Yasir Qadhi – The Next Generation

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The Light House program aims to teach graduates about modern issues, including balancing faith with political and moral issues. The program is a youth-operated program designed for graduates from age ranges of 20-30, and offers resources for those who may not be able to afford it. The importance of protecting one's youthful energy and pursuing opportunities for the future is emphasized. The transcript describes struggles with "overzutacy" and "overzutacy", as well as experiences where a teenage man named " sa'ad and overhears the name " sa'ad." The segment also touches on "overzutacy" and "overzutacy", as well as "monk and monk."

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			Before our announcement and khatira today, obviously first
		
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			and foremost we thank Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala for the news of the ceasefire, alhamdulillah,
		
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			alhamdulillah, alhamdulillah, allahu akbar, we thank Allah for
		
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			this good news, we hope inshallah that much
		
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			good will come out of it and inshallah
		
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			I'll speak more about this later on, obviously
		
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			the news is absolutely fresh so we're still
		
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			waiting to see this reality, but inshallah our
		
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			sharia teaches us to be optimistic and to
		
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			and to have good thoughts and aspirations, so
		
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			we pray that inshallah this is something positive
		
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			for our brothers and sisters in Gaza.
		
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			The announcement today, many of you saw our
		
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			email that there's a new announcement or program
		
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			beginning, alhamdulillah, you know our youth have been
		
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			demanding, asking, demanding, pleading, wanting a special program
		
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			and so what EPIC is now doing, alhamdulillah,
		
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			we are launching something that we've called the
		
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			Lighthouse and this is going to be a
		
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			youth-run and youth-operated program, it's going
		
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			to be semi-independent and it is in
		
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			charge by our own local EPIC youth and
		
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			inshallah ta'ala we'll be having a series
		
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			of programs, I will be beginning a class
		
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			with our youth every single Tuesday inshallah ta
		
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			'ala, that's why we change the khatira from
		
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			Tuesday to Wednesday and so from Maghrib to
		
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			Isha, the youth inshallah ta'ala will be
		
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			having a special lecture with myself inshallah and
		
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			we're going to be discussing modern issues, we're
		
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			going to be discussing issues of what it
		
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			means to be a Muslim in the modern
		
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			world, issues such as balancing your faith with
		
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			the current climate, with the social and the
		
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			political and the moral issues going on, issues
		
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			such as the need for religion, how we
		
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			know Islam to be true, so modern issues
		
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			that our next generation, our young professionals are
		
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			facing, the youth have requested, the young professionals
		
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			have requested me to make a very clear
		
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			plea that this is meant for them, so
		
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			please our elders closer to my age inshallah,
		
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			you have me on Wednesday inshallah ta'ala,
		
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			so this is meant for the young professionals
		
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			in the college, now what is the cut
		
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			-off age, I don't know, but basically it's
		
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			a self-identification, I don't know what it
		
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			is going to be, but it is really
		
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			meant for the next generation inshallah, so every
		
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			single Tuesday we will be having that lecture
		
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			inshallah ta'ala and other projects will happen
		
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			based upon that, so there was a comment
		
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			inshallah we'll hear about other projects, based upon
		
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			that my khatira will be quite linked to
		
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			this particular announcement and that is the role
		
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			of the youth in the seerah, the role
		
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			of the youth and the Prophet ﷺ's relationship
		
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			with the young, the next generation, what can
		
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			we learn from the Qur'an, from the
		
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			sunnah, from the seerah about the Prophet ﷺ's
		
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			interaction with the next generation, the Qur'an
		
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			itself mentions certain things that indicate that the
		
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			young generation has something the elders do not
		
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			have, they have a zeal, they have a
		
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			passion, they have high aspirations that are generally
		
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			not found once you get to an older
		
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			age and that could be for good and
		
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			it could be for bad, so for example
		
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			when it comes to good Allah ﷻ mentions
		
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			that Ibrahim ﷺ he stood up and he
		
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			preached tawheed and he destroyed the idols and
		
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			the people they said there's this young lad
		
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			that's mentioning the gods, Allah described him with
		
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			the adjective of that youthfulness because when you're
		
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			young you're idealistic and you have passion, likewise
		
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			in another positive surah al-kahf Allah says
		
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			they were a group of young men who
		
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			believed in their lord there were young men
		
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			they believed in their lord and we increase
		
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			their hidayah, so when you are young you're
		
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			full of energy it is very possible you
		
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			can do what the elders cannot do and
		
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			on the flip side there is a reference
		
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			to that youthful passion being misused and abused
		
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			for example in the qawm of the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ, who was the one who destroyed the
		
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			camel, Allah says that there was a gang
		
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			of nine these were corrupt youth these were
		
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			gangs that you know when you have the
		
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			the youth that are you know not good
		
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			people so Allah mentions there was nine of
		
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			them and they were they were always causing
		
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			chaos in the city so they're the ones
		
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			this mafia this gang they said we're going
		
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			to take on you know this challenge of
		
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			harming the she-camel so Allah mentions that
		
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			so youth can be good and positive and
		
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			it can be negative as well and the
		
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			importance of youth and the importance of that
		
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			age is especially mentioned in that beautiful hadith
		
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			of the Prophet ﷺ in which he said
		
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			five are the questions every person will be
		
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			asked and one of them on your youth
		
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			and what did you do with your youth
		
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			it is so important that it gets its
		
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			own question Allah will ask every one of
		
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			us those of you that are beyond the
		
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			stage of youth remember if you haven't been
		
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			good in your youth you have to make
		
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			up for it because it is one of
		
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			the five questions and those of you that
		
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			are still at that age of being in
		
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			your young vitality realize there's extra responsibility you
		
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			will not get this opportunity again those of
		
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			you that are teenagers in your in your
		
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			20s realize right now you're answering this question
		
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			what question Allah azza wa jal will ask
		
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			you وَعَنْ شَبَابِهِ فِي مَا أَفْنَىٰ On his
		
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			youth what did he spend his youth on
		
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			how did he take advantage of that vital
		
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			energy and in another hadith in Sahih Bukhari
		
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			and Muslim our Prophet ﷺ said seven are
		
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			the people they will be sheltered on the
		
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			day there is no shelter other than the
		
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			shelter of Allah and one of those seven
		
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			شَابٌ نَشَأَ فِي عِبَادَةِ اللَّهِ a young boy
		
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			a young man or a young woman who
		
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			was raised up in their youthful era when
		
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			they're they were pious in their youthful era
		
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			once again those of you that are young
		
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			you can get advantage of something we cannot
		
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			do anymore those of you that are in
		
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			your youthful years listen to me carefully you
		
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			have the opportunity that we no longer have
		
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			what is that opportunity Allah azza wa jal
		
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			will shelter you on the day of judgment
		
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			if you were maintaining your piety in your
		
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			youth in your youthful years your teenage years
		
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			your 20s if you can maintain piety if
		
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			you can avoid the major sins if you
		
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			can be regular in your prayer if you
		
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			can be a positive role model then you
		
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			are guaranteed on the day of judgment to
		
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			be under the shade of Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala and that's why our Prophet ﷺ
		
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			understood this and he prioritized the youth do
		
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			you know when you look at the early
		
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			converts to Islam a bulk of them were
		
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			from what we would call the youth a
		
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			bulk of those early converts they were young
		
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			men and women the list is so long
		
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			beginning obviously with Ali he was not even
		
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			a teenager when he embraced Islam Zaid ibn
		
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			Haritha was a young teenager Ammar ibn Yasir
		
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			was probably 14-15 years old Sa'd ibn
		
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			Abi Waqas was 17 years old when he
		
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			embraced Islam he became the Asherah Mubasherah Sa'd
		
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			ibn Abi Waqas was 17 and he was
		
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			the first person to shoot a bow and
		
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			an arrow for the sake of Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala Talha ibn Ubaidillah another of
		
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			the he embraced Islam at the age of
		
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			18 another great Sahabi Zubayr ibn al-Awwam
		
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			was 18 years old the Hawari of the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ was 18 years old Abdullah ibn
		
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			Mas'ud r.a embraced Islam at the
		
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			age of 16 or 17 ibn Mas'ud
		
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			that great companion the one who became the
		
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			icon of the Ummah he became a Muslim
		
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			at the age of 16-17 the first
		
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			person to be tortured in front of the
		
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			Kaaba the first person to recite the Quran
		
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			loudly in front of the Kaaba in Mecca
		
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			ibn Mas'ud embraced Islam at the age
		
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			of 17 another early youth convert Ja'far
		
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			ibn Abi Talib the one who spoke to
		
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			the Najashi do you know when he spoke
		
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			to the Najashi he was 21-22 years
		
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			old can you imagine at the age of
		
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			21-22 and you are speaking to the
		
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			king of Abyssinia and you're negotiating on behalf
		
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			of the Ummah that's Ja'far ibn Abi
		
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			Talib another of the youth who embraced Islam
		
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			played a vital role the famous Al-Arqam
		
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			ibn Abi Al-Arqam the one whose house
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ used as a base do
		
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			you know when he converted to Islam he
		
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			was barely 14 years old and the reason
		
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			why they chose his house because as a
		
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			youth nobody would think he inherited his house
		
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			nobody would think his house would be used
		
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			for a base of Muslims so they used
		
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			his house and he converted at the age
		
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			of 14 Al-Arqam ibn Abi Al-Arqam
		
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			and even Umar ibn Khattab many people don't
		
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			know this he was in his 20s mid
		
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			to maybe 26-27 when he converted to
		
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			Islam a young professional he was in his
		
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			20s when he converted to Islam the point
		
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			is the youth played a vital role the
		
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			new generation that vital era it played it
		
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			played an important role in the formation of
		
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			Islam and our Prophet ﷺ recognized the talents
		
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			of the youth the passion of the youth
		
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			he recognized the potential of the youth and
		
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			that's why from amongst the youth he would
		
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			regularly choose people who could do that which
		
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			the elders could not do he had no
		
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			problems giving massive responsibilities to the next generation
		
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			and this is something that we in our
		
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			generation have a problem with we all know
		
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			this we the elders never want to give
		
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			the youth a chance we the elders keep
		
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			every power to ourselves the Prophet ﷺ he
		
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			wouldn't give it to everybody but he would
		
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			see amongst the next generation who is there
		
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			and he would then give them massive responsibilities
		
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			you want some examples so many from the
		
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			seerah the first ambassador the first da'i
		
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			the first preacher that the Prophet ﷺ chose
		
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			to go preach when he was still alive
		
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			he chose Mus'ad ibn Umair to go
		
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			to Medina to Yathrib and to preach Islam
		
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			the first person to be a da'i
		
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			appointed the first if you like wa'id
		
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			and preacher was somebody in his early 20s
		
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			Mus'ad ibn Umair and he was so
		
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			successful his da'wah converted one third of
		
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			the people of Medina subhanallah Allah blessed him
		
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			he converted a third of the people of
		
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			Medina and he was a young man when
		
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			he did so another young man that the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ appointed an amazing appointment here is
		
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			Attab ibn Asid or Usaid depending on how
		
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			you say it Attab ibn Asid he was
		
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			a cousin of Uthman ibn Affan when the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ conquered Mecca he had to go
		
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			to Hunayn he had to go to Ta
		
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			'if somebody had to be left in charge
		
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			of Mecca he chose a cousin of Uthman
		
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			who was 21 years old to become the
		
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			governor and the prayer leader in Mecca what
		
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			he had liberated and when he returned from
		
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			Ta'if he said to Attab you remain
		
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			here and I will go back to Medina
		
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			he appointed Attab 21 years old as the
		
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			first governor so in the history of Islam
		
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			the first Muslim governor of Mecca was 21
		
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			years old and he remained governor until the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ passed away in the time of
		
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			the Khulafa Rashidun they continued using him so
		
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			he was the one who became the khatib
		
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			of the prayer leader of Mecca the imam
		
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			of Mecca and the governor of Mecca at
		
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			what age 21 years old can you imagine
		
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			and this again the Prophet ﷺ himself appointed
		
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			another another famous companion Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas
		
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			in the battle of Uhud was again chosen
		
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			even though he was relatively young and he
		
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			technically should not have been allowed to go
		
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			but he insisted and he said I can
		
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			do it Ya Rasulullah so he was allowed
		
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			to go and participate also we have multiple
		
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			incidents in the in which the Prophet ﷺ
		
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			took aside the youth he advised them privately
		
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			or he gave them specific nasiha sometimes for
		
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			example he took Ibn Abbas aside and he
		
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			said Ya Ghulam oh young boy I'm going
		
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			to teach you some advice listen to it
		
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			carefully Ya Ghulam oh young boy I'm going
		
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			to teach you something he would advise Anas
		
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			ibn Malik and he would constantly give him
		
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			specific advice he gave a lecture once and
		
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			he specifically said to the youth Ya Ma'shara
		
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			Shabab oh young men amongst you you should
		
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			get married as soon as you can don't
		
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			go into the haram left and right he
		
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			gave specific advice for the youth making sure
		
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			that they remained firm upon their deen he
		
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			would also give dispensations for the younger of
		
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			the generation in the battle of khandaq it's
		
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			an interesting story that right before the battle
		
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			of khandaq began it so happened that one
		
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			of the young men he had gotten married
		
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			right before the battle of khandaq and of
		
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			course nobody knows the attack is going to
		
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			happen and so when the battle of khandaq
		
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			begins everybody has to be on the front
		
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			of the city you know guarding the city
		
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			so this young man comes Ya Rasulullah I'm
		
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			a newlywed and my wife is all alone
		
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			at home do you give me permission to
		
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			go back and spend the nights with her
		
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			out of all of the sahaba everybody's in
		
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			the front line but he's a young man
		
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			newlyweds you know that's the so the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ said yes you may go every night
		
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			go back but he said make sure because
		
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			you're in corner of the city there's between
		
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			the the wall and between between the uh
		
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			the line of defense and between the house
		
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			you're going to walk through many uh difficult
		
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			areas he said be careful the Banu Quraidah
		
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			don't attack you so I command you you
		
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			must be fully armed when you walk between
		
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			the front and to your house but you
		
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			may go and stay at your house literally
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ understands okay he needs to
		
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			go home he's a newlywed khalas so he
		
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			would go home every night because he was
		
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			a young man who had just gotten married
		
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			the the rahmah that the Prophet ﷺ had
		
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			for uh somebody that had just gotten married
		
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			also we have the the famous incident Zahi
		
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			Bukhari Malik ibn Huwairith says that in the
		
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			ninth year of the hijrah the Prophet ﷺ
		
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			held the delegation years you know the the
		
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			tribes would come and he held a we
		
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			would call it a summer camp I'm using
		
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			the word here where he trained us for
		
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			20 or 21 days every day he would
		
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			come and teach us Quran teach us what
		
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			we need to know but he saw that
		
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			we were agitated because we were a group
		
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			of shabaab that the Malik is saying we
		
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			were a group of young men and we
		
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			were getting agitated and so he asked us
		
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			about our families listen to this and he
		
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			saw how much we missed our families how
		
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			much we missed our families then Malik said
		
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			وَكَانَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ رَحِيمًا رَؤُوفًا حَلِيمًا the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ was super tender and compassionate and
		
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			soft and when he saw we were missing
		
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			our families he said to us go return
		
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			to your families and teach them what I
		
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			have taught you this hadith is in Bukhari
		
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			and Muslim a group of young men in
		
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			summer camp you know they're attending with the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ but after a week after 10
		
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			days after 20 days you know they want
		
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			to go back home and they didn't say
		
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			anything but the Prophet ﷺ saw that you
		
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			know they're getting agitated so he said he
		
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			asked us about our families in our response
		
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			he could tell that we're missing our families
		
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			and so he next day he came to
		
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			us he goes go back and return to
		
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			your families and what I have taught you
		
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			go teach them as well subhanallah just the
		
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			compassion that he had that knowing that you
		
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			know the youth are not there they want
		
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			to be back home but not let them
		
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			go back 20 days is more than enough
		
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			also in the seerah we learn the compassion
		
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			the tenderness the Prophet ﷺ had because when
		
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			you're young sometimes you might you know ask
		
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			or say something that is not the most
		
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			appropriate in the famous incident in Bukhari and
		
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			Muslim well known a young bedouin you know
		
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			a shab a bedouin comes and you know
		
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			the bedouins didn't have manners they didn't know
		
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			how to speak properly and he enters into
		
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			the masjid imagine everybody's sitting here and from
		
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			the back of the masjid he says ya
		
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			rasulallah give me permission to fornicate with a
		
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			woman I don't want to get married I
		
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			want in front of everybody he said this
		
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			Sahih Bukhari hadith says the sahaba began raising
		
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			their voices you know uh saying things how
		
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			can you say this and they were they
		
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			were raising their voices in protest and anger
		
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			the processor motioned to them just be quiet
		
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			said come close to me so this young
		
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			man walks through the whole crowd sits in
		
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			front of the prophet ﷺ notice no harshness
		
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			no anger and the processor said would you
		
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			like strange men to fornicate with your mother
		
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			and he said no of course not would
		
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			you like with your aunt no of course
		
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			not would you like with your sister that
		
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			men go and use her like a plaything
		
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			no of course not so too other people
		
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			don't like that their mothers their sisters their
		
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			daughters be played with as well and then
		
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			he put his hand on the chest of
		
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			this young man and he said Allahumma fir
		
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			dhanbahu wa tahhir qalbahu wa hassin farjahu he
		
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			made dua for him oh Allah purify his
		
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			heart forgive his sin protect forgive his sins
		
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			protect his private part and that dua the
		
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			young man stood up and the sahabi says
		
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			there was nothing more despicable to him than
		
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			zina he hated it because he the processor
		
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			taught him in a compassionate manner and made
		
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			dua for him subhanallah this is a young
		
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			man coming with an awkward question i ask
		
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			you by Allah if a young man comes
		
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			with an awkward question now a young man
		
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			comes and asks a question we think is
		
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			blasphemous astaghfirullah how dare you you have to
		
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			allow question answer you have to be allowing
		
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			that space for them to express themselves by
		
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			the way that's the goal of our class
		
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			on Tuesday it's a safe space as you
		
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			guys like to call it inshallah we're gonna
		
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			allow open discussion and whatnot over there inshallah
		
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			you have to allow this because a young
		
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			man needs to be able to express and
		
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			find out and the way to respond to
		
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			a young man is not the same as
		
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			the way you respond to a shaykh or
		
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			somebody who understands what he's talking about we
		
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			learned this from the seerah of the prophet
		
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			sallallahu alayhi wasallam and of course a funny
		
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			anecdote as well anas ibn malik was probably
		
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			eight nine years old at the time anas
		
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			ibn malik he was the khadim of the
		
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			prophet he said one day the prophet sent
		
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			me to do some chores some tasks so
		
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			i went outside irritated and i found a
		
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			bunch of boys playing they also played maybe
		
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			not soccer but they played something back then
		
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			so i began playing with them and i
		
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			forgot about the chore next thing i know
		
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			somebody's picking me up from my ears like
		
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			picking me up from my ears and i
		
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			looked around and it was the prophet sallallahu
		
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			alayhi wasallam laughing at me and he said
		
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			oh anas what happened to my chore what
		
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			happened to my task and he said how
		
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			did ya rasulullah yes ya rasulullah i'm gonna
		
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			go do it right now and he went
		
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			and he did it the prophet sallallahu alayhi
		
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			wasallam let it go laughing at him it's
		
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			like he's a kid you can't expect perfection
		
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			from a child right you find that tenderness
		
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			that compassion and there's that famous incident it's
		
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			a little bit complicated but a child had
		
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			lost a pet right and the child was
		
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			very sad it was maybe five year old
		
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			a child had a pet bird you know
		
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			just a parrot bird or something and the
		
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			prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam you know cheered him
		
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			up in front of the public he saw
		
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			the child you know sad and whatnot the
		
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			child would bring his pet to the masjid
		
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			the child would bring the pet bird to
		
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			the masjid who amongst us can bring a
		
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			pet bird to the masjid now and one
		
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			day the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam saw that
		
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			the child is sad and the bird is
		
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			not there so he figured out immediately that
		
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			you know the child is sad so in
		
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			front of everybody to lift up the the
		
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			child's spirits right so he you know teased
		
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			that not teases in the right way but
		
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			he he made a a statement that's going
		
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			to make the child remember and be happy
		
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			and proud that the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam
		
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			remembered me right like he teased the name
		
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			of the child and made the the child
		
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			happy in this regard the point is that
		
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			he's monitoring he's making sure the children feel
		
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			a part of the masjid feel a part
		
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			of that community and we said our prophet
		
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			sallallahu alayhi wasallam was gentle in correcting the
		
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			youth i forgot one example which is very
		
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			very relevant subhanallah again it's an awkward thing
		
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			but this is from the seerah sahih bukhari
		
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			as well and ibn hisham that al-fadl
		
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			ibn abbas uh the prophet was doing hajj
		
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			and al-fadl was with him and a
		
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			young lady comes and al-fadl was a
		
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			young man and a young lady comes asking
		
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			a fiqh question and the rawi the report
		
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			says that and she was a young beautiful
		
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			lady and al-fadl began staring at her
		
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			staring at her like he's a young man
		
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			he's not married he's staring at her and
		
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			the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam sees al-fadl
		
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			staring subhanallah look at the adab of the
		
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			prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam he put his hand
		
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			on the beard of fadl and he gently
		
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			turned the face somewhere else that's it no
		
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			harshness no yelling and screaming no teaching him
		
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			with an adab that he's never gonna forget
		
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			literally put his hand and said go turn
		
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			that way that's it he got the message
		
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			right there was no yelling no screaming there's
		
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			a way to teach the youth with gentleness
		
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			and compassion that you have to expect from
		
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			somebody like the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam also
		
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			the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam realized the youth
		
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			have potential that the elders do not have
		
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			hadith sahih bukhari that he called zayd ibn
		
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			thabit zayd ibn there's two zays both of
		
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			them are youth zayd ibn haritha in mecca
		
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			and he was of course the quote-unquote
		
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			adopted son remember that story of the process
		
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			and this is zayd ibn thabit in medina
		
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			both of them were youth zayd ibn thabit
		
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			was a young boy he accepted islam at
		
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			the age of 11 and he had memorized
		
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			more than 15 surahs before the process and
		
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			migrated in fact it is said he memorized
		
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			all of surah yusuf and he recited it
		
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			to the process him as a young boy
		
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			at the age of 11 the process him
		
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			heard him recite surah yusuf so zayd ibn
		
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			thabit the process called him he was maybe
		
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			15 16 years old and he said to
		
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			zayd that i need a scribe i need
		
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			a secretary who will specialize in hebrew in
		
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			in hebria so that i can write letters
		
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			to the tribes of yathrib that are in
		
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			medina that are yahudi so i want you
		
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			to learn hebrew i want you to learn
		
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			the language so that i can write letters
		
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			and get from their scribes i don't want
		
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			to use the scribe amongst them i don't
		
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			know what they're going to do mistranslate i
		
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			need somebody from my own who understands the
		
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			language so zayd said i learned hebrew in
		
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			15 days 15 days full time i learned
		
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			to read and write hebrew by the way
		
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			uh zayd had grown up in medina so
		
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			he spoke some basic hebrew but he learned
		
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			reading and writing and he learned fluency in
		
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			15 days what old man can do this
		
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			right this is the vibrancy of the youth
		
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			and the process and realize this so he
		
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			chooses the young man in to do something
		
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			that an older person is not able to
		
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			uh do and he also understood that sometimes
		
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			young people take their overzealousness a bit too
		
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			far the famous hadith you're all aware of
		
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			in sahih bukhari as well that uh a
		
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			group of young men came to our mother
		
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			aisha and they said describe the ibadah of
		
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			the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam and when she
		
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			described his ibadah they said we can do
		
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			more than this he is rasulullah allah has
		
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			forgiven him we have to do more than
		
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			this and so they made a promise amongst
		
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			themselves we're going to pray tahajjud without ever
		
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			going to sleep for the rest of our
		
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			lives and we're going to not marry any
		
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			women and we're going to so they made
		
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			lots of conditions on themselves and this is
		
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			one of the things we find that sometimes
		
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			youth yes they have good energy but the
		
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			energy becomes zealous overzealous fanatical this is very
		
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			common as well that you have all spectrums
		
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			amongst youth that youth yes if their energy
		
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			is tapped into with wisdom if their energy
		
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			is tapped into for misuse and abuse and
		
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			sometimes their energy is tapped into for overzealousness
		
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			for fundamentalism for ideas that are not good
		
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			we see this as well we find this
		
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			over here as well when the prophet heard
		
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			that these youth were thinking they could do
		
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			more than him he called all of the
		
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			people and he didn't point them out and
		
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			he goes why do some people say this
		
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			and this don't you realize i am and
		
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			i am i have the most taqwa and
		
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			i have the most ilm and i fast
		
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			and i break my fast and i sleep
		
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			and i pray tahajjud and i marry women
		
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			this is my sunnah whoever leaves my sunnah
		
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			has left my way so the youth can
		
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			potentially also take that energy and go beyond
		
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			what they need to and the prophet understood
		
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			this but the youth can also do bravery
		
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			what the elders cannot do in a famous
		
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			incident that took place when the munafiqun were
		
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			just rising up umayyad ibn sa'ad it's
		
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			a famous story in the seerah umayyad ibn
		
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			sa'ad who was probably 12 13 at
		
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			the time umayyad ibn sa'ad had been
		
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			raised up by his uncle who was also
		
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			his stepfather so his uncle married his mother
		
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			and so his uncle raised him so he
		
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			loved him immensely like a father but he
		
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			didn't know his uncle was one of the
		
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			leaders of the hypocrites when they embraced islam
		
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			outwardly umayyad really embraced islam his uncle did
		
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			not embrace islam his uncle was a munafiq
		
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			umayyad did not know this long story short
		
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			that his uncle i cannot repeat it because
		
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			it's very vulgar astaghfirullah but he uttered vulgarities
		
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			against the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam there
		
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			is no this is kufr to denigrate to
		
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			put down the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
		
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			to make fun of him to use vulgar
		
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			words about the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
		
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			you have crossed the red line there is
		
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			no excuse for this and umayyad was shocked
		
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			because now he realized my uncle is not
		
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			a muslim he's pretending to my stepfather my
		
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			the person who i love is not a
		
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			muslim he confronted his own stepfather his uncle
		
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			and he said i must inform the prophet
		
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			sallallahu alayhi wa sallam about this you are
		
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			a munafiq i heard you say this because
		
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			he said it in a gathering of hypocrites
		
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			and all of them are laughing he joked
		
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			against the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he
		
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			joked about the and the whole gathering is
		
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			laughing and they thought what's umayyad gonna do
		
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			this is a hypocrite gathering umayyad immediately crying
		
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			tears because his heart is broken he goes
		
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			to the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and
		
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			he says ya rasulullah i heard my stepfather
		
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			my uncle say and he said exactly what
		
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			his uncle said and the prophet sallallahu alayhi
		
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			wa sallam called the sahaba because this is
		
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			a red line if this is too much
		
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			then he called the uncle and the uncle
		
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			said ya rasulullah he's just a kid he's
		
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			just a boy he's just a shab he
		
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			doesn't know what he is saying and many
		
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			of the other sahaba said ya rasulullah he's
		
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			the uncle is a senior you know he's
		
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			a respected person in our community this is
		
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			just a shab we don't have to obey
		
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			him we don't have to listen to him
		
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			and then the uncle swore by allah i
		
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			swear by allah that he's lying i didn't
		
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			say this and umayyad is crying because he's
		
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			a 12 13 year old and he says
		
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			ya allah show who is the liar and
		
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			who is the one telling the truth ya
		
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			allah you show who is the liar who
		
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			is the one telling the truth the prophet
		
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			did not say anything he's between the two
		
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			he didn't just side with the older person
		
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			just because he's older he did not take
		
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			into account this as a young man i'm
		
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			going to dismiss no even though some of
		
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			the other people in the audience said he's
		
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			a young man don't worry what he's saying
		
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			no the prophet is listening listening and while
		
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			this is going on immediately the prophet closes
		
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			his eyes means wahi is coming jibreel comes
		
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			down at that point in time and allah
		
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			revealed surat at-tawbah they
		
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			swore by allah they did
		
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			not say but they said and they committed
		
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			kufr after their iman and so the prophet
		
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			praised umayyad and he said allah has validated
		
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			your story against his and then the punishment
		
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			and whatnot was done my point is the
		
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			prophet did not take umayyad's youth as a
		
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			disadvantage just because you're a young man i
		
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			cannot listen to you no he understood that
		
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			sometimes the young person has more bravery and
		
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			more honesty than an older person and that
		
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			is why one of the last things that
		
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			he did as you're all aware one of
		
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			the last things that he did is that
		
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			he appointed who did he appoint to be
		
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			the final leader who can tell me usama
		
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			ibn zayd and how old was usama when
		
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			he made that appointment 17 years old and
		
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			many of the senior sahaba were and they're
		
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			allowed to do this like you know yeah
		
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			it's it's not it's not you know wrong
		
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			to question politely they're not rejecting it's okay
		
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			to you know raise concerns and so that
		
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			mumbling begins amongst them which is understandable he's
		
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			only 17 and by the way where was
		
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			usama being sent he was being sent against
		
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			the roman empire can you imagine the most
		
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			you know important ghazwa the most important battle
		
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			that is going to take place and he
		
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			puts usama in charge and he says to
		
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			the sahaba this was his last public khutbah
		
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			before he fell ill before he when he
		
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			fell ill he gave other khutbahs but this
		
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			was the last khutbah before he fell ill
		
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			and he was irritated at this and he
		
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			goes you you did not like the leadership
		
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			of his father before him and you criticize
		
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			his father and now you criticize his leadership
		
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			as well and so he refused to change
		
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			the leadership of usama and that's why when
		
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			abu bakr as-siddiq took charge even umar
		
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			bin khattab said okay let's change usama he
		
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			says no i cannot change what the prophet
		
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			sasam himself you know requested and he made
		
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			sure usama was the one in charge of
		
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			that expedition and it was that expedition that
		
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			paved the way to eventually conquer baytul maqdis
		
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			can you imagine it was the first of
		
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			many expeditions it was that expedition that was
		
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			the first domino that eventually caused the muslims
		
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			to conquer baytul maqdis and we can go
		
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			on and on and on the point is
		
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			the seerah clearly demonstrates the prophet sasam paid
		
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			special attention to the next generation and he
		
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			took them into account and took their feelings
		
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			into account and he was the murabbi gave
		
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			them the tarbiyah that they required so my
		
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			advice to myself and the elders learn from
		
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			the seerah of the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam
		
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			and my advice to the youth here take
		
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			the role models of the sahaba as your
		
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			role models you can accomplish a lot frankly
		
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			you have the potential inshallah to accomplish more
		
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			than the elders because you have the energy
		
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			the enthusiasm the passion that we do not
		
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			have so make dua to allah learn from
		
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			the wisdom of the elders but then take
		
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			that passion and channel it to something good
		
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			may allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allow us
		
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			to see our youth rise up and take
		
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			on the banner of islam may allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala protect our next generation and
		
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			cause them to carry the torch of islam
		
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			for many many generations to come may allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala cause all of our
		
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			families to be righteous to be protected their
		
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			children and their progeny after us after them
		
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			and to allow the kalima to continue all
		
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			the way until the day of judgment foreign