Zaid Shakir – Jummah 30-08-2024

Zaid Shakir
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The importance of good character in Islam is discussed, including one's ability to handle one's own behavior and expectations. The speaker also emphasizes the power of Islam, including cow carriers, faith, and faith. The speaker highlights the importance of knowing one's situation and actions in order to act in the best possible manner, as it is a foundation of one's charity. The speaker also discusses the importance of mindfulness and avoiding sinful behavior, as it is a foundation of one's charity.

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			All praises due to Allah, the Lord of
		
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			all the worlds.
		
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			All praises due to Allah who has blessed
		
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			us, guided us
		
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			to this way, to Islam, and we would
		
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			not we would not have been able to
		
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			guide ourselves had not Allah
		
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			and His infinite grace and mercy and wisdom
		
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			chosen to guide us.
		
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			Alhamdulillah.
		
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			All praises due to Allah who has revealed
		
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			the scripture onto his servant
		
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			and make no crookedness therein.
		
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			Alhamdulillah,
		
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			Allah ta'ala has blessed us with Islam.
		
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			Unfortunately,
		
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			sometimes
		
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			we,
		
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			not necessarily anyone here, generally speaking,
		
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			we can tend to limit
		
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			Islam
		
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			to what we understand to be the outward
		
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			actions
		
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			of Islam.
		
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			I know people not here.
		
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			I've been here once. It was at night,
		
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			so I've never been here for Fajr.
		
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			But I
		
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			know in other places,
		
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			people who have been not in the front
		
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			row at FADJOR,
		
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			they'll be so sad to think their mother
		
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			died.
		
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			Say, what's wrong brother? Your mother died?
		
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			No. I I didn't make it to the
		
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			front row of Fajr.
		
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			But they'll leave
		
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			the front row of Fajr
		
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			in the masjid
		
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			and they'll get in their car
		
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			and they'll drive to their liquor store
		
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			and they'll open the store
		
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			and sell poison
		
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			to people that destroys their lives, their families,
		
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			and their communities.
		
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			Dear brothers and sisters,
		
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			our Ibadah is, of course, absolutely critical.
		
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			The first thing of our actions will be
		
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			taking the task on is our salah, our
		
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			prayer.
		
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			But equally critical
		
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			is our character.
		
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			If one doubts that,
		
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			consider the following hadith related by
		
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			Aisha
		
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			That the a believer
		
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			the believer in Al Mu'min.
		
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			The believer will attain
		
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			through his good character,
		
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			the rank of one who perpetually
		
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			fast
		
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			and
		
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			stands for prayer
		
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			a significant portion of every night
		
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			through his or her good character.
		
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			So our good character
		
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			is extremely important.
		
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			Our prophet
		
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			is described.
		
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			You are on an exalted
		
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			standard of conduct.
		
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			Why is his
		
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			his character so exalted?
		
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			Another hadith related by Aisha
		
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			gives us an answer.
		
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			Part of the answer, not the whole answer,
		
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			part of the answer.
		
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			Quran.
		
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			She was asked about his character,
		
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			and she said
		
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			his character
		
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			was an embodiment of the Quran.
		
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			His character was the embodiment of the Quran.
		
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			All of the
		
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			character traits
		
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			that we find in the Quran
		
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			were epitomized by the Messenger of Allah
		
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			And in this,
		
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			he was continuing
		
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			not the legacy of Ibrahim alaihi wa sallam,
		
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			not just
		
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			in Tawhid.
		
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			No. Ibrahim alaihi wa sallam,
		
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			the the patriarch of Tawhid,
		
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			but also in his character.
		
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			Ibrahim
		
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			was
		
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			an ummah in and of himself,
		
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			devoutly
		
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			obedient to Allah.
		
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			One of the explanations of an ummah, he
		
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			embodied the good care the character trace you
		
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			find
		
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			in an ummah.
		
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			So in an ummah, in this jamaah,
		
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			we know you know you know the community
		
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			better than me. You know this beautiful community,
		
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			this beautiful
		
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			expanding community better than I
		
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			do. So you know one person
		
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			so honest. You say, brother so and so
		
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			is so honest.
		
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			He saw them.
		
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			Masha'Allah.
		
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			Sister so and so,
		
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			she's so faithful.
		
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			She gives her words. She never breaks her
		
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			promise.
		
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			Brother so and so, he's so courageous.
		
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			Masha'allah.
		
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			He's a lion.
		
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			Ibrahim
		
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			had all of that embodied
		
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			within himself.
		
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			All of those traits in the Quran were
		
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			embodied within him.
		
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			He's our example.
		
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			You have
		
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			You have in the messenger of Allah most
		
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			excellent example for anyone
		
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			who looks forward to succeeding on the last
		
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			day and remembers Allah abundantly.
		
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			He's our exemplar.
		
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			He's our standard.
		
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			He reminded us
		
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			He was asked
		
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			which two things enter people into paradise more
		
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			than anything else.
		
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			He said,
		
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			mindfulness of Allah,
		
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			specifically,
		
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			mindfulness of his commandments and prohibitions
		
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			and good character.
		
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			He joined them together.
		
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			So the commandments,
		
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			prohibitions,
		
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			mindfulness of those,
		
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			and good character, he didn't stop
		
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			Taqwala,
		
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			which
		
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			embodies
		
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			mindfulness of Allah, which embodies
		
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			implementing his commandments,
		
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			avoiding his prohibition. Stop. He didn't stop there.
		
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			May Allah bless us to bring those together.
		
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			What is
		
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			involve?
		
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			Imam Ghazali,
		
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			he mentions in the uhya
		
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			4 fundamental
		
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			character traits.
		
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			Courage,
		
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			wisdom,
		
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			and atlu, justice,
		
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			alitha,
		
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			self restraint.
		
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			That's the foundation.
		
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			The greatest that says courage.
		
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			Your courage
		
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			gives birth to more qualities
		
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			than any other. So so for example,
		
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			courage is a foundation
		
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			of charity.
		
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			So the person who is generous and gives
		
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			is not afraid of the consequences of poverty.
		
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			These two characters are mentioned concerning the messenger
		
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			of Allah.
		
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			Courage and charity
		
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			on the death who name.
		
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			He gave a man by the name of
		
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			Al Aqra bin Habis,
		
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			who's known from other hadith.
		
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			He gave him
		
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			a valley of livestock,
		
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			a valley full of livestock.
		
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			A a a gift, a giving,
		
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			one who doesn't fear poverty.
		
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			So his courage
		
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			his his courage, his not fearing poverty
		
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			was a foundation
		
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			of his charity,
		
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			his matchless charity.
		
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			As he's described,
		
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			salallahu alaihi was alaihi wasalam
		
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			ejwad al nasi.
		
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			He salallahu alaihi wasalam was the most generous
		
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			of people.
		
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			He was the most courageous of people.
		
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			On the day of Hunayn where this incident
		
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			happened after at the beginning,
		
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			before the Muslims prevailed,
		
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			they're marching into the the territory of Bani
		
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			Hawazin.
		
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			That was their territory.
		
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			And Bani Hawazin,
		
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			Halim Mas'adiyyah was from these people. Bani Hawazin
		
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			Radhi Allahu Anhe, the wet nurse of the
		
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			prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
		
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			They were archers.
		
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			They were like the the Ottoman, the Turks.
		
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			They were archers.
		
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			And when the Muslims came in,
		
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			they rain down
		
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			a hail
		
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			of arrows upon them.
		
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			Everyone flee.
		
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			They fled.
		
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			A lot of them were new converts,
		
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			brand new, not to criticize new converts. I
		
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			was a convert once.
		
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			A lot of people converting now,
		
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			but they they ran.
		
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			On the old lot of the older Muslim,
		
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			they they fled, but the prophet kept marching
		
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			with his mule and,
		
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			and,
		
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			and, Abu, Abu, not Abu,
		
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			Abu,
		
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			the popular one, Abu,
		
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			And the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa
		
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			sallam, he was saying,
		
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			and an and Abdul Abdul Muttalib. I'm a
		
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			prophet. That's no lie. I'm the son of
		
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			Abdul Muttalib.
		
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			And he marched into the arrows.
		
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			And seeing his courage, the Sahaba and the
		
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			Muslims rallied around him, they prevailed, and then
		
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			they got all of this,
		
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			war booty that he distributed,
		
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			a lot of it to this.
		
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			So we have to be courageous people.
		
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			We're Muslims.
		
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			We we take pride in the we're the
		
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			descendants of courageous people
		
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			who brought Islam to every continent. They didn't
		
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			fear the wilderness. They didn't feel the jungle.
		
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			They didn't feel the any fear of anything.
		
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			Even when they were vanquished, they didn't fear
		
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			the Mongol hordes who vanquished them. They didn't
		
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			have an inferiority
		
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			complex.
		
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			Within 3 generations, they brought those Mongol hordes
		
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			into Islam
		
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			because they didn't they didn't fear them.
		
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			The initial wave,
		
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			that was one thing. But once the dust
		
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			settled,
		
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			the Muslims stood up and they picked their
		
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			heads up,
		
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			and they said, we have faith.
		
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			We have the sunnah of the of Muhammad
		
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			We have the way of Muhammad, uswatu Muhammad
		
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			sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
		
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			That makes us better than you.
		
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			And their their confidence
		
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			and their courage,
		
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			they brought those people into Islam
		
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			within 3 generations.
		
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			We have to be courageous.
		
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			We we shouldn't back down
		
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			intellectually.
		
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			We shouldn't feel all is lost.
		
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			Sometimes, we we become so
		
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			timid
		
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			that we we forget
		
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			even recent history.
		
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			We look at the this genocide in Gaza
		
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			and expanding into the West Bank now,
		
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			a difficult garbiyah,
		
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			And then we look at the the hypocrisy
		
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			of this country and we look at the
		
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			way AIPAC is defeating
		
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			the politicians who stand against them
		
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			and we think they're all powerful and we
		
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			forget
		
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			and we see
		
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			the leader of the Zionist
		
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			going to the congress and the congress people
		
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			jumping up and down the clearing like they're
		
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			his personal yo yo.
		
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			You put it down, pull it up. Pull
		
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			it down, pull it up.
		
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			You say, oh, there's so power. We forget
		
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			the last time
		
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			that leader came to the Congress
		
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			to advance a Zionist policy
		
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			specifically
		
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			to undermine the Iran nuclear deal, he lost.
		
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			We forget that. Oh, they're powerful. There's nothing
		
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			we can do.
		
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			They control the congress.
		
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			What happened in 2015?
		
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			What happened to APAC?
		
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			What happened to the the leader?
		
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			They lost.
		
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			They're not all powerful.
		
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			Allah is all powerful.
		
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			Allah controls our power. He gives it to
		
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			people that test them.
		
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			And nothing's permanent in this world.
		
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			The power of this or that regime is
		
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			not permanent. Where's the power of the Roman
		
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			the mighty Roman Empire?
		
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			Where's the power of the Greeks
		
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			who's expanded from Central Asia under Alexander the
		
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			Great across the Mediterranean?
		
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			Where's that power today?
		
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			Where's the power of ancient ancient Egypt,
		
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			built the great pyramids?
		
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			Where is that power
		
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			today?
		
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			As the poet said, the movement of the
		
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			sun
		
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			belies the illusion of permanence.
		
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			It sets from a play it rises from
		
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			a place other than it sets in the
		
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			evening.
		
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			There's no no permanent Allah says he gives
		
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			it to test people.
		
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			Allah says
		
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			these fortunes,
		
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			victory, defeat, strength, weakness, we alternate between the
		
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			people
		
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			in order that Allah will show which truly
		
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			believe
		
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			and to take from your ranks martyrs.
		
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			And Allah doesn't love oppressors.
		
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			That's the reality.
		
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			The constant
		
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			is
		
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			worshiping Allah. The constant is manifesting good character
		
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			in all of our situations.
		
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			That's the constant. Political reality changes.
		
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			Economic
		
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			fortunes change.
		
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			The world changes,
		
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			but the deen is a constant.
		
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			Islam is strong.
		
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			Look at your community. Islam is vibrant.
		
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			Islam is growing growing.
		
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			And if we as Muslims
		
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			become the moral standard
		
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			by which good character is judged,
		
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			we will inherit this land.
		
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			This is a sunnah of Allah.
		
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			So keep your head up. Be courageous.
		
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			Be courageous.
		
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			Be wise.
		
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			Wisdom. Try to understand the situation that we're
		
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			in.
		
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			Try to do the thing most appropriate
		
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			for that situation.
		
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			Try to do it in the best possible
		
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			manner.
		
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			Doing the right thing in the right way
		
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			at the right time.
		
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			We need wisdom,
		
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			not emotion.
		
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			We need to think deeply about our situation
		
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			so that we can act in the best
		
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			possible manner.
		
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			We need we need wisdom, a lot of
		
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			new converts.
		
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			They have to be treated wisely.
		
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			I know I know sisters.
		
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			I know sisters.
		
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			It took them maybe
		
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			10, 15 years
		
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			to go from,
		
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			a kufi like something like I'm wearing, stuffing
		
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			their hair up in there,
		
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			then a scarf,
		
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			then a fuller scarf wrap around,
		
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			and maybe 10, 15 years later to the.
		
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			The same sister will go to a brand
		
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			new convert. Sister, you need to cover your
		
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			face. You're very beautiful. You're gonna be a
		
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			fitna for the brothers
		
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			who should be lowering their gaze. Anyway,
		
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			is that wisdom?
		
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			She's
		
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			discarded her own life example.
		
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			If someone told her on day 1, she
		
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			had to be where it took her 15
		
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			years to get,
		
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			she might have ran away from Islam,
		
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			but she's going to turn around and tell
		
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			this new sister on day 1 she has
		
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			the wearing cap.
		
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			She's figuring out she was trying to wrestle
		
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			with how she gonna tell her family.
		
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			Now she said, you gotta go home with
		
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			your face covered.
		
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			Al Shaja Al Hikma, wisdom
		
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			in all of our affairs.
		
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			Al Adu, justice.
		
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			Alhamdulillah.
		
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			We have a lot of
		
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			social justice warriors,
		
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			but Islam is not just social justice.
		
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			You know what social justice is? Social justice
		
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			is atheist
		
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			atheistic justice. I'm not saying this, in all
		
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			instances, bad.
		
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			So don't tweet that out.
		
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			Some people doing it now. They're you're not
		
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			supposed to be tweeting.
		
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			But if you wait till after, don't tweet
		
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			that out. I didn't say social justice is
		
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			bad. It can be bad,
		
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			But social justice is part of a larger
		
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			picture of justice.
		
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			When the Prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, sent
		
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			Mu'adhim nijabil
		
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			radhiallahu an
		
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			and Abi
		
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			Azar
		
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			To Yemen,
		
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			he said,
		
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			Be mindful of Allah wherever you are.
		
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			And any misdeeds you do, follow it up
		
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			with a good deed, that being waiter will
		
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			wipe
		
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			it
		
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			out. And treat people on the basis of
		
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			good character, within where we started. Good character.
		
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			Those are the 3
		
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			That's the whole picture of justice.
		
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			Justice in our relationship
		
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			with Allah. And the one who's not adil
		
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			what? Is a valim.
		
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			The opposite of justice is oppression.
		
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			What's the greatest form of oppression?
		
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			In the shirkah lavulman adhim.
		
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			Shirk is the greatest oppression.
		
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			So we have to be just in our
		
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			relationship with Allah for our sake, not for
		
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			Allah's sake.
		
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			Social justice doesn't account for
		
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			because the atheist architects of what we know
		
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			as social justice, generally speaking, they were atheists.
		
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			They didn't they didn't acknowledge, care about, think
		
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			about Allah and
		
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			the rights that Allah has over us which
		
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			if we violate, we're a Volim.
		
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			We're oppressors.
		
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			And justice with ourselves.
		
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			And any
		
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			sin or misdeeds you might commit, follow it
		
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			up with a good deed. Being weightier will
		
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			wipe it out.
		
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			So the ones who don't repent and are
		
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			unjust in them themselves and they meet Allah,
		
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			yomukayama,
		
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			with a mountain of sin,
		
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			They've oppressed their souls.
		
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			Whoever whosoever does not repent, they are the
		
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			oppressors.
		
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			Again, the architects of what we know as
		
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			social justice, they're all thinking about that.
		
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			And then the 3rd realm, wakaliqen
		
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			nasih biquluqen hasan deal with people on the
		
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			basis of good character.
		
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			Justice in society at large.
		
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			But there is no justice in society
		
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			that involves injustice
		
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			in our relation to Allah and our soul.
		
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			There is no justice in sinful activity.
		
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			There's no justice
		
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			in things that involve a violation of the
		
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			rights of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
		
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			We have to always remember that.
		
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			So we don't want, I don't want, you
		
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			might want. I can't speak for you guys
		
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			or you gals.
		
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			But I don't want
		
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			social justice warriors. I want justice
		
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			warriors
		
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			who approach
		
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			issues in society
		
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			with the full scope
		
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			of the teachings and foundations
		
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			and principles of this deen.
		
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			You Allah.
		
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			You Allah.
		
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			You