because history always teaches us
		
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			that when you stand up for truth and
		
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			you preach justice in a legal manner, I'm
		
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			not saying anything illegal, but sometimes
		
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			sometimes what is legal and illegal becomes a
		
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			very gray area. And we see this from
		
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			our own history. Malcolm x, Muhammad Ali, the
		
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			boxer, He went to jail because he didn't
		
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			go and fight in Vietnam.
		
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			Now we consider him to be a hero.
		
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			But you know, when he refused to go
		
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			fight, the world, America called him a traitor.
		
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			And Muhammad Ali said, why would I go
		
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			kill innocent people? I'm not gonna do your
		
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			I'm not gonna fight your dirty war for
		
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			you. Now everybody looks at him as a
		
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			hero. Malcolm x the same. Every single other
		
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			leader the same. If we're asked to do
		
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			something unethical and immoral, we cannot do that.
		
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			But until they ask us to do something
		
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			unethical and immoral, we will obey the law
		
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			as much as we can. We're not gonna
		
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			do anything that is harmful, that is illegal,
		
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			but we will speak the truth, and we
		
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			will push the boundaries, and we will raise
		
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			these uncomfortable realities. Oh Muslims, now is the
		
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			time to strategize. Now is the time to
		
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			mobilize.
		
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			Now is the time to have a deep
		
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			dive about what are we doing as an
		
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			American Muslim community. I don't have all the
		
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			answers, but I do know silence is not
		
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			an option. Cowardice is not an option. I
		
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			do know we need to stand up and
		
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			do something because wallahi, what we have seen
		
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			especially in this last week, words cannot even
		
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			describe the barbarity for how long will this
		
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			continue. But we remind ourselves, Allah inna
		
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			nasrallahu kareem,
		
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			Allah inna
		
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			nasrallahu
		
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			kareem. Allah inna nasrallahu
		
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			kareem. We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
		
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			bless our brothers and
		
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			sisters in Ghazza, and to allow us to
		
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			be of those who help them in whatever
		
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			way possible.