Yasir Qadhi – The Story Of Salman Al-Farsi

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The Sira conversion of Zoroastrianism is discussed, including the use of signs and symbols to influence people and the importance of trusting oneself. The Prophet revenues and the sign of time in Islam are also highlighted, with the use of silver and the importance of not overloading seed with silver. Thecentury of Islam is also discussed, where the throne of the Empire of the Persian Empire was replaced by the throne of the S Parqah, and the story shows the story of thecentury where the throne of the S Parqah was replaced by the throne of the Empire of the S Parqah.

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			One of the most interesting
		
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			stories of the sahaba, in my estimation, it's
		
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			all relative obviously, some people find different things
		
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			interesting. Out of the stories of the sahaba,
		
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			one of the sahaba that really resonates with
		
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			me, a very intriguing story, is the story
		
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			of Salman al Farisi. Now obviously, most of
		
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			us have heard his story. I wanna just
		
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			bring about certain aspects of it that I
		
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			find very,
		
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			powerful, very intriguing.
		
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			Salman al Farisi, as you all know,
		
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			Farisi from Persia.
		
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			And we don't know much about his early
		
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			life because nobody was a Sahabi in Persia.
		
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			In fact, Salman al Farisi is the only
		
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			convert who was Farisi, the only Sahabi that
		
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			we know of, who was Persian, and also
		
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			the only convert from the religion of the
		
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			Majus, you know, Zoroastrianism.
		
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			None of the Sahaba that we know of,
		
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			and not a single one of them. We
		
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			have Christian converts, we have Jewish converts. You
		
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			know? 4, 5, 6, 7 Christian converts, 2
		
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			or 3 famous Jewish converts. But as for
		
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			Magus or Zoroastrian,
		
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			only 1.
		
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			Only 1 companion who is from the,
		
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			Zoroastrianism.
		
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			And of course, I don't want to go
		
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			into Zoroastrianism, but it is one of the
		
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			most ancient religions in the world,
		
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			meaning it is around, what, 4000 years old?
		
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			And it is also one of the smallest.
		
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			There's only 1,100,000
		
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			people left. That's it. Very small faith tradition
		
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			left. It's very ancient and very, small.
		
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			And the, the Zoroastrians, the Arabic word majus,
		
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			it comes from what we call in English
		
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			the Magi. The same thing we call in
		
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			Magi. It's majus because the priests of the
		
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			Zoroastrians,
		
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			they're called Magis. And so the Arabs called
		
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			their religion after their priests, the majus.
		
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			And, of course, very briefly, Zoroastrians are the
		
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			only religion in the whole world that actually
		
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			believe in 2 eternal gods. It's the only
		
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			religion. There's only one faith that actually believes
		
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			in 2. Even, believe it or not, Hinduism
		
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			actually believes in 1 supreme God, and then
		
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			many many gods, one ultimate.
		
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			As for Zoroastrianism,
		
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			they're the only faith that actually has 2
		
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			gods, the God of good, the God of
		
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			light. Right? And so they have Ahura Mazda,
		
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			they have Ahriman, and there's a constant battle
		
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			between them. So God creates, Ahura Mazda creates
		
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			us, and Ahura Mazda creates evil, darkness,
		
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			scorpions, lizards. Ahriman creates. I'm not even joking.
		
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			And Ahura Mazda creates good. Anyway, so Samad
		
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			al Farsi is born
		
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			in this Oh, by the way, of course,
		
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			for India and Pakistan, you know what the
		
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			rest of therians are called in our language.
		
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			What do we call them?
		
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			Why do we call them Farsis for Persians?
		
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			Because when the Muslims came to Iran, when
		
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			the Muslims conquered Iran,
		
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			100 of 1000 of Zoroastrians
		
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			fled.
		
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			And they fled not to Christian lands who
		
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			had persecuted them, they fled to the closest
		
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			polytheistic
		
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			nation, which is India.
		
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			So they fled to India when the Muslims
		
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			conquered Iran. And when they came to India,
		
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			the Indians called them Persians, Parsis.
		
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			And so, because of this, we still know
		
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			them as Parsis.
		
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			And obviously,
		
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			those of us from India Pakistan, we know
		
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			their most strange habit when it comes to
		
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			burial.
		
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			You know this?
		
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			Yes, you know. Right? Those that are it's
		
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			one of the most bizarre
		
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			rituals in the whole world.
		
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			They believe when a person is alive, he's
		
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			good, he's pure. When he dies, he converts
		
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			from the God of good to the God
		
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			of evil. His body becomes filthy. When he
		
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			dies, he cannot be buried because his body
		
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			is
		
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			so evil, the physical body, because the soul
		
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			is gonna go back to God, the body
		
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			cannot be touched or buried,
		
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			and so they are not allowed
		
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			to have the earth touch the body. So
		
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			what do they do? They have special towers
		
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			all high up, and they put the body
		
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			on top of the tower,
		
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			and they allow vultures to go and eat
		
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			from the body until there is no more
		
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			body. SubhanAllah. This is one of the more
		
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			bizarre things. Anyway, I didn't want to talk
		
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			about Zoroastrianism. Thomas al Farziq. The only convert
		
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			that's born in
		
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			Persia, and he's raised up as an Austrian.
		
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			And then as you know the story, he
		
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			was from a noble family. I'm not going
		
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			over the whole story. It's a very I'm
		
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			sure sure everybody has heard of this. It's
		
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			one of the most famous stories of the
		
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			Sira, of the conversion of Samal al Fasi,
		
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			that he saw a Christian, heard a Christian,
		
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			and the Christian
		
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			was from another sect of Christianity called Nestorianism,
		
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			all of Allah's Qadr. Nestorianism
		
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			is also going to a bit of a
		
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			tangent here. It is the oldest sect of
		
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			Christianity that is still around. It's only in
		
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			Iraq, 50,000 people as well. And when the
		
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			emperor Constantine
		
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			became Christian, he adopted a version of Christianity
		
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			that is Trinitarianism.
		
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			3 gods, 31, 3 equals 1. One version,
		
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			Nestorianism
		
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			said, no, Jesus was human and then he
		
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			became God, or he was adopted by God.
		
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			I have a bizarre belief that Jesus was
		
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			human and then God adopted him. He's not
		
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			the actual son, whatever. So it's a strange
		
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			movement now, but it is the oldest sect
		
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			of Christianity. And Allah's Qadr, that when Constantine
		
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			banned all other versions,
		
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			Nestorians
		
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			fled to Persia.
		
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			And so the only version of Christianity
		
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			in Persia was closer to Tawhid,
		
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			because they believed in one ultimate God and
		
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			Jesus was born human, and then he's adopted.
		
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			He's it's a different belief here. So Salman
		
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			al Farsi, again, Allah's Qadr, when Allah chooses
		
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			you cannot Salman al Farsi then passes by
		
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			one of these Nestorian
		
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			monks. And the story, as you're all aware,
		
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			he is attracted to tawhid. He leaves the
		
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			nobility of his father. He gives up his
		
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			life and his wealth, and he joins, you
		
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			know, Christianity,
		
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			but his father wants to kill him. And
		
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			so he flees
		
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			Persia,
		
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			going wherever the Christians can take him. He
		
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			gave up his wealth and his fame. And
		
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			this is what we see here. I'm gonna
		
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			come back to this point here. When you
		
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			give up something for Allah, Allah blesses you
		
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			with more than what you gave up. He
		
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			left his land with nothing,
		
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			and he gave up everything he had, his
		
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			nobility, his status, and he traveled to the
		
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			closest
		
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			land in the lands of Christians, and he
		
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			went up to the priest, the highest priest,
		
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			and that priest adopted him because he was
		
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			an exotic Persian convert. The priest adopted him.
		
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			The story is very long. I'm not gonna
		
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			go there. He goes over a series of
		
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			5, 6, 7, some reports say 12 priests,
		
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			one after the other. He goes over wanting
		
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			to study and search for the truth,
		
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			wanting to be a scholar and a worshiper
		
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			of Allah. And he meets good priests and
		
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			bad priests, but subhanAllah,
		
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			even when he meets corrupt priests, his imanil
		
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			Allah is never shaken, which shows you how
		
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			strong. You know, usually when a convert, you
		
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			know, when they have a Muslim who does
		
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			bad to them, understandably,
		
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			they feel what type of religion is this,
		
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			and they leave the faith because of the
		
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			actions of a Muslim. Astaghfirullah. Be careful of
		
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			a Muslim, especially when you deal with converts.
		
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			Salman al Farsi, the priest who adopted him
		
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			turned out to be an evil and corrupt
		
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			man, but it only increased his iman and
		
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			Allah. He could understand the difference between the
		
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			priest and between Allah and religion. And when
		
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			he exposed the priest, the Christians admired and
		
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			respected him, and so Allah blessed an outsider
		
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			to become an esteemed insider because Salman was
		
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			true, and Salman lived up to the ideals.
		
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			And he asked
		
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			one of his mentors of the Nestorians,
		
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			who can I go to to study with?
		
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			I don't want to study this Trinitarian Christianity.
		
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			I want the real teaching. So the mentor
		
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			said, there's one person I know you can
		
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			go to him. And the story goes on,
		
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			every person he was with 2, 3, 4
		
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			years, when he's about to die, he sends
		
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			him to 1 person. But, subhanAllah, when you
		
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			look at the map, and I did this
		
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			when I was doing the longer series I
		
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			did a few years ago,
		
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			literally from Persia, he goes from city to
		
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			city to city to city, and Allah's qadr,
		
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			he makes his way to the borders of
		
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			Arabia. Wallahi, this is all yaani Allah's Qadr.
		
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			How? From where to where? Slowly but surely,
		
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			every priest that sends him forward, he sends
		
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			him closer to the Prophet Sallallahu salam, not
		
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			even knowing that that is going there. Until
		
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			the final priest that he studies with, the
		
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			final priest says, I don't know anybody who
		
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			is remaining upon our version of Christianity. They're
		
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			all gone. But
		
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			you are now at a time when the
		
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			one whom our teachers told us about when
		
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			Jesus predicted,
		
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			the one that we predicted is gonna come,
		
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			we feel, I feel he's gonna come. And
		
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			I will tell you the signs we know.
		
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			By the way, these signs are not found
		
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			in the other version of Christianity. So we
		
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			know that Isa alayhis salam taught his followers
		
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			certain signs, and some sects of Christianity preserved
		
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			those signs. He said, I'm gonna teach you
		
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			three things. Number 1,
		
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			one of the signs of this Prophet,
		
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			he will not
		
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			accept charity.
		
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			He doesn't accept charity.
		
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			Number 2, he will accept a gift.
		
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			And number 3, there is a special
		
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			seal on his body, that when you see
		
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			it you will recognize he is khatamun.
		
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			Khatamruso,
		
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			there's gonna be a khatam, a physical seal
		
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			that's gonna be on his body. And he
		
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			said, the only thing I know, he shall
		
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			be in a land of date palms. That's
		
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			what we know, that he's gonna come in
		
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			that land. I don't know what city it
		
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			is, in a land of date palms. So
		
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			Salman al Farsi then decided, at this time
		
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			he has wealth, he has crops, he has,
		
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			you know, he decided to sell everything
		
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			and go to the land of date palms.
		
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			He asked, where is the closest land of
		
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			date palms? He was told Tabuk,
		
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			because he was close to probably in around
		
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			Jerusalem area. So he said, Tabuk is the
		
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			closest date palms. So he sold everything,
		
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			he found an Arab tribe, he goes, I'm
		
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			gonna pay you money, can you take me
		
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			to Tabuk? They said, Sure, no problem. They
		
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			took his money, soon as they left the
		
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			Roman Empire, khalas. They captured him and they
		
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			sold him into slavery. You know, this is
		
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			what happens when you didn't have civilization,
		
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			when you didn't have a global world. There
		
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			is no police to
		
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			to call. What's he gonna do? He doesn't
		
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			have a passport. Right? This is the dangers
		
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			of traveling back in the day. They literally
		
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			betrayed the trust and captured him and sold
		
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			him to into being a slave. By this
		
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			time, he's probably around 40, 50 years old.
		
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			We don't know his exact age, but he's
		
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			probably, like, already, you know, in a, you
		
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			know, past the prime of his life because
		
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			he's been with 10 different priests going up
		
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			his way. And then,
		
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			Allah's qadr, the one He sells him to
		
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			happens to
		
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			be a yahudi from yathrib.
		
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			He sells him to yahudi from yathrib. All
		
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			of this is Allah's qadr. And so he
		
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			comes back all the way to Yathrib, and
		
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			he is now he has no option, he
		
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			has nowhere to go, he cannot flee, because
		
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			again in this world, can you imagine, if
		
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			you run away as a slave, you will
		
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			be executed. Right? So what can you do?
		
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			So he becomes working. And when he says,
		
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			the report goes, when I saw yathrib, when
		
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			I saw the date palms, it came in
		
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			my heart that
		
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			Allah has sent me to this place. Look
		
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			again, he gave up everything. He becomes a
		
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			slave. His iman is still strong. Look, subhanAllah,
		
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			this is just mind boggling. He says, soon
		
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			as soon as I saw yathrib, I realized
		
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			this is where. And this is one of
		
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			the main benefits of the story of Salman.
		
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			When you desire Allah's blessings, you will get
		
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			Allah's blessings. When you are sincere to Allah,
		
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			Allah will be sincere to you. When you
		
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			put your trust in Allah, Allah will do
		
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			whatever needs to be done. Even as a
		
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			slave, he didn't lose his iman in Allah.
		
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			And he's he was hopeful, I'm gonna meet
		
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			the prophet. As you know, eventually, you know,
		
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			the Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam came to
		
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			yathrib, and he wanted to test him as
		
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			a slave. So he said that,
		
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			I took some of the dates. He's a
		
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			date. He's, you know, the slave in the
		
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			date palm,
		
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			you know,
		
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			the date palms that were there. He would
		
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			be harvesting the dates. He said, I took
		
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			some of the dates and I presented it
		
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			to the prophet and I said, this is
		
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			sadaqa. This is charity for the poor. This
		
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			is charity. And I put it in front
		
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			of him. So the Prophet asallallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam said to the people around him, Come,
		
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			eat from the charity. And Salman said, I
		
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			saw his hand did not touch a single
		
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			date. So I said to myself, this is
		
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			one of the three signs. Okay? Then I
		
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			worked more and more because he has to
		
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			work his own money, and then I presented
		
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			another date. So a few days later, I
		
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			said, this is hadiyah.
		
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			This is a gift to you. And he
		
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			said to the people, come eat, and he
		
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			ate as well. So Salman said, this is
		
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			the second. But then he goes, how am
		
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			I gonna see the third? How am I
		
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			gonna get the this seal over here? So
		
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			he said, I kept on being in the
		
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			company of the Prophet of every occasion to
		
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			see, and once he went to the Baqir,
		
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			al Qarkhad, the the graveyard. And there was
		
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			a burial taking place, and he was gonna
		
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			go inside the the the kabr to put
		
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			the body, and he was wearing an izaar.
		
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			You know, an izaar is basically 2 you
		
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			know, the ihram type of garment. He's wearing
		
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			a upper and top garment. So I realized
		
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			this is my opportunity.
		
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			I walk behind him, but he had the
		
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			izaar on, the ridaar on very tightly, and
		
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			he's not. I wasn't able to see. So
		
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			I'm saying, what can I do now? I'm
		
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			walking behind, what can I do now? And
		
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			the prophet saw me behind, and so he
		
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			lowered.
		
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			He lowered the
		
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			rida so that he can show me. By
		
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			the way, what is the khatam? The khatam
		
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			is a special outgrowth of hair that is
		
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			small like a pigeon's egg, right in the
		
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			center of the back. Right in the center
		
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			of the back, and they say that it
		
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			is like multicolored.
		
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			So, it's different colors that are, you know,
		
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			not normal
		
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			on most people. This is a special sign
		
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			that right over here there's just small outgrowth
		
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			of hair that is different colors and is
		
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			shaped like a pigeon's egg. It's a physical
		
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			sign. And the fact that the prophet shalallahu
		
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			alaihi wa sallam lowers his garment, this is
		
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			not the only time in the seerah.
		
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			Multiple times he has noticed people walk right
		
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			behind him, wanting to see something. And so,
		
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			he himself is aware
		
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			that this is a sign that some people
		
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			have been told because he did not preach
		
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			this sign.
		
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			He did not tell sahaba about it. Rather,
		
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			this was a sign that Musa and Isa
		
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			had told their followers.
		
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			And so multiple times, for example, in the
		
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			battle of Tabuk,
		
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			one of the priests came from Roman Empire
		
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			and they call him a Tanuhi. And the
		
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			same thing, that he wanted to see the
		
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			sign, and in the conversation he literally stands
		
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			up and walks behind the prophet salallahu alayhi
		
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			wa sallam. Nobody does that. Right? Because he
		
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			doesn't know what else to do. And the
		
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			prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam realizes it, and
		
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			he does the same thing to him as
		
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			well. Right? So Salman al Farsi as well,
		
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			he does this. And when Salman al Farsi
		
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			saw this, he burst into tears, and he
		
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			crushed to kiss the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam, and he rushed to hug him. And
		
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			the Prophet sallam understood,
		
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			this man's story is not typical,
		
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			because nobody knows this sign except the sil
		
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			sila from Jesus Christ. Nobody knows this sign
		
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			except So he says, What is your story,
		
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			O Salman?
		
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			Right? So by the way, every time somebody
		
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			converts, and we say, What is your story?
		
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			We're following the sunnah, guys. Okay? Don't worry
		
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			about it. Because we love to hear convert
		
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			stories. We love to. It makes our own
		
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			iman strong. So the prophet himself said, What
		
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			is your kisla? You must have a kisla.
		
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			This is a deeper story. So Salman tells
		
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			the entire story from the beginning to which
		
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			I'm summarizing. And the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa
		
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			sallam said, Come to the masjid, you will
		
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			tell your story to everybody. And so he
		
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			literally had Salman
		
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			narrate the whole story. And so when Ustad
		
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			stands up and says, how? Why did you
		
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			convert to Islam? He's following the sunnah. He
		
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			wants everybody
		
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			to get the story because it validates our
		
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			iman. We like to hear, you know, what
		
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			was the story of your conversion? And so
		
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			Salman gives the whole story. And then the
		
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			Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says to him,
		
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			O Salman,
		
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			ask your master for a price, we will
		
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			help you pay it.
		
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			We will help for you. Ask your master
		
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			for a price. Then when he went to
		
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			his master, the master said, I don't want
		
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			to sell you. But he insisted, so the
		
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			master gave an exorbitant price, exorbitant. He said,
		
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			you must plant
		
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			300
		
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			date palms for free, and
		
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			you must wait until those 300 are now
		
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			able to give
		
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			their own dates, which is gonna take 5,
		
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			10 years. Right? And on top of that,
		
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			give me 40 uqiyyah of silver, 40 grams
		
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			of silver. Like, that is a phenomenal price.
		
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			Like, very expensive,
		
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			far above the average price. But what can
		
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			you do? So he went back to the
		
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			process, and I'm sad. Said, You Rasulullah, my
		
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			master is not budging
		
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			300
		
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			date palms,
		
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			not even just planting, until they are able
		
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			to be now, you know, harvested or you
		
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			know they're gonna become trees, then you can
		
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			leave along with that 40. So he said,
		
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			don't worry. And then he stood up and
		
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			he gave a fundraiser for Salman. This is
		
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			one of the few times the prophet himself
		
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			does the fundraiser. And he says, O people
		
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			of Madinah,
		
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			bring your date palms to Salman. Whoever is
		
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			able to give sadaqa, the sadaqa wasn't even
		
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			money, it was date palms. And it was
		
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			to the farmers of Madinah that donate
		
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			not the seed, but dig up an already
		
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			planted,
		
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			you know, what do you call it, sapling,
		
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			right? Dig up those seeds that are already
		
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			sprouting, those small baby ones, so that we
		
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			already expedite the process, right? Don't just plant
		
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			it, dig them, and whoever wants to give
		
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			sadaqa, give sadaqa to Salman. And so, 1
		
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			by 1, you know, people, the farmers began
		
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			coming until they had 300,
		
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			you know, saplings in the masjid of the
		
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			Prophet shalallahu alaihi wa sallam. Then he said
		
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			to Salman, Okay You Salman, go and dig
		
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			300 holes. That's on you. You have to
		
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			do the physical labor. You do the 300
		
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			holes, but don't plant them. I will plant
		
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			them. So Salman went and he spent the
		
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			whole few days digging 300 holes, then the
		
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			prophet shalallahu alaihi wasalam took a team of
		
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			people, subhanAllah. It was amazing how much work
		
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			to free Salman. Right? The prophet shalallahu alaihi
		
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			wasalam went with a group of people. They're
		
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			all carrying, you know, the 300. And then
		
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			he, with his own hands, salallahu alayhi wasalam,
		
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			planted 300
		
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			date palms. Can you imagine? Is it gonna
		
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			take at least 4 or 5 hours minimum,
		
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			bare minimum of manual labor? He did it
		
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			himself, and he made dua every time when
		
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			he planted. He made dua. Of course, the
		
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			sahaba are helping to get to him. You
		
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			know, there's a whole teamwork going on here,
		
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			but each one of them, he's making special
		
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			dua and planting it. And subhanAllah, of course,
		
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			this is the barakah, then that seed comes
		
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			out. And within a few weeks or months,
		
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			all of these 300 have now gone. Years,
		
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			you know, that all of this has happened.
		
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			And so that is done. How about the
		
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			money? What's gonna happen? That we don't have
		
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			40 grams of silver. So once,
		
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			a man came and said, You Rasulullah,
		
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			I found some
		
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			little bit, you know, amount here, and, this
		
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			is fisa billillah, sadaqa. This is I'm giving
		
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			you to give to somebody. So the prophet
		
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			got this small amount and he said, ein
		
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			alfarisi. Where's the Farsi guy? Ein alfarisi. Where's
		
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			the because there was only 1 Persian in
		
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			all of Medina. So he was a slave,
		
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			they went and called him. So the Prophet
		
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			said, Here, this is for your freedom. Salman
		
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			said, You Rasulullah,
		
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			this is not gonna this is not he
		
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			wanted 40 grams, it's not gonna work. SubhanAllah,
		
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			listen to this. The Prophet salallahu alayhi wa
		
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			sallam took that silver,
		
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			he put it on his tongue,
		
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			And he went back and forth and he
		
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			said, Go tell your master to weigh this.
		
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			Go tell him to weigh it. And it's
		
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			a small amount.
		
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			Allah's we don't see how this is a
		
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			different world. This is not our world of
		
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			ulmal ghayb. So, he takes this small amount
		
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			as if it is a large amount, and
		
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			he says to the man, This is the
		
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			amount you wanted. The man just takes it,
		
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			weighs it, and turns out to be 40.
		
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			Like in his eyes or whatever, it is
		
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			that amount. Right? So he said, khalas, you
		
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			are free then. And this incident took place
		
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			a few weeks before the battle of Kandak.
		
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			So Salman, when he's narrating as a much
		
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			older man, he said, because of this, I
		
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			was not able to attend Badr and Uhr,
		
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			and that is my biggest regret. He regrets
		
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			that he was a slave, so he couldn't
		
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			participate in Badar Uhurd, and he's making an
		
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			excuse. I'm sorry, guys. You know, I really
		
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			wanted to, but it's not my I couldn't
		
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			have done anything. So he's freed before the
		
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			battle of khandaq. You all know he was
		
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			the one who gave the advice for the
		
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			khandaq because he's bringing in new technology. And
		
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			again, this shows us the spirit of Islam.
		
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			We're always willing to take knowledge from people
		
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			outside of our faith that is not related
		
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			to Allah and His Messenger. This is one
		
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			of the characteristics of the Muslims from the
		
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			beginning of time. We're always willing to engage
		
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			with outside technology, civilization,
		
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			fakafah. No problem. As long as it's not
		
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			about, you know, iman and whatnot. Yes. We
		
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			can take from them. So Salman benefits in
		
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			this regard. Long story short, I don't go
		
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			to every single detail. There's one point that
		
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			is really so profound to me, and that
		
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			is, of course, there's many ahadith praising Salman,
		
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			many many blessings of Salman. By the way,
		
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			in the battle of khandaq, one other thing
		
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			before we get to the end, the ansar
		
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			and the
		
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			wahajirun, Salman is neither muhajir nor ansari. Right?
		
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			He's neither muhajir nor ansari because he's a
		
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			slave that was freed in in Medina. He's
		
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			not Madani,
		
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			and he's not Maqih mahaaja. So during the
		
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			battle of khandaq,
		
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			when the sahaba split into 2 teams to
		
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			dig, and they're, you know, digging for the
		
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			khandaq,
		
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			Each team said, Salman, just come join us.
		
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			We want you to come. Right? It's like
		
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			a competition. You're come on. You migrated your
		
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			Makkah. No, no. You were here in Madinah.
		
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			You're on So they're teasing each other in
		
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			a, you know, halal, gentle Islamic brotherhood competition.
		
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			Each one is praising Salman, join us. And
		
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			Salman stuck, which side do I go to
		
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			to help? And then the Prophet shalallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam came out. He held the hand
		
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			of Salman, and he said, Salman
		
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			is neither Muhajir nor Ansari, Salman minna ahlalbayt.
		
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			He gave him a VIP upgrade, the only
		
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			sahabi that's not ahlalbayt,
		
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			that was upgraded to ahlalbayt status. That and
		
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			that's why Salman could never accept sadaqah till
		
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			he died, because the prophet
		
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			upgraded him to Ahlulbayt status. Like, he is
		
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			considered amongst us because
		
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			he he doesn't have anybody else. We will
		
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			adopt him, and he'll be considered from my
		
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			ahlulbayt, from the ahlulbayt. It's one of the
		
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			blessings of Salman that no other companion outside
		
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			of the actual ahlulbayt
		
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			got. And so Salman was given a special
		
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			status in this regard. Anyway, long story short,
		
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			much can be said here. One of the
		
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			things that to me is the most mind
		
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			boggling and profound
		
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			is that after the Prophet al Hassan passed
		
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			away, Salman is now participating in the battles,
		
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			and he joins the battle of Qadisiyyah
		
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			with Khalid ibn al Walid and,
		
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			and, Sad ibn B'orka. Sorry. And he joins
		
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			the battle of Qadisiyyah.
		
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			The battle of Qadisiyyah was against whom?
		
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			His own peoples.
		
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			It was against the Persians.
		
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			And so now he is one of the
		
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			commanders
		
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			in the battle of Qadisiyyah
		
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			that is meant to free his own people
		
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			from the paganism
		
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			and to invite them to Islam. And he,
		
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			of course, is one of the main leaders
		
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			and generals. Adasiya is a massive victory,
		
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			and the Persian Empire is conquered,
		
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			and Salman al Farisi is amongst the first
		
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			of the people who enter the very land
		
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			that was his once upon a time. He's
		
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			the only Persian Sahabi. Right? And now he
		
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			enters
		
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			the very palaces
		
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			of the land that he could not go
		
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			in as a citizen. You cannot walk into,
		
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			you know, the powers, the palaces of the
		
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			people when you're a citizen. Now he comes
		
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			from a slave, from leaving
		
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			as somebody that gave up everything, right? Now
		
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			Allah blessed him to walk into the most
		
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			magnificent
		
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			palace, you know, of
		
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			the the the emperor of the Sassanid,
		
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			empire. By the way, the palace that,
		
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			is at Tessaf al Mada'in, it is still
		
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			standing.
		
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			And it is considered to be one of
		
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			the wonders of the world. It is a
		
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			magnificent palace. It's like an arch that goes
		
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			up like this. The remnants are still there.
		
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			That very palace, Salman al Farsi, literally that
		
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			exact same palace is still there. Salman al
		
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			Farsi walked into it, and subhanAllah,
		
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			the amir said to Salman al Farsi,
		
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			you shall be the leader of or the
		
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			governor of your land here.
		
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			SubhanAllah,
		
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			to me, this is mind boggling.
		
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			Wallahi, look from where to where? Right? He
		
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			left his land
		
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			fleeing,
		
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			persecuted,
		
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			and he comes back more than 50, 60,
		
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			70 years later. We don't know exactly how
		
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			long. He comes back after all of these
		
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			years,
		
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			and he becomes the
		
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			not the ruler, because obviously the ruler is
		
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			Abu Bakr as Sadia, but the governor.
		
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			He basically becomes the de facto ruler and
		
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			the governor of his own province and lands,
		
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			subhanAllah.
		
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			This really shows us the blessings, and he
		
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			passes away there, and his Qabr is over
		
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			there. SubhanAllah, he left the very land, and
		
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			now he comes back, and he becomes the
		
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			one in charge. What a what a beautiful
		
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			anecdote and story that shows us when you
		
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			put your trust in Allah, and when you
		
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			realize Allah will take care of me, indeed
		
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			Allah takes care of you. Salman got deen
		
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			and dunya. Salman By the way, he got
		
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			dunya, but he never ever lived in a
		
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			lavish way. In fact, it is said he
		
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			would not sleep in the palace. He would
		
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			sleep under a tree because he did His
		
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			whole life, he was monastery and Christianity. His
		
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			whole life was, you know, zuhd and ibadah
		
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			and whatnot. So he didn't like the palace.
		
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			So he went and slept on a tree.
		
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			The people would say to him, you have
		
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			the palace. He goes, this is more beloved
		
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			to me, just to sleep on the ground
		
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			and whatnot, until finally somebody said, I have
		
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			to build you a house. He came to
		
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			Saman Goel, I beg you, let me build
		
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			you a house. Salman said, how large is
		
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			it gonna be? The man understood. So he
		
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			goes, it will be so large that when
		
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			you stand up, your head is gonna head
		
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			hit against the roof. And when you put
		
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			your feet out, you won't have to,
		
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			you know, the space to fully spread it.
		
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			He goes, okay, that's fine then. So he
		
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			built him a small little hut, and that
		
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			was his house. And it is said once
		
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			in the books of history that Salman would
		
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			dress exactly the same, no entourage, once a
		
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			merchant came from another land
		
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			to sell his goods, and he needed help
		
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			transporting from the camel to the bazaar. He's
		
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			looking for some cheap laborer. Right? And he
		
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			sees Salman, but he doesn't recognize him. So
		
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			he goes, Hey, you, anta. Can you help
		
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			me with my goods? He wants to find
		
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			somebody, you know, that you can find like
		
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			some comfort in. So Salman comes up, starts
		
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			helping the goods from the man's camel to
		
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			the bazaar. When the other people see, he
		
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			said, You Amir, you know, let us help
		
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			you. So the man said, Who is this
		
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			guy? He goes, This is the leader. This
		
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			is Salman al Farisi. He said, I'm so
		
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			sorry, I didn't recognize you. And Salman said,
		
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			so what? You asked me a favor, and
		
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			I'm doing it. What's the big deal? You
		
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			want me to be help? I'm helping you.
		
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			So he tried to insist, Salman said, no.
		
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			It was my niyyah to take your goods
		
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			from
		
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			your place to your bazaar, and I'm gonna
		
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			finish this. SubhanAllah, the humility of Salman al
		
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			Farsi. And of course, he passed away and
		
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			he's buried over there. Our Prophet shalallahu alaihi
		
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			wa sallam said that if iman were in
		
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			one of the northern stars,
		
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			then this person from Persia would have gotten
		
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			it. This is a hadith. If iman were
		
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			found way up there in the skies, then
		
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			the farisi would have found it up there.
		
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			His niyyah was so strong. He wanted hidayah
		
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			that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala allowed him to
		
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			go city by city,
		
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			mentor by mentor, until finally he meds to
		
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			the very city of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam. Whoever puts his trust in Allah, Allah
		
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			will take care of him. May Allah have
		
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			mercy on Salman Al Farsi, and resurrect us
		
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			with him.