Yasir Qadhi – Post 911 for Muslims in the West

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The speakers discuss the importance of protecting their identity and goals in protecting their safety and well-being, emphasizing the need to act with caution and hold ownership of their identity. They stress the importance of setting realistic goals and being a good role model for others. The speakers also emphasize the need to act with caution and be a part of the American Muslim community, as well as preserving the future generation and preserving their image. They emphasize the importance of rethinking the future and not just focusing on past issues. The culture also includes a "brder" who takes advantage of certain perks and restrictions to encourage individuals to practice their religion.

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			he's running for Congress from Illinois, Chicago, Illinois. Obviously, we're a nonprofit. So we're
not endorsing anybody but he's one of our brothers. He's visiting the community. So if you want to
talk to him and see what his platform is, he will be after slot to Juba outside insha Allah Allah.
Also we have a big day coming up on Sunday over 100,000 backpacks are going to be packed for the
food for the needy. So please do come and volunteer and also help out insha Allah to Allah 12 to
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			Santa Han. We ask Allah subhanaw taala for Shiva for the both of them. May Allah azza wa jal grant
them pure pure she felt complete she felt that doesn't leave any remnants and we also have one
person who passed away brother I should have said, we ask Allah subhana wa Taala for his forgiveness
and Mo Farah and another of our community members, brother Ahmed some more he passed away and he's
actually janazah will be taking place right after salatu Juma so inshallah please remain here as
soon as we finish Juma Salah will do the janazah for our brother Ahmed inshallah.
		
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			Alhamdulillah All Praise be to Allah the one and the unique. It is He alone that we worship, and it
is his help that we seek. He revealed the Quran and he taught a man how to speak. Only he is a
limiter Catbert. He despises arrogance and he loves the meek. It is He Who protects the oppressed
and is it is he who answers the dua of the week. So may salatu. Salam be upon the Mustafa, who was
chosen to be the prophetic peek as to what follows know that Allah subhanho wa Taala has reminded us
to be conscious of him when he says in the Quran, yeah, are you Hello Xena Amanita Allah help
cultural quarter. Wala tomato Nila illa Anta Muslim on
		
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			dear Muslims.
		
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			Today's topic is not going to be the standard topics that you're accustomed to because this last
week marked the 20th anniversary of the events of 911 20 years have passed since that tragedy that
shaped the entire world and changed all of our lives, some of us on a very personal level. This
commemoration was, to be honest, awkward for many of us here. Of course, we all understand that
those events and what happened in New York was a crime and whoever perpetrated them committed mass
murder and acts of terrorism. And no religion, especially not our religion would justify such
actions. We felt awkward, not because it's difficult to condemn the evil that happened on 911. But
		
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			because we are well aware of the subsequent evils that was justified as a response to that day, the
intentional deception and lying of linking various countries falsely with this event. The subsequent
wars and invasions that destroyed large segments of the world and especially the Middle East,
wreaked havoc on the entire region, caused the deaths of at least 1 million people and the civil
unrest of many more millions, the wasting of $7 trillion of futile useless wars of our own taxpayer
money. The lies that led to all of this, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, which is still open as we speak
today, the Patriot Act, the rise of Islamophobia, the intentional demonization and smearing of my
		
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			religion and yours of my book and yours of my prophet and yours, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in
order to justify an unjust war in order to cover up for their actions they brought in our religion,
and they smeared our faith. So indeed, it is an awkward time, not because of the events on that day,
but because of what happened afterwards. However, today's hookah is not going to be a long list of
legitimate grievances that we have. Because the fact of the matter is in this audience, we're all
aware of those grievances. Sadly, outside of this audience, to our neighbors and friends, these
grievances are overlooked. For this audience, I wanted to talk about something else and that is
		
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			because our Shetty eye tells us to always look at the positive. Our Shetty eye tells us to look at
the good that comes out of evil, because there is no such thing that happens in this world, except
that there is good that comes out of it as well. So today in sha Allah hooter, Allah, I wanted to
extrapolate three differences that were for the positive in sha Allah, Allah Allah in our North
American Muslim community, and I am somebody who grew up in the ad started giving Dawa in the 90s.
And then I saw the transformation of the American Muslim community, and I was involved in preaching
and teaching for the last 30 or so years. Therefore, I have an insider's view, and also somebody who
		
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			was involved in that timeframe, to see the change in discourse to see what happened pre and post.
And today, I want to bring up three points that are in shallow to other relevant and pertinent and
inshallah give us some hope, at the light at the end of the tunnel. Because what happened was that
the events of 911 they caused us as the American Muslim community to mature very, very quickly, and
to rethink through a number of fundamental issues that we hadn't really thought through or perhaps
misunderstood. And of course, many can be said, but as usual, time is limited. So we'll concentrate
on three. First and foremost was the key issue of understanding who exactly we are
		
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			And what is our relationship to this country that many of you have migrated to? And many of us have
been born into
		
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			the awkward question of how American are we. And of course, this is a talk primarily for the
immigrants and their children of immigrants. As for our African American brethren, then they were
mashallah lightyears ahead of us in this particular regard. And they didn't need to have this
discussion. I remember clearly growing up in the 80s. And even in the 90s, there was this notion of
authentic Islam being back home, there was this notion that we are guests, we are somewhat
outsiders, and anything local is not necessarily an Islamic cause.
		
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			There was a very strong attachment to issues to fundraisers to events to politics of lands three,
four or 5000 miles away. And in fact, it was extremely common to hear lectures and cultivars where
we were told that it is haram for us to be in this country, that it is wajib, to make hijra, and go
fleep overseas. And I know many of my friends at that timeframe actually followed up and through
with those photos. 911 changed all of that, because we had to make a choice, those of us that
remained, and I'm one of them. 911 changed all of that. And we understood, for good or for bad, for
better or for worse, that this is our land. And we need to stake our identity. And we need to be
		
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			firm about who we are. And we need to take ownership of the rights and privileges that can only come
when we acknowledge that ownership. You see, in order for us to flourish in order for us to be
accepted, we will have to make sure that our presence in this land is as legitimate as the presence
of any and all other minorities in faith traditions. For all too long, we were told growing up in
the 80s, that this is not your land, it's not your culture, we are told a long litany of how bad
everything is around us and how evil and how immoral. And a lot of that might be true. But in the
end of the day, I have no place to go other than this land. And I have no culture other than the
		
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			culture of our upbringing of the 80s which is a mix of immigrant culture, American culture, but it
is a sub culture of this very land. Dear Muslims 911 caused us to mature very quickly about this
question. Because if you want to be treated with the dignity and respect that comes when you are a
fellow citizen, you will have to own up and admit you will have to claim you will have to embrace
that identity and citizenship. How can we expect Muslims to be treated with respect with the respect
that they deserve, if they don't even view themselves as being a part of the land that they live in?
There's nothing wrong with being a part of this nation state. There is nothing wrong with being
		
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			proud of certain elements with while being irritated by other elements. It's not a binary system of
either accept everything or reject everything. Our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was a part of
the Quraysh when the rest of the Quraysh were pagans, when the majority of Morocco was idle
worshippers he didn't dissociate from his Fluttershy background. In fact, he did not even flee muck
up until his life was in danger. We have to understand your Muslims were worried about the
immorality of the world around us. Do you realize in Makkah, around the carrabba was the worst type
of immorality and that you should 300 Gods every time the Prophet says I'm praying, there is a God
		
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			of false god and idle in front of the Kaaba. He didn't run away and say, Oh, we do believe these are
all good for it's his land his people, and he has to make the best of that situation. And in fact,
even when he made the hijra, what did he say? He turned around tears in his eyes. And he said,
speaking to Makkah, metaphorically, you are the most beloved land on Earth to me. This despite the
fact that at that time, it was full of idolatry. At that time, there was plenty of evil going on. He
said, You are the most beloved land to me. And were it not for the fact that my people are forcing
me out, I would never have left you, My people are forcing me out. He would have remained in Makkah,
		
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			as long as mcta allowed him to remain in spite of the coup for in spite of the fight, in spite of
the evil, it is his land, he needs to have a purpose there. He needs a job over there. That job is
the preaching of the religion of Islam. He's not going to run away from that responsibility simply
because his people are doing things other than what he wants them to do. So we too, as American
Muslims, we don't have to agree too much of the immorality around us. We don't have to agree with
the foreign policy, but we do have to stake our claims. We have to get over this cognitive
dissonance of who are we we are
		
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			Muslims who are Americans, and there's nothing wrong with that 911 caused us to make this talk up
very, very quickly. And notions of hijra, and notions of other things of this nature were very
quickly removed from the discourse, because people understood that if we wanted our rights, we would
have to fight for them. And if we want to fight for our rights, we have to use the system. If we
want to use the system, we have to be a part of the system. There's no other way around that. And by
the way, what does the Quran say about every single prophet while adding a home who the wider
thermodyne AHA home saw their, their brother, their brother, their brother, the prophets are
		
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			speaking to the co founder, and they're saying, y'all call me call me call me, my people, my people,
my people. So why is it problematic? And why did some of us have an issue with understanding that
this is now my land, and it is my country, the fact that they're my people, and my country is not an
endorsement of each and everything, it is a political realisation that we are here to stay. And that
is why brothers and sisters, that is why those who chose to migrate to these lands, you especially
that generation needs to understand. And I say this with respect, that home is not where your
grandparents were buried. But Home is where your grandchildren will be born. That's the mindset you
		
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			have to change Home is where your grandchildren are going to be born. And there's nothing wrong with
that there's no need to feel guilty about this, we have to accept the reality of the situation and
own up to it, if we want to cause a change. This was my first point leads me to my second, once
we've come to this realization, that we are a part and parcel of this land, that we are just as much
a citizen, especially those of us born here, the immigrants you adopted, you chose, Okay, fair
enough. You're swaddling two cultures, those of us that were born here, we have no other land, we
have no other place to go to. This is where we are. So if that is the case, we have to ask ourselves
		
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			the second question, What is our goal? What is the goal of the American Muslim community? And once
again, in the 80s, and 90s, I would hear hot buzz and lectures and perhaps even back then I might
have said some naive things that really demonstrated that we hadn't thought through this question.
What is the goal of us Muslims living in this land, because you see brothers and sisters, back in
the 80s, it was very common for our teachers, our elders, especially those who came to this land,
many of them fleeing oppressive regimes, many of them involved in various organizations that were
politically inclined in the Muslim world, they came here, and they sort of imported their visions of
		
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			what they wanted Pakistan or Egypt or other places to be they imported into America. And back then
you could say things like this and not get into trouble. 911 caused us to really reassess what
exactly is our goal in this country? What exactly is the long term vision, because when you set an
impossible goal, when you set up an impossible goal, don't be surprised that when you fail, it will
lead to a sense of depression, and maybe even an abandonment of religiosity, which we saw with our
own eyes throughout the 80s and 90s. We need to set goals that are rooted in our tradition, that are
Islamically sound, that are politically feasible, and that are logistically realistic. This is what
		
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			the Shediac demands of us. What exactly is our goal here, brothers and sisters, we can state that
our goal as American Muslims can be categorized into two. Now the first of which is for the iron on
every one of you and me, for the iron, every one of us has to have that goal. And the second is for
that good fire, which is a collective gold, some of us have to do it. And as long as some of us do
it, the rest don't have to do it. As for the 49. Our goal is that every single one of us needs to
protect our iman, our faith, our aqidah, our rituals, our salah, our Zika and pass it down to our
children to the best of our ability, full stop. That's it. That is it. Do not complicate the
		
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			religion. Your ultimate goal is the pleasure of Allah and the worship of Allah and wherever you can
do that. Alhamdulillah no problem. Set realistic goals based upon the Sharia. The goal that I have a
new high which is for the aim is to be a good Muslim to protect my faith and to pass it down to my
children as much as possible that is far dying. And in the process. If I live a comfortable life, if
I live a good life, if I earn my risk and money, so be it at hamdulillah Robina Artina dunya hustler
will ask you not to hustle center no problem. This is for the end. You have to protect your Eman
followed key fire followed key fire. We as an American Muslim community
		
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			He have to do more than just protect my email and in yours firstkey via means to go beyond just
protecting mine and yours. It means to be a positive role model for the rest of society, to preach,
to teach, to explain to be ambassadors of Islam. And to demonstrate the reality of what it means to
walk in the footsteps of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam. Not everybody needs to do that
goal. If somebody's demand is weak, if somebody is not confident if somebody is shy, and they're
just struggling with their personal Eman, and they're just being a Muslim in their lives, no
problem, Allah is not going to punish you for not doing more than this. Don't feel guilty, just
		
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			being a Muslim and not being able to do more. But some amongst us have to do more than this. And by
the way, I don't mean preaching and teaching. That's one aspect. I mean, being ambassadors, amongst
your own friends, your colleagues, your co workers, I mean, showing them the truth of Islam,
engaging with them and positive conversation giving Dawa at the individual level, which does not
require lots of knowledge. It just requires sincerity and good manners. That's all that it requires.
If you're able to do this and hamdulillah and if not Alhamdulillah at least make sure you do what is
for the eyes on you. So this is the fourth key fire goal that we need to go above and beyond just
		
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			preserving our faith and make sure that we cause an impact by preaching by teaching by being role
models by influencing the people around us. And if we're able to bring other people to Islam and
hamdulillah if not, that is their business. We cannot force anybody. We cannot push our religion.
Origin down anybody in nama la Karbala, who Elena hisab Your job is to preach Our job is to judge
your job is to convey the message hisab is with Allah subhanahu wa Tada. So, the ultimate goal that
we have is the preservation of our faith and the faith of our children. This is far behind. Beyond
this fourth key fire, if we're able to preach and teach and spread the message of Islam, those that
		
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			are able to produce at Hamdulillah that is all nothing more than this. We do not have to aim for
that which is unrealistic, or that which is political suicide, the Muslims want to Abyssinia and
they live there for almost a decade never once did they challenge status quo and say to the Joshi, I
want your course Jana Joshi never once did they say that? How could they when they were less than
point 1%. Their goal in Abyssinia was to preserve their Iman was to practice and some people did
convert. Some people did join the Muslim community. But the goal of the Abyssinian Muslims was to be
safe in their practice of the deen and to pass their religion down. And that's exactly what
		
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			happened. And they came back to Medina and life went on for us, there is no Medina for us there is
no utopia to go to. So if we remain here for one to 510 generations so be it will make dua to Allah
put our trust in Allah and hand our faith down generation to generation that is our immediate
Forgeline goal. Now based on that, let's get to point number three.
		
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			We are part of this country point number one, our ultimate goal is the pleasure of Allah Subhana
Allah the preservation of our deen, point number two. And point number three. One of the things that
clearly needs to be discussed and post 911 change this and it is a logical consequence of the first
two points was the realisation that Muslims in this land of ours need to make our presence known.
And we need to be represented in every single field. And we need to be a visible and a viable
presence in this entire country. We cannot be isolationist, we cannot pretend as if we're living in
our own bubble and the world outside has nothing to do with us. We tried to do that in the 80s and
		
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			90s. The majority of practicing Muslims lived in their self imposed bubbles, and I'm being brutally
honest here, the majority of Masjid going conservative Muslims of all strands of Islam, any strand
you know of that's one of those strands. They're trying to build this imaginary wall between society
and between their family between the outside world between the Masjid 911 showed us there is no
imaginary world, it's a figment of our imagination. There is no wall what happens outside will
affect us in our houses. We don't have the luxury of living isolationist lifestyles don't have the
luxury of cutting off from the rest of the community. Because if we act like strangers, and if we
		
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			pretend we're strangers, don't be surprised when the broader community treats us like strangers and
outsiders. We need to going back to our first and second point we need to be visible and what that
means is that across every discipline and in every single field, Muslims need to be active and
socially engaged. And this is another reality that pre 911 was not something very commonly talked
about post 911 We understand it is healthy
		
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			For the American Muslim community to be involved on all social fronts, we should get involved in
every aspect of our community, whether it is health care whether it is better schools for our
children, whether it is political reforms, whether it is sports, never forget, the single greatest
icon of American Islam was Muhammad Ali, all of a shoe 100 Ummah and preachers and teachers combined
did not have the impact of one boxer for the American Muslim community. We need people like this.
There's nothing wrong with that. Now, obviously, this point raises a lot of questions and a lot of
eyebrows and especially those that are Masjid going and mashallah very religious and pious, they
		
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			find this entire talk awkward, because this third area definitely involves an element of compromise.
There's no question about that. This third area involves an element of compromise. When you get
involved in politics, especially when you get involved in other areas, perhaps Perhaps some of your
personal o'clock, some of your associations are going to become dubious. No doubt, this is a
difficult topic. And I'm not justifying each and everything. What I am saying, though, is that we
will, we will have to have a very frank and an honest conversation about every single scenario and
topic. We understand that being isolationist is not going to work, we saw that post 911. Everyone
		
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			needed to get political post 911. We could not have congressmen or senators trying to ban our
religion. Those of you that remember 10 years ago, in 22, states, they tried to ban the shutdown,
literally pass a bill to ban the shutdown 22 states, you want us to be politically quiet and not do
anything. We have to get involved. Our religion is at stake here. No doubt when we do get involved.
There are going to be questions, I'm being honest with you. I don't have the answers to them. But I
do know one thing. And let me be very frank here, criticizing from the sideline. And considering
everybody who's involved in the field to be evil in a sellout, you're not doing any benefit to the
		
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			Ummah, that's for sure. For sure, if you're an armchair critic, you're not benefiting the OMA.
Either you get involved, or you get a more productive way to do something, or find something that's
useful for you to do other than criticize those that are actively involved in the fields, a lot has
to be done. I don't have all the answers. But every one of us has a role to play. And by the way,
some fields are not that problematic. Some are more problematic than others. But whatever Allah has
blessed you with whatever talents you have, you need to be visible about your Islamic identity and
give back to the community. And by the way, so many of us are irritated at American foreign policy,
		
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			and we should be Wallahi don't we realize, don't we realize that communities smaller than our own,
are able to manipulate people far more powerful than themselves. This is a democracy, power, money
voting. All of this impacts politics, it is a brutal fact. Look around, you look at the various
lobbies out there, whether it's the gun lobby, whether it's this or not. So if you really want to
make an impact, if you really want I mean that $7 trillion that was spent on the wars, don't we
understand we could have taken care of every single hospital bill of every single American free
health care for at least five years, we should tell our fellow American citizens, why are my tax
		
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			dollars and your tax dollars going spent in an honest on an airlock when we can benefit from it
ourselves? If you want to benefit the Palestinians, if you're angry about Afghanistan, if you're sad
about what happened in Iraq, brutally honest, well, Allah, he brutally honest, it is very likely
that you can do more to impact that living in this land than you can anywhere else. Think about
that. Think about that. I'll repeat what I said. If you really want to change what's going on, based
on our foreign policy, as an American citizen, you can probably do a lot more than anywhere else in
the world. Think about that. So take that anger, and it should be anger, take that and injustice,
		
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			take that rage and channel it to something that is productive, become somebody that's doing
something noble in life, bringing a change as our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam did, the point
being brothers and sisters, that 911 really was a wake up call, as I said, for all of us, and we saw
a marked difference in the discourse pre 911 versus post 911. And I think that the most obvious
discourse change for us, for me in particular, was the realization that this land is our land, and
that we need to actively work to protect our faith, and that we need to be visible and contribute
back to society. And that is the only way that our religion is going to flourish. And we thank Allah
		
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			subhana wa Tada. We thank Allah that have the greatest blessings that we have in this land is the
political freedom to say what we want to say that is something we have to be very grateful for the
majority of places in the world, many of the places we ourselves and our ancestors came from, you
could not
		
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			To give a sermon like this, except that the secret police is going to be waiting for me as soon as
they get out. And I have given this hold, but right now, and I have criticized American foreign
policy and have called The War of terror, a war of the war on terror, the war of terror. And I have
done all of this. And I'm not even worried that the FBI is going to come knocking on my door because
if they did, I would sue them just for the freedom of speech and the First Amendment. We thank Allah
for those freedoms, and we take advantage of those freedoms, because we are Muslims. And we are
Americans. That's the whole point that we learned after 911 while also the Indian Senator if you're
		
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			also elderly in Amman, why middle solidarity, whatever also been healthy with our soda Sabra?
		
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			Alhamdulillah wa salatu salam ala Mala Nebia Bader, we're about to do a lot more can be said
brothers and sisters. But I just want to leave you with one fundamental paradigm shift that I want
us to think about.
		
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			The way I see this pre 911, much of our discourse dealt with problems and issues and debates that
originated from back home. There were cultural divides, there were sectarian issues, there were
issues regurgitated from the past 500 years, 1000 years ago, and Muslims from us just five minutes
away, would be fighting one another over issues that originated back in somewhere. And in the year
300 hijra, we would divide each other based upon imaginary understandings based upon abstract
concepts. After none other than realized, we have our own set of issues and problems, very uniquely
American set of issues and problems, we're going to have to think outside the box of our traditional
		
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			ulama with utmost respect to them, and I have trained with them, and I know and I love them, but
with my utmost love and respect, our problems, our issues that we're facing, who's going to solve
these problems? Who's going to talk to your children about the morality, the gender, the sexuality,
who's going to talk to your children about atheism, and agnosticism? Which share? Are you going to
go to the train and understanding the culture of the times that we live in? We're going to have to
think of new solutions, we're going to have to rethink about what we're doing how we're doing. And
in the process, there's no doubt those that are involved in this rethinking there is no doubt
		
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			they're going to make mistakes, because we are going in uncharted territory. We're going in
uncharted territory, we don't know what is right and wrong. We don't know exactly the best way
forward. But I know one thing, sitting at home, living in isolation, this lifestyle, regurgitating
something from the past is not going to save the future generation. So what I'm asking you to do,
brothers and sisters is very simple. Think of the future. Every time an issue comes up. Every time a
problem every time I can undo everything. Think of the future. Think of your children and
grandchildren. How will Islam look 100 years from now in this country? That is the question I want
		
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			you to think about? What do I need to do now to preserve my emaan and the image of my children and
grandchildren after me? That's the question you need to think about. Because all too often, the
questions we're asking are so utterly petty, so inconsequential. He says this, she does that he
prays like this. He believes this in some abstract issue of theology, and we're forgetting the
broader broader issues around us. Our children, many of them are disillusion from our faith. They're
leaving it like everybody else is there was this the standard of the times, every single church and
every single synagogue is on the decline in this country and in the Western world, and we're not
		
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			immune, our children are also being affected. So rather than bicker about things of the past, let's
think about things of the future. Let's think about how we can bring our children fortify their Eman
instill in them the love of Allah and His Messenger, make them proud of their Muslim identity and
make them feel at home over here. This is their land. They are American, whether you like it or not,
you are American as well, by the way, but they are American fully they have nowhere else to go. So
our job, our job as custodians that Allah azza wa jal blessed us with our children. Our job is to
protect what is most precious and what is most precious is the Kalama. What is most precious is the
		
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			Quran. What is most precious is my faith in your faith. Let us protect that faith, practice it in
our lives and make dua and pass it to our children. And as we're going through these phases, as
we're seeing the realities of the world, think outside the box and realize you have to think of your
children and grandchildren. What must you do to preserve their Eman? That is the ultimate question.
And you know what brothers and sisters ALLAH SubhanA wa Taala has willed that we are here. This is
Allah's Will we are here and Allah has placed us here for a reason known to him. If he has placed us
here, then he's going to give us the tools to make sure we pass the test. If we put in the effort,
		
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			simple as that. We have the tools
		
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			But we have to put in the effort. So put your trust in Allah subhanaw taala understand that your
faith and your iman and your rituals will trickle down to your children. So increase your own
worship of Allah subhanho wa taala. Be active in your community understand that there is no other
way to protect your children after Allah's blessings than your household embody Islam in your
household, that is your fortress for your children. And then after this, you have to put your trust
in Allah because the brutal fact of the matter, it is inevitable. Some people might not remain It is
inevitable. You cannot change that. But you know what? The world is now a little village where are
		
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			you going to go running? Where will you go hiding? You're gonna go to certain countries, Civil War,
other countries, complete backwardness of bribing every single person, other country, where are you
going to go? There is no utopia on earth, there is no place that is the Medina and state and at
Hamdulillah. By and large, at least in this country, we have certain perks and privileges that are
rare in other countries, most importantly, the freedom to practice your religion. This country was
founded never forget this American Muslims, this country was founded on religious persecution and
the right for religions to come and find safe haven over here. This country was founded on religious
		
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			freedoms, and that's why it's enshrined in the Constitution in a way that you hardly find in any
other country. So it hamdulillah that's a freedom that we thank Allah for it is the most important
freedom for us. That's the freedom that the Muslims and Abyssinia wanted, and we have it enshrined
in our Constitution. But in order to take advantage of it, we're gonna have to put in our full
effort to be citizens of this land. And that means not just acknowledging our identity, but standing
up putting our roots deep and making our presence visible and insha Allah Who to Allah with the help
of Allah azza wa jal, that is what we are going to do. Allahumma in NIDA and for aminu, we ask Allah
		
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			subhana wa Taala that he not leaves any sin of ours except that he has overlooked it. And then he
sick amongst us except that he has healed them and any diseased amongst us except that he has
forgiven them. And then he misguided amongst us except he has guided them and any debt of ours
except that he has repaid them. We ask Allah subhana wa Tada to allow us to overcome every single
problem of ours Dr Rahmani r Rahim. O Allah, live from us display again disease and bless us with a
life of comfort and ease Jaco will you yah Aziz. Oh Allah of this dunya we ask you it's best and on
the Day of Judgment that we pass the test and of the era make us amongst the blessed Oh Allah bless
		
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			Islam and its people or Allah bless Islam and its people or Allah bless Islam and its people and the
Ummah make it safe and peaceful and protected against those who desire for it evil, know Muslims
that ALLAH SubhanA which Allah has commanded you with a command that he began with himself, and then
he second it with the angels themselves. And then he asked us to follow suit after the angels for he
said in the law home Allah KATUSA Luna Allah Nebby Yeah, you will lead in Amanu Sallu alayhi wa
sallam with a slim Allahumma salli wa salim WABA the co owner of the Costa Rica Mohammed was the he
was IBH marine rebels Allah in Allah to Allah yeah moto with it with their Sanita orba Yun
		
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			manufacture it will monitor your ability you know coming to Allah come to the Quran oh the Quran
Allah has come wash school yesterday. What are the cool lighter and awkward wallpapers slider
		
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			if we can have people come forward were packed in the back so please as much space as you can
inshallah.
		
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			Few weeks
		
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			so what are we ready?
		
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			What did you say?
		
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			Totally horrible.
		
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			Longer echoed in law who echoed a headwind.
		
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			In the law, a shadow and Namo Hamadan was Zulu law. Hey, ya la semana de Hayyan and further further
comment is Salah, don't call them call not you sada Allahu Akbar. Or modal
		
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			in more stone and I tell you all what luck bones
		
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			Alhamdulillah he'll have been I mean
		
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			All right now and you're rocking nykeya woman dean, he can go don't want any kind of styling. Then
I'll slip it all along with stealthing sale on 2019 And I'm gonna tell him why it in a loom beyond
him model on learning.
		
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			I mean
		
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			well don't have one lady either. serger
		
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			duck out on Blanca wa Clodagh Wallen hirato call you don't like me know?
		
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			What are some of y'all think out Boca townhomes wall. Lm er Judah Kenya team
		
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			wha wha wha Jeddah count on love
		
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			wha wha jejaka
		
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			Isla Furla Jun * what I'm been here
		
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			long beak Alpha dis Allahu Akbar
		
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			semi Allahu naman Hamidah
		
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			along well
		
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			Allahu Akbar them
		
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			along them
		
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			along Cubone
		
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			Alhamdulillah here have been add me in a Rahmanir Rahim Imani Kenya will meet Dini can avoid doing
want any kind of stallion and then I'll say it on him was stealthy mostly at all today Athena and
		
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			him Why is it mellow behind him modelled on knee pain?
		
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			Zubaydah alizee Alto I'm I'm in Georgia
		
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			I'm in
		
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			Oklahoma
		
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			semi Allahu naman Hamidah
		
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			along
		
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			Long
		
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			along like them
		
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			along
		
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			salam ala enqueue Model
		
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			Morana equal model
		
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			all
		
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			we have a Janaza Inshallah, if I can ask you to remain. We're gonna get to Janaza here
		
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			Returning.
		
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			Rather Janaza consists of four tech burrata and then what are the slim after the first time you
tried certain Fatiha after the second degree or the Rudisill Ebrahimian after the tech Bureau you
make dua for the deceased if you don't know the Sunnah dua just say alarm Orfila who Allah Muhammad
and you can make it in any language if you don't know Arabic after the fourth Tasneem you can just
set up an antenna for dunya and then we will do salaam
		
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			may ask the family to come be in the first row inshallah the family of the deceased come in the
first row inshallah move it move it closer move it closer to me
		
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			know that that's not straight
		
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			you can pray in between the sofa as well it is not there is no recording. The family can come to the
front Rochelle the Bismillah
		
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			just behind picture you behind me
		
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			still
		
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			along mica bomb
		
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			along
		
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			along
		
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			a lot of work upon
		
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			a Salam or aleikum wa rahmatullah wa salam, Orion Mwana income model
		
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			where's the burial?
		
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			Farmersville Farmersville so whoever wants to follow inshallah they can
		
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			put their blinking lights on insha Allah