Yusha Evans – Jummah Khutbah 12-04-2024 Masjid Salahadeen

Yusha Evans
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The importance of submission to God's word and not dying until one's life is finished is emphasized in Islam. Personal attributes and a "branded system" are also discussed. The speaker emphasizes the need for belief and love for one another to achieve success in life and avoid harms. The importance of privacy and safe living is also emphasized. The need for love and protection of property is also emphasized.
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And I bear witness that there is no

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There is no

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except Allah

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There's no God. There's no true God but

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Allah. And I bear witness that Muhammad ibn

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Abdullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam is his servant

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and last and final messenger.

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Allah

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tells us in the Quran,

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Oh you who believe.

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Oh you who believe and have faith. Fear

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Allah as he has the right to be

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fierce, as it is his right. And do

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not die, do not let your life expire

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on this earth without having submitted yourselves to

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him. We don't know when our life will

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end. Right? So that means we are constantly

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supposed to stay in that state of submission

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by this verse. Then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

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tells mankind,

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O mankind,

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fear your lord who created you from a

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single soul, reminding us all that no matter

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where you're from today, no matter what color

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you are today, no matter what language you

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speak today, no matter what land you claim

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today, we all, all human beings trace our

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origin back to our father Adam alaihis salam

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and his wife Hawa. That is the unity

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of humanity.

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And then Allah says, fear Allah from whom

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you demand your mutual rights with the tides

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of kinship,

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and give reverence,

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pay respect to the

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the womb that gave you birth. Every single

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woman, every single mother out there that respect

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is to be given to them. And then

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Allah says, for surely I see everything that

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you do. Then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,

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Oh you who

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believe, hear Allah

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and speak the word that needs to be

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spoken.

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Say the truth is how it usually translates.

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But Allah is saying, say what needs to

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be said when it needs to be said.

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When it's time to say what needs to

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be said, say it.

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And Allah says, if you do this, no

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matter what the consequences or outcomes might be,

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Allah will guide you towards righteous actions, and

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he will forgive you of your sins.

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Then Allah says, whoever has obeyed Allah and

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His messenger,

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they've already achieved the greatest achievement.

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Indeed the truest speech.

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Men men and women, we can just say

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anything. Right? It has to be verified. But

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the truest of speech

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is the kalam of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,

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the speech of Allah, the book of Allah

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And the best guidance,

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the best example to follow is the example

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of our beloved prophet

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And the worst affairs, the worst thing that

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you can do, the prophet

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said, the worst acts that can be committed

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are newly innovated matters into this religion. Putting

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things in this religion that Allah did not

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legislate, nor did the prophet

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legislate.

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The prophet

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they are the worst.

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And every one of those things is a

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and every single

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is a misguidance, it's a deviance, it's away

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from the straight path.

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And he said, in every single misguidance,

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there's only one path to Jannah.

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1 singular. He said, every other path leads

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to the

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fire.

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My dear brothers and sisters,

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first forgive me that my voice is still

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a little bit raspy.

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Getting over that, but, we'll get through it.

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I've been traveling the world for the past

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nearly 20 years, talking about Islam to non

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Muslims, talking about Islam, trying to bring Muslims

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back to practicing the deen.

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And one of the biggest questions that all

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of us get asked as speakers

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is what can we do for the Muslim

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Ummah? How can like, you've traveled, you've seen

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Muslims all over the globe. What do we

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what do we do? Yeah? What is our

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what is the solution to the problems facing

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the ummah? This is like the big question.

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And for many many years I was

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I have no idea, right? There's so many

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things. And if there were 1, if there

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was a magic pill,

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I would be bottling it up and settling

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it and retired a long time ago.

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But then,

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the more I spent time looking at

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the behaviors of the Muslims and looking at

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the behaviors of the companions, looking at the

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sunnah, looking at the seerah, looking at what

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Allah

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says about our condition,

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I think I've narrowed it down to

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one thing.

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If we were to do this one thing.

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One thing. If this ummah were to incorporate

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it,

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we would not be in the position of

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humiliation we find ourselves in today. One thing,

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if we were to do it, we would

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be on top of the world. One thing,

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if we were to do it, we would

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have the that Allah gave to his prophet

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alaihis salatu waslam and his companions. One thing,

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if we were to do it, the situation

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that is happening in Gaza right now would

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not be happening. One thing, if we were

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to do it, what happened to our brothers

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and sisters in China, the Uighurs, would not

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happen. In the Rohingya and Burma, it would

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not happen. Muslims would not be going through

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the difficulties that we are facing today. And

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it is

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Subhanallah. It is such an easy thing to

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institute. It is literally one of the easiest

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things we could institute, but our nafs, our

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ego,

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our giver, our arrogance stops

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us. What is that thing?

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Love.

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Love.

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I know they're like oh, Pratish is going

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on this whole love kumbaya. No, listen to

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me.

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Love one another for the sake of Allah

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subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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If we were to love one another

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for the sake of Allah

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the way we are supposed to as Muslims,

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we would have the aza that

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Allah is guaranteed to this. I'll give you

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many examples as much as I can

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inshallah. Allah

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says in the Quran in Surah Al Hajjrat,

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Indeed the believers are but

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That doesn't just mean, you're my brother, I

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love you bro.

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Means they are like family.

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They are tied with a closer relationship than

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blood.

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They are tied with a closer relationship

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than blood.

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How do I know this?

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Because there was many companions of the Prophet

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alaihis salatu wa sallam. Even our own Prophet

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himself had to fight against his own family

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members for the sake of this religion.

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His own family turned on him. He had

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to fight his own uncle. There were many

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companions who had to kill their own family

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members

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for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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One of the tabaeen came to one of

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the companions,

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and he said when the prophet

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was with you, how did you treat him?

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And they described.

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They said, wallahi, if he was with us,

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we would have treated him so much better.

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We would have carried him on our shoulders.

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He said, Do not say what you would

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have done in our position. You're born and

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raised in a Muslim family. Many of us

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had to leave this religion and become enemies

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with our own family members, fight them for

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the sake of this beautiful religion. So don't

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say what you would have done if you

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would have been in our position.

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The believers are nothing but a family.

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A family.

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The Prophet

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said that the Muslim

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is a brother, akhid, to another Muslim. This

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goes for sisters as well. A Muslim is

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another sister to another Muslim.

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They do not wrong them in any way

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nor do they forsake them and leave them.

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They don't leave them. They don't forget about

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them. They don't just let them be, they

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don't hurt them, and they don't forsake them.

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As we know the Prophet

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said, that a believer is someone who other

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people are safe from the harm of the

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tongue in their hands. This is belief, this

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is iman.

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Also the Prophet

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said, I literally have like 15 pages on

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this because I've been working on a book

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for

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this. The Prophet

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said,

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Allah is with His slave,

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that Allah will be with.

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And what does Allah say, If He is

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with you?

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Allah says, If He is with you, who

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can be against you? Allah asked a rhetorical

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question in the Quran. If I am with

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you,

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who can stand against you?

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If I support you, who's gonna stop you?

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The Prophet

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said, Allah is with his slave

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as long as his slave is helping his

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brother.

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That as long as you are helpful to

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your fellow brothers and sisters, Allah is with

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you. And if Allah is with you, you

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can't be defeated. Look at the battle of

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Badr as a beautiful example.

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Our Prophet

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he looked at the field of Badr, and

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he realized

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that strategically

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they were outnumbered,

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strategically

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they were out armed, strategically they had no

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chance.

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Right?

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So he stood in front of Allah and

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what did he say? He said,

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My lord,

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these are your slaves.

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This is all you got. These are all

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of your slaves.

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If we are defeated today, you will no

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longer be worshipped on this earth. If we

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go down today, your religion goes with us.

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And we know the very famous story that

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Allah

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sent the angels. If Allah is with you,

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who can be against you? Who can be

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against you?

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The Prophet

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said, that the parable of the believer

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The parable of the believer in relation to

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mercy and kindness,

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in relation to mercy and kindness and compassion,

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they have for one another. We know this

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famous hadith. I'm not telling you anything that

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you need to go research and say, brother,

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you should speak in the truth. It's like

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one body.

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It's like this singular body unit.

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If one part of the body is in

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pain,

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the rest of it is in pain and

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it's restless and it's sleepless

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and and reacts to it and tries to

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fix it. We know this now medically.

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If you cut your finger, you cut your

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finger,

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your entire body creates a response.

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Your entire body goes into creating a response.

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White blood cells to to to clot the

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wound and then the healing process starts. Your

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whole body gets involved to help that simple

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cut. Right now our ummah is in pieces.

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We're missing limbs. We're missing organs.

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And yet our response is

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medial at least.

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Immediately at least. The Prophet

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another famous hadith, you know.

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He said, The believer to another believer

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are like bricks

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of a building each supporting one another.

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They're like the buildings of a wall. You

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put brick by brick, and they become one

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solid structure.

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But you start taking bricks out of the

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wall. What happens? You weaken it. You weaken

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its structure, and the more you take out

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of it, the weaker it becomes so they

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could just be pushed over by anybody. A

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donkey leaning against it can knock it over.

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That is this ummah right now. A shattered

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mess.

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We can fix it if we learn to

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love one another for the sake of Allah

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Subhanahu wa ta'ala. Truly, truly.

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The prophet

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also said, you famously know,

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one of the 7 categories of people

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who will have the shade of the throne

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of Allah on the day of judgement, on

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a day where there will be no other

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shade, there'll be no trees, there'll be no

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there'll be nothing for you. The sun will

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be brought near, burning us,

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It's dripping in our drowning, in our own

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sweat.

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1 of the 7 categories of people who

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have the shave of the throne of Allah

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on the day of judgment, are 2 people

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who meet each other, and greet and depart

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only for the love of Allah subhanahu wa

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ta'ala. Only for the sake of Allah's love.

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There was one person who was going to

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meet another Muslim,

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going to meet his brother, and an angel

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was sent to accompany him.

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And the angel is asking him, why are

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you going to visit so and so? Does

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he owe you something? Do you guys have

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some business? Do you got some beef? You

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know, like, what is your point for going

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to visit him? He said, I'm going to

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visit him solely for the sake of Allah.

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I love him for the sake of Allah.

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This angel responded and said, know that the

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one whom you love him for his sake,

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loves you in return.

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Know that the one whom you love your

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brother for his sake, loves you in return.

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Look how important Allah is showing us that

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this concept is.

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He's showing us that this is the concept,

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this is the path, this is the way.

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On the day of judgment, Allah subhanahu wa

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ta'ala will call out while all the people

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are surrounding. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will call

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out and he will say, where are those

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who loved one another for my sake? Where

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are those

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who loved one another for my sake? For

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today, I have a shade for them

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that there is no other shade for. Where

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are they? And he'll bring them forward and

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put them under the shade of his throne.

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May

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Allah make us from among these people.

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From Ubayd al bin Samit, the messenger of

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Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said,

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my love is obligatory.

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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, My love I've

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made My love obligatory

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for those who love one another for My

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sake. I have made it obligatory on myself

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to love those who love one another for

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my sake. I have made it obligatory

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that I love those who help one another

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for my sake. I have made it obligatory

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for me to love those who visit one

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another for my sake.

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And my love is made obligatory

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for those whose hearts are free of grudges,

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for those whose hearts are free of grudges

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and they uphold the ties of brotherhood with

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each other solely for my sake are known.

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How many examples do we know

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of brothers not talking to other brothers over

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simple disputes, simple arguments, simple things have gone

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wrong? Now they don't speak for years years

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years. Not only that we go as far

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as family members. Family members which is one

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of the major

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things in Islam. The is one of the

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major things to cut ties. Allah subhanahu wa

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ta'ala refuses jannah for anyone who cuts the

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ties of kinship. Family members who have gotten

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into arguments or disputes, or what have you,

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and they've cut relations with one another. And

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you wonder why we're in this state. If

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Allah says his love is obligatory for those

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who keep this, then what is it for

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those who break it?

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What is it for those who break it?

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And we find this widespread

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widespread in our Umma.

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Widespread.

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The Prophet

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said, it's narrated by Abu Huraira and the

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collection of imam Muslim.

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That the Prophet

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said,

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And I want you this is

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the most important one. You have this this

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is it. This is the key. This is

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this one hadith. This one hadith

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is the magic pill for this Ummah right

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now. It is the pill that would give

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us everything we needed. It is the pill

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that would give us izzah. It is the

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pill that would give us victory. The prophet

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said,

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you will not enter paradise until you believe.

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We all want Jannah. Right? Every single one

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of us, there's not a single Muslim on

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this planet that would say, no. I'm okay.

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I don't need Jannah. I'm fine with burning

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forever.

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No. We all want jannah. The prophet

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said, you will not enter jannah until you

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believe,

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and you will not believe until you love

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one another.

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You will not believe, you will not have

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real belief until you love one another. So

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our messenger alaihis salatu wasalam, look at the

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connection chain he put. For Jannah, he said

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you must have belief. And in order to

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have belief, you must have love for one

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another. So it begins with loving one another,

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gives us our faith, and then our faith

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gives us paradise. So do not think that

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we are going to make it to Jannah

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without having this sincere love for one another

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for the sake of Allah

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It does not matter if I know anything

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about you. It does not matter where you

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come from. It doesn't matter if we even

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speak the same language.

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If you are someone who says,

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you are my brother or sister in faith,

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and I am obligated to love you sincerely

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for it. And it does not matter. People

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who have wronged me. Yes. I've been wronged.

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All of us been wronged in our lives

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by other Muslims. I say it boldly. I've

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been wronged by Muslims more than I've been

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wrong by non Muslims in the 26,

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7 years that I've been a Muslim.

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But even those who have wronged me in

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the worst way,

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I love them for the sake of Allah

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subhanahu wa ta'ala and I want paradise for

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them. I want Jannah for them. I make

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dua that Allah forgives them and grants them

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paradise

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In hopes that he'll forgive me and grant

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me paradise. And if that brother or sister

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were to call me and ask me for

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help, it's 3 o'clock in the morning. I'm

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in a situation of life or death tragedy.

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Would you help me even though I wronged

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you so much? No questions

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asked. For the sake of Allah subhanahu wa

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ta'ala, aloom.

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This is the attitude that we must have.

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Would I trust you to go into business

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with you again? No, probably not. Would I

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trust you to get close enough to me

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again to harm you like you did in

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the future the the past? Probably not. But

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I love you for the sake of Allah,

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and I want Jannah for you, and I

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would help you if you needed so. This

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is the attitude of the believer. This is

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the attitude of the believer.

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There was once

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2 great companions

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whom we all know.

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1 of them,

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and the other one was Abu Thar.

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Abu Thar if you know these companions, which

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we're gonna have a series, coming up soon

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about the companions, inshaAllah,

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on Wednesdays. If you know who Abu Dhar

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is, you know he was one of the

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great companions, a man's man. A man who

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stood up in front of the Meccans when

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there was no help and

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boldly proclaimed the Shahadah. Abu Dhar was a

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gangster before Islam. A lot of our youth

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went around. They wanna think they're gangsters. Abu

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Dhar was a real gangster.

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His tribe, the tribe of Qiphon, they were

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the robbers of Arabia. Right? If you traveled

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outside of,

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the major cities and you ran into Abu

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Dhar's tribe, whatever belonged to you now belong

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to them. And maybe you belong to them

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too. That's just what they were. Abu Dawar

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stood up and said, I am a Muslim.

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I have submitted. They beat him till he

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passed out. This happened three times. Finally, the

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prophet said, you must leave. I have no

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way to protect you. I can't help you.

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You need to leave the city. He gave

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him an order. So Abu Dhar said, okay.

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This is what real gangster is. He said,

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okay. He went to his tribe, gave them

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Dawah, converted the majority of them Islam to

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Islam, and then marched with all of them

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back into the city of Mecca, stood in

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front of the Kaaba and said, I am

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Abu Dhar, and this is my tribe of

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Ghafar, and we have all accepted Islam. Now

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what?

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Now what? They didn't do anything. This is

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Abu Zar. And we know Bilal in his

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story of being a slave, not giving up

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not saying

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having the stone put on and burning in

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the sand, and him his freedom being bought

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by Abu Bakr. Him becoming the first Muhammad

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of Islam. The prophet saying he heard him

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in front of him, his footsteps, and Jannah.

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These 2 great men

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got into it one day. They got into

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it.

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They were discussing the spoils of war, and

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Abu Dhar had an opinion and Bilal disagreed

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with him. And Abu Dhar, his

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his arrogance, his giver

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got the best of him. His ego got

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the best of him. And he said, how

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dare you disagree with me, oh son of

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a black woman. Basically called him the n

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word. Can you imagine, brother, you should get

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up here and call any of our brothers

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from from from the African continent, the Aynore

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right now. Done. That's it. Cancel. Forever. Gone.

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You shouldn't exist anymore. He basically called him

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the n word. And Bilal was hurt. He

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was hurt. He loved he loved Abu Dharr.

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So he went to the prophet sallallahu alaihi

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wa sallam and he complained.

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And the Prophet

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said, bring Abu Thar to me. So he

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brought him. Even though he knew Bilal was

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truthful, this also gives us some wisdom. Right?

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Allah says verify everything.

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Verify everything without question.

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So he brought him and he asked him,

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did you say that to Bilal?

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Abu Dhar, do you say that?

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Bilal put his head down. He said, yes

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o Messenger of Allah, I said it. He

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said,

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there is still Jahiliyyah in your heart.

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That broke him. Jahiliya

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meant the time when they worship rocks, and

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sticks, and others, and that, and all these

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other things, the ignorance.

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That was the worst thing that anybody could

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be told

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for the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam to

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tell you you have jai liyah in you.

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It smashed him.

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He immediately went looking for Bilal.

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He went looking for him, he went to

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his house, he couldn't find him. He wasn't

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in the masjid. Where did he find him?

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He found him in the busiest place in

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Medina, in the suk, in the market.

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And what did he do? He didn't go

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grab him and say, we're gonna go around

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the corner, we're gonna squash this beef like

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it never happened, we're gonna come out, everybody

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No. He went and jumped in front of

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him and threw himself on the ground, put

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his face on the dirt and said, Vidal,

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I will not get up from this spot

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until you put your foot on your face

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and show all of these people that you're

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better than me.

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Picked him up,

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kissed his cheek, and said, I would much

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rather kiss this face than step on it.

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And that was it. It was squashed. They

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were done. This is how men handle business.

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Brothers,

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this is how men handle business. It was

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done. It was over. They were back brothers

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for the sake of Allah, Subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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Now we can't even talk to each other.

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You got a problem with that brother? You

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go tell that brother. You got a problem

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with that sister? You go and tell this

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sister. No. No. No. You have a problem

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with someone? You deal with it with that

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someone. I've always said it. If you have

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a problem with me, bring it to me.

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And if you don't know how to reach

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me, then you don't know me well enough

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to have a problem with me in the

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first place. So what are we doing here?

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Deal with it with one another. Squash it.

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Let it go. Be done with it. Because

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on the day of judgment, all of us

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are gonna look stupid

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when Allah has made our mizan heavy. Right?

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And we think we're good. We go across

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the siraat. Boom. We've made it. We think

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we're good. And then right outside Jannah, Allah

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stops all of us and said, now is

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the time for the judgment amongst yourselves.

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Now is the time for you to take

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back

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that who bit who back bit against you,

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that one who slandered you, that one who

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wronged you, that one who stole from you,

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that one who did. Now is the time.

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And how many of us are gonna lose

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our needs? How many of us are gonna

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start giving away our good deeds to people?

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How many of us are gonna run out

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of good deeds and have to start taking

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on another person's sin and be thrown into

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the fire after we passed all of that?

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All simply because we couldn't overcome our own

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ego.

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All because we couldn't overcome our own ego.

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What is wrong with us?

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Let it go.

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Start new. Let it go for the sake

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of Allah

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and love one another. The prophet

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a few more now be done.

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He said,

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Allah ta'ala says and this is,

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by Mu'adim in Jabril radiAllahu anhu. My love

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is obligatory for those who love each other

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for my sake, for sit together for my

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sake, those who visit each other for my

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sake, and those who spend on each other.

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He added this part of the hadith, and

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those who spend on each other. For what?

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For my sake. For my sake, I've made

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my love obligatory to them.

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In the collection of Abu Dawood,

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Umar ibn Khattab

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He said,

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Verily The Prophet

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said, Verily, there are some people amongst the

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servants of Allah that are neither prophets nor

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martyrs.

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They're not prophets, those are the best of

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people. The next best are the shuhada.

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They're none of these. He said, but they

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will be envy

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like that on the day of judgment. They

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will be envied like that on the day

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of judgment. And then and the companion said,

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who are these people, oh messenger of Allah?

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We want to be like them. You see

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their difference with them? They immediately want to

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know, how can we be like these people?

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Who are they? He said, they are the

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people who love each other for the sake

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of Allah. They are the people who love

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each other for the sake of Allah, not

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because of family relations or wealth. By Allah,

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light will be placed on their faces, and

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they will be sitting on pulpits of light.

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They will have no fear when all the

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other people are afraid on the day of

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judgement, and they will not be sad when

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the other people are grieving.

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We can be like these people just for

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loving each other. Simply just for that. Just

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because I love all of you for the

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sake of Allah, I can have my face

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life on the day of judgment? I can

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be sat on a throne of light? I

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can be a wait When everybody else is

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worried, I can be okay?

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How simple a solution.

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But our egos,

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this this nafs is what prevents us.

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The prophet

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said,

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there is a disease that has come to

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you like the disease of the nations that

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came before you, a disease. He called it

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a disease.

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He said there is and this is the

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cancer of this ummah and it spreads. Can't

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A cancerous tumor is nothing but a bad

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tumor and that bad tumor cell affects other

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cells around it and they start forming tumors,

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big tumors, etcetera. It is a cancer,

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a disease.

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He said,

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envy and hatred of one another.

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The disease that you have that was of

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the nations before you is envy and hatred

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of one another. He said,

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it's a razor.

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It's a razor, it's a blade. But it

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is not a blade that shaves the hair.

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It is a blade that shaves the faith.

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It is a blade that shaves the faith.

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He said, by the one whose hands is

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the soul of Muhammad

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salallahu alaihi wa sallam. That was one of

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his strongest oaths. He would say by the

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in by the one whose hands is the

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soul of Muhammad

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You will not believe till you love one

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another.

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You will not enter paradise until you believe.

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This

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This is how important this is. It's not

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a joke.

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Said the messenger of Allah asked

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us, do you love Jannah? Do you love

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paradise?

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Of course, we love paradise. The answer is

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it's a rhetorical question. He said, do you

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love paradise?

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They said, yes. He said, then love for

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your brother what you love for yourself.

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If you love paradise, then love for each

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other what you love for yourself. The things

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that you want for yourself, want for your

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brother or your sister as well.

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This is the thing that could give us

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back the is an honor that we deserve.

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This could give us trust me, the things

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that are happening to the muslim Ummah would

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not happen if we were united like this.

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They would not happen. The Prophet

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said, When the jama'ah is strong,

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we can't be defeated. He held one stick,

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right? And he snapped it. And he said,

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this is the solitary Muslim. This is the

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one who goes out and tries to do

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his own thing, right? He cuts himself off

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from everybody else and thinks he's good. He's

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gonna get broken like a twig. Then he

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put a bunch of them together and he

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tried to break them and he said this

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is the jama'ah.

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This is the Muslim body. When you are

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together,

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you cannot be broken because Allah is with

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you.

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May

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Allah grant us his love for 1 of

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them.

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If we could learn to love one another

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the way the companions love one another, brothers

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and sisters,

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we would have everything that we want, everything

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that we desire.

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The only thing that is stopping us is

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this, our own egos, our own self concern,

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our nafsi, nafsi, nafsi. We only care about

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ourselves.

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We should care about each other the exact

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same way that we care about ourselves. The

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same way you don't want to be harmed,

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you shouldn't want your brother or sister to

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be harmed. The same way you want your

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honor to be protected, you should want the

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honor of your brother sister to be protected.

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The same way you want to live in

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safety and security, you should want your brother

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or sister to live in safety and security.

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The same way you wish that somebody would

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be there to help you

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The same All of these things that you

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want for yourself,

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want for each other. And if we truly

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do that and Allah sees that in our

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hearts, he will give us the honor and

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victory that

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Allah has promised to the believers

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insha'Allah. Lastly,

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this is an ibn Majaba ibn Aba'as

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because one of the big things that I

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find

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that we do the most

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is fault finding.

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We love finding faults in each other. Right?

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We're very good at that. We are like

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experts at finding faults in our brothers and

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sisters.

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I even made a tweet about this a

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few years ago that we we we live

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as if we don't have mirrors in our

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houses.

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We live our lives as if we don't

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look in the mirror every single day and

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see ourselves. Right? The way we look at

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each other, we don't look at ourselves in

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the same way in the mirror.

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Fault finding, looking for your fault and your

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brother using it against them, using it for,

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for for the sake of putting another brother

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down, another sister down, and trying to make

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yourself feel better is one of the dangerous

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diseases that we have. And it is something

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that will cause you great tragedy on the

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day of judgment. The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam,

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this is also why I have never ever

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nor will ever insha Allahu ta'ala

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use my public platform to speak ill of

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another Muslim. Ever. Nor will I ever do

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it. Never. Never.

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Because I have a mirror in my house.

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I see myself.

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I'm concerned about this person. I have enough

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of my own. But the prophet

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said,

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whoever conceals the faults

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of his brother

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or sister, whoever conceals. You see your brother

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has a fault, you cover it. You go

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and try to talk to him, look, you

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know, we can try to try to keep

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this out of the public realm, keep it

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between you and Allah, and you don't go

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and blabber about it to another person or

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another person or another person or online or

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whatever. He said whoever conceals the faults of

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his brother or sister, then Allah will conceal

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their faults in the day of judgment. How

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will this happen? Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will

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call you. This is what will happen to

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people like this. Allah will call you on

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the day of judgment and then He will

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place a veil between you and everybody else.

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And he'll tell you about all of your

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sins

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and you'll be worried and you'll say, my

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slave, look around you. Nobody else can see

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this.

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The same way that I prevented anyone from

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knowing them in this world, I'm preventing them

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from being known in this life and hereafter

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as well, and I have forgiven you. I

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have forgiven you. So whoever conceals his brother

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or sister's faults, Allah will conceal their faults.

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But he gave us a very strong warning,

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Very strong warning.

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But whoever exposes and seeks out their brother's

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faults. Whoever seeks out and exposes their brother

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or their sister's faults, Allah will seek out

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and expose them

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even if those faults are hidden inside their

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homes.

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Even if those faults are known to no

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one but them in Allah. Allah will put

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them out there if you go around doing

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that. So make sure we love one another

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for the sake of Allah. Cover each other.

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One of the great salaf of our ummah

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said if you see your brother make a

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mistake, look for an excuse for him. And

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if you can't find 1, try 70 times.

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And then if after 70 times you still

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can't find an excuse, say that he probably

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has an excuse or she probably has an

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excuse that I don't know about.

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Our affairs are with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

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We need to protect our communities, yes, but

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we need to protect our akhirah. Our hereafter

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is the most important thing. None of this

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will matter when we stand in front of

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Allah. We will only And when we make

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it to Jannah,

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none of this nonsense that we fought over

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will matter anyway. We've made it. We're people

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of paradise. It's done. You would trade your

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children on the day of judgment for Allah

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to give you paradise. You might think you

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love them now, but on the day of

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judgment, you would ransom them to Allah if

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He would put you in paradise. And Allah

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is telling us that if we simply love

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one another for His sake, then he will

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give us paradise insha'allah. He'll give us honor.

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He'll give us victory. So remember, when you

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see your brother or sister from now on,

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make sure you know that you love them

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for the sake of Allah. I love you

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for the sake of Allah. If you need

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me, I'm here, etcetera, so on and so

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forth. Be genuine about it and watch how

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this ummah can change in 1 generation. Watch

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how this ummah can change in 1 generation.

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Make sure that your lowers are straight, fill

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in the gaps, leave no spaces shoulder to

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shoulder.

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So

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