We Have To Be Strong

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Salam Alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh

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Alhamdulillah Hilaire De Anza, Abdi Hill, keytab, wollam, Yahuwah, Elijah and hamdulillah. Hillary had originally had a woman

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Tatia Lola and had an Omar al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil alameen our praises due to a lack of Lord of all the words or praises due to a law who has blessed us

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and guided us to this way and we would not have been able to guide ourselves had not Allah in His wisdom and his mercy and His grace chosen to guide us.

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Allah subhanho wa Taala has guided us to a beautiful religion.

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Allah subhanho wa Taala is described by the Prophet salallahu it he was sending them

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in the law Hey Jimmy, can you help me head bull journal? The law is beautiful.

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And loves

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our laws beautiful and loves beauty

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A lot of Tyler loves the religion he's chosen for us. He's loved he loves the faith, he's guided us to

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have the de la commune he man was a Yana who feels

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he has made faith, beloved to you,

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which is a sign that it's beloved to him.

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And he has adorned it in your hearts, faith beautifies our hearts as believers, our faith is beautiful. Our religion is beautiful. The Muslims are beautiful people.

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You'll never see an ugly believer.

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Even if the person's physical features wouldn't be described as stereotypically attractive the nor the light of faith that shines from the heart

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beautifies that believer

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and you look at him, or you look at her.

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And you say that's a beautiful person.

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And hamdulillah

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was someone who might have stereotypically beautiful features, but their heart is dark. And the actions of vile

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they repost you, you can't even look at them.

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And you say that's a filthy, ugly, vile person.

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Our religion is beautiful.

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Unfortunately, there are a lot of people out there, some of them who aren't Muslim.

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And some who are Muslims, who are apparently doing everything in their power to make this faith, something seems something ugly, something repulsive,

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something that is not rooted in beautiful values, and beautiful ethics, and beautiful practices like the hunt.

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That is underway, even as we speak,

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where people from all over the world or representing every race and ethnicity are gathering together.

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And a show of brotherhood, and unity, and community. And service to Almighty God is the most beautiful assembly on Earth.

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But many people they don't see that

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the faith has been presented with such distorting

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images,

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that even the Muslims are affected. Even the believers are affected.

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get depressed how many Muslims today they're depressed

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and gloomy.

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We just spoke to one of the leaders of the Muslim who said he was wearing his jelibean and felt uncomfortable. And then a sense of shame to be recognized as a Muslim not because of anything he did, but because of the images that some Muslims portray. And then those images are magnified and distorted and then fed to people who are ignorant, they don't know better. And they think that's what Islam is all about.

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Brothers and sisters, we have to show what Islam is all about. We have to be strong. These are days that require strength. These are days that require patience. These are days that require fortitude. These are days that require each and every one of us look down into the depths of his heart or her heart the depths of his soul or her soul.

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And then challenge themselves to forge on to be strong to keep smiling as our Prophet smile. sal Allahu Allah who was sending them.

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One way we do that is to understand that what we are witnessing the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he forecasts

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and to understand the reward

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of being strong when everything is trying to break you down.

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When everything is trying to break you down.

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The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam as recorded by Abu radi Allahu Allah.

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Allah sallallahu alayhi wa Rahim Allah excuse me

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Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he is the man. Am I going to send a Yama Saba

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Kabhi doofy her Allah de pollo, kabhi, the island Germany, where

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Armenia

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can add up, have seen or Rosalyn palu mina Yara Sula, la ominto Paula Salama who it was sent a minko. So he said at the end of time,

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there will be difficult days, there will be called days of patience, because it will take patience to negotiate them it will take patience to hold on to your religion, it will take patience, to resist the temptations to give up, to back down to bail out.

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Knowing the difficulty, so he said these days will be can't be called days of patience. Our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he was showing everything that would be and knowing the difficulty of these days. He mentioned the reward of those who forged on would be great. how great he said

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in terms of the difficulty rather well Kabhi doofy her eyelid fee her Allah de kabhi the Allen jammer, one who continues to hold on to their religion during these days. We'll be like one holding on to a burning coal. A smoldering Ember.

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Maybe some of you barbecue this summer, maybe you're still barbecuing because this is global warming it's still summer

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so you still barbecuing The next time you barbecue look at the the coals the charcoals the red hot one. And imagine how difficult it would be to scoop one out and hold it in your head.

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You wouldn't just scoop it out and Mashallah. You'd be Ooh,

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you hold it. It wouldn't be easy to take one of those burning embers. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he said this is how difficult it will be for one to hold on to his religion. We'll call the do Allah Dini here, copy the algebra, and says that the hold on is so difficult. The one who does it and deals with the pain

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and deals with the difficulty and holds on to that burning Ember, even though it's burning his flesh and this may be bringing tears to his eyes.

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He will have an immense reward how remains how immense Kala sallallahu alayhi wa sallam were as you will Amelie fear the reward of one who continues to practice continues to add continues to hold on continues to be strong. hv m SR Rosalyn is like the reward of 50 men.

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Hearing this the companions who were present palu they said mina jasola love from us on messenger of Allah 50 reward, the reward of 50 men from amongst us, our men whom are 50 men amongst them at that time. Call us Allah lohani who said the men come? No 50 men from amongst you.

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In other words, brothers and sisters, if you hold on if you are strong, if you continue to practice, despite the pressure, you will have the reward of 50 companions

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you will have the reward of 50 companions. Sometimes we get so caught up in the bump and grind of our daily life. We lose touch of what this is all about. We lose touch of the reward. That's enough for us and so we drift and because you're not thinking of the reward, if someone told you to walk to Montauk

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you wouldn't. Probably wouldn't do it. And that's a long way.

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What's in it for me?

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Nothing.

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Say man, I'm not walking there.

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I take the train

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or boat.

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But if they said walk to Montauk point, if you do it, I'll give you $10,000 start typing your sneakers up.

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Put some water in you can

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you want me gone for 95? Should I take the lie or how

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Do you want me to go?

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because now you're aware of the reward of your effort. So turn sometimes you like the first person we forget the reward. We forget the reward of 50 companions we forget the reward of gender to fear thou shalt Allah, we forget the reward of being in the company of the prophets, and this and the righteous and the martyrs and the and the the testifiers who have held the truth of the prophets

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when they use it in their head while Rasulullah hula he cannot let in and I'm Allahu Allah him mina nebby Nina was Cydia clean was shuhada it was Salim, were hacer una una a karateka whoever obeys Allah and His Messenger

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whoever obeys Allah and His Messenger

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they will be with the ones will be stowed our blessings on from amongst the prophets and the Cydia him like Abby Becca rhodiola Han

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and the martyrs like Hamza rhodiola. Han and Musab dinero romae radi Allahu Allah, and su mejor rhodiola han han and all of those throughout the history of this oma and the righteous people.

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While hacer una ley karateka what an excellent host to be amongst, we forget that's what allows promising us.

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Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and he better to fill How can he jurati Elijah, one who continues to worship during times of tribulation.

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When Muslims are killing each other,

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is like one who makes pilgrimage to me.

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can hit you roti, Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.

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Why because during those times, people forget about their religion. They become so obsessed with their political stances, they become so obsessed with their sectarian positions. They become so obsessed with the non essential because while all of these things are from the HD head that where people are free to differ, but those differences become life and death issues and they forget the real life and death issues like their prayer

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and their charity.

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And they're assisting their fellow Muslims in their fellow humans.

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These are the things that drive away the favor of Allah subhanho wa Taala when they're lacking

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Willow who found an opt in a cannon up to Fiona fee, Ahmed Abu ferrania he Allah will continue to help the servant as long as the servant is helping his brother. They forget that they forget fundamental teachings of our religion

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such as the following color sallallahu alayhi wasallam

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men on either Caitlyn mini Willow be shorter in kenema yellow color hair Yeoman piano t mag tube and Dana ma he and his son Moran Rahmatullah whoever assists men Allah Allah, the movement, whoever assists in killing a believer will lo be shuttled in kenema even to the extent of half a word will no be shocked shuttle in kenema even to the extent of half a word. yo la Yeoman piano he will meet a law on the Day of Judgment make tuvan beignet he written across his forehead for all of the people of the milk has to see

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you soon man Rahmatullah I have despaired of the laws mercy.

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I have despaired of a law's mercy.

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They forget.

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And the Muslims in Turkey this summer.

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People say lol Hello law

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and was threatened with death by these people claiming to represent a snap and to establish a killer. One brother was beaten

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like they be because it was Hollywood. But it happened in real life. Like they beat that girl in 12 Years a Slave rip his back open

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when they asked

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Did he know Quran he say I know surah baqarah and started reciting that wasn't enough.

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So if the Messenger of Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, Whoever assist

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in killing a believer by uttering half a word. What about those who murder people as they're saying the Shahada

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is not just any Iraq and Syria,

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the

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barbaric

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assault on the Mall in Kenya,

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where people claiming there's some kind of Mujahid

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are eating candy bars while they're shooting innocent people.

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They shot a teenage girl

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after she proclaimed the Shahada, because she wasn't wearing hijab.

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We have to stand up each and every one of us and be a living embodiment of the beauty of Islam during these times.

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And the justice of Islam and the mercy of Islam starting with each other, starting with our families.

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Starting in our communities,

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we have to generate the light

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that will outshine all of these deeds and misdeeds that are broadcast all over the world.

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In many instances by the perpetrators themselves.

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We have to do our job. When hoarseness Nirmal Mori parku Mela Yani a person's Islam being good.

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We can even translate it beautiful.

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Men hosting Yes,

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sir, a handsome beautiful young man. Raja lon Shaban Hassan

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is leaving that which doesn't the person leaving that which doesn't concern them.

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We one of the things that doesn't concern us is those things we can't control. We can control the actions of a bunch of lunatics halfway around the world, we can control the actions of the media that uses those images and exploits those actions. to distort how people look at Islam. We can't control that. What we can control is what we do.

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What we can control is how we act and how we pray. And how we engage in acts of charity, charity, how we stand up for justice, how we join good causes.

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That's what we can control. We can control

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how our Masjid

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undertakes good actions

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and becomes a magnet for people. That's what we can control. And that's our business as Muslims we can control if we I was talking to another leader of the Muslims recently

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about a particular situation after the the person had despaired of relief from any direction

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intense prayer was made. And the answer came we can control our

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if you want to know the weapon we need in this day we don't need bombs. We don't need bullets. We don't need jet planes. What we need is the weapon of the believer at do our celestial movement do our is the weapon of the believer.

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As soon as you say I prayed and nothing happened was the last time you pray when no one's around

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in the middle of the night

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and the tears were rolling down your face.

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Yeah, Allah

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help us in our situation. Yeah, Allah don't take us to test based on what the fools amongst us do. Yeah, Allah don't allow the people's minds and hearts who aren't Muslim to be poisoned

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by these poisonous propaganda. Your ally don't allow our leaders to be vilified and demonized by those who want to see our communities cast into anarchy and disarray.

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Yeah Allah blesses us to be strong yeah Allah blesses to continue to act. Yeah Allah blesses us to continue to worship you with love and with fervor. Yeah Allah bless our women for your law protect our young people from all those nefarious schemes that are out there to turn them away from your remembrance to turn them away from their path. Y'all are blessed them to be amongst those southern suburbs

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in Amman, Adil worshiping Ganesha FA that Allah bless them to be young people grow up worshipping Allah who dedicate their youth and the energy of you, to you yeah Allah and to your deen Yella Yella, bless them

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and bless us. bless all of the Muslims.

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Brothers and sisters we have to be strong. Our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam told us and movement Allah how we hi Ron Eloy Jimenez Munna die for the Kulin higher. The strong believer is better and more beloved to a lot than the weak believer and in each there's good. There's good and each but the strong is better. The one who is spiritually strong.

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How can we the Arabs have an expression or you do Shea in your team one lacking something can't give it to someone else, when we see are people who are drowning in the swamp of immorality, because they've been caught up

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in all of this negativity that's put out there from the the cultural influences and cultural traps and the massage and mystic and whatever else, the music and the degenerate popular culture and the anti anti godly and anti religious messages permeating you look at we just driving in here big sign boxtrolls or something. And you make it even cute.

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The despicable me

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the one eyelid a little creature that everyone has sympathy and mercy on

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magnificent.

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You glorify witchcraft and evil and devil worship.

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Until people have a hard time even recognizing what true spirituality involves.

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And then they're systematically turned away from the religion of Allah. And then the the the whole situation is compounded by all of those things are we're told that our soul in its lowest state of development and knifes a more of the suit, the soul that commands towards bioness why because it is removed from its Lord, it is connected to a shahabad to his physical loss. So you throw every physical physically enticing thing at people you throw the food at them.

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And you see the obesity amongst our youth skyrocketing. You throw the sex at them, you throw the drugs at them was this physical stimulation it makes me feel good. assuaging the nuts.

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You You put up a city and you call it Sin City and people want to go there for their vacation.

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And at the entrance there is a big sign surrender to your desires.

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And our young people grow up in this culture of surrender to use desire if it feels good do it as long as you're not hurting someone else, while you are hurting someone else yourself.

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yourself

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when our profits on the line of a sudden mention or it might be a saying of the companions

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are there are there are there

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are there and Neff seletti baina gem bake the most vicious of your enemies is that knifes between your two sides

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so that knifes can affect you

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and knifes will let the bane a gem Bay.

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And when it's not in tune with the higher nature, when is not willing to engage in the struggle between the angelic nature of the human being

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and the the carnal nature

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there are angels or angels

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created from Norway

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and the shale teen or shale team created from fire.

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And the human being is between the two.

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The human being can give into his or her fiery passions and fire and follow the rebels amongst the shaytaan and the jinn.

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Or the human being can pursue that aspect that he or she can move towards a state of obedience to a law like the angels. And there's a struggle going on.

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And we have everything we need to win that struggle. The angels are made from light. What is one of the most profound prayers our Prophet tada sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is in Buhari is in Muslim various versions is in Abu Dhabi. Ooh, tell me the in the magic has Sita.

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Allah homage

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to calbee neuron was the borsari neuron was the summary neuron. Woman 181 Yemeni neuron one yes, every neuron when any neuron woman healthy neuron woman felt the neuron woman tacky neuron, Allah, Allah hum that Gianni neuron, all make light in my heart, and light in my sight and light in my hearing, and light to my right and to my left, in front of me, behind me, above me beneath me, make a light for me, that I can walk through the darkness of this world with

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In other words, bless us to move towards the angelic realm.

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creatures of the light who don't rebel against their Lord.

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Well, yes, aluna my room, they do what they've been commanded to do.

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May Allah bless us?

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In this struggle, may Allah bless us to be that strong believer, spiritually strong, intellectually strong. Our ancestors were the most intellectually strong people.

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Some of the most intellectually strong people history has seen. That's how they built these architectural wonders. That's how they discovered incredible advances and innovations in agriculture. That's how they were able to to pass on refine and preserve the knowledge of antiquity and pass it on to the Europeans, our ancestors, they were intellectually strong, our Muslim should be spiritually strong, he or she should be intellectually strong. He or she should strive to be financially strong, and the actual urine earlier Pyromania, the souffle, the upper hand that gives is better than the lower hand that receives and again, there's good in both, we should strive to be

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fiscally and financially strong. Some people asked me Should I go study and there, they have an MBA and they're making loads of money? No, we have many people can go who can go study, but we don't have many people with the potential to be a multi millionaire or billionaire. We need some of those. The Prophet sallallahu wasallam he had his poor companions, mela, mercy be on all of them. And he prayed to be resurrected amongst them. But he also had Abu bakkar and he had Khadija and he had Earth men and he had up there and then off and he had Abu Zubaydah. He had people who have money sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, because just as people are spending billions of dollars to turn people

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away from Islam, we shouldn't be spending millions. We don't need billions. Because every dollar we spend and has a net, we actually I'm fairly happy. It does the work of 10 and a 17. year there, it does the work of 700 and I'd often kathira it does the work of 7000 70,000. But we need money.

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We need money.

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And we should have some financially strong believers.

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And we should have poor believers that's a human society.

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And they should be brothers and sisters. That should be assisting and helping each other.

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Allah Allah Marion Farooq, seek and strive for that which benefits you.

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Brothers and sisters tried to begin to build yourself up spiritually

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There are classes here in the masjid learn how to read the Quran. Get up in the night before Fagor and start praying in the night

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be Joker and don't wait till Ramadan

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remember your your Lord abundantly yeah you Hello Nina Amma Nakula. Vikram kathira. build yourself up intellectually. If you don't have a high school diploma, go back to school and get one. Join a GED program. Get a tutor.

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If you have a high school diploma, go and get a call, go to the community college, get an associate's, if you have an associate's, go get a bachelor's, if you have a bachelor's, get a Masters, if you have a master's in your situation allows go get a PhD, not so you can say I have a PhD. But so you can stand toe to toe with the people who have PhDs and are using it against the good interests of the common person. And you can refill and you can debate and you can discuss and you can make your point at the same level he or she are making their point. Try to be financially strong. Don't spend your money. You don't have to be rich to be financially strong. You have to act

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like a Muslim. Don't shop until you drop.

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Don't shop until you drop shop when you need something. Not when an artificial need has been created in you. Don't engage in alcohol and drugs.

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Some Muslims do unfortunately. don't engage in alcohol and drugs don't spend your money buying the music you don't need it.

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If you heard one song You heard him on Boogie Woogie slap this song so upside ahead deeper in the street like she's dead. This in every word I said

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you don't need it.

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Don't spend your money on it. And you can be making minimum wage and you have a surplus and you'll be able to assist somebody

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and there are people who have seen it there are Muslims making minimum wage they have relatives who aren't might not be Muslims so they're they're making three four times what they make but after they buy their alcohol and after their by their little stash of reefer and after they go to the club on Saturday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday night they come into the Muslim making minimum wage, you know can I need a little help this month? I need a little help with the rent My car broke I need something. You don't have to be rich, to be financially strong.

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If you are rich all the better. Now lord bless us May Allah bless you may Allah bless you ma'am. Suraj where Hajj May Allah bless Shurtleff men. May Allah bless all the if I knew the other teachers and scholars here I will mention them to from the minbar May Allah bless them, may Allah protect them, mela strengthen them. May Allah bless all of your families. melas bless accept all of your worship on this great and blessed day. May Allah bless you all to have a blessing eat mehleb a blessing eat and have a joyful eat. This is a blessing from Allah. Enjoy the blessing. The days coming up there eating a tertiary here am aklan was schuurman with victory lap. There are days of

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eating and drinking remember remembering a lot so celebrate and be festive and visit each other forgive those you might have a little problem with go call them up seek them out. Tell me ready to put it behind you and you will initiate it invite them to dinner. These are blessing days. May we be blessed during these days. akula how cold the hair that was stokfella Hi Lea welcome Melissa in Romania common stock photo

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Sadhguru Ali, he was sending me Taslima Allahumma salli wa sallim wa barik. ala Sayidina Muhammad, Allah Allah he was having your son test the McCarthy era. Brothers and sisters while we continue

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The nefarious actions of the likes of ISIS or others who are distorting true Islamic teachings, we should never lose sight of the fact that is the disastrous, militaristic foreign policy of our country that has made all of this fitna possible. That is torn up the social fabric of these countries, flooded them with weapons, and then finds any excuse to keep these cycles of violence and chaos and anarchy going. And the only one that benefits are the people making the weapons. As they say, war is bad for business unless you're in the business of war. And we have too many people in this country who are in the business of war. And we have to be the community that stands up and

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says, it's time for the business to shut down.

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It's time for the business to shut down. If this is a Christian nation,

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as they allege them, beat the swords into plowshares beat the shorts in the power shares. Go in the world and bring peace to the world go around the world and build homes for the homeless, go in the world and fight the likes of Ebola and other scourges.

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But someone that has to be a force, not not a few individuals, there has to be the force of a community who will say our community will take up the unfinished business of Dr. King.

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Dr. King, he said there are three evil triplets, and they're connected at the hip. He didn't say that. He said something like that.

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He said the three evil triplets I saying? I'm saying they're connected at the hip, racism, poverty and militarism,

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racism, poverty, and militarism.

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We as a community, have to stand up and say we are a community that will do everything in our power, to challenge racism that starts with our hearts.

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That starts with our hearts, that any human being

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that I come into contact with, I will judge based on the content of the character, not the color of their skin. This is what our Prophet taught us. sallallahu alayhi wa sallam but we know how deep the roots of racism is amongst the Muslims.

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There are deep roots. We have to each and every one of us.

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cut those roots off starting with ourselves.

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In the law, hella young voters jambu illa, Swati Kumar, where am where they come a lot doesn't look at your physical forms and your wealth. Well, I can yanbu Allahu looby Kumar madico. He looks at your deeds and he looks at your hearts. The deeds have no color, and all the hearts are red.

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That's what a lot looks at. We have to challenge poverty.

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We have to be a community that feeds people.

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We have to be a community that tries to the best of our resources, to lift people out of poverty will follow the ever programs we can put together to assist people but most importantly, we have to be a community that gives a person a vision and a motivation to live a righteous life. Because once a person is motivated, you can dump all the money in the world on a person who isn't motivated to live.

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And that person will stay in poverty. You give them money though squander the money.

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No, we have to begin our anti poverty programming by addressing the poverty that's in the hearts and in the souls so that people want to be dignified and want to stand on their own feet.

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And we have to address militarism is a difficult task.

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We mentioned Dr. King when he started addressing American militarism. Some say that's when he signed his death warrant.

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You can sing We Shall Overcome until the cows come home.

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But when you start messing with the foreign policy

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and the foundation of the Empire

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and the the mechanisms whereby people are intimidated and bludgeoned to become part of the whole new

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Rule neoliberal scheme of things, then is dangerous.

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But if that's the work a lot Tyler causes us to do. That's the work he causes us to do. mela blesses to be strong and all regards malata Allah bless us to be a community that will take up that work. Wherever the old generation is, has failed. The new generation come with more energy with more vision, with more higher levels of education and commitment. Take the torch, take the torch.

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And then you you take it a step further.

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And the ones after you but keep

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keep the flame of truth burning. Keep the desire for justice burning. Keep the desire that will see all people on this planet living free lives braided from the shackles of economic or political domination keep those flames burning. And you never know when Allah subhanho wa Taala might bring along some gasoline to pour on the fire. That's a metaphor folks. I'm not advocating burning anything down. Milla Bless You All of whom are feeling Muslim. Meanwhile, Muslim man while meanwhile mamina and a man whom Allah met Robin Allah to Zico. lubaina bodies had eaten a banana Mila Dong Khurana and the cantle, Wahab Rabanne, Africa Lina sobre la Adana, Juan Soto homecare theory robina

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