Yasir Qadhi – What Should You do During the First Ten Days of Dhul Hijjah

Yasir Qadhi
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The speaker discusses the legacy of the Prophet-speaking Hipsy decade, centered around his teachings and tests. The importance of learning and practicing to fulfill the rights of the Prophet's teachings and tests is emphasized. The history of Islam is discussed, including the story of the desert's water source and the importance of showing respect and faith in Islam. The title boss's legacy is not a question of whether he has won or lost, but rather his actions and actions of his children. He gives advice on not delaying and not rushing to accomplish things, and reminds listeners to trust in Islam and not lose hope.

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			Remember the legacy of Ibrahim and of Hajar,
		
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			Ismail.
		
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			Go through their footsteps, if not physically, at
		
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			least
		
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			tawakkul, of rida, of ikhlas, of sacrifice,
		
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			of giving up for the sake of Allah
		
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			so that you too can attain some of
		
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			that little barakah.
		
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			Dear Muslims, we are about to enter
		
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			the most sacred 10 days of the entire
		
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			year,
		
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			the 10 days of Dhul Hijjah.
		
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			And these are the days that we should
		
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			reflect and remind ourselves,
		
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			not only of the blessings of these days,
		
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			but also
		
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			of the story, the origin
		
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			of where and how these days became so
		
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			sacred.
		
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			Because it was during these days, 1000 of
		
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			years ago,
		
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			that the prophet Ibrahim
		
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			alayhis salam
		
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			did certain actions and rituals.
		
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			The prophet Ibrahim alayhis salam
		
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			legislated for us what we now do in
		
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			the rights of hajj. And Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala
		
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			earmarked those very footsteps that Ibrahim,
		
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			and Hajar, and Ishmael,
		
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			they did.
		
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			The piety
		
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			of 1 person,
		
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			the rituals of 1 person, the sacrifice
		
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			of 1 person, the legacy
		
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			of 1 person
		
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			has been etched into our shari'ah.
		
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			And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			blessed his piety,
		
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			so that millions of people around the world
		
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			commemorate that piety. They walk in his footsteps.
		
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			They remind themselves
		
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			of the legacy
		
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			of the prophet Ibrahim alayhis salaam. And so
		
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			in today's brief khutba, it is relevant
		
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			that we remind ourselves
		
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			why is Ibrahim alayhis salam such a high
		
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			role model. The one person in the whole
		
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			Quran
		
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			that our Nabi sallallahu alaihi wasallam is told
		
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			to take as a role model. I repeat,
		
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			our Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam is told to
		
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			take as a role model his own father,
		
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			his own ancestor, the Prophet Ibrahim alayhi salam.
		
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			And Ibrahim alayhis salam is mentioned over
		
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			70 times in the Quran.
		
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			And his story is a constant story that
		
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			is mentioned in over a dozen places. In
		
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			fact, one of the first stories in the
		
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			Quran is the story of Ibrahim alayhis salaam.
		
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			In the very first pages of Surah Baqarah,
		
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			the very first Jews of Baqarah, Allah Subhanahu
		
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			Wa Ta'ala says, wa idhibatalaibrahimrabuhu
		
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			bi kalimatinfa'atammahun.
		
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			And recall You Rasulullah
		
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			that Allah tested Ibrahim with many commandments,
		
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			and Ibrahim fulfilled
		
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			all of those commandments.
		
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			And when Ibrahim fulfilled those commandments,
		
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			Allah says,
		
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			innija'ilukalinnasi
		
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			imama.
		
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			I will make you an imam for all
		
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			of mankind.
		
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			We have to ask ourselves,
		
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			why is Allah reminding us of these stories
		
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			and legacy? And the response,
		
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			when we understand
		
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			that when we follow the role model of
		
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			the Prophet Ibrahim and the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu
		
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			alayhi wasallam,
		
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			Allah will also give us a legacy. Not
		
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			like them, they are prophets.
		
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			But this is how we carve out our
		
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			own legacy.
		
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			This is how we fulfill the rights of
		
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			the prophets on us by taking them as
		
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			role models, by learning their lives and histories,
		
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			by deriving lessons
		
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			that help us in our daily lives. And
		
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			so when we take the prophets as role
		
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			models, we as well will get some of
		
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			the barakah, some of the blessings they too
		
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			were given. What were some of the blessings?
		
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			What were some of the tests and trials
		
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			that Ibrahim alayhi salaam underwent? Because Allah says,
		
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			I tested Ibrahim, and Ibrahim passed every single
		
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			test. Look at how many tests he had
		
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			been given. And And of course, in 1
		
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			khudba, we can only summarize some of them.
		
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			Of the tests that were unique to him
		
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			is that he was
		
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			the only believer in Allah
		
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			even before the revelation began. As a teenager,
		
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			as a young boy, wahi had not come
		
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			down upon him. Revelation had not yet begun.
		
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			His whole nation were idolaters.
		
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			The world was a polytheistic
		
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			society.
		
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			But Ibrahim alayhis salam, as a 11, 12
		
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			year old young child, he knew that idolatry
		
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			was wrong. Not only did he know it
		
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			was wrong, he stood up and he took
		
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			a courageous stand, and he demonstrated
		
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			the falsity of worshiping other than Allah Subhanahu
		
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			Wa Ta'ala. He challenged his entire
		
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			nation of idolaters.
		
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			He started with his own father. How painful
		
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			that must have been for a child. He
		
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			started with his own father, and he started
		
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			with wisdom. He started with sound argumentation,
		
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			and most importantly,
		
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			with compassion and akhlaq, and adab, and love.
		
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			He was not argumentative.
		
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			He was not arrogant. He tried to reason
		
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			in a loving manner. You abati, my dear
		
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			father, why would you worship that which is
		
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			not gonna benefit you or harm you? You
		
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			abati, my dear father, you're worshiping false gods.
		
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			You abati, my dear father, turn to ar
		
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			Rahman.
		
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			Ar Rahman will is the one that you
		
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			should worship. He keeps on trying and trying,
		
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			and his own father turns against him. His
		
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			own tribe turns against him. The very king
		
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			becomes involved, and the king wants to make
		
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			an example of this young boy. And so
		
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			the king threatens him. If you don't leave
		
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			your false ways, the king says, you shall
		
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			be executed.
		
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			And despite being jailed, despite being tortured as
		
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			a teenager,
		
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			Ibrahim remains firm. And as you know, Nimrud
		
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			builds that fire 3 days 3 nights
		
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			to try to persuade
		
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			Ibrahim to stop. Ibrahim
		
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			does not stop. And he is thrown into
		
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			that fire without any helper other than Allah.
		
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			And that's when he says, hasbunallahuani'malwakeel.
		
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			Hasbunallahuani'malwakeel.
		
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			Our Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam taught us. When
		
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			Ibrahim was thrown into that fire that Nimrud
		
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			made, this is the dikr that he said.
		
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			He taught us because he wanted us as
		
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			well to memorize this dhikr. When the world
		
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			has turned its back on you, when there
		
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			is no helper in this dunya, then you
		
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			turn to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, and you
		
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			say, hasmunallahu
		
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			aniimalwakeel.
		
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			And when you demonstrate that iman and that
		
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			tawakul, then even the fire becomes a garden.
		
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			And even the punishment of men becomes mercy
		
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			from Allah, jallajalaluhu.
		
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			And so Ibrahim is saved from that fire,
		
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			and he has no place to go. And
		
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			so he leaves his land, He leaves his
		
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			nation. He leaves his tribe. And our prophet,
		
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			salallahu alayhi wasalam, said, the first human being
		
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			who had to flee for his religion was
		
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			Ibrahim alaihi wasallam. Nobody before him had to
		
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			flee for his religion. Ibrahim
		
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			gave up his people. He gave up his
		
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			tribe. He gave up his safety,
		
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			and Allah blessed him by being the most
		
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			venerated human in all of human history. It
		
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			is true. Our Prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam, is
		
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			the most chosen. And it is true, in
		
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			terms of quality, the praise our nabi is
		
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			given, nobody else has given. But in terms
		
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			of quantity, it is his father, Ibrahim alayhis
		
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			salaam. The Jewish people, the Christian people, the
		
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			Muslim people, that is 60%
		
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			of the globe, 60%
		
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			of mankind,
		
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			they venerate the prophet Ibrahim alayhi salaam. And
		
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			Allah is demonstrating,
		
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			when you give up something for My sake,
		
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			I will give you back more than what
		
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			you gave up. When you give up your
		
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			people, I will give you the world. When
		
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			you give up your tribe, I will give
		
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			you 1,000,000,000 and 1,000,000,000 of people. Our prophet
		
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			Ibrahim alayhis salam demonstrates what happens when you
		
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			sacrifice for the sake of Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala. When he goes into that land
		
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			where another tyrannical king in that pharaonic king
		
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			of Egypt, there where once again he is
		
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			threatened and his wife Sarah is taken away.
		
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			And once again he has no army, no
		
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			helper, and so he falls down in sajda.
		
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			He prays the hajjood, in the privacy
		
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			nahum
		
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			makes his way to the land of Palestine
		
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			where Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala told him to
		
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			settle. And from there, Hajar gives birth to
		
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			is to Ismail,
		
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			and Allah says to them, Go down to
		
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			Makkah, and build the first masjid that has
		
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			ever been built for all of mankind.
		
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			Awwalubaytin wudu aalinasi lalladee bakkattamubaraka.
		
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			At that time it was called baqa. So
		
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			Ibrahim goes down, and you all know the
		
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			story. Hajar and Ismail are left over there.
		
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			He doesn't even know what to tell Hajar.
		
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			How is he gonna explain to Hajar that
		
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			Allah has told him to leave his, his
		
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			wife and his daughter, his Hajar and his
		
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			and his son? How is he gonna explain
		
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			to Hajar that Allah has told me to
		
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			left to to leave you? He can't even
		
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			say anything. He simply walks away. And Hajar
		
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			is confused. Where are you leaving me? How
		
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			am I gonna be taken care of? There's
		
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			no food. There's no water. And she understands
		
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			this is a higher order because she knows
		
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			the gentleness of Ibrahim. She knows he's a
		
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			very, very loving person, and now he seems
		
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			to be doing something that is atypical. So
		
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			she asks him,
		
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			Allahu amaraka bihadah. Did Allah command you? And
		
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			that's the only thing he can say. Yes,
		
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			Allah commanded me. And Hajar, who came into
		
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			the household as a pagan, she was not
		
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			a Muslim when she entered the household. But
		
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			in that short time, she has absorbed
		
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			so much iman
		
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			that her sacrifice
		
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			between Safa and Marwa will become legislated for
		
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			billions of people. Her tawakkul in Allah is
		
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			now a role model. The lady who submitted
		
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			to Allah, the mother who showed her love
		
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			for her son and put her trust in
		
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			Allah. Her acts of desperation,
		
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			Allah recorded for every Mu'tamir,
		
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			every hajj. You will walk exactly on those
		
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			footsteps, and you will demonstrate, just as Hajar
		
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			knew, Allah will take care of me. She
		
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			didn't know how, she didn't know when. She
		
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			put in the effort, and she went from
		
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			one mountain to the other, knowing that Allah
		
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			would take care, not knowing how and where.
		
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			And again, this shows us the reality. I
		
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			have said this over and over again. You
		
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			put in the effort and you put your
		
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			trust in Allah. You do you. You have
		
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			a plan, you have an agenda, you have
		
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			a goal, and you put your trust in
		
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			Allah. Hajar was searching for water. She's going
		
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			here and there, and she doesn't realize Allah
		
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			has a plan, but she has to show
		
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			her side as well. So she walks back
		
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			and forth, she runs exactly where we run.
		
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			And that iman that she had
		
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			is embodied in the ritual of Saffa and
		
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			Marwa, the ritual of sa'ih that every single
		
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			pilgrim draz, we are representing that same battle.
		
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			I don't know Allah's plan, but I must
		
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			put in my effort, and Allah will take
		
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			care of me, and Allah will give me
		
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			a way out from sources I never expected.
		
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			And lo and behold,
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala blessed
		
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			Hajar and Isma'eel
		
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			with water that is so blessed. Our Prophet
		
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			Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, It is the most
		
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			blessed food and drink on earth. There is
		
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			nothing more blessed than ma'uzamzam.
		
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			It is so blessed. It was a gift
		
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			not just to Isma'il,
		
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			it was a gift to all of the
		
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			Arabs and all of the Quraysh for 4000
		
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			years. And then it was a gift, and
		
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			it remains a gift for every single Muslim.
		
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			We are living testimony
		
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			to the miracle
		
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			of Hajar and Isma'eel. In the middle of
		
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			the desert, how can all of this water
		
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			come? Where does it come from? Where billions
		
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			of people are drinking,
		
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			billions of people continue to drink, and the
		
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			water never runs out, and the water is
		
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			smack in the middle of the desert from
		
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			underneath the house of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			If this is not yet another miracle of
		
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			the barakah that Allah gave to Ibrahim and
		
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			to Hajar and to Ishmael. And so Allah
		
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			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says, Ibrahim passed all of
		
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			these commandments. Ibrahim was told, sacrifice your son.
		
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			And even that,
		
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			he took his son out, and he said,
		
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			Allah has commanded me to sacrifice you. What
		
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			do you think I should do? And his
		
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			son says, you abati ifaalmatumar.
		
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			You abati. The same phrase, you abati, that
		
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			70 years ago Ibrahim used with his own
		
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			father, now his son is using with him.
		
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			And we learn another lesson. Another lesson we
		
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			learn, parents, listen to this. Children, listen to
		
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			this. Allah is demonstrating
		
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			when you show etiquette and manners to your
		
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			elders, when you become an elder, Allah will
		
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			bless you with youngsters who show you respect.
		
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			Ibrahim showed respect to his father. Ibrahim
		
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			showed utmost love and submission to his father
		
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			even when his father said, Get out of
		
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			here. And his father said, I'm gonna kill
		
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			you if you believe my God. Ibrahim said,
		
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			I love you. Salamun alaikha. I'm gonna make
		
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			dua for you. Ibrahim never resorted to what
		
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			his father resorted to. He maintained the higher
		
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			moral ground. And therefore,
		
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			when Allah gave him children, now he takes
		
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			his son and says, Oh my son, Allah
		
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			told me to do something. What does the
		
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			son say? You abati. Whatever Allah says, I'm
		
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			going to do this. This demonstrates
		
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			you want your children to be righteous. You
		
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			begin with yourself and you begin with your
		
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			own piety. We also see in the story
		
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			of Ibrahim alayhis salam, patience, sabr in the
		
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			face of adversity,
		
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			preaching Islam to all of mankind,
		
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			understanding that you might not see the fruits
		
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			of what you want in this world, but
		
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			Allah will give you those fruits. When Allah
		
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			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala told him to sacrifice his
		
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			son, he only had one son, Ismail at
		
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			that time. When Allah told him to sacrifice
		
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			his son, he attempted to do so, and
		
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			Allah intervened, and Allah saved his son. And
		
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			not only did he save his son, he
		
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			blessed him with another son. And from the
		
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			2, Allah gave magnificent
		
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			civilizations. 2 of the largest
		
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			civilizations came from his 2 sons. Ibrahim did
		
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			not know this. He thought that's the end
		
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			of my progeny, but he put his trust
		
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			in Allah. And what he when he put
		
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			his trust in Allah, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			blessed him with that legacy. We also see
		
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			over here
		
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			when Allah says in the Quran that, watakhidoo
		
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			minmaqamiibrahima
		
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			musalla. Ibrahim would spend long hours in prayer
		
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			in tahajjud, and Allah told our Prophet Sallallahu
		
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			Alaihi Wasallam, that place he would pray, you
		
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			should pray on the exact same spot. And
		
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			this is what we call Maqami
		
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			Ibrahim. It is still standing to this day.
		
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			The same
		
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			rock, the same rock that Ibrahim alayhis salaam
		
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			stood on and worshiped, the footprints of which
		
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			are there. Ibrahim alayhis salam prayed there, and
		
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			he has gone, but the legacy
		
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			of his piety remains. So much so, we
		
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			are told, and all the hujjah when they
		
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			go, we pray 2 raka'at right behind the
		
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			maqam of Ibrahim to maintain that legacy.
		
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			You will go, your good deeds will remain.
		
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			You're not gonna be there, but the good
		
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			that you planted, the rituals that you did,
		
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			the ibadah that you did, the worship of
		
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			Allah that you did, Allah will not cause
		
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			it to go in vain. Allah will never
		
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			cause it to go in
		
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			loss. And we also see over here, the
		
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			willingness to suffer and to sacrifice.
		
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			Multiple times, Ibrahim alayhis salam gives up for
		
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			the sake of Allah, and Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala ta'ala blesses him. Following the commandments of
		
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			Allah, in spite of how difficult it is,
		
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			one of the most difficult realities
		
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			when Allah commanded him to follow an entire
		
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			Sharia. And a part of that Sharia was
		
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			the circumcision. And Ibrahim was the only Muslim
		
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			at that time. And as the prophet, salallahu
		
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			alaihi wasalam said, he circumcised himself. Can you
		
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			imagine somebody doing this? And he did it
		
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			himself on his own body. Why and how?
		
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			Because this is what iman does. When Allah
		
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			says you do, you do. And when you
		
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			follow, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala blesses. And that's
		
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			why Allah says when he passed all of
		
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			the tests, fa atammahunnaqala
		
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			inneeja'ilukalinasi
		
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			imama. I will make you a role model
		
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			for all of mankind. The main legacy,
		
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			the main benefit from the story of Ibrahim
		
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			alayhis salaam. When you turn to Allah,
		
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			Allah will give you much more than what
		
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			you had to sacrifice. When you show piety,
		
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			your legacy will live long beyond you. When
		
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			you stand up for Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
		
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			and you show servitude to Allah, that Ibadah
		
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			and that worship will make you somebody who
		
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			will become a role model for mankind and
		
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			beloved to Allah. And that's why the prophet
		
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			Ibrahim alayhis salaam was the only one of
		
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			2 who was a khalil of Allah. Allah
		
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			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala said that,
		
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			watakad Allah Ibrahim akhaleelah. Allah took Ibrahim as
		
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			a khalil. Only 2 people have the status,
		
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			our Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and Ibrahim alayhis
		
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			salaam. And khalil means a close confidant. Khalil
		
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			means the best friend we would say in
		
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			a vernacular. Of course, Allah does not have
		
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			friends the way we do obviously, but it
		
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			is a terminology of love, of endearment.
		
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			2 people have been given that high status,
		
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			Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam and our Prophet Muhammad SallAllahu
		
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			Alaihi Wasallam. So dear Muslims, as we enter
		
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			these blessed 10 days, as we enter the
		
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			days of, the days of Dhul Hijjah, some
		
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			amongst us are going to perform the Hajj.
		
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			Those that are going remember
		
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			all of the steps that Ibrahim and Hajar
		
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			and Ismail did. You will literally be walking
		
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			on the exact
		
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			locations
		
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			they did. Recall
		
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			their sacrifice, recall their tawakkul, recall their Ibadah,
		
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			and see how Allah blessed them. You wanna
		
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			be blessed? Then do as they did.
		
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			Those that are not going for the hajj,
		
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			1st and foremost, if you haven't been, I
		
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			must remind myself on all of you, do
		
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			not delay. All Muslims, do not delay the
		
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			Hajj if you can afford to do so.
		
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			Go as fast as you can. Expedite. This
		
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			is an obligation
		
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			and higher and higher every single year. So
		
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			why are you delaying? If Allah has blessed
		
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			you with wealth, do not delay. Go as
		
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			soon as you can. And if you do
		
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			not have wealth, you are absolutely forgiven and
		
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			continue to accumulate and and and make sure
		
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			you have a fund for Hajj. Just like
		
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			you have a fund for your house and
		
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			fund for your college education, you should also
		
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			have a small fund what is reasonable for
		
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			you to do so that one day you're
		
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			able to do the Hajj. And those of
		
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			you that are not going for Hajj know
		
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			that those 10 days of Dhul Hijjah,
		
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			regardless of whether you go or not, are
		
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			the most blessed 10 days of the year.
		
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			Our Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
		
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			said, there are no 10 days, there are
		
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			no days of the year that are more
		
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			blessed than the days of Dhul Hijjah, these
		
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			first 10 days. No good deed that you
		
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			do outside of those 10 will equal those
		
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			10 unless you go as a complete mujahid
		
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			and you die a martyr. That's the one
		
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			deed you can do that is better than
		
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			the deeds of these 10 days. If you're
		
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			not doing that, then your dhikr and your
		
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			sadaqah and your siyam and your good deeds
		
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			on these 10 days are better than anything
		
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			else you can do. So those that are
		
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			not going for Hajj doesn't mean you're off
		
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			the hook. Rather, it means you have another
		
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			set of rituals. Those that are going for
		
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			Hajj, they know their rituals. They're gonna be
		
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			doing umra and tawaf and sa'i and minna
		
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			and wazalif and Arafah. Those that are not
		
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			going for Hajj, well, so many good deeds
		
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			to do. These are the days you fill
		
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			them with dhikr, with Quran. You fill them
		
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			with sadaqa. You do uddhayyaanqurbani.
		
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			You do good deeds with your family.
		
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			You bring happiness to the lives of other
		
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			Muslims, and you fill these 10 days with
		
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			the worship of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And
		
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			of course, the day of Arafah, the 9th
		
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			of Dhul Hijjah, the 9th of Dhul Hijjah.
		
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			O Muslims, if you are standing in Arafah
		
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			on that day, then
		
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			hani alaka welcome you. And you are indeed
		
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			blessed and chosen by Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			There is no day of the year that
		
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			is more blessed than the 9th of Dhul
		
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			Hijjah. No location that is more blessed than
		
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			Arafah. No du'a and no deed better than
		
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			standing at Arafah, on Arafah, in ihram, begging
		
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			Allah on that day. And if you have
		
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			not been a Muslim, then aspire to go
		
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			and plan to go. But even if you
		
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			are not on the plains of Arafah, it
		
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			is authentically narrated that the Sahaba and Tabirun
		
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			in Basra, in Kufa, in other places, they
		
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			weren't doing Hajj. On 9th, they would come
		
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			to the masjid and they would spend the
		
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			day in the 'ibadah and the dhikr of
		
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			Allah. And they would make extra dua because
		
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			our Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, The best
		
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			dua is the dua of Arafah. Now, no
		
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			doubt, the hadith primarily applies to being an
		
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			Arafah. No doubt about that. But even if
		
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			you're not an Arafah, you shouldn't just sit
		
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			home and watch TV. It's still a blessed
		
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			day. It's still a day that the hujjah
		
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			gathered. So even if you're not in Arafah,
		
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			9th of Dhul Hijjah, you should be fasting
		
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			over here, and you should be doing extra
		
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			Ibadah, and you should be doing dhikr, and
		
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			you should be doing your personal dua as
		
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			much as you can, because it is a
		
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			blessed day and it is a holy day.
		
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			These are the days of Ibadah and dhikr.
		
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			Even the days of Ramadan
		
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			are not as blessed as the days of
		
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			Dhul Hijjah. Our scholars say the last 10
		
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			nights of Ramadan are more blessed than the
		
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			nights of Dhul Hijjah, and the days of
		
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			Dhul Hijjah are more blessed than the days
		
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			of Ramadan. Each one is its own. The
		
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			last 10 nights of Ramadan and the first
		
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			10 days of Dhul Hijjah
		
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			nights of the year. And ibn Abbas said,
		
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			when Allah says in the Quran, wal fajri
		
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			walayadinashir.
		
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			Ibn Abbasaid,
		
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			layadinashir
		
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			is the 10 days of Dhul Hijjah. Allah's
		
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			given qasam on the 10 days of Dhul
		
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			Hijjah. So, oh, Muslims take advantage of these
		
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			days. Remember the legacy of Ibrahim and of
		
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			Hajar al Ismail.
		
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			Go through their footsteps, if not physically, at
		
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			least mentally,
		
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			derive from their lives the concept of sabr,
		
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			of tawakkul, of rida, of ikhlas, of sacrifice,
		
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			of giving up for the sake of Allah
		
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			so that you too can attain some of
		
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			that little barakah and the blessings that Allah
		
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			has given to the righteous and pious. We
		
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			ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to make us
		
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			of those who listen to the Quran and
		
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			follow to the best of our abilities. May
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala make us of those
		
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			who are listening to the Quran and implementing
		
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			in our daily lives. May Allah bless me
		
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			and you with and through the Quran, and
		
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			may He make us of those who it's
		
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			verses they understand and applies halal and haram
		
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			throughout our lifespan. Ask Allah's forgiveness. You as
		
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			well ask him. He is the Ghafoor and
		
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			the Rahman.
		
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			Ahad as Samad Alladilam yalitwalam yuladwalimakullahu
		
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			kufuan ahad wabardu
		
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			Oh, Muslims, we watch in sadness and in
		
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			grief
		
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			about what is happening over and over again
		
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			in the land of the prophet Ibrahim Alayhi
		
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			Salaam. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala chose that land
		
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			for Ibrahim
		
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			and for the righteous
		
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			followers of his descendants after him. And we
		
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			firmly believe for a period of time, those
		
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			people were the descendants of Ishaq, and Allah
		
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			gave it to them for that period of
		
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			time. But we also believe when they rejected
		
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			the legacy of Ibrahim, when they turned away
		
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			from the commandments of Ibrahim, Allah Subhanahu Wa
		
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			Ta'ala lifted that privilege from them, and he
		
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			gave it to the real followers
		
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			and also the biological descendants of Ibrahim. And
		
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			that is the prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
		
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			and those who follow him. We are the
		
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			only real followers of the prophet Ibrahim Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam. We are the inheritors of his legacy
		
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			and including that is the promise of that
		
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			land. That land belongs to the righteous
		
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			of those who follow Ibrahim alayhis salam, and
		
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			that is us. We are the rightful heirs
		
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			of that land, and it is truly distressing.
		
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			Every few weeks, these people even lower the
		
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			bar, and they show barbarity and inhumanity
		
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			more so than we could have ever imagined.
		
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			Just when we thought the situation was as
		
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			bad as as it could have gotten, these
		
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			people, the apartheid regime, do even more barbaric
		
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			and inhumane
		
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			desecrations.
		
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			How can you bomb a refugee camp when
		
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			you're the the ones who said to go
		
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			and set up your tents over there? How
		
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			can you deprive women and children of food
		
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			and water? And the world watches and our
		
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			own administration
		
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			becomes even more callous and callous. But we
		
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			must remind ourselves, all Muslims, we must remind
		
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			ourselves to not lose hope. Wallahi, I say
		
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			to you, the tide is changing. The future
		
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			is bright. The depravity
		
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			of this group, the depravity
		
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			of this regime, and the cold hardheartedness
		
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			of our own administration,
		
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			it is now being shown to the whole
		
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			world.
		
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			And perhaps we hate something, but Allah will
		
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			place good in it. And perhaps those people
		
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			whom Allah has chosen to be shuhada,
		
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			Insha'Allah,
		
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			their blood is not lost, oh Muslims. Wallahi,
		
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			their blood and their sacrifice, it is changing
		
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			the
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is using their courage
		
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			and their sabr. And this is not a
		
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			justification astaghfirullah.
		
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			It's not a justification,
		
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			but we have to console ourselves and we
		
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			have to continue doing whatever little we can
		
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			do. We all feel impotent. We all feel
		
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			powerless. That is true. But still, we cannot
		
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			lose hope, and we must
		
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			persevere and persist, and we must push on.
		
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			And Insha'AllahHu
		
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			Ta'ala, we see one after the other, the
		
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			superpowers and countries are withdrawing their support, one
		
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			after the other, until finally only one is
		
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			gonna be left. And even this, it is
		
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			only a matter of time before the very
		
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			people of this land see this reality, and
		
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			it is already happening. The growing discontent,
		
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			the growing disconcertion,
		
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			the growing anger at what is happening. Alhamdulillah,
		
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			we thank Allah. And so do not falter.
		
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			Do not lose hope. Do not give up.
		
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			Continue to persevere. Do whatever you can. And
		
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			I say this, and I've said this 9
		
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			months ago, and I say it now. Maybe,
		
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			just maybe, this group has won the battle,
		
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			but we have won the war without a
		
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			doubt. Maybe this group has won this one
		
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			battle if you just count the number of
		
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			dead, but the war, the overall war, without
		
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			a doubt, we have already won it. The
		
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			moral victory, we have already won it. The
		
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			depravity of these people has been
		
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			moral victory, we have already won it. The
		
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			depravity of these people has been demonstrated for
		
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			all to see. And so it's just a
		
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			matter of time. That's it. Put your trust
		
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			in Allah and realize from the story of
		
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			Ibrahim we learn that walaakibatulitaqwa
		
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			walaakibatulil
		
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			muttaqeen
		
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			The final result will always be given to
		
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			those who have taqwa. So raise the bar
		
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			in your own life. Have taqwa of Allah
		
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			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Put your trust in Allah.
		
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			And as we learned from the Surah Ibrahim,
		
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			the legacy
		
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			will always be for the righteous. Even if
		
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			we don't live to see it, Ibrahim
		
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			alayhi salaam did not live to see all
		
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			of his grandchildren and great grandchildren. He had
		
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			no idea of the respect and the fame
		
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			he would be given. He didn't see that,
		
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			but Allah still gave it to him. And
		
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			Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala blessed him
		
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			like he blessed no other prophet.
		
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			All the prophets after Ibrahim were from his
		
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			progeny. Not a single prophet came except from
		
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			his own children. And for 100 years, he
		
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			didn't even know he would have children. For
		
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			90 years, he didn't even know he would
		
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			have children. So put your trust in Allah,
		
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			persevere, show patience, show iman, show tawakul, show
		
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			sabr, sacrifice for the sake of Allah, and
		
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			the legacy will be ours as it was
		
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			to the prophet Ibrahim Alayhi Salaam. Allahu manida'infaaminoo
		
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			Allahu manata lafayhaddumidhamban
		
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			illagafartah
		
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			walahhamman illa farajta waladaynan illaqabwaita walamaleeban illa shafaita
		
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			walaasalayna
		
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			Allahumma'amalaradanaoaradilIslamal
		
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			Musliminabasooinfajrilloo
		
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			binafsiwajalalmiralfididbiliheeyaqawyaAAaziz
		
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			Allahumasalli wa salamuwabarakuwalaalihi
		
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			wa sahabijma'inna
		
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			Allahha ta'ala yahmurbiladli