Yasir Qadhi – Why Is Life Difficult

Yasir Qadhi
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The speakers discuss the difficulties of life and the importance of protecting oneself and striving to achieve success. They stress the need for effort and dedication to achieving success, avoiding mistakes and failures, finding comfort in one's personal relationships, and avoiding privacy and harm in the world. They also encourage people to use their own computers and try to avoid mistakes, find spouses to help their parents live in a better life, and work together to improve society.

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			As-salāmu ʿalaykum wa-rahmatullāhi wa-barakātuh.
		
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			Allāhu akbar Allāhu akbar Allāhu
		
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			akbar Allāhu akbar Muhammad
		
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			is the Messenger of Allah I
		
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			bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of
		
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			Allah Come
		
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			to Prayer Come
		
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			to Prayer Come to success Come
		
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			to success Allāhu akbar Allāhu
		
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			akbar There is none worthy of worship except
		
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			Allah Five
		
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			simple points that we can derive from the
		
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			Qur'an and the Sunnah The first of
		
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			them Let us take comfort Let us find
		
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			solace Let us find peace in understanding the
		
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			wisdom of why life is so difficult Why
		
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			is there one calamity after another?
		
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			Why is there one tragedy after another?
		
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			Why is there one bad news after another?
		
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			Remember, O Muslims, this is not happening from
		
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			randomness Anything that happens, it is happening from
		
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			the Qadr of Allah Nothing happens except Allah
		
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			has decreed it, Allah has written it And
		
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			there is a wisdom There is a wisdom
		
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			in the plan of Allah Even if we
		
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			do not understand that plan Understand, O Muslims,
		
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			that one of the most obvious wisdoms Is
		
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			that Allah wants to see how we navigate
		
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			life through these difficulties We need to understand
		
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			every single tragedy Every single suffering Every single
		
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			irritation or nuisance or calamity that happens in
		
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			our lives It is in fact a mini
		
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			test or a large test Depending on how
		
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			big the calamity was Allah wants to see
		
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			what our reaction is What our response is
		
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			It is not happening from randomness وَنَبْلُوكُم بِالشَّرِّ
		
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			وَالخَيْرِ فِتْنًا We're gonna test you with good
		
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			and with bad as a fitna As a
		
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			means of testing Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			says لِيَبْلُوَكُمْ أَيُّكُمْ أَحْسَنُ عَمَلًا To see who
		
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			amongst you does the best of deeds Everything
		
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			that happens to you, there is no randomness
		
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			It's not just happening spontaneously It is Allah's
		
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			Qadr, it is Allah's decree Take comfort that
		
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			Allah has a plan, this is all planned
		
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			out قُلْ لَنْ يُصِيبَنَا إِلَّا مَا كَتَبَ اللَّهُ
		
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			لَنَا هُوَ مَوْلَانَ Nothing will happen to me
		
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			except what Allah has decreed for me And
		
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			Allah is my mawla, Allah is my protector
		
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			He will not put me in circumstances that
		
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			are meant to fail me He will not
		
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			put me in a situation that is meant
		
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			to cause my tragedy No, Allah azza wa
		
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			jal mentions in the Quran لَا يُكَلِّفُ اللَّهُ
		
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			نَفْسًا إِلَّا وُسْعَهَا No one will be tested
		
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			with something that is more than what they
		
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			can bear And so every test that we
		
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			do, every tragedy that we face Allah has
		
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			put us in it knowing we can pass
		
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			that test Knowing we're able to overcome the
		
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			difficulties and come closer to Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala And this applies to each and
		
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			every aspect of our lives From the biggest,
		
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			what is happening in Gaza To that which
		
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			is still large, the elections and what not
		
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			To that which is local and domestic To
		
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			that which is happening in your own life
		
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			Our Prophet ﷺ said, never does a tragedy
		
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			hit the believer Never does anxiety or stress
		
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			or any type of grievance hit the believer
		
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			Even if it is a thorn that pricks
		
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			him Even the smallest thing Except that through
		
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			it Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will allow
		
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			some sins to be forgiven And his rank
		
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			to be raised up If obviously they are
		
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			patient in response to that So understand that
		
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			the purpose of these difficulties is not just
		
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			random Take comfort, Allah azza wa jal wants
		
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			to test us to raise our ranks He
		
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			wants to test us to bless us He
		
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			wants to test us to forgive us He
		
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			wants to test us to give us inshallah
		
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			ta'ala the highest place of Jannah Put
		
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			your trust in Allah Have yaqeen that Allah
		
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			is setting you up to pass you, not
		
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			to fail you Allah is setting you up
		
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			to raise you, not to debase you Put
		
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			your trust in Allah and then navigate through
		
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			difficulties Having that connection with Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala This leads me to my second
		
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			point Throughout all of these tests Throughout all
		
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			of these trials As you encounter one difficulty
		
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			after another Take comfort in another reality And
		
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			that reality is To pass that test To
		
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			earn Allah's reward Doesn't mean that that difficulty
		
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			disappears It doesn't mean that you shall attain
		
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			success over that particular tragedy May Allah protect
		
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			all of us Somebody afflicted with cancer Does
		
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			passing the test mean the cancer is gone?
		
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			No, not at all Whether the test, whether
		
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			the pain, whether the suffering remains or not
		
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			Is irrelevant to passing the test Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala will judge you And Allah
		
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			will reward you Not based upon the output
		
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			Not based upon the result But based upon
		
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			the input and the effort Once you understand
		
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			this point You will cheer up You will
		
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			feel optimistic You cannot fail the exam of
		
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			Allah There is no failing the exam of
		
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			Allah If you try your best As long
		
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			as you put in the effort As long
		
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			as you have yaqeen in Allah And you
		
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			did whatever you could Even if the world
		
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			says you failed In the eyes of Allah,
		
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			you have passed Why?
		
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			Because the only failure The only failure is
		
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			when you literally give up And say I
		
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			cannot do anything That is failure in Allah's
		
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			eyes Otherwise, as long as you strive As
		
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			long as you put in whatever you're humanly
		
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			capable of doing We might not solve all
		
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			the problems of the world But Allah is
		
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			not gonna judge us based upon the output
		
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			Allah will judge us based upon the input
		
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			And if we did everything we could No
		
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			matter how useless the world might think it
		
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			is Even if the greatest engineering Mechanisms come
		
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			to try to get rid of us Even
		
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			if we lie abandoned in a building Having
		
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			our hands and our feet blown off And
		
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			these instruments of death come And we are
		
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			dying, we are starving And all that we
		
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			have is a stick in our hands And
		
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			we take that stick And we throw it
		
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			at that instrument of death Even then, we
		
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			have succeeded And we are victors Even if
		
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			the world doesn't understand Allah will bless that
		
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			one stick And Allah will bless that one
		
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			throw More than Allah will bless many dozens
		
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			or millions of people Because izzah comes in
		
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			effort Izzah comes in not giving up Izzah
		
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			comes in understanding and recognizing That Allah blesses
		
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			in this world And most importantly in the
		
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			next You will only fail You will only
		
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			fail if you don't even try As long
		
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			as you try, even until death Then even
		
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			something like throwing a stick And you don't
		
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			even know people are watching Allah will record
		
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			And millions, billions will see And you will
		
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			inspire people around the world Because you demonstrated
		
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			bravery You demonstrated tawakkul You demonstrated real Islamic
		
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			courage In the face of sheer brutality And
		
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			depravity and animosity The only way you will
		
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			fail Is if you don't even try As
		
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			long as you try and you put in
		
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			the effort Allah will bless and Allah will
		
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			accept And you will succeed In the passing
		
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			of Allah's test Understand this point Whether you
		
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			pass this dunya or not Doesn't mean that
		
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			you have passed Whether the cancer goes away
		
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			or not Whether you attain political victory or
		
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			not All of this, of course we want
		
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			good in this world But if we don't
		
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			get it Then the ultimate success Is in
		
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			the eyes of Allah subhana wa ta'ala
		
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			And Allah will judge you Not based upon
		
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			the result But based upon the effort you
		
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			put in Which leads me to point number
		
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			three And that is the same thing but
		
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			put in a different way And that is
		
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			that we also take comfort Oh Muslim, there
		
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			is a judgment day And there is heaven
		
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			and * Allah subhana wa ta'ala reminds
		
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			us of this When he mentions the difficulties
		
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			That the prophets, all of the prophets And
		
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			especially the prophets Sallallahu alayhi wasallam faced When
		
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			he tells us the difficulties of the sahaba
		
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			When he reminds us of the persecution Allah
		
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			subhana wa ta'ala reminds the prophet Sallallahu
		
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			alayhi wasallam Let them be until the day
		
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			of judgment On that day they will see
		
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			When the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam was mocked
		
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			Allah says, let them be We will see
		
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			who is laughing on that day We will
		
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			see what will be their fate on that
		
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			day Question, why is Allah Bringing us in
		
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			the day of judgment When the Muslims were
		
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			being persecuted Why is Allah talking about heaven
		
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			and * When the situation is so dire
		
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			To remind Muslims Ultimate success is not in
		
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			this dunya Maybe, maybe The kafir will get
		
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			the last laugh in this world Maybe some
		
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			of the sahaba Many of them did not
		
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			see the conquest of Mecca That does not
		
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			make them a failure Maybe some of them
		
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			died, tortured At the hands of the Quraysh
		
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			While the Quraysh are laughing We know this
		
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			happened, but that is not success That is
		
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			not, we are not concerned About the outer
		
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			image and the PR Point number three Ultimate
		
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			success is written with Allah Through heaven and
		
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			through Allah's rida And that will only be
		
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			manifested On the day of judgment and afterwards
		
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			And as for those who did evil As
		
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			for those who did wrong At any level,
		
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			personal level Community level, whether it was People
		
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			on people, whether it was Nations upon nations,
		
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			in this world They might get away with
		
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			it And that is a sad reality of
		
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			this world But in the akhira, no zalim
		
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			No tyrant, no predator Will ever get away
		
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			With the crimes that they have done That's
		
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			why we take comfort in the day of
		
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			judgment And we look forward to yawm al
		
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			-hisab We look forward to yawm al-din
		
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			Yawm al-qiyamah We look forward to when
		
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			the mizan are brought out In one series
		
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			of verses When Allah mentions the zulm of
		
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			the zalimin Allah says وَنَضَعُ الْمَوَازِينَ الْقِسْطَرِ يَوْمِ
		
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			الْقِيَامَةِ فَلَا تُظْلَمُوا نَفْسٍ شَيْئًا Just wait on
		
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			that day The scales of justice will be
		
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			brought out So take comfort, oh Muslim That
		
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			no matter all the tragedy All the pain,
		
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			all the injustice And sometimes injustice Goes unanswered
		
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			in this world And that is very painful
		
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			But you find comfort that in the akhira
		
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			Injustice will never go unanswered And Allah subhana
		
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			wa ta'ala لَا يَظْلِمُ مِثْقَالَ ذَرَّ وَإِنْ
		
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			تَكُوا حَسَنَةً Even if it is the smallest
		
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			amount Allah azza wa jal Will call it
		
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			to account وَمَنْ يَعْمَلْ مِثْقَالَ ذَرَّةٍ خَيْرًا يَرَى
		
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			وَمِنْ يَعْمَلْ مِثْقَالَ ذَرَّةٍ شَرًّا يَرَى So the
		
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			third reality Once again we find comfort In
		
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			believing in qiyamah, in heaven And in *,
		
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			and our goal, our desire Is the reward
		
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			of Allah through jannah Even if we don't
		
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			attain Ultimate peace in this dunya In fact
		
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			one can even say bluntly You shall never
		
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			attain peace in this dunya This dunya is
		
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			not the dunya Of peace, this dunya Is
		
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			the dunya of tests and trials دار الإبتلاء،
		
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			دار الإختبار دار الإمتحان It is the akhira
		
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			that is daarul jaza And after daarul jaza
		
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			We want the one abode, daarul salam Daarul
		
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			salam is the abode of peace Daarul salam
		
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			when there is no pain Where there is
		
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			no grief, where there is no worry لَهُمْ
		
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			دَارُ السَّلَامِ عِنْدَ رَبِّهِمْ وَاللَّهُ يَدْعُو إِلَى دَارِ
		
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			السَّلَامِ We want daarul salam Because ultimate happiness
		
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			Is only over there You shall never find
		
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			ultimate salam In this dunya, so take comfort
		
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			In belief in the hereafter And in heaven
		
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			and * And this leads me to my
		
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			fourth point That we derive from the Qur
		
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			'an and from the sunnah And that is
		
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			a beautiful phrase That our professor mentioned Authentic
		
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			hadith that the professor talked about Fitan and
		
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			trial coming to the ummah And it's a
		
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			long hadith We'll take the one phrase that
		
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			we need He said, when you see this
		
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			reality When you see people fighting and bickering
		
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			When you see people not pious And these
		
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			are the people that are put in charge
		
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			This is a hadith that people who don't
		
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			have amanah Are given amanah, we seek Allah's
		
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			refuge But this is one of the signs
		
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			of the day of judgment That the people
		
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			who are not qualified Are put in positions
		
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			of power and authority When you see people
		
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			fighting What did the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam
		
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			say He said فَدَعْ عَنْكَ أَمْرَ الْعَوَامِ وَعَلَيْكَ
		
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			بِخَاصَّةِ نَفْسِكَ Leave the ribble rabble Of the
		
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			awam, of the masses Leave the matter that
		
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			the masses Always talk about and concentrate On
		
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			your private life And your own personal issues
		
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			here This is a beautiful prophetic wisdom We
		
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			can't change the whole world And sometimes When
		
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			all we do Is we get involved in
		
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			talking about what's happening And talking about global
		
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			politics And talking about other issues We do
		
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			this at an expense to ourselves And our
		
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			personal relationship with Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			Literally our prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam said That
		
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			get away from The riffraff of the masses
		
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			The masses they talk about everything Don't immerse
		
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			yourself In what the masses talk about Don't
		
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			immerse yourself in mob mentality وَعَلَيْكَ بِخَاصَّةِ نَفْسِكَ
		
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			And pay attention To your own self Pay
		
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			attention to what you can control I cannot
		
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			control global politics I can most definitely control
		
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			my salah I cannot control Who is elected,
		
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			who isn't elected I can most definitely control
		
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			my wife and my children I cannot control
		
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			so many other Predators and issues out there
		
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			I can most definitely control my own nafs
		
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			Or I can try to control my nafs
		
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			So the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam is advising
		
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			us Don't become too involved In that which
		
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			you cannot change That which you just talk
		
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			That which is just ribble rabble And get
		
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			involved with that which you can control Be
		
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			more invested in your personal life Now an
		
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			important disclaimer here I am not saying that
		
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			We're not aware Or we don't be involved
		
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			in the political Or in the cultural or
		
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			in the domestic realities No, there's a healthy
		
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			middle ground The prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam literally
		
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			said The mu'min who interacts with other Believers
		
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			and is patient At the negativity that comes
		
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			from them Is more beloved to Allah than
		
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			the mu'min Who cuts off and locks himself
		
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			in his house So we take this hadith
		
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			In light of other ahadith When the prophet
		
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			sallallahu alayhi wasallam said Don't get involved in
		
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			the ribble rabble of the masses What this
		
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			means is Don't overly concentrate On just talking
		
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			about issues Beyond you Don't become insensitivized To
		
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			just listening to all of the negativity Of
		
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			the world If all we do is we
		
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			watch negative news Hear negative news Read about
		
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			negative news Is gonna cause a negative impact
		
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			on us There has to be that balance
		
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			here And this is another disease that we
		
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			have We wanna come across every gossip Every
		
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			slander, every issue taking place What do you
		
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			gain?
		
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			How will it benefit you?
		
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			You need to know what you need to
		
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			know And then majority of your time Concentrate
		
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			on that which is beneficial عليك بخاصة نفسك
		
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			وداعنك أمر العوام Memorize this phrase Concentrate on
		
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			your own personality And your own personal issues
		
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			And leave what the masses are constantly doing
		
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			We do not just ride the wave Every
		
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			few days, every few weeks And anybody who's
		
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			involved with social media Wallahi you see this
		
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			ra'ya al'ain with your eyes Every
		
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			few days a new tragedy A new drama
		
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			And then a few weeks later you have
		
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			no idea what happened a few weeks ago
		
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			And you're just riding one wave after another
		
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			What did you benefit?
		
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			What did you gain?
		
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			So learn what you need to learn But
		
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			your primary emphasis should be In your personal
		
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			life In what you are doing, in the
		
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			impact that you can have And the last
		
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			point of our five talk today The last
		
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			point Which is explicitly mentioned in the Qur
		
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			'an And in the sunnah of the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ When it comes to times of tragedy
		
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			When it comes to times of trials and
		
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			tribulations The Qur'an and the sunnah And
		
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			the seerah, they constantly Remind us of one
		
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			thing And that is no matter how unstable
		
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			Life becomes No matter how chaotic the external
		
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			reality becomes The Qur'an and the sunnah
		
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			Remind us Make sure your stability Through your
		
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			rituals and your dhikr Remains solid Make sure
		
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			no matter what happens outside That your ibadah
		
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			And your ta'alluk with Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala Always remains firm Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala mentions in the Qur'an وَلَقَدْ
		
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			نَعْلَمُ أَنَّكَ يَضِيقُ صَدْرُكَ بِمَا يَقُولُونَ وَلَقَدْ نَعْلَمُ
		
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			أَنَّكَ يَضِيقُ صَدْرُكَ بِمَا يَقُولُونَ We know Ya
		
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			Rasulullah Your heart is in pain Because of
		
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			the lies and slander We know how difficult
		
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			life is We know what they say about
		
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			you It is not easy for you to
		
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			hear What consolation was he said وَلَقَدْ نَعْلَمُ
		
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			أَنَّكَ يَضِيقُ صَدْرُكَ بِمَا يَقُولُونَ فَسَبِّحْ بِحَمْدِ رَبِّكَ
		
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			وَكُمْ مِنَ السَّاجِدِينَ وَاعْبُدْ رَبَّكَ حَتَّى يَأْتِيَكَ الْيَقِينَ
		
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			So as for you Then worship Allah, do
		
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			dhikr Do sajda And be of those who
		
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			are constantly doing sajda And worship Allah until
		
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			the inevitable end comes to you You will
		
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			find comfort when you turn away from the
		
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			dunya And you do sajda to Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala You will find comfort when
		
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			you do dhikr of Allah You will find
		
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			comfort when you establish your heart to Allah
		
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			Connect your heart to Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala Our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam said عِبَادَةٌ
		
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			فِي الْفِتْنَةِ كَهِجْرَةٍ إِلَيَّ Worshipping Allah and doing
		
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			ibadah during times of chaos and calamity It
		
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			is the equivalent of making hijrah to Medina
		
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			while I am here Worshipping Allah during times
		
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			of tragedy Equals, equivalent to making hijrah to
		
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			me while I am in Medina And this
		
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			is a beautiful example, why?
		
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			Because Medina was the only safe haven Mecca,
		
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			everywhere else was a chaotic land And if
		
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			you went to Medina, you would be in
		
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			a safe haven If you were in Medina,
		
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			you were cut off from all of the
		
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			trials and tribulations Our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam
		
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			said When the world becomes difficult When there
		
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			is fitan and trial When things become very
		
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			awkward Then start worshipping Allah You will find
		
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			the comfort of the people around me in
		
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			Medina You will find that safe space And
		
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			so point number five Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala mentions very explicitly وَاعْبُذْ رَبَّكَ حَتَّى يَأْتِيَكَ
		
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			الْيَقِينَ Worship Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Until
		
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			the inevitable ending comes to you No matter
		
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			how difficult the dunya is No matter how
		
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			unstable the world is And it is very
		
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			unstable now The stability you will find The
		
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			comfort you will find The anchor in your
		
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			life Will always be the routine Ibadat and
		
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			rituals Make sure those are never affected By
		
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			whatever else is happening in the world And
		
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			when you have these five points InshaAllah ta
		
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			'ala You will be able to overcome these
		
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			tragedies One after the other May Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala bless us all In this
		
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			world and the next May Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala bless us Of those who recite
		
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			the Qur'an And follow to the best
		
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			of our abilities May Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala make us of the Ahlul Qur'an
		
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			I ask Allah's forgiveness You as well ask
		
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			Him for His Daghfur and the Rahman Astaghfirullah
		
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			Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah al-Wahid al-Ahad Al-Samad
		
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			Alladhi lam yalid walam yulad Walam yakun lahu
		
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			kufwan ahad Wa ba'du Dear Muslims A part
		
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			of these calamities that we have discussed Is
		
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			the sad reality that Sometimes people whom we
		
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			trusted Sometimes people who are placed in positions
		
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			of power They betray those trusts And they
		
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			betray what Allah has given them of power
		
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			And to Allah we complain And in Allah
		
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			we seek refuge Dear Muslims Realize that even
		
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			our own community in Dallas Is obviously not
		
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			immune to this reality And any scandal that
		
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			happens Any issue that happens Especially amongst people
		
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			of knowledge Especially amongst people Who are supposed
		
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			to be educators and teachers It is something
		
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			that affects every single Muslim And I have
		
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			given a longer talk earlier this week It
		
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			is online And you can find it online
		
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			Where I have shared my thoughts in more
		
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			explicit detail I want to mention for today
		
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			That our Imams Committee in Dallas The North
		
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			Texas Imams Committee It has released a public
		
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			statement About a particular issue that happened I
		
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			believe last week And we are very clear
		
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			in this regard That any type of abuse
		
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			Any type of predatory behavior Can never be
		
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			excused And we must call this out And
		
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			take adequate precautions That such a matter can
		
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			never happen again And dear Muslims We understand
		
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			emotions are high And it is true A
		
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			lot to blame can easily be assigned everywhere
		
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			But in the end of the day We
		
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			are responsible for ourselves And the most important
		
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			defense Is our own defense So yes you
		
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			can point some fingers here and there Whatever
		
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			it might be But in the end of
		
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			the day What are you and what am
		
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			I doing To protect our own households And
		
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			this is where we have to have that
		
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			awkward conversation Of our own Tarbiyah to our
		
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			children What are we teaching our children What
		
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			are we protecting them from How much knowledge
		
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			do they have to be aware Of the
		
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			realities around And one of the biggest problems
		
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			And it is a problem that Wallahu'l
		
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			-musta'an It is even awkward to mention
		
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			in public But our not mentioning of it
		
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			Does not change the reality And that is
		
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			A'udhu billah, a'udhu billah We seek
		
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			Allah's refuge And may Allah forgive me For
		
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			even mentioning these realities But the reality of
		
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			* And its impact on the average mind
		
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			Wallahu'l-musta'an We live at a
		
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			time We live at a place where This
		
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			filth, this evil It has affected almost the
		
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			entire globe And it has caused Even our
		
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			own protected communities Astaghfirullah To be absorbing these
		
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			issues And being impacted by them I don't
		
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			have solutions, oh Muslims We live at a
		
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			time and a place People could never have
		
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			imagined What we see And the accessibility of
		
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			this filth The accessibility of this evil Even
		
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			young children Just two, three searches And next
		
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			thing you know They have the most explicit
		
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			The most vulgar How will it change their
		
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			mind?
		
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			How will it And brothers and sisters And
		
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			much can be said here Go listen to
		
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			psychiatrists Who don't even believe in Allah They
		
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			don't believe in the Day of Judgment Listen
		
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			to their analysis Of the harm of this
		
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			reality Listen to when they say That they
		
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			have never seen How the brain has been
		
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			rewired How so much impact has occurred Amongst
		
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			a new generation That has been raised Seeing
		
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			filth after filth Seeing * after * أعوذ
		
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			بالله والله المستعان The amount of mental issues
		
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			That are taking place The amount of marriages
		
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			breaking up The amount of abnormalities And weird
		
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			and bizarre fetishes That are arising Because of
		
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			this الله المستعان You don't even need to
		
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			believe in God To understand how evil this
		
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			industry is How filthy this industry is How
		
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			much more so When we are believers in
		
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			Allah And we understand this reality And oh
		
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			Muslim أعوذ بالله ثم أعوذ بالله But even
		
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			as a person Who is involved in the
		
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			community Let me say Every one of us
		
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			Imams and shuyukhs We are fully aware So
		
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			many of our own couples They come to
		
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			us with this problem So many of our
		
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			youth Come with this reality A lot of
		
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			the adults They think that we are immune
		
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			to this And this is one of our
		
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			problems We think that our kids Are not
		
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			gonna do it We think that our youth
		
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			Are not gonna go down that path No,
		
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			we live in the same world We're connected
		
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			to the same internets Why do you think
		
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			your son, your daughter Is somehow more immune
		
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			than everybody else These are realities You need
		
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			to understand And there are plenty of programs
		
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			That can censor this in your own households
		
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			And may I suggest Strongly suggest that Especially
		
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			the youth That, oh parents Do not put
		
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			access to computers In private places Put the
		
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			computer in the living room Where they can
		
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			do their homework Or whatever Install these filters
		
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			That can, you know There's good filters out
		
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			there That can make these sites minimal But
		
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			the point is No matter what you do
		
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			Our youth are better than us And they're
		
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			more technically savvy than us This is the
		
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			problem So, have conversations with them And bring
		
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			up Not just the religious aspect Which is
		
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			very important Also bring up the worldly aspect
		
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			The harm that these types of things You
		
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			know, do And of course, obviously There are
		
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			plenty of halal solutions And of them Is
		
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			to make marriage easier for our youth To
		
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			encourage them to get married To bless them
		
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			in halal unions If we lower the bars
		
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			Of the impediments of marriage In sha Allah
		
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			ta'ala This will be healthy for our
		
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			community So the point is These types of
		
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			scandals Wallahi, they are filthy Evil There's no
		
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			covering up At the same time Maybe if
		
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			they act as catalysts For us to have
		
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			these conversations Maybe we can try our best
		
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			to prevent Not everything We cannot prevent all
		
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			harm in the world But we can try
		
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			to minimize Try to put up barriers To
		
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			make sure that these things Do not happen,
		
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			you know More frequently And as I said
		
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			The best defense Begins with yourself and at
		
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			home The best defense is You yourself Taking
		
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			charge Of your children's tarbiyah You yourself Making
		
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			sure Their teachers and what not Are ma
		
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			sha Allah ta'ala Qualified That there's never
		
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			any privacy Never any khalwah That you take
		
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			them To the public institutions Where everybody is
		
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			Sitting together You yourself Have frank conversations With
		
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			your children There is no defense After Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala Better than this defense
		
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			And so I urge all of you To
		
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			use this This evil incident That has happened
		
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			To have your own Soul searching And to
		
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			try to find Mechanisms In your own household
		
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			To raise the bar A little bit Of
		
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			protection Speak to your daughters And your sons
		
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			Speak to your children About these realities When
		
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			they grow older Then encourage them That if
		
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			they wish to We will support their marriage
		
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			When they're qualified To do so Help them
		
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			Find spouses So that in sha Allah ta
		
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			'ala They can live halal lives And other
		
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			mechanisms In this regard Realize these tragedies Can
		
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			never be prevented 100% But we can
		
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			Act as In our best In the best
		
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			capacity To minimize them And we can have
		
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			Policies in place At the public level And
		
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			more importantly At the private level Most important
		
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			Is of course The taqwa of Allah Subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala It is impossible That a
		
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			person Who has taqwa Can go down That
		
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			evil path Audhu billah And so concentrate as
		
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			well On the internal spirituality On the taqwa
		
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			Your children Raise them upon Love of Allah
		
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			Wanting Allah's maghfirah If your children Have love
		
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			of Allah Then that love Will be more
		
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			powerful Than the love of any filth The
		
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			love of any fahisha If they love Allah
		
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			Subhanahu wa ta'ala If they have mahabba
		
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			If they wanna be With the Prophet Sallallahu
		
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			alayhi wasallam Automatically They will rise up above
		
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			Much of this evil and filth And so
		
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			instill in them These Islamic values Lots of
		
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			dua for them Lots of love for them
		
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			Raise them to the best as you can
		
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			And yes if they Make some small mistakes
		
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			Here and there No doubt they're Living in
		
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			an environment Mistakes are gonna happen We're talking
		
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			about Mistakes that happen To most teenagers We're
		
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			not talking about Obviously the very evil stuff
		
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			If they make these types of mistakes Then
		
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			khair Deal with them lovingly Try to correct
		
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			those mistakes And may Allah Subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala Help all of us in this regard
		
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			And oh Muslims We are one community We
		
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			are one ummah We are one Especially I'm
		
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			speaking to my community Here at Epic Let
		
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			us come together We are all helping Each
		
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			other out As the saying goes It takes
		
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			a village To raise a child Well inshallah
		
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			ta'ala I'm encouraging all of us To
		
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			be that village All of us over here
		
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			Let us come together Let us help each
		
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			other With our own children Because your children
		
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			Being strong Is making my children strong Your
		
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			community being healthy Is making my community Healthy
		
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			We are one ummah together So let us
		
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			come together And help each other To the
		
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			best of our abilities So that inshallah ta
		
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			'ala These tragedies are minimal And we can
		
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			work our way To a better And healthier
		
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			society Allahumma inni da'in fa amminoo Allahumma
		
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			la tad'a fi hadhal yawmi Thamman illa
		
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			ghafarta Wala hamman illa farajta Wala dainan illa
		
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			qadayta Wala mareedan illa shafayta Wala aseeran illa
		
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			yassarta Allahumma fil lana Wala ikhwanina Ladhina sabaquuna
		
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			bil iman Wala taj'a fi qulubina Ghillan
		
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			lilladhina amanoo Rabbana innaka ra'ufun rahim Allahumma
		
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			a'iza al-islam wa'l-muslimin Allahumma
		
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			a'iza al-islam wa'l-muslimin Allahumma
		
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			man aradana Or arad al-islam wa'l
		
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			-muslimin la bi su'in Fa ajghilhu binafsih
		
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			Waj'al tadmeerahu Fi tadbeerihi Ya qawiyu ya
		
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			aziz Ibadallah Inna allaha ta'ala Amrakum bi
		
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			amrin Bada bihi binafsih Wathanna bimalakadi qudusih Wathallatha
		
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			bikum Ayyuhal mu'nun Min jinnihi wa insih
		
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			Fa qala azzamin Qaalina alimah Inna allaha wa
		
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			malakadu Yusallun ala an-nabi Ya ayyuhal ladhina
		
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			amanu Sallu alayhi wasallimu taslima Allahumma salli wasallim
		
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			Wabarik wa an'im Ala abdika rasulika muhammad
		
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			Wa ala alihi wa sahbihi ajma'in Ibadallah
		
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			Inna allaha ta'ala Ya'mur bil adli Wal
		
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			ihsani Wa ita'idil qurba Wayanha an alfahsha
		
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			'i Wal munkari Wal baghi Ya'idukum la
		
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			'allakum tadakkarun Udhkuru allaha al-adheema Yazkurkum Washkuruhu
		
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			Yazid lakum Wala dhikru allahi ta'ala Akbar
		
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			Wa aqimis salat Allahu
		
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			Akbar Allahu Akbar La
		
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			ilaha illa Allah Astaghfirullah La ilaha
		
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			illa Allah La ilaha illa Allah Astaghfirullah Alhamdulillahi
		
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			Rabbil Alameen Ar-Rahman Ar-Raheem
		
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			Maliki Yawmiddeen Iyyaka na'budu wa
		
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			iyyaka nasta'een Ihdina al-sirata al
		
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			-mustaqeem Sirata al-lazeena an'amta alayhim Ghayri
		
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			al-maghdoobi alayhim Wala al-dhaalleen
		
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			Ameen Inna as'habal-jannati al-yawma
		
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			fee shughulin faakihoon Hum wa azwajuhum fee dhilalin
		
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			ala al-araiki muttaakioon Lahum feehaa faakihatun wa
		
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			lahum maa yadda'oon Salamun qawlan min Rabbin
		
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			Raheem Wamtazu al-yawma ayyuhal-mujrimoon Alam a
		
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			'had ilaykum ya bani adam an laa ta
		
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			'budu al-shaytaan innahu lakum adu'un mubeen
		
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			Wa an'abuduni hatha siratun
		
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			mustaqeem Allahu akbar Sami
		
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			'a allahu liman hamidah Alhamdulillahi
		
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			Rabbil Alameen Ar-Rahman Ar-Raheem Maliki yawm
		
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			al-deen Iyyaka na'budu wa iyyaka nasta
		
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			'een Ihdina al-sirata al-mustaqeema Sirata al
		
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			-lazeena an'amta alayhim Ghayri al-maghdubi alayhim
		
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			wala ad-dallin
		
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			Ameen Itha ja'a nasru Allahi
		
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			wal-fatih Wa ra'ayta an-nasa yadkhuluna
		
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			fi deeni Allahi afwajah Fasabbih bi hamdi rabbika
		
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			wastaghfirah Innahu kana tawwabah
		
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			Allahu akbar Sami
		
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			'a allahu liman hamidah As
		
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			-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullah As-salamu alaykum wa
		
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			rahmatullah Astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah As
		
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			-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullah Brothers and sisters if
		
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			I can just have one minute inshallah of
		
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			your time Inshallah this Sunday we're having one
		
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			of our most inshallah important conferences We have
		
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			some very very distinguished guests coming It is
		
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			about Gaza It is about what we can
		
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			do as a community And I specifically wanted
		
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			to bring speakers that will give us some
		
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			practical advice Will give us knowledge that we
		
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			need to know So this Sunday from 2pm
		
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			to inshallah Isha time We're gonna be having
		
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			in the gymnasium We have a number of
		
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			doctors that have been to Gaza some in
		
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			our local community And also Dr. Yusuf was
		
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			interviewed by CNN He was there for three
		
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			weeks as well He will be coming We
		
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			also have two very distinguished very knowledgeable academics
		
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			Interestingly enough it so happens both of them
		
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			are from a Jewish background But they're anti
		
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			-Zionist And so they are speaking from a
		
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			personal perspective in this regard The first is
		
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			Mikko Piled His father was a general of
		
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			the IDF And his story he has come
		
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			here five years ago His story is very
		
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			interesting And he will tell us about what
		
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			is the way forward And the second one
		
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			of them is a pure academic He is
		
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			a PhD from Princeton Professor Zachary Foster His
		
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			PhD is in the history of Palestine and
		
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			Zionism About why the American government is so
		
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			Zionist And how we can work to change
		
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			that And he himself comes from a Zionist
		
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			family background And then he has changed And
		
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			now he is a very big advocate of
		
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			a free Palestine So we're inviting two people
		
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			that have inside knowledge And they can help
		
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			us to learn what we need to know
		
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			To talk to other people And then inshallah
		
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			I will also be there And other people
		
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			as well So inshallah this Sunday day after
		
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			tomorrow From Zuhr up until inshallah Maghrib Then
		
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			we'll have an open panel after Maghrib I
		
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			hope to see all of you And please
		
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			spread the word to others Jazakumullah khair Assalamualaikum
		
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			warahmatullahi wabarakatuh