Yousuf Raza – Ramadan Nights 2021 Day 13

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The conversation discusses the negative impact of culture on society and its members, including actions of leaders and negative comments and fears. The importance of lawful behavior and practice "will" in achieving spiritual health and success is emphasized, along with suggestions for peace and acceptance of reality. The negative cycle of hatred and the importance of acceptance of reality are also discussed, along with suggestions for peace and acceptance of reality.

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			مَنْ يَهْدِهِ اللَّهُ فَلَا مُضِلَّ لَهُ وَمَنْ يُضْلِلْهُ
		
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			فَلَا هَدِيَ لَهُ وَنَشْهَدُ وَلَّا إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ
		
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			وَحْدَهُ لَا شَرِيْكَ لَهُ وَنَشْهَدُ أَنَّ مُحَمَّدًا عَبْدُهُ
		
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			وَرَسُولُهُ مَنْ يَهْدِهِ اللَّهُ فَلَا هَدِيَ لَهُ
		
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			وَمَنْ
		
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			يُضْلِلْهُ
		
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			فَلَا هَدِيَ لَهُ وَمَنْ يُضْلِلْهُ
		
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			وَرَسُولُهُ أَرِنَا حَقِقَةَ الْأَشْيَاءِ كَمَاهِي اللَّهُمَّ أَرِنَا الْحَقَّ
		
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			حَقَّ وَرِزُقْنَا اتِّبَعَهُ وَأَرِنَا الْبَاطِلَ بَاطِلًا وَرِزُقْنَا
		
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			اجْتِنَابَهُ أَمِنٌ يَا رَبَّ الْآلَمِينَ We left off
		
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			mid-passage in the middle of the ruku
		
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			last time we go on from ayah number
		
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			148 in surah an-nisa أَعُوذُ بِاللَّهِ مِنَ
		
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			الشَّيْطَانِ الرَّجِيمِ لَا يُحِبُّ اللَّهُ الْجَهْرَةُ بِالسُّوءِ مِنَ
		
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			الْقَوْلِ Allah does not like that evil be
		
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			spoken of openly إِلَّا مَنْ ظُلِمٍ except in
		
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			the case of the one oppressed وَكَانَ اللَّهُ
		
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			السَّمِيعًا أَلِيمًا and Allah is ever hearing knowing
		
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			the wisdom in both parts the idea that
		
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			you speak about randomly without effect the idea
		
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			of just talking about bad that's going on
		
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			for the sake of it is not something
		
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			that Allah appreciates any idea, any thought any
		
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			propagation of evil is discouraged unless it is
		
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			to some effect and that effect is that
		
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			it is towards the cause of justice if
		
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			that is missing then all you're doing is
		
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			creating chaos creating hopelessness unless you have something
		
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			practical to offer unless there is something good
		
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			that that you're inviting to or that you're
		
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			opening the conversation for unless it is in
		
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			the category of social justice what is it
		
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			that you're doing evil injustice just as coffee
		
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			table talk is not appreciated unless it is
		
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			going to translate into some efforts towards justice
		
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			whatever those efforts are however those efforts are
		
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			coordinated it's in the case of a person
		
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			who is unjustly treated and how the mazloom
		
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			and between the mazloom and Allah there is
		
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			nothing direct access and the entire surah was
		
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			looking to inspire the Muslim community to become
		
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			that community in which the mazloom is not
		
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			really mazloom that those most vulnerable to become
		
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			mazloom are empowered and become contributing members of
		
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			the community honored respected but if that's not
		
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			the case and the elements of hypocrisy within
		
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			are going to try their level best that
		
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			any efforts towards that direction are sabotaged or
		
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			that the role that they're required to play
		
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			and these are the more privileged members of
		
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			the society they don't play that role so
		
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			whether you reveal some good or conceal it
		
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			or you forgive an evil then for sure
		
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			Allah is ever forgiving capable of capable as
		
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			well so he's forgiving but he's forgiving despite
		
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			being capable of punishing capable of the entire
		
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			spectrum and those who refuse to believe in
		
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			Allah and his messengers and they intend to
		
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			discriminate between Allah and his messenger and they
		
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			say we believe in some and deny the
		
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			rest and they want to adopt a middle
		
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			ground between that now this attitude of picking
		
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			and choosing in scripture this attitude of picking
		
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			and choosing in the ayat of Allah this
		
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			attitude of picking and choosing between whatever has
		
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			been revealed according to your taste according to
		
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			your liking according to one thing or the
		
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			other but for the most part it ends
		
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			up being arbitrary it is not according to
		
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			some real standard it is not according to
		
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			something some valid avenue of knowledge something that
		
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			is anything in depth it's a superficial arbitrary
		
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			random picking and choosing and once that door
		
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			is open really who is God if not
		
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			the person's own self or whoever that person
		
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			is whatever cult leader and whatever he wants
		
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			if that's what you want to do if
		
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			that's what you want to adhere to the
		
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			doors to evil that that opens up you've
		
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			already seen the danger of what the human
		
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			self is capable of the deception that the
		
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			human self is capable of and then you
		
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			open up these doors you don't take truth
		
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			seriously you don't take standards of truth seriously
		
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			and you play around with them you don't
		
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			even want to talk about truth or standards
		
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			of truth you just come up with your
		
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			own truth and you come up with your
		
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			own standards self fabricated and you expect others
		
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			to just tolerate that and be okay with
		
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			it because that's what you want to do
		
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			that's your freedom that's your freedom but your
		
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			freedom is impinging upon a whole lot of
		
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			else what's going on within the society it's
		
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			impinging on the freedom of a whole lot
		
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			of other people and it's creating an injustice
		
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			for them exploiting their vulnerabilities this sort of
		
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			freedom this sort of blind exercise of freedom
		
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			and liberty is not real freedom it is
		
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			irresponsible and if that becomes the social norm
		
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			then what doors are you opening up anyone
		
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			can pretty much do anything in the name
		
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			of picking and choosing within religion but in
		
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			the name of God their methodology is unclear
		
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			these are really disbelievers there's no doubt in
		
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			that if they're going to present themselves to
		
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			be accepted as believers no matter who they
		
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			are no matter where they come from that
		
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			they should be taken on face value for
		
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			their claim to Iman no that anything goes
		
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			and everything goes all religions are the same
		
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			all people are the same whether they choose
		
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			to believe this or they choose to believe
		
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			that or they choose to reject this or
		
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			they choose to reject that and that they
		
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			should be treated accepted equally what does that
		
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			even say what does that even mean accepting
		
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			everyone's opinion no matter how contradictory it is
		
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			what does that say about your understanding of
		
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			truth your commitment to truth and is your
		
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			commitment to truth in consequential is that not
		
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			going to have a bearing in the society
		
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			and how things go on in that society
		
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			if everything goes if anything goes then what
		
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			is it that you're really standing for if
		
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			the greatest value that you espouse is the
		
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			value of tolerance then that is presupposing that
		
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			the only value you espouse then a why
		
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			is that value supreme that anyone who comes
		
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			up with anything should be accepted why why
		
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			is that value supreme and given we accept
		
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			accept okay we entertain that value that value
		
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			is based on a presupposition that everything that
		
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			emanates from all human beings is entirely good
		
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			if a human being comes up and says
		
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			that he believes in ABC and not D,
		
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			E, and F and we say okay that's
		
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			perfectly fine that's your right you can do
		
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			that and your truth is just as valid
		
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			as the one who accepts D, E, and
		
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			F and rejects A, B, and C that's
		
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			supposing that both of them have absolutely no
		
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			evil predispositions whatsoever and that choice with respect
		
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			to what truth they're following and which truth
		
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			they're rejecting is coming from the best place
		
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			possible and can only have good results that
		
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			they are inherently inherently only capable of doing
		
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			good that there is no possibility of evil
		
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			that the choosing of ABC and rejecting of
		
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			D, E, and F will not result in
		
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			evil at all and we know that's not
		
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			true our own experience says that human beings
		
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			are capable of great evil and that emanates
		
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			from whatever beliefs they have that what is
		
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			action if not a manifestation of a belief
		
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			held by an individual at whatever level and
		
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			you want to just let it be belief
		
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			is the determinant of the conduct of a
		
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			human being of a people of a community
		
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			and you want to be okay with anything
		
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			goes there you're pretty much saying you're okay
		
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			with any evil that comes from it or
		
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			you're saying you're naive enough to say that
		
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			there is no evil that can come from
		
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			it and you're saying that brandishing the standard
		
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			of tolerance brandishing the value of tolerance giving
		
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			that the supreme position where does that truth
		
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			come from?
		
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			Why do you believe in that?
		
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			How does that make sense?
		
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			And understandably this attitude more popular now than
		
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			ever before in the history of humanity these
		
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			variants of the Deen-e-Ilahi that Akbar
		
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			brought out the way it is popularized today
		
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			and it is a reaction to an intolerance
		
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			also arbitrary a rigid holding on to beliefs
		
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			that the given flexibility that truth allows that
		
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			the probabilistic nature of truth of belief is
		
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			not considered at all a particular belief is
		
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			projected is put out as the only belief
		
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			to be rigidly held across the board with
		
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			utter inflexibility utter rigidity and people are judged
		
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			and condemned as if it is the day
		
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			of judgment and they are God so understandably
		
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			the belligerent certainty that strips away the the
		
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			basic human dignity of freedom of choice altogether
		
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			is met with a reaction and extreme reaction
		
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			of accepting absolutely everything and both of them
		
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			result in the same Dhul both of them
		
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			the conversation has to be deeper than that
		
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			it has to be more nuanced it has
		
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			to take into consideration truth and standards of
		
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			truth olaika humul kafiruna haqqa wa a'tadna lil
		
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			kafireena a'dhaban muheena wal ladheena amanu billahi warusulihi
		
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			and those who believe in Allah and all
		
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			his messengers walam yufarriqu bayna ahad minhum and
		
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			they never discriminate between any of them olaika
		
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			sawfa yu'tihim ujurahum these are the ones whom
		
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			Allah will soon bless with their rewards and
		
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			Allah is ever forgiving ever merciful yas'aluka
		
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			ahlul kitab the people of the book demand
		
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			of you an tunazzila alayhim kitaban minas sama
		
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			'a to bring down to them a book
		
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			from heaven faqad sa'alu musa akbara min
		
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			dhalik but they demanded something even greater than
		
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			that from Musa faqalu arinallaha jahrah they said
		
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			we want to see Allah outright straight out
		
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			we want to see him so the thunderbolt
		
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			struck them as a result of their injustice
		
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			that was an uncalled for demand thumma attakhadhu
		
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			al'ijl then they took the calf for
		
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			worship min ba'di ma ja'athumul bajinat even
		
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			after clear signs had reached them fa'afawna
		
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			an dhalik but we let all of that
		
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			go wa'atayna musa sultanan mubin and we
		
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			granted a clear authority to Musa wa rafa
		
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			'na falqahumul tur and we lifted, we raised
		
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			the mountain of Tur above them bimithaqihim in
		
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			order to take a covenant from them, an
		
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			oath from them, wa'qulna lahum and we
		
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			said to them udkhulul baaba sujjada enter the
		
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			gate prostrating when they conquered Jerusalem under Yusha
		
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			the instruction was enter in humility wa'qulna
		
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			lahum la ta'du fissabd and we told them
		
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			do not transgress the boundary of the Sabbath
		
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			wa'aqadhana minhum nithaqan ghalitha and we took
		
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			a firm covenant from them fa bimaan naqadihim
		
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			mithaqahum and so it was due to their
		
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			breaking of the covenant wa kufrihim bi aayatillah
		
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			and because of their rejection of the aayat
		
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			of Allah wa qatlihimul anbiyaa bighayri haq and
		
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			their unlawful unjust killing of prophets wa qawlihim
		
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			quloobuna ghulf and their claim that our hearts
		
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			are wrapped up and we have everything that
		
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			we have to have no more nothing necessary
		
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			we reached the maqam of absolute certainty absolute
		
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			knowledge wal taba'a wal taba'a allahu
		
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			alayha bi kufrihim it wasn't that their hearts
		
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			were wrapped up it was that Allah had
		
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			sealed their hearts because of their kufr because
		
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			of their refusal to believe fala yu'minuna illa
		
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			qalila so they will not believe except you
		
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			do you wanna have that accepted as well?
		
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			all the injustice that that resulted in where
		
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			do you draw the line?
		
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			where do you draw the line?
		
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			how do you know that this absolute tolerance
		
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			of yours is not going to produce hitlers
		
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			and more and more hitlers how do you
		
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			know that this playing with truth the way
		
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			you're advocating making this an open game how
		
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			do you know that this is not going
		
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			to result in all of what you see
		
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			is the manifestation of what the Bani Israel
		
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			did that they are being criticized for was
		
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			that they took hegemony over the truth and
		
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			they just played with it accepted it where
		
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			it suited them and rejected it where it
		
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			didn't all the time thinking that they were
		
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			the custodians of God of his word of
		
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			scripture they could do whatever they wanted what
		
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			good did that bring?
		
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			what good has that ever brought?
		
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			you're opening doors to all kinds of bombings
		
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			in the name of religion when you espouse
		
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			that when you allow people to do that
		
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			what are you then along what standard then
		
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			are you going to place that or any
		
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			sort of prohibition over that how will you
		
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			with what face are you going to say
		
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			that no no no do not become a
		
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			Hitler or a suicide bomber do not kill
		
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			people how do you do that?
		
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			on what standard?
		
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			you took that right away from yourself when
		
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			you made the standards so arbitrary the standards
		
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			for truth so they will not believe except
		
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			few وَبِكُفِّهِمْ وَقَوْلِهِمْ عَلَىٰ مَرْيَمَ بُهْتَانٍ عَظِيمًۭا and
		
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			you did their refusal to believe in their
		
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			horrible slanders against Maryam وَقَوْلِهِمْ إِنَّ قَتَلْنَا الْمَس۪يحَ
		
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			عِيسَةً and their claim that they had killed
		
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			Isa ibn Maryam they accused Maryam salamun alayha
		
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			of all that they accused her of they
		
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			claimed to have killed Isa alayhi salam everything
		
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			is open game وَقَوْلِهِمْ إِنَّ قَتَلْنَا الْمَس۪يحَ عِيسَةً
		
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			رَسُولَ اللَّهِ we have killed Isa ibn Maryam
		
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			the messenger of Allah وَمَا قَتَلُوهُ they did
		
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			not kill him وَمَا صَلَبُوهُ nor did they
		
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			crucify him وَلَكِنْ شُبِّهَ لَهُمْ but it was
		
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			made to seem so that is what it
		
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			appeared to be وَإِنَّ الَّذِينَ اخْتَلَفُوا فِيهِ but
		
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			surely those who differ in it لَفِي شَكٍّ
		
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			مِّنْ they are definitely in a doubt about
		
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			it مَا لَهُمْ بِهِ مِّنْ عِلْمٍ they know
		
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			nothing about it إِلَّا إِلَّا اتِّبَعُوا all they
		
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			do is follow conjecture that's what you're opening
		
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			the doors to what does it mean to
		
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			follow conjecture, follow assumptions arbitrariness
		
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			of truth arbitrariness of standards along which truth
		
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			is accepted to be truth arbitrariness of faith
		
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			that's done why do you feel like it
		
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			think it's right sounds right looks right I
		
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			think it makes sense empty statements empty statements
		
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			and you want to have that accepted sounds
		
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			very innocent you know what's the big deal
		
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			let it be catastrophes across history on account
		
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			of not letting this truth be taken serious
		
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			on both accounts leaving the door open and
		
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			letting people say whatever it is that they
		
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			want to and to expect for that to
		
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			be tolerated or to the other extreme where
		
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			a particular group takes absolute hegemony belligerent certainty
		
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			and rejects all other legitimate interpretations within the
		
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			range that truth allows that faith allows that
		
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			standards allow complete rejection وَمَا قَتَلُوهُ يَقِينًا Undoubtedly
		
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			they did not kill him مَا رَفَعَهُ اللَّهُ
		
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			إِلَيهِ in fact Allah raised him to himself
		
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			وَكَانَ اللَّهُ عَزِيزًا حَكِيمًا And Allah is ever
		
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			mighty, wise وَإِمَّنْ أَهْلِ الْكِتَابِ إِلَّا لَيُؤْمِنَنَّ بِهِ
		
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			قَبْلَ مَوْتِهِ And there will be no one
		
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			from the people of scripture but they will
		
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			have to believe in Isa عليه السلام before
		
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			he dies وَيَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ يَكُونُ عَلَيْهِمْ شَهِدًا Moreover
		
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			he will be a witness against them on
		
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			the day of judgment again taken to be
		
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			indicative of second coming of Isa عليه السلام
		
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			فَبِظُلْمٍ مِّنَ الَّذِينَ هَادُسُ So on account of
		
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			the injustice of the Jews حَرَّمْنَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيِّبَاتٍ
		
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			أُحِلَّتْ لَهُمْ We disallowed them even some of
		
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			the pure foods previously permitted for them we
		
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			spoke about in بقرة how that happens, we're
		
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			gonna see in more detail in أنعام as
		
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			well how this goes ahead we already spoke
		
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			about it as to how Shaytan leads to
		
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			the development of this حَرَّمْنَ عَلَيْهِمْ as it
		
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			works pretty much in the same way as
		
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			the institution of بدعات as the development of
		
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			بدعات on one side and the declaring the
		
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			حرامness of stuff on the other and Allah
		
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			says that we did that Allah takes credit
		
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			for it that's what He opened the doors
		
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			for that's the way Allah misguides people Allah
		
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			takes this to the next level as well
		
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			وَبِصَدِّهِمْ عَن سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ كَثِيرًا for their act
		
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			of averting people from the way of Allah
		
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			if the way of Allah is made so
		
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			broad that absolutely everything any way that is
		
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			taken is equally the way of Allah you're
		
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			averting people from the way of Allah or
		
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			you make it so narrow and then you're
		
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			a standing guard around it and nobody can
		
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			enter it except your cult members again you're
		
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			averting people from the way of Allah and
		
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			if you're such ridiculous representatives of scripture of
		
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			Allah, of the messengers of the way no
		
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			one wants to be like you no one
		
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			wants to follow you no one wants to
		
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			no one wants Allah if that's how you're
		
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			going to represent him if that's all of
		
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			who he is as you say and as
		
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			you represent وَبِصَدِّهِمْ عَن سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ كَثِيرًا their
		
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			act of stopping people from the way of
		
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			Allah this ugliness that is standing in the
		
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			way of Allah this stench this rot that
		
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			you attribute to him is it a wonder
		
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			that people turned away from Allah altogether no
		
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			more so than in the past couple of
		
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			centuries and you want to blame them in
		
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			whatever ways you want to blame them by
		
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			all means but first look within yourselves as
		
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			a religious people as a religious community what
		
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			have we done وَأَخْذِهِمُ الرِّبَى and their practice
		
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			of taking interest وَقَدْ نُهُوا عَنْهَا and they
		
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			were forbidden from doing so وَأَخْذِهِمْ أَمْوَالَ النَّاسِ
		
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			بِالْبَاطِلِ and their practice of devouring other people's
		
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			properties wrongfully وَأَعْتَدَنَا لِلْكَافِرِينَ مِنْهُمْ عَذَابًا أَلِيمًا
		
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			and we have prepared for the disbelievers among
		
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			them a painful torment لَكِنِ الرَّاسِخُونَ فِي الْعِلْمِ
		
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			مِنْهُمْ however those of them who were well
		
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			rooted in knowledge والمؤمنون and those who were
		
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			believers يُؤْمِنُونَ بِمَا أُنزِلَ إِلَيْكَ وَمَا أُنزِلَ مِنْ
		
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			قَبْلِكَ believe in what has been sent down
		
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			to you and also in what was sent
		
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			down before you وَالْمُقِيمِينَ الصَّلَى and those especially
		
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			those who established prayer وَالْمُؤْتُونَ الذَّكَى and those
		
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			who engaged in the practice of zakat وَالْمُؤْمِنُونَ
		
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			بِاللَّهِ وَالْيَوْمِ الْآخِرِ and those believing in Allah
		
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			in the last day أُولَئِكَ سَنُؤْتِيهِمْ أَجْرًا عَظِيمًا
		
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			These are the ones upon whom we will
		
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			bless We will bless them with a great
		
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			reward We will bless them with a great
		
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			reward إِنَّ أَوْخَيْنَا إِلَيْكَ We have sent revelation
		
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			to you, O Messenger of Allah We have
		
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			sent revelation to you, O Messenger of Allah
		
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			So the entire closing of the previous passage
		
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			with respect to how the doors are still
		
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			open Allah is not racist Allah is not
		
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			going to refuse a people on account of
		
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			their heritage or what their ancestors have done
		
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			so long as they choose to leave that
		
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			path so long as they don't continue to
		
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			rationalize the sin of their ancestors the zulm
		
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			of their ancestors so long as they don't
		
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			continue to repeat the legacy of the shayateen
		
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			that their ancestors have become and if they're
		
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			going to continue to do so, Allah is
		
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			going to continue to reject them.
		
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			Nothing racist about that إِنَّ أَوْخَيْنَا إِلَيْكَ We
		
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			have sent revelation to you, O Messenger of
		
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			Allah كَمَا أَوْحَيْنَا إِلَى نُوحٍ The way we
		
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			sent revelation to Nuh وَالنَّبِيجِينَ مِن بَعْدِهِ And
		
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			the Prophets after him وَأَوْخَيْنَا إِلَى إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَإِسْمَاعِيلَ
		
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			وَإِسْحَاقَ And we sent revelation towards Ibrahim, Ismail,
		
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			and Ishaq وَيَعْقُوبَ وَالْأَسْبَاطِ And also towards Yaqub
		
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			and his descendants وَعِيثَ وَأَيُّبَ وَيُونُسَ وَهَارُونَ وَسُلَيْمَانَ
		
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			As we did to Isa, Ayyub, Yunus, Harun,
		
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			and Sulaiman وَأَتَيْنَا دَاعُودَ زَبُورًا And we blessed
		
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			Daud with the Psalms وَرُسُلًا قَدْ قَصَصْنَاهُمْ عَلَيْكَ
		
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			مِنْ قَبْلِ And Messengerss Those stories we have
		
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			mentioned to you before وَرُسُلًا لَمْ نَقْصُصْهُمْ عَلَيْكَ
		
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			And there are Messengers about whom we have
		
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			not related to you وَكَلَّمَ اللَّهُ مُوسَى تَكْلِيمًا
		
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			As for Musa, Allah spoke to him directly
		
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			رُسُلًا مُبَتْشِرِينَ وَمُنذِرِينَ Messengers giving glad tidings and
		
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			warnings bringing warnings لِأَلَّا يَكُونَ لِلنَّاسِ عَلَى اللَّهِ
		
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			حُجَّ So that the people don't have any
		
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			argument against Allah بعد الرُسُل after the Messengers
		
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			So what was the intent of sending the
		
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			entire quadrant of Messengers one after the other
		
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			repeatedly from Adam Alayhi Salaam or more specifically
		
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			from Nuh Alayhi Salaam to Rasulullah ﷺ so
		
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			that people don't have any case against Allah
		
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			that if people are going to be indicted
		
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			if people are going to be implicated, punished
		
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			held accountable for not living up to the
		
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			greatness of their potential rather living up to
		
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			the evil of their potential and enacting the
		
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			wuln that they did and the crimes that
		
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			they committed when they are called to justice
		
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			then they cannot plead ignorance they cannot plead
		
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			that they did not know they were not
		
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			informed that the case was not built in
		
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			front of them undeniably that Allah took it
		
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			upon Himself that the Messengers fulfilled that role
		
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			and now those who are going to be
		
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			implicated those who are going to be punished
		
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			it is only those to whom the message
		
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			was explicitly spelled out explicitly spelled out and
		
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			yet they refused or they turned away, they
		
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			did not pay heed or they didn't take
		
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			it seriously if the Messengers had done their
		
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			job and we are going to read in
		
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			Surat Yunus Allah's standard of the job having
		
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			been done is very high it is very
		
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			high to the point that when Yunus Alayhi
		
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			Salaam perhaps left a very small sliver of
		
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			what he was supposed to do which was
		
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			practically him just leaving a little earlier than
		
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			he was supposed to got frustrated, left Allah's
		
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			permission had not come even though the signs
		
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			of had started coming but permission for Yunus
		
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			Alayhi Salaam had not come for it to
		
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			become clear the Balaghul Mubeen to happen a
		
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			few more days, maybe a week or so,
		
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			more was required of Yunus after years and
		
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			years and years and perhaps decades had already
		
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			taken place but he left that sliver he
		
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			left early before fulfilling that and the people
		
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			of Yunus were not punished they were not
		
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			punished they got off the hook so they
		
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			saw the signs of Azaab and the Azaab
		
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			did not destroy them Allah takes this very
		
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			seriously that people have been adequately warned for
		
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			punishing them and here we have these belligerent
		
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			claims, no every single person who isn't Muslim
		
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			today in this day and age in the
		
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			world is definitely 100% going to the
		
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			hellfire yeah, if Allah deems that they heard
		
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			the message adequately no, they did hear the
		
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			message adequately but how can you make that
		
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			claim?
		
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			no, the message was clear it's on the
		
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			internet they could have googled it yeah and
		
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			they would have googled it and your face
		
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			would have popped up and you would have
		
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			been the one explaining it and that's not
		
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			cool Allah is just and His justice
		
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			does not require our fatawa our condemning of
		
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			people with this belligerent certainty because it makes
		
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			us feel good about our own selves it
		
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			gives us a ticket to paradise that's not
		
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			how it works it does not seem like
		
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			how it works وَكَانَ اللَّهُ عَزِيزًا حَكِيمًا and
		
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			Allah is ever mighty and wise لَكِنِ اللَّهُ
		
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			يَشْهَدُ بِمَا أَنزَلَ إِلَيْكُ Allah bears witness to
		
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			what He has sent towards you يا رسول
		
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			الله وَالْمَلَائِكَةُ يَشْهَدُونَ that He sent it with
		
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			His own knowledge وَالْمَلَائِكَةُ يَشْهَدُونَ the angels bear
		
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			witness وَكَفَى بِاللَّهِ شَهِيدًا and Allah is sufficient
		
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			as witness but yet Allah's revelation of that
		
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			ilm through Rasulullah ﷺ the weight and the
		
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			burden that Rasulullah carried that I have to
		
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			communicate it as clear as day without any
		
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			doubt to the truth of what He's presenting
		
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			He carried that burden to the last day
		
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			or at least to the Hajj, the farewell
		
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			pilgrimage أَلَاهَا الْبَلَّغْتُ have I communicated it clearly
		
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			and they all said yes you have he
		
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			got that testament he breathed a sigh of
		
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			relief now the burden is on you فَالْيُبَلِّغْ
		
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			أَشَهِدُ الْقَيْدِ the one who are present take
		
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			you to those who are absent that we're
		
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			not really doing or haven't done a great
		
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			job at whatever is debited against us is
		
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			credited in the favor of the ones that
		
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			we were supposed to represent the message clearly
		
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			to and we could not have done a
		
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			worse job obviously in the day and age
		
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			that we're living in إِنَّ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُونَ those
		
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			who refuse to believe and hinder others from
		
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			the path of Allah قَدْ ضَلُّوا ضَلَالًا بَعِدًا
		
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			they have gone far far away from the
		
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			right path those who refuse to believe and
		
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			they're oppressive unjust Allah is not going to
		
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			forgive them وَلَا لِيَهْدِيَهُمْ طَرِيقًا and He will
		
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			not guide them to the straight path who
		
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			comes to them they rejected on account of
		
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			rejecting that truth and not believing in it
		
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			their action continues to be as unjust as
		
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			it was or even more unjust Allah is
		
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			not going to do it why?
		
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			إِلَّا طَرِيقَ جَهَنَّمْ He will guide them only
		
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			to Jahannam to hellfire خَالَدِينَ فِيهَا أَبَدَى they're
		
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			going to live there forever and ever وَكَانَ
		
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			ذَلِكَ عَلَى اللَّهِ يَثِيرًا that's very easy for
		
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			Allah يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسِ قَدْ جَاءَكُمْ مِنْ رَسُولُ
		
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			بِالْحَقِّ مِنْ رَبِّكُمْ people the call of Rasulullah
		
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			ﷺ being global being universal there has come
		
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			to you a Rasul بِالْحَقِّ مِنْ رَبِّكُمْ with
		
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			the truth from your Rabb فَأَمِنُوهُ to believe
		
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			خَيْرًا لَكُمْ that is better for you وَإِن
		
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			تَكْبُرُوا but if you refuse فَإِنَّ لِلَّهِ مَا
		
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			فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ to Allah belongs everything in the
		
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			heavens and the earth وَكَانَ اللَّهُ عَلِيمًا حَكِيمًا
		
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			and Allah is ever knowing, ever wise يَا
		
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			أَهْلَ الْكِتَابُ people of the scripture لا تَغْلُوا
		
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			فِي دِينِكُمْ do not transgress in your religion
		
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			the greatest criticism against religion comes from religion
		
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			itself it's supposed to come from religion itself
		
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			and that's been the case since forever you
		
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			pick up any scripture you pick up any
		
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			scripture and the strictest tone that that scripture
		
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			takes is towards the people of religion it
		
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			takes them to task it takes their practice
		
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			of religion almost the extreme practice of religion,
		
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			the transgression within religion, in the name of
		
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			religion religion comes as the critic for that
		
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			the critic for that and that's how it
		
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			was supposed to be but the more and
		
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			more religious people become insecure the more and
		
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			more this self-correction stops taking place it's
		
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			going to come from somewhere and it starts
		
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			coming from atheists it starts coming from people
		
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			who come off as rejecters of religion or
		
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			at least organized religion altogether and you see
		
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			within their rejection, within their criticism, so much
		
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			truth so much truth and you see it
		
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			precisely because that was the way of scripture
		
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			that is how scripture criticized religious people and
		
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			wanted for the institution of religion for the
		
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			teachers of scripture to continue this practice so
		
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			that the people of religion stay on target
		
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			somewhere along the way it got lost the
		
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			cultish practices within religiosity became so rigid that
		
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			that self-criticism the way the institution was
		
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			supposed to repair itself and grow those portions
		
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			of scripture, those tools were not developed they
		
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			were lost and so when others pick those
		
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			tools up build them, develop them and lash
		
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			out against religion then they lash out against
		
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			the entirety of religion they're not they're not
		
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			precise with how those tools are used it
		
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			is not incisive careful it is not surgical
		
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			it is it is not a surgeon's incision,
		
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			it is a butcher's cut what do you
		
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			want to call it?
		
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			they operate like butchers they do away with
		
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			the whole thing they do away with the
		
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			whole thing so whereas the surgeon's incisions as
		
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			painful as they may be without anesthesia is
		
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			meant for repair is meant for better growth
		
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			even if it it is distressful for a
		
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			time period the butcher's slaughter it is no
		
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			holds bar it's criticism there is no, whatever
		
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			criticism that you see from the greatest of
		
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			atheists against religion, against religious people they haven't
		
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			said anything new about religion that you will
		
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			not find that the deeper texts the more
		
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			neglected texts the ignored texts ignored portions of
		
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			scripture haven't already said before only when scripture
		
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			said it for those deeper, more reflective, more
		
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			honest texts within the religious traditions said it
		
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			it was for the surgical removal, the surgical
		
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			excision of tumorous growths of neoplastic growths of
		
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			cancers and looked to preserve what was good
		
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			but when it comes from outside and it
		
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			comes from an anger towards religion and in
		
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			a lot of ways the anger being justified
		
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			as well it looks for a belligerent rejection
		
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			of religion altogether a call to anarchy here
		
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			we see this beautiful representation of how religion
		
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			owns up to its own responsibility of self
		
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			-repair people of the scripture do not transgress
		
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			in your religion do not say anything about
		
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			Allah except the truth for sure Messiah, the
		
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			son of Maryam, Rasool Allah is the messenger
		
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			of Allah his special word which he directed
		
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			towards Maryam from Allah so believe in Allah
		
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			and his messenger and the gravity of the
		
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			situation we're going to talk about in surah
		
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			kahf and how heavily this digression or this
		
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			misguidance how this impacted humanity we're going to
		
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			talk about when we get to surah kahf
		
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			so believe in Allah and his messenger do
		
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			not say the trinity stop it that is
		
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			going to be better for you for sure
		
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			Allah is the only God he is exalted
		
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			above that he has a thank to him
		
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			belongs whatever is in the heavens and everything
		
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			in earth and Allah is sufficient to be
		
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			relied upon never will the Messiah disdain that
		
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			he is the he would not look at
		
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			that as scornfully he would not take that
		
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			as being put down as being dishonored, disrespected
		
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			neither would the angels look at it that
		
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			way the angels that are close to Allah
		
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			whoever disdains Allah is and is arrogant Allah
		
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			will gather all of them towards himself every
		
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			single one of them as for those who
		
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			believed and performed righteously Allah will grant them
		
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			their reward in full and he will grant
		
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			them more out of his more and more
		
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			the bonus takes over it's far greater than
		
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			the reward itself as for those who disdain,
		
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			who scorn and are arrogant Allah will punish
		
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			them with a torturous punishment and they will
		
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			find for them no one other than Allah
		
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			as a protector or a helper people there
		
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			has reached you in clear and we have
		
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			sent down to you a clear right light
		
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			as for those who believe in Allah and
		
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			those who hang on to him Allah will
		
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			soon admit them into his mercy and grace
		
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			and he will guide them to a straight
		
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			path leading to himself they ask you for
		
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			a legal ruling they ask you for a
		
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			fatwa tell them that Allah gives you a
		
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			fatwa a ruling regarding kalalah a man who
		
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			does not have his parents are not alive
		
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			he doesn't have any descendants nor does he
		
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			have any children no heirs either side if
		
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			a man dies without any children but he
		
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			has a sister then she will inherit half
		
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			of what he leaves behind while if a
		
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			woman dies in such a condition she does
		
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			not have a descendant or a descendant then
		
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			she has a brother her brother will inherit
		
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			the entirety of her property but if the
		
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			deceased has two sisters each of them will
		
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			inherit one third of what he leaves behind
		
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			and if the deceased has three or more
		
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			brothers and sisters both then the share of
		
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			one male will be equal to that of
		
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			two females Allah makes everything clear to you
		
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			lest you go astray and Allah knows everything
		
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			moving right along to surah al ma'idah
		
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			this is going to be the last of
		
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			the madani surahs this cluster of madani surahs
		
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			right at the beginning of the mushaf we've
		
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			already spoken of we see the similarities of
		
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			themes how each surah is complementing the other
		
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			continuing the discussion forward but also bringing up
		
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			issues that haven't been brought up in the
		
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			previous ones we see the emphasis shifting as
		
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			well more on one group Bani Israel in
		
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			the first and the Nasara in the second
		
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			both of them in the third but more
		
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			so the munafiqeen within the Muslim community being
		
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			addressed all the time showing us how the
		
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			fragmentation that Shaytan brings about we spoke about
		
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			it I think it was ayah number 119
		
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			in surah al nisa you use that as
		
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			his modus operandi and then you map that
		
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			on the expressions or manifestations of that in
		
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			the Bani Israel expressions and manifestations of that
		
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			in the Christian community the expression of that
		
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			the manifestation of that in the Muslim community
		
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			and as we go on to an'am
		
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			we will see how that manifested in the
		
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			mushrikeen themselves in the Quraysh in Makkah it's
		
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			the pattern in its principles remains the same
		
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			manifestations it refers and so from those examples
		
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			we understand the principles better and then using
		
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			those principles we see what examples we're expressing
		
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			what similar examples or different examples were manifesting
		
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			as a community a'ufu billahi minash shaitanir
		
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			rajeem bismillahir rahmanir raheem ya ayyuhal lazeena aamanu
		
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			you who have believed a'ufu bil'uqood
		
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			fulfill your promises fulfill all contracts so there
		
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			is the black and white contracts that you're
		
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			gonna have at the time of a business
		
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			deal let's say the check mark for whatever
		
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			you sign or even online there's those contracts
		
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			that you have your rights, your responsibilities the
		
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			marriage contract that you have and then from
		
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			the black and white it goes to more
		
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			of your word your commitment to someone and
		
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			it goes from there to what you morally
		
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			owe to other people that you may not
		
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			have said so as such as explicitly as
		
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			I'll do this by then by this time,
		
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			by this date I'll be there at this
		
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			time on this date I'll have this done
		
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			at this time, on this date you can
		
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			have it written down, you can say it
		
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			verbally, concretely but then there is that which
		
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			you owe them morally may not have to
		
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			have said it explicitly but your conscience bears
		
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			witness to it there is a degree of
		
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			concreteness within yourself as to what you're supposed
		
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			to live up to even if the other
		
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			person is oblivious of it and then there
		
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			is your contract with Allah so all of
		
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			these the entire spectrum the most concrete to
		
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			the most abstract the more you become a
		
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			person who fulfills his word who is truthful
		
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			in fulfilling his word the more you know
		
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			you're on the right track the very beginning
		
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			of hypocrisy is with lying not living up
		
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			to their word not living up to their
		
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			commitments and then it expresses itself across the
		
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			entire spectrum from the most concrete to the
		
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			most abstract all
		
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			four-legged animals from livestock are lawful for
		
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			you again the religion or the demonic religiosity
		
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			we saw that there's a lot of in
		
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			there random random prohibitions and rigidly pursued and
		
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			there's no fulfilling of contracts the is not
		
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			taken seriously enough the are taken very seriously
		
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			takes priority in divine religiosity and as for
		
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			the prohibitions are concerned the list actually begins
		
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			with everything is lawful for you a four
		
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			-legged animals except a few that you were
		
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			it was recited upon you that you shouldn't
		
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			eat from that you were asked to abstain
		
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			from hunting so without violating the prohibition of
		
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			hunting while you are in and you're in
		
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			one pilgrimage that time you do not hunt
		
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			definitely Allah commands whatever he wants and the
		
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			last phrase being all the more significant since
		
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			there is a subtle control that a subtle
		
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			interpolation that human beings take over when they
		
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			start inventing a romance more and more they
		
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			also what are they balancing it out for
		
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			and what right have they given themselves what
		
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			divine rights have they claimed for themselves and
		
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			how dangerous that is oops I did not
		
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			turn on my mic let me start this
		
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			over all
		
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			right quick review for the other recording that
		
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			I'm doing the first we've concluded starting with
		
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			and going on to talk about meaning fulfill
		
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			your contracts live up to your promises all
		
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			across the board those most concrete the ones
		
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			you have written down black and white to
		
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			the most those most abstract the ones that
		
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			you have with allah the ones you have
		
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			which is your conscience uh committing to allah
		
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			himself and then the word that you give
		
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			everyone people living up to their rights your
		
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			marital contracts everything across the spectrum that takes
		
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			priority it is a sign of hypocrisy it
		
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			is a sign of munaf and nipak who
		
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			not live up to those contracts it's contrary
		
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			to iman and then uh the priorities that
		
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			contracts should take commitments and promises to take
		
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			being a person of truth of that develops
		
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			how that is reflective of your iman that
		
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			develops your iman further as well and then
		
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			not being able to do that would result
		
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			in the religion of that we spoke about
		
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			the demonic religiosity that we spoke about here
		
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			the divine religiosity begins with that uh all
		
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			four-legged animals are lawful for you except
		
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			the ones that were recited to you in
		
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			the state of akram however that limited time
		
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			period no hunting takes place allah commands what
		
00:56:02 --> 00:56:05
			he wants this is allah's prerogative give him
		
00:56:05 --> 00:56:07
			that right don't try to wrestle that away
		
00:56:07 --> 00:56:09
			from him the more you look to wrestle
		
00:56:09 --> 00:56:14
			that away from him the more uh dangerous
		
00:56:14 --> 00:56:17
			the more authority you're giving to where the
		
00:56:17 --> 00:56:20
			authority does not belong and that is where
		
00:56:20 --> 00:56:23
			it's going to be exploited and abuse is
		
00:56:23 --> 00:56:26
			going to result injustice is going to prevail
		
00:56:26 --> 00:56:31
			yeah you have believed that do not violate
		
00:56:31 --> 00:56:34
			the sanctity of the symbols of allah nor
		
00:56:34 --> 00:56:40
			the sanctity of the sacred month the sacrificial
		
00:56:40 --> 00:56:47
			animals and the garlands that mark such animals
		
00:56:47 --> 00:56:56
			and do not violate the sanctity of the
		
00:56:56 --> 00:57:01
			visitors of the sacred house visiting it in
		
00:57:01 --> 00:57:05
			pursuit of the grace and pleasure of their
		
00:57:05 --> 00:57:09
			rab so this is a contract upon you
		
00:57:09 --> 00:57:12
			the hospitality that you owe to the people
		
00:57:12 --> 00:57:16
			visiting the house of allah but you are
		
00:57:16 --> 00:57:20
			in when you have uh when you are
		
00:57:20 --> 00:57:21
			no longer in the state of ikram you
		
00:57:21 --> 00:57:24
			have taken the ikram off you've exited that
		
00:57:24 --> 00:57:32
			state then you're allowed to hunt let not
		
00:57:32 --> 00:57:34
			the hatred of a people for having stopped
		
00:57:34 --> 00:57:37
			you from visiting the masjid al haram and
		
00:57:37 --> 00:57:41
			that do lead for you to transgress against
		
00:57:41 --> 00:57:44
			them so again maida one of the last
		
00:57:44 --> 00:57:47
			surahs to be revealed after the conquest of
		
00:57:47 --> 00:57:52
			mecca um there are new muslims there are
		
00:57:52 --> 00:57:54
			people who have entered into islam and will
		
00:57:54 --> 00:57:58
			be performing pilgrimage who until very recently were
		
00:57:58 --> 00:58:01
			sworn enemies to rasulullah and the sahaba and
		
00:58:01 --> 00:58:04
			they were out to get them kill them
		
00:58:04 --> 00:58:06
			destroy them they could have they would have
		
00:58:06 --> 00:58:09
			done anything so although they have been accepted
		
00:58:09 --> 00:58:12
			into the fold of islam it is quite
		
00:58:12 --> 00:58:15
			possible and maybe it is not just possible
		
00:58:15 --> 00:58:18
			it is a fact that there is resentment
		
00:58:18 --> 00:58:24
			and hatred against them in a considerable uh
		
00:58:24 --> 00:58:30
			a sizable chunk of the muslim population from
		
00:58:30 --> 00:58:34
			medina and so they're being it's being identified
		
00:58:34 --> 00:58:37
			that that hatred in its own place do
		
00:58:37 --> 00:58:40
			not let that lead for you to be
		
00:58:40 --> 00:58:46
			unjust that you treat them differently now they
		
00:58:46 --> 00:58:48
			have equal rights and that has to be
		
00:58:48 --> 00:58:54
			honored that is a contract upon you and
		
00:58:54 --> 00:59:00
			collaborate with each other in righteousness and piety
		
00:59:00 --> 00:59:05
			and do not collaborate in sin and transgression
		
00:59:06 --> 00:59:11
			understandably within a community you cannot have absolute
		
00:59:11 --> 00:59:14
			peace absolute love that is not possible that
		
00:59:14 --> 00:59:19
			doesn't exist a community will definitely have resentment
		
00:59:19 --> 00:59:25
			one faction being or the other one organization
		
00:59:25 --> 00:59:28
			being resentful of the other even hateful towards
		
00:59:28 --> 00:59:31
			the other one individual being hateful or resentful
		
00:59:31 --> 00:59:35
			towards the other absolutely normal perfectly fine no
		
00:59:35 --> 00:59:40
			problem your your contracts with each other your
		
00:59:40 --> 00:59:44
			commitments to each other entail that despite that
		
00:59:44 --> 00:59:50
			hatred and resentment you perform or you live
		
00:59:50 --> 00:59:53
			up to the justice that is expected of
		
00:59:53 --> 00:59:58
			you that's the bottom line within organizations within
		
00:59:58 --> 01:00:02
			factions within movements within a single group there
		
01:00:02 --> 01:00:04
			will be resentment there will be hatred it's
		
01:00:04 --> 01:00:08
			a given where there's two people there is
		
01:00:08 --> 01:00:10
			going to be two of the most loving
		
01:00:10 --> 01:00:14
			people will have this ambivalence that they're harboring
		
01:00:14 --> 01:00:18
			which is necessary to nurture a mature relationship
		
01:00:21 --> 01:00:24
			bottom line principle being live up to your
		
01:00:24 --> 01:00:29
			contracts live up your commitments with each other
		
01:00:29 --> 01:00:32
			do not be unjust and what is the
		
01:00:32 --> 01:00:36
			the the principle for it as long as
		
01:00:36 --> 01:00:42
			you're working together for righteousness and taqwa promoting
		
01:00:42 --> 01:00:52
			birr promoting righteousness promoting goodness spending in the
		
01:00:52 --> 01:00:56
			way of Allah empowering the underprivileged empowering the
		
01:00:56 --> 01:01:01
			vulnerable making them less and less vulnerable promoting
		
01:01:01 --> 01:01:10
			truthfulness promoting promoting this exercise of people becoming
		
01:01:10 --> 01:01:14
			aware of themselves of Allah of their responsibility
		
01:01:15 --> 01:01:20
			developing that healthy community together this collaboration will
		
01:01:20 --> 01:01:25
			allow for you to overcome that hatefulness that
		
01:01:25 --> 01:01:29
			resentment that naturally enters in the eyes on
		
01:01:29 --> 01:01:32
			the prize the more you have this self
		
01:01:32 --> 01:01:34
			-transcendent goal that all of you are working
		
01:01:34 --> 01:01:37
			towards that will bind you that will bring
		
01:01:37 --> 01:01:41
			you together despite your differences whether they're racial
		
01:01:41 --> 01:01:46
			differences whether they are differences of you having
		
01:01:46 --> 01:01:48
			been competing against each other for whatever reasons
		
01:01:49 --> 01:01:52
			or whatever that you may have had your
		
01:01:52 --> 01:01:56
			arguments and fights and even wars over the
		
01:01:56 --> 01:01:59
			the strength of meaning the strength of a
		
01:01:59 --> 01:02:03
			self-transcendent goal of righteousness of taqwa is
		
01:02:03 --> 01:02:05
			such that it can bring you together regardless
		
01:02:05 --> 01:02:09
			of those past experiences that's true for any
		
01:02:09 --> 01:02:14
			relationship if if your dedication and your commitment
		
01:02:14 --> 01:02:17
			is to the which is essentially outside of
		
01:02:17 --> 01:02:20
			yourself it is also outside of the other
		
01:02:20 --> 01:02:24
			person that you're relating with as long as
		
01:02:24 --> 01:02:27
			your progression is towards that you can get
		
01:02:27 --> 01:02:31
			along the resentment in its own place hatred
		
01:02:31 --> 01:02:34
			in its own place it'll bring you together
		
01:02:34 --> 01:02:39
			it'll help you overcome with time that resentment
		
01:02:39 --> 01:02:42
			that you might have that not just you
		
01:02:42 --> 01:02:47
			might have you will have me and do
		
01:02:47 --> 01:02:52
			not collaborate in sin and transgression because ultimately
		
01:02:52 --> 01:02:58
			sin and transgression promoting of evil within society
		
01:02:58 --> 01:03:03
			that inherently makes you more and more selfish
		
01:03:03 --> 01:03:06
			more and more self-centered and the more
		
01:03:06 --> 01:03:08
			that happens the more room you're giving for
		
01:03:08 --> 01:03:10
			the resentment and the to act itself out
		
01:03:10 --> 01:03:15
			the more impulsivity you're giving rise to the
		
01:03:15 --> 01:03:18
			more immediate gratification you're looking for and the
		
01:03:18 --> 01:03:20
			more lashing out is going to take place
		
01:03:20 --> 01:03:25
			the more hatred is going to develop that
		
01:03:25 --> 01:03:27
			you're allowing that hatred to grow more and
		
01:03:27 --> 01:03:31
			more and more and more because essentially Uthuvan,
		
01:03:31 --> 01:03:41
			sin and transgression promote this cutthroat selfishness within
		
01:03:41 --> 01:03:45
			individuals and so the more the collaboration is
		
01:03:45 --> 01:03:50
			towards something like that ultimately that Uthuvan is
		
01:03:50 --> 01:03:56
			going to eat up the individuals working together
		
01:03:56 --> 01:04:00
			towards it and you can have a goal
		
01:04:00 --> 01:04:03
			which is apparently that of Birr but your
		
01:04:03 --> 01:04:06
			intent which is that of Itham and Uthuvan
		
01:04:06 --> 01:04:08
			and the results will be the same.
		
01:04:09 --> 01:04:13
			What Taqullah, observe the Taqwa of Allah as
		
01:04:13 --> 01:04:18
			the spirit of these collaborations the more this
		
01:04:18 --> 01:04:20
			is there the more you'll be able to
		
01:04:21 --> 01:04:26
			overcome the the hatred that you may have
		
01:04:26 --> 01:04:31
			for others most definitely Allah is severe in
		
01:04:31 --> 01:04:37
			punishment so forbidden upon you is Al-Naytah,
		
01:04:37 --> 01:04:40
			dead animals, died by itself, wasn't sacrificed, wasn't
		
01:04:40 --> 01:04:50
			hunted and blood and whatever has been dedicated
		
01:04:50 --> 01:04:54
			to other than Allah as well as the
		
01:04:54 --> 01:04:58
			strangled and that killed by a violent blow
		
01:04:59 --> 01:05:04
			and dead through falling from a height and
		
01:05:04 --> 01:05:10
			those killed by goring of horns and that
		
01:05:10 --> 01:05:13
			from which a wild animal has eaten unless
		
01:05:13 --> 01:05:17
			you're able to slaughter it before it dies
		
01:05:19 --> 01:05:23
			also forbidden are animals which are sacrificed on
		
01:05:23 --> 01:05:28
			altars, on shrines, on areas and places dedicated
		
01:05:28 --> 01:05:31
			for committed to Shirk, committed to the worship
		
01:05:31 --> 01:05:35
			of deities other than Allah and that you
		
01:05:35 --> 01:05:39
			seek decisions through divining arrows so there is
		
01:05:39 --> 01:05:43
			this list of Muharramats of what you cannot
		
01:05:43 --> 01:05:47
			eat from that the Quran takes very seriously,
		
01:05:47 --> 01:05:51
			not to be messed around with short list,
		
01:05:52 --> 01:05:54
			nothing too elaborate, not that you will have
		
01:05:54 --> 01:05:58
			to really suffer on account of not having
		
01:05:58 --> 01:06:01
			access to it if that does become the
		
01:06:01 --> 01:06:03
			case exceptions are made if it's a life
		
01:06:03 --> 01:06:05
			and death situation by all means go ahead
		
01:06:05 --> 01:06:07
			and party not party but you know just
		
01:06:07 --> 01:06:09
			eat the regular amount that will be necessary
		
01:06:09 --> 01:06:14
			to sustain yourself until you have access to
		
01:06:14 --> 01:06:23
			appropriate halal food and Aslam that you resort
		
01:06:23 --> 01:06:29
			to these superstitions that your decision-making process
		
01:06:29 --> 01:06:39
			is involving divining arrows, carrot cards,
		
01:06:41 --> 01:06:47
			palmistry anything and everything which has to do
		
01:06:47 --> 01:06:53
			with occult sciences not that it says that
		
01:06:53 --> 01:06:57
			there's no truth to it maybe, maybe not
		
01:06:57 --> 01:07:02
			but because the nature of occult sciences is
		
01:07:02 --> 01:07:06
			such that it is not amenable it is
		
01:07:06 --> 01:07:14
			not open to external scrutiny just opening the
		
01:07:14 --> 01:07:19
			doors to this type of knowledge knowledge which
		
01:07:19 --> 01:07:27
			cannot be tested which cannot be verified, validated
		
01:07:27 --> 01:07:31
			by somebody else that is way too much
		
01:07:31 --> 01:07:38
			power that is way too much authority in
		
01:07:38 --> 01:07:43
			the hands of this one individual who apparently
		
01:07:43 --> 01:07:47
			has access to the occult that others do
		
01:07:47 --> 01:07:55
			not that cannot be called to account because
		
01:07:55 --> 01:07:58
			it's coming from a place that nobody else
		
01:07:58 --> 01:08:02
			has access to and that degree of power
		
01:08:02 --> 01:08:07
			that degree of authority necessarily opens the doors
		
01:08:07 --> 01:08:12
			for exploitation and abuse that those doors are
		
01:08:12 --> 01:08:17
			being closed one of the greatest achievements of
		
01:08:17 --> 01:08:21
			the Qur'an of the fulfillment of prophethood
		
01:08:21 --> 01:08:26
			with Rasulullah ﷺ that now this door to
		
01:08:26 --> 01:08:31
			the knowledge of the unseen is closed off
		
01:08:32 --> 01:08:37
			that the last member of this group being
		
01:08:37 --> 01:08:46
			Rasulullah ﷺ being the prophet of Islam the
		
01:08:46 --> 01:08:50
			one who brought the Qur'an one of
		
01:08:50 --> 01:08:55
			his greatest achievements one of the greatest responsibilities
		
01:08:56 --> 01:09:00
			was to close this door of exploitation that
		
01:09:00 --> 01:09:04
			nobody just gets up makes a claim to
		
01:09:04 --> 01:09:11
			an unknown unseen unverifiable source of knowledge occult
		
01:09:11 --> 01:09:16
			by its very definition and therefore people gravitate
		
01:09:16 --> 01:09:20
			towards them give them authority in a particular
		
01:09:20 --> 01:09:25
			way and anything can happen from there and
		
01:09:25 --> 01:09:29
			we know the degree of abuse that takes
		
01:09:29 --> 01:09:33
			place because we still have these doors open
		
01:09:33 --> 01:09:36
			in our society people have given so many
		
01:09:36 --> 01:09:43
			people this authority that he has a particular
		
01:09:43 --> 01:09:48
			access and he can predict or he can
		
01:09:48 --> 01:09:52
			see what others cannot even if that is
		
01:09:52 --> 01:09:57
			true what that does to the society what
		
01:09:57 --> 01:10:02
			that does to individuals that the responsibility of
		
01:10:02 --> 01:10:08
			the individual decision-making process what are you
		
01:10:08 --> 01:10:12
			doing with that when you're resorting to all
		
01:10:12 --> 01:10:18
			of these avenues for making meaning for making
		
01:10:18 --> 01:10:24
			sense in your decisions you're clopping out of
		
01:10:24 --> 01:10:27
			the responsibility that you have to take yourselves
		
01:10:27 --> 01:10:31
			for your decisions in all of these ways
		
01:10:33 --> 01:10:36
			so even if it means I'm going to
		
01:10:36 --> 01:10:38
			make that person do my istikhara for me
		
01:10:38 --> 01:10:40
			and then they're going to have an access
		
01:10:41 --> 01:10:42
			and they're going to bring out an information
		
01:10:43 --> 01:10:47
			that then I'm going to have to live
		
01:10:47 --> 01:10:51
			by or make life-changing decisions on account
		
01:10:51 --> 01:10:54
			of because taking the responsibility of taking of
		
01:10:54 --> 01:10:57
			that life-changing decision myself oh too much
		
01:10:57 --> 01:11:01
			what if it backfires yeah well if it
		
01:11:01 --> 01:11:04
			backfires it was your decision it'll be an
		
01:11:04 --> 01:11:06
			opportunity for you to mature if it backfires
		
01:11:06 --> 01:11:10
			and was somebody else's decision and you go
		
01:11:10 --> 01:11:11
			on it was their fault how's that helping
		
01:11:11 --> 01:11:15
			you they told me to do it it
		
01:11:15 --> 01:11:17
			was their istikhara that pointed in that direction
		
01:11:17 --> 01:11:20
			that led me to this decision and they're
		
01:11:20 --> 01:11:21
			like oh my god what if the I
		
01:11:21 --> 01:11:24
			really want to do this and I've made
		
01:11:24 --> 01:11:27
			a commitment to you but my istikhara is
		
01:11:27 --> 01:11:30
			against it my auntie who did that istikhara
		
01:11:30 --> 01:11:33
			she told me that this is not going
		
01:11:33 --> 01:11:35
			to work out for us we can't go
		
01:11:35 --> 01:11:40
			against istikhara now can we where did that
		
01:11:40 --> 01:11:43
			come from where did that come from modern
		
01:11:43 --> 01:11:51
			ways of islamic ways of making decisions through
		
01:11:51 --> 01:11:54
			divining arrows where did all of this come
		
01:11:54 --> 01:11:58
			from Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam was the last
		
01:11:58 --> 01:12:03
			representative of authentic knowledge from the unseen verified
		
01:12:03 --> 01:12:08
			protected from the influence of shayateen from any
		
01:12:08 --> 01:12:12
			sort of demonic interpolation and on top of
		
01:12:12 --> 01:12:16
			that he opened himself up to external scrutiny
		
01:12:16 --> 01:12:20
			and verification that this is what I'm bringing
		
01:12:22 --> 01:12:30
			your standards your understanding of what is excellence
		
01:12:30 --> 01:12:33
			in a particular area a particular domain fair
		
01:12:33 --> 01:12:38
			enough keep those standards does this excel on
		
01:12:38 --> 01:12:43
			those standards or not go ahead and judge
		
01:12:45 --> 01:12:53
			so not only it's remarkable the last representation
		
01:12:53 --> 01:13:02
			authentic verified demon proof representation of
		
01:13:02 --> 01:13:10
			an unseen source an occult source but looks
		
01:13:10 --> 01:13:15
			to or opens itself to an external scrutiny
		
01:13:15 --> 01:13:20
			external consistency that the verification of for me
		
01:13:20 --> 01:13:23
			and my truth comes from outside of me
		
01:13:23 --> 01:13:26
			you don't take it just on my authority
		
01:13:27 --> 01:13:30
			just because I say so you take it
		
01:13:30 --> 01:13:35
			because it is consistent with what are already
		
01:13:35 --> 01:13:40
			gold standards of truth in accordance with what
		
01:13:40 --> 01:13:42
			you believe whether you regard them seriously or
		
01:13:42 --> 01:13:47
			not whether you fulfill their rights upon you
		
01:13:47 --> 01:13:51
			another story nevertheless they are the current standards
		
01:13:51 --> 01:13:56
			of truth and that's how knowledge develops any
		
01:13:56 --> 01:14:04
			new knowledge that comes in its knowledge or
		
01:14:04 --> 01:14:10
			its truth capacity or it's the degree of
		
01:14:10 --> 01:14:14
			trueness if you will it has to conform
		
01:14:14 --> 01:14:17
			with whatever else is already the gold standard
		
01:14:17 --> 01:14:22
			for truth and so the Quran not only
		
01:14:22 --> 01:14:26
			in that in bringing itself as a contender
		
01:14:26 --> 01:14:30
			as a truth giver it validates the other
		
01:14:30 --> 01:14:37
			sources of truth asks for its own scrutiny
		
01:14:37 --> 01:14:41
			along those standards and is fully confident and
		
01:14:41 --> 01:14:44
			secure that it will live up to it
		
01:14:45 --> 01:14:48
			having done that it says the rest of
		
01:14:48 --> 01:14:51
			the sources that they're not going to do
		
01:14:51 --> 01:14:54
			that open themselves up for that external scrutiny
		
01:14:54 --> 01:14:58
			and the whole shebang that demonic protection none
		
01:14:58 --> 01:15:00
			of that is going on close those doors
		
01:15:01 --> 01:15:05
			enough is enough humanity has wasted enough time
		
01:15:05 --> 01:15:09
			on that gibberish or whatever is true in
		
01:15:09 --> 01:15:14
			that gibberish even that these are all sinful
		
01:15:14 --> 01:15:22
			acts this day those who disbelieve have despaired
		
01:15:22 --> 01:15:27
			of your religion of your deen so don't
		
01:15:27 --> 01:15:33
			fear them but fear me today I have
		
01:15:33 --> 01:15:41
			perfected for you your deen and I have
		
01:15:41 --> 01:15:48
			completed my favours to you the deen upon
		
01:15:48 --> 01:15:55
			Rasulullah ﷺ the way Wahi had perfected itself
		
01:15:55 --> 01:16:01
			the way all of the role that Wahi
		
01:16:01 --> 01:16:07
			had in the evolution of human society Wahi
		
01:16:07 --> 01:16:16
			had perfectly performed no more Wahi necessary the
		
01:16:16 --> 01:16:21
			perfection of deen with the coming of these
		
01:16:21 --> 01:16:24
			ayats now these are not the last ayats
		
01:16:24 --> 01:16:28
			to come these are of the last ayats
		
01:16:28 --> 01:16:33
			there are commandments that come after this so
		
01:16:33 --> 01:16:35
			this is not to say that okay nothing
		
01:16:35 --> 01:16:39
			will come literally after this in the sense
		
01:16:39 --> 01:16:41
			that no more Quran is going to come
		
01:16:41 --> 01:16:46
			after this but the structure has been laid
		
01:16:46 --> 01:16:54
			out the structure is perfected the room that
		
01:16:54 --> 01:16:59
			structure has for movement for development for further
		
01:16:59 --> 01:17:03
			growth those principles have been laid out within
		
01:17:03 --> 01:17:09
			that structure as well so we see that
		
01:17:09 --> 01:17:12
			even after these ayats more Quran comes to
		
01:17:12 --> 01:17:16
			move that structure forward the fundamental structure being
		
01:17:16 --> 01:17:21
			in its own place to evolve it forward
		
01:17:21 --> 01:17:25
			we see that the Khulafah-e-Rashideen the
		
01:17:25 --> 01:17:32
			Sahaba after Rasulullah ﷺ continue the process of
		
01:17:32 --> 01:17:37
			holding on to the structure yes but building
		
01:17:37 --> 01:17:40
			around it expanding it where the structure allows
		
01:17:40 --> 01:17:48
			for expansion a reasonable analogy a very beautiful
		
01:17:48 --> 01:17:52
			analogy would be a child a child that
		
01:17:52 --> 01:18:00
			is born is a perfect perfected completed child
		
01:18:02 --> 01:18:05
			in the essential structure that the child is
		
01:18:05 --> 01:18:09
			supposed to have with the appropriate regions of
		
01:18:09 --> 01:18:14
			growth also in doubt that how that child
		
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			is now going to interact with its environment
		
01:18:20 --> 01:18:26
			parents, nutrition, broader society, sources of knowledge and
		
01:18:26 --> 01:18:30
			then grow further so in the perfection of
		
01:18:30 --> 01:18:38
			the structure is the endowment of future development
		
01:18:38 --> 01:18:41
			as well of future movement as well the
		
01:18:41 --> 01:18:46
			perfection of structure does not entail that from
		
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			here on in this is it and nothing
		
01:18:48 --> 01:18:53
			else is allowed in or out that truth
		
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			has fixated and this is there is no
		
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			more truth that is ever going to come
		
01:19:02 --> 01:19:05
			as we have already seen that within that
		
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			structure issanurihim ayatina fil-afaq wa fi-anfusihim
		
01:19:09 --> 01:19:11
			hatta yatabayyin lahum annahu al-haq that we
		
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			will soon show them within the horizon within
		
01:19:14 --> 01:19:19
			their own selves ayat that is within the
		
01:19:19 --> 01:19:22
			structure the structure has room for it to
		
01:19:22 --> 01:19:25
			accommodate it to relate with it to grow
		
01:19:25 --> 01:19:28
			with it and we saw within the seerah
		
01:19:28 --> 01:19:32
			of the sahaba and the subsequent muslim generations
		
01:19:32 --> 01:19:35
			that whichever region of the world they were
		
01:19:35 --> 01:19:39
			able to go into they were able to
		
01:19:39 --> 01:19:44
			relate with and the beauty of islam manifested
		
01:19:44 --> 01:19:48
			itself in the diversity it was able to
		
01:19:48 --> 01:19:51
			relate with and the diversity that it was
		
01:19:51 --> 01:19:53
			able to produce so to try to take
		
01:19:53 --> 01:20:00
			from this ayah the attitude of rigidity and
		
01:20:00 --> 01:20:04
			fixity and rejection of everything that comes after
		
01:20:04 --> 01:20:09
			it be it of truth it contradicts the
		
01:20:09 --> 01:20:11
			very principles that are contained within the structure
		
01:20:11 --> 01:20:18
			that is perfected it contradicts whatever of truth
		
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			was formulated after the revelation of these ayat
		
01:20:24 --> 01:20:29
			within the quran by rasulullah ﷺ himself by
		
01:20:29 --> 01:20:33
			the sahaba, the khulafah-e-rashideen afterwards and
		
01:20:33 --> 01:20:42
			as the situation entailed the subsequent generations we
		
01:20:42 --> 01:20:46
			cannot let that go it's ludicrous to use
		
01:20:46 --> 01:20:51
			this ayah to justify that very attitude of
		
01:20:53 --> 01:20:58
			that the quran so heavily criticized where the
		
01:20:58 --> 01:21:00
			jews said that this is it all the
		
01:21:00 --> 01:21:02
			truth there is is that which we have
		
01:21:02 --> 01:21:11
			nothing else qualifies as truth allah's perfection of
		
01:21:11 --> 01:21:16
			deen is far greater than that far more
		
01:21:16 --> 01:21:21
			beautiful than that اليوم أتممت لكم دينكم today
		
01:21:21 --> 01:21:23
			i have perfected for you your deen وأتممت
		
01:21:23 --> 01:21:27
			عليكم نعمتي and i have also completed my
		
01:21:27 --> 01:21:31
			favors upon you ورضيت لكم الإسلام دينها and
		
01:21:31 --> 01:21:35
			i have approved for you islam as your
		
01:21:35 --> 01:21:40
			conduct in life individually as well as communally
		
01:21:40 --> 01:21:43
			فمن اصطر في مخمسة دين but whoever is
		
01:21:43 --> 01:21:48
			compelled by severe hunger to the point that
		
01:21:48 --> 01:21:52
			they don't have anything else to eat without
		
01:21:52 --> 01:21:55
			inclination to commit a sin there's no rebelliousness
		
01:21:55 --> 01:21:59
			intended but إِنَّ اللَّهَ غَفُورُ رَحِيمٌ for sure
		
01:21:59 --> 01:22:02
			allah is forgiving and merciful the leniency already
		
01:22:02 --> 01:22:07
			being announced the flexibility within the same ayah
		
01:22:08 --> 01:22:10
			that if somebody has to resort to that
		
01:22:10 --> 01:22:15
			which has been declared qaram it is this
		
01:22:15 --> 01:22:18
			this list of haram that has to be
		
01:22:18 --> 01:22:27
			contained that you're going to expand on increase
		
01:22:27 --> 01:22:34
			on without the principles being taken into consideration
		
01:22:36 --> 01:22:39
			the good that was supposed to expand to
		
01:22:39 --> 01:22:42
			the neglect of that through the negligence of
		
01:22:42 --> 01:22:45
			that يَقَلُونَ كَمَاذَا أُحِلَّ لَهُمْ they ask you
		
01:22:45 --> 01:22:47
			what is lawful for them to eat قُلْ
		
01:22:47 --> 01:22:50
			أُحِلَّ لَكُمُ الْقَيِّبَةَ tell them lawful for you
		
01:22:50 --> 01:22:53
			all pure foods what is lawful does not
		
01:22:53 --> 01:22:58
			require a list you don't have to prove
		
01:22:58 --> 01:23:03
			lawfulness you have to prove unlawfulness وَمَا عَلَّمْتُمْ
		
01:23:03 --> 01:23:07
			مِنَ الْجَوَارِحِ مُكَلِّبِينَ and the game taught by
		
01:23:07 --> 01:23:11
			animals you have trained لُعَلِّمُونَهُنَّ مِمَّا عَلَّمَكُمُ اللَّهِ
		
01:23:11 --> 01:23:13
			you train them with the knowledge Allah gave
		
01:23:13 --> 01:23:17
			you again the Quran Allah gave you Allah
		
01:23:17 --> 01:23:19
			did not reveal in a particular scripture how
		
01:23:19 --> 01:23:23
			do you train dogs to hunt or how
		
01:23:23 --> 01:23:26
			do you train eagles to hunt or falcons
		
01:23:26 --> 01:23:28
			to hunt how do you do Allah did
		
01:23:28 --> 01:23:30
			not reveal that in the Bible or the
		
01:23:30 --> 01:23:33
			Quran or any other scripture that we're aware
		
01:23:33 --> 01:23:35
			of but that is also a God-given
		
01:23:35 --> 01:23:40
			knowledge and should be respected as such فَكُلُوا
		
01:23:40 --> 01:23:42
			مِمَّا أَمْسَكْنَ عَلَيْكُمْ so eat of what they
		
01:23:42 --> 01:23:45
			catch for you وَذْكُرُ اسْمَ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ mention
		
01:23:45 --> 01:23:48
			Allah's name over it وَاتَّقُوا اللَّهِ and observe
		
01:23:48 --> 01:23:50
			the taqwa of Allah إِنَّ اللَّهَ سَرِيعُ الْحِسَابِ
		
01:23:50 --> 01:23:53
			Allah is most surely swift in settling the
		
01:23:53 --> 01:23:56
			accounts اليومَ أُحِلَّ لَكُمُ الطَّيِّبَاتِ so today all
		
01:23:56 --> 01:24:01
			lawful things all pure things are declared lawful
		
01:24:01 --> 01:24:05
			for you وَطَعَامُوا الَّذِينَ أُوتُوا الْكِتَابَ حِلٌّ لَّكُمْ
		
01:24:08 --> 01:24:09
			so is the food of the people of
		
01:24:09 --> 01:24:12
			the book lawful for you and your food
		
01:24:12 --> 01:24:15
			is lawful for them the completion of this
		
01:24:15 --> 01:24:18
			religion let that not lead for you to
		
01:24:18 --> 01:24:21
			close your doors on them let it open
		
01:24:21 --> 01:24:27
			doors for mutual hospitality وَالْمُحْسَنَاتُ مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنَاتِ
		
01:24:27 --> 01:24:31
			وَالْمُحْسَنَاتُ مِنَ الَّذِينَ أُوتُوا الْكِتَابَ مِنْ قَبْلِكُمْ and
		
01:24:31 --> 01:24:33
			the chaste believing women as well as the
		
01:24:33 --> 01:24:35
			chaste women of those who were granted the
		
01:24:35 --> 01:24:39
			scripture before you they have been made lawful
		
01:24:39 --> 01:24:42
			for you to marry them as well إِذَا
		
01:24:42 --> 01:24:46
			آتَيْتُمُوا هُنَّ أُجُورَهُنَّ provided you give them their
		
01:24:46 --> 01:24:52
			dowry مُحْسَنِينَ غَيْرَ مُسَافِحِينَ desiring chastity not merely
		
01:24:52 --> 01:24:55
			sexual pleasure again that should not be the
		
01:24:55 --> 01:24:58
			single guiding principle of your marriage although an
		
01:24:58 --> 01:25:01
			important principle is one of many others you
		
01:25:01 --> 01:25:04
			have an entire institution of the family to
		
01:25:04 --> 01:25:07
			develop to build the relationship is so much
		
01:25:07 --> 01:25:13
			more than just that sexual pleasure وَلَا مُتَّخِذِي
		
01:25:13 --> 01:25:17
			أَخْدَانَ nor to keep a secret mistresses وَمَنْ
		
01:25:17 --> 01:25:21
			يَكْفُرُ بِالْعِيمَانِ and whoever denies in spite of
		
01:25:21 --> 01:25:26
			iman of faith فَقَدْ حَبِطَ عَمَلُهُ all his
		
01:25:26 --> 01:25:30
			good deeds will become useless وَهُوَ فِي الْآخِرَةِ
		
01:25:30 --> 01:25:32
			مِنَ الْخَاسِرِينَ and he would be of the
		
01:25:32 --> 01:25:36
			losers in the hereafter يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا
		
01:25:36 --> 01:25:39
			إِذَا قُمْتُمْ إِلَى الصَّلَاةِ you who have believed
		
01:25:39 --> 01:25:43
			when you stand for prayer فَغْصِلُوا وُجُوهَكُمْ وَأَيْدِيَكُمْ
		
01:25:43 --> 01:25:45
			إِلَى الْمَرَّافِقِ wash your faces and your hands
		
01:25:45 --> 01:25:50
			up to the elbows وَمْسَحُوا بِرُؤُسِكُمْ and wipe
		
01:25:50 --> 01:25:54
			your heads وَأَرْجُلَكُمْ إِلَى الْكَعْبَيْنِ and wash your
		
01:25:54 --> 01:26:03
			feet up to your ankles Now, how closely
		
01:26:03 --> 01:26:10
			your spiritual activities your acts of spiritual purification
		
01:26:10 --> 01:26:14
			how closely tied in they are with your
		
01:26:14 --> 01:26:20
			physical purification how it is to be how
		
01:26:20 --> 01:26:24
			this interaction, how intertwined your physical and spiritual
		
01:26:24 --> 01:26:28
			are is to be born in mind such
		
01:26:28 --> 01:26:31
			that there is no spiritual purification if you're
		
01:26:31 --> 01:26:36
			not regarding these physical rituals or the physical
		
01:26:36 --> 01:26:39
			in the rituals the spirit is important but
		
01:26:39 --> 01:26:41
			not at the cost of the physical and
		
01:26:41 --> 01:26:49
			vice versa and so, washing up جُبُو or
		
01:26:49 --> 01:26:54
			غُسل prior to Salah prior to engagement in
		
01:26:54 --> 01:26:58
			the ritual Ibadah and how the ritual Ibadah
		
01:26:58 --> 01:27:03
			itself is comprised of physical actions again, the
		
01:27:03 --> 01:27:09
			intertwinement of the two dimensions how you're physically
		
01:27:09 --> 01:27:14
			gathering dust unwittingly that in the process of
		
01:27:14 --> 01:27:19
			work in the process of daily chores you
		
01:27:19 --> 01:27:24
			end up getting dirty and that's okay there
		
01:27:24 --> 01:27:28
			is nothing wrong with that that is actually
		
01:27:28 --> 01:27:33
			appreciated Allah loves the smell of sweat because
		
01:27:33 --> 01:27:37
			it is a sign of hard work that's
		
01:27:37 --> 01:27:41
			fine but that doesn't mean you just stay
		
01:27:41 --> 01:27:46
			sweaty and thinky you wash it away you
		
01:27:46 --> 01:27:49
			wash it away just like that acts of
		
01:27:49 --> 01:27:54
			spiritual engagement just in the matter of the
		
01:27:54 --> 01:27:58
			chores that you do or the responsibilities that
		
01:27:58 --> 01:28:05
			you fulfill you gather dust you relieve sweat
		
01:28:05 --> 01:28:10
			you develop an odor and that has to
		
01:28:10 --> 01:28:18
			be ritually, ritualistically, routinely washed away it is
		
01:28:18 --> 01:28:22
			inevitable that when you are in the course
		
01:28:22 --> 01:28:25
			of your chores you will become dirty, even
		
01:28:25 --> 01:28:31
			filthy and it is inevitable that when you
		
01:28:31 --> 01:28:34
			are in the course of fulfilling your spiritual
		
01:28:34 --> 01:28:38
			responsibilities you will flip you will err you
		
01:28:38 --> 01:28:48
			may sin understandable ritualistic cleansing non-obsessive
		
01:28:48 --> 01:28:56
			appropriate, reasonable, committed will help you along the
		
01:28:56 --> 01:29:02
			path of your growth as an individual وَإِن
		
01:29:02 --> 01:29:05
			كُنْتُمْ جُنُوبًا but if you are impure فَالطَّهْرُوا
		
01:29:05 --> 01:29:11
			then purify yourselves وَإِن كُنْتُمْ مَرْضَاءً وَعَلَى سَفْرٍ
		
01:29:11 --> 01:29:17
			but if you are sick or traveling أَوْ
		
01:29:17 --> 01:29:21
			جَاءَ أَحَدٌ مِنكُ مِنِ الْغَائِطِ or one of
		
01:29:21 --> 01:29:24
			you just used the toilet أَوْ لَمَسْتُبُ النِّسَاءُ
		
01:29:24 --> 01:29:27
			or you had sexual contact with women فَلَمْ
		
01:29:27 --> 01:29:29
			تَجِدُوا مَآ and you do not find water
		
01:29:29 --> 01:29:33
			فَتَيَمَّمُوا صَعِيدًا طَيِّبًا then resort to clean soil
		
01:29:33 --> 01:29:37
			يُتَيَمَّم perfectly fine again no rigidity, none of
		
01:29:37 --> 01:29:40
			these things become ends in and of themselves
		
01:29:40 --> 01:29:43
			these are means you have access to them,
		
01:29:43 --> 01:29:44
			great if you don't have access to them,
		
01:29:44 --> 01:29:47
			don't worry wait until you do and just
		
01:29:47 --> 01:29:51
			here's the alternative until you do فَمْسَحُوا بِوَجُوهِكُمْ
		
01:29:51 --> 01:29:55
			وَأَيْدِيكُمْ مِنْ then rub your faces and hands
		
01:29:55 --> 01:29:58
			with it مَا يُرِيدُ اللَّهُ لِيَجْعَلَ عَلَيْكُمْ مِنْ
		
01:29:58 --> 01:29:59
			حَرَجٍ Allah does not want to put any
		
01:29:59 --> 01:30:02
			burden on you how these rituals become a
		
01:30:02 --> 01:30:05
			burden on a person when they become ends
		
01:30:05 --> 01:30:08
			in themselves when there is nothing more to
		
01:30:08 --> 01:30:11
			get out of them other than making them
		
01:30:11 --> 01:30:15
			absolutely perfect and how that absolute perfection is
		
01:30:15 --> 01:30:18
			not even demanded of you when you start
		
01:30:18 --> 01:30:21
			looking for absolute perfection in cleaning yourself or
		
01:30:21 --> 01:30:25
			purifying yourself and how that results in an
		
01:30:25 --> 01:30:32
			obsessive ritualistic behavior not a meaningfully ritualistic behavior
		
01:30:32 --> 01:30:36
			but an obsessive ritualistic behavior and how that
		
01:30:36 --> 01:30:40
			drives you away from the other responsibilities, commitments
		
01:30:40 --> 01:30:43
			وَوْفُوا بِالْعُقُودِ that you have to live up
		
01:30:43 --> 01:30:45
			to the contracts that you have to fulfill
		
01:30:47 --> 01:30:49
			وَلِيُتِمَّ نِعْمَتَهُ عَلَيْكُمْ in order to complete His
		
01:30:49 --> 01:30:52
			favor on you Allah put this upon you
		
01:30:52 --> 01:30:57
			to favor you not to put you through
		
01:30:57 --> 01:31:00
			more difficulty لَعَلَّكُمْ تَشْكُرُونَ so that perhaps you
		
01:31:00 --> 01:31:03
			may be grateful that from here the path
		
01:31:03 --> 01:31:06
			of gratitude becomes easier to pursue and follow
		
01:31:06 --> 01:31:10
			وَذْكُرُوا نِعْمَةَ اللَّهِ عَلَيْكُمْ so remember the blessing
		
01:31:10 --> 01:31:12
			of Allah the favor of Allah upon you
		
01:31:12 --> 01:31:15
			وَمِثَاقَهُ الَّذِي وَاتَقَكُمْ بِهِ as well as the
		
01:31:15 --> 01:31:19
			covenant by which He bound you the contract
		
01:31:19 --> 01:31:22
			that you have with Him إِذْ قُلْتُمْ سَمِعْنَا
		
01:31:22 --> 01:31:24
			وَأَطْعَنَا when you said we listen and we
		
01:31:24 --> 01:31:28
			obey when you said that we have responsibilities
		
01:31:28 --> 01:31:31
			to fulfill that it is an extension of
		
01:31:31 --> 01:31:34
			our توحيد, of our صلاة, of our all
		
01:31:34 --> 01:31:37
			these rituals that we will go around in
		
01:31:37 --> 01:31:40
			society and do the best that we can
		
01:31:41 --> 01:31:44
			وَاتَّقُوا اللَّهِ and in doing the best that
		
01:31:44 --> 01:31:45
			we can there is necessarily going to be
		
01:31:45 --> 01:31:48
			a discipline that is followed there will be
		
01:31:49 --> 01:31:56
			organized efforts that are entailed and listening and
		
01:31:56 --> 01:32:01
			obeying following that discipline following that order is
		
01:32:01 --> 01:32:05
			a necessary part of it وَاتَّقُوا اللَّهِ and
		
01:32:05 --> 01:32:08
			observe the تقوى of Allah إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَلِيمٌ
		
01:32:08 --> 01:32:10
			بِذَاتِ السَّدُولِ for sure Allah knows the secrets
		
01:32:10 --> 01:32:14
			of the chest يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا you
		
01:32:14 --> 01:32:18
			who have believed كُنُوا قَوَّامِينَ لِلَّهِ stand up
		
01:32:18 --> 01:32:21
			for Allah شُهَدَأَ بِالْقِصْتِ to witness in justice
		
01:32:21 --> 01:32:24
			so what is this سَمِعْنَا وَأَطْعَنَا in the
		
01:32:24 --> 01:32:27
			direction of it is in the direction of
		
01:32:27 --> 01:32:30
			standing up for Allah standing up for justice
		
01:32:31 --> 01:32:34
			all the time bearing in mind the importance
		
01:32:34 --> 01:32:41
			of a continuous practice of تقوى why?
		
01:32:42 --> 01:32:46
			because even at the time of the revelation
		
01:32:46 --> 01:32:49
			of these ayaats the very end of revelation
		
01:32:50 --> 01:32:58
			all تَقْبِيرِ yet the ذاتِ السُّدُولِ the secrets
		
01:32:58 --> 01:33:01
			of your chest that Allah is fully aware
		
01:33:01 --> 01:33:06
			of there's stuff that goes on there that
		
01:33:06 --> 01:33:08
			you want to be very very careful about
		
01:33:08 --> 01:33:10
			that you want to be very very wary
		
01:33:10 --> 01:33:13
			of that you want to be mindful of
		
01:33:13 --> 01:33:16
			as much as possible you don't know what
		
01:33:16 --> 01:33:19
			strikes from within yourself and brings you down
		
01:33:19 --> 01:33:23
			you can't take your own unconscious for granted
		
01:33:26 --> 01:33:29
			not until the day you die so you
		
01:33:29 --> 01:33:32
			keep this practice up يَا أَيُّهُ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا
		
01:33:32 --> 01:33:37
			قُونُوا قَوَّامِينَ لِلَّهِ الشُّهَدَىٰ أَبِالْبِسْتِ with those practices
		
01:33:37 --> 01:33:40
			lived up to the spirit with which they're
		
01:33:40 --> 01:33:44
			revealed you go ahead and you become people
		
01:33:44 --> 01:33:47
			of justice people of Allah وَلَا يَجْرِمَنَّكُمْ شَنَآنُ
		
01:33:47 --> 01:33:49
			قَوْمٍ عَلَىٰ أَلَّا تَعْدِلُونَ let not the animosity
		
01:33:49 --> 01:33:51
			against some people lead you to do injustice
		
01:33:51 --> 01:33:54
			again of the secrets of this chest of
		
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			the chest the unconscious within each human being
		
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			how it manifests itself to favor your own
		
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			vested interest, we saw that towards the end
		
01:34:09 --> 01:34:15
			of Surah Nisa وَلَوْ عَلَىٰ أَنفُسِكُمْ even if
		
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			it is against your own selves, your parents
		
01:34:17 --> 01:34:24
			your children, your own people how that's so
		
01:34:24 --> 01:34:29
			deeply rooted within us and then also deeply
		
01:34:29 --> 01:34:32
			rooted is the other the flip side of
		
01:34:32 --> 01:34:37
			it, resentment towards others and how that resentment
		
01:34:37 --> 01:34:40
			can be so powerful, so overbearing so overwhelming
		
01:34:42 --> 01:34:47
			as overbearing, as overwhelming as your love for
		
01:34:47 --> 01:34:51
			your own self can be your hatred for
		
01:34:51 --> 01:34:54
			the other to the point that it can
		
01:34:54 --> 01:34:58
			hijack your entire system, it can hijack your
		
01:34:58 --> 01:35:05
			entire personality it can hijack your religiosity and
		
01:35:05 --> 01:35:11
			make it demonic make it demonic be very
		
01:35:11 --> 01:35:16
			wary of this resentment of this hatred how
		
01:35:16 --> 01:35:20
			far it can carry you وَلَا يَجْرِمَنَّكُمْ شَنَآنُ
		
01:35:20 --> 01:35:28
			قَوْمٍ عَلَىٰ تَعْدِلُ اعْدِلُ be just هو أقرب
		
01:35:28 --> 01:35:33
			للتقوى that is close to piety any conception
		
01:35:33 --> 01:35:37
			of piety which does not relate itself to
		
01:35:37 --> 01:35:41
			or worse, it dissociates itself from, it cuts
		
01:35:41 --> 01:35:49
			itself off from social relations society rights and
		
01:35:50 --> 01:35:55
			responsibilities privileges and vulnerabilities, all the dynamics that
		
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			are going on in your society, if your
		
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			taqwa is cutting you off from that that's
		
01:36:02 --> 01:36:08
			not taqwa that's demonic spirituality if it leaves
		
01:36:08 --> 01:36:12
			you so مطمئن if it leaves you to
		
01:36:12 --> 01:36:17
			become so satisfied, your nirvana that you attain
		
01:36:20 --> 01:36:22
			you're such a you have so much aplomb
		
01:36:23 --> 01:36:28
			you're so disconcerted you're on another planet, so
		
01:36:28 --> 01:36:32
			unfazed at what goes around you're so much
		
01:36:32 --> 01:36:40
			at peace what nonsense do you care what's
		
01:36:40 --> 01:36:41
			going on in the world around you?
		
01:36:42 --> 01:36:44
			what sort of a spirituality is that?
		
01:36:46 --> 01:36:54
			just grow up grow up stop this spiritual
		
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			* you have responsibilities in the society, people
		
01:37:01 --> 01:37:05
			are suffering it should hurt you you should
		
01:37:05 --> 01:37:07
			want to do something about it, you don't
		
01:37:07 --> 01:37:09
			want to be reactionary and impulsive about it,
		
01:37:09 --> 01:37:17
			fair enough but some rule something some good
		
01:37:17 --> 01:37:20
			some way the world becomes a better place
		
01:37:20 --> 01:37:26
			because of you اعدلوا be just هو اقرب
		
01:37:26 --> 01:37:32
			للتقوى that is closer to taqwa واتقوا الله
		
01:37:32 --> 01:37:37
			observe the taqwa of Allah be mindful of
		
01:37:37 --> 01:37:41
			Allah be conscious of Allah beware of Allah
		
01:37:41 --> 01:37:48
			you disregard Him it manifests in you disregarding
		
01:37:48 --> 01:37:55
			the society disregarding His people His creation any
		
01:37:55 --> 01:37:58
			conception of God any conception of Allah that
		
01:37:58 --> 01:38:03
			is rationalizing your dissociation from people for you
		
01:38:05 --> 01:38:07
			that is not Allah that is not Allah
		
01:38:07 --> 01:38:10
			of the Quran that is a God of
		
01:38:10 --> 01:38:12
			your own fabrication, that is a God of
		
01:38:12 --> 01:38:15
			your own idol that you take in your
		
01:38:15 --> 01:38:21
			hands and it gives you itminan and says
		
01:38:21 --> 01:38:24
			receive as you can be beware of that
		
01:38:24 --> 01:38:30
			itminan seek Allah's refuge from that inner peace
		
01:38:31 --> 01:38:38
			that numbs you that desensitizes you from what's
		
01:38:38 --> 01:38:41
			going on in the world واتقوا الله إِنَّ
		
01:38:41 --> 01:38:45
			اللَّهَ خَبِيرٌ بِمَا تَعْمَلُونَ so observe the taqwa
		
01:38:45 --> 01:38:48
			of Allah, Allah is fully aware of what
		
01:38:48 --> 01:38:51
			you do وَعَدَ اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعْمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ
		
01:38:51 --> 01:38:52
			Allah has promised those who believe and act
		
01:38:52 --> 01:38:56
			righteously لَهُم مَغْفُرَةٌ مُؤَجْرٌ عَظِيمٌ that for them
		
01:38:56 --> 01:38:59
			is a forgiveness and a great reward وَالَّذِينَ
		
01:38:59 --> 01:39:02
			كَفَرُوا وَكَذَّبُوا بِآيَاتِنَا and those who refuse to
		
01:39:02 --> 01:39:06
			believe and deny our ayat أُولَٰئِكَ أَصْحَابُ الْجَحِيمِ
		
01:39:06 --> 01:39:08
			these are going to be the companions of
		
01:39:08 --> 01:39:12
			the hellfire يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا you who
		
01:39:12 --> 01:39:16
			have believed أُذْكُرُوا نِعْمَةَ اللَّهِ عَلَيْكُمْ remember Allah's
		
01:39:16 --> 01:39:19
			favor upon you بني إسرائيل were also they
		
01:39:19 --> 01:39:25
			had the in'aam of Allah Allah kept
		
01:39:25 --> 01:39:29
			reminding them يَا بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلُ أُذْكُرُوا نِعْمَةِ الَّذِي
		
01:39:29 --> 01:39:34
			أَنْعَمْتُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَأَنِّي فَضَّلْتُكُمْ عَلَيْلَهِمْ kept reminding them
		
01:39:34 --> 01:39:37
			now this same phrase in the same words
		
01:39:37 --> 01:39:40
			being addressed to يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا أُذْكُرُوا
		
01:39:40 --> 01:39:44
			نِعْمَةَ اللَّهِ عَلَيْكُمْ don't forget Allah's favor on
		
01:39:44 --> 01:39:46
			you remember Allah's favor upon you إِذْ هَمَّا
		
01:39:46 --> 01:39:49
			قَوْمُنَا يَبْسُطُوا إِلَيْكُمْ أَيْدِيَهُمْ like they were told
		
01:39:49 --> 01:39:54
			remember إِذْ نَجَّيْنَاكُمْ مِّنْ آيْلِ فِرْعَوْنِ we saved
		
01:39:54 --> 01:39:56
			you from the people of now يَا أَيُّهَا
		
01:39:56 --> 01:39:58
			الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا being told remember that there was
		
01:39:58 --> 01:40:03
			a people who wanted to harm you يَبْسُطُوا
		
01:40:03 --> 01:40:06
			إِلَيْكُمْ أَيْدِيَهُمْ they were reaching out to hurt
		
01:40:06 --> 01:40:09
			you to kill you فَكَفَّ أَيْدِيَهُمْ أَنْهُمْ أَيْدِيَهُمْ
		
01:40:09 --> 01:40:13
			أَنْكُمْ while Allah held back their hands from
		
01:40:13 --> 01:40:15
			you Allah did not let them harm you
		
01:40:15 --> 01:40:18
			hurt you وَاتَّقُوا اللَّهُ observe the taqwa of
		
01:40:18 --> 01:40:22
			Allah remember Allah in all of this وَعَلَى
		
01:40:22 --> 01:40:26
			اللَّهِ فَلْيَتَوَكَّلِ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ and upon Allah alone let
		
01:40:26 --> 01:40:31
			the believers place their trust وَلَقَدْ أَصَدَ اللَّهُ
		
01:40:31 --> 01:40:34
			مِثَاقَ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلٍ and Allah did take a
		
01:40:34 --> 01:40:38
			firm covenant from Bani Israel وَبَعَثْنَا مِنْهُمْ أُثْنَ
		
01:40:38 --> 01:40:40
			عَشْرَ نَقِيبًا and we appointed from among them
		
01:40:40 --> 01:40:43
			twelve leaders وَقَالَ اللَّهُ إِنِّي مَعَكُمْ and Allah
		
01:40:43 --> 01:40:46
			said I am with you لَئِنْ أَقَمْتُمُ الصَّلَاةَ
		
01:40:46 --> 01:40:49
			وَآتَيْتُمُ الزَّكَاةَ if you establish prayer and pay
		
01:40:49 --> 01:40:54
			zakah وَآمَنْتُمْ بِرُسُلِي وَأَذَّرْتُمُوهُمْ and you believe in
		
01:40:54 --> 01:40:58
			my messengers and you give them respect you
		
01:40:58 --> 01:41:03
			give them respect and how this one word
		
01:41:03 --> 01:41:09
			respect how much of an integral component it
		
01:41:09 --> 01:41:15
			is of eastern religion of eastern tradition and
		
01:41:15 --> 01:41:19
			how desperately the world is in need of
		
01:41:19 --> 01:41:26
			this respect and that how when we lost
		
01:41:26 --> 01:41:33
			respect for the most sacred institutions we lost
		
01:41:33 --> 01:41:38
			respect for each other we lost respect for
		
01:41:38 --> 01:41:41
			each other and what we're left with is
		
01:41:41 --> 01:41:52
			this artificial diplomacy this fake this
		
01:41:54 --> 01:42:01
			this tea party face that we take up
		
01:42:02 --> 01:42:08
			and how much hatred, rancor, resentment is bred
		
01:42:08 --> 01:42:13
			on the inside وَآمَنْتُمْ بِرُسُلِي وَأَذَّرْتُمُوهُمْ and believe
		
01:42:13 --> 01:42:19
			in my messengers and respect them وَأَقْرَبْتُمُ اللَّهَ
		
01:42:19 --> 01:42:22
			قَرْضًا حَسًّا and give Allah a beautiful loan
		
01:42:23 --> 01:42:30
			again post conquest after Mecca has been won
		
01:42:30 --> 01:42:36
			over conquered conquered the sahabah are being told
		
01:42:36 --> 01:42:38
			and to them all of us are being
		
01:42:38 --> 01:42:42
			told the job is not done this is
		
01:42:42 --> 01:42:45
			only the beginning this is the beginning of
		
01:42:45 --> 01:42:48
			the new phase so much more is left
		
01:42:48 --> 01:42:52
			to be done وَقْتِ فُرْسَتْ هَيْ كَهَا قَامَ
		
01:42:52 --> 01:42:55
			بِهِ بَاقِي هَا نُورِتْ تَوْحِيدِ كَا اِطْمَامَ بِهِ
		
01:42:55 --> 01:42:59
			بَاقِي this Noor-e-Tawheed that requires itmam
		
01:43:00 --> 01:43:04
			requires it from your hands the prophetic phase
		
01:43:04 --> 01:43:09
			of it may be over but this non
		
01:43:09 --> 01:43:13
			-prophetic phase is no less important no less
		
01:43:13 --> 01:43:16
			significant and you will not be held any
		
01:43:16 --> 01:43:20
			less accountable as a community as a group,
		
01:43:20 --> 01:43:23
			as an ummah for failing to live up
		
01:43:23 --> 01:43:27
			to it وَقْرَبْتُمُ اللَّهَ قَرْضًا حَسًّا and you
		
01:43:27 --> 01:43:30
			give a beautiful loan to Allah لَأُكَفِّرَنَّ عَنْكُمْ
		
01:43:30 --> 01:43:35
			سَيْجِعَاتِكُمْ and I will remove your سَيْجِعَات from
		
01:43:35 --> 01:43:40
			you your ill actions from you وَلَأُدْخِلَنَّكُمْ جَنَّاتٍ
		
01:43:40 --> 01:43:42
			تَجْرِي مِنْ تَحْتِهَا الْأَنْهَارِ and I will admit
		
01:43:42 --> 01:43:45
			you to gardens beneath which rivers flow فَمَنْ
		
01:43:45 --> 01:43:47
			كَفَّرَ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ مِنْكُمْ but if someone from
		
01:43:47 --> 01:43:51
			you disbelieves even after that فَقَدْ ضَلَّتْ سَبَاءَ
		
01:43:51 --> 01:43:53
			السَّبِيلِ he has lost the straight path how
		
01:43:53 --> 01:43:57
			much of a tendency was there for the
		
01:43:57 --> 01:44:01
			victory at Mecca and for the victory that
		
01:44:01 --> 01:44:03
			came after that to get to the heads
		
01:44:03 --> 01:44:07
			of the Muslims so that they really started
		
01:44:07 --> 01:44:09
			start thinking of themselves that the job is
		
01:44:09 --> 01:44:13
			done and we're the men we're the people
		
01:44:14 --> 01:44:17
			and how important is it for them to
		
01:44:17 --> 01:44:20
			continue to be reminded that no no no
		
01:44:20 --> 01:44:24
			no keep it on keep it going don't
		
01:44:24 --> 01:44:27
			take this for granted the work needs to
		
01:44:27 --> 01:44:33
			continue فَبِمَا نَقْضِهِمْ مِثَاقُهُمْ لَعَنَّاهُمْ so for the
		
01:44:33 --> 01:44:38
			breaking of their covenant we cursed them وَجَعَلْنَا
		
01:44:38 --> 01:44:42
			قُلُوبَهُمْ قَاسِيَ and we made their hearts hard
		
01:44:42 --> 01:44:46
			يُحَرِّفُونَ الْكَلِمَ عَمَّ وَضِعِهِ they tamper with words
		
01:44:46 --> 01:44:48
			taking them out of their proper place وَنَسُوا
		
01:44:48 --> 01:44:51
			حَظًّا مِّمَّا ذُكِّرُوا بِهِ and have forgotten a
		
01:44:51 --> 01:44:53
			portion of what they were reminded وَلَا تَزَالُ
		
01:44:53 --> 01:44:57
			تَطْطَلِعُوا عَلَى خَائِنَةٍ مِّنْهُمْ you will still observe
		
01:44:57 --> 01:44:59
			a treachery from them إِلَّا قَلِيلًا مِّنْهُمْ except
		
01:44:59 --> 01:45:02
			a few of them that's become the nature
		
01:45:02 --> 01:45:05
			of their society that they're a treacherous people
		
01:45:06 --> 01:45:12
			and that's a degenerate people of scripture there's
		
01:45:12 --> 01:45:15
			a demonic religiosity in action and when that's
		
01:45:15 --> 01:45:23
			prevalent in a society trust is difficult mistrust
		
01:45:23 --> 01:45:31
			is everywhere فَاعْفُوا عَنْهُمْ وَاصْفَحْتُ so let them
		
01:45:31 --> 01:45:34
			be overlook, let it go إِنَّ اللَّهَ يُحِبُّ
		
01:45:34 --> 01:45:37
			الْمُحْسِنِينَ Allah loves the people of Ihsan and
		
01:45:37 --> 01:45:42
			it is incredible this attitude that the Quran
		
01:45:42 --> 01:45:50
			engenders that if an untrustworthy person has any
		
01:45:50 --> 01:45:57
			potential of trustworthiness then that potential can only
		
01:45:57 --> 01:46:02
			be brought out if they're trusted to some
		
01:46:02 --> 01:46:09
			extent if they're trusted to some extent and
		
01:46:09 --> 01:46:14
			that is possible at the station of Ihsan
		
01:46:14 --> 01:46:18
			with the practice of Ihsan with the pursuit
		
01:46:18 --> 01:46:23
			of Ihsan that you trust them fully mindful
		
01:46:23 --> 01:46:26
			that they may betray you taking your precautions
		
01:46:26 --> 01:46:31
			as best as possible but being ready and
		
01:46:31 --> 01:46:35
			being trusted may allow for them to tap
		
01:46:35 --> 01:46:44
			into their positive potential which is trustworthy the
		
01:46:44 --> 01:46:48
			قَلِيلَ مِنْهُمْ the few of them who are
		
01:46:48 --> 01:46:53
			capable or worthy of being trusted you're allowing
		
01:46:53 --> 01:46:57
			for them to become more prominent significant and
		
01:46:57 --> 01:47:06
			there are numbers to a hatred a rejection
		
01:47:07 --> 01:47:14
			a belligerent absolute criticism all that it does
		
01:47:14 --> 01:47:22
			is creates the worst in them allows for
		
01:47:22 --> 01:47:29
			that to proliferate your rigidity makes them rigid
		
01:47:29 --> 01:47:32
			that rigidity makes you even more firm you
		
01:47:32 --> 01:47:39
			keep reinforcing each other's hatred that's not how
		
01:47:39 --> 01:47:42
			it works and anyone who has worked with
		
01:47:42 --> 01:47:47
			any couple who are having issues knows that
		
01:47:47 --> 01:47:55
			this this vicious cycle of hatred of blame
		
01:47:57 --> 01:47:59
			where does it lead to?
		
01:48:00 --> 01:48:02
			how is it supposed to be stopped?
		
01:48:02 --> 01:48:07
			one party has to take the step of
		
01:48:07 --> 01:48:15
			letting go and trusting despite themselves وَمِنَ الَّذِينَ
		
01:48:15 --> 01:48:17
			قَالُوا إِنَّ النَّصَارَ أَخَذْنَا مِثَاقَهُمْ and we took
		
01:48:17 --> 01:48:19
			a firm covenant from those who claimed to
		
01:48:19 --> 01:48:23
			be Christians فَنَسُوْحَبْنُم مِّمَّذُكْتِرُبِي they too forgot a
		
01:48:23 --> 01:48:27
			portion of what they were reminded with don't
		
01:48:27 --> 01:48:31
			be like them فَأَغْرَيْنَ بَيْنَهُمْ الْعَدَابَةَ وَالْبَغْضَاءَ إِلَى
		
01:48:31 --> 01:48:33
			يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةَ so we stirred up an enmity
		
01:48:33 --> 01:48:35
			and hatred among them to last until the
		
01:48:35 --> 01:48:38
			day of judgment when they forget a portion
		
01:48:38 --> 01:48:43
			of their own scripture what they have they
		
01:48:43 --> 01:48:46
			compromise a part of truth do you think
		
01:48:46 --> 01:48:49
			they're going to remain firm in one solid
		
01:48:49 --> 01:48:52
			united group those who rejected that other part
		
01:48:52 --> 01:48:55
			they're going to reiterate the logic of that
		
01:48:55 --> 01:48:59
			rejection within themselves and they're going to further
		
01:48:59 --> 01:49:05
			split up they're going to further fragment because
		
01:49:05 --> 01:49:08
			what led for them to reject what they
		
01:49:08 --> 01:49:11
			were reminded of that may have come from
		
01:49:11 --> 01:49:15
			outside they're not going to stop at that
		
01:49:17 --> 01:49:21
			they've tasted blood and now they're going to
		
01:49:21 --> 01:49:25
			bite themselves if they have to and they
		
01:49:25 --> 01:49:32
			do and we all do the moment arbitrary
		
01:49:32 --> 01:49:36
			rejection of truth becomes the order of the
		
01:49:36 --> 01:49:40
			day you will start arbitrarily rejecting portions of
		
01:49:40 --> 01:49:45
			your own truth the moment you start looking
		
01:49:45 --> 01:49:47
			at reality through a black and white lens
		
01:49:49 --> 01:49:54
			I am white and they're black in the
		
01:49:54 --> 01:49:56
			sense of I am right and they are
		
01:49:56 --> 01:49:59
			wrong I am one and they are zero
		
01:50:01 --> 01:50:08
			and that means they're not to be accepted
		
01:50:08 --> 01:50:12
			at all it is at that time that
		
01:50:12 --> 01:50:14
			that lens will now be used against your
		
01:50:14 --> 01:50:21
			own people they're going to bring out what
		
01:50:21 --> 01:50:25
			they hold as a priority and you're going
		
01:50:25 --> 01:50:27
			to see that from that same no no
		
01:50:27 --> 01:50:35
			no one zero and how this binary will
		
01:50:37 --> 01:50:40
			turn against its own self and even if
		
01:50:40 --> 01:50:44
			it's the last man on earth he's going
		
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			to be at odds with himself most of
		
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			us are when we pursue that line we're
		
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			against we're at odds with our own self
		
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			gnawing at ourselves gnawing at parts of our
		
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			own personality tearing ourselves up on our own
		
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			selves so we stirred up enmity and hatred
		
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			amongst them to last until the day of
		
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			judgment and Allah will soon inform them of
		
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			what they had been doing now people of
		
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			the book our messenger has come to you
		
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			and he will clarify to you much of
		
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			what you concealed from your own scripture that
		
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			rejection made it necessary for you to hide
		
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			portions of your own scripture make they became
		
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			irrelevant that all that is that they're useful
		
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			for is this mindless recitation and they have
		
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			no bearing on your society whatsoever your own
		
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			actions whatsoever you don't even you've forgotten what
		
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			it means though he will overlook a lot
		
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			his practice is not going to be to
		
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			hold you to account for every single thing
		
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			he will remind you a lot of your
		
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			scripture but he's going to be forgiving there
		
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			has come to you from Allah a light
		
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			and a clear book Allah will guide through
		
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			it whoever seeks his good pleasure the ways
		
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			of peace he liberates them out of the
		
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			depths of darkness to light by his permission
		
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			and guides them to a straight path the
		
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			attitude towards which this Quran invites the light
		
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			with which or to which this Quran opens
		
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			your doors to the realities and the truths
		
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			that you are then capable of seeing using
		
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			that and how that becomes the exact opposite
		
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			of that animosity that rejection of truth necessitated
		
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			how this opens ways to peace how this
		
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			opens ways to harmony now how accepting this
		
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			truth develops within you that criterion that standard
		
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			with which you can now accept more truth
		
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			and the closer the more truth you develop
		
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			the greater the understanding becomes the closer you
		
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			become to God to Allah Allahumma anta salam
		
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			wa minka salam Allah is the lamb they
		
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			have disbelieved those who say that Allah himself
		
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			is the Messiah the son of Maryam I
		
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			asked them who has any power against Allah
		
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			to prevent him in if he decides to
		
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			kill the Messiah the son of Maryam and
		
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			his mother everyone on earth all together if
		
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			he wants مَا بَيْنَهُمَاكُمْ Allāh alone belongs to
		
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			the sovereignty of the heavens and the earth
		
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			and everything that's in between them.
		
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			How dare you take that right away from
		
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			Him?
		
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			To make these claims.
		
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			يَقْلُقُ مَا يَشَىٰءُ He creates whatever He wants.
		
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			وَاللَّهُ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَذِيرًۭ And Allah has
		
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			power over everything.
		
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			Why do you continue to insist to dictate
		
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			to Him?
		
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			مَا قَالَتِ الْيَهُودُ وَالنَّصَارَى In the Jews and
		
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			the Christians say نَحْنُ اَبْنَا اللَّهِ وَأَحِبَّاؤُمْ We
		
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			are the children of Allah and His Beloved.
		
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			قُلْ فَلِمَ يُعَذِّبُكُم بِذُنُوبِكُمْ تَوْكَبُنَ Why does Allah
		
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			continue to punish you because of your sins?
		
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			فَلْأَنْتُمْ بَشَرٌ مِّمَّنْ خَلَقُ Rather, you are human
		
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			beings like all other human beings.
		
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			The equality in humanity with respect to responsibility,
		
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			with respect to punishability.
		
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			يَغْفِرُ لِمَنْ يَشَىٰءِ He will forgive whoever He
		
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			wants.
		
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			وَيُعَذِّبُ مَنْ يَشَىٰءِ And He will punish whoever
		
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			He wants.
		
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			وَلِلَّهِ مُلْكُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمْ Allah alone
		
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			belongs to the sovereignty of the heavens and
		
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			the earth and all that is in between
		
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			them.
		
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			All of these subtle ways of when you're
		
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			looking to claim hegemony over the truth, of
		
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			how you're looking to claim sovereignty for yourselves
		
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			and how damaging that is.
		
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			يَاهِلَ الْكِتَابُ قَدْ جَأَكُمْ رَسُولُنَا O people of
		
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			the Book, our Messenger has come to you
		
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			يُبَيْجِنُ لَكُمْ clarifying things to you عَلَى فَتْرَةٍ
		
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			مِّنَ الرُّسُلِ after an interval between the Messengers.
		
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			Messengers came one after another, there's a huge
		
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			gap.
		
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			And comes Rasulullah ﷺ أَن تَقُولُوا مَا جَأَنَا
		
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			مِنْ بَشِيرٍ وَلَا نَذِيرٍ Lest you should say,
		
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			no Messenger of glad tidings nor a warner
		
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			came to us فَقَدَ جَأَكُمْ بَشِيرٌ وَنَذِيرٌ So
		
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			there has come to you a Messenger of
		
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			glad tidings and a warner وَاللَّهُ عَلَى كُلِّ
		
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			شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٍ And Allah has power over everything.
		
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			وآخر دعوانا عن الحمد لله ربنا