Yusha Evans – Dawaah Traning Program week 5

Yusha Evans
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The importance of learning from Prophet's teachings and the need for personal validation in Islam is emphasized. The speakers discuss the importance of understanding Islam and the value of money in achieving success and profitability. They stress the need for proper training and sharing knowledge to attain success and profitability, as well as the importance of learning to obtain the right knowledge to achieve their job.
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Perfecting the sulukah, perfecting the behaviors, and perfecting

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the akhlaq, perfecting the adab.

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Because then your da'wah, even if you

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only know a little bit, your da'wah

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becomes more effective because you have the mannerisms

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of the du'at, the mannerisms that the

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Prophet ﷺ used and his companions, etc., so

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on and so forth.

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Last week we were talking about, we ended

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up with the concept of the jama'ah,

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of sticking with the community, of being a

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part of the body of the Muslims, of

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calling to the jama'ah, calling to the

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body of the Muslims, not calling to a

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hizb, not calling to a certain sect or

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a certain ideology.

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We are calling to Islam, and Islam is

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the Qur'an, the sunnah, as understood by

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the consensus of the majority of the Muslims.

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Today, insha'Allah ta'ala, we will talk

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about education.

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We're going to talk about ilm.

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Now, ilm is one of those concepts that

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after you have these other sifats, we've talked

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about sincerity, we've talked about all the other

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things you must have, then one must attain

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knowledge.

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Because you can't call somebody to something that

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you yourself don't know.

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Like if you ask me for directions to

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a place here in Dallas, most likely I'm

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not going to be able to give you

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those directions because I don't go around too

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much, and plus Dallas is a big confusing

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city, I use the GPS for everything.

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So I tell you, I really don't know.

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I cannot help you get to a place

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that I don't know how to get to.

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So it's the same with calling to Islam.

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We cannot call to that which we do

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not know.

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This was one of the advices always given

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to me by my teachers, and a gem

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of advice given to me by Shaykh Abdullah

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Shantiti.

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He said, make sure that your da'wah

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is, even if it's just a little bit

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that you know, make sure that your da

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'wah is according to the Qur'an, and

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according to the authentic sunnah of the Prophet

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ﷺ.

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Make sure that anything you say with regards

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to da'wah, you can trace it back

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to the Book of Allah, His Prophet, or

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a scholar of those two, insha'Allah.

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Allah ﷻ says in the Qur'an, He

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told His Prophet ﷺ, He commanded him to

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say, قُلْ هَذِيهِ سَبِيلِي Say, this is my

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way.

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Say, this is my path.

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This is the path that I travel.

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أَدْعُوا إِلَى اللَّهِ عَلَى بَصِيرَ I call to

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Allah upon basira.

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And the scholars of tafsir say that basira

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is upon knowledge and revelation that is given

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to me by Allah ﷻ, upon insight given

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to me by Allah.

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He's not calling to anything that He Himself

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has made up.

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Everything that He is calling to, Allah is

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telling them to say, that I call to

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Allah upon basira, upon sure knowledge, upon revelation

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from Allah, upon that which I know to

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be true.

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اَنَا وَمَنَا اتَّابِعَنِي وَسُبْحَانَ اللَّهِ وَمَا أَنَا مِنَ

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الْمُشْرِكِينَ Me and those who follow me.

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So the Prophet is being commanded to say,

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there's a very important verse about da'wah,

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that I call to Allah upon basira.

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So do those who follow me.

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And glory be to Allah, we are not

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of the mushrikeen.

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Meaning that those who follow the footsteps of

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the Prophet ﷺ in giving da'wah must

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also do so with this same basira.

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And this basira is knowledge from Allah ﷻ,

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calling to that which we know to be

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true from the book of Allah and the

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sunnah of His Prophet ﷺ.

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Also the Prophet ﷺ said in the collection

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of Imam Tirmidhi ﷺ that seeking knowledge is

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wajib.

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Seeking knowledge is wajib upon every Muslim.

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To have knowledge is wajib upon every single

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Muslim.

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And we talked about one of the most

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important knowledges that we have, one of the

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qualities of the du'at, was to have

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knowledge about three things.

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Does anybody remember any of those three things?

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What are those three things that I said

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that du'at must have knowledge of?

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Number one, ma'rifatullah.

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Knowledge of Allah ﷻ.

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Number two was...

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We'll quiz you about that a little bit

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later.

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We'll have to go back into it.

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Number one was knowledge of Allah ﷻ.

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Number two was knowledge of the person to

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whom they are calling.

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And then number three, ma'rifatul-Islam.

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The Adility wal-Hajjah.

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And the knowledge of Islam based on its

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evidences and proofs.

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If you look in the Qur'an, Allah

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ﷻ says in surah Muhammad, فَعَلَمْ أَنَّهُ لَا

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إِلَهِ إِلَى اللَّهِ فَعَلَمْ So have knowledge of

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la ilaha illallah.

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There's a command from Allah in the Qur

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'an in surah Muhammad.

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فَعَلَمْ أَنَّهُ لَا إِلَهِ إِلَى اللَّهِ So have

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knowledge, have the knowledge of la ilaha illallah.

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Not just be able to recite it like

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a parrot.

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I mean you can teach birds, you can

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teach a parrot how to say la ilaha

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illallah.

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They're already Muslim by the way.

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But you can teach a parrot how to

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say la ilaha illallah.

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Doesn't necessarily mean they understand completely what they're

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saying.

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You could teach many anything to say la

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ilaha illallah.

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I could go and tell a non-Muslim,

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put a gun to their head, say la

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ilaha illallah.

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They're gonna say it just because I commanded

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them to say it.

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Doesn't mean it does them any benefit.

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They have no idea what they're saying.

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So Allah commands, فَعَلَمْ أَنَّهُ لَا إِلَهِ إِلَى

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اللَّهِ So have knowledge of la ilaha illallah.

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What does it mean?

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What does it mean?

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And it's very simple when we break it

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down.

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We talked about, later on we'll get into

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the deeper concepts of تَرْحِيدَ الرُّبُوبِيَّةِ تَرْحِيدَ الْأُلُحِيَّةِ

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تَرْحِيدَ الْإِسْمَاءِ وَالْإِسْفَاتِ We've covered them briefly.

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But la ilaha illallah is a negation and

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affirmation.

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It's simply that.

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And it's a negation and affirmation.

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Because if you would've went to the Meccans

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at the time of the Prophet ﷺ, if

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you would've went to the Meccans and said,

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Say, أَمَنْتُ بِاللَّهِ Say, you believe in Allah.

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What would they have said?

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Allah says it in the Qur'an.

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What would they have said?

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We already believe in Allah.

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They would've said, okay, أَمَنْتُ بِاللَّهِ We believe

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in Allah.

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But they had placed intercessors between themselves and

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Allah ﷻ.

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When they were asked, why do they worship

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Allat, Al-Uzza, these others, they would say

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that they are the intercessor between us and

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Allah ﷻ.

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We speak to them, and they speak to

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Allah ﷻ.

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Without them, we have no ability to have

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connection to Allah.

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So the Prophet ﷺ was commanding them to

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say two things.

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Number one, الله أحد Allah is singular, unique,

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alone, one.

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There's nothing like Him.

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There's no intercessory.

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There's no intermediary.

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There's nothing that shares His power.

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There's nothing that can harm or benefit you

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besides Him, etc., etc., etc.

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And then the shahada, لا إله إلا الله

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First, getting rid of all of the other

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idols.

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لا إله There is no إله.

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Because the word God, and this is also

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I was asked, I've been doing, my counseling

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sessions are not always just counseling.

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That's why they're called coaching sessions.

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I have had a young man, I think

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I've had five, six sessions with him.

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Because he's interested in Islam, but he's an

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academic.

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So he wants to academically understand Islam.

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So he's been coming to me for sessions.

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And one of the questions he has was,

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why do Muslims always say Allah rather than

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God?

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Why is it?

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Because it feels different, right?

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It feels like I'm going to be now

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worshiping another God.

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He's a Christian, by the way.

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I said there is no difference in concepts.

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The difference is that the English word God

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is a very weak word.

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The English language by its way, it's one

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of the weakest languages on planet Earth.

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But the word God is a weak word

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referring to the Creator.

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Because the word God in Arabic is إله.

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إله is anything that you worship.

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Anything that you worship.

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I literally could take a bottle of water,

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I usually have on the table.

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I could take a bottle of water at

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home.

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I could give it worship.

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I could think that it brings me benefit

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and harm.

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And that becomes an إله.

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That becomes an إله to me.

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The Meccans sometimes when they didn't have a

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God, we know this from one of the

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companions, they would make one out of dates

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and sticks.

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They would make a God out of dates

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and sticks and make that an إله for

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themselves.

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And they said that we were so foolish

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that we would do this until we got

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hungry enough.

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And then we would eat it.

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Then we would just eat it.

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So anything can be made to be an

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إله, right?

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Anything.

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Sometimes our إله becomes ourselves.

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We become our own إله sometimes.

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And that is the new religion of the

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world by the way.

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The new religion of the world that is

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becoming the most prevalent religion of the world

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is the religion of self.

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The religion of self.

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That whatever I feel is true.

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Whatever I think is true.

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Whatever I, you know, concept about the world

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is true.

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Whatever I concept about my own identity is

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true.

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It's the religion of self.

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People have made themselves their own إله.

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And Allah speaks about this in the Qur

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'an as well.

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But an إله, it cannot be Allah subhanahu

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wa ta'ala.

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When we say Allah, we know very, very,

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very basic Arabic grammar.

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If you take the word إله and you

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want to make it a definite article.

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You want to point out that there is

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one specific إله.

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You put an AL in front of it.

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And then it becomes Allah.

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Allah is الإله.

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The إله, the only إله.

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That is it.

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So when we say لا إله, first the

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part of the shahada is a negation.

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There is no إله, except Allah subhanahu wa

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ta'ala.

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So the shahada, it is a very clear

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declaration that I serve no إله.

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I worship no إله.

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I believe in no إله.

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I believe in no other God.

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I serve no other God.

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I worship no other God other than Allah

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subhanahu wa ta'ala who is الإله.

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He is the only one.

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So this is why Allah says فَعَلَمْ أَنَّهُ

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لَا إِلَهَ إِلَى اللَّهِ Have knowledge of لا

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إله إلا الله.

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Because we see all these other religions, even

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the ones that are very close to us

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in worship, they still have problems with ترحيد.

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They still have problems with this concept of

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Allah being the only إله.

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They still have a problem with that.

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Especially when it comes to Christianity.

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There are some Christians who are very close

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to us when it comes to like a

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Seventh-day Adventist and other things of this

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nature.

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They don't believe Jesus to be God in

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the flesh but they believe Him to be

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the begotten Son of God.

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So He is kind of God, part God,

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from God in that essence, if that makes

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sense.

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But that violates the principles of لا إله

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إلا الله.

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It violates the principles of ترحيد.

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The Prophet ﷺ also said and this is

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in رِيْرَ صُولَحٍ that one who treads a

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path of knowledge, one who goes on a

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path of seeking knowledge, then Allah will make

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easy for them the path to Jannah.

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That someone who goes on a path of

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seeking knowledge, then the path to paradise will

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be made easy for them.

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Because knowledge is that thing that gives you

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يقين, certainty.

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And Allah ﷻ gives praise in سُرَةُ البقرة

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in the very beginning of those who are

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يُقِّنون.

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Those who are people who have no doubt.

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How does one cure doubts?

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When we talk about, and that's a lot

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of things that our youth deal with today,

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is شُبُحَة.

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Doubts, doubts in the religion.

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Doubts are cured with knowledge.

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You cannot cure a doubt with anything other

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than knowledge.

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That is the only way you can cure

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a doubt, is knowledge.

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And that knowledge needs to be sincere and

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learned.

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For instance, you might trust me and you

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might believe I'm an honest person.

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And if I told you that there was

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a pet store in Dallas that sold purple

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monkeys that only ate Skittles, right?

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And you might believe me and say, Brother

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Yusha is honest and trustworthy, so you might

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start relaying that information.

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That's not the same kind of knowledge you

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would have if you went to the store

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yourself.

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All the purple monkeys, all of them being

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fed Skittles, that's a different level of knowledge,

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right?

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Now, when you tell someone else, your source

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is, I have seen it with my own

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two eyes.

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I have gone and done the research.

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So it's different than just saying that I

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heard Shaykh so-and-so say it.

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That's fine, if Shaykh so-and-so is

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knowledgeable and accurate.

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But when you go on your own path

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of seeking knowledge, you obtain certainty.

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Certainty, inshaAllah.

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So knowledge is very important.

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The Prophet ﷺ, and this is in al

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-Tirmidhi as well, he said that a servant

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of Allah will remain standing on the Day

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of Judgment until he is questioned about his

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time on this earth and how he used

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it.

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It's one of the things I always talk

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about in my reels, my podcasts, etc.

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And I've even given the khatrah here once

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very early on when I first started, so

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some of you may not have been here.

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I said, what do you believe to be

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your most valuable commodity on this earth?

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The most valuable thing you possess on this

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earth.

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Some people would say right away that the

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most valuable possession is money.

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Maal, money.

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Money comes and goes, right?

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Money comes and goes.

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You can make it, you can lose it,

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you can spend it, you can gain it

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back.

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There are so many people who have had

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money and lost it and gotten it back

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and lost it and gotten it back and

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lost it.

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Your health.

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You can have it, you can lose it,

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you can get it back, you can lose

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it, you can get it back.

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There are so many things, so many other

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commodities that you can have and lose and

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then gain back.

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The most precious commodity that you possess is

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the one single commodity that once it is

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spent, it never returns.

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What commodity is that?

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If you were here been long enough to

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remember that talk.

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Time, time, time is your most precious commodity.

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And let me tell you, take it from

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those of us who in here who are

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already starting to have grades.

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The more grades you get, the more that

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becomes a reality to you.

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That your time is your most precious commodity.

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Because once it is spent, it never returns

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to you.

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This is the one commodity that you can

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never get back, no matter how much you

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try.

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And Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la

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reminds us of the greatness of this commodity

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in the very beautiful surah we talked about

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in one of the other sifat, wal-asr,

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by time.

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inna al-insana lafee khusra Mankind is verily

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in loss by the passage of time.

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Time ticking away, ticking away, ticking away.

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And then I said that there was a

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surah about that way said because illa allatheena

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aamanu wa aamilu salihaati wattawasa bilhaq, wattawasa bil

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-safar.

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Except for those who believe and do righteous

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deeds and call one another to the truth,

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which is Islam, this is da'wah.

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And they call one another to be patient

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because if you're gonna be involved in da

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'wah, you'll have to be patient.

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You remember that if you've been around for

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these sessions long enough inshaAllah.

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And then we also know from the authentic

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hadith al-Qudsi where Allah Subh'anaHu Wa

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Ta-A'la says, I am time, therefore

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do not abuse me.

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Do not abuse me.

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So time, wasted time is one of the

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things you will regret the most because you

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cannot recoup it.

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No matter how much you regret it, you

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cannot recoup it.

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You can regret many things and fix them

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except time that is spent and is gone.

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And every second, tick tock, tick tock, tick

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tock, it's gone and it never comes back.

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We live in the present moment and that's

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all we have.

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That's also why I gave you the advice,

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forget the past, it's gone.

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The past is gone, you cannot return to

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it.

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For the things that you regret in it,

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make tawbah to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta

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-A'la and try to make right what

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you can make right.

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The future is a concept of time that

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we construct and that we use in explaining

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timeframes, right?

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Even in the Qur'an, Allah Subh'anaHu

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Wa Ta-A'la says, do not say

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they're gonna do anything tomorrow without saying insha

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'Allah, it's a concept of time.

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Or we say I'll do something buqarah, insha

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'Allah.

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Tomorrow never really happens in the term of

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physics, in the term of time space.

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Tomorrow never exists, right?

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When you wake up tomorrow, what's it gonna

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be?

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Today, that's it, you cannot go to tomorrow.

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Tomorrow's just a way we frame how we're

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going to live our lives.

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But in reality, we can only exist according

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to the laws of physics that Allah created.

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We can only exist in the present moment.

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You can't move it forward, you can't move

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it back.

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Not possible, they've been trying to figure out

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how for so long, it is not possible.

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And Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la

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says this.

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He talks about when nations, when He has

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decided and decreed for a nation's time to

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come to an end.

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And Allah says it's about every nation.

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Every nation has a set period of time.

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And when that period of time has come

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to an end, they can neither delay it

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nor extend it, even for a moment.

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When the angel of death is presented to

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you, you cannot delay it nor extend it

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for a single moment.

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So the concept of time is your most

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valuable commodity, and it will be one of

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the very first things that you'll be asked

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about on the Day of Judgment.

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Your time on this earth, how did you

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spend it?

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He will also be questioned about his knowledge

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and how he utilized it.

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He'll be questioned about his knowledge.

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How did he utilize it?

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This is why the ulema have such a

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huge burden to bear.

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This is why we give them such great

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respect, is because they have spent so much

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of their time learning this knowledge, and also

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they will be one of the ones to

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hold to account the heaviest on the Day

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of Judgment.

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One of the first three categories of people

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to be thrown into * will be the

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ulema who were not sincere.

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The ulema who were not sincere in their

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knowledge, not sincere in seeking it.

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They did it for the wrong reasons.

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That's why I spoke the very first quality

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of the sifat al-du'a was the

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khalas, having sincerity.

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Having sincerity even in seeking your knowledge.

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Even in seeking your knowledge, because if you

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seek knowledge in order to be known as

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knowledgeable, that will be your reward.

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On the Day of Judgment, you'll have nothing.

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If you seek knowledge in order to just

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argue and debate with people and outsmart them,

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et cetera, that's what you're gonna get the

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reward for.

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Knowledge has to be sought sincerely for the

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sake of the love of Allah subhanahu wa

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ta'ala.

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That knowledge, even if you never are able

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to give it to another person, it is

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sought sincerely for the sake of Allah subhanahu

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wa ta'ala I remember I was sitting

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with, I went to, I think I've mentioned

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this once before, if this was very early

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on, a lot of you might not have

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been here.

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I was in Medina one summer, and I

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was invited to Shaykh Abdullah Shankiti's house.

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He kept putting me off during the week,

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and I kept wondering like, why is he

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putting me off?

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He's like, come on Friday evening, Friday evening,

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because I had some questions I need to

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ask him.

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And on Friday evening, I went with one

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of the senior students of the jamia, a

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brother named Hasib Noor.

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Many of you might know who he is,

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might have heard of him before.

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He's an imam in California now.

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We went to Shaykh Abdullah's house, and one

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of his mates said they're on the roof.

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Shaykh Abdullah had a tent on his roof.

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A lot of people in the Middle East

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do this.

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He had a nice tent on his roof.

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So he went up to the roof, and

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as soon as we walked in, Hasib squeezed

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my hand so hard, like I thought he

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was gonna break my hand.

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What are you doing?

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And he snatched me over to the corner,

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because the whole tent was filled with men

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sitting around.

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And a few of them I recognized.

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I recognized Shaykh Mohammed Mokhtar and a few

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others.

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He pulled me to the side and he

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said, sit down, we're not supposed to be

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here.

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But he invited us here.

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He's like, I don't know why.

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It was a yearly meeting of the scholars

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of Mauritania, like the senior scholars of Mauritania

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were having a meeting.

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And in this meeting is a meeting that

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is closed off.

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Like you don't, like this is not a

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meeting that is just open to the public.

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And what they normally do is they would

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sit around and talk about the issues of

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the day.

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And there would also be fatwa, where this

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is how much respect the scholars of Mauritania

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are given.

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There would be fatwas that would be coming

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down from Kabir al-Ulema.

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But they would send them first to these

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scholars.

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They would send them first to these scholars

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and ask them to give us some feedback,

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give us some advice.

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And I remember this, the level of akhlaq

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of the scholars of Mauritania, I've always noticed

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to be something quite different, right?

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They began the halaqa, but everybody had to

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recite from the Quran, including me with my

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horrid recitation.

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But anyway, and then they would start discussing

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these fatawa and the respect they gave to

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one another.

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Like if there was a question about the

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Quran, they would say this is for something

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for Shaykh Abdullah to answer, because he was

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known as the mufassir of Medina.

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If a question of fiqh came out, they

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would say this is Shaykh Muhammad's.

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Whatever the person who had the seniority in

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that field, they would leave it to them.

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They would not try to overstep one another

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in this.

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And I remember the fatwa that I was

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able, I was actually able to watch them

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discuss is the Kabir ul-Ulema were trying

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to come up with a weight of measure

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for the mud of Umar.

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The mud of Umar, like, because they said

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that this, this is a representation of what

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the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam used to make

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wudu with, the amount of water he would

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make wudu with.

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And they had a container, wallahi, it was

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so small.

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You know, the Turkish coffee pots they use,

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they put on the sand.

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It was literally like this small, like something

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this small.

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And they were even asking some of the

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younger students of these ulema who were there

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to make wudu.

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Like, let me see you make wudu with

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this.

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And they were struggling.

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They were struggling to make wudu out of

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this thing.

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And this is what the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi

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Wasallam used to make wudu with.

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Every time I see us now throw in

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a faucet and make wudu, I'm just like,

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that's probably like, we probably used 50 in

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a minute.

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50 amount that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam

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easily used to use to make wudu.

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Like, you don't need to make wudu.

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Most of us make wudu when we're trying

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to make wudu.

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You go to the bathroom and you can

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tell.

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There's probably like 10 month worth of water,

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you know, just hanging around in the bathroom

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when we leave.

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But anyway, reason I'm mentioning this is, at

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the end of this, the reason Sheikh Abdullah

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invited me, which I didn't know he was

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setting me up like this, is he wanted

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me to tell these scholars about my story

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about how I came to Islam.

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He wanted me to, and I refused.

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I was flat out refusing to even open

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my mouth in that room.

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But he pushed very hard.

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He pushed very hard and came over to

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me and explained.

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He said, look, all of these people in

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this room are like doctors who've never seen

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a patient.

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They're like engineers who've never been able to

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design a building.

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They love da'wah so much.

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When the knowledge they have, they would love

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to share it with as many people as

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they can, but most of them live in

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a bubble.

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They live in a bubble where they're surrounded

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by Muslims all day long.

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So they never get to meet people who

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don't know what Islam is.

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They never, he said, there are some scholars

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here.

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There was one great scholar from Mauritania that

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was there.

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He said, this man, his whole life, he's

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just wanted to give da'wah to people,

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but he's never been in the environment to

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be able to do so.

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So when they meet people who have come

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to Islam, they love to hear their stories.

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And they know that I've told them that

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you're a person who travels the world giving

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da'wah.

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So I gave my story.

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I told my story about how I came

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to Islam.

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And when I talked about the fact that

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no one gave me da'wah, that I

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lived across the street from a masjid my

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whole life, but no one had ever approached

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me, many of them just broke down crying.

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They just broke down crying because they're thinking,

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how is it that they are Muslims?

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They could not concept that there are people

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in the world who know about Allah.

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Even when Shaykh told, how are there people

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in the world that know about Allah?

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They know who Allah is and they see

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non-Muslims every single day.

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And they don't think to tell them, like

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what is wrong?

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That to him, he could not concept this

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understanding.

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So he, you know, that was what I'm

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trying to explain to you is that knowledge,

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knowledge has to be used to benefit other

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people.

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Once you learn, you become responsible.

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You become responsible.

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This is what one of my earliest teachers

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told me, that brother Yusha, you carry a

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double responsibility.

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Number one, Allah guided you.

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And he's given you some knowledge about Islam

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and da'wah, et cetera.

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Number two, you are born and raised amongst

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these people.

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And it has always been the hukm of

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Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la and

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the wisdom of Allah is that He would

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always send a messenger from the people.

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If you look in the Quran, He said,

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we sent, you know, we sent to these

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people their brother, Musa, their brother, their brother.

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He would always send from amongst those people.

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He said, so the fact that you were

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born and raised here and now you have

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the knowledge and Allah has guided you, you

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share a double response.

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You share even bigger responsibility because you understand

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them like I don't understand them.

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You can speak to them like I can't

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speak to them.

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You can get to them on a level

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that is deeper than I can get to

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them because they're always gonna see me as

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a foreigner.

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So he said, you have a double responsibility.

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He said, lastly, he will be acquired, he

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will be asked about his wealth, how he

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acquired it.

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Did he earn it halal?

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And how did he spend it?

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Did he spend it halal?

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How he acquired it and how he spent

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it.

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The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said this also

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in the collection of Imam al-Tirmidhi.

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He said, knowledge from which there is no

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benefit is like a treasure from which nothing

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is spent in the colors of Allah Subh

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'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la.

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He said, knowledge, and this is one of

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the du'as that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi

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Wasallam used to make regularly and we make

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as well regularly is Allah grant me knowledge

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that benefits, knowledge that benefits.

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He said, because knowledge which is of no

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benefit is like a vast amount of treasure

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upon which none of it is spent for

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the sake of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta

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-A'la.

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And when you don't spend wealth for Allah,

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guess what happens to it?

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It has no benefit to you, it's gone.

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It's gone.

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This is another thing my teacher Muhammad Zakiruddin

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Sharfi Rahim Allah Ta'ala, he told me

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one time, he said, Brother Yusha, wealth, wealth

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is something that you'll have and you'll spend

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in your life.

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He said, but the only wealth that will

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benefit you on the Day of Judgment, if

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you really wanna own wealth, spend it for

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Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la.

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He said, because everything else that is spent

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is gone.

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It is gone.

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If you spend money on yourself, food, whatever,

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it's gone.

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That's it, it's done.

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If you keep your knowledge and hoard your

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wealth and you hoard it when you die,

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it gets distributed to your inheritors.

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He said, but every single penny you spend

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for the sake of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa

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Ta-A'la becomes wealth that is transferred

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into an akhirah bank account.

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A bank account in the next life.

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And that is the true wealth, that is

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real wealth.

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Everything else, he said, is just paper, it

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just passes back and forth.

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It's what we have given meaning to.

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He said, but real wealth is that which

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is given for the sake of Allah, because

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now it becomes of benefit.

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Prophet ﷺ said the same thing about knowledge.

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Knowledge that is not used and is not

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made to benefit people is the same like

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wealth that is not spent in the path

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of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la.

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The Prophet ﷺ also said, Allah, His angels,

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and all those in the heavens and the

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earth, even ants in their hills and fish

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in the water, falling down blessings on those

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who instruct others in beneficial knowledge.

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So basically he said that those who give

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people beneficial knowledge, those who teach beneficial knowledge,

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that every creation of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa

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Ta-A'la, even the ants in their

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hills, the fish in the sea, they all

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ask Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la

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to send blessings down upon this person.

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This is why the Prophet ﷺ said that

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the best of you are those who learn

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the Qur'an and teach it.

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The best of you are those who learn

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the Qur'an and teach it.

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That is the best of mankind.

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The Prophet ﷺ also said, he commanded us,

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acquire knowledge and give it to other people.

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Acquire knowledge and then give it to other

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people.

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Because knowledge is that thing which is not

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supposed to be kept.

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It doesn't belong to us.

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It's supposed to be shared.

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If you've learned it, and if you've learned

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it and Allah has given you knowledge, He's

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given you knowledge in order to give it

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to someone else, in order to share it

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to someone else.

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We are supposed to pass it on.

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Pass it on, it should not die with

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us.

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Because if it dies with us, that becomes

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the big problem.

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The Prophet ﷺ said that knowledge would be

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taken from this ummah through the death of

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the scholars.

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Through the death of the scholars and then

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their wives coming to replace them.

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Nobody else learning to seek knowledge to share

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it on.

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That the death of the scholars, this is

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why when we see the death of great

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scholars, we should take it as a serious

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detriment to this ummah.

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Because their knowledge just dies with them.

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Unless they have students who they've taught it

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to and have actually learned it and want

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to impart it, it will die with them.

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It will die with them and eventually will

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come to a point where there's nobody left.

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There's nobody left to impart this knowledge to

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mankind.

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And people are just literally saying لا إله

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إلا الله because it was known to be

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said.

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The Prophet ﷺ said, if anyone travels a

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road in search of knowledge, Allah will cause

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him to travel on one of the roads

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of Jannah.

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The angels will lower their wings with great

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pleasure to one who seeks knowledge.

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The inhabitants of the heavens and the earth

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and the fish in the deep waters will

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ask forgiveness for the learned man, for the

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scholar.

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The superiority of the learned over the abid,

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meaning the superiority of the scholar, the one

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who has knowledge, over the one who is

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just an abid, just one who worships Allah

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ﷻ.

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He said, it's like the superiority of the

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sun over the moon.

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Like the superiority of the sun over the

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moon.

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Yes, the abid is going to be rewarded

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for worshiping Allah ﷻ, right?

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But the scholar is the one who departs

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that knowledge on how to even worship Allah

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ﷻ brightly.

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I mean rightly.

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So, the superiority of the sun over the

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moon.

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We don't even see the moon without the

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sun, right?

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Without the sun, we would never see the

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moon.

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At night, we would never even be able

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to see the moon.

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Yes or no?

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It is only a reflection of the light

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of the sun in which we are able

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to see the moon.

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If not, when it's not, when the sun

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is at an angle, we know this through

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the lunar calendar, when the sun is at

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an angle, after waxes or wanes, we have

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what's called the new moon.

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Can you see it?

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No, you can't see it.

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There's no light on it.

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So, the scholars are the light that give

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even us, those who want to be worshipers

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of Allah ﷻ, knowledge on how to worship

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Him properly.

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Because one of the qualities of, or one

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of the prerequisites of worship is that it

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must be based upon ilm.

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It must be based upon knowledge.

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Worship of Allah ﷻ that's not based upon

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knowledge is not beneficial.

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It's not beneficial.

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Even when I worship, we have to know

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why we worship, why we do the things

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that we do.

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Because if they don't trace themselves back to

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the Qur'an or back to the sunnah

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of the Prophet ﷺ, we're not supposed to

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do them even in worship.

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Even in worship, we can't make it up.

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He said that the ulema are the inheritors

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of the anmiya.

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The ulema, the scholars are the inheritors of

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the Prophet.

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He said, we don't leave behind, you know,

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wealth.

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They don't leave behind gold and things.

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He said that what we leave behind is

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knowledge.

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We leave behind is knowledge and the scholars

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are the inheritors of that knowledge.

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Because the Prophets leave no monetary inheritance.

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They only leave knowledge.

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And he who takes it, take an abundant

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portion.

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So, if you're going to take from knowledge,

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take the most abundant portion of it that

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you can.

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And this is from the sunnah of Abu

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Dawud.

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So, having knowledge and a proper educational training

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of how to impart that knowledge is of

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key importance.

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So, that is why we do this session

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or these sessions.

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So, that not only for those of you

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who are encouraged to go out and give

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da'wah, that's good, having the encouragement to

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do so, but you also must know how

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to do so.

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You must know how to do so.

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In Islam, not only must we have the

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intention and sincerity to perform an act, but

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we must also make sure that that action

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is based upon knowledge.

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It is based upon knowledge.

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And that knowledge is derived from the Qur

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'an or it traces its origins back to

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the Qur'an or the sunnah of the

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Prophet, peace be upon him.

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I tried to stick to that very fiercely

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throughout this course that I designed.

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And again, I gave it to some scholars

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who verified it.

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My teacher, Shaykh Waleel al-Manisi, I gave

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it to Shaykh Abdullah as well.

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His son-in-law looked at it for

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me, went through it with him.

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So I wanted to make sure that everything

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we depart is from the Qur'an and

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the sunnah.

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But that is the sifat that I wanted

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to impress upon you today, is that going

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forward, knowledge is what we're going to be

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trying to depart when it comes to our

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da'wah insha'Allah ta'ala.

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And if you don't know a lot, because

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a lot of people use the excuse, I

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don't have knowledge so I don't give da

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'wah.

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That does not free you from an obligation.

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We talked about this, right?

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If an obligation is fard, then you must

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also know how to perform that obligation.

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You can't say that I don't know how

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to pray, therefore I don't pray.

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No, then it becomes mandatory on you to

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learn how to pray.

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So not knowing how to give da'wah

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does not free you from giving it because

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Allah has ordered it.

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You must learn how to give it insha

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'Allah ta'ala.

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And that is what we're going to go

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through with this course.

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But even if you only know very little,

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even if you only tell a person that

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if you believe in Allah, you'll be successful.

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This was the simplest da'wah the Prophet

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salallahu alayhi wa sallam sometimes.

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He would say, قُلْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَى اللَّهِ

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تُفْلِحُنُ If you say, لا إِلَهَ إِلَى اللَّهِ

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you'll be successful.

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All you have to do is the part

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which you know, impart what you know.

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Maybe you don't know much and you only

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have some da'wah pamphlets and you hand

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them out.

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Whatever it is that you can do, do.

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala knows and He

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will take care of the rest.

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Bini Allahi ta'ala.

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