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in the East Mosullah up till 6.45.
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So please, you can proceed and go to
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the elections if you want inshallah as a
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member.
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Jazakumullahu khairan.
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Fadhal.
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Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem.
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Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen.
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Wa salatu wa salam ala Sayyid al-Mursaleen,
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Sayyidina Muhammad wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa
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sallim.
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As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
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Alhamdulillah, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has blessed
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us with two great blessings.
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And they're mentioned, Allah ta'ala mentions in
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the Qur'an, Fali abudu rabbihadhal bayt alladhi
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at'amuhum min juu'in wa amanahum min
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khawf.
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Let them worship the lord of this house,
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the one who has fed them and driven
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hunger away from them and made them secure
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from fear.
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So as we all know, there's a terrible
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genocide, in many ways unprecedented, that's happening, not
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just in Gaza, now being extended into the
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West Bank and into southern Lebanon, all of
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Lebanon, and no one's doing anything.
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And this makes a lot of Muslims very
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depressed and feel powerless and weak.
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But we should understand that Allah subhanahu wa
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ta'ala is testing us through these affairs.
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And the Qur'an presents the problem and
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it presents the answer.
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So after Uhud, the Muslims have suffered a
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tremendous setback that was amplified by the fact
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that it came after apparent victory.
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They thought everything was over, they're cleaning up
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the battlefield.
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And then as we all know, Khalid leads
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the charge around the Muslim flank.
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And many of the archers, not all, some
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of them obeyed Rasulullah ﷺ.
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They stayed on their post, but many abandoned
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and Khalid was able to do what he
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did.
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And so after that, it was crushing for
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the Muslims.
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The hypocrites were ridiculing them when they came
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back into Medina.
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They were questioning those who had supported Rasulullah
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ﷺ.
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See, you gave your support and look what
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happened.
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Look, they're weak and their people come all
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the way up here.
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And many of you have been killed from
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the Ansar.
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And Allah revealed at that point, وَلَا تَهِنُوا
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وَلَا تَحْزَنُوا وَأَنْتُمُ الْعَالَمُونَ إِنْ كُنْتُم مُؤْمِنِينَ Don't
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be weakened and don't be saddened while you
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are uppermost, while you are victorious, if indeed
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you are believers.
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So this is a reminder for us that
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the material conditions that we might face, they're
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not the determinant of victory or defeat.
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They're not the determinant.
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It's our faith.
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So you are uppermost.
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وَأَنْتُمُ الْعَالَمُونَ But it's conditional.
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إِنْ كُنْتُم مُؤْمِنِينَ If indeed you are believers.
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That's what makes you uppermost.
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What makes us better?
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It doesn't make us better we have more
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wealth, we have more power, influence.
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No.
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كُنْتُمْ خَيْرَ أُمَّةٍ أُخْرِجَتْ لِلنَّاسِ تَأْمُرُونَ بِالْمَعْرُوفَ
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تَنْهَوْنَ عَنِ الْمُنْكَرِ وَتُؤْمِنُونَ بِاللَّهِ So you're the
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best ummah.
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Why?
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Because you have more money, more power?
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No.
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Because you enjoy what is good and you
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forbid what is wrong and faith again and
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you believe in Allah.
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So my dear brothers and sisters, what's important
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for us, this is a lesson we learned
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from the people of Gaza, is to hold
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on to our faith.
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In the face of all the bombing, the
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murder, the target practice on little kids blowing
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their heads off, which is documented in the
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New York Times.
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So it must be true because it made
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it into the New York Times and that's
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all the news that's fit to print.
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So all of that, being burned alive as
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we saw last week, all of that, what's
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the first word?
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Alhamdulillah.
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They talk to a child who doesn't know
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where his family is, Alhamdulillah.
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They talk to a mother, she lost her
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children, her husband, Alhamdulillah.
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They talk to a father, he lost his
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whole family, Alhamdulillah.
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They talk to the elders, who've seen their
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whole offspring wiped out, Alhamdulillah.
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Alhamdulillah.
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So we have to have that faith.
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And then very quickly, what's the next verse?
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And this is very important.
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So Allah first says, your victory isn't connected
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with these material conditions.
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Your victory is connected to your faith.
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And no one can kill your faith إِنْ
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أَمْسَسْكُمْ قَرْحٌ فَقَدْ مَسَّ الْقَوْمَ قَرْحٌ مِّثْلُهُ وَتِلْكَ
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الْأَيَامُ نُدَاوِلُهَا بَيْنِ النَّاسِ وَلْيَعْنِمَ اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا
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وَيَتْخِذَ مِنْكُمْ شُهَدَاءٍ وَاللَّهُ لَيْحِبُّ الظَّالِمِينَ If some
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setback has afflicted you, then you should know
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that your enemies have also been afflicted by
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that.
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So Allah Ta'ala is reminding, today you
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were setback, you have Uhud, it's a terrible
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day, but before this you had Badr.
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And your enemies who have Uhud and apparent
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victory today, they had Badr.
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And Badr they lost 72 of their people,
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and today Uhud you lost 72 of your
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people.
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إِنْ يَمْسَسْكُمْ قَرْ فَقَدْ مَسَّلْ قَوْمَّ قَرْهُمْ مِثْلُهُ
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وَتِلْكَ الْأَيَامُ نُدَاوِلْهَا بَيْنِ النَّاسِ And these fortunes,
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victory, defeat, strength, weakness, wealth, poverty, will alternate
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between the people.
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Is anyone here 80 years old?
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Anyone 80 years old here?
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Anyone 80 years old?
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Nobody?
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I'm sure in the community there's some people
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80, 90 years old, right?
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In the community?
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Within their lifetime, right?
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The Jews, the Zionists, they appear so strong
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today, they were so weak within their lifetime.
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Hitler and Mussolini and the European Nazis and
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fascists were burning them in ovens, gassing them
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in gas chambers, murdering them by the hundreds
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of thousands, by the millions.
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Holocaust is real.
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So if they're strong today, they were weak
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yesterday.
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If Muslims are weak today, we'll be strong
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tomorrow.
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وَتِلْكَ الْأَيَامُ نُدَاوِلْهَا بَيْنِ النَّاسِ It's a test.
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وَلِيَعْنِمَ اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا In order that Allah
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show who truly believes.
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Allah is testing the Zionists.
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Look at the hikmah of Allah.
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You were weak.
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You were oppressed.
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You were downtrodden.
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You were beaten down.
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You were pushed from pillar to post.
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You were expelled from your homes.
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And we're gonna give you power to see
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how you're going to behave.
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تَبَارَكَ الَّذِي بِيَدِهِ الْمُلْكِ وَهُوَ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ
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قَدِيرٍ الَّذِي خَلَقَ الْمَوْتَ وَالْحَيَاةَ لِيَبَلُوكُمْ أَيُّكُمْ
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أَحْسُنُوا الْأَمَلَاتِ The one who's created death and
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life to test which of you are best
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in deed.
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I'm gonna give you power.
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I'm gonna give you influence.
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I'm gonna see what you do with it.
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Are they passing the test?
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They're failing the test.
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Miserably.
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Miserably.
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One day we're gonna be tested.
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Are we gonna be vengeful?
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Are we gonna say, look what you did
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in Gaza.
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Now it's your turn.
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Are we gonna be like Rasulullah ﷺ?
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The Quraysh who killed his people.
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Who killed and assassinated his uncle Hamza.
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Killed his beloved emissary to the people of
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Yathrib.
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Mus'ab ibn Umair.
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On and on.
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What did he do?
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يَفْرِعَنْتُمْ خُلَقًا You're free.
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Just go.
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What is the worst enemy?
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Who was the chief?
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Who was the Netanyahu?
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And the Ben Gavir of the Quraysh.
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Abu Sufyan in India.
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What did he say?
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Whoever goes into Abu Sufyan's house is safe.
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The worst of them.
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ﷺ So may Allah give us patience.
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May Allah give us strong faith.
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May Allah bless us to understand his sunnah.
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وَلَا تَجِدَ لِسُنَّةِ اللَّهِ تَحْوِيلَ وَلَا تَبْدِيلَ There's
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no alteration in the sunnah of Allah.
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May Allah give peace and liberation to our
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people in Palestine.
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May Allah bless Muslims in places like Sudan.
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If Palestine is genocide, Sudan is fratricide.
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Brother killing brother.
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Fratricide.
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Muslim exploiting Muslim.
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Killing Muslim.
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Pushing Muslims out of their home.
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May Allah give peace to the people of
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Sudan.
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May Allah bless the people in these leadership.
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And these foreign powers who sucking the gold
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out of Sudan.
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Pumping the weapons in.
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May Allah bless them to come to their
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senses.
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To have more mercy for their Muslim brother
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and sister.
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Than their lust for power and wealth.
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Which isn't going to benefit them anyway.
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He said five minutes and we got a
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wedding.
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But think about it.
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وَأَمَّا مَنْ أُوتِيَ كِتَابَهُ بِشِمَالٍ فَيَقُولُ يَلَيْتَنِي مَنْ
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أُوتَ كِتَابِيَ وَلَمْ أَدْرِ مَا حِسَابِيَ يَلَيْتَهَا كَانَتَ
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الْقَاضِيَ مَا أَغْنَى عَنِّ مَالِيَ That gold that
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places like the United Arab Emirates is stealing
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from Sudan is not going to be of
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any benefit.
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مَا أَغْنَى عَنِّ مَالِيَ هَلَكَ عَنِّي سُلْطَانِيَ All
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the power.
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They think oh we're alive with this power
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and that power.
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Etc.
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And then we'll be strong.
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هَلَكَ عَنِّي سُلْطَانِيَ All my power is gone.
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خُذُوهُ فَغُلُّوا ثُمَّ الجَهِيمَ صَلُّوا ثُمَّ فِي سِجْسِلَةٍ
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ظَرُّهَا سَبْعُونَ ذِرْعًا فَسْلُكُوا Then to summarize is
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punish them in the worst of punishment.
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أَنْهِلَ اللَّهِ My dear brothers and sisters, we
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don't live for this world.
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We don't live for the power, the gold,
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the money, the wealth.
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We live for Allah سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى We live
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to serve our fellow humans.
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كُنتُمْ خَيْرَ أُمَةٍ أُخْرِجَتْ لِلنَّاسِ To serve the
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people.
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We live to have patience through the tests
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and tribulations that Allah puts us through.
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To maintain our dignity, not to hold our
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heads down.
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To be optimistic that there is good that
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is going to come out of these situations.
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بَرَكُمْ وَفِيكُمْ اللَّهُ تَطَبَّن مِّنكُمْ وَصَلُّ اللَّهُ عَلَى
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سَيِّدٍ مُحَمَّدٍ وَعَلَى أَهْلِهِ وَصَحَبِهِ وَسَلَامٍ وَسَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ
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رَحْمَةُ اللَّهِ وَبَرْكَاتِهِ Jazakum Allah
