Yusha Evans – Dawaah Traning Program week 6

Yusha Evans
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The importance of being and being strange in one's life is discussed, including the belief that Islam is a process of "will" that will return to " harib." The speaker emphasizes the need to be aware of one's behavior to avoid overwhelming expectations and to take advantage of one's health to avoid overwhelming expectations. The discussion also touches on theiosity of Islam, including the historical precedent of the Prophet's teachings and the desire for everyone to follow his guidance. The assignment of the third category of strangeness is also discussed, and the importance of making an impact and making a difference in the world is emphasized.
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What the women, how women can play a

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role in the work of Dawah,

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and then we will start going into planning,

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and we'll start getting into the how to

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plan Dawah, and then we get into the

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nitty gritties,

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The last sifat that,

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I decided to put down in this

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is the sifat of being and and the

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funny thing is that,

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Sheikh Morsi talked about it on Friday

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when he talked about the quality of being,

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of being strange.

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If you want to be involved in our

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work, get ready to be

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strange.

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Because

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not only are you as a strange as

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a Muslim,

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but then there's levels to that strangeness we

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will talk about. If you wanna go and

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be involved in the dawah, you're going to

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enter into the highest level

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of the as

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they say.

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You know this very famous hadith in Sahih

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Muslim

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where he said that Islam began as something

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that was harib,

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something that was strange, and it would return

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back to being harib. It would return back

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to something that is strange.

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So he said, blessed are

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blessed are those who are strangers.

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Amr ibn al A'ouf,

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he narrated the prophet

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said that the religion of Islam

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will shrink back to the Hejaz like a

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shrink snakes back into its hole. It will

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cling to the Hejaz like a mountain goat

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cling to the mountaintop.

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The religion began strange, and it will become

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strange again just like it was at the

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beginning. So blessed are there strangers who will

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restore what the people have corrupted of my

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sunnah of my sunnah. And this is something

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that is important because he said what the

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people have corrupted, not of the Quran,

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not of the the religion, my sunnah.

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The prophet

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also said that there would come a time

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where his sunnah would be corrupted. He said,

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but those when that time comes, he said,

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those who uphold my sunnah when the people

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have abandoned it, they will be given the

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death of a shahid. They will be given

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the death of a shahid. When people have

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abandoned the sunnah of the prophet

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a person who goes around trying to reimplement

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it, they will die the death of a

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shahid. Allah will give them the death of

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the shuhada and

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That was from the collection of Imam Abdul

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Mahdi.

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Abdullah ibn Amr,

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and this is narrated,

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by the Muslim of Imam Ahmad and Ibn

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al Mubarak in his Kitab al Zuhud. He

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said, the prophet

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one day with his companions,

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he said blessed are the strangers.

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He was then asked, who are the strangers,

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oh Messenger of Allah?

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He replied, they are the righteous people amongst

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many evil people who

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disobeyed them more than they obeyed them.

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Abdullah ibn Umar, and this is in Bukhari,

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he said,

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the prophet

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took a hold of my shoulders, and he

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said, be in this world as if you

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are a traveler.

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Ibn Omar used to say, when you survive

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and this is what, Sheikh Morsi was quoting

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the other night. He said, ibn Amari used

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to say, when you survive to the evening,

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don't be expect to be alive in the

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morning. When you go to bed at night

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a lot of us go to bed at

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night thinking that morning is guaranteed to us.

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We put our alarm clocks, we have our

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coffee machine ready, and it comes on its

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own. And like we have the morning already.

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Don't expect that that's a reality for you.

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Every night you go to bed, it is

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only by Allah's permission, will, and decision if

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your soul comes back to you. That's why

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one of the last duas that we stay

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at night before we're sleeping is asking Allah,

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if you take my soul tonight,

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then let it be pleased. Take it in

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a pleasing manner and have mercy on it.

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If you give it back to me, give

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it back to me with guidance and give

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it back to me with Hiday

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So that soul will be taken. The moment

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you go to sleep, that soul goes. Where

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it goes, what it does,

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this part of the unseen world, we don't

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know, but your soul is no longer with

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you when you're sleeping. When you're awake, it

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comes back.

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He said, but when you go to bed

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at night, don't expect to wake up in

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the morning. And then when you wake up

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in the morning, don't be expect to be

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alive until the evening. Live your life like

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this. Live your life like when I wake

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up this morning,

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I might not make it till tonight. This

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is all I have. This is I talked

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to to you guys about this, that the

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presence is all that you have. That is

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all that you possess.

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Don't expect anything more than that. Anything more

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than that is a blessing from Allah

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He said, do do good deeds when you're

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in health, before you become sick. And this

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is part of the prophet's

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advice.

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Take advantage of 5 things before 5 other

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things. And one of them was take advantage

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of your health before you get sick. Because

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then when you get sick, you can't do

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the things that you used to do in

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your home. Trust me. I know. He said,

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and do good deeds as long as you

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are alive before the calamity comes to you,

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before death strikes unto you.

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Ibn Al Qaim al Jazia,

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he talked about strangeness and the strangers. He

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talked about

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and

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the. What does it mean to be strange

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and who are the strangers? This is based

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on a a small booklet he wrote called

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And he said Islam began as something strange,

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and it returned to being something strange so

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it give gliding tidings to the strangers. Now

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he quoted and and defined the definition

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of of being,

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strangeness. What does it mean? What does it

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mean? Because that means a lot of things

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today. Right? People try to be strange just

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for the sake of being strange. That is

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kind of like a fad. People just want

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to be different than everybody else. But what

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does it mean to be a gharib in

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Islam?

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He said many times, in many situations, the

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people that follow the religion of Allah, they

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feel a sense of not belonging,

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of being out of place, of not fitting

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in, and in other words, of being strange.

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This feeling could be in a gathering of

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non Muslims

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because you when you're in a gathering of

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non Muslims, you feel strange. You're out of

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place. He said, but unfortunately,

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this feeling can also occur when you are

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with your fellow Muslims.

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He said, a person sees his brothers and

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sisters are doing

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acts that are contrary to Islam

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or taking part in innovations

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that sometimes even border on kufr.

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Yet he feels that he does not have

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enough power or courage to stop them in

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these acts.

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Some brothers and sisters, especially if they do

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not have enough taqwa or Islamic knowledge,

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sometimes buckle under the pressure of their peers,

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then they join them in these acts,

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knowing that this is not what Allah wants

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them to do. However,

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feeling helpless,

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since it seems that they are alone in

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their ideas

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and without any support to help them do

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what is right, they succumb to suppressors.

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These brothers and sisters, may Allah have mercy

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on them, should take consolation in the verse

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of the Quran

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and many statements of the prophet

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describing this very situation of strangeness that they

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feel.

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Why have they been called strangers?

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Allah says in the Quran, and this is

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in Surah Tuhud, verse 116.

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If only there had been in the generations

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preceding you, people having wisdom, prohibiting others from

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evil in the earth, except a few of

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those who have been saved from amongst them.

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So Allah is speaking about the in in

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Surat Uhud, that only if there had been

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the nations he's destroyed before.

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The reason he destroyed them, because they stopped

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warning each other. Allah

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gave a promise in the Quran that he

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would never destroy a nation while there is

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a warner from still amongst them. While they

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are still doing

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while there is still some hope in them,

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Allah won't destroy them. But once there is

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no one left or they become so obstinate

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that they are not willing to even listen

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to the truth anymore, then Allah sends his

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punish to him. Like he did the people

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of Lu'l, like he did the people of

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Ai'l, like he did the people of Thamud

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and many other people in the past. When

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he decides that because there is nobody left

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amongst them. And Allah says, if only had

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there been someone who was willing to stand

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up, someone who was willing to go against

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the crowd, someone who was willing to go

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against the tide

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and and and warn people that this is

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wrong, This is not the way to be

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doing it.

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This verse speaks of the few people on

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earth.

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These are the strangers. These are the who

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prohibit mankind from evil. These are the same

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people whom the prophet

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spoke about when he said Islam began as

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something strange, and it will return to being

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something strange. So then he said the end

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of this verse, so he said,

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So is

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is translated as the red blood tidings. But

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what do anybody know what actually is?

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It's the name of something.

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It's a name of a tree in paradise.

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There is a tree in paradise called the

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tree of and

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he said,

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basically saying that paradise is for the believers.

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They are guaranteed

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this station in the hereafter. And he's saying

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that Islam would return to being something strange,

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meaning that

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Islam

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as it was practiced not that Islam would

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be go back to being small. He didn't

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say it would go back to being small.

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It started as small. He didn't say it

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would go back to being small. He said

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it started as strange. It would go back

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to being strange. Islam has grown. Growing and

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growing and growing and growing.

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But the people who are sticking steadfast to

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the are

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getting smaller and smaller and smaller. As the

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Ummah grows, their percentage gets smaller. So he

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said those people, the would become strange. Islam

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true Islam would become strange again would become

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strange again. So give glad to and,

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so the prophet

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is giving good news of paradise to them,

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to the strangers. It was asked, who are

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they? He said, they are the people who

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correct people when they come corrupt. This is

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reported by Abu Amr al Adani from the

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hadith of Ibn Mas'ud, and it was recorded

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about it is authentic according to Sheikh Alba.

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Another narration says, those that correct my sunnah,

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which has been corrupted, are the people after

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me. In another narration, he said in response

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to the same question, they were a small

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group of people amongst a large evil population.

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Those who oppose them are more than the

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who those who follow them. And this is

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reported by Ibn Asakih, and it is, been

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deemed authentic by Sheikh Rabaynu Muhammad Muawat'ala.

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These praiseworthy people are called strangers

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since they are small minority among mankind.

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Thus, Muslims are strangers amongst mankind. The true

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believers are strangers amongst the Muslims, and the

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scholars are even more stranger amongst the believers.

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And the followers of the sunnah, those that

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clear themselves from the people of innovation, are

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likewise strangers.

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In reality, however, their strangeness is only because

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they are a minority

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and not because their actions or belief are

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strange. It's not because they're doing strange things.

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It's just because they've become a minority.

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That in the larger group of the world,

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they are strange even amongst the Muslims.

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And we see this all the time, you

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know, even even in Muslim families. Somebody wants

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to start praying, you know what I mean,

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in a family that's not used to it.

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Or a sister wants to start wearing hijab.

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The brother wants to grow a beard. He

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wants to start going through the masjid. They

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start saying, you're radical, extreme. You know, this

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is too much. You know? And the first

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thing they like to call him in a

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lot of places, you become a now. You

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know what I mean? Like, you've become,

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you know, a wobbler, etcetera. You know? Like,

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you've gone too far. So they become strangers

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even amongst their own family members, their own

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Muslims, their own

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community.

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This

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is why Allah says in Surah Al Anam,

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if you obey most of the people on

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earth, they'll just lead you astray. If you

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obey most of mankind on earth, they'll lead

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you astray. And Allah also says in Surah

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to Yusuf, and most of mankind will not

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believe even if you desire it eagerly. And

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this was, the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam

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being told by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

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that I know you want everybody to believe

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but most of mankind won't believe even how

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much you desire it to be so. Most

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of mankind is not going to believe.

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Allah also says in Surah Al Maida,

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most of mankind are rebellious and disobedient.

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Then Allah says in Surah Al, Yusuf, but

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and I talked about this in the Khutba

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last week. Most of mankind are ungrateful.

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They're ungrateful.

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Therefore, Allah the all knowing knows most of

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mankind will not follow the truth.

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Instead, only a small group of people will

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be set apart truly and correctly believe in

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him, and these are the strangers amongst mankind.

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The strangers in belief, however,

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are the strangers in character and action or

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in reality the majority of mankind, for they

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are strange to Islam and the laws that

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Allah has revealed.

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Thus we see that there are various types

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of strangeness. And this is where we're gonna

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get into this because this is a very

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important part. Is that Ibn Al Qayim Al

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Jaz

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divided strangeness. He divided being

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into 3 levels into 3 levels.

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Thus, we see there are various types of

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strangeness, of which some are praiseworthy and some

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are blameworthy. And some are neither praiseworthy nor

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blameworthy.

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He said, you should know, may Allah have

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mercy on you, that strangeness is of 3

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types. He said, the first type of strangeness

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are the strangeness of the people of Allah

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and the people of his messenger, alayhis salatu

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wa sallam, which we previously mentioned.

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This strangeness is a praiseworthy strangeness as it

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has been praised by Allah and his messenger

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Therefore, this kind of strangeness should be sought

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out and its people must be supported.

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This strangeness occurs in different times, in different

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places, amongst different peoples.

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These strangers then are the true people of

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Allah, for they don't worship anything but him.

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They do not take any support in any

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path except the path of the prophet

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They don't call to anything except that which

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has been brought by the prophet

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These are the people who left mankind

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when the strangers were in need of them

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the most. For on the day of judgement,

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when all the other groups will go with

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that which they used to worship, they will

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stay in their places.

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On the day of judgement,

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Allah

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will bring forward all the idols people used

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to worship. Right? They'll all be out. And

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Allah will tell the people,

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go to that which you used to worship.

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Like, go go see if they'll help you.

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Like, go. And people will start fleeing to

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the things they used to worship. They'll start

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going. But the people

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of Allah and his messenger, alayhis salatu wasalam,

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they won't go anywhere. They'll stay.

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They won't move. They'll be they'll stay right

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where they are.

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And it will be said to them, why

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have you not gone as the other people

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have gone? Why have you not run to

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your your idols and your gods like the

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other people have done? They will answer,

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we had already abandoned them in that life.

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Like, we already left them. We abandoned them

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in that life, and we were more in

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need of them than we are today.

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We abandoned them in the world, and we

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were more in need of them then than

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we are today. And we will wait for

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our rabb whom we used to worship. That

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is what they that's why they won't move.

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They'll say, we're waiting on our rabb. They're

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going to their Rabbs. They're going to their

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gods. They're going to our When our Rabb

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comes, when Allah presents himself,

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then we will go to him. Because that

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is whom we used to worship. We left

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the people when they were in the world.

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We don't need them now. We needed them

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in the world more than we need them

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now. We don't need them today. We need

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Allah

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We worship him now or then, and we're

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waiting on him now. These are the people

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of the sunnah, and these are the people

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of Allah This is,

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It's recorded by Bukhari Muslims, so it reaches

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the highest level of authenticity.

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So this is something we should strive for,

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this type of strangeness. So that on the

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day of judgment, our feet don't need to

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move and chase after all of these gods

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and idols. We wait for Allah

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Thus, it is apparent that this strangeness does

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not call its bearer any discontent.

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Even though it might cause you a little

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discomfort in this world. Right? Being strange and

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being a Muslim. I mean, you know what

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day it is today. You know, you take

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take extra precautions on this date. You know,

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even my wife, she's like, this this is

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one of the days that just don't go

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out.

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So you might have some discomfort on this

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day, but the people on that day

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will be content. Allah will give them contention

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on that day. When everyone else is stressed,

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when everyone else is worried, when everyone else

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is running to and fro and looking for

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their gods to help them out, the people

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love Allah, the people love their hate, they

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won't be worried. They'll be like, we're good.

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We'll just wait for Allah

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Rather, it is comforting strangeness and is a

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solace to the believers.

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This is because they know that their helpers

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are Allah, his messenger, and those who believe.

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And this is, a reference to Surah 25

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of Surah Al Naida, that the believers are

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are are are are are supported by Allah

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as messenger on those who believe. That's our

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that's our

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our,

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that's our safety net. Allah, his messenger, and

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the believers. The believers, which I've talked about

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it, that the believers are are are supporters

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and and brothers to one another.

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Even if all of mankind left and abandoned

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them. These strangers are again described in a

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hadith narrated by Anas ibn Malik,

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in which the prophet said,

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it is possible that a disheveled,

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dusty person with not many belongings,

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literally with 2 headdresses meaning like he doesn't

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possess much, who is not noticed amongst the

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people. If he ask Allah, Allah will fulfill

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his prayers. Meaning that

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a person who is close to Allah is

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only known to Allah. Like, we live in

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a world where things are

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not always what the eyes see. Right? Like,

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you might see somebody and think, oh, they're

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so amazing. Please make dua for me. Your

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dua is part we never know. It might

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be that person whom you think is the

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most weak, the most humble, the brother who

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doesn't look like he's anything. He's poor. He's

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disheveled.

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He he might be the person whomever whenever

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he ask Allah for something, Allah never fails

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to answer him. So you never know who

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is that person.

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And this is recorded by, Atar Midi and

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Al Hakim and has been,

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classified as authentic.

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Al Hasan al Basari,

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this is known as one of the famous

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of the most famous of the

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The Ahlus Sunnah call him the imam of

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the

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He was known for his

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piety, his his

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his his,

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knowledge, his his wisdom, his dedication. If you

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haven't studied the life of Hasid al Qasr,

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you should do so.

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He is like the imam one of the

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imams of the salif.

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He said,

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a believer is a stranger in this world

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and he is never afraid of being humiliated

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in it. And he never competes for his

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glory. He's not looking for

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fame. He's not looking for glory. He doesn't

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care about any impact.

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The people are in one situation, like the

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people, they're one way, and he's another way

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or she's another way. The guruba, they're one

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way and the people are another way.

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The people are content with him, yet he

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is never content with himself. Like usually people

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like who are really good Muslims, the people

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are happy with them. They're content with them.

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But those people are never content with themselves.

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They're always in turmoil on the inside because

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they're always worried about their own condition, doing

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better, being better, worried about their own sins,

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worried about their own situation.

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From the characteristics of the strangers

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are that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam

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described it to them holding on to the

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sunnah even if people abandon it. They, the

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strangers, leave all innovations

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that other people invent.

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Even if such practices come among common amongst

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them, They also stick to tawheed even if

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the people corrupt it with shirk. They do

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not ascribe themselves to anything except Allah and

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His Messenger alaihis salatu wasalam, which I've told

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you so many times. That our Islam

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our Islam is the Quran and the sunnah.

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That's it. That's it. It does not matter

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whom it comes from. If it does not

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trace back to the Quran and Sunnah, we

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leave it. We leave it. Simple as that.

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They do not, that is, ascribe themselves to

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a shaykh. Meaning that I owe my religion

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is what Sheikh so and so says. It's

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just whatever he says is what it is.

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Doesn't matter. We don't care if it comes

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from the Quran and the Sunnah. We just

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stick to it. And and we have a

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lot of that around the world today. Muslims,

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they they have their shiks. They they have

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their and all of that. Whatever he says,

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that's it. That's the end of it. It's

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law. Right? Even if it's the most nonsense

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thing. Trust me. I've been around. I've heard

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it. I've sat in some of these gatherings

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where I've heard things that are just like,

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woah. You know what I mean? Like, this

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is like, this is madness. You know what

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I mean? Like, this is this is this

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is crazy.

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I I I I even heard of

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a recording of one of these guys in

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in Africa basically say that he was so

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close to Allah

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that Allah had made the hellfire forbidden for

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him. Because if Allah sent it to him,

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he would make it a cool garden.

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And I'm like, what? Say what?

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That he he is so amazing

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that if Allah were to send him to

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*, he would turn it into a garden.

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May Allah protect us from this kind of

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nonsense. This is not what we ascribe. This

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is not Islam. This is not where we

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get our religion from. It we don't subscribe

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ourselves to any particular sheikh,

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You know what I mean? Like, that's not

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how we are.

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Or particular madhab a group of people. Like

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all of the Madahid, we've talked about this.

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Right? We've gone over this. They're all traced

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back to the Quran and the Sunnah. But

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we don't become so blind

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that that that that that that's it for

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us. Right? I I grew up as Hanafi.

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I'm not I'm not listening to anything else.

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Right? That's that's very ignorant. It's a very

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ignorant way to be.

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I I told you most of my teachers

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are are Hanbali. My my strength is in

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Hanbali.

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But I follow the Quran as soon as

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If I find a stronger evidence somewhere else,

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I follow that. That is it. That's what

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that that's what it is. It doesn't care

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if it comes from the madhhab or not.

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If it's more in line with the Quran

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and the Sunnah, we go with

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that They are dedicated only to Allah with

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their sincere worship of him and him alone

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and to his prophet

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by following the path he followed. These are

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the people who are the ones who the

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prophet

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said, they are the ones who grasp the

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hot ember, the hot coal. That that later

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on in time holding on to Islam would

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be like holding on to a hot coal.

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Referencing to the hadith,

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of this. Even if most of mankind,

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even if all of them blame them for

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this. This is the meaning of the statement

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of the Prophet alluding to the fact that

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they stick to a sunnah even if the

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people corrupt it. Allah, all praise be to

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him, sent to his prophet when mankind followed

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different religions.

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For those who worship there were those who

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worship rivers, trees, those who worship idols. There

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were Christians,

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zoo Jews, Zoroastrians.

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And Islam when it first appeared amongst these

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people was strange to them. If a person

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from amongst them accepted Islam and followed Allah

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and his messenger, he would be shunned by

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his family and his tribe. He would live

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the life of a stranger amongst his people.

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Eventually, however,

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Islam spread far and wide. The Muslims became

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stronger and stronger and stronger. So much so

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that the strangers were those who didn't accept

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Islam. Islam became so strong that they went

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from being the strangers. Right? If you accepted

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Islam in Mecca,

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before the Hijra, you were a stranger. Right?

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You were weird. You were outcast. You were

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shunned.

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Then Islam grew so

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vast and so wide that it was strange

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for you not to be a Muslim. People

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would look at you like, you're not a

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Muslim? Like, what what what is wrong with

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you? You know what I mean? And even

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to this day, I do ask people that.

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When people when I have that conversation with

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people, I'm like, why are you not a

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Muslim?

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You you know, why why? And that starts

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I'm thinking like, why would I be a

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Muslim? No. Why wouldn't you be? When I

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explained to you what Islam is, your question

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should be why would I not be a

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Muslim?

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But alas, shaitan

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deceived mankind again.

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People took to the ways of their forefathers

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who who had accepted Islam had abandoned and,

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excuse me. People took the way that their

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forefathers who had accepted Islam had abandoned. So

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they went back to the religion of their

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forefathers. And we see that happening lots of

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place in the world now. We we see,

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unfortunately,

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even in even even in the gulf, we

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see Alet and an Uzza being worshiped again.

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And the prophet prophecies

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this. The last day would not come until

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Lot and Uzza are worshipped again. And it

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is happening.

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They have them in museums

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literally in in in in the gulf, and

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there are people who go and are worshiping

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them. May Allah

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protect us from this.

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But this is it is very dangerous.

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Then Islam became strange again just like it

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had started, and the prophet

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foretold.

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Nay, indeed, rather, the true Islam

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upon which the prophet and his companions were

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on,

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which gave the characteristic of the saved group,

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which we talked about, has become even stranger

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to the people than when it initially appeared,

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even though its outward signs and external relics

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are known and widespread.

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Now think about this. This is what Ibn

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al Qayyim al Jazdib

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wrote in the 8th century.

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He wrote this in the 8th century. Look

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at us now.

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He wrote this in the 8th century, which

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is in the 7 100. And look at

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us now.

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How can it be so when these strangers

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are only one group amongst 72

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other groups as said in the authentic hadith,

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which our group would divide into 72?

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Each of which would follow its own desires

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and take its passions as its god. There

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are groups that base these teachings on doubts

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and innovation and whose whole sole purpose is

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the gratification of their own desires.

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Thus, the group who achieved their goal is

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by following the pleasure of Allah and following

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the path of his messenger, alayhi salatu wasalam.

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These will be the strange among all the

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other groups. This is why the true Muslims

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who adamantly cling to the sunnah will have

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the reward of 50 companions.

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You know this very famous hadith of prophet

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when he was asked about the first, oh

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you who believe, take care of your own

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selves. If you follow right guidance, no harm

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can come to you from those who are

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in Aaron. This is from Surah Al Maida.

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He said, nay indeed,

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order good and forbid evil until you see

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stinginess being obeyed and desires being followed, and

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this world being preferred over the next, and

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each person being diluted by his own opinions.

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I don't I mean, that literally sums up

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the world today. That is that is that

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is the world today. I don't know if,

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any of you saw,

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what what what took place on on ABC

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last night. It was like I I I

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was very, very tough for me to sit

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through. But that is the world of today.

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And he's describing

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it perfectly right here. Nay, indeed, order good

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and forbid evil until you see stinginess being

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obeyed,

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desires being followed, and this world being preferred

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over the next, and each person is deluded

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by their own opinion. Each person is deluded

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by their own opinions.

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Then take care of yourself and leave the

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common people. Leave the common people. For indeed,

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after you there will be days of patience,

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where patience will be like holding on to

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a hot coal. Whoever is able to do

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this will have the reward of 50 people

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that do like him. They asked, oh, messenger

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of Allah,

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the reward of 50 of them?

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He said, no. The reward of 50 of

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you.

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That people on this this era, when the

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world is like this, and they separate themselves

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from those people, like, they they draw the

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line, they draw the distinction, and they uphold

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what we have revealed.

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The reward of 1 of them will be

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like the reward of 50. And they asked

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who? 50 of them? He said, no. The

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reward will be like 50 of you because

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they are doing it. And I said this,

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the the scholars have taught us. Sheikh Mohammed

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Makhtar was commenting on this hadith one morning,

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and he said that the the reason for

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this and this is what his father taught

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him and his father was the great Muhammad.

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He said that this is because

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they will be doing

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similar to what the companions did, holding on

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to Islam,

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establishing

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Islam, holding on to the sunnah, keeping the

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sunnah alive, but there's no nabi. There's no

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prophet. There's no one there to guide them.

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There's no there's no one to go. They

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can't go to the prophet and ask him

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questions, and they get revelation from Allah. They

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are only holding on to the Quran and

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the sunnah. They're holding on to the sunnah,

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and they've never even met the prophet

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They love the prophet

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with the same preference that the companions loved

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him who saw him every single day.

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And that is why the reward for them

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will be multiplied so greatly. And this is

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why the prophet

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said, I wish to meet my brothers. And

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he said, my brothers will come towards the

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end of time, and they'll believe in me

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exactly like you believe in me. But they

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would have never seen me. They would have

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never witnessed me. This is why I say

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that the love that we should have for

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the prophet

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is above everything else,

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except the love that we have for Allah

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that's, gonna be similar to the that's I'm

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not gonna go too far into it. It's

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Friday's football topic. But that the love of

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the prophet

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is above the love we have for our

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own mothers.

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That's why we should be offended when he's

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when he is insulted. That's why we we

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we we we behave the way we behave

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when he is slandered, etcetera, so on and

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so, because he is supposed to be loved

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above all else, above all else.

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And when we have that type of

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love for him, this is the people whom

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he wishes to meet. And I want to

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have that love for our prophet

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This is why even when it came, and

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I mentioned this one time before, but, we're

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gonna get to that that month very, very,

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very shortly. But when you refer to things

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like the Mawlid, right, we're gonna start having

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that debate and that debate has been raging.

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Right?

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The Mawlid,

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we know, is not something the prophet

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himself practiced.

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It's not something any companion practiced. Right? It's

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not something in any of the salaf, we

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cannot find it from them. Correct? So it's

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not something really,

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we do.

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But even even Thayme in his in his

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in his, he said about the people who

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practice the mountain.

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He said, if they

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do it and this is why I say

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we have to have

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understanding. Islam is.

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He said, if they do it, if they

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celebrate

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out

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of pure love for the prophet,

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he

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said, even though I say they are wrong

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in their actions,

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they will be rewarded

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with the love.

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Even though the action is wrong, they will

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be rewarded for the love of the prophet

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This is his fatwa, not mine. This is

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the fatwa of Sheh, of Ibn Taymiyyah. That

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even those who celebrate the Mawlid, if they

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do it for the right reason, meaning

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love of the prophet

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Allah will reward that love.

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And this is this is, recorded by Tamedi

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Abu Dawood.

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Abu Dawood's chain is weaker with

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regards to this,

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but it is supported by evidence. It's the

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whole science of hadith,

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and Sheikh Mohammed, they call it sahib based

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on the supporting evidence of different hadith, that

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back it up. The reward is due to

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the strangest amongst the people.

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We're almost done.

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So if the believer whom Allah has blessed

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with wisdom and knowledge wants to tread upon

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this path, the path of Allah, then let

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them be prepared

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to resign themselves to the life of a

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stranger amongst his people. Just like his predecessors

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who accepted Islam and were treated like this

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by the people. For indeed he will be

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a stranger in his beliefs

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because the people have corrupted their beliefs. He

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will be a stranger in his religion due

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to what the people have done to it.

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He will be a stranger to his manner

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of praying because people are ignorant in the

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manner of the prayer of the Prophet

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He

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will be a stranger in ordering good and

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prohibiting evil for the people who have taken

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evil as good and they have taken good

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as evil.

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He will be a stranger.

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In short, he will be a stranger in

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all matters of this world and the hereafter.

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Calling to the path of Allah and withstanding

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the harm of those people who go against

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him.

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As the second type of strangeness, then know,

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oh reader. So that's the first type of

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strangeness. A Muslim who oppose the Quran and

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the Sunnah.

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As for the second type of strangeness, then

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know, oh reader, that this strangeness is the

00:32:01 --> 00:32:04

blameworthy strangeness for people for its people are

00:32:04 --> 00:32:06

evil sinners. These are the ignorant and the

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arrogant of mankind.

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Their strangest is due to the refusal to

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follow the correct and straight path of Allah.

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This strangest is the strangest of not conforming

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to the religion of Islam. So this he's

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talking about the strangest of people who try

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to make Islam conform to their desires

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rather than them conforming themselves to the religion.

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And we see this a lot these days.

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People moving, twisting Islam to fit their

00:32:30 --> 00:32:31

ideas, their ideologies,

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rather than conforming themselves. Islam is supposed to

00:32:35 --> 00:32:36

conform the individual.

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We don't conform Islam to fit the individual.

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He said that this strangeness is the strangeness

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not conforming to the religion. And such it

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will remain strange even if its followers are

00:32:46 --> 00:32:48

numerous. Meaning people who follow this new,

00:32:49 --> 00:32:51

type of religion that is conformed,

00:32:51 --> 00:32:53

they they they will remain

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blameworthy strangers even if everybody follows them because

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this is not the religion of Allah and

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His Messenger.

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These are the strangers to Allah, not the

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strangers of Allah. These are not the These

00:33:05 --> 00:33:07

are not the strangers of Allah from whom

00:33:07 --> 00:33:09

the prophet told but is for them. These

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are the strangers to Allah. These are the

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strangers to Allah.

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May Allah keep us from becoming one of

00:33:14 --> 00:33:17

them. He said the 3rd category of strangeness

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is in essence neither praiseworthy nor blameworthy.

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It is the strangest that a traveler experiences

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when he travels to a different country, like

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a person who lives in a place and

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Sheikh Muresi was talking about this. Like a

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person who,

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travels to a different country and lives in

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a place for a short period of time

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knowing that he has to move on. One

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aspect of this strangeness is that all of

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us, whether we realize it or not, are

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strangers here. Like, this world is not ours.

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It doesn't belong to us. It doesn't want

00:33:42 --> 00:33:44

us. Right? Like, it the it we were

00:33:44 --> 00:33:46

not meant to be here. We're not meant

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to be here. We live here. We're buried

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here, and then Allah resurrects us out of

00:33:49 --> 00:33:51

this dirt. Like, we're never here in any

00:33:51 --> 00:33:51

permanence.

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One aspect in this strangeness is whether we

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realize or not, we're all strangers, for we

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all one go day to our permanent abode

00:34:01 --> 00:34:01

in the hereafter.

00:34:02 --> 00:34:03

This is the meaning of the hadith of

00:34:03 --> 00:34:06

prophet when he told Abdul, Abdul ibn Aran,

00:34:06 --> 00:34:07

live in this world as though you are

00:34:07 --> 00:34:10

stranger or traveler. Thus, this category of strangeness

00:34:10 --> 00:34:12

has the potential to become praiseworthy

00:34:12 --> 00:34:15

if we realize the meaning of this statement.

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And we pray that Allah blesses us to

00:34:16 --> 00:34:18

be Muslims, knowledgeable, and pious, and forgive us

00:34:18 --> 00:34:19

of our sins, and then he goes on

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to praise the Allah

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Now I'll give you something really briefly quickly,

00:34:24 --> 00:34:27

another part because, this was quite long. He

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went on to label 3 other levels of

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strangeness with regards to the warabah.

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He said that the first level of strangeness

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is a Muslim. A Muslim is strange to

00:34:34 --> 00:34:36

all of mankind. Right? Like, we're just automatic

00:34:36 --> 00:34:37

strangers.

00:34:52 --> 00:34:53

Right? They will never accept you till you

00:34:53 --> 00:34:55

become one of them.

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He said, but the second level of strangeness

00:34:57 --> 00:34:59

are people who are not only Muslim by

00:34:59 --> 00:35:01

name, but they live by the Quran and

00:35:01 --> 00:35:03

the Sunnah. Like, they use the Quran and

00:35:03 --> 00:35:05

the Sunnah to live their lives. He said

00:35:05 --> 00:35:08

that's the second and higher level of strangeness.

00:35:09 --> 00:35:10

He said the 3rd level, which is the

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pinnacle of strangeness, and it is the smallest

00:35:13 --> 00:35:14

category of strangeness,

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are the people who are not only Muslims

00:35:16 --> 00:35:17

by name.

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They not only live their lives according to

00:35:19 --> 00:35:20

the,

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but they go out and call other people

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to come to this path. They go out

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and call other people. They're either doing

00:35:30 --> 00:35:32

meaning they're out trying to reform society,

00:35:33 --> 00:35:34

or they are the du'a, the people who

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are out calling other people to Islam. He

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said that category is the smallest category.

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He said, but that category,

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that pinnacle level

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is the barrier between Allah's punishment and mankind.

00:35:47 --> 00:35:49

He said that category of people

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are the people that are the barrier between

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Allah's punishment and his wrath and the rest

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of humanity.

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He said when there are no more people

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in that pinnacle state,

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then the wrath will come. And it does

00:36:03 --> 00:36:05

not spare. Just because there's Muslims doesn't mean

00:36:05 --> 00:36:07

that it'll spare. Allah says when he sends

00:36:07 --> 00:36:09

his wrath, it spares no one. No one.

00:36:09 --> 00:36:11

He said, so as long as there are

00:36:11 --> 00:36:13

people in that high echelon,

00:36:13 --> 00:36:14

the people who are doing or

00:36:16 --> 00:36:17

the people who are doing,

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then Allah withholds his wrath from mankind. But

00:36:20 --> 00:36:22

there will come a time where there will

00:36:22 --> 00:36:23

be no more of those people, and the

00:36:23 --> 00:36:25

wrath of Allah will come. And he said

00:36:25 --> 00:36:26

this, the prophet

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said the day of judgement will not because

00:36:29 --> 00:36:31

that's the next wrath. Right? The next Allah

00:36:31 --> 00:36:33

will not destroy people like that again in

00:36:33 --> 00:36:34

whole in wholesale.

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The day of judgement, he said that wrath

00:36:37 --> 00:36:37

will come

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on a people who are the worst that

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have ever existed on this earth. He said

00:36:42 --> 00:36:44

the day of judgement will not descend

00:36:44 --> 00:36:46

except on the worst people who have ever

00:36:46 --> 00:36:49

walked the face of this earth. And I,

00:36:49 --> 00:36:51

unfortunately, think we are heading there

00:36:51 --> 00:36:53

on a high speed bullet train.

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That's that's the reality, a high speed bullet

00:36:56 --> 00:36:57

train. So

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pay attention. That's all the advice I'm gonna

00:37:00 --> 00:37:02

give you tonight. That the world is quickly

00:37:02 --> 00:37:02

changing.

00:37:02 --> 00:37:05

Pay attention to what's happening around you. Pay

00:37:05 --> 00:37:07

attention. This is why even my wife asked

00:37:07 --> 00:37:08

me, like, why are you watching this nonsense?

00:37:08 --> 00:37:10

Because it was literally like watching 2 kindergartners

00:37:10 --> 00:37:12

go to each other. Right? Like, it was

00:37:12 --> 00:37:13

ridiculous. He's He's like, why she was like,

00:37:13 --> 00:37:14

why are you watching this? I was like,

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because I

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I I I information is power. Right? Like,

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information is power. There is no power greater

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than knowledge.

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There is no power greater than knowledge because

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knowledge is the one power that can't be

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taken from you unless Allah takes it from

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you. Right? What I know, you can't come

00:37:31 --> 00:37:33

like this, brother, you can't come take what's

00:37:33 --> 00:37:35

in my brain. Right? You can't come make

00:37:35 --> 00:37:37

me forget what I know. Knowledge is power.

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And I like to know what our enemies

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are saying. Right? Like, you need to know

00:37:41 --> 00:37:43

what they're thinking, where they're thinking, where they're

00:37:43 --> 00:37:44

going. Even though half of it is lies,

00:37:44 --> 00:37:45

at least you need to know what the

00:37:45 --> 00:37:46

lies are.

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I need to know what what's being said.

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So be aware,

00:37:50 --> 00:37:51

know what's happening in the world,

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and do your best

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when we're finished with this. Do your best

00:37:55 --> 00:37:56

to get out there and try to make

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some kind of difference, because that's what's gonna

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matter or not. What difference did we make?

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That's that's the real question. That's what I

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asked myself

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so many times. What difference am I making?

00:38:06 --> 00:38:08

I don't feel like if I'm making any

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difference, I I really don't feel mentally well

00:38:10 --> 00:38:12

because I believe

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that one of the biggest things that Allah

00:38:14 --> 00:38:16

will hold us account or not to account

00:38:16 --> 00:38:18

for or reward us for is what different

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what impact

00:38:19 --> 00:38:21

did you make on the world? And I

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know this because I look at the life

00:38:22 --> 00:38:22

of the prophet

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Look at the impact he made. Look at

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the impact. Look at the impact of the

00:38:26 --> 00:38:28

companions. Look at the impact of the great

00:38:28 --> 00:38:30

Muslims who came before us. Look at the

00:38:30 --> 00:38:31

impact of the man who this masjid is

00:38:31 --> 00:38:32

named after.

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Look at the impact that they made. Even

00:38:35 --> 00:38:37

with some he may have had some beliefs

00:38:37 --> 00:38:38

that are not mainstream except

00:38:39 --> 00:38:41

the impact. Look. Allah will reward the and

00:38:41 --> 00:38:43

the impact that you've made over a lot

00:38:43 --> 00:38:45

of other things. So try to make an

00:38:45 --> 00:38:45

impact.

00:38:46 --> 00:38:47

Right there.

00:38:48 --> 00:38:50

I will see you guys on Friday. Friday,

00:38:50 --> 00:38:51

I'll be doing both of.

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And then as always, on Saturday evening, we

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have the life of

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As long as this thing doesn't act up

00:39:01 --> 00:39:02

again before I have surgery, make dua for

00:39:02 --> 00:39:04

me that the the stomach acid stays where

00:39:04 --> 00:39:06

it's supposed to stay. I'm on some very

00:39:06 --> 00:39:08

heavy medication now to try to keep keep

00:39:08 --> 00:39:10

the stomach acid down, but the part of

00:39:10 --> 00:39:12

my stomach that's below my diaphragm now is,

00:39:12 --> 00:39:13

like, it it's small. You know, I have

00:39:13 --> 00:39:15

to be I have to eat, like, tiny

00:39:15 --> 00:39:16

meals and all kinds of weird things now.

00:39:16 --> 00:39:18

So make dua for that, Insha Allah. But

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other than that, I'll see you on Friday

00:39:19 --> 00:39:21

and see you on Saturday.

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